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diff --git a/OPTIONS b/OPTIONS deleted file mode 100644 index 96886366..00000000 --- a/OPTIONS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,77 +0,0 @@ -Summary of responses on `Nuke the options?': - -Yes: - -Felix Morley Finch <felix@crowfix.com> -Nathan Myers <ncm@cantrip.org> -Irving Wolfe <Irving_Wolfe@wolfe.net> -Craig Metz <cmetz@inner.net> -Alexander Kourakos <awk@bnt.com> -John Swinbank <john@swinbank.u-net.com> -Alexandros Manoussakis <alx@beryl.kapatel.gr> - -No: - -Guenther Leber <gleber@gams.at> -Dave Bodenstab <imdave@mcs.net> -Erik Soosalu <esoosalu@geocities.com> -Jonathan Marten <jonathan.marten@uk.Sun.COM> - -Other: - -Chris Hanson <cph@martigny.ai.mit.edu> thinks --smtphost can be useful, -but says the change won't affect him. - -Matt Simmons <simmonmt@acm.org> didn't express a general opinion but wants --B/fetchlimit kept. - -Steffen Opel <opel@rumpelkammer.uni-mannheim.de> makes a good argument -that --limit should be settable from the command line as a way to throttle -fetches according to day-night rates. - -Comments: - felix@crowfix.com: "Using --fetchmailrc, someone could -write a Perl wrapper which would dummy up a temporary control file -using the soon-to-be-banned options, if someone really wanted such a -program." - ncm@cantrip.org doesn't want fetchmailrc to require a control file. - gleber@gams.at: "I like the flexibility I get from [command-line -options] and use it very often." - awk@bnt.com: keep -u, -p, nuke the others. - alx@beryl.kapatel.gr: keep -u, -p, -t, nuke the others. - esoosalu@geocities.com: "I would have an objection to removing -command line options: It makes it a lot harder to debug the inital setup." - jonathan.marten@uk.Sun.COM: particularly (and not unreasonably) -objects to losing -r. - -Alexandros Manoussakis <alx@beryl.kapatel.gr> offered the following summary: - -It seems like many of us want to be able to use -fetchmail without the need of a .fetchmailrc file. -Regarding your list of commands to remove from -the command line, taking into account the feedback -regarding the matter we have (* denotes wanted options): - - -I, --interface interface required specification - -M, --monitor monitor interface for activity -* -p, --protocol specify pop2, pop3, imap, apop, rpop, kpop, etrn - -U, --uidl force the use of UIDLs (pop3 only) - -P, --port TCP/IP service port to connect to - -A, --auth authentication type (password or kerberos) - -E, --envelope envelope address header - -Q, --qvirtual prefix to remove from local user id -* -u, --username specify users's login on server - -n, --norewrite don't rewrite header addresses -* -l, --limit don't fetch messages over given size -* -K, --nokeep delete new messages after retrieval -* -S, --smtphost set SMTP forwarding host - -D, --smtpaddress set SMTP delivery domain to use - -Z, --antispam, set antispam response value - -b, --batchlimit set batch limit for SMTP connections - -B, --fetchlimit set fetch limit for server connections - -e, --expunge set max deletions between expunges -* -r, --folder specify remote folder name -* -t, --timeout server nonresponse timeout - -Let's see how it goes and you can remove at least the options -no-one complains about! |