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<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Fetchmail's Funniest Fan Mail</H1>

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From felix@crowfix.com  Wed Jan  8 13:50:03 1997
Message-Id: <199701081745.JAA02194@crowfix.com>
From: Felix Morley Finch <felix@crowfix.com>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Subject: fetchmail 2.5

What the heck is WRONG with you?  This thing installed and worked
RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX!  The sample .fetchmailrc file WAS TOO EASY TO
FOLLOW!  What are you, some kind of nut?




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Honestly, I was not expecting it to be so doggone EASY to get it up
and running.  Sure surprised me!  Of course, it hasn't actually
retreived any mail yet, but that's my problem, not yours.

Thanks very very much.

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     ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._.
       Felix Finch, scarecrow repairer / felix@crowfix.com
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I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
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(Um, I suppose I should add that he did in fact succeed in getting
fetchmail to retrieve his mail.)<P>

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unknown"; $jdate = "unknown"; print <<EOF; # Population data from fetchmail NEWS file, as of $timestamp. # # Output other than pass-through % lines is tab-separated fields. # Field 1: release ID # Field 2: count of source lines under version control # Field 3: count of fetchmail-friends subscribers # Field 4: count of fetchmail-announce subscribers # Field 5: total subscribers to both lists # Field 6: date of release (days since first datum) # Field 7: date of release (RFC822 date format) # EOF while ($_ = <NEWS>) { my($sum); if (/^%/) { print $_; } elsif (/^fetchmail-([^ ]*) \(([^)]+)\)(, [0-9]* lines)?:/) { $release = $1; $date = $2; $jdate = &day_offset($date); if ($3) { $lines = substr($3, 2, length($3) - 8); } else { $lines = 'na' } } elsif (/There are ([0-9]*) people on fetchmail-friends and ([0-9]*) on fetchmail-announce/) { $sum = $1 + $2; print "${release}\t${lines}\t$1\t$2\t${sum}\t${jdate}\t${date}\n"; $release = "unknown"; $date = "unknown"; } elsif (/There are ([0-9]*) people on the fetchmail-friends list./) { print "$release\t${lines}\t$1\t0\t$1\t$jdate\t$date\n"; $release = "unknown"; $date = "unknown"; } } # end