Additions include:
- Upgrade UW-IMAP to Panda IMAP from https://github.com/jonabbey/panda-imap.
- S/MIME: Add screen to manage certificates.
- S/MIME: Signatures are validated using the user's certificates instead of the ones included in the message. Behavior can be disabled by disabling the option "Validate Using Certificate Store Only" which is enabled by default.
- S/MIME: sign messages using intermediate certificates when needed and possible.
- S/MIME: validation of certificates for servers that modify signed content.
- S/MIME: signed and encrypted messages will be signed first and encrypted second, so that they can be decoded by other clients.
- S/MIME: add the sender certificate to the list of certificates in encrypted messages to make it possible for the sender to decrypt the message they sent.
- S/MIME: When transferring certificates to a local container, create container with default names PublicContainer, PrivateContainer and CAContainer, as appropriate for these files, unless the user has provided some other names.
- HTML: Style tag in body of html message causes Alpine to not write its content until a new </style>
- HTML: <BR>, <BR />, and <BR/> are considered the same inline tag, the same is valid for the <HR> tag.
- S/MIME: Forwarding a message will include the signed part as part of the text and not as a multipart message, just as the reply command does.
- Unix Alpine: If a password file is defined, and S/MIME is enabled, the key and certificate used to encrypt the password file are saved in the ~/.alpine-smime/.pwd directory, or in the directory specified by the -pwdcertdir command line option.
- Add support to selective expunge through a subcommand of the select-apply commands.
- Pico: New subcommand of the search command, allows to reverse the direction of search.
- Add /tls1, /tls1_1, /tls1_2 and /dtls1 to the definition of a server to use different ways to connect using ssl, for example {server.com/tls1} will attempt to connect to server.com at the ssl imap port (port 993) and establish a connection using TLSv1. These flags can be used in conjunction with the /ssl flag, the ssl flag is redundant. Conversely, however, the /ssl flag does not imply any of these flags; the /ssl flag means SSLv3 or, if not available, SSLv2 in the SSL port.
- Alpine does not attempt to automatically reopen a collection that was not opened due to cancellation by the user. Instead, the user must try to open it explicitly.
- Alpine searches for a certificate that matches an email address in all addresses in a certificate (instead of just the first one) but when it tries to unlock the certificate, it asks for the password for the first email address in that certificate.
- Experimental: Write the content-type of a message in lowercase, as some non-compliant servers do not understand uppercase content-type, such as those of GMX.de.
- Experimental: Do not send the RSET command before attempting to send a message, as this causes a delay in some evily managed servers.
- Opening a folder updates recent count in maildrops (this already works for other types of folders)
- Automatically redraw screen after opening an attachment instead of simply clearing it.
- Pico: Justification works without need of a predefined quote string. This allows justification of blocks of text that are indented with spaces.
- Decode the name of attachment names, so they can be written as part of the description of the part.
- Check bounds and tie strings off to improve security. Contributed by James Jerkins.
- Replace tabs by spaces in From and Subject fields to control for size in screen of these fields. Change only in index screen display.
- Aggregate operations allows bouncing a list of messages using a role. Suggested by Ulf-Dietrich Braumann.
- Disable saving new passwords to the password file. Implemented by Louis Raphael from dpslabs.com.
- Makefile: Add $(LIBINTL) to the flags to link rpdump, rpload, alpined and alpineldap because MAC OSX 10.8 x86_64 needs it. Reported by Charles M. Register.
Bugs that have been addressed include:
- S/MIME: signed messages that contained an attachment would not validate.
- S/MIME: signed and encrypted messages from Thunderbird would not validate.
Thanks to Andreas Schamanek for testing, debugging and advising during the
process of fixing this problem.
- S/MIME: Forwarding messages with multipart content-type failed to be signed
with "Error writing pipe" message. Reported by Andreas Schamanek and Stefan
Mueller.
- S/MIME: Certificates are lost when using a pinerc file outside of the home
directory.
- S/MIME: accessing the S/MIME configuration screen would deinitialize SMIME
making it not possible to sign or encrypt messages.
- S/MIME: Forwarding a signed message might make the body contain mime
information that is not part of the body, and hence making the body of the
message seem wrong.
- S/MIME Alpine would compute incorrectly the signature of a message that
contains 8bit if the option "Enable 8bit ESMTP Negotiation" is enabled, the
message contains 8bit characters and the smtp server supports 8bit sending.
- When replying to several messages, subject will be decoded first, and then
stripped from re/fwd before they are compared to determine the subject of
the replied message.
- Fix in WebAlpine: do not use deprecated dereference in pointer, needs to
use tcl_getstringresult() instead. Reported by Ulf-Dietrich Braumann.
- WebAlpine: fail to build with debug disabled. Fix from Sam Hathaway.
- WebAlpine: add _GNU_SOURCE to make pubcookie build.
- Transformation of UTF-8 to MUTF7 was not being done when creating a folder
in an IMAP server.
- Fix _INIT_ token for reply quote string to include support for 8-bit in
personal names. Reported by Lev Gorenstein.
- When writing the .pinerc file, lines were truncated if they were longer
than 10,000 characters. This could cause data corruption, so now lines are
allowed to be of any length.
- In Unix Alpine (but not in MAC OSX) fix a problem that made Alpine remove
attachments before they were open by a mailcap viewer. It requires that the
user has an equivalent to a command such as "ps auxww" to list the list of
processes, and check if there is any program using the attachment. The default
is "/bin/ps auxww", but it can be changed at compile time with the option
--with-ps-cmd. See the help of the variable mailcap-check-interval for more
information.
- Crash when tcp connection to NNTP server was lost after connection had been
established, but lost immediately afterwards.
- Crash with message "lock when already locked", when painting an index was
based on scores that needed information from a remote addressbook in the
same server as the folder opened. Reported by Peter Koellner.
- Crash in message/rfc822 attachments encoded in base64.
- Postponed messages whose content-type is text/html, text/enriched and
text/richtext are sent with that content-type, even though, after resuming
composition, Alpine had changed its type to text/plain.
- Alpine cannot handle correctly some characters in the Windows-1256
character set, which might lead to a crash or a corruption in the screen.
Work was done to contain the bug. A more complete fix will be done in a future
release. Reported by Professor Robert Funnell.
- WebAlpine: add _GNU_SOURCE to make pubcookie build.
- Save command did not warn of existence of a message with a deleted
attachment in an aggregate save, unless cursor was positioned on a message
with a deleted attachment. Reported by Florian Herzig.
- DATE tokens were not internally transformed to UTF-8, which made their
values not appear complete in the screen. Reported by Werner Scheinast.
- Fixes to configure script so that it will not require PAM for every system.
- Fix to configure script so that it will use CPPFLAGS instead of CPPCFLAGS,
and so the --with-ssl-include-dir option take effect during the build. Fix
by Ulf-Dietrich Braumann.
- Quoted string in URL Viewers configuration variable were not unquoted
before passing to viewer.
- Fix in configure script to detect location of tcl library; add /usr/local
in FreeBSD and fix a bug in configure script that used $alpine_TCLINC
instead of $alpine_TCLINC/tcl.h. Reported and fixed by Werner Scheinast.
- Move SSL configurations from UW-IMAP to configure script, and update
OpenSSL configuration for Mac OSX.
- Remove -lregex from linker flags when building --with-supplied-regex.
- When the download of an attachment is interrumpted, Alpine stills caches
what was downloaded, making the download incomplete for subsequent calls of
Alpine attempting to open the attachment. In the future, Alpine will not cache
any downloaded part of the attachment when it is interrupted. CVS:
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Alpine uses a function called panic(). However, mach/mach.h, which somehow
ends up always included, defines panic with different arguments. Rename
alpine's panic to Panic on Darwin.
Version 2.11 includes several new features and bug fixes.
Additions include:
Increase encryption of S/MIME encrypted messages.
Alpine requires version 1.0.0c of Openssl to build.
Pico: Improvements in justification of paragraphs: lines that begin with a
quote string, followed by a space were considered individual paragraphs, now
they are considered part of a paragraph. Based on earlier joint work with Jeff
Franklin.
Unix Alpine: Allow local .pinerc file to be a symbolic link.
- Experimental extended support of recognition of UTF-8 in urls based on
information from http://url.spec.whatwg.org.
- Added recognition of ws and wss URIs.
- Add ability to color folder names, directory names, and text in the FOLDER
SCREEN.
- Add the ability to color any token used in the display of the INDEX SCREEN.
- New option preserve-original-fields that adds the ability to preserve To: and
Cc: fields when replying to a message, as specified by original sender.
- Add a _SILENT_ token to the list of tokens for a display filter, so that
Alpine will not redraw the screen when it is unnecessary.
- Added Quota subcommands for printing, forwarding, saving, etc.
Bugs that have been addressed include:
- Crash when a non-compliant SMTP server closes a connection without a QUIT
command.
- Crash when resizing the screen in a configuration screen.
- Do not bail out during a tcp timeout, instead close connection and avoid
crash.
- Do not use a shell to open a browser.
- Configure script did not test for crypto or pam libraries.
- Configure script attempted to build web component, even if header file tcl.h
was not present.
- Change Cygwin directory separator to "/".
- Alpine could set List- headers, contrary to RFC 2369.
this conflicts with the "typedef struct { } STRING" used througout
Alpine.
Since Alpine does not actually use the OpenSSL STRING def, obscure
it with #define and pretend it does not exist.
values on NetBSD, we we get correctly referred to __utime50() which can handle
64-bit values. This fixes a problem where mailbox mtimes were being reset to 0
Note that this actually causes some build warnings as the code uses
"time_t tp[2]" instead of "struct utimbuf tp" (contains two time_t values)
Although the <os_bsi.h> file says it is used for BSDI, it seems to be used by
NetBSD and OpenBSD, both of which have the <utime.h> and <time.h>
bump PKGREVISION
Changes since 1.10
Additions include:
* Redesigned Web Alpine interface
* Experimental S/MIME support added in UNIX versions of Alpine
* Attempt to include the attachment filename as part of the name
of the temporary file used when viewing an attachment with an
external program. Add some randomness to that filename to make
it hard to predict the filename. Add a filename extension,
usually derived from the type/subtype, to the temporary
filename. This was previously done only on Windows and MacOS
X.
* Enhance address completion in the composer (TAB command) so
that it looks through nicknames, fullnames, and addresses from
the address book; addresses from the message being viewed, if
any; and the results from LDAP Directory Server lookups for
all of the defined directory servers that have the
"Use-Implicitly-From-Composer" feature set.
* Make the default character set setting more liberal in what it
will accept from the UNIX nl_langinfo call and the various
values of LANG seen in the wild
* Remove the Alpine revision number from the titlebar in released
versions while leaving it there in snapshot versions
* Add a feature to suppress the display of asterisks when you
type a password for Alpine
* Add line wrapping when displaying PRE formatted sections of HTML
* When the Convert Dates To Localtime feature is turned on
convert not only the dates in the index screen but also the dates
in the MESSAGE VIEW
Bugs that have been addressed in this release include:
* Crash when using tab-completion for selecting a Save filename
* Make Web Alpine help text images relative for more portability
* Fixed attach save of html parts in Web Alpine
* Viewing, printing, exporting, replying, and bouncing of message
digests was broken. Replying and bouncing should not have
been allowed at all for digests. It would be nice to have a
more standard index-like view of a message digest but that has
not been addressed with this minor bug fix.
* Adjust wrapping of HTML messages so that the margins specified
by Viewer Margin Left and Viewer Margin Right are observed
correctly
* Interrupt of WhereIs command in index was broken
* The Unknown Character Set option did not work correctly
interpreting unknown characters in message headers
* Long address lines could cause blank continuation lines
* Save to a local default INBOX failed if the primary collection
was also local, which it is by default. The save went to
~/mail/inbox instead.
* Make a default save folder of "inbox" always mean the real
inbox, not the inbox in the primary collection
* Address book entries with lots of addresses would be truncated
when entered in the composer with a screen size wider than 270
or so charcters
* Some fields in the index screen were truncated when the screen
width was wider than 256 characters
* Crash when TABing to next folder, the next folder with new mail
is a POP folder, and there is a more than 10 minute pause
between typing the TAB and typing the Yes
The Maildir patch was altered on the master server without changing the
URL, so we have to alter DIST_SUBDIR, which affects the main distfile
as well. Emailed author to see if putting up versioned patchfile URLs is
feasible
The change in the Maildir patch:
- Fixed a bug which made Alpine not to delete folders correctly in
a #mc/ collection.
(Approved by agc for update during the freeze)
Changes from Alpine 1.00 to 1.10
New in Alpine 1.10
Version 1.10 addresses bugs found in previous releases and has
a few additions as well.
Additions include:
* Add the possibility of setting a default role (see Roles
Screen) which may be convenient if your work flow involves
acting in one role for a while then switching to another role
and staying in the new role for another period of time
* When Saving and the IMAP server problem "Message to save
shrank!" is encountered, ask the user if he or she wants to
continue with the risky Save anyway instead of aborting. This
may be helpful if your IMAP server is broken in this way but
be aware that it is possible there was a real error instead of
just a broken server implementation.
* Some configure adjustments for Kerberos detection and for SCO
OpenServer 5 support
* Hide INBOX in a collection if it also appears as an Incoming
Folder
* Show asterisks for feedback when the user is typing a password
* Performance improvement for threading of large folders
* Previously, the search used to find Pattern matches containing
To patterns searched for both To and Resent-To headers. The
relatively complicated search this produces causes problems
when using some deficient IMAP servers. Now the default is to
look only for To headers and ignore the presence of
Resent-To. The previous behavior may be restored with the Use
Resent-To in Rules feature.
* Add an Unknown Character Set to help with reading malformed
unlabeled messages
* Suppress User Agent When Sending option added
* Map some Shift-LeftArrow escape sequences to LeftArrow
* Add feature Warn if Blank Fcc
Bugs that have been addressed in this release include:
* Crash when encountering certain errors from an SMTP server
* Crash in composer caused by overflow in replace_pat()
* Hang when authenticating to an SMTP server that fails with a
"connection disconnected" error
* Bug in handling of trailing tab character in flowed text
* Security enhancement for mailcap parameter substitution
* Strip From Sigdashes on Reply did not work if the message being
replied to was not flowed text and Do Not Send Flowed Text was
not turned on
* Don't allow printer to be changed through hidden config screen
if system administrator didn't want it to be allowed
* Attempts are sometimes made to set the Forwarded flag when
alpine should know that it won't work, causing error messages
to appear
* A Reply Indent String of double-quote double-quote didn't work
right
* Quoting wasn't being done to protect special characters from
the MacOS X shell when URL-Viewers was not defined
* On MacOS X message attachments should be shown internally
instead of being shown using the Mail application
* When replying to a message with a charset of X-UNKNOWN Alpine
would sometimes set the outgoing charset to X-UNKNOWN, making
the result unreadable
* When the sending of a message failed lines with leading spaces
had one additional space inserted in each of those lines when
the user was returned to the composer
* The WhereIs command missed some index lines that contained
non-ascii characters because it was truncating the line being
searched so that it was shorter than what was visible on the
screen
* When composing, an attachment with a long name that causes
wrapping in just the wrong place would generate an error and
cause the send of the attachment to fail
* After calling the file browser to attach a file in the
composer, a resize of the window when back in the composer
would redraw the last screen that had been shown in the
browser instead of the current composer screen
* Possible crash in index screen when encountering unparseable
addresses or when using one of the PRIORITY tokens or the
HEADER token in the Index Format
* Problems with Header Color editing if the configuration option
Viewer Header Colors was inadvertently changed to the Empty
Value in the hidden config screen
* When resuming the final postponed message from an Exchange
server the user could get a certificate validation failure
because alpine was trying to validate the canonical name of
the folder instead of the name the user used
* Windows line endings in a mimetypes file on a Unix system cause
a failure to find a match
* Make matching of extension names case independent in mimetypes
files
* Windows dialog boxes for entering text were not working correctly
* Replying to or Forwarding multipart/alternative messages which
had a single text/html part did not work well
* Printing the print confirmation page caused a crash
* A To line with a long, quoted personal name could display
incorrectly if it was close to the same width as the screen
* When Enable Incoming Folders Checking and Incoming Checking
Includes Total are turned on hide (0/0) when the folder is
empty
* Folder completion while Saving didn't work if the collection
being saved to was the local home directory
can be disabled to remove the behavior again.
In spite of UW's "recommendations" against enabling this, it should be up
to the sysadmin and user whether to use the rope to build a bridge or
hang him/herself. PC-Pine has it enabled by default; there's no reason
besides FUD to make the Un*x build any different.
- The default configure scripts end up encoding '${prefix}' (note quotes)
at the start of /etc/pine.conf{,.fixed}. Use --with-system-pinerc and
--with-system-fixed-pinerc to explicitly set them to ${PKG_SYSCONFDIR}
pkgsrc portability patches submitted back upstream but ignored.
Additions include:
* Configuration support for Tru64 and some fixes for other systems
* New color option Header General Color to color all headers in MESSAGE
TEXT screen
* Added NONE color setting for Index symbols and Keyword colors so that
the background color of a symbol can be set to not blot out the
background color of an index line. There is also a similar NORM color
that tracks the Normal Color
* New color options Index Subject Color and Index From Color options to
color parts of MESSAGE INDEX lines
* Some improvements to Enable Incoming Folders Checking option,
including new options Incoming Checking Includes Total, Incoming
Checking Uses Recent, and Incoming Check Interval Secondary
* Eliminate address book sorting wars when two different systems sort an
address book differently. Instead of checking that the address book is
correctly sorted whenever it is opened the sorting will only happen
when a change is made. The sort order you see is the sort order from
the last system where a change was made.
* Added a new category of Rule called a Search Rule. A Search Rule has a
Pattern but no Action is associated with that Pattern. It is used with
the Select command in the MESSAGE INDEX screen to Select the set of
messages that match a rule's Pattern.
* Added minor adjustment to display of opening text with Opening Text
Separator Characters option. Display of opening text is controlled by
configuring your Index Format option to include one of the Subject
tokens that causes this behavior (SUBJECTTEXT, SUBJKEYTEXT, or
SUBJKEYINITTEXT).
* Added tokens OPENINGTEXT and OPENINGTEXTDQ for use with the Index
Format option. These are alternative ways to display the opening text
of a message in the index screen.
* Added SHORTIMAPSTATUS token for the Index Format
* The default values of many features have been changed, exposing a more
advanced user interface by default. In addition, though the names of
features used in the configuration files remains the same, the
displayed text in the Config screen is no longer tied directly to that
name.
* Changed Windows Alpine so that it can show up in the list of default
programs in Vista.
Bugs that have been addressed in this release include:
* INBOX displayed twice in some situations when there was a folder named
INBOX
* Crash in PC-Alpine related to traditional UNIX mailbox format
* Canceling out of the password prompt when opening an incoming folder
was causing the re-open of a previously opened folder to fail
* News collection display empty after canceling out of password prompt
* Extra password prompt when adding incoming folder after canceling out
of earlier password prompt
* Recognize and ignore XML processing instructions in HTML messages
* Window title was being set using Unicode characters instead of the
local character set of the display terminal
* The option Busy Cue Spinner Only was displaying an oncoming two-engine
airplane instead of a spinner
* Got rid of default green Subject header color added in 0.99
* Title Closed Color wasn't being shown when in the composer
* Disable-Input-History, which was added in previous version, is changed
to Disable Save Input History and its effect is restricted to
ambiguous situations, like Save
* Added missing input history command for Pipe Attachment
* Cannot open another folder after an empty directory is opened when
Combined Folder Display and Expanded View of Folders options are set
* When answering No to the commit changes question after changing the
Inbox Path the change was written to the config file anyway
* When the Threading Display Style results in the information being
truncated add a thread depth indicator in brackets at the right hand
edge
Alpine is the replacement for the Pine email and news client.
Alpine is a screen-oriented message-handling tool. In its default
configuration, Alpine offers an intentionally limited set of
functions geared toward the novice user, but it also has a large
list of optional "power-user" and personal-preference features.
This package currently only installs the alpine binary, excluding
the pilot and pico binaries which would cause it to conflict with
the pine package.
