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ChangeLog


2023-09-26	- 6.4.34 -> 6.4.37
		- Added a list of Slackware package versions
		- Some typos
		- Some http to https
2022-10-21	- 6.4.30 -> 6.4.34
		- Home page URL http to https
2022-06-26	- 6.3.26 -> 6.4.30
		- Changed OPIE link from www.inner.net/opie (www.inner.net not
		  resolving), to Wikipedia page
		- Kerberos http to https
		- Use sha256sum instead of sha1sum
2018-12-29	- Patch for OpenSSL >= 1.1.0
		- Added repository link
		- Removed md5sum (leaving sha1)
2014-05-06	- Changed home page link to http://www.fetchmail.info/,
		  download URLs to sourceforge - everything was hosted at
		  berlios, which is supposed to be shutting down
		  (which almost happened a few years ago, but did not)
2014-04-28	- 6.3.22 -> 6.3.26
2011-09-22	- 6.3.17 -> 6.3.22
2010-05-09	- 6.3.10 -> 6.3.17
		- Updated OPIE link back to the original, it's back up
		- Updated procmail/sendmail links, added maildrop to it
2009-07-09	- 6.3.8 -> 6.3.10
		- Removed the inet6-apps link, which has been down forever
		- Changed the OPIE link to point to the wikipedia page,
		  inner.net has been down forever
		- Added removal instructions to the bottom
May 8, 2007	- 6.3.7 -> 6.3.8
Mar 16, 2007	- 6.3.6 -> 6.3.7
Jan 30, 2007	- 6.3.4 -> 6.3.6 (fixes CVE-2006-5867, CVE-2006-5974)
		- Removed 6.2.x (no security fixes available)
		- Removed gawk, grep links (now at the top)
Jun 1, 2006	- 6.3.2 -> 6.3.4
Jan 26, 2006	- 6.3.1 -> 6.3.2
Jan 5, 2006	- 6.2.5.2 -> 6.2.5.5
Dec 26, 2005	- Added 6.3.1
		- tar.gz -> tar.bz2
		- When restarting fetchmail, use the full path
Jul 25, 2005	- Changed home page from
		  http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/ (Eric S. Raymond)
		  to
		  http://fetchmail.berlios.de/
		- Removed make, gcc, binutils, and fileutils links
		- Changed textutils link to coreutils
		- Changed md5sum verification to output OK (or not)
		- Added sha1sum verification
		- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- root.root -> root:root, run when $UID = 0
		- 6.2.5 -> 6.2.5.2, which includes a security fix:
		  <a href="http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt">http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt</a>
Mar 18, 2004	- Fixed a typo in the inet6-apps prerequisite link (I forgot
		  the ftp://), actually I'll just remove the link because
		  it's down anyway...
Nov 3, 2003	- 6.2.3 -> 6.2.5
		  Security update, more info here:
		  <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0792">http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0792</a>
		- Added more prerequisites
Jul 26, 2003	- 6.2.2 -> 6.2.3
		- Removed the dir from --with-ssl, /usr/local/ssl is already
		  the default
		- Added a sed hack to fix the Makefile's broken -I for SSL's
		  include files
		- Changed prefix from /usr/local to /usr
		- Added 'removepkg fetchmail'
Mar 19, 2003	- 6.2.1 -> 6.2.2
Feb 19, 2003	- Updated homepage and download URLs from
		  http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/ (which redirects
		  somewhere now) to http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/
		- Replaced downloading the checksums file, gpg verifying
		  that too, etc. and put the actual md5sum in the howto.
Jan 17, 2003	- 6.2.0 -> 6.2.1
		- Added several configure options to remove support for
		  things I don't need
Dec 13, 2002	- 6.1.3 -> 6.2.0
Dec 6, 2002	- 6.1.0 -> 6.1.3
		- Added removal of old versions
Oct 2, 2002	- 5.9.14 -> 6.1.0
		- Added gpg verification of checksums
Sep 9, 2002	- First entry

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