From 42b0c89d4e0a1a045f43bdb4d79e467ec4443095 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 19:08:22 +0000 Subject: Ready to ship. svn path=/trunk/; revision=3232 --- indexgen.sh | 30 +++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) (limited to 'indexgen.sh') diff --git a/indexgen.sh b/indexgen.sh index b98ac02e..bfc59bbd 100755 --- a/indexgen.sh +++ b/indexgen.sh @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ goldname="5.7.0" version=`sed -n Fetchmail offers better security than any other Unix remote-mail client. It supports APOP, KPOP, OTP, Compuserve RPA, Microsoft NTLM, -and IMAP RFC1731 encrypted authentication methods to avoid sending -passwords en clair. It can be configured to support end-to-end -encryption via tunneling with ssh, -the Secure Shell

+and IMAP RFC1731 encrypted authentication methods including CRAM-MD5 +to avoid sending passwords en clair. It can be configured to support +end-to-end encryption via tunneling with ssh, the Secure Shell

Fetchmail can be used as a POP/IMAP-to-SMTP gateway for an entire DNS domain, collecting mail from a single drop box on an ISP and @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ maintainers may be added in the future, in order to ensure continued support should Eric S. Raymond drop permanently off the net for any reason.

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You can help improve fetchmail

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You can help improve fetchmail:

I welcome your code contributions. But even if you don't write code, you can help fetchmail improve.

@@ -223,14 +223,14 @@ customized version is used at Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. Several large ISPs are known to recommend it to Unix-using SLIP and PPP customers.

-Over seven hundred people have participated on the fetchmail beta list -(at time of current release there were $subscribers on the friends and -announce lists). While it's hard to count the users of open-source -software, we can estimate based on (a) population figures at the WELL -and other known fetchmail sites, (b) the size of the Linux-using ISP -customer base, and (c) the volume of fetchmail-related talk on USENET. -These estimates suggest that daily fetchmail users number well into -the tens of thousands, and possibly over a hundred thousand.

+Somewhere around a thousand people have participated on the fetchmail +beta lists (at time of current release there were $subscribers on the +friends and announce lists). While it's hard to count the users of +open-source software, we can estimate based on (a) population figures +at the WELL and other known fetchmail sites, (b) the size of the +Linux-using ISP customer base, and (c) the volume of fetchmail-related +talk on USENET. These estimates suggest that daily fetchmail users +number well into the hundreds of thousands, and possibly over a million.

The sociology of fetchmail:

@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ Fetchmail is supported only for Unix by its official maintainers. However, it is reported to build and run correctly under BeOS, AmigaOS, Rhapsody, and QNX as well.

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Related resources

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Related resources:

Jochen Hayek is developing a set of -- cgit v1.2.3