Re: [Fetchmail-users] Password length restriction

[Carlos E. R. <rob...@te...>]

On 15/07/2020 19.02, Eike Lantzsch wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 July 2020 12:32:49 -04 Matthias Andree wrote:
>> Am 15.07.20 um 16:42 schrieb Zsolt Barat:
>>> I'm using following fetchmail version:
>>>
>>> 6.3.26+POP2+GSS+RPA+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+OPIE+NLS+KRB5
>>
>> 6.3.X is a museum piece from 2013 and unsupported on this list, and I
>> don't care to look back to what it might have done for such questions.
>>
>> Password buffers in 6.4.X are allocated dynamically, and there may be
>> undocumented limitations on your mail service provider's (MSP's) end.
>> 30 certainly does not seem too long to me, but might be for your MSP.


> 
> If you don't mind my AOL-post ...
> There are some distributions which are not including any recent
> fetchmail version.
> I really don't get it why e.g. openSuse comes with 6.3.26 fetchmail.

That's intentional and documented policy.

I guess you are talking of openSUSE Leap 15.x, which is an LTS, thus it 
simply can not change the versions of the core packages during the long 
term period (ie, when it goes to Leap 16), unless the commercial 
distribution from which it derives the core (SLE) switches version first.

However, there is the server:mail repository which has 6.4.1

And there is openSUSE Tumbleweed which also has 6.4.1

> If mayor producers of Linux Distros are going on with this practice
> questions like the one of the OP are bound to appear again and again.
> It seems to be a widely common assumption that the latest distro comes
> with the latest ports - not at all, not at all.

Of course.

> Not good.
> Not long ago OpenBsd e.g. was still with 6.3.xx when 6.4.xx was already
> available upstream. Now OpenBSD 6.7 Release comes with 6.4.3.
> At least on OpenBSD compiling the latest upstream version fo fetchmail
> is straight forward and easy.
> On Linux I don't know but would be worth a try.
> Anyway, updating to the latest upstream version before asking for help,
> is always good practice.
> 
> Anyway I admire your patience giving a helpful answer despite the OP's
> question based on outdated software.
> All the best to y'all

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)