fetchmail and Debian testing

Hello.

On the web page at http://fetchmail.berlios.de/ , is stated; "On 2006-01-22, fetchmail 6.2.X has reached end of its life. No further releases of 6.2.X versions will be made and no bug reports for 6.2.X will be accepted unless the bug persists in the 6.3.X releases.", indicating that fetchmail 6.2.x is past its use-by date, and all fetchmail users should be using fetchmail 6.3.x.

>From the web page at http://packages.debian.org/testing/mail/fetchmail , fetchmail 6.3.2-2 is indicated to be available for Debian testing, and a list of available mirrors is included on that web page, for downloading the package for testing. All links tried, lead to the same error; "The requested URL /debian/pool/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.3.2-2_i386.deb was not found on this server."

Also, on the web page at
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/download.pl?arch=i386&file=pool%2Fm...%2Ff%2F
is an md5sum value for fetchmail_6.3.2-2_i386.deb , and links to mirror sites for downloading fetchmail_6.3.2-2_i386.deb , but, the links give the same error as in the preceding paragraph.

Apparently, despite what is indicated on the Debian testing web site, and the Debian packages web site, fetchmail 6.3.x is only available for Debian unstable, out of the Debian versions, thus indicating that Debian should not be used as a mail server, in conjunction with fetchmail.

Is a working and supported version of fetchmail, available for Debian stable or testing, as the Debian web site appears to have only broken links for fetchmail 6.3.x?

The web pages cited above, appear to be a bit misleading as to the existence of a version of fetchmail 6.3.x for Debian testing.

Thank you in anticipation.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
Western Australia
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"Bret Busby" <bret.busby.DeleteThis@operamail.com> wrote:

>
> Hello.
>
> On the web page at http://fetchmail.berlios.de/ , is stated; "On 2006-01-22, fetchmail 6.2.X has reached end of its life. No further releases of 6.2.X versions will be made and no bug reports for 6.2.X will be accepted unless the bug persists in the 6.3.X releases.", indicating that fetchmail 6.2.x is past its use-by date, and all fetchmail users should be using fetchmail 6.3.x.

For a sarge install I would still stick to the stable version. You
must not forget the Debian Security Team, which will be dealing with
any security issues found, even if that means backporting the
respective changes from 6.3.x

Andrei
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