disabled.
Many bugfixes, most notable changes
- some locale definitions/aliases added (from GNU locale), many other
locale-related changes
- added facility to convert character set of incoming messages to display
character set
- added facility to convert character set of new message to outgoing character
set (text-charset)
- added support for pgp5 and gpg !
- POP mailboxes can be accessed via username@hostname folder name
- added U command - mark e-mail as unread
- security (no effect on NetBSD, since elm is not installed sgid/suid):
reset egid on couple of places where it was not and should be
- elm.mimecharsets is generated by Configure in batch mode, so it's not needed
to ship our own
- dropped remailer stuff and g/c memory modes stuff from Configure
- e-mail address/aliases handling changes
Add a new USE_LIBTOOL definition that uses the libtool package instead of
pkglibtool which is now considered outdated.
USE_PKGLIBTOOL is available for backwards compatibility with old packages
but is deprecated for new packages.
--- recent changes from RELEASE.NOTES
1.07: May.29,2000
smtp.c:
false permanent errors (Connection timed out, which should be
temporary failures) when SMTP connection (in processing) is
timed-out.
reported by Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
1.06: Apr.24,2000
smtp.c, main.c, common.h:
false permanent errors (No addresses) occur when DNS queries
are timed-out.
reported by Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>
The most notable user-visible change is the ability of the ipopd daemon to
forward requests to the imapd daemon, thus allowing POP2 and POP3 mail
clients to check IMAP mail.
Most notable operational changes from earlier versions:
. New, faster mailbox update logic is now available for the unix driver
on UNIX and Amiga. The old way is still being done for MMDF and the
unixnt driver on NT.
. External file locking is now available via a setgid mail program named
/etc/mlock (this is defined by LOCKPGM in the c-client Makefile). If
c-client is unable to create a <mailbox>.lock file in the directory
by itself, it will try to call mlock to do it. A sample mlock program
is part of the imap-utils. This is primarily for the benefit of those
paranoid souls who have their mail spool directories protected 775
instead of the recommended 1777.
. SASL authentication is supported in the IMAP and POP3 servers, and in
the IMAP, POP3, and SMTP client code. There is no support for NNTP
SASL yet
. CRAM-MD5 is supported by default for IMAP and POP3 clients. To enable
server support, read file imap-4.7/docs/md5.txt
. The mbox driver is now enabled by default. If the file "mbox" exists on
the user's home directory and is in UNIX mailbox format, then when INBOX
is opened this file will be selected as INBOX instead of the mail spool
file. Messages will be automatically transferred from the mail spool file
into the mbox file
To disable this behavior, delete "mbox" from the EXTRADRIVERS list in the
top-level Makefile and rebuild
. IMAP4rev1 protocol is now supported. The UNIX format support now maintains
unique identifiers (UIDs) and keyword flags for each message, and keeps an
invisible message at the start of the file which contains the UID base
information and a list of assigned keywords. There is no way to disable
this behavior, since it would disable IMAP4rev1 support. This message may
show up if you access the mailbox as a file using older mail software (e.g.
Pine 3.9x). It is invisible with IMAP or POP access, or with access as a
file using Pine 4.0x.
. Support for additional mailbox formats
. No longer keeps entire mailbox in memory for UNIX format files
. Multilingual searching of the following charsets are supported:
US-ASCII, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4,
ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9,
ISO-8859-10, ISO-8859-11, ISO-8859-13, ISO-8859-14, ISO-8859-15,
KOI8-R, KOI8-U (alias KOI8-RU), TIS-620, VISCII,
ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-KR, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-JP-1, ISO-2022-JP-2,
GB2312 (alias CN-GB), CN-GB-12345, BIG5 (alias CN-BIG5),
EUC-JP, EUC-KR, Shift_JIS
All ISO-2022-?? charsets are treated identically, and support ASCII,
JIS Roman, hankaku katakana, ISO-8859-[1 - 10], TIS, GB 2312, JIS X 0208,
JIS X 0212, KSC 5601, and planes 1 and 2 of CNS 11643.
EUC-JP includes support for JIS X 0212 and hankaku katakana
. Fast sorting including IMAP server-based sort
. Fast ordered-subject threading including IMAP server-based threading
more. Change since version 1.0.1i:
- heavily improved IMAP support (thanks to Brandon Long
and Brendan Cully for their work),
- support for using IMAP over SSL (thanks to Tommi
Kommulainen),
- a completely changed interface for configuring mutt's
PGP support. It's now format-based, and much more
flexible than it used to be in the past.
- a split of the old edit-message command into
resend-message and edit-message. While the former gives
you what could be described as "recall from arbitrary
folders", the latter can be used to low-level modify
messages.
- the weeding paradigma has changed. Instead of options
controlling weeding behaviour for all kinds of purposes,
there is one global $weed option which is toggled when
you use what used to be known as display-headers (now
display-toggle-weed). That is, you have some kind of
"WYSIWYG" support with weeding.
- we have a muttrc (5) manual page now, and it's even
up-to-date.
- you can better control your messages' header and
envelope from headers
- the message commands on the attachment menu have been
rewritten. Just try replying to an attachment, and
you'll see what happens. ;-)
- mailing list support has changed. You may wish to
rename your "lists" commands to "subscribe". But please
read README.UPGRADE before!
- Bug fixes of all sorts.
--- 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.
his problem report to the nmh people as well).
Adjust home page as per Eric's PR pkg/9695 as well.
Many changes since 1.0.3. The most important ones are:
+ Eric's shell quoting problems displaying MIME content.
+ Fix coredump in packf.
+ Folder creation permissions bug (mentioned by Sean Matheis on
netbsd-users@netbsd.org).
+ mmdf mailbox processing errors.
Full list if changes is in the ChangeLog file.
sendmail. It provides a way to allow legitimate users to relay mail through an
SMTP server, while still preventing others from using it as a spam relay.
User's IP addresses are added to the map immediately after they have
authenticated to the POP or IMAP server. By default, map entries expire after
30 minutes, but can be renewed by additional authentication. Periodically
checking mail on a POP server is sufficient to do this. The POP and SMTP
servers can be on different hosts.
Create the /var/spool/postfix on install so that "postfix check" can
create the directories below it.
Create /etc/postfix/postfix-scrip on "make install".
Make the library Makefiles DTRT on systems that don't understand MKXXX=no.
Remover owner write permission from "maildrop" binary.
Adjust offsets in a couple of patches.
