[fetchmail-users] fetchmail 6.3.8-rc1 release candidate

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

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Greetings,

I have uploaded the first fetchmail 6.3.8 release candidate to the usual
download location: <http://home.pages.de/~mandree/fetchmail/>.

One more workaround was added to support repolling after failure of
opportunistic TLS upgrade - this time when the server refused
authentication.

Several parts of the documentation have been corrected and the Received:
format that fetchmail expects was documented. There is also a new
contrib/ script, delete-later.

Details:

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fetchmail 6.3.8 changes since 6.3.7:

# BUG FIXES:
* Fix pluralization of oversized-message warning mails.
* Fix manual page: --sslcheck -> --sslcertck, and do not set trailing 
  "recommended:" in bold. Fixes Debian Bug #413059, reported by Rafal Czlonka.
* Repoll immediately if a protocol error happens during the authentication 
  attempt after a failed opportunistic TLS upgrade.
  Fixes comment #9 in Gentoo Bug #163782, reported by Takuto Matsuu.
* Fix rendering of the "24 - 26, 28, 29" paragraph in the exit codes section. 
  Reported by Nico Golde.

# DOCUMENTATION:
* Extend --mda documentation, discourage use of qmail-inject.
  Based on a patch by Rob MacGregor.
* Document SOCKS configuration facility (SOCKS_CONF environment variable).
  Thanks to Jochen Hayek, Michael Shuldman and Rob MacGregor.
* Use envelope option in multidrop example. Patch by Rob MacGregor.
* Document expected Received: line format when parsing for envelope addressees.
* Stripped option documentation from sample.rcfile, since this is bound to go
  out of synch with the manual page, which is the only reference on options.

# CONTRIB:
* Add delete-later and delete-later.README, a script and documentation for
  a MySQL/Tcl-based client-side "delete-after" feature.
  Kindly donated by Yoo GmbH, Großvoigtsberg, Germany (Carsten Ralle).

# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS:
  (this section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the
  current release information)
* fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
  (See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
* Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file 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,
  so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties.
* fetchmail does not track pending deletes over crashes
* the command line interface is a bit narrow-minded sometimes, for instance,
  fetchmail -s doesn't work with a running daemon
* some of the logging output is not very helpful
* some of the documentation is still not up to date
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Thank you.

Happy fetching,
Matthias Andree
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