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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:38:56 +0200
From:      Matthias Andree <mandree@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Rene Ladan <rene@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org,  svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r351860 - in head/mail/fetchmail: . files
Message-ID:  <535751F0.6060008@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201404221610.s3MGAo43010487@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201404221610.s3MGAo43010487@svn.freebsd.org>

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Am 22.04.2014 18:10, schrieb Rene Ladan:
> Author: rene
> Date: Tue Apr 22 16:10:50 2014
> New Revision: 351860
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/351860
> QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r351860/
> 
> Log:
>   - Add license information [1]
>   - Fix shebang for fetchmailconf.py [1]
>   - Convert POP2 knob into an option [1]

Do we really need the 29-year-old POP2 these days, even though it's
already marked obsolete?  Re-adding an option for such cruft seems
anachronistic to me.

POP2 is inherently unreliable, unlike POP3 when using UIDs. POP3's first
RFC (1460) is also 21 years old already.




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