- work around brain-damaged change in Python's poplib which causes
message retrieval errors if any line of a message has more than
2048 characters in it.
- restore link to moved Marc mailing list archive. Thanks: David
J. Weller-Fahy.
- try to work around pathological breakage in one random POP server
implementation. Thanks: Michael Thomas Kockmeyer.
- remove dead marc.theaimsgroup.com list archive from docs. Thanks:
Miroslav Rovis.
- bugfix: if you combined IMAP IDLE mode with delete_after, getmail would,
after remaining connected to the server for the number of days
configured, begin deleting messages immediately after retrieval
instead of after the configured delay. Now fixed. Thanks:
Johannes Weißl.
- fix --idle checking Python version incorrectly, resulting in
incorrect warning about running with Python < 2.5. Thanks: "Voytek",
Krzysztof Warzecha.
- add missing support for SSL certificate checking in POP3 which
broke POP retrieval in v4.45.0. Requires Python 2.6 or newer.
Thanks: "mancha".
- perform hostname-vs-certificate matching of SSL certificate if
validating the certifcate. Thanks: "mancha".
- fix missing plaintext versions of documentation.
Updating this leaf package during the freeze for the security fix.
- add extended SSL options for IMAP retrievers, allowing certificate
verification and other features. Thanks: Steven Murdoch.
- fix missing plaintext versions of documentation. Thanks: Osamu Aoki.
- fix "Header instance has no attribute 'strip'" error which cropped
up in some configurations. Thanks: Krzysztof Warzecha.
Updating this leaf package during the freeze for security improvements
and bugfixes.
- messages retrieved with POP could have a blank trailing line
removed when delivered; fixed. Thanks: Christoph Mitterer, Krzysztof
Warzecha.
- fix an ImportError when IMAP retriever used with getmail under
Python 2.4.
- increase system recursion limit when run with Python 2.3, to
prevent recursion errors in parsing some pathologically complex
MIME emails. Thanks: Kenneth Pronovici.
- again change protocol codes passed to OSX, as they're not only
reserved codes, but also case-sensitive. Use the ones an OSX user
reports work properly. Thanks: Tim Gray.
- convert SIGTERM to SIGINT so getmail can cleanup and exit normally
if killed with a default signal. Thanks: Carl Lei.
- fix change which resulted in passing full protocol name to OSX
keyring program, which can't handle it (restricted to 4-character
code). Thanks: Tim Gray.
- fix a bug that could crop up when retrieving mail via IMAP from
Gmail, and the Gmail servers provided weird data in their header
extensions. Thanks: Krzysztof Warzecha.
- fix retrieving mail from an IMAP mailbox with non-ASCII characters
in its name causing difficult-to-understand unicode errors during
delivery. Thanks: "fsLeg", Krzysztof Warzech.
- handle IMAP servers which include "/" in message IDs better, so
those messages aren't always thought to be new. Thanks: Bradley
Rintoul.
- record (IMAP) mailbox retrieved from in X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox:
header field, and make it available as %(mailbox) substitution
in MDA_external arguments. Thanks: Les Barstow.
- add delete_bigger_than option to allow removal of large messages
after retrieval, even if not deleting messages otherwise. Thanks:
Jan Vereecke.
- fix From_ quoting in mbox delivery; use of the Python stdlib
function meant getmail was incorrectly using mboxo-style quoting
instead of mboxrd quoting, probably since early in the v4 series.
Thanks: Christoph Mitterer.
- allow normal exit on interrupt (ctrl-c) to allow the uesr to abort
message retrieval while still remembering already-retrieved
messages as successfully delivered. You may get a weird error
message after you abort, since the server may be in the middle
of delivering another message to getmail at the time. Thanks:
Krzysztof Warzecha.
- prevent some nuisance stack traces if getmail cannot connect to
the POP/IMAP server correctly. Thanks: Daniel Dumke.
- restore use_peek IMAP retriever parameter which accidentally got
removed in 4.30. Thanks: Andreas Amann.
- improved backwards compatibility with pre-v.4.22.0 oldmail files,
so IMAP mail is not re-retrieved if you upgrade from a 4.22 or
earlier to this one; no user action necessary. Thanks: Osamu Aoki,
Tim van der Molen.
- fix a nuisance stack trace that would be dumped if a connection
failed in particular states. Thanks: Gary Schmidt.
Updating this leaf package during the freeze for the bugfix.
- silence a nuisance deprecation warning about the sets module when
running with Python >= 2.5 which was reintroduced in 4.29.0.
Thanks: Stephan Schulz.
- fix breakage introduced in 4.29.0 where BrokenUIDLPOP3Retriever
would fail with a TypeError at logout time. Thanks: Scott Robbins,
Stephan Schulz.
- fix breakage introduced in 4.29.0 where deleted mail was not being
expunged from the last (or only) folder retrieved from in an IMAP
session. Thanks: Paul Howarth.
- update old contact information for Free Software Foundation.
Thanks: Ricky Zhou.
- fix incorrect character encoding in plaintext documentation.
Thanks: Ricky Zhou.
- ensure getmail exits nonzero if a server refuses login due to a
credential problem. Thanks: Stephan Schulz.
- ensure getmail exits nonzero if various error conditions (like
POP/IMAP authentication failure) occur. Thanks: Ryan J., Stephan
Schulz.
- python versions prior to 2.5.0 contain a bug when dealing with
read-only IMAP mailboxes. Monkey-patch imaplib when running with
Python<2.5.0. Thanks: Les Barstow.
- do IMAP modified-utf7 conversion of mailbox names containing
non-ASCII characters. Thanks: A. Lapraitis, Randall Mason.
- add special ALL value for retrieving mail from all selectable
IMAP mailboxes in the account.
- change IMAP retrieval strategy to retrieve all messages from a
mailbox, then move on to the next mailbox, etc. Should result in
increased speed, but if you set `max_messages_per_session` too
low, this could result in later mailboxes not being retrieved
from.
Updating this leaf package during the freeze for bugfixes.
-make use of IMAP BODY.PEEK configurable; set the IMAP retriever parameter
`use_peek` to False to disable use of PEEK to get getmail's historical IMAP
behaviour.
- switch to using BODY.PEEK in IMAP retrieval; I no longer see
problems with this feature in my testing. If users experience
incompatibility with any IMAP servers where 4.25.0 worked, please
let me know.
- add an explicit expunge when closing an IMAP mailbox, for servers that
incorrectly do not do this when the mailbox is closed. Thanks: Nicolas
Pomarède.
- fix incorrect section reference for `mailboxes` parameter in documentation.
Thanks: Ross Boylan.
- fix getmail_fetch broken in 4.21.0. Thanks: Chris Donoghue.
-when retriever supports multiple mail folders (IMAP), store oldmail data for
each folder separately, preventing problems in some cases when using multiple
rc files with the same account. Thanks: Jesse Schobben.
While here, add a patch comment to quell pkglint.
-automatically open IMAP folders read-only if neither the delete nor
delete_after options are in use; necessary to access chatlogs via Gmail.
Thanks: Daniel M. Drucker.
-avoid sorting msgids on each retrieval, reducing overhead when dealing with
folders containing thousands of messages. Thanks: Daniel Koukola.
-ensure correct remote address and port is included in the Received: trace
headers generated by getmail. Previously the first address found for the
server was used even if another address was actually used to connect to the
server. Thanks: Frederic Perrin.
-update broken link in FAQ. Thanks: Stefan Kangas.
-strip a few extra problematic (on non-Unix systems) characters when
generating oldmail filenames; backslash was requested by Andy Ross.
If upgrading and your current oldmail file contains any of these
characters:
\ ; < > |
... then rename it, replacing runs of one or more of those characters with
a single "-".
-improve clarity of message logged by getmail when an external program exits
0 but getmail considers it failed because it wrote to stderr. Thanks:
Chris Dennis.
- change to how getmail counts messages in an IMAP mailbox; prevents problems
where getmail would only see the first 500 messages in a mailbox with some
IMAP servers that return oddball responses to SELECT. Thanks: David Damerell.
- handle additional cases where IMAP (and for good measure, POP3) server is
broken and offers a message that it then fails to return. Thanks: Eric
Waguespack.
- fix --dump not generating any output for rcfiles containing
"verbose = 0" option. Thanks: Morty Abzug.
- fix copy-and-paste error in documentation of MultiSorter destination.
Thanks: Roland Hill.
- add "message_log_verbose" option, defaulting to false. If true,
the message_log file (and syslog, if used) will contain a little
more information than the default of just messages retrieved.
Thanks: Matthias Andree, Gregory Morozov.
