From b499b39f7a8fd559eff8ded1c62630dcc57bce2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 01:50:05 +0000 Subject: Ready to ship. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2734 --- NEWS | 10 +++++++++- driver.c | 10 +++++++++- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 25 +++++++++++-------------- 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index abd0ee70..86854dd5 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -19,7 +19,15 @@ The Debian bug-tracking page for fetchmail is: (The `lines' figures total .c, .h, .l, and .y files under version control.) -fetchmail-5.2.5 (Sat Feb 5 00:01:53 EST 2000), 18517 lines: +fetchmail-5.2.7 (Sun Feb 6 20:45:41 EST 2000), 18517 lines: +* Updated FAQ. +* Updated es.po. +* Disable mail notification on server unreachable. This turned out to + be a very bad idea. + +There are 276 people on fetchmail-friends and 493 on fetchmail-announce. + +fetchmail-5.2.6 (Sat Feb 5 00:01:53 EST 2000), 18517 lines: * Close down sockets using shutdown(2) and discarding read data until we get a TCP FIN. With any luck this will squash our socket leak. * Open the lockfile with O_SYNC, so we know the file has been written diff --git a/driver.c b/driver.c index cd89408e..8daf5f3e 100644 --- a/driver.c +++ b/driver.c @@ -1620,6 +1620,13 @@ const int maxfetch; /* maximum number of messages to fetch */ strcpy(errbuf, strerror(err_no)); report_complete(stderr, ": %s\n", errbuf); +#ifdef __UNUSED + /* + * Don't use this. It was an attempt to address Debian bug + * #47143 (Notify user by mail when pop server nonexistent). + * Trouble is, that doesn't work; you trip over the case + * where your SLIP or PPP link is down... + */ /* warn the system administrator */ if (open_warning_by_mail(ctl, (struct msgblk *)NULL) == 0) { @@ -1627,8 +1634,9 @@ const int maxfetch; /* maximum number of messages to fetch */ stuff_warning(ctl, OPENFAIL, ctl->server.pollname); stuff_warning(ctl, errbuf, ctl->server.pollname); close_warning_by_mail(ctl, (struct msgblk *)NULL); - } #undef OPENFAIL + } +#endif } #endif /* INET6_ENABLE */ ok = PS_SOCKET; diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 256406c3..67c79b2b 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 2000/01/31 22:16:21 $ +$Date: 2000/02/07 01:50:05 $

Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail

@@ -467,16 +467,12 @@ of UW IMAP. Or you can use SSL for complete end-to-end encryption if you have an SSL-enabled mailserver.

You can get both POP3 and IMAP OTP patches from Craig -Metz, over FTP via either - -ftp://ftp.inner.net/pub/opie/patches (IPv4) or - -ftp://ftp.ipv6.inner.net/pub/opie/patches (IPv6).

- -These patches use a SASL authentication method named "X-OTP" because there is -not currently a standard way to do this; fetchmail also uses this method, so -the two will interoperate happily. They better, because this is how Craig gets -his mail ;-)

+Metz at http://www.inner.net/pub/.

+These patches use a SASL authentication method named "X-OTP" because +there is not currently a standard way to do this; fetchmail also uses +this method, so the two will interoperate happily. They better, +because this is how Craig gets his mail ;-)

(One important win of OTP is that it's not subject to U.S. export restrictions.)

@@ -1464,9 +1460,10 @@ project manager claims these bugs have been fixed in 6.0.

You can't, yet. But Hugo Rabson has written a script called `hotmole' that can retrieve Hotmail mail via the web using Lynx. The script -is available on -Hugo Rabson's Linux page.

+Hugo Rabson's Linux page, but we're told that project is dead and +the web page seems to be gone.

S9. How can I use fetchmail with MSN?

@@ -2581,7 +2578,7 @@ terminate it.

Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 2000/01/31 22:16:21 $ +$Date: 2000/02/07 01:50:05 $

Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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