* add licenses
* remove kerberos conditional pre-configure rule (fixed in upstream)
Changes:
fetchmail-6.3.26 (released 2013-04-23, 26180 LoC):
# NOTE THAT FETCHMAIL IS NO LONGER PUBLISHED THROUGH IBIBLIO.
* They have stopped accepting submissions and consider themselves an archive.
# CRITICAL BUG FIX for setups using "mimedecode":
* The mimedecode feature failed to ship the last line of the body if it was
encoded as quoted-printable and had a MIME soft line break in the very last
line. Reported by Lars Hecking in June 2011.
Bug introduced on 1998-03-20 when the mimedecode support was added by ESR
before release 4.4.1 through code contributed by Henrik Storner.
Workaround for older releases: do not use mimedecode feature.
Earlier versions of this NEWS file claimed this bug fixed in fetchmail-6.3.23,
but it was not.
Fixes Launchpad Bug#1171818.
fetchmail-6.3.25 (released 2013-03-18, 26149 LoC):
# NOTE THAT FETCHMAIL IS NO LONGER PUBLISHED THROUGH IBIBLIO.
* They have stopped accepting submissions and consider themselves an archive.
# BUG FIXES
* Fix a memory leak in out-of-memory error condition while handling plugins.
Report and patch by John Beck (found with Parfait static code analyzer).
* Fix a NULL pointer dereference in out-of-memory error condition while handling
plugins.
Report and patch by John Beck (found with Parfait static code analyzer).
# CHANGES
* Improved reporting when SSL/TLS X.509 certificate validation has failed,
working around a not-so-recent swapping of two OpenSSL error codes, and
a practical impossibility to distinguish broken certification chains from
missing trust anchors (root certificates).
* OpenSSL decoded errors are now reported through report(), rather than dumped
to stderr, so that they should show up in logfiles and/or syslog.
* The fetchmail manual page no longer claims that MD5 were the default OpenSSL
hash format (for use with --sslfingerprint). Reported by Jakob Wilk,
PARTIAL fix for Debian Bug#700266.
* The fetchmail manual page now refers the user to --softbounce from the
SMTP/ESMTP ERROR HANDLING section. Reported by Anton Shterenlikht.
# WORKAROUNDS
* Older systems that provide the older RFC-2553 implementation of getaddrinfo,
rather than the current RFC-3493, and systems that do not provide this
getaddrinfo() interface at all and thus use the replacement functions from
libesmtp/getaddrinfo.?, might return EAI_NODATA when a host is registered in
DNS as MX or similar, but without A or AAAA records. Handle this situation
when checking for multidrop aliases and treat EAI_NODATA the same as
EAI_NONAME, i. e. name cannot be resolved.
The proper fix, however, is to upgrade the operating system.
# TRANSLATION UPDATES
[cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
[da] Danish, by Joe Hansen
[de] German
[eo] Esperanto, by Sian Mountbatten and Felipe Castro
[fr] French, by Frédéric Marchal
[ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
[pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
[sv] Swedish, by Göran Uddeborg
[vi] Vietnamese, by Trần Ngọc Quân
# SECURITY FIXES
* for CVE-2012-3482:
NTLM: fetchmail mistook an error message that the server sent in response to
an NTLM request for protocol exchange, tried to decode it, and crashed while
reading from a bad memory location.
Also, with a carefully crafted NTLM challenge packet sent from the server, it
would be possible that fetchmail conveyed confidential data not meant for the
server through the NTLM response packet.
Fix: Detect base64 decoding errors, validate the NTLM challenge, and abort
NTLM authentication in case of error.
See fetchmail-SA-2012-02.txt for further details.
Reported by J. Porter Clark.
* for CVE-2011-3389:
SSL/TLS (wrapped and STARTTLS): fetchmail used to disable a countermeasure
against a certain kind of attack against cipher block chaining initialization
vectors (SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS).
Whether this creates an exploitable situation, depends on the server and the
negotiated ciphers.
As a precaution, fetchmail 6.3.22 enables the countermeasure, by clearing
SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS.
NOTE that this can cause connections to certain non-conforming servers to
fail, in which case you can set the environment variable
FETCHMAIL_DISABLE_CBC_IV_COUNTERMEASURE to any non-empty value when starting
fetchmail to re-instate the compatibility option at the expense of security.
Reported by Apple Product Security.
For technical details, refer to <http://www.openssl.org/~bodo/tls-cbc.txt>.
See fetchmail-SA-2012-01.txt for further details.
# BUG FIX
* The Server certificate: message in verbose mode now appears on stdout like the
remainder of the output. Reported by Henry Jensen, to fix Debian Bug #639807.
* The GSSAPI-related autoconf code now matches gssapi.c better, and uses
a different check to look for GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE.
This fixes the GSSAPI-enabled build on NetBSD 6 Beta.
# CHANGES
* On systems where SSLv2_client_method isn't defined in OpenSSL (such as
newer Debian, and Ubuntu starting with 11.10 oneiric ocelot), don't
reference it (to fix the build) and if configured, print a run-time error
that the OS does not support SSLv2. Fixes Debian Bug #622054,
but note that that bug report has a more thorough patch that does away with
SSLv2 altogether.
* The security and errata notices fetchmail-{EN,SA}-20??-??.txt are now
under the more relaxed CC BY-ND 3.0 license (the noncommercial clause
was dropped). The Creative Commons address was updated.
* The Python-related Makefile.am parts were simplified to avoid an automake
1.11.X bug around noinst_PYTHON, Automake Bug #10995.
* Configuring fetchmail without SSL now triggers a configure warning,
and asks the user to consider running configure --with-ssl.
# WORKAROUNDS
* Some servers, notably Zimbra, return A1234 987 FETCH () in response to
a header request, in the face of message corruption. fetchmail now treats
these as temporary errors. Report and Patch by Mikulas Patocka, Red Hat.
* Some servers, notably Microsoft Exchange, return "A0009 OK FETCH completed."
without any header in response to a header request for meeting reminder
messages (with a "meeting.ics" attachment). fetchmail now treats these as
transient errors. Report by John Connett, Patch by Sunil Shetye.
# TRANSLATION UPDATES
* [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
* [de] German
* [fr] French, by Frédéric Marchal
* [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
* [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
* [sv] Swedish, by Göran Uddeborg --- NEW TRANSLATION - Thank you!
* [vi] Vietnamese, by Trần Ngọc Quân
Changes since version 6.3.20:
- The IMAP client no longer inserts NUL bytes into the last line of a
message when it is not closed with a LF or CRLF sequence. Reported
by Antoine Levitt. As a side effect of the fix, and in order to
avoid a full rewrite, fetchmail will now CRLF-terminate the last
line fetched through IMAP, even if it is originally not terminated
by LF or CRLF. This bears no relevance if your messages end up in
mbox, but adds line termination for storages (like Maildir) that do
not require that the last line be LF- or CRLF-terminated.
Requested by PR#45030.
fetchmail-6.3.20 (released 2011-06-06, 26005 LoC):
# SECURITY BUG FIXES
* CVE-2011-1947:
STARTTLS: Fetchmail runs the IMAP STARTTLS or POP3 STLS negotiation with the
set timeout (default five minutes) now. This was reported missing, with
observed fetchmail freezes beyond a week, by Thomas Jarosch.
SSL-wrapped connections were unaffected by this timeout, so users of older
versions can force ssl-wrapped connections -- if supported by the server --
with the --ssl command line or ssl rcfile option.
See fetchmail-SA-2011-01.txt for further details.
# BUG FIXES
* IMAP: Do not search for UNSEEN messages in ranges. Usually, there are very few
new messages and most of the range searches result in nothing. Instead, split
the long response to make the IMAP driver think that there are multiple lines
of response. (Sunil Shetye)
* Do not print "skipping message" for old messages even in verbose mode. If
there are too many old messages, the logs just get filled without any real
activity. (Sunil Shetye) (suggested by Yunfan Jiang)
* Build: fetchmail now always uses its own MD5 implementation rather than trying
to find a system library with matched header. The library and header variants
found on systems are too diverse, and the code size saving is not worth any
more wasted user or programmer time.
# CHANGES
* Call strlen() only once when removing CRLF from a line. (Sunil Shetye)
* fetchmail sets Internet domain sockets to "keepalive" mode now. Note that
there is no portable way to configure actual timeouts for this mode, and some
systems only support a system-wide timeout setting. fetchmail does not
attempt to tune the time spans of keepalive mode.
# TRANSLATION UPDATES
[cs] Chech (Petr Pisar)
[nl] Dutch (Erwin Poeze)
[fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
[de] German (Matthias Andree)
[ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
[pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
[sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka)
# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS
(this section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the
current release information - however, it was stuck with 6.3.8 for a while)
* fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
(See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
* BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output.
* Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in
64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit
fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code,
so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties.
* fetchmail does not track pending deletes over crashes.
* the command line interface is sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance,
fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running.
* Linux systems may return duplicates of an IP address in some circumstances if
no or no global IPv6 addresses are configured.
(No workaround. Ubuntu Bug#582585, Novell Bug#606980.)
* Kerberos 5 may be broken, particularly on Heimdal, and provide bogus error
messages. This will not be fixed, because the maintainer has no Kerberos 5
server to test against. Use GSSAPI.
fetchmail-6.3.19 (released 2010-12-10, 25945 LoC):
# ERRATUM NOTICE ISSUED
* fetchmail 6.3.18 contains several bug fixes that were considered sufficiently
grave to warrant the issue of an erratum notice, fetchmail-EN-2010-03.txt.
# BUG FIXES
* When specifying multiple local multidrop lists, do not lose wildcard flag.
(Affects "user foo is bar baz * is joe here")
* In multidrop configurations, an asterisk can now appear anywhere in the list
of local users, not just at the end.
* In multidrop mode, header parsing is now more verbose in -vv mode, so that it
becomes possible to see which header is used.
* Make --antispam work from command line (these used to work in rcfiles).
Reported by Kees Bakker, BerliOS Bug #17599. (Sunil Shetye)
* Smoke test XHTML 1.1 validation, and if it fails, skip validating HTML
documents. Skip validating Mailbox-Names-UTF7.html. Several systems have
broken XHTML 1.1 DTD installations that jeopardize the build.
Reported by Mihail Nechkin against FreeBSD port.
Workaround for 6.3.18: build in a separate directory, i. e:
mkdir build && cd build && ../configure --options-go-here
* Send a NOOP only after a failed STARTTLS in IMAP. (Sunil Shetye)
* Demote GSSAPI verbose/debug syslog to INFO severity. Requested by Carlos E. R.
and Derek Simkowiak via the fetchmail-users@ mailing list.
* Do STARTTLS/STLS negotiation in IMAP/POP3 if it is mandatory even if the
server capabilities do not show support for upgradation to TLS.
To use this, configure --sslproto tls1. (Sunil Shetye)
* IMAP: Understand empty strings as FETCH response, seen on Yahoo. Reported by
Yasin Malli to fetchmail-users@ 2010-12-10.
Note that fetchmail continues to expect literals as FETCH response for now.
# DOCUMENTATION
* The manual page now links to IANA for GSSAPI service names.
# TRANSLATION UPDATES
[cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
[fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
[de] German
[it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
[pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
fetchmail-6.3.18 (released 2010-10-09, 25936 LoC):
# SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS TO DEFANG X.509 CERTIFICATE ABUSE
* Fetchmail now only accepts wildcard certificate common names and subject
alternative names if they start with "*.". Previous versions would accept
wildcards even if no period followed immediately.
* Fetchmail now disallows wildcards in certificates to match domain literals
(such as 10.9.8.7), or wildcards in domain literals ("*.168.23.23").
The test is overly picky and triggers if the pattern (after skipping the
initial wildcard "*") or domain consists solely of digits and dots, and thus
matches more than needed.
* Fetchmail now disallows wildcarding top-level domains.
# CRITICAL BUG FIXES AND REGRESSION FIXES
* Fetchmail 6.3.15, 6.3.16, and 6.3.17 would pick up libmd5 to obtain MD5*
functions, as an effect of an undocumented Solaris MD5 fix.
This caused all MD5-related functions to malfunction if, for instance,
libmd5.so was installed on other operating systems as part of libwww on
machines where long isn't 32-bits, i. e. usually on 64-bit computers.
Fixes Gentoo Bug #319283, reported, including libwww hint, by Karl Hakimian.
Side effect: fetchmail will now use -lmd on Solaris rather than -lmd5.
* Fetchmail 6.3.17 warned about insecure SSL/TLS connections even if a matching
--sslfingerprint was specified. This is an omission from an SSL usability
change made in 6.3.17.
Fixes Debian Bug#580796 reported by Roland Stigge.
* Fetchmail will now apply timeouts to the authentication stage.
This stage encompasses STARTTLS/STLS negotiation in IMAP/POP3.
Reported missing by Thomas Jarosch.
* Fetchmail now cancels GSSAPI authentication properly when encountering GSS
errors, such as no or unsuitable credentials.
It now sends an asterisk on a line by its own, as required in SASL.
This fixes protocol synchronization issues that cause Authentication
failures, often observed with kerberized MS Exchange servers.
Fixes Debian Bug #568455 reported by Patrick Rynhart, and Alan Murrell, to the
fetchmail-users list. Fix verified by Thomas Voigtmann and Patrick Rynhart.
# BUG FIXES
* Fetchmail will no longer print connection attempts and errors for one host
in "silent" and "normal" logging modes, unless all connections fail. This
should reduce irritation around refused-connection logging if services are
only on an IPv4 socket if the host also supports IPv6. Often observed as
connections refused to ::1/25 when the subsequent connection to 127.0.0.1/25
then - silently - succeeds. Fetchmail, unless in verbose mode, will collect
all connect errors and only report them if all of them fail.
* Fetchmail will not try GSSAPI authentication automatically, unless it has GSS
credentials. However, if GSSAPI authentication is requested explicitly,
fetchmail will always try it.
* Fetchmail now parses response to "FETCH n:m RFC822.SIZE" and "FETCH n
RFC822.HEADER" in a more flexible manner. (Sunil Shetye)
* The manual page clearly states that --principal is for Kerberos 4 only, not
for Kerberos 5 or GSSAPI. Found by Thomas Voigtmann.
# CHANGES
* When encountering incorrect headers, fetchmail will refer to the bad-header
option in the manpage.
Fixes BerliOS Bug #17272, change suggested by Björn Voigt.
* Fetchmail now decodes and reports GSSAPI status codes upon errors.
* Fetchmail now autoprobes NTLM also for POP3.
* The Fetchmail FAQ has a new item #R15 on authentication failures.
# INTERNAL CHANGES
* The common NTLM authentication code was factored out from pop3.c and imap.c.
# TRANSLATION UPDATES
[zh_CN] Chinese/simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
[cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
[nl] Dutch (Erwin Poeze)
[fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
[de] German
[it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
[ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
[pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
[sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka)
fetchmail-6.3.17 (released 2010-05-06, 25767 LoC):
# SECURITY FIX
* CVE-2010-1167: Fetchmail before release 6.3.17 did not properly sanitize
external input (mail headers and UID). When a multi-character locale (such as
# FEATURES
* Fetchmail now supports a --sslcertfile <file> option to specify a "CA bundle"
file (a file that contains trusted CA certificates). Since these bundled CA
files do not require c_rehash to be run, they are easier to use and immune to
OpenSSL library updates that affect the hash function.
* Fetchmail now supports a FETCHMAIL_INCLUDE_DEFAULT_X509_CA_CERTS
environment variable to force loading the default SSL CA certificate
locations even if --sslcertfile or --sslcertpath is used.
If neither option is in effect, fetchmail loads the default locations.
# REGRESSION FIX
* Fix string handling in rcfile scanner, which caused fetchmail to misparse a
run control file in certain circumstances. Fixes BerliOS bug #14257.
Patch by Michael Banack. This fixes a regression introduced before 6.3.0.
# BUG FIXES
* Plug memory leak when using a "defaults" entry in the run control file.
* Do not print SSL certificate mismatches unless verbose or --sslcertck is
enabled.
* Do not lose "set invisible" in fetchmailconf. (Michael Barnack)
# CHANGES
* Usability: SSL certificate chains are fully printed in -v -v mode, and there
are now helpful pointers to --sslcertpath and c_rehash for "unable to get
local issuer certificate" and self-signed certificates -- these usually hint
to missing root signing CAs in the certs directory.
* Several fixes for compiler (GCC, Intel C++, CLang) and autotools warnings
* Memory allocation failures will now cause abnormal program abort (SIGABRT),
no longer an exit with unspecified code.
# DOCUMENTATION
* Fix table of global option to read "set softbounce" where there used to be a
2nd copy of "set spambounce". Patch by Michael Banack, BerliOS Bug #17067.
* In the --sslcertpath description, mention that OpenSSL upgrade (and a 0.9.X
to 1.0.0 upgrade in particular) may require running c_rehash.
# TRANSLATION UPDATES
[zh_CN] Chinese/simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
[cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
[nl] Dutch (Erwin Poeze)
[fr] French (Fr\xc3<A9>d\xc3<A9>ric Marchal)
[de] German
[id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
[it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
[ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
[pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
[sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka)
[vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS:
(this section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the
current release information - however, it was stuck with 6.3.8 for a while)
* fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
(See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
* BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output.
* Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in
64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit
fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code,
so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties.
* fetchmail does not track pending deletes over crashes
* the command line interface is sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance,
fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running
fetchmail-6.3.16 (released 2010-04-06, 25574 LoC):
# BUG FIX
* Fix --interface option, broken in 6.3.15. Reported by Vladmimir Stavrinov.
Fixes Debian Bug #576717.
# CHANGE
* Call OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms(). This is needed to support non-mandatory
and non-standard algorithms in certificates.
Sjoerd Simons, to fix Debian Bug #576430.
OpenSSL 0.9.8* does not load - for instance - the SHA256 digest by default.
Reported as OpenSSL RT#2224.
fetchmail-6.3.15 (released 2010-03-28, 25572 LoC):
# FEATURE
* Fetchmail now supports a bad-header command line or rcfile option that takes
exactly one argument, accept or reject (default). This specifies how messages
with bad headers retrieved from the current server are to be treated.
# BUG FIXES
* In the rcfile, recognize "local" as abbreviation for "localdomains", as
documented. The short form has not ever worked since this feature was added in
January 1997. Reported by Fr\xc3<A9>d\xc3<A9>ric Marchal.
* Do not close stdout when using mda and "bsmtp -" at the same time.
* Log operating system errors when BSMTP writes fail.
* Fix verbose mode progress formatting regression from 6.3.10; SMTP trace lines
were no longer on a line of their own. Reported by Melchior Franz.
* Check seteuid() return value and abort running MDA if switch fails.
* Set global flags in a consistent manner. Make --nosoftbounce and
--nobounce work from command line (these used to work in rcfiles).
Reported and fix confirmed working by N.J. Mann. (Sunil Shetye)
* Properly import h_errno declarations, even on systems where h_errno isn't a
macro. (Adds ./configure check, fixes Cygwin dllimport warnings.)
# CHANGES
* The repository has been converted and moved from the Subversion (SVN) format
kindly hosted by Graham Wilson over the past years to Git format hosted on
Gitorious.org. My deepest thanks to Graham Wilson for this service that
kept us going when BerliOS's Subversion service was faulty in its early days.
* This opportunity was used to convert BRANCH_6-2 and BRANCH_1-9-9 to
GnuPG-signed tags, as a sign that these are now closed.
* The outdated SVN trunk is now called "oldtrunk" in Git just to save the work
for future reference. All development in the past few years was on BRANCH_6-3.
* master was branched from BRANCH_6-3. BRANCH_6-3 is now obsolete (and in fact
was also converted to a tag to record where the conversion from SVN to Git
took place).
* "make check" now skips HTML validation if xmllint or XHTML DTD are missing.
# DOCUMENTATION
* Web site and documentation were adjusted to reflect the SVN->Git move.
* The fetchmail manual page is now much clearer on the user id switching
(seteuid) when using --mda while running as the super user.
# TRANSLATION UPDATES, by language name
* [zh_CN] Chinese (Simplified), by Ji Zheng-Yu
* [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
* [nl] Dutch, by Erwin Poeze
* [fr] French, by Fr\xc3<A9>d\xc3<A9>ric Marchal
* [de] German
* [id] Indonesian, by Andhika Padmawan
* [it] Italian, by Vincenzo Campanella
* [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
* [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
* [vi] Vietnamese, by Clytie Siddall
fetchmail 6.3.14 (released 2010-02-05, 25487 LoC):
# SECURITY FIXES
* SSL/TLS certificate information is now also reported properly on computers
that consider the "char" type signed. Fixes malloc() buffer overrun.
Workaround for older versions: do not use verbose mode.
See fetchmail-SA-2010-01.txt for details, including a minimal patch.
# BUG FIXES
* The IMAP client no longer skips messages from several IMAP servers including
Dovecot if fetchmail's "idle" is in use. Causes were that fetchmail (a)
ignored some untagged responses when it should not (b) relied on EXISTS
messages in response to EXPUNGE, which aren't mandated by RFC-3501 (the IMAP
standard) and aren't sent by Dovecot either.
Fix by Sunil Shetye (the fix also consolidates IMAP response handling,
improving overall robustness of the IMAP client), bug report and testing by
Matt Doran, with further hints from Timo Sirainen.
* The SMTP client now recovers from errors (such as servers dropping the
connection after errors) when sending an RSET command.
Fix by Sunil Shetye. Report by James Moe.
* The IMAP client now uses "SEARCH UNSEEN" rather than "SEARCH UNSEEN NOT
DELETED" again on IMAP2, to fix a regression in fetchmail 6.2.5 reported by
Will Stringer in June 2004. (Sunil Shetye)
* The IMAP client now uses "SEARCH UNSEEN UNDELETED" on IMAP4 and IMAP4r1
servers (Sunil Shetye).
* Workaround: The IMAP client now falls back to "FETCH n:m FLAGS" if the server
does not support "SEARCH". (Sunil Shetye)
* The IMAP client now requests message numbers in batches of 1,000 to avoid
problems if there are more than 1860 unseen messages. (Sunil Shetye)
Note that this wasn't security relevant because fetchmail would only read up
to the maximum buffer size and leave the remainder of the string unread, going
out of synch afterwards.
* Stricter validation of IMAP responses containing byte or message counts.
# CHANGES
* Only include gssapi.h if we're not including gssapi/gssapi.h, to fix a FreeBSD
compiler warning about gssapi.h being obsolete.
# DOCUMENTATION
* The README.SSL document was revised for grammar, spelling, and clarity.
Courtesy of Robert Mullin.
fetchmail 6.3.13 (released 2009-10-30, 25333 LoC):
# REGRESSION FIXES
* The multiline SMTP error fix in release 6.3.12 caused fetchmail to lose
message codes 400..599 and treat all of these as temporary error. This would
cause messages to be left on the server even if softbounce was turned off.
Reported by Thomas Jarosch.
fetchmail 6.3.12 (released 2009-10-05):
# REGRESSION FIXES
* The CVS-2009-2666 fix in fetchmail release 6.3.11 caused a free() of
unallocated memory on SSL connections, which caused crashes or program aborts
on some systems (depending on how initialization and free() of unallocated
memory is handled in compiler and libc).
Workaround for older versions: run in verbose mode.
Patch courtesy of Thomas Heinz, fixes Gentoo Bug #280760.
This regression affected only the 6.3.11 release, but not the patch that was
part of the security announcement fetchmail-SA-2009-01.
# BUG FIXES
* Fix error reporting for GSSAPI on Heimdal (h5l) Kerberos.
* Look for MD5_Init in libcrypto rather than libssl, fixes Gentoo Kerberos
builds; fixes upstream parts of Gentoo Bugs #231400 and #185652, and fixes
BerliOS Bug #16134.
* Report multiline SMTP errors properly, reported by Earl Chew; fixes Debian Bug
#529899, reported by Akihiro Terasaki.
Note: This fix introduced a regression, fixed in 6.3.13.
* Replace control characters in SMTP replies by '?'.
* Fetchmailconf: Fix descriptions for smtpaddress and smtpname options;
smtpaddress is for RCPT TO, not MAIL FROM. Found by Gerard Seibert.
...as well as translation updates in all three releases.
- Security fixes for CVE-2009-2666, CVE-2007-4565 and CVE-2008-2711.
- Fetchmail no longer drops permanently undelivered messages by default,
to match historic documentation. It does this by adding a new
"softbounce" option.
- A lot bug fixes and improvements.
Changes since version 6.3.6:
- Make the APOP challenge parser more distrustful and have it reject
challenges that do not conform to RFC-822 msg-id format, in the hope
to make mounting man-in-the-middle attacks (MITM) against APOP a bit
more difficult. (CVE-2007-1558)
- Fix pluralization of oversized-message warning mails.
- Fix manual page: --sslcheck -> --sslcertck, and do not set trailing
"recommended:" in bold.
- Repoll immediately if a protocol error happens during the authentication
attempt after a failed opportunistic TLS upgrade.
- Fix rendering of the "24 - 26, 28, 29" paragraph in the exit codes
section.
- If SOCKS support was compiled in, add 'socks' to the feature_options
Python list emitted in --configdump.
- Do not crash with a null pointer dereference when opening the BSMTP file
fails. Improve error checking and reporting.
- Make BSMTP output actually work, it would persistently fail with SOCKET
error after writing the first header.
- Fix KPOP.
- Fix repoll when server disconnects after opportunistic TLS failed for
POP3.
The list of changes since version 6.2.5.5 is too large to mention here.
The new version provides a fix for the vulnerability reported in the
fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt advisory.
Change homepage to http://fetchmail.berlios.de/ and update MASTER_SITES.
Changes introduced since 6.2.5:
fetchmail-6.2.5.X is a security fix branch that forked off
fetchmail-6.2.5. It does not change for anything but security and the
most severe bug fixes. Note that no 6.2.5.X security audits are planned
except when a particular bug is reported, and that 6.2.5.X is unsafe to
use on some systems, particularly those that lack a *working and secure*
snprintf implementation.
The fetchmail 6.2.5.X branch will be discontinued early in 2006.
fetchmail-6.2.5.5 2005-12-19 Matthias Andree
* SECURITY FIX CVE-2005-4348: fix null pointer dereference in
multidrop mode when the message is empty. Reported by Daniel Drake
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.fetchmail.user/7573> and others
(Debian Bug #343836). Fix by Sunil Shetye.
* Fix Debian bug #301964, fetchmail leaks sockets when SSL negotiation
fails. Fix suggested by Goswin Brederlow.
* Add fetchmail-SA-2005-{01,02,03}.txt
fetchmail-6.2.5.4 2005-11-13 Matthias Andree
* Also ship pre-built rcfile_y.[ch] for systems that don't have flex,
yacc or bison.
* On FreeBSD, add /usr/local/include to CPPFLAGS so that libintl.h is found.
* Avoid automatically picking up HESIOD implementations that lack
hesiod_getmailhost, such as the one in FreeBSD's base system.
* Fix makedepend for separated build (where the build is not run from
the source directory), but prevent packaging from separated build, it
yields bogus results.
* Fix resolv.h autodetection.
* Add +HESIOD to version printout if appropriate.
fetchmail-6.2.5.3 2005-11-12 Matthias Andree
* SECURITY FIX CVE-2005-3088: fetchmailconf: fix password exposure: use
umask 077 before opening output file and restore umask later.
* Critical fix: fix IMAP timeouts, counting message count down on
servers that do not send EXISTS counts after EXPUNGE. Debian Bug#314509.
* Ship pre-built rcfile_l.c for systems that don't have flex.
* Build environment: Update included gettext. Fix
--with-included-gettext. Fix parallel build (make -j). Fix "always
rebuild fetchmail" syndrome.
* Do not link against -ll or -lfl (not needed).
fetchmail-6.2.5.2
(patch Fri Jul 22 01:52 GMT 2005,
tarball Sat Jul 23 21:34 GMT 2005)
* README: Added a note about release status - READ IT!
* Note: Due to a Makefile.in bug, you may need to use GNU make.
* SECURITY FIX CVE-2005-2335: truncate UIDL replies, lest malicious or
compromised POP3 servers overflow fetchmail's stack. Debian bug
#212762. This is a remote root exploit.
Thanks: Miloslav Trmac for pointing out the fix in 6.2.5.1 was buggy.
Thanks: Ludwig Nussel for a much simpler fix.
* Critical fix: omit blank between MAIL FROM: and <user@example.org>,
as this causes mail loss with some listeners.
* Fix: POP2 driver wouldn't properly check authentication failure.
* Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP.
The added patches add a prefix "fm_" to lock related finctions, to avoid name
clash with darwin lock functions. Link with -lresolv under darwin.
(thanks scole_at_sdf.lonestar.org for the patches)
Bump PKGREVISION
For more details have a look at
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
Changes listed within the NEWS file since 6.2.5:
fetchmail-6.2.5.2 (Fri Jul 22 01:52 GMT 2005):
* NOTE: Due to a Makefile.in bug, you may need to use GNU make.
* SECURITY FIX: truncate UIDL replies, lest malicious or compromised
POP3 servers overflow fetchmail's stack. Debian bug #212762.
This is a remote root exploit. CVE Name: CAN-2005-2335.
Thanks: Miloslav Trmac for pointing out the fix in 6.2.5.1 was buggy.
Thanks: Ludwig Nussel for a much simpler fix.
* Critical fix: omit blank between MAIL FROM: and <user@example.org>,
as this causes mail loss with some listeners.
* Fix: POP2 driver wouldn't properly check authentication failure.
* Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP.
- use kerberos instead of kerberos5 as PKG_SUPPORTED_OPTIONS
to keep compliance with other kerberos aware packages in pkgsrc
- use the krb5 buildlink environment
Introduce support for gssapi which was also requested in pr pkg/26170 with
the according PKG_SUPPORTED_OPTIONS. gssapi will imply kerberos5.
Based on pr pkg/22650 by Adrian Portelli.
Changes since 6.2.3:
* Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
* IDLE is now supported using no-ops even if the server doesn't support
the IMAP IDLE extension.
* Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
* Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
* Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
* Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
* Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.
Changes since 6.2.2:
* German, Danish, Spanish, and Turkish translations updated.
* Brian Sammon's patch to deal with malformed message lines containiing NULs.
* Fai's patch to ignore all but the first Return-Path (some spams have
more than one of these).
* Benjamin Drieu's ptch to properly byte-stuff when talking to BSNTP.
Fixes Debian bug #184469.
* Benjamin Drieu's patch to enable auth=cram-md5.
Fixes Debian bug #185232.
* Sunil Shetye's configure.in patch to avoid spurious search order messages
from GCC.
* Header-reading code now copes better with lines ending in \n only.
* Elias Israel's patches for POP3 NTLM support and dealing with byte-
stuffing failures at socket level.
Changes since last version:
* Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior in empty messages.
* Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful
STARTTLS negotiation.
* Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
* Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security fix.
* Christophe GIAUME <christophe@giaume.com> finished the implementation
of RFC2177 IDLE.
* Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
* Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
* Fix for Debian bug #108977, clean up config file evaluation,
by Benjamin Drieu.
* Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
* Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
* Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check,
we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
* Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.
Changes since version 6.1.2:
- Applied Steffen Esser's fix for a buffer-overflow bug in rfc822.c
- Updated Danish, German, and Turkish translation files.
- Sunil Sheye's SMTP timeout patch.
- Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
- Added Slovak support.
- Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas).
- Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
- Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
- Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
- Sunil's fix for the STARTTLS problem -- repoll if TLS nabdshake
fails. The attenmpt to set up STARTTLS can be suppressed with 'sslproto ""'.
changes since 6.1.0:
fetchmail-6.1.2 (Thu Oct 31 11:41:02 EST 2002), 22135 lines:
* Jan Klaverstijn's verbosity-lowering patch.
* Updated Turkish, German, Catalan, and Danish translation files.
* Fix processing of POP3 messages with missing bodies.
* Minor fixes by Sunil Shetye: fix generation of auth fail note, handle
unexpected SIGALRM, plug memory leak, handle lines beginning with '\0',
try to bulletproof error handling against read failures.
fetchmail-6.1.1 (Fri Oct 18 14:53:51 EDT 2002), 22087 lines:
* OTP fix patches from Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
* fix patch for writing antispam capability correctly in conf.c.
* Fix patches for Debian bugs #162571, #156592.
* Correction to manpage re -b and qmail.
* Patch to disable use of STLS if auth passwd is specified.
* Fix specfile generation to handle SSL correctly.
* New Danish, Turkish, and Catalan translation files.
* Improved ODMR debug messages.
* IMAP efficiency hack; don't fetch sizes unless needed.
* Detect and rewrite invalid return paths beginning with @.
* Fix for subtle freeing bug that suppressed information in some bounce msgs.
* Newline fix patches for internationalization files.
* Fix reversed test guarding authentication-failure warnings.
* Fix POP3 breakage starting at 5.9.14.
Because of the recent vulnerability, it is strongly encouraged to update
(http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/032002.html).
Thanx to Alan Post <apost@interwoven.com> for giving me a note.
fetchmail-6.1.0 (Sun Sep 22 18:31:23 EDT 2002), 21999 lines:
* Updated French translation.
* Stefan Esser's fix for potential remote vulnerability in multidrop mode.
This is an important security fix!
fetchmail-6.0.0 (Tue Sep 17 19:48:25 EDT 2002), 21972 lines:
* Applied Matt Kraai's fix for minor Debian bug #144539.
* Nerijus Baliunas's patch to support STARTTLS over IMAP.
* More cleanups and minor bugfixes from Sunil Shetye.
* Default antispam-response list is now empty.
* Updated de and po translations,
fetchmail-5.9.14 (Fri Sep 6 05:03:25 EDT 2002), 21932 lines:
* Sunil Shetye's patch to eliminate multiple bounces.
* Moritz Jodeit <moritz@jodeit.org>'s patch for re-exec with no args.
* Sunil Shetye's patch to solve the re-exec problem with relative files.
* Cygwin portability patch (use ROOT_UID) from Jason Tishler.
* Workaround for the CAPA error problem is documented in the FAQ.
* Updated Polish, Danish, and Catalan translations.
* Sunil Shetye's patch to improve CAPA error handling.
* Sunil Shetye's patch to improve handling of unreadable boxes in POP3.
* Berkeley port fix for Kerberos IV.
Changes since 5.9.6:
fetchmail-5.9.11 (Mon Apr 1 17:09:13 EST 2002), 21597 lines:
* Updated Turkish and Japanese translations.
* Added warning about auth failures on the GMX server.
* HMH's Debian 5.9.10 patches:
1. Fix minor typo in FAQ
2. Fix partial implementation of ESMTP auth, and some minor
fetchmailconf stuff
3. Add proper error reporting to bad logfile creation.
patch by Sunil Shetye <shetye@bombay.retortsoft.com>
4. Fix incredible aggravating bug that caused dataloss
risks if 4xx errors were returned by the MTA
5. Corrected version of the fix-timeouts-for-ssl and descriptor
leaking patches from Sylvain Benoist <sylvainb@whitepj.com>
Also fix outdated comments in driver.c
6. Sunil Shetye's patch to stop fetchmail from trying to fetch
twice with IMAP
7. Stop stupid complaint about turning off SSL being illegal
without SSL support.
8. Byrial Jensen <byrial@image.dk> i18n fixes
* Sunil Shetye's attribute patch.
* HMH's revised but untested SMTP authentication patch.
fetchmail-5.9.10 (Sun Mar 10 15:09:57 EST 2002), 21529 lines:
* Security fix: don't trust the message count passed back by the server.
fetchmail-5.9.9 (Sat Mar 9 08:54:28 EST 2002), 21508 lines:
* Renamed misnamed tr.po and da.po files
* Jakub Ulanowski's patch to fix SSL fingerprint handling.
* Matt Kraai's patch for supporting STLS over POP3.
* French translation updated.
* Debian fixes merged.
* Added maildrop (MDA shipped with courier) as fallback after procmail
and sendmail (thanks to Alexander Lazic <al-fetchmail@none.at>).
* ESMTP AUTH support from Wojciech Polak <polak@lodz.pdi.net>.
fetchmail-5.9.8 (Thu Feb 14 23:47:31 EST 2002), 21358 lines:
* Added de translation catalog; updated da and tr catalogs.
* vsprintf underflow fixes by Sunil Shetye.
* Added warning about IMS POP3 server.
* Mattyhias Andree's fix for a longstanding SSL hang bug.
* Fix yacc syntax bug when building with SSL.
* Sunil Shetye's patch for idle timeout during poll.
* Applied HMH's fix for the "message delimiter found in headers" code path
(Debian bug #128672).
fetchmail-5.9.7 (Sat Feb 2 00:33:40 EST 2002), 21330 lines:
* Minor fixes by HMH.
* Properly guard some transaction reporting in the SSL code.
* Updated German (de) po file. Added Turkish (tr) po file.
* Expunge edge case fix by Sunil Shetye.
* Fixes for some odd IMAP and SMTP edge cases by Sunil Shetye.
* UIDL bug fix by Matthias Andree.
* Use smtpaddress, if present, to set the return path on warning mail.
* Tell parser to object when SSL keyboard is used with SSL not compiled.
* GSSAPI and ODMR fixes by Tom Hughes.
fetchmail-5.9.6 (Fri Dec 14 04:03:50 EST 2001), 21247 lines:
* OPIE bug fixes by Jun Miyoshi <usako@omnisci.co.jp>.
* Documented known IDLE bug in the todo.html file.
* Sunil Shetye's fix for a timeout/reconnect bug.
* LMTP fix from Toshiro HIKITA <toshi@sodan.org>.
* The duplicate-killer doesn't try to operate if we can get an actual
recipient address from the trace headers.
fetchmail-5.9.5 (Thu Nov 8 14:14:35 EST 2001), 21162 lines:
* Changed the logging logic along lines suggested by Jan Klaverstijn,
* fetchmailconf looks first in the directory it's running from to find
fetchmail.
* Make sure we vet a success status correctly from open_smtp_sink()
and open_bsmtp_sink().
* Matthias Andree's env.c patch to refuse service when QMAILINJECT is defined.
* Immediately abort if a non-empty QMAILINJECT environment variable is
found. If it is set and contains f or i, qmail-inject or qmail's
sendmail `compatibility' wrapper will rewrite From: or Message-ID:
headers, respectively. En passant, fix the bug that program_name was
not filled in before used when the user's ID had no PW entry, leading
to (null) or crash when printing the error message. Patch by Matthias
Andree.
* NextStep and OpenStep port patch from Eric Sunshine.
* Block signals during SockConnect() so we don't get a socket descriptor
leak if we're hit by an alarm signal during connect(2).
* Set queryname even when server is inactive; avoids a core-dump bug in
the fetchids code.
fetchmail-5.9.4 (Wed Oct 3 07:47:45 EDT 2001), 21104 lines:
* Finished license cleanup, all licenses in the distribution are now
officially GPL-compatible.
* Added a length check to from64tobits() after receiving a warning that
it might create buffer overflows. No exploitable overflows were found by
a careful case-by-case audit, and at minimum an exploit would have required
that the mailserver be subverted.
fetchmail-5.9.3 (Sun Sep 30 12:08:52 EDT 2001), 21075 lines:
* Fix configuration error in handling of long options.
* Thomas Moestl's patch to use querynames in UID files.
* Timeout to deal with long socket closes (Sunil Shetye).
* Move from RSA MD5 code to Colin Plumb's public-domain implementation (BSD
classic license eliminated)
* Rewrite strcasecmp() (BSD classic license eliminated).
* getopt_long is back for Solaris and HP-UX systems.
* Updated Danish po file.
* Re-enable explicit bounce message on bad address.
fetchmail-5.9.2 (Wed Sep 26 12:47:00 EDT 2001), 21118 lines:
* Enable code to build on Solaris again (long options won't work).
* Move Hesiod lookups to just before DNS lookups.
* Make sure the SICHLD handler is called when we run detached.
* Make kerberos5 in OpenBSD (Federico Schwindt <fgsch@olimpo.com.br>).
* Added FAQ item X8 on why mail sometimes gets an extra ) appended.
fetchmail-5.9.1 (Mon Sep 24 19:01:57 EDT 2001), 21120 lines:
* Make -D short option for --smtpaddress active again.
* Typo fix for Polish translation.
* Make sure IMAP capability checks are caseblind.
* Make sure suffix checks on akalists are properly caseblinded.
* All warning mail now has a generated date stamp.
* getopt.c and getopt1.c removed due to license incompatibility with OpenSSL.
* End of poll cycle is now logged.
* Sanity check now rejects SSL option if SSL support is not compiled in
(resolves Debian bug #109796).
* HMH's fix for the LMTP localhost/foo problem.
* Mike Warfield's fix for using a combined SSL cert and key in a single file.
* DNS lookups moved to just before the mailserver socket open, so fetchmail
now works OK even if started up without Internet access.
* Switched from _( to GT_( as a gettext macro, in order to avoid a
conflict with the SSL library.
- SECURITY FIX: Fixed a security hole that is exploitable if fetchmail is
running as root and the attacker can either subvert the mailserver or
redirect to a fake one using DNS spoofing. Bugtraq announcement to follow
soon. Thanks to Salvatore Sanfilippo <antirez@invece.org>.
- Eliminated second bounce on failed RCPT TO address.
- Always use fetchmail host's FQDN to identify the daemon when
sending bounce messages.
- Embarrassing bug of the month -- somehow, 'skip' wasn't being interpreted!
- Handle ! in RFC2821 Return-Path addresses properly.
- Better handling of BAD and NO responses to FETCH (thank Justin Guyett).
- Fixed *yet another- build error due to breakage in the i18n code.
- Refuse mail that has no good addresses and can't be sent to postmaster.
- Restore behavior of discarding mail on 550 (Debian bug #105237).
- John Summerfield updated getfetchmail.
- Cleanup patches by HMH.
- Lock-file-name bug reported by Scott Johnson.
- Updated Danish translation by Byrial Jensen.
- Updated French translation by Thierry Vignaud.
- Man page bugs pointed out by Andrew Benham.
- POP3 end of session RSET on keep removed.
- In IMAP, handle BAD and NO responses to FETCH gracefully.
- Parse 'no {syslog|invisible|showdots}' properly.
- Change AC_DEFINE to AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED appropriately in configure.in
(Debian bug #104484).
- Fixed bug in fetchmailconf plugin/plugout code (Debian bug #105987).
since version 5.8.10:
- Corrected Rob Braun's remote-build change, it broke the build with NLS.
- Found (and killed) a subtle SMTP protocol error that was probably lurking
behind a lot of the bug reports related to bounce mail, thanks to Quoc Luu.
(Only manifested when the MTA rejected mail due to a bad RCPT TO address.)
- Correction for backslash-handling patch in rfc822.c.
- Fix for Debian bug Bug#1038222: fetchmail conf fails to write file
after configuration; move .fetchmailrc to .fetchmailrc.bak before
overwriting.
- Discard Return-Path headers consisting of a single @.
- Make fetchmailconf dump plugin and plugout options properly.
- Rob Braun's changes for building fetchmail outside its source directory
- Don't depend on having snprintf available.
- Bug fix for envskip.
- ODMR finally seems to be working.
- Handle multiple backslashes within RFC822 address strings correctly.
- Don't exit on a failure to DNS-resolve a mailserver name, just
make it inactive. Exit only if all lookups fail.
- Restore code to deal with SMTP error responses at RCPT TO time, but
without issuing an RSET. This is intended to fix obscure bugs that
show up in recent Postfix releases and sendmail configurations that
delay antispam checks on the MAIL FROM line until RCPT TO time.
- Signal-processing fix for Debian bug #102711.
- More ODMR patches from Matt Armstrong.
Changes since version 5.8.8:
- More fixes for the new message-marking code from Thomas Moestl.
- Fixes for ODMR code from Matt Armstrong.
- HMH's snprintf/strncat cleanup patch.
- Fixes for Debian bugs #101792, #101950.
- Updated Danish translation by Byrial Jensen.
- ODMR fixes from Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com>.
- The smtphost option has been split. It is no longer overloaded to set
the list of domains to be queried in ETRN and ODMR modes. Instead, use
the `fetchdomains' option.
by Emmanuel Dreyfus.
fetchmail-5.8.8 (Wed Jun 20 17:22:26 EDT 2001), 20782 lines:
* Fix bug that prevented messages from being marked oversized unless -v was on.
* Byrial Jensen made the tracepoll information RFC822-conformant.
* Reorder code to avoid accessing line buffers after they have been freed.
* Steven Krings's patch to deal with over-long header lines.
* Fix for Debian bug #101500.
* Updated Danish translation by Byrial Jensen.
* Chris Maio's patch for POP3 with BSMTP.
* Patch from HMH resolves DEbian bug #101530.
fetchmail-5.8.7 (Sun Jun 17 12:02:17 EDT 2001), 20749 lines:
* Make fetchmailconf work properly again by fixing tracepolls mismatch.
* HMH's fix for Debian bug #98127.
* driver.c refactoring in preparation for streaming mode.
fetchmail-5.8.6 (Tue Jun 12 08:16:54 EDT 2001), 20676 lines:
* Reject candidate headers for the MAIL FROM address that have \n in them.
* Add capability to insert poll trace data in the Received line.
* HMH's patch to prevent buffer overflow due to long headers. Addresses
Debian bug #100394.
* Brendan Kehoe's patch to avoid doing DNS lookups on skip entries.
There are 347 people on fetchmail-friends and 592 on fetchmail-announce.
fetchmail-5.8.5 (Tue May 29 20:01:39 EDT 2001), 20650 lines:
* Interface option fix from Alexander Kourakos.
* Fixes for i18n glitches and new Danish translation from Byrial Jensen.
* Attempted fix for Harry McGavran's problems with the Kerberos V build.
* Added fetchmailnochda.pl to the contrib directory.
* Sunil Shetye's patches for the seen count on IMAP and auto protocol.
There are 337 people on fetchmail-friends and 583 on fetchmail-announce.
fetchmail-5.8.4 (Mon May 21 15:08:03 EDT 2001), 20636 lines:
* SSL certificate options from Thomas Moestl <tmoestl@gmx.net>.
* Frantisek Brabec's patch for better UIDL error recovery.
* Another zombie-leak patch from HMH.
* Jorg de Jong's patch attempts to handle spaces in the ID part of UIDLs.
* Eliminate use of -C in Makefile.
There are 334 people on fetchmail-friends and 583 on fetchmail-announce.
since version 5.8.1:
- The `localhost' special case of `via' is gone. Use `plugin %h' for talking
to ssh instead.
- Prevent POP3 code from authenticating multiple times on success.
- Fixed IMAP password shrouding.
- GCC warning cleanups from ahaas@neosoft.com.
- Plug another hole that was letting zombies through.
- SA_RESTART portability fix for SunOS.
- Ignore Sender and Resent-Sender headers unless they contain @.
- HH's patches fixing Debian bug #90966 and addressing Debian bug #92554.
- GSSAPI portability patch by Peter Fales.
- Updated cs.po by Jiri Pavlovsky.
- Michael Kjorling's patch to add server ID to authentication success/failure
bugmail.
- Kerberos build patch by HH.
- Don't cough and die from failure to resolve a skipped host. Resolves
Debian bug #92530
- Do aka suffix match even if DNS checking is enabled (Johannes Stille's bug).
- SIGCHLD handler now sets SA_RESTART explicitly in order to avoid zombies
from interrupted system calls. Debian bug #95659.
Changes since fetchmail 5.7.2:
fetchmail-5.8.1 (Tue Apr 10 09:32:04 EDT 2001), 20511 lines:
* Nalin Dahyabai's password parse and authentication fixe.
* Vitezslav Samel's patch to Makefile.in to make parallel makes work.
fetchmail-5.8.0 (Mon Apr 2 15:18:33 EDT 2001), 20459 lines:
* Documentation update for gold release.
fetchmail-5.7.7 (Wed Mar 28 20:24:48 EST 2001), 20459 lines:
* More configure fixes -- include missing stub script in the distribution.
fetchmail-5.7.6 (Thu Mar 22 16:22:48 EST 2001), 20456 lines:
* Fix POP2 and POP3 password shrouding.
* Don't remove UIDL scratchlist on query completion (Frantisek Brabec's bug).
* IMAP: don't just quit if GSSAPI or Kerberos IV fail, but try other methods.
* Document the fact the IDLE and multiple folders don't play well together.
Closes Debian bug#89908.
fetchmail-5.7.5 (Sat Mar 17 23:24:41 EST 2001), 20440 lines:
* Nalin Dahyabhai's patch to make IPv6 build on older systems.
* Restrict shrouding to just the password send so it won't leak info.
* Move an #ifdef INET6_ENABLE to deal with libc5 headers.
* Only DNS-probe entries that are active on this run.
* Fix `nospambounce' recognition.
* Updated French translation.
* Yoshihiko SARUMARU's patch to keep kanji out of Received headers.
* Include aclocal.m4 in the tarball (solves some build problems).
* Added HMH's patch to support configuring a specific fallback MUA.
fetchmail-5.7.4 (Mon Mar 12 00:02:23 EST 2001), 20323 lines:
* SECURITY FIX: unsecure tempfile creation bug in fetchmailconf, thanks
to Colin Phipps <cph@cph.demon.co.uk> for pointing this out.
* Configure cleanup from HMH.
* Documentation refresh.
fetchmail-5.7.3 (Sun Mar 11 17:01:56 EST 2001), 20323 lines:
* Incorporate SA_LEN patch from Red Hat.
* HMH's "no spambounce" patch for fetchmailconf.
* John Bartlett's patch to make the driver code more tolerant of flaky POP3
servers (better handling of timeout at session start).
* Make `fetchmail --configdump' work when there's a defaults entry.
* Incorporated HMH's build fixes.
* Added FALLBACK_MDA; fetchmail now looks for procmail or sendmail at
build time and uses it if it can't open port 25 for local delivery.
* Incorporated Red Hat fixes for GSSAPI, configure.in.
* Bailing out on read-only messages breaks fetchmail -c. To avoid this,
use EXAMINE rather than SELECT in that case.
