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@@ -1,7 +1,35 @@ + To Do: + +1. George Sipe reports that --monitor is broken. + +This needs to be fixed. --interface seems to work OK, so the error is +evidently something pretty specific to the --monitor code. + +2. Rethink the handling of DNS errors in multidrop mode. + +The present behavior is to suppress forwarding and deletion of the +individual message that each occurs in, leaving it queued on the server +for retrieval on a subsequent poll. The assumption is that DNS +errors are transient, due to temporary server outages. + +Unfortunately this means that if a DNS error is permanent a message +can be perpetually stuck in the server mailbox. We've had a couple +bug reports of this kind due to subtle RFC822 parsing errors in the fetchmail +code that resulted in impossible things getting passed to the DNS lookup +routines. + +Alternative ways to handle the problem: ignore DNS errors (treating +them as a non-match on the mailserver domain), or forward messages +with errors to fetchmail's invoking user in addition to any other +recipients. These would fit an assummption that DNS lookup errors are +likely to be permanent problems associated with an address. + +I'm not sure which is long-term appropriate. + Release Notes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -fetchmail-3.7 () +fetchmail-3.7 (Fri Feb 21 17:38:40 EST 1997) features -- @@ -23,6 +51,8 @@ bugs -- * Fix parsing bug that broke UIDL-processing code. +There are 233 people on the fetchmail-friends list. + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ fetchmail-3.6 (Mon Feb 17 00:19:55 EST 1997) |