--- changes since 5.3.4
* Fixed brown-paper-bag bugs involving rcfile name initialization.
* In fetchmailconf, don't permit editing of a blank server entry.
* Updated and corrected version of contrib/domino.
* Galician translation added, courtesy of Jesus Bravo Alvarez <jba@pobox.com>.
* Spanish translation updated, courtesy of Javier Kohen.
* Removed an unnecessary Kereberos check that seemed to be causing lossage.
* FETCHMAILHOME environment variable introduced to optionally override the
normal $HOME location of fetchmail's rc, id, and pid files.
* Fixed a bug in the SEARCH UNSEEN code that resulted in only half the
available messages getting fetched each run.
* Autoprobe now recognizes Domino IMAP servers and warns the user.
* Add a needed pclose(3) call in interface.c (thank Matthias Andree).
* In IMAP, use SEARCH UNSEEN instead of flag queries to count and identify
unseen messages (thanks to Alexis Lê-Quôc <alq666@hotmail.com>).
* Added contrib/domino, a workaround for the Domino attachment problem.
* Added contrib/toprocmail, which demonstrates how a plugin can
display selected mail headers.
* French internationalization update from Guy Brand.
* IMAP PREAUTH fix from Todd Sabin <tas@webspan.net>.
* Fetchmail now runs on BeOS, thanks to David Reid <david@jetnet.co.uk>.
* Back out the InterChange workaround, it breaks operation with M$ Exchange.
* Update for cs.po from Jiri Pavlovsky.
* Prevent spurious hostname matches in fetchmailconf.
* Ultrix 4.5 port patches from Simon Burge <simonb@thistledown.com.au>.
* Add bug warning to FAQ about Lotus Domino.
* Suppress monitor check just after being woken by signal.
changes between 5.3.2 -> 5.3.4:
fetchmail-5.3.4 (Wed Mar 22 15:55:51 EST 2000), 18819 lines:
* Added FAQ item on performance under load.
* Fix Debian bug #60202 (segfaults when given command line arguments).
This only applied to `antispam', as it turned out.
* Work around InterChange's bug with attachments as suggested by
paul666@mailandnews.com.
* Enable checks on multiple folders.
fetchmail-5.3.3 (Mon Mar 13 16:34:29 EST 2000), 18763 lines:
* Fixed reporting of listener timeouts.
* Configure now supports SOCKS5, thanks to Alan Schmitt.
* Fix a minor bug in preauthenticated IMAP, thanks to Urban Boquist
<boquist@crt.se>.
* Try to support suffix matching in aka lists.
(if you have IPv4-only sendmail on dual stack node, 5.3.0 may fail to connect).
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fetchmail-5.3.2 (Mon Mar 6 21:41:23 EST 2000), 18695 lines:
* Added experimental support for RFC2177 IDLE command extension of IMAP.
* Updated fr.po.
* Fixed a bug in fetchmailconf's handling of envelope skip prefixes.
* Don't nuke .fetchids when authorization failure keeps us from getting URLs.
* Added FAQ item X6 on dropped and mangled attachments, thanks to Rob Funk.
* Teach configure.in to link the RSA reference library if available.
* Disable saving of Message-IDs into UIDL lists.
fetchmail-5.3.1 (Sun Mar 5 23:02:42 EST 2000), 18648 lines:
* Use remotename@hostname for MAIL FROM if we have not been able to deduce
a Return-Path.
* Fix the attempted fix for Joop Susan's ENOTCONN bug.
* Added FAQ material on a Microsoft Exchange bug, on forwarding to
a different host than the one fetchmail runs on, and on using
ssh for a secure passwordless connection. Removed the FAQ entry
on popclient.
* Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net> sent a fix for IPv6.
* Fix Red Hat 6.2beta bug 9982: fetchmailconf now automatically pups up
an edit panel whenever a new user or site is created.
* Fix Red Hat 6.2beta bug 9987: Deal gracefully with the possibility that
we might be running as a subprocess with stdin not attached to a tty,
and thus unable to query for a password.
* Resolved all current Debian bugs classed `important'; #43139, #44744, #44760,
#44774, #43140, #50990.
* Resolved Debian ordinary bugs #17769, #34383, #38303, #39732, #51674,
#53386, #53732, #58553.
* Resolved Debian wishlist bug #26630.
* Resolution of #59281 (still loops on Ctrl-C) involved a small change in
behavior; SIGPIPE now terminates the current poll cycle.
Changes since 5.2.4:
fetchmail-5.3.0 (Tue Feb 22 08:53:31 PST 2000), 18618 lines:
* Horst von Brand's improvements to the specfile generator.
* Joop Susan's improvements in error status reporting.
* Only emit progress dots when stdout is connected to a tty.
* Fix for GNATS bug 16468, "INET6 breaks fetchmail preconnect"
by Munechika SUMIKAWA <sumikawa@ebina.hitachi.co.jp>.
* Lexical analyzer now understands that -?[0-9]*[a-zA-Z] is not a number.
fetchmail-5.2.8 (Mon Feb 14 19:16:46 EST 2000), 18571 lines:
* Attempted fix for Joop Susan's ENOTCONN bug.
* Fix for NO response during SIZE fetches for M$ Exchange IMAP server.
* Thomas Zajic <zlatko@gmx.at> sent a change that copes with GMX X-UIDLs.
* Fix fetchmailconf's handling of ssl attributes when SSL is not configured.
* Handle IMAP folder names with embedded spaces.
* cs.po update from Jiri Pavlovsky.
* Make -d0 -v work when -a and -k are on.
* UID handling has been broken since 5.2.5. This version should work.
Thanks to Bruce Hauge <bruce_hauge@agilent.com> for testing.
fetchmail-5.2.7 (Sun Feb 6 20:45:41 EST 2000), 18517 lines:
* Updated FAQ.
* Updated es.po.
* Disable mail notification on server unreachable. This turned out to
be a very bad idea.
fetchmail-5.2.6 (Sat Feb 5 00:01:53 EST 2000), 18517 lines:
* Close down sockets using shutdown(2) and discarding read data until we
get a TCP FIN. With any luck this will squash our socket leak.
* Open the lockfile with O_SYNC, so we know the file has been written
before close (sigh...NFS might still betray us...).
* Added Martijn Lievaart's sendmail hacks for multidrop to the contrib
directory.
* Fix bug in processing of plugout option.
* AIX port tweak from Dave Marquardt <marquard@austin.ibm.com>.
* Add support for `ssh' preauth type to suppress password prompts at startup.
* Support for RFC2449 extended POP3 responses [IN-USE] and [LOGIN-DELAY].
* Log bounced messages via syslog (Debian bug #50184).
* Add scrollbars on fetchmailconf help windows (Debian bug #51770).
* Notify user by mail when pop server nonexistent (Debian bug #47143).
* Debian buglist cleanup.
fetchmail-5.2.5 (Mon Jan 31 02:02:48 EST 2000), 18445 lines:
* Fixed bugs in BSMTP generation reported by Jaap Lutz.
* Make fetchmailconf better at handling backslashes in usernames
and passwords.
* Jochen Hayek's patch to handle spaces in UID usernames.
fetchmailconf can be made usable by naive users without forcing this
package to depend on py-Tk (and X). Incidently update to 5.2.4:
* Fix bug introduced in 5.2.2 that stopped --syslog from working.
* Update for es.po, fr.po, cs.po.
* Message-string macros eliminated from driver.c so gettext can see them.
* Various useful to version reporting & configure.in fixes by Chip Salzenberg.
* Bernhard Rosenkraenzer's fix for broken Kerberos V configuration.
* Make --logfile work in foreground.
fetchmail-5.2.3 (Tue Jan 4 01:56:11 EST 2000), 18421 lines:
* Ken Estes's patch to check for unreachable UIDL file due to bad NFS mount.
* Jorge Godoy's replacement pt_BR.po and various minor translation fixes.
* Javier Kohen's replacement for es.po.
* Munechika SUMIKAWA's patch to make IPv6 version build when POP2 is enabled.
* Russian translation removed; it was badly garbled.
* Added Rick van Rein's fetchmaildistrib script to the contrib directory.
* Gunther Leber's cleanup patches.
* Note to translators: The bodies of the login-error and timeout-error
form letters have been changed in driver.c.
fetchmail-5.2.2 (Sun Dec 26 09:31:07 EST 1999), 18365 lines:
* Arrange for fetchmail to restart itself quietly when the rc file is touched.
* Improvements to IPv6 code from Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>.
* Drastic simplification of UIDL code, suggested by Ken Estes.
fetchmail-5.2.1 (Sun Dec 19 23:08:53 EST 1999), 18330 lines:
* Added FAQ item R10 on timeouts during messages.
* Fixed indentation problem in fetchmailconf.
* Federico Schwindt's patch to fix broken SSL configuration.
* Fixes to use fetchmail with IPv6 enabled on glibc without inet6-apps
installed; thanks to Arkadiusz Mis'kiewicz.
* Interpret IMAP PREAUTH tag correctly (from Joerg Dorchain).
* Upgraded to version 0.21 of smbutil.c. FAQ item S2 now documents
how to set a domain name.
fetchmail-5.2.0 (Tue Nov 30 14:24:25 EST 1999), 18302 lines:
* fetchmailconf now complains and exits gracefully when not run under X.
* configure.in port patch for OpenBSD from Federico G. Schwindt.
* configure.in port patch fror Heimdal from Leif Johansson <leifj@it.su.se>
* configure.in fix for OpenSSL configuration problems.
* Teach fetchmail about the buggy FTGate server.
* cs.po update from Jiri Pavlovsky.
* Edmund Grimley's patch to uid.c to fix the `uidl keep expunge 1' case.
* Abort startup if the configuration directory is nonexistent; this
probably means an NFS mount of user's home directory failed.
* Added warnings and FAQ items about the MailMax server, which doesn't
download attachments.
fetchmail-5.1.4 (Sun Nov 7 17:40:21 EST 1999), 18302 lines:
* Mike Pearce's patch to fix a compile-time error recently introduced into
the socket code when HAVE_INET_ATON is off.
* Added warning to fetchmailconf autoprobe about a flaky Netscape IMAP server.
* Disable duplicate suppression when there is only one recognized recipient.
fetchmail-5.1.3 (Sun Oct 31 12:19:52 EST 1999), 18290 lines:
* Grant Edwards's patch to correct NTLM behavior.
* James Brister's fix for IP-address hostnames.
* Updated config.guess and config.sub.
* Backed out the 5.1.0 change to quote usernames with embedded spaces.
It actually breaks things.
* Added to fetchmailconf a warning about Imail IMAP servers.
* SSL patches by Michael Warfield merged in. Distribution still contains
no crypto code.
fetchmail-5.1.2 (Thu Oct 7 09:46:07 EDT 1999), 17906 lines:
* Joe Loughry <loughry@uswest.net> sent a patch to handle multihomed machines.
* Changed mimedecode default to `off'; it seems that doing RFC2047 decoding
on headers throws away information that the MUA may need to see.
* Change Received header parsing to no longer demand an embedded dot in
a mailhost address.
* Incorporated Grant Edwards's ntlmlib-0.2 with fixes for byte-order problems.
fetchmail-5.1.1 (Wed Sep 29 11:52:06 EDT 1999), 17827 lines:
* Added workaround, fetchmailconf warning, and FAQ about Novell GroupWise.
* Consistently show dummy arguments on manual page.
* Fix lexer to permit `antispam -1'.
* John Cigas's delay patch to avoid a timing problem with plugins.
* During IMAP authentication, canonicalize both name and password.
* -A has been retired (goes with authenticate -> preauthenticate change).
* Check for both fetchall and keep on in daemon mode; reject this.
* Fixed a logfile bug dumping IMAP-LOGIN and IMAP-CRAM-MD5.
* Tolerate a tunable constant number of authorization failures before
complaining and wedging.
fetchmail-5.1.0 (Wed Sep 22 01:27:42 EDT 1999):
* CRAM-MD5 code now doublequotes usernames with embedded spaces. This will
probably fail (the RFCs don't support quoting) but it's better than nothing
and works with at least one server.
* Federico G. Schwindt's fix for NetBSD/OpenBSD --with-kerberos.
* auth keyword and option changed to preauth.
* Correct the exit value when .fetchmailrc permissions are wrong.
* getmail/gotmail scripts by Thomas Nesges added to contrib.
* Guenther H. Leber's fix for a potential uid.c buffer overflow.
* Todd Sabin's option to force IMAP authentication type; enables working
around some broken servers.
fetchmail-5.0.8 (Tue Sep 14 06:56:50 EDT 1999):
* Todd Sabin's patch to accept spaces in CRAM-MD5 names.
* Fix to CRAM endianness patch, by Dan Root via Lawrence Rogers.
* Suppress duplicates by message ID in multidrop mode.
* NTLM support for querying Microsoft Exchange servers, from Grant Edwards.
* Lexer fix by Brian Boutel.
Quick guide for compiling packages:
- set KERBEROS=4 or KERBEROS=5 in /etc/mk.conf
Quick guide for configuring Kerberos support in a package Makefile:
- test for KERBEROS value and enable the appropriate version with
CONFIGURE_ARGS or other means and set USE_KERBEROS=yes
- make sure to disable Kerberos support otherwise (especially if
using configure, which might automatically detect it)
- BUILD_DEFS and RESTRICTED are set automatically in bsd.pkg.mk
when USE_KERBEROS=yes is set
fetchmail-5.0.7 (Sat Aug 21 04:26:13 EDT 1999):
* RPA support works again.
* Added debian_rc startup/shutdown script to contrib/.
* Yet another monitor option fix.
* Variouas small option-processing fixes.
* Teach fetchmailconf about HP OpenMail.
* SunOS compilation fixes.
* Steve Dodd's fix to not send bouncemail on transient errors.
* Don Willis's improved UID parsing.
* Fetchmail now logs and recovers from SIGPIPE errors produced by broken
socket streams or MDAs. The current poll cycle is terminated.
fetchmail-5.0.6 (Mon Aug 2 14:04:23 EDT 1999):
* Czech internationalization support (thanks to Jiri Pavlovsky).
* Russion internationalization support (but I couldn't read the contributor
name in the headers!)
* Update of the French internationalization support by Guy Brand.
* Lexer fix for the `nokeep' problem by Robert de Bath.
* Lexer states added to tell the lexer to return a string after a
`username' or `password' keyword, courtesy of Brian Boutel.
* Interface option fix from Bill Currie.
* 554 added to default antispam values (for Postfix).
* In UID files, split on *rightmost* @ as some dialups actually embed
@ in usernames.
* Detect Intermail server's "wait a few minutes" message and cope.
* Patches for Heimdal implementation of GSSAPI from Leif Johansson
<leifj@matematik.su.se>. Somebody should test this against the MIT version.
* Fix IMAP authentication code to not rely on the challenge code
accepting multiple writes; thanks to Kevin Turner <kevin.turner@oberlin.edu>.
Warning: CompuServe changed their POP3 system on 31 July 1999. In doing
so, they broke fetchmail's RPA support. Nobody has sent me either code that
works with the new system or a spec for it yet.
use of krb4 _or_ a compatible subsystem. (MAKE_ was only used by this
option; USE_ is used by many.)
Also set RESTRICTED= in all relevant pkgs when USE_KERBEROS4 is enabled.
fetchmail-5.0.3 (Sun May 2 23:39:22 EDT 1999):
* Added FAQ item about things to check if --monitor fails with pppd.
* Fixed Matthias Andree's SMTP error bug.
fetchmail-5.0.2 (Thu Apr 29 22:09:46 EDT 1999):
* The IMAP driver now sets SEEN at deletion time, in case the server
ships DSNs when that bit is set (HP OpenMail does this).
* Delay between POP3 subsessions to allow the server time to release locks.
* Improved environment-query logic to handle mutiple names per UID.
(This also fixes the no-pidfile bug introduced in 5.0.1.)
* FAQ now includes the location of SSL patches.
fetchmail-5.0.1 (Sun Apr 18 14:59:56 EDT 1999):
* Try to discover user/home via getpwuid(getuid()) before using LOGNAME/HOME.
* Mike Pearce's fix for buggy DEFAULT handling in .netrc.
* Keep validation errors from generating message lines that qmail will reject.
* Can now use expunge option to chop POP3 retrievals into subsessions.
* Fix broken site-deletion code in fetchmailconf.
fetchmail-5.0.0 (Mon Apr 5 11:00:24 EDT 1999):
* Update for fetchsetup from Kent Robotti.
* Eliminate a realloc error in fetchmail -v -v progress message generation.
* Spanish-language update by Javier Kohen.
* French-language update by Guy Brand.
* Danish summary and description for specgen.sh.
* Henrik Storner's fix for the PGP/mimedecode problem.
* Fix netrc search code to be able to search >1 host entry per file.
* Added heads-up about SpryNet in the FAQ and a test in the autoprobe code.
* Removed the Hotmole script. Instead, the web page and FAQ now refer to it.
fetchmail-4.7.9 (Tue Mar 9 13:25:01 EST 1999):
* Patch by Dan Root to solve an endianness problem in IMAP-K4.
* Fix lexical-analyzer bug that rejected `set nobouncemail',
* Prevent send_bouncemail from stepping on SMTP antispam response.
* Added French internationalization (LC_ALL=fr) from Guy Brand.
* Added Hugo Rabson's script for fetching from Hotmail.
* Test for .fetchmailrc ownership using geteuid() when possible.
* Prevent parsing of delimited protocols from tripping up on a
MIME-armored line consisting of "=2E\r\n".
fetchmail-4.7.8 (Mon Feb 22 10:06:04 EST 1999):
* FreeBSD support for interface and monitor options by Andy Doran <ad@psn.ie>.
* Fixed server-deletion bug in fetchmailconf. Also, handle `port' properly.
* Timestamps now generated into logfiles at start of poll cycle.
* New `nobounce' debugging option (specifically exempted from feature freeze)
allows SMTP error bouncemail to be redirected from sender to local
postmaster.
* Suppress dancing progress dots when syslog is on.
* es.po update by Javier Kohen.
* Added FAQ material on what to do for a "do not relay" sendmail response.
* Can now build under Lynx 3.0.0.
fetchmail-4.7.7 (Tue Feb 2 18:57:04 EST 1999):
* Fixed off-by-one error in batchlimit logic (thanks to Brian Warner).
* Added MD5 checksums to web page.
* Get kernel type (and derive /proc/net/dev format) at startup.
* Fixes for fetchmailconf bugs reported by Gunther Leber.
* Return of the dancing progress dots!
fetchmail-4.7.6 (Sat Jan 30 19:44:24 EST 1999):
* Henrik Storner's fix for mimedecode
* ' now works as a string quote in. fetchmailrc syntax, just like ".
* All bounce messages now use FQDN return paths.
* Check for background mode before generating oversized-message mail. Duh!
* Paul Murphy's improvements for SDPS.
* Message deletion on miscellaneous 5xx SMTP errors is suppressed unless a
bounce can be sent.
fetchmail-4.7.5 (Sat Jan 9 17:01:13 EST 1999):
* Issue proper logout after running fetchmail -c
* Fix prefix problem with internationalized version.
* Fix for Harry McGavran's VPATH bug.
* Progress messages now go to stdout. Errors still go to stderr
* Fetchmailconf can now launch fetchmail with a point-and-click interface.
* Many small cleanups suggested by Byrial Jensen.
* Polish-language (LC_ALL=pl) support. Turkish text in spec file.
fetchmail-4.7.4 (Mon Jan 4 13:26:32 EST 1999):
* Error message cleanup.
* HTML cleanup in design notes and FAQ, thanks to Byrial Jensen.
* Don't get message sizes when --check is on.
* Supply our own strerror() if system doesn't have one.
* Gunther Leber's cleanup for the plugin/plugout code.
* Hajimu UMEMOTO's code for localtime in timestamps.
* Michael Warfield's IPv6 fixes.
* Added Argentine Spanish as supported language (LC_ALL=pt_BR) from a
po file by Javier Cohen <jkohen@tough.com>.
* Accept 'passwd' as a synonym for 'password' in .netrc files.
* In fetchmailconf, Save or Quit in a frame first performs that action
on all dependent frames.
* Source distribution now includes Debian package data under debian/
fetchmail-4.7.3 (Thu Dec 31 11:54:01 EST 1998):
* Added new FAQ item G11 and added material to R1.
* Do a full antispam check on the EOM response in case the local MTA does
content analysis of the message body.
* Bouncemail now conforms to RFC1984 correctly.
* Use sigprocmask to avoid Ron Gomes's weird hang bug (I hope).
fetchmail-4.7.2 (Fri Dec 25 01:01:54 EST 1998):
* Don't append the destination address to a postmaster name containing @.
* Added John Summerfield's getfetchmail script.
* Minor fixes in bouncemail format.
fetchmail-4.7.1 (Fri Dec 18 03:02:22 EST 1998):
* FEATURE FREEZE IS NOW IN EFFECT! No new features until after 5.0.0.
* Enable fetchmail to build correctly on systems without socketpair.
* gcc -Wall cleanup.
* Make sure user can see a trouble message in verbose mode when there
are no local matches for recipient addresses.
* Harry McGavran's configure.in fix for mixed Kerberos IV/V installations.
* Minor correction to make i18n subdirectory builds work better.
* Rob Funk's old-message-check optimization.
* Fix an error in the logic for detecting when all connections are wedged.
* Unwedge connections on wakeup.
* Fix Ken Estes's LMTP coredump error.
* Bounce mail with addresses rejected by the listener back to the sender.
* Search .netrc on via name as well as poll name (thanks to Rob Funk).
* Handle SMTP error responses from DATA, so zmailer will work.
fetchmail-4.6.9 (Tue Dec 1 14:46:19 EST 1998):
* Better RFC822 conformance in fetchmail trace headers.
* Corrected MIME generation of bounce mail.
* Prevent core dumps on 'for' and 'by' in names (bug introduced in 4.6.8).
* Peter Hamlen's fix for bounce-message generation.
* Silent mode now suppresses progress messages from 2xx responses in ETRN.
* Fix for netrc.c core dump from Michael Pearce
<Michael_Pearce-AMP001@email.mot.com>.
fetchmail-4.6.8 (Sat Nov 28 21:07:46 EST 1998):
* Added bounce-mail capability on SMTP/ESMTP error conditions.
* Internationalization support via GNU gettext from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@conectiva.com.br> and Jorge Godoy <jorge@bestway.com.br>. First
supported language is Brazilo-Portuegese (LC_ALL=pt_BR).
* Fixed Debian Bug#29913: -M on the command line causes SEGV in daemon mode.
* Emit an informational message when fetchlimit is reached.
* Documented fetchmail's actions on ESMTP errors on the man page.
* Fix an undead-message hole in POP3 with fetchall on.
* Fix a minor error in generation of fetchmail's trace headers.
* Better Received-line parsing (avoid some false positives).
- New, optional Makefile variable HOMEPAGE, specifies a URL for
the home page of the software if it has one.
- The value of HOMEPAGE is used to add a link from the
README.html files.
- pkglint updated to know about it. The "correct" location for
HOMEPAGE in the Makefile is after MAINTAINER, in that same
section.
