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@@ -1,32 +1,29 @@ To Do: -1. George Sipe reports that --monitor is broken. +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. + Release Notes: -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. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +fetchmail-3.8 () -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. +features -- -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. +* More FAQ material on using `localdomains'. -I'm not sure which is long-term appropriate. +* compilation hacks for ISC 4.0 (thanks, Larry Jones!) - Release Notes: +bugs -- + +* enabled ETRN and RPOP command-line option + +* yet another attempt to fix the error.c compilation problems under + Solaris and NEXTSTEP. + +* handle \( and \) correctly in RFC822 comments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ fetchmail-3.7 (Fri Feb 21 17:38:40 EST 1997) |