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diff --git a/indexgen.sh b/indexgen.sh index 2a7dda5d..7bfb6823 100755 --- a/indexgen.sh +++ b/indexgen.sh @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ # # indexgen.sh -- generate current version of fetchmail home page. # +goldvers="4.5.0" +goldname="4.5.0bis" version=`sed -n <Makefile.in "/VERS=/s/VERS=\([^ ]*\)/\1/p"` date=`date "+%d %b %Y"` @@ -39,8 +41,9 @@ Fetchmail is a free, 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 IMAP, and ESMTP ETRN. It can even support -IPv6 and IPSEC.<P> +RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of <a +href="http://www.imap.org">IMAP</a>, and ESMTP ETRN. It can even +support IPv6 and IPSEC.<P> Fetchmail retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it via SMTP, so it can then be be read by normal mail user agents such as <a @@ -84,12 +87,9 @@ troubleshooting help.<p> See the <a href="http:design-notes.html">Fetchmail Design Notes</a> for discussion of some of the design choices in fetchmail.<P> -Finally, see the distribution <a href="NEWS">NEWS file</a> for a -description of changes in recent versions.<p> - <H1>How to get fetchmail:</H1> -You can get any of the following here: +You can get any of the following leading-edge resources here: <UL> <LI> <a href="fetchmail-$version.tar.gz"> Gzipped source archive of fetchmail $version</a> @@ -98,6 +98,17 @@ You can get any of the following here: <LI> <a href="fetchmail-$version-1.src.rpm"> Source RPM of fetchmail $version</a> </UL> +Or you can get the last \`gold' version, $goldname: +<UL> +<LI> <a href="fetchmail-$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.src.rpm"> + Source RPM of fetchmail $goldname</a> +</UL> +For differences between the leading-edge $version and gold $goldname versions, +see the distribution <a href="NEWS">NEWS</a> file.<p> (Note that the RPMs don't have the POP2, OTP, IPv6, Kereberos, or Compuserve RPA support compiled in. To get that you will have to @@ -107,7 +118,7 @@ The latest version of fetchmail is also carried in the <a href="http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/mail/pop/!INDEX.html"> Sunsite remote mail tools directory</a>. -<H1>Getting help with fetchmail</H1> +<H1>Getting help with fetchmail:</H1> There is a fetchmail-friends list for people who want to discuss fixes and improvements in fetchmail and help co-develop it. It's at <a @@ -126,10 +137,7 @@ Note: before submitting a question to the list, <strong>please read the <a href="fetchmail-FAQ.html">FAQ</a></strong> (especially item <a href="http: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. Actually, I'll answer the most common -one right here: <em>If you've tried everything but can't get multidrop -mode to work, it is almost certainly because your DNS service (or your -provider's) is broken.</em><P> +FAQ covers them like a blanket.<P> Fetchmail was written and is maintained by <a href="../index.html">Eric S. Raymond</a>. <a @@ -164,18 +172,10 @@ 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> -I wrote a paper, <A HREF="../writings/cathedral.html">The Cathedral -And The Bazaar</A>, about these theories and the project. It was well -received at <A HREF="http://www.linux-kongress.de"> Linux Kongress -'97</A> and the <A HREF="http://www.ale.org/showcase"> Atlanta Linux -Expo</A> two weeks later. I also presented it at Tim O'Reilly's <A -HREF="http://www.ora.com/perlconference">Perl Conference</A> August -19th-21st 1997, at LinuxPro in Warsaw, December 11 1997 and at -UniForum '98 in May 1998. It's going to be the basis for an invited -presentation at Usenix '98. A lot of people like it (and the folks at -Netscape tell me it helped them decide to <a -href="http://www.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease558.html"> give -away the source for Netscape Communicator</a>).<P> +I wrote a paper, <A HREF="../writings/cathedral-bazaar/">The Cathedral +And The Bazaar</A>, about these theories and the project. The paper +became quite popular and may have actually helped change the world +(!). Chase the title link, above, to its page. <P> <H1>Recent releases and where fetchmail is going:</H2> |