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@@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ fetchmail-6.3.18 (not yet released):
systems as part of libwww on machines where long isn't 32-bits. Fixes Gentoo
Bug #319283, reported - including the hint to libwww - by Karl Hakimian.
Side effect: fetchmail will now use -lmd on Solaris rather than -lmd5.
+* Fetchmail will no longer print connection attempts and errors for one host
+ in "silent" and "normal" logging modes, unless all connections fail. This
+ should reduce irritation around refused-connection logging if services are
+ only on an IPv4 socket if the host also supports IPv6. Often observed as
+ connections refused to ::1/25 when the subsequent connection to 127.0.0.1/25
+ then - silently - succeeds. Fetchmail, unless in verbose mode, will collect
+ all connect errors and only report them if all of them fail.
# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS:
(this section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the
@@ -78,6 +85,9 @@ fetchmail-6.3.18 (not yet released):
* fetchmail does not track pending deletes over crashes
* the command line interface is sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance,
fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running
+* Linux may return duplicates of an IP address in some circumstances if no or
+ no global IPv6 addresses are configured. (No workaround. Ubuntu Bug#582585,
+ Novell Bug#606980.)
fetchmail-6.3.17 (released 2010-05-06, 25767 LoC):