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diff --git a/dist-tools/indexgen.sh b/dist-tools/indexgen.sh deleted file mode 100755 index f24392e9..00000000 --- a/dist-tools/indexgen.sh +++ /dev/null @@ -1,389 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh -# -# indexgen.sh -- generate current version of fetchmail home page. -# -echo "This script is hopelessly out of date. Abort." >&2 -exit 1 - -goldvers="6.2.0" -goldname="6.2.0" -version=`sed -n <Makefile.in "/VERSION *= */s/VERSION *= *\([^ ]*\)/\1/p"` -date=`date "+%d %b %Y"` - -set -- `timeseries | grep -v "[%#]" | head -1` -subscribers=$4 -make fetchmail -set -- `ls -ks fetchmail` -fetchmailsize=$1 -set -- `(cd /lib; ls libc-*)` -glibc=`echo $1 | sed 's/libc-\(.*\)\.so/\1/'` -glibc="glibc-$glibc" - -rm -f index.html - -# Compute MD5 checksums for security audit -rm -f checksums -for file in fetchmail-$version.tar.gz fetchmail-$version-1.*.rpm -do - md5sum $file >>checksums -done - -if [ $version != $goldvers ] -then - for file in fetchmail-$goldvers.tar.gz fetchmail-$goldvers-1.*.rpm - do - md5sum $file | sed -e "s: .*/: :" >>checksums - done -fi - -# Cryptographically sign checksums -gpg --clearsign checksums -mv checksums.asc checksums - -cat >index.html <<EOF -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> -<head> -<link rev="made" href="mailto:esr@snark.thyrsus.com" /> -<link rel="stylesheet" href="/~esr/sitestyle.css" type="text/css"/> -<meta name="description" content="Home page of the fetchmail project" /> -<meta name="keywords" content="" /> -<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE" /> -<title>The fetchmail home page</title> -</head> -<body> - -<div id="Header"> -<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" summary="Canned page header"> -<tr> -<td>The fetchmail home page</td> -<td align="right">$date</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> - -<div id="Menu"> - <hr/> - <a href="/~esr" title="My home page">Home Page</a><br /> - <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html" title="Map of the site">Site Map</a><br /> - <a href="/~esr/software.html" title="Software I maintain">Software</a><br /> - <a href="/~esr/projects.html" title="My projects">Projects</a><br /> - <a href="/~esr/faqs/" title="My FAQ documents">HOWTOs</a><br /> - <a href="/~esr/writings/" title="Essays and ruminations">Essays</a><br /> - <a href="/~esr/personal.html" title="Portrait of the author">Personal</a><br /> - <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/esrblog/">Weblog</a><br/> - <a href="/~esr/netfreedom/">Freedom!</a><br /> - <a href="/~esr/guns/">Firearms!</a><br /> - <hr/> -</div> - -<div id="Content"> - -<h1>The fetchmail Home Page</h1> -</center> - -<p><b>Note: if you are a stranded fetchmail.com user, we're sorry but -we have nothing to do with that site and cannot help you. It's just an -unfortunate coincidence of names.</b></p> - -<h1>What fetchmail does:</h1> - -<p>Fetchmail is a full-featured, robust, well-documented -remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over -on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports -every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3, -RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of <a -href="http://www.imap.org">IMAP</a>, ETRN, and ODMR. It can even -support IPv6 and IPSEC.</p> - -<p>Fetchmail retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it via -SMTP, so it can then be read by normal mail user agents such as <a -href="http://www.mutt.org/">mutt</a>, elm(1) or BSD Mail. -It allows all your system MTA's filtering, forwarding, and aliasing -facilities to work just as they would on normal mail.</p> - -<p>Fetchmail offers better security than any other Unix remote-mail -client. It supports APOP, KPOP, OTP, Compuserve RPA, Microsoft NTLM, -and IMAP RFC1731 encrypted authentication methods including CRAM-MD5 -to avoid sending passwords en clair. It can be configured to support -end-to-end encryption via tunneling with <a -href="http://www.openssh.com/">ssh, the Secure Shell</a>.</p> - -<p>Fetchmail can be used as a POP/IMAP-to-SMTP gateway for an entire DNS -domain, collecting mail from a single drop box on an ISP and -SMTP-forwarding it based on header addresses. (We don't really -recommend this, though, as it may lose important envelope-header -information. ETRN or a UUCP connection is better.)</p> - -<p>Fetchmail can be started automatically and silently as a system daemon -at boot time. When running in this mode with a short poll interval, -it is pretty hard for anyone to tell that the incoming mail link is -not a full-time "push" connection.</p> - -<p>Fetchmail is easy to configure. You can edit its dotfile directly, or -use the interactive GUI configurator (fetchmailconf) supplied with the -fetchmail distribution. It is also directly supported in linuxconf -versions 1.16r8 and later.</p> - -<p>Fetchmail is fast and lightweight. It packs all its standard -features (POP3, IMAP, and ETRN support) in ${fetchmailsize}K of core on a -Pentium under Linux.</p> - -<p>Fetchmail is <a href="http://www.opensource.org">open-source</a> -software. The openness of the sources is your strongest possible -assurance of quality and reliability.</p> - -<h1>Where to find out more about fetchmail:</h1> - -<p>See the <a href="fetchmail-features.html">Fetchmail Feature List</a> for more -about what fetchmail does.</p> - -<p>See the on-line <a href="fetchmail-man.html">manual page</a> for -basics.</p> - -<p>See the <a href="fetchmail-FAQ.html">HTML Fetchmail FAQ</a> for -troubleshooting help.</p> - -<p>See the <a href="design-notes.html">Fetchmail Design Notes</a> -for discussion of some of the design choices in fetchmail.</p> - -<p>See the project's <a href="todo.html">To-Do list</a> for indications -of known problems and requested features.</p> - -<h1>How to get fetchmail:</h1> - -<p>You can get any of the following leading-edge resources here:</p> -<ul> -<li> <a href="fetchmail-$version.tar.gz"> - Gzipped source archive of fetchmail $version</a> -<li> <a href="fetchmail-$version-1.i386.rpm"> - Intel binary RPM of fetchmail $version (uses $glibc)</a> -<li> <a href="fetchmail-$version-1.src.rpm"> - Source RPM of fetchmail $version</a> -</ul> - -<p>MD5 <a href="checksums">checksums</a> are available for these files; the -checksum file is cryptographically signed and can be verified with the -command:</p> - -<pre> -gpg --verify checksums -</pre> - -EOF - -if [ $version != $goldvers ] -then - cat >>index.html <<EOF - -<p>Or you can get the last \`gold' version, $goldname:</p> -<ul> -<li> <a href="fetchmail-$goldvers.tar.gz"> - Gzipped source archive of fetchmail $goldname</a> -<li> <a href="fetchmail-$goldvers-1.i386.rpm"> - Intel binary RPM of fetchmail $goldname (uses glibc)</a> -<li> <a href="fetchmail-$goldvers-1.alpha.rpm"> - Alpha binary RPM of fetchmail $goldname (uses glibc)</a> -<li> <a href="fetchmail-$goldvers-1.src.rpm"> - Source RPM of fetchmail $goldname</a> -</ul> - -<p>The <a href="fetchmail-$goldvers.tar.gz.asc">detached GPG -signature</a> for the binary tarball can be used to check it for -correctness, with the command</p> - -<pre> -gpg --verify fetchmail-$goldvers.tar.gz.asc fetchmail-$goldvers.tar.gz -</pre> - -<p>For differences between the leading-edge $version and gold $goldname versions, -see the distribution <a href="NEWS">NEWS</a> file.</p> -EOF -fi - -cat >>index.html <<EOF -<p>(Note that the binary RPMs don't have the POP2, OTP, IPv6, Kerberos, -GSSAPI, Compuserve RPA, Microsoft NTLM, or GNU gettext -internationalization support compiled in. To get any of these you -will have to build from sources.)</p> - -<p>The latest version of fetchmail is also carried in the -<a href="http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/mail/pop/!INDEX.html"> -Metalab remote mail tools directory</a>.</p> - -<h1>Getting help with fetchmail:</h1> - -<p>There is a fetchmail-friends list for people who want to discuss -fixes and improvements in fetchmail and help co-develop it. It's a -MailMan list, which you can sign up for at <a -href="http://lists.ccil.org/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-friends"> -fetchmail-friends@ccil.org</a>. There is also an announcements-only -list, <a -href="http://lists.ccil.org/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-announce"> -fetchmail-announce@lists.ccil.org</a>.</p> - -<p>Note: before submitting a question to the list, <strong>please read -the <a href="fetchmail-FAQ.html">FAQ</a></strong> (especially item <a -href="fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3">G3</a> on how to report bugs). We -tend to get the same three newbie questions over and over again. The -FAQ covers them like a blanket.</p> - -<p>Fetchmail was written and is maintained by <a -href="../index.html">Eric S. Raymond</a>. There are some designated -backup maintainers (<a href="mailto:rfunk@funknet.net">Rob Funk</a>, <a -href="http://www.dallas.net/~fox/">David DeSimone aka Fuzzy Fox</a>, -<a href="mailto:imdave@mcs.net">Dave Bodenstab</a> and <a -href="mailto:shetye@bombay.retortsoft.com">Sunil Shetye</a>). Other backup -maintainers may be added in the future, in order to ensure continued -support should Eric S. Raymond drop permanently off the net for any -reason.</p> - -<h1>You can help improve fetchmail:</h1> - -<p>I welcome your code contributions. But even if you don't write code, -you can help fetchmail improve.</p> - -<p>If you administer a site that runs a post-office server, you may be -able help improve fetchmail by lending me a test account on your site. -Note that I do not need a shell account for this purpose, just a -maildrop. Nor am I interested in collecting maildrops per se -- -what I'm collecting is different <em>kinds of servers</em>.</p> - -<p>Before each release, I run a test harness that sends date-stamped -test mail to each site on my regression-test list, then tries to -retrieve it. Please take a look at my <a href="testservers.html"> -list of test servers</a>. If you can lend me an account on a kind -of server that is <em>not</em> already on this list, please do.</p> - -<h1>Who uses fetchmail:</h1> - -<p>Fetchmail entered full production status with the 2.0.0 version in -November 1996 after about five months of evolution from the ancestral -<code>popclient</code> utility. It has since come into extremely wide use -in the Internet/Unix/Linux community. The Red Hat, Debian and -Suse Linux distributions and their derivatives all include it. A -customized version is used at Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. Several -large ISPs are known to recommend it to Unix-using SLIP and PPP -customers.</p> - -<p>Somewhere around a thousand people have participated on the fetchmail -beta lists (at time of current release there were $subscribers on the -friends and announce lists). While it's hard to count the users of -open-source software, we can estimate based on (a) population figures -at the WELL and other known fetchmail sites, (b) the size of the -Linux-using ISP customer base, and (c) the volume of fetchmail-related -talk on USENET. These estimates suggest that daily fetchmail users -number well into the hundreds of thousands, and possibly over a million.</p> - -<h1>The sociology of fetchmail:</h1> - -<p>The fetchmail development project was a sociological experiment as well -as a technical effort. I ran it as a test of some theories about why the -Linux development model works.</p> - -<p>I wrote a paper, <a -href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/">The -Cathedral And The Bazaar</a>, about these theories and the project. -I developed the line of analysis it suggested in two later essays. -These papers became quite popular and (to my continuing astonishment) may -have actually helped change the world. Chase the title link, above, -for links to all three papers.</p> - -<p>I have done some analysis on the information in the project NEWS file. -You can view a <a href="history.html">statistical history</a> showing -levels of participation and release frequency over time.</p> - -<h1>Recent releases and where fetchmail is going:</h1> - -<p>Fetchmail is now sufficiently stable and effective that I'm getting -very little pressure to fix things or add features. Development has -slowed way down, release frequency has dropped off, and we're -basically in maintainance mode.</p> - -<p>Major changes or additions therefore seem unlikely until there are -significant changes in or additions to the related protocol RFCs.</p> - -<h1>Where you can use fetchmail:</h1> - -<p>The fetchmail code was developed under Linux, but has also been -extensively tested under 4.4BSD, SunOS, Solaris, AIX, and NEXTSTEP. It -should be readily portable to other Unix variants (it requires only -POSIX plus BSD sockets, and uses GNU autoconf).</p> - -<p>Fetchmail is supported only for Unix by its official maintainers. -However, it is reported to build and run correctly under BeOS, -AmigaOS, Rhapsody, and QNX as well. There is a CygWin port.</p> - -<h1>Related resources:</h1> - -<p>Jochen Hayek is developing a set of -<a href="http://www.ACM.org/~Jochen_Hayek/JHimap_utils/"> -IMAP tools in Python</a> that read your .fetchmailrc file and are -designed to work with fetchmail. Jochen's tools can report selected -header lines, or move incoming messages to named mailboxes based on -the contents of headers.</p> - -<p>Donncha O Caoihm has written a Perl script called -<a href="http://cork.linux.ie/projects/install-sendmail/">install-sendmail</a> -that assists you in installing sendmail and fetchmail together.</p> - -<p>Peter Hawkins has written a script called <a -href="http://linux.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/gotmail.php">gotmail</a> that -can retrieve Hotmail. Another script, <a -href="http://yosucker.sourceforge.net">yosucker</a>, can retrieve -Yahoo webmail.</p> - -<p>There's a program called -<http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/'>mailfilter</a> which can be used -to do span filtering, that works particularly well called from fetchmail's -<code>preconnect</code> directive,</p> - -<p>A hacker identifying himself simply as \`Steines' has written a -filter which rewrites the to-line with a line which only includes -receipients for a given domain and renames the old to-line. It also -rewrites the domain-part of addresses if the offical domain is -different from the local domain. You can find it <a -href="http://www.steines.com/mailf/">here</a>.</p> - -<h1>Fetchmail's funniest fan letter:</h1> - -<a href="funny.html">This letter</a> still cracks me up whenever I reread it. - -<h1>The fetchmail button:</h1> - -<p>If you use fetchmail and like it, here's a nifty fetchmail button you -can put on your web page:</p> - -<center><img src="fetchmail.png" alt="fetchmail logo" /></center> - -<p>Thanks to <a href="http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~smatus1/">Steve -Matuszek</a> for the graphic design. The hand in the button (and the -larger top-of-page graphic) was actually derived from a color scan of -the fetchmail author's hand.</p> - -<h1>Fetchmail mirror sites:</h1> - -<p>There is a FTP mirror of the current sources and RPMs in Japan at -<a href="ftp://ftp.win.ne.jp/pub/network/mail/fetchmail"> -ftp://ftp.win.ne.jp/pub/network/mail/fetchmail</a>. - -<h1>Reviews and Awards</h1> - -<p>Fetchmail was DaveCentral's Best Of Linux winner for -<a href="http://linux.davecentral.com/bol_19990630.html">June 30 1999</a>.</p> - -<p>Fetchmail was a five-star Editor's Pick at Softlandindia.</p> - -</div> - -</body> -</html> -EOF - -# The following sets edit modes for GNU EMACS -# Local Variables: -# mode:html -# truncate-lines:t -# End: |