[fetchmail-devel] fetchmail 6.3.15-beta3 tests needed - your chance to help!

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

Greetings,

#1 I am asking interested fetchmail users to test a BETA release of
fetchmail.  This beta3 should particularly be tested for portability to
your favourite Unix-like operating system.  It is known to compile on
FreeBSD 8, NetBSD 5, Ubuntu Linux 8.04, 9.10, 10.04 alpha, openSUSE
11.2, Solaris 10, but it may break on other operating systems where it
used to work.

   If this beta either stops or continues being compilable for you for an
operating system not listed above, please report your findings. In case
of success, please report "uname -a" (or otherwise operating system
details such as processor architecture, OS vendor, name and version).
In case of failure, please report that and the build logs, along with
config.h and config.log files.

#2 Also, if you can offer access to test servers that I can send a short
test mail to and then log into to retrieve that test message -
particularly Exchange 2007 is desired, but others besides Cyrus IMAP and
Dovecot are also welcome - please let me know.

#3 Finally, fetchmail needs translators for the program strings. Some
languages (such as those shown below) are in quite good shape, but
others are lacking a bit.

Translation information at
<http://translationproject.org/domain/fetchmail.html>



DOWNLOAD this beta software from:
<http://home.pages.de/~mandree/fetchmail/>

The repository can be browsed at and cloned from:
<http://gitorious.org/fetchmail/fetchmail>

Git (the software used to keep the fetchmail source code version
controlled) information is at: <http://git-scm.com/>

CHANGES since the previous formal release of fetchmail listed below.
Unless otherwise noted, the changes 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.
* Check seteuid() return value and abort running MDA if switch fails.
* Set global flags in a consistent manner. Make --nosoftbounce and
  --nobounce work from command line (these used to work in rcfiles).
  Reported and fix confirmed working by N.J. Mann. (Sunil Shetye)
* Properly import h_errno declarations, even on systems where h_errno isn't a
  macro. (Adds ./configure check, fixes Cygwin dllimport warnings.)

# 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.  BRANCH_6-3 is now obsolete (and in fact
  was also converted to a tag to record where the conversion from SVN to Git
  took place).
* "make check" now skips HTML validation if xmllint or XHTML DTD are missing.

# 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, by language name
* [zh_CN] Chinese (Simplified), by Ji Zheng-Yu
* [cs]    Czech, by Petr Pisar
* [nl]    Dutch, by Erwin Poeze
* [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