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@@ -6,10 +6,17 @@ fetchmail-4.5.3 (): `postmaster', not root. Added `postmaster' option to allow override. * DNS names of target servers are now canonicalized only once, at start of run, and then only if they'll actually be needed later for multidrop - checking or fetching Kerberos tickets. This eliminates many gethostbyname - calls. + checking or fetching Kerberos tickets. This change eliminates many + gethostbyname calls. * 1.1 version of fetchmailconf. +Note: the DNS-usage change might conceivably break your configuration +if (a) you're using `no dns' and multidrop and (b) you're not +specifying either a `via' option or pollname that is the host's +canonical name. The thing to watch for will be an illegal domain name +error from your listener. If this happens, just add a `via' option with +the cononical FQDN of the host as argument. + There are 267 people on fetchmail-friends and 249 on fetchmail-announce. fetchmail-4.5.2 (Tue Jul 14 19:02:52 EDT 1998): |