Re: [Fetchmail-users] Password length restriction

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

On 15/07/2020 23.19, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 15.07.20 um 21:57 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
>> On 15/07/2020 19.02, Eike Lantzsch wrote:
>>> 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
> 
> Which is outdated, too. 6.4.2 updated fetchmailconf, and 6.4.3 was a
> version to receive Linux-relevant bugfixes (6.4.5 for Solaris 10), and
> there have been translation updates since, so distros should really move
> forward. I believe I have paid sufficient attention that patchlevel
> updates within 6.4.x should be safe, with the exception that 6.4.2 also
> tightened up the Python requirement for fetchmailconf to >= 2.7.13. This
> may hurt LTS releases, but then again, if someone runs a LTS or
> commercial distro, that's also the place to go to for support.

And the OP got his support ;-)

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Cheers / Saludos,

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