From 8ef11c9233d5cb1d02ae07e68a52b9eba7049f9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 23:29:40 +0000 Subject: Version bump. svn path=/trunk/; revision=1960 --- NEWS | 4 +++- design-notes.html | 16 ++++++++-------- indexgen.sh | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6052f24f..ffc364bd 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Release Notes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -fetchmail-4.5.1 (): +fetchmail-4.5.1 (Wed Jul 1 19:27:56 EDT 1998): * Checkalias option from Enrico Musio . * Discard Unix From_ lines in headers (copes with Debian bug report #23808. * Tell fetchmailconf not to care if the attempt to create an icon window fails. @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ fetchmail-4.5.1 (): `@compuserve.com' as CompuServe requires. Thus CompuServe users may now choose ordinary authentication at runtime. +There are 275 people on fetchmail-friends and 238 on fetchmail-announce. + fetchmail-4.5.0bis (Sat Jun 20 10:55:52 EDT 1998): One-line fix for an embarrassing bug in the `gold' version; command-line diff --git a/design-notes.html b/design-notes.html index ae45d54d..c856511c 100644 --- a/design-notes.html +++ b/design-notes.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/06/29 21:38:03 $ +$Date: 1998/07/01 23:29:16 $

Design Notes On Fetchmail

@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ program isn't perfect, but it's trying.

The most-requested features that I will never add, and why not:

-

1. Password encryption in .fetchmailrc

+

Password encryption in .fetchmailrc

The reason there's no facility to store passwords encrypted in the .fetchmailrc file is because this doesn't actually add protection.

@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ they're not portable.

I've thought about this a lot and roughed up several designs. All are complicated and fragile, with a bunch of the standard problems (what happens if a fetchmail aborts before clearing its semaphore, and how -do we recover reliably?)

. +do we recover reliably?).

I'm just not satisfied that there's enough functional gain here to pay for the large increase in complexity that adding these semaphores @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ following minimum steps. forget the %token declaration.

  • Pick a long-form option name, and a one-letter short option if any - are left. Go to options.c. Pick a new LA_ + are left. Go to options.c. Pick a new LA_ value. Hack the longoptions table to set up the association. Hack the big switch statement to set the option. Hack the `?' message to describe it. @@ -412,8 +412,8 @@ a gift from the gods, and this is my expression of gratitude.

    The beta testers didn't know it at the time, but they were also the subjects of a sociological experiment. The results are described in -my paper, The Cathedral And The Bazaar, available on the -Fetchmail home page. +my paper, The Cathedral +And The Bazaar.

    Credits

    @@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ Hochheiser, who gave me the idea of the SMTP-forwarding delivery mode.

    Other significant contributors to the code have included Dave Bodenstab (error.c code and --syslog), George Sipe (--monitor and --interface), Gordon Matzigkeit (netrc.c), Al Longyear (UIDL support), Chris -Hanson (Kerberos V4 support), anc Craig Metz (OPIE, IPv6, IPSEC).

    +Hanson (Kerberos V4 support), and Craig Metz (OPIE, IPv6, IPSEC).

    Conclusion

    @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ all shaped the design in one way or another.

    Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/06/29 21:38:03 $ +$Date: 1998/07/01 23:29:16 $

    Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
    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 +RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, and ESMTP ETRN. It can even +support IPv6 and IPSEC.

    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 See the Fetchmail Design Notes for discussion of some of the design choices in fetchmail.

    -Finally, see the distribution NEWS file for a -description of changes in recent versions.

    -

    How to get fetchmail:

    -You can get any of the following here: +You can get any of the following leading-edge resources here: +Or you can get the last \`gold' version, $goldname: + +For differences between the leading-edge $version and gold $goldname versions, +see the distribution NEWS file.

    (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 Sunsite remote mail tools directory. -

    Getting help with fetchmail

    +

    Getting help with fetchmail:

    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 please read the FAQ (especially item G3 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: 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.

    +FAQ covers them like a blanket.

    Fetchmail was written and is maintained by Eric S. Raymond. -I wrote a paper, The Cathedral -And The Bazaar, about these theories and the project. It was well -received at Linux Kongress -'97 and the Atlanta Linux -Expo two weeks later. I also presented it at Tim O'Reilly's Perl Conference 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 give -away the source for Netscape Communicator).

    +I wrote a paper, The Cathedral +And The Bazaar, 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.

    Recent releases and where fetchmail is going:

    -- cgit v1.2.3