[fetchmail]fetchmail 6.2.9-rc3 available

[Rob Funk]

Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Jim Correia wrote:
> > Adding -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CFLAGS also seems to solve the problem.
>
> Ah well. I wonder if fetchmail is using some "down deep" BIND interface
> it should not be meddling with.

I spent a bit of time trying to figure this out last night.  res_search() 
gives a byte-array answer, but I couldn't find any published interface 
for how to interpret that answer.  And the answer is definitely not in an 
obvious format.  So fetchmail re-casts that array as a HEADER struct and 
gets the info from there.  (According to the comments, that is taken from 
sendmail.)

I'm puzzled that I couldn't find any documented way to interpret the 
response from res_search()....

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