[fetchmail-users] fetchmail 6.3.4 stable release

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

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Greetings,

I am announcing the release of fetchmail 6.3.4. This new stable version
of fetchmail fixes several minor bugs, adds a --pidfile option, a
Vietnamese translation and updates other translations.
For details, please see below.

The software is available from:
<http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1824&release_id=9751>

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

These are the relevant changes in 6.3.4 since 6.3.3;
unless otherwise noted, changes to this release were made by Matthias Andree:

# DEPRECATED FEATURES AND MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE ADVANCE WARNINGS
* The MX and host alias DNS lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode
  are obsolete, deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version.
  They have never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4) anyhow.
* The monitor and interface options may be removed from a future fetchmail
  version as they are not sufficiently portable.
* POP2 is obsolete.
  Support for POP2 may be removed from a future fetchmail version.
* RPOP is obsolete, support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
* --sslcertck may become a default setting in a future fetchmail version.
* The multidrop To/Cc guessing code along with the fragile duplicate suppressor
  is deprecated and may be removed from a future release.
* The --enable-fallback (fall back to MDA if MTA unavailable) may be removed
  from a future fetchmail release.
* The "protocol auto" default inside fetchmail may be removed from a future
  fetchmail release. Explicit configuration of the protocol is recommended.

# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS:
  (this section floats upwards through the NEWS to be on top of the list)
* fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
  (See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
* 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.
* The code still isn't 100% ISO-C compliant, some configurations attempt to
  compile files that are empty after preprocessing, which can cause compiler
  diagnostics and perhaps jam the compilation on strict compilers.

# BUG FIXES:
* configure: detect res_* functions properly with newer glibc ABIs.
  Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
* tracepolls: add folder information if available. Reported by Terry Brown.
* lexer: add %option noyywrap to avoid link errors about missing yywrap().
* a few more type fixes for report/snprintf, patch by Miloslav Trmac.
* bouncing: fetchmail would still send "General SMTP/ESMTP error." bounces
  in spite of "no bouncemail" configuration.
* SSL/TLS: if, for a certain server, an sslfingerprint is specified and
  sslcertck is NOT set, suppress printing SSL certificate mismatch errors.
  (Reported by Hannes Erven.)
* SSL/TLS: always print if the sslfingerprint mismatches, even in silent
  mode.  (This is for consistency with certificate verification errors.)

# TRANSLATION UPDATES:
* German/de (Matthias Andree), French/fr (Matthias Andree), Spanish/es (Héctor
  García), Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki)
* New Vietnamese/vi translation (Clytie Siddall).
* Updated French descriptions for the .spec file (Stéphane Schildknecht,
  Luc Pionchon, Matthias Andree).

# CHANGES:
* pidfile: there is a new command-line (--pidfile PATH) and global option for
  the rcfile (set pidfile [=] "/path/to/pidfile") option to allow overriding
  the default location of the PID file.
  Requested by Héctor García, Debian maintainer.
* specgen.sh: Converted to UTF-8 to support translated texts better.

Regards,

- -- 
Matthias Andree
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