Re: [Fetchmail-users] fetchmail-6.4.0 has been withdrawn, 6.4.1 released.

[Gene H. <ghe...@sh...>]

On Saturday 28 September 2019 17:33:33 Matthias Andree wrote:

> Am 28.09.19 um 19:37 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> > On Saturday 28 September 2019 11:26:31 Matthias Andree wrote:
> >> Am 28.09.19 um 16:43 schrieb Peter Pentchev:
> >> Yeah. Sorry for my bad English. I had to get 6.4.1 out in a rush
> >> because 6.4.0 was so utterly broken, so I couldn't ponder the
> >> wording for too long.
> >
> > Don't be sorry Matthias, after all, you did take the time to learn
> > my language, but its been 65 years since I waded thru a telefunken
> > radio schematic, absorbing just enough German to fix the radio. They
> > made pretty good radios back in the day.  Or at least this Iowa farm
> > kid thought so.
>
> Thanks. The gist is that 6.4.1 had to happen quickly and the focus was
> on testing the code, but not proof-reading the text. It might habe
> been unintelligible to the uninitiated in German, too.
>
> I surmise that unless other important bugs want expedited fixing, I
> should do a 6.4.2 in November or so with spelling and grammar fixes
> and possibly clearer descriptions for  non-programmers. I also hope
> that 6.4.1 might entice translators to update/complete translations,
> or possibly contribute new translations.
>
That does have a certain attraction for the super picky I'm sure. And I'm 
with many in that better docs are always welcomed, but that call is 
yours. I've been using it as a substitute for kmails mail fetcher for 
well over a decade.  As long as I tell it to do sensible things, its 
just worked except with my present ISP, who serves its pop3 customers 
email from the same server as their imap using clients. So they've 
disabled fetchmails ability to delete, meaning I have to log in with 
firefox and delete old mail at approximately daily intervals.  No biggie 
IMO.

My thanks to you, and to any other maintainers its had over a rather 
lengthy piece of the internets history.

Take care now.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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