From cd14f33ceb42ef6a90abe094dd2e36cc4e37fa98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Andree Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:14:55 +0000 Subject: Mention that the .fetchids fix is incompatible for some system-wide setups of fetchmail. svn path=/branches/BRANCH_6-3/; revision=4605 --- NEWS | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 828ca9b0..43dac4f6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ change. MA = Matthias Andree, ESR = Eric S. Raymond, RF = Rob Funk.) fetchmail 6.3.2 (to be released): +# INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: +* fetchmail, since 6.3.0, requires write permission to the directory holding the + idfile. See the amendment in the 6.3.0 MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES section + below for details. The manual page was updated. Matthias Andree + +# BUG FIXES: * SMTP/LMTP cleanup to fix these two bugs: - switch back to SMTP after having tried LMTP hosts (multiple smtphost hosts) - switch back to LMTP after sending a bounce. @@ -103,6 +109,14 @@ fetchmail 6.3.0 (released 2005-11-30): authentication types and protocols, so as to simplify configurations for workstations where the SMTP daemon only listens on the loopback interface. Sunil Shetye & Matthias Andree +Amendment, 2006-01-04: +* fetchmail's idfile (.fetchids) is no longer written directly, but the ids are + written to a temporary file which is renamed into place after being written + completely. This is to avoid writing incomplete idfiles when running out of + space, which would cause excessive duplicate refetches of messages, this might + make matters even worse. This means that fetchmail requires write permission + on the directory holding the idfile. This will usually affect system-global + daemons only, for instance, Debian. Found by Dan Jacobson. Matthias Andree. # OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES * Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR) -- cgit v1.2.3