fetchmail-6.2.5

* You may now have a ‘defaults’ entry in the run control file which sets
overrideable values for other entries. See the man page for details.
* It is now possible to set keep, flush and fetchall in your run control
file.
* Fixed incorrect numbering of source lines in run control file parse error
messages.
* The configure.in specification no longer uses the obsolete AC_TRY_COMPILE
macro (it uses AC_TRY_LINK instead).
MAILBOX LOCKING
* I have added mandatory locking of mailbox files where supported.
This will cover Linux systems, in particular.
* The default behavior is now to do lock-protected append on the user’s
system mailbox rather than using delivermail or some other MDA.
(This is a performance hack.)
* The autoconfigure script now looks for standard mail locations. The
default mail delivery agent is used only if it can’t find a mail spool
directory in the standard places.
FUNCTIONAL ENHANCEMENTS
* When using POP3, message headers are edited so that replies won’t foo up.
Anything that looks like a mail ID local to the POP host gets @ and the
pop servername attached to it before being appended to the user’s
mailbox or passed to an MDA.
* I have implemented daemon mode.
* I have added a lock check to ensure that there is only one popclient
running per user, and a --quit option to kill the currently running
one.
DOCUMENTATION
* All changes and feature additions have been tested in actual use and are
documented on the man page.
* I have turned the comments in the sample run control file into a new manual
section documenting the file format.
MISCELLANEOUS BUG FIXES
* I fixed some de-initialization bugs in pop2.c and pop3.c that led to
fd leaks (these became painfully obvious when I tested daemon mode!).
* I’ve fixed the flaky parser error messages. They turned out to be due
to a misdeclaration of yytext.
These are Carl Harris’s change notes from previous releases:
3.0b5
o "From " header fix in pop2.c and pop3.c
o Surpress "..." output when --stdout option specified in pop3.c