--- fetchmail-6.6.3.old/configure.ac
+++ fetchmail-6.6.3/configure.ac
@@ -147,11 +147,6 @@
 
 AC_CACHE_SAVE
 
-dnl i18n
-AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-ngettext])
-AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.25.1])
-dnl end i18n
-
 # Under sysV68, socket and friends are provided by the C library.
 # -linet does not provide socket, but causes multiple definition
 # errors at link-time.  It is thus better to only use the C library.
--- fetchmail-6.6.3.old/Makefile.am
+++ fetchmail-6.6.3/Makefile.am
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Makefile for fetchmail
 
-SUBDIRS=		. po
+SUBDIRS=		.
 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS=	1.12 foreign no-dist-gzip dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests subdir-objects
 
 AUTOCONF+=		--force  # we need this to override autom4te.cache/ which jeopardizes reading AC_INIT's version
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 endif
 libfm_a_LIBADD=		$(EXTRAOBJ)
 libfm_a_DEPENDENCIES=	$(EXTRAOBJ)
-LDADD	=		libfm.a @LIBINTL@ $(LIBOBJS)
+LDADD	=		libfm.a $(LIBOBJS)
 DEPENDENCIES=		libfm.a $(LIBOBJS)
 
 check_PROGRAMS=
@@ -236,8 +236,8 @@
 
 dist-hook: fetch-translations
 	if test x = "x$(IN_DISTCHECK)" ; then $(MAKE) import-translations ; \
-	( cd $(distdir) && find $(distdirs) po -name .git -type d -prune -exec rm -rf '{}' ';' ) ; \
-	( cd $(distdir) && find $(distdirs) po -name '*~' -exec rm -f '{}' ';' ) ; \
+	( cd $(distdir) && find $(distdirs) -name .git -type d -prune -exec rm -rf '{}' ';' ) ; \
+	( cd $(distdir) && find $(distdirs) -name '*~' -exec rm -f '{}' ';' ) ; \
 	if ! $(top_srcdir)/dist-tools/git-commit-po-updates.sh -n ; then \
 		printf '\n*** There are new translations. Please add them to the distribution. ***\n\n' ; \
 		printf '\n=== You can use dist-tools/git-commit-po-updates.sh to check these updates in. ===\n\n' ; \
--- fetchmail-6.6.3.old/Makefile.in
+++ fetchmail-6.6.3/Makefile.in
@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@
 LEXLIB = @LEXLIB@
 LEX_OUTPUT_ROOT = @LEX_OUTPUT_ROOT@
 LIBICONV = @LIBICONV@
-LIBINTL = @LIBINTL@
+LIBINTL =
 LIBOBJS = @LIBOBJS@
 LIBS = @LIBS@
 LIBSSL = @LIBSSL@
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@
 LIBWOLFSSL = @LIBWOLFSSL@
 LIBWOLFSSL_PREFIX = @LIBWOLFSSL_PREFIX@
 LTLIBICONV = @LTLIBICONV@
-LTLIBINTL = @LTLIBINTL@
+LTLIBINTL =
 LTLIBOBJS = @LTLIBOBJS@
 LTLIBSSL = @LTLIBSSL@
 LTLIBWOLFSSL = @LTLIBWOLFSSL@
@@ -822,7 +822,7 @@
 top_build_prefix = @top_build_prefix@
 top_builddir = @top_builddir@
 top_srcdir = @top_srcdir@
-SUBDIRS = . po
+SUBDIRS = .
 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.12 foreign no-dist-gzip dist-xz color-tests parallel-tests subdir-objects
 ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 -I m4-local
 AM_YFLAGS = -t -d -Wno-yacc
@@ -849,7 +849,7 @@
 	$(am__append_1)
 libfm_a_LIBADD = $(EXTRAOBJ)
 libfm_a_DEPENDENCIES = $(EXTRAOBJ)
-LDADD = libfm.a @LIBINTL@ $(LIBOBJS)
+LDADD = libfm.a $(LIBOBJS)
 DEPENDENCIES = libfm.a $(LIBOBJS)
 TESTS = t.smoke t.validate-xhtml10 t.validate-xhtml t.x509_name_match t.realpath t.tls-aux \
 			t.operation
@@ -933,7 +933,6 @@
 		m4/lock.m4 \
 		m4/longlong.m4 \
 		m4/nls.m4 \
-		m4/po.m4 \
 		m4/printf-posix.m4 \
 		m4/progtest.m4 \
 		m4/size_max.m4 \