[fetchmail-users] fetchmail 6.3.3 stable release fixes several bugs

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

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Greetings,

I am announcing the release of fetchmail 6.3.3. This new stable version
of fetchmail fixes several bugs, among them two crashes. For details,
please see below.

This is a recommended upgrade for all users of any previous fetchmail versions.

The software is available from:
<https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1824&release_id=8784>

The fetchmail home pages is:
<http://www.fetchmail.info/>  or  <http://fetchmail.berlios.de/>

These are the relevant changes in 6.3.3 since 6.3.2,
unless otherwise noted, changes to this release were made by Matthias Andree:

# DEPRECATED FEATURES AND MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE ADVANCE WARNINGS
* The "protocol auto" default inside fetchmail may be removed from a future
  fetchmail release. Explicit configuration of the protocol is recommended.

# KNOWN BUGS:
* Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the lexer in 64-bit mode.
  Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit fetchmail.
  Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code anyways,
  so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should be fine.

# BUG FIXES:
* SEGFAULT: Do not attempt to overwrite the netrc password if none has been
  specified.  This fixes a segmentation fault bug introduced into 6.3.2.
  Fixes BerliOS bug #6234.  BerliOS patch #804 by Craig Leres.
  The patch, as accepted into fetchmail, was available separately from
  <http://download.berlios.de/fetchmail/patch-6.3.2.1-fix-netrc-SIGSEGV.diff>
* SEGFAULT: Work around C libraries that return a NULL in getaddrinfo()'s
  ai_canonname record, to avoid a segfault. Affects for instance FreeBSD 4.10,
  4.11 and 5.3 when dotted quads are given as server names.
  Analysis and fix by Vladimir Olegovich Ravodin (Владимир Олегович Раводин).
* IMAP: fix hangs in NOOP-based IDLE emulation. Reported by Casper Gripenberg
  and Brendan Lynch, fix by Sunil Shetye (his patch was merged) and Brendan Lynch.
* IMAP: Handle other clients concurrently accessing IMAP mailboxes better.
  Fetchmail quits the poll if the EXPUNGE count does not match expectations, and
  servers not updating RECENT counts after EXPUNGE are handled in a better way.
  (Patch by Sunil Shetye.)
* IMAP: Stop sending EXPUNGE after NOOP-idling (patch by Sunil Shetye).
* POP3: fetchmail can now use UIDL in fetchall keep mode, to avoid re-fetching
  the same messages again when the fetchall keyword is removed. Patch by
  Sunil Shetye. For details, please see
  <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2006-March/000308.html>
* LMTP: fix bug in LMTP port validation (patch by Miloslav Trmac).
* SDPS: fetchmail no longer replaces the local user ID for an empty envelope
  sender when using the proprietary SDPS extension for POP3.
  Fixes Debian Bug#353575, reported by Roger Lynn.
* SDPS: Warn and disable SDPS if POP3 is disabled to avoid compilation errors.
* fetchmail no longer prints empty lines in verbose mode when using syslog.
* fetchmail no longer prints UID lists in verbose mode when using syslog.
* ./configure --quiet is now quieter (no SSL and fallback-related output).
* Miloslav Trmac's patch (with minor changes) to fix char * sign consistency,
  unused arguments and variables.
* More signedness, unused argument/variable and other warning fixes.

# CHANGES:
* --idle can now be specified on the command line, too.
* --fetchall is now supported on the command-line.
* POP3: Lower default fastuidl span to 4 (i. e. every 4th run fetches the
  whole UIDL list), patch by Sunil Shetye.

# DOCUMENTATION:
* "ssl" is a user option rather than a server option. Patch by Nico Golde.
  Fixes Debian Bug#354661, reported by Keith Hellman.
* The manual page now suggests "--" before the addresses in the sendmail MDA
  example, for safety.
* The FAQ item X9, Domino IMAP omits Content-Transfer-Encoding header, was
  added. Information provided by Anthony Kim on the fetchmail-friends list
  in March 2006.
* Credit Chris Boyle with the NOOP emulation code for IDLE in fetchmail 6.2.4.
  Eric forgot to credit Chris, thanks to Sunil Shetye for providing these links:
  http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007705.html
  http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007713.html
* Added a section about RETR vs. TOP to the manual page.
* Changed section/subsection levels in some areas.

Regards,

- -- 
Matthias Andree
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