From 0426919d77f9ea6a8c3b8029538f2ea9b4b43d4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Andree Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 08:01:54 +0000 Subject: Mark Received envelope parsing obsolete. svn path=/branches/BRANCH_6-3/; revision=4813 --- NEWS | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4ee158cb..42b6e3eb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ change. MA = Matthias Andree, ESR = Eric S. Raymond, RF = Rob Funk.) * --sslcertck may become a default setting in a future fetchmail version. * The multidrop To/Cc guessing code along with the fragile duplicate suppressor is deprecated and may be removed from a future release. +* The "envelope Received" option may be removed from a future release, because + the Received header was never meant to be machine-readable, the format varies + widely, and various other differences in behavior make parsing Received an + unreliable undertaking. The enveloper option as such will remain though, in + order to support Delivered-To, X-Envelope-To, X-Original-To and similar. + See also . * The --enable-fallback (fall back to MDA if MTA unavailable) may be removed from a future fetchmail release. * The "protocol auto" default inside fetchmail may be removed from a future @@ -41,6 +47,7 @@ fetchmail 6.3.5 (not yet released): * The code still isn't 100% ISO-C compliant, some configurations attempt to compile files that are empty after preprocessing, which can cause compiler diagnostics and perhaps jam the compilation on strict compilers. +* fetchmail expects Received: headers in a particular format. # CONTRIBUTED SCRIPTS: * PopDel.py was revised by Joshua Crawford to display the From: address and -- cgit v1.2.3