From 56f2f5e7a800ec59ae8d027a6c551ebf84fbda94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 18:43:17 +0000 Subject: Eliminate agethostbyname call in non-ETRN modes. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2033 --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8e9a1040..5824e43e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ fetchmail-4.5.5 (): * Fixed the spam-block code that I broke in 4.5.3 :-(. * Updated the entry on setting up sendmail spam blocks. * Added setrlimit call to inhibit core dumps unless debugging is on. +* The default of smtplist has been changed; the undocumented feature that + it always included the fetchmail host's FQDN is gone (this is now + true for ETRN mode only). +* Modes other than ETRN no longer need to know the fetchmail host's FQDN. + This eliminates a gethostbyname() call and makes fetchmail more independent + of local DNS configuration quirks. There are 257 people on fetchmail-friends and 255 on fetchmail-announce. -- cgit v1.2.3