[fetchmail-devel] fetchmail 6.3.15-beta2 test release

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

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Greetings,

I am asking interested fetchmail users to test a BETA release of
fetchmail.  This beta2 *revises* the long-desired feature to ignore bad
headers in messages and pass them on (now called bad-header accept).
Note that this features is OFF BY DEFAULT and YOU need to turn it on
explicitly by command line or rcfile.

The beta software is available from:
<http://home.pages.de/~mandree/fetchmail/>

These are the relevant changes since the previous release.  Unless
otherwise noted, changes to this release were made by Matthias Andree:

# FEATURE
* Fetchmail now supports a bad-header command line or rcfile option that takes
  exactly one argument, accept or reject (default).  This specifies how messages
  with bad headers retrieved from the current server are to be treated.

# BUG FIXES
* In the rcfile, recognize "local" as abbreviation for "localdomains", as
  documented. The short form has not ever worked since this feature was added in
  January 1997. Reported by Frédéric Marchal.
* Do not close stdout when using mda and "bsmtp -" at the same time.
* Log operating system errors when BSMTP writes fail.
* Fix verbose mode progress formatting regression from 6.3.10; SMTP trace lines
  were no longer on a line of their own. Reported by Melchior Franz.

# CHANGES
* The repository has been converted and moved from the Subversion (SVN) format
  kindly hosted by Graham Wilson over the past years to Git format hosted on
  Gitorious.org.  My deepest thanks to Graham Wilson for this service that
  kept us going when BerliOS's Subversion service was faulty in its early days.
* This opportunity was used to convert BRANCH_6-2 and BRANCH_1-9-9 to
  GnuPG-signed tags, as a sign that these are now closed.
* The outdated SVN trunk is now called "oldtrunk" in Git just to save the work
  for future reference. All development in the past few years was on BRANCH_6-3.
* master was branched from BRANCH_6-3 for user convenience.

# DOCUMENTATION
* Web site and documentation were adjusted to reflect the SVN->Git move.
* The fetchmail manual page is now much clearer on the user id switching
  (seteuid) when using --mda while running as the super user.

# TRANSLATION UPDATES
* [cs]   Czech, by Petr Pisar
* [fr]   French, by Frédéric Marchal
* [de]   German
* [id]   Indonesian, by Andhika Padmawan
* [it]   Italian, by Vincenzo Campanella
* [ja]   Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
* [pl]   Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
* [vi]   Vietnamese, by Clytie Siddall

- -- 
Matthias Andree
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