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Subject: FIDOGATE 4.4.4 - Fido-Internet Gateway and Tosser
Keywords: fido ftn netmail echomail tosser areafix mail news gateway
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc

  =================================================================
    FIDOGATE 4.4.4, a stable version of the new FIDOGATE release
  =================================================================

			   FIDOGATE Version 4
		      ===========================
		       * Fido Internet Gateway
		       * Fido Zone Gateway
		       * Fido Tosser
		       * Fido Ticker
		       * Fido Areafix and Filefix
		      ===========================


  Internet:
  =========
    http://www.fidogate.org/
    ftp://ftp.fidogate.org/pub/fidogate/
    http://www.fidogate.org/pub/fidogate/

    ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/fido/
    http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/fido/
    (maybe still in .../pub/Linux/Incoming)

    fidogate-4.4.4.tar.gz	1148 Kbyte
    fidogate-4.4.4-1.src.rpm	1148 Kbyte
    fidogate-4.4.4-1.i386.rpm	 900 Kbyte
    

  Fido File Request:
  ==================
    2:2452/110, 111  +49-241-876604  (V.34, ISDN V.110/X.75)
    
    Magic FIDOGATE or
    fgate444.tgz		1148 Kbyte


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Changes in 4.4.4:

* rfc2ftn: fixed severe bug in handling of long header lines,
  e.g. References, which caused missing or incorrect ^AREPLYs. Thanks
  to Stephan Heitbrink <heitbrink@gmx.net> for reporting the bug and
  providing the test input news article files.

* hosts2dns: default MX changed



Changes in 4.4.3:

* runpoll-binkd: updated for binkd 0.9.4

* out-ls: updated, uses fidogate.conf

* i386 RPM: fixed missing /var/lib/fidogate/seq/

* ftnafutil: new "listdownlinks" for areassucksync

* areassucksync: new script for sync'ing areas.bbs and sucknewsrc

* runafutil: new run script for ftnafutil

* outb: new wrapper script for out-ls

* outb-kill: new script, remove outbound stuff for a node

* rfc2ftn: new config options DontChangeContentTypeCharset,
  DontProcessReturnReceiptTo



Changes in 4.4.2:

* Some changes to the various scripts.

* Code clean-up, got rid of all insecure strcpy(), strcat(), sprintf() 
  functions.

* ffx, ffxqt: support for job compression removed (ftnpack does this
  anyway), several changes to improve security.



Changes in 4.4.1:

* ftn2rfc: fixed bug in handling of invalid ^ACHRS for input charset.

* rfc2ftn: fixed memory leak.

* ftn2rfc: fixed memory leak.



Changes in 4.4.0:

* NEW STABLE RELEASE based on 4.3.6.

* charset.map: translation tables completed.

* ftn2rfc: line formatting changes (filling to MessageLineLength only
  for lines >= 80 chars).

* Distribution now as i386 and src RPM for RedHat 6.0 (should work
  with other glibc-based distributions as well). Binary RPM installs
  new sample config files for FIDOGATE point.

* Some minor bugfixes to scripts and C source.



======================================================================

Needed:

* GNU CC or ANSI C compiler
* GNU make
* GNU flex/bison or lex/yacc
* Perl5
* sendmail m4 configuration files
* GNU m4 for the sendmail m4 configuration

======================================================================

$Date: 2001/05/28 18:00:27 $
Martin Junius
mailto:mj@fido.de
