1 Fetchmail Release Notes
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4 This file is in Unicode charset with UTF-8 encoding.
5 All dates are in Universal Time unless otherwise noted.
7 (The `lines' figures total .c, .h, .l, and .y files under version control.
8 Abbreviations in parentheses are the maintainers who committed the respective
9 change. MA = Matthias Andree, ESR = Eric S. Raymond, RF = Rob Funk.)
11 # ADVANCE WARNING OF FEATURES TO BE REMOVED OR CHANGED IN FUTURE VERSIONS
12 (There are no plans to remove features from a 6.4.X release, but they may be
13 removed from a 6.5.0 or newer release.)
14 * Future fetchmail releases may require compilers and operating systems
15 that adhere to standards issued 2011 or later.
16 (Currently, C89 and Single Unix Specification V2 should suffice.)
17 * Future fetchmail releases may tighten up security and lean towards
18 it a bit more by, for instance, implementing recommendations from
19 RFC-7817 or RFC-8314. This may, for instance, require that TLS v1.1
21 * The MX and host alias DNS lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode
22 are based on assumptions that are rarely met in practice, somewhat defective,
23 deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version.
24 They have never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4).
25 Non-DNS based alias keywords such as "aka" will remain in fetchmail.
26 * The monitor and interface options may be removed from a future fetchmail
27 version as they are not reasonably portable across operating systems.
28 * POP2 is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail version.
29 * IMAP2 and IMAP4 (not IMAP4r1) are obsolete, support may be removed from a
30 future fetchmail version.
31 * RPOP is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail release.
32 * The multidrop To/Cc guessing code along with the fragile duplicate suppressor
33 is deprecated and may be removed from a future release.
34 * The "envelope Received" option may be removed from a future release, because
35 the Received header was never meant to be machine-readable, the format varies
36 widely, and various other differences in behavior make parsing Received an
37 unreliable undertaking. The envelope option as such will remain though, in
38 order to support Delivered-To, X-Envelope-To, X-Original-To and similar.
39 See also <http://home.pages.de/~mandree/mail/multidrop>.
40 * The --enable-fallback (fall back to MDA if MTA unavailable) will be removed
41 from a future fetchmail release, because it makes fetchmail's behavior
42 inconsistent and confusing.
43 * The "protocol auto" default inside fetchmail may be removed from a future
44 fetchmail release. Explicit configuration of the protocol is recommended.
45 * Kerberos IV support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
46 * Kerberos 5 support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
47 * The --principal option may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
48 * SIGHUP wakeup support may be removed from a future fetchmail release and
49 cause fetchmail to terminate - it was broken for many years.
50 * Support for operating systems that are not sufficiently POSIX compliant may be
51 removed or operation on such systems may be suboptimal for future releases.
52 This means that fetchmail may only continue to work on C99 and POSIX 2001
54 * The maintainer may migrate fetchmail to C++ with STL or C#, and impose further
55 requirements (dependencies), such as Boost or other class libraries.
56 * The softbounce option default will change to "false" in the next release.
57 * The --bsmtp - mode of operation may be removed in a future release.
58 * Given that OpenSSL is severely underdocumented, and needs license exceptions,
59 fetchmail may switch to a different SSL library.
60 * SSLv3 support may be removed from a future fetchmail release. It has been
61 obsolete for many years and found insecure. Use TLS.
62 * Fetchmailconf is deprecated and will be removed from a future release.
63 * Fetchmail does not guarantee compatibility with EOL OpenSSL versions. Support
64 for end-of-life OpenSSL versions may be removed even from patchlevel releases.
66 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
68 fetchmail-6.4.4 (released 2020-04-26, 27530 LoC):
70 ## UPDATED TRANSLATIONS - WITH THANKS TO THE TRANSLATOR:
71 * ja: Takeshi Hamasaki [Japanese]
73 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
75 fetchmail-6.4.3 (released 2020-04-05, 27530 LoC):
78 * Plug memory leaks when parts of the configuration (defaults, rcfile, command
79 line) override one another.
80 * fetchmail terminated the placeholder command string too late and included
81 garbage from the heap at the end of the string. Workaround: don't use place-
82 holders %h or %p in the --plugin string. Bug added in 6.4.0 when merging
83 Gitlab merge request !5 in order to fix an input buffer overrun.
84 Faulty commit 418cda65f752e367fa663fd13884a45fcbc39ddd.
85 Reported by Stefan Thurner, Gitlab issue #16.
86 * Fetchmail now checks for errors when trying to read the .idfile,
88 * Fetchmail's error messages that reports that the defaults entry isn't the
89 first was made more precise. It could be misleading if there was a poll or
90 skip statement before the defaults.
93 * Fetchmail documentation was updated to require OpenSSL 1.1.1.
94 OpenSSL 1.0.2 reached End Of Life status at the end of the year 2019.
95 Fetchmail will tolerate, but warn about, 1.0.2 for now on the assumption that
96 distributors backport security fixes as the need arises.
97 Fetchmail will also warn if another SSL library that is API-compatible
98 with OpenSSL lacks TLS v1.3 support.
99 * If the trust anchor is missing, fetchmail refers the user to README.SSL.
102 * The AC_DECLS(getenv) check was removed, its only user was broken and not
103 accounting for that AC_DECLS always defines HAVE_DECL_... to 0 or 1, so
104 fetchmail never declared a missing getenv() symbol (it was testing with
105 #ifdef). Remove the backup declaration. getenv is mandated by SUSv2 anyways.
107 ## UPDATED TRANSLATIONS - WITH THANKS TO THE TRANSLATORS:
108 * sq: Besnik Bleta [Albanian]
109 * zh_CN: Boyuan Yang [Chinese (simplified)]
110 * pl: Jakub Bogusz [Polish]
111 * cs: Petr Pisar [Czech]
112 * fr: Frédéric Marchal [French]
113 * sv: Göran Uddeborg [Swedish]
114 * eo: Felipe Castro [Esperanto]
116 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
118 fetchmail-6.4.2 (released 2020-02-14, 27473 LoC):
121 * fetchmailconf now supports Python 3 and currently requires the "future"
122 package, see https://pypi.org/project/future/.
123 * fetchmailconf: The minimum supported version is now Python 2.7.13, but it is
124 recommended to use at least 2.7.16 (due to its massive SSL updates).
125 Older Python versions may check SSL certificates not strictly enough,
126 which may cause fetchmail to complain later, if the certificate verify fails.
127 * fetchmailconf now autoprobes SSL-wrapped connections (ports 993 and 995 for
128 IMAP and POP3) as well and by preference.
129 * fetchmailconf now defaults newly created users to "ssl" if either of the
130 existing users sets ssl, or if the server has freshly been probed and
131 found supporting ssl.
132 There is a caveat: adding a user to an existing server without probing it
133 again may skip adding ssl. (This does not prevent STARTTLS.)
136 * Fix three bugs in fetchmail.man (one unterminated string to .IP macro, one
137 line that ran into a .PP macro, .TH date format), and remove one .br request
138 from inside the table, which is unsupported by FreeBSD 12's mandoc(1)
139 formatter. FreeBSD Bug#241032, reported by Helge Oldach.
140 * Further man page fixes and additions by Chris Mayo and Gregor Zattler.
141 * When evaluating the need for STARTTLS in non-default configurations (SSL
142 certificate validation turned off), fetchmail would only consider --sslproto
143 tls1 as requiring STARTTLS, now all non-empty protocol versions do.
144 * fetchmailconf now properly writes "no sslcertck" if sslcertck is disabled.
145 * fetchmailconf now catches and reports OS errors (including DNS errors) when
146 autoprobing. Reported as Gitlab issue #12 by Sergey Alirzaev.
147 * fetchmailconf received a host of other bugfixes, see the Git commit log.
150 * Make t.smoke more robust and use temporary directory as FETCHMAILHOME, to make
151 sure that the home directory resolves for the user running the test suite
152 even if the environment isn't perfect. Reported by Konstantin Belousov,
153 analysed by Corey Halpin, FreeBSD Bug#240914.
155 ## UPDATED TRANSLATION - THANKS TO:
156 * zh_CN: Boyuan Yang [Chinese (simplified)]
158 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
160 fetchmail 6.4.1 (released 2019-09-28, 27473 LoC):
163 * The bug fix Debian Bug#941129 was incomplete and caused
164 + a regression in the default file locations, so that fetchmail was no longer
165 able to find its configuration files in some situations.
166 Reported by Cy Schubert, Christian Ebert.
167 + a regression under _FORTIFY_SOURCE where PATH_MAX > minimal _POSIX_PATH_MAX.
169 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
171 fetchmail 6.4.0 (released 2019-09-27, 27429 LoC):
173 # NOTE THAT FETCHMAIL IS NO LONGER PUBLISHED THROUGH IBIBLIO.
174 * They have stopped accepting submissions and consider themselves an archive.
176 ## SECURITY FIXES THAT AFFECT BEHAVIOUR AND MAY REQUIRE RECONFIGURATION
177 * Fetchmail no longer supports SSLv2.
179 * Fetchmail no longer attempts to negotiate SSLv3 by default,
180 even with --sslproto ssl23. Fetchmail can now use SSLv3, or TLSv1.1 or a newer
181 TLS version, with STLS/STARTTLS (it would previously force TLSv1.0 with
182 STARTTLS). If the OpenSSL version used at build and run-time supports these
183 versions, --sslproto ssl3 and --sslproto ssl3+ can be used to re-enable SSLv3.
184 Doing so is discouraged because the SSLv3 protocol is broken.
186 Along the lines suggested - as patch - by Kurt Roeckx, Debian Bug #768843.
188 While this change is supposed to be compatible with common configurations,
189 users may have to and are advised to change all explicit --sslproto ssl2
190 (change to newer protocols required), --sslproto ssl3, --sslproto tls1 to
191 --sslproto auto, so that they can benefit from TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 where
192 supported by the server.
194 The --sslproto option now understands the values auto, ssl3+, tls1+, tls1.1,
195 tls1.1+, tls1.2, tls1.2+, tls1.3, tls1.3+ (case insensitively), see CHANGES
198 * Fetchmail defaults to --sslcertck behaviour. A new option --nosslcertck to
199 override this has been added, but may be removed in future fetchmail versions
200 in favour of another configuration option that makes the insecurity in using
204 * Fetchmail prevents buffer overruns in GSSAPI authentication with user names
205 beyond c. 6000 characters in length. Reported by Greg Hudson.
207 ## CHANGED REQUIREMENTS
208 * fetchmail 6.4.0 is written in C99 and requires a SUSv3 (Single Unix
209 Specification v3, a superset of POSIX.1-2001 aka. IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 with
210 XSI extension) compliant system. For now, a C89 compiler should also work
211 if the system is SUSv3 compliant.
213 In particular, older fetchmail versions had workaround for several functions
214 standardized in the Single Unix Specification v3, these have been removed.
216 The trio/ library has been removed from the distribution.
219 * fetchmail 6.3.X is unsupported.
220 * fetchmail now configures OpenSSL support by default.
221 * fetchmail now requires OpenSSL v1.0.2 or newer.
222 * Fetchmail now supports --sslproto auto and --sslproto tls1+ (same as ssl23).
223 * --sslproto tls1.1+, tls1.2+, and tls1.3+ are now supported for
224 auto-negotiation with a minimum specified TLS protocol version, and --sslproto
225 tls1.1, --sslproto tls1.2 and --sslproto tls1.3 to force the specified TLS
226 protocol version. Note that tls1.3 requires OpenSSL v1.1.1 or newer.
227 * Fetchmail now detects if the server hangs up prematurely during SSL_connect()
228 and reports this condition as such, and not just as SSL connection failure.
229 (OpenSSL 1.0.2 reported incompatible with pop3.live.com by Jerry Seibert).
230 * A foreground fetchmail can now accept a few more options while another copy is
231 running in the background.
232 * fetchmail now handles POP3 --keep UID lists more efficiently, by using Rainer
233 Weikusat's P-Tree implementation. This reduces the complexity for handling
234 a large UIDL from O(n^2) to O(n log n) and becomes noticably faster with
235 thousands of kept messages.
236 (IMAP does not currently track UIDs and is unaffected.)
237 At the same time, the UIDL emulation code for deficient servers has been
238 removed. It never worked really well. Servers that do not implement the
239 optional UIDL command only work with --fetchall option set, which in itself is
240 incompatible with the --keep option (it would cause message duplication).
241 * fetchmail, when setting up TLS connections, now uses SSL_set_tlsext_host_name()
242 to set up the SNI (Server Name Indication). Some servers (for instance
243 googlemail) require SNI when using newer SSL protocols.
244 * Fetchmail now sets the expected hostname through OpenSSL 1.0.2's new
245 X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_host() function to enable OpenSSL's native certificate
246 verification features.
247 * fetchmail will drop the connection when fetching with IMAP and receiving an
248 unexpected untagged "* BYE" response, to work around certain faulty servers.
249 * The FETCHMAIL_POP3_FORCE_RETR environment variable is now documented,
250 it forces fetchmail, when talking POP3, to always use the RETR command,
251 even if it would otherwise use the TOP command.
252 * Fetchmail's configure stage will try to query pkg-config or pkgconf for libssl
253 and libcrypto, in case other system use .pc files to document specific library
254 dependencies. (contributed by Fabrice Fontaine, GitLab merge request !14.)
255 * The gethostbyname() API calls and compatibility functions have been removed.
256 * These translations are shipped but not installed by default because
257 they have less than 500 translated messages out of 714: el fi gl pt_BR sk tr
258 -> Greek, Finnish, Galician, Brazilian Portuguese, Slovak, Turkish.
259 * Fetchmail now refuses delivery if the MDA option contains single-quoted
263 * Fix a typo in the FAQ. Submitted by David Lawyer, Debian Bug#706776.
264 * Do not translate header tags such as "Subject:". Reported by Gonzalo Pérez de
265 Olaguer Córdoba, Debian Bug#744907.
266 * Convert most links from berlios.de to sourceforge.net.
267 * Report error to stderr, and exit, if --idle is combined with multiple
269 * Point to --idle from GENERAL OPERATION to clarify --idle and multiple
270 mailboxes do not mix. In response to Jeremy Chadwick's trouble 2014-11-19,
271 fetchmail-users mailing list.
272 * Fix SSL-enabled build on systems that do not declare SSLv3_client_method(),
273 or that #define OPENSSL_NO_SSL3 inside #include <openssl/ssl.h>
274 Related to Debian Bug#775255. Fixes Debian Bug #804604.
275 * Version report lists -SSLv3 on SSL-enabled no-ssl3 builds.
276 * Fetchmail no longer adds a NUL byte to the username in GSSAPI authentication.
277 This was reported to break Kerberos-based authentication with Microsoft
278 Exchange 2013 by Greg Hudson.
279 * Set umask properly before writing the .fetchids file, to avoid failing the
280 security check on the next run. Reported by Fabian Raab,
281 Fixes Debian Bug#831611.
282 * When forwarding by LMTP, also check antispam response code when collecting
283 the responses after the CR LF . CR LF sequence at the end of the DATA phase.
284 (Contributed by Evil.2000, GitLab merge request !12.)
285 * fetchmail will not try other protocols after a socket error. This avoids
286 mismatches of how different prococols see messages as "seen" and re-fetches
287 of known mail. (Fix contributed by Lauri Nurmi, GitLab Merge Request !10.)
288 * fetchmail no longer reports "System error during SSL_connect(): Success."
289 Fixes Debian Bug#928916, reported by Paul Kimoto.
290 * fetchmailconf would ignore Edit or Delete actions on the first (topmost)
291 item in a list (no matter if server list, user list, ...).
292 * The mimedecode feature now properly detects multipart/mixed-type matches, so
293 that quoted-printable-encoded multipart messages can get decoded.
294 (Regression in 5.0.0 on 1999-03-27, as a side effect of a PGP-mimedecode fix
295 attributed to Henrik Storner.)
296 * FETCHMAILHOME can now safely be a relative path, which will be qualified
297 through realpath(). Previously, it had to be absolute in daemon mode.
298 Reported by Alex Andreotti, Debian Bug#941129.
300 ## UPDATED TRANSLATIONS - THANKS TO:
301 * CS: Petr Pisar <petr.pisar@atlas.cz> [Czech]
302 * EO: Felipe Castro <fefcas@gmail.com> [Esperanto]
303 * FR: Frédéric Marchal <fmarchal@perso.be> [French]
304 * JP: Takeshi Hamasaki <hmatrjp@users.sourceforge.jp> [Japanese]
305 * PL: Jakub Bogusz <qboosh@pld-linux.org> [Polish]
306 * SV: Göran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.se> [Swedish]
308 # KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS
309 (This section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the
310 current release information)
311 * Fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
312 (See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
313 * Fetchmail currently uses 31-bit signed integers in several places
314 where unsigned and/or wider types should have been used, for instance,
315 for mailbox sizes, and misreports sizes of 2 GibiB and beyond.
316 Fixing this requires C89 compatibility to be relinquished.
317 * BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output.
318 * Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in
319 64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit
321 * Fetchmail does not track pending deletes across crashes.
322 * The command line interface is sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance,
323 fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running.
324 * Linux systems may return duplicates of an IP address in some circumstances if
325 no or no global IPv6 addresses are configured.
326 (No workaround. Ubuntu Bug#582585, Novell Bug#606980.)
327 * Kerberos 5 may be broken, particularly on Heimdal, and provide bogus error
328 messages. This will not be fixed, because the maintainer has no Kerberos 5
329 server to test against. Use GSSAPI.
331 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
333 fetchmail-6.3.26 (released 2013-04-23, 26180 LoC):
335 # CRITICAL BUG FIX for setups using "mimedecode":
336 * The mimedecode feature failed to ship the last line of the body if it was
337 encoded as quoted-printable and had a MIME soft line break in the very last
338 line. Reported by Lars Hecking in June 2011.
340 Bug introduced on 1998-03-20 when the mimedecode support was added by ESR
341 before release 4.4.1 through code contributed by Henrik Storner.
342 Workaround for older releases: do not use mimedecode feature.
344 Earlier versions of this NEWS file claimed this bug fixed in fetchmail-6.3.23,
347 Fixes Launchpad Bug#1171818.
350 fetchmail-6.3.25 (released 2013-03-18, 26149 LoC):
353 * Fix a memory leak in out-of-memory error condition while handling plugins.
354 Report and patch by John Beck (found with Parfait static code analyzer).
355 * Fix a NULL pointer dereference in out-of-memory error condition while handling
357 Report and patch by John Beck (found with Parfait static code analyzer).
360 * Improved reporting when SSL/TLS X.509 certificate validation has failed,
361 working around a not-so-recent swapping of two OpenSSL error codes, and
362 a practical impossibility to distinguish broken certification chains from
363 missing trust anchors (root certificates).
364 * OpenSSL decoded errors are now reported through report(), rather than dumped
365 to stderr, so that they should show up in logfiles and/or syslog.
366 * The fetchmail manual page no longer claims that MD5 were the default OpenSSL
367 hash format (for use with --sslfingerprint). Reported by Jakob Wilk,
368 PARTIAL fix for Debian Bug#700266.
369 * The fetchmail manual page now refers the user to --softbounce from the
370 SMTP/ESMTP ERROR HANDLING section. Reported by Anton Shterenlikht.
373 * Older systems that provide the older RFC-2553 implementation of getaddrinfo,
374 rather than the current RFC-3493, and systems that do not provide this
375 getaddrinfo() interface at all and thus use the replacement functions from
376 libesmtp/getaddrinfo.?, might return EAI_NODATA when a host is registered in
377 DNS as MX or similar, but without A or AAAA records. Handle this situation
378 when checking for multidrop aliases and treat EAI_NODATA the same as
379 EAI_NONAME, i. e. name cannot be resolved.
381 The proper fix, however, is to upgrade the operating system.
383 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
384 [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
385 [da] Danish, by Joe Hansen
387 [eo] Esperanto, by Sian Mountbatten and Felipe Castro
388 [fr] French, by Frédéric Marchal
389 [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
390 [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
391 [sv] Swedish, by Göran Uddeborg
392 [vi] Vietnamese, by Trần Ngọc Quân
395 fetchmail-6.3.24 (released 2012-12-23, 26108 LoC):
397 # CRITICAL AND REGRESSION FIXES
398 * Plug a memory leak in OpenSSL's certificate verification callback.
399 This would affect fetchmail configurations running with SSL in daemon mode
400 more than one-shot runs.
401 Reported by Erik Thiele, and pinned by Dominik Heeg,
402 fixes Debian Bug #688015.
403 This bug was introduced into fetchmail 6.3.0 (committed 2005-10-29)
404 when support for subjectAltName was added through a patch by Roland
405 Stigge, submitted as Debian Bug#201113.
407 * The --logfile option now works again outside daemon mode, reported by Heinz
408 Diehl. The documentation that I had been reading was inconsistent with the
409 code, and only parts of the manual page claimed that --logfile was only
410 effective in daemon mode.
413 fetchmail-6.3.23 (released 2012-12-10, 26106 LoC):
416 * Fix compilation with OpenSSL implementations before 0.9.8m that lack
417 SSL_CTX_clear_options. Patch by Earl Chew.
418 Note that the use of older OpenSSL versions with fetchmail is unsupported and
422 * Fix combination of --plugin and -f -. Patch by Alexander Zangerl,
423 to fix Debian Bug#671294.
424 * Clean up logfile vs. syslog handling, and in case logfile overrides
425 syslog, send a message to the latter stating where logging goes.
428 * The build process can now be made a bit more silent and concise through
429 ./configure --enable-silent-rules, or by adding "V=0" to the make command.
432 * Make Maillennium POP3 workarounds less specific, to encompass
433 Maillennium POP3/UNIBOX (Maillennium V05.00c++). Reported by Eddie
434 via fetchmail-users mailing list, 2012-10-13.
436 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
437 [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
438 [da] Danish, by Joe Hansen
440 [fr] French, Frédéric Marchal
441 [ja] Japanese, Takeshi Hamasaki
442 [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
443 [sv] Swedish, by Göran Uddeborg
444 [vi] Vietnamese, Trần Ngọc Quân
447 fetchmail-6.3.22 (released 2012-08-29, 26077 LoC):
451 NTLM: fetchmail mistook an error message that the server sent in response to
452 an NTLM request for protocol exchange, tried to decode it, and crashed while
453 reading from a bad memory location.
454 Also, with a carefully crafted NTLM challenge packet sent from the server, it
455 would be possible that fetchmail conveyed confidential data not meant for the
456 server through the NTLM response packet.
457 Fix: Detect base64 decoding errors, validate the NTLM challenge, and abort
458 NTLM authentication in case of error.
459 See fetchmail-SA-2012-02.txt for further details.
460 Reported by J. Porter Clark.
463 SSL/TLS (wrapped and STARTTLS): fetchmail used to disable a countermeasure
464 against a certain kind of attack against cipher block chaining initialization
465 vectors (SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS).
466 Whether this creates an exploitable situation, depends on the server and the
468 As a precaution, fetchmail 6.3.22 enables the countermeasure, by clearing
469 SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS.
471 NOTE that this can cause connections to certain non-conforming servers to
472 fail, in which case you can set the environment variable
473 FETCHMAIL_DISABLE_CBC_IV_COUNTERMEASURE to any non-empty value when starting
474 fetchmail to re-instate the compatibility option at the expense of security.
476 Reported by Apple Product Security.
478 For technical details, refer to <http://www.openssl.org/~bodo/tls-cbc.txt>.
479 See fetchmail-SA-2012-01.txt for further details.
482 * The Server certificate: message in verbose mode now appears on stdout like the
483 remainder of the output. Reported by Henry Jensen, to fix Debian Bug #639807.
485 * The GSSAPI-related autoconf code now matches gssapi.c better, and uses
486 a different check to look for GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE.
487 This fixes the GSSAPI-enabled build on NetBSD 6 Beta.
490 * On systems where SSLv2_client_method isn't defined in OpenSSL (such as
491 newer Debian, and Ubuntu starting with 11.10 oneiric ocelot), don't
492 reference it (to fix the build) and if configured, print a run-time error
493 that the OS does not support SSLv2. Fixes Debian Bug #622054,
494 but note that that bug report has a more thorough patch that does away with
497 * The security and errata notices fetchmail-{EN,SA}-20??-??.txt are now
498 under the more relaxed CC BY-ND 3.0 license (the noncommercial clause
499 was dropped). The Creative Commons address was updated.
501 * The Python-related Makefile.am parts were simplified to avoid an automake
502 1.11.X bug around noinst_PYTHON, Automake Bug #10995.
504 * Configuring fetchmail without SSL now triggers a configure warning,
505 and asks the user to consider running configure --with-ssl.
508 * Some servers, notably Zimbra, return A1234 987 FETCH () in response to
509 a header request, in the face of message corruption. fetchmail now treats
510 these as temporary errors. Report and Patch by Mikulas Patocka, Red Hat.
512 * Some servers, notably Microsoft Exchange, return "A0009 OK FETCH completed."
513 without any header in response to a header request for meeting reminder
514 messages (with a "meeting.ics" attachment). fetchmail now treats these as
515 transient errors. Report by John Connett, Patch by Sunil Shetye.
517 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
518 * [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
520 * [fr] French, by Frédéric Marchal
521 * [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
522 * [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
523 * [sv] Swedish, by Göran Uddeborg --- NEW TRANSLATION - Thank you!
524 * [vi] Vietnamese, by Trần Ngọc Quân
527 fetchmail-6.3.21 (released 2011-08-21, 26011 LoC):
530 * The IMAP client no longer inserts NUL bytes into the last line of a message
531 when it is not closed with a LF or CRLF sequence. Reported by Antoine Levitt.
532 As a side effect of the fix, and in order to avoid a full rewrite, fetchmail
533 will now CRLF-terminate the last line fetched through IMAP, even if it is
534 originally not terminated by LF or CRLF. This bears no relevance if your
535 messages end up in mbox, but adds line termination for storages (like Maildir)
536 that do not require that the last line be LF- or CRLF-terminated.
539 * There is a patch against fetchnews's source, contrib/rawlog.patch, that can
540 log (and hexdump non-printing characters) raw socket data to a file. It proved
541 useful to debug Antoine's bug described above.
544 fetchmail-6.3.20 (released 2011-06-06, 26005 LoC):
548 STARTTLS: Fetchmail runs the IMAP STARTTLS or POP3 STLS negotiation with the
549 set timeout (default five minutes) now. This was reported missing, with
550 observed fetchmail freezes beyond a week, by Thomas Jarosch.
551 SSL-wrapped connections were unaffected by this timeout, so users of older
552 versions can force ssl-wrapped connections -- if supported by the server --
553 with the --ssl command line or ssl rcfile option.
554 See fetchmail-SA-2011-01.txt for further details.
557 * IMAP: Do not search for UNSEEN messages in ranges. Usually, there are very few
558 new messages and most of the range searches result in nothing. Instead, split
559 the long response to make the IMAP driver think that there are multiple lines
560 of response. (Sunil Shetye)
561 * Do not print "skipping message" for old messages even in verbose mode. If
562 there are too many old messages, the logs just get filled without any real
563 activity. (Sunil Shetye) (suggested by Yunfan Jiang)
564 * Build: fetchmail now always uses its own MD5 implementation rather than trying
565 to find a system library with matched header. The library and header variants
566 found on systems are too diverse, and the code size saving is not worth any
567 more wasted user or programmer time.
570 * Call strlen() only once when removing CRLF from a line. (Sunil Shetye)
571 * fetchmail sets Internet domain sockets to "keepalive" mode now. Note that
572 there is no portable way to configure actual timeouts for this mode, and some
573 systems only support a system-wide timeout setting. fetchmail does not
574 attempt to tune the time spans of keepalive mode.
576 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
577 [cs] Chech (Petr Pisar)
578 [nl] Dutch (Erwin Poeze)
579 [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
580 [de] German (Matthias Andree)
581 [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
582 [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
583 [sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka)
586 fetchmail-6.3.19 (released 2010-12-10, 25945 LoC):
588 # ERRATUM NOTICE ISSUED
589 * fetchmail 6.3.18 contains several bug fixes that were considered sufficiently
590 grave to warrant the issue of an erratum notice, fetchmail-EN-2010-03.txt.
593 * When specifying multiple local multidrop lists, do not lose wildcard flag.
594 (Affects "user foo is bar baz * is joe here")
595 * In multidrop configurations, an asterisk can now appear anywhere in the list
596 of local users, not just at the end.
597 * In multidrop mode, header parsing is now more verbose in -vv mode, so that it
598 becomes possible to see which header is used.
599 * Make --antispam work from command line (these used to work in rcfiles).
600 Reported by Kees Bakker, BerliOS Bug #17599. (Sunil Shetye)
601 * Smoke test XHTML 1.1 validation, and if it fails, skip validating HTML
602 documents. Skip validating Mailbox-Names-UTF7.html. Several systems have
603 broken XHTML 1.1 DTD installations that jeopardize the build.
604 Reported by Mihail Nechkin against FreeBSD port.
605 Workaround for 6.3.18: build in a separate directory, i. e:
606 mkdir build && cd build && ../configure --options-go-here
607 * Send a NOOP only after a failed STARTTLS in IMAP. (Sunil Shetye)
608 * Demote GSSAPI verbose/debug syslog to INFO severity. Requested by Carlos E. R.
609 and Derek Simkowiak via the fetchmail-users@ mailing list.
610 * Do STARTTLS/STLS negotiation in IMAP/POP3 if it is mandatory even if the
611 server capabilities do not show support for upgradation to TLS.
612 To use this, configure --sslproto tls1. (Sunil Shetye)
613 * IMAP: Understand empty strings as FETCH response, seen on Yahoo. Reported by
614 Yasin Malli to fetchmail-users@ 2010-12-10.
615 Note that fetchmail continues to expect literals as FETCH response for now.
618 * The manual page now links to IANA for GSSAPI service names.
620 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
621 [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
622 [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
624 [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
625 [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
628 fetchmail-6.3.18 (released 2010-10-09, 25936 LoC):
630 # SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS TO DEFANG X.509 CERTIFICATE ABUSE
631 * Fetchmail now only accepts wildcard certificate common names and subject
632 alternative names if they start with "*.". Previous versions would accept
633 wildcards even if no period followed immediately.
634 * Fetchmail now disallows wildcards in certificates to match domain literals
635 (such as 10.9.8.7), or wildcards in domain literals ("*.168.23.23").
636 The test is overly picky and triggers if the pattern (after skipping the
637 initial wildcard "*") or domain consists solely of digits and dots, and thus
638 matches more than needed.
639 * Fetchmail now disallows wildcarding top-level domains.
641 # CRITICAL BUG FIXES AND REGRESSION FIXES
642 * Fetchmail 6.3.15, 6.3.16, and 6.3.17 would pick up libmd5 to obtain MD5*
643 functions, as an effect of an undocumented Solaris MD5 fix.
644 This caused all MD5-related functions to malfunction if, for instance,
645 libmd5.so was installed on other operating systems as part of libwww on
646 machines where long isn't 32-bits, i. e. usually on 64-bit computers.
647 Fixes Gentoo Bug #319283, reported, including libwww hint, by Karl Hakimian.
648 Side effect: fetchmail will now use -lmd on Solaris rather than -lmd5.
649 * Fetchmail 6.3.17 warned about insecure SSL/TLS connections even if a matching
650 --sslfingerprint was specified. This is an omission from an SSL usability
651 change made in 6.3.17.
652 Fixes Debian Bug#580796 reported by Roland Stigge.
653 * Fetchmail will now apply timeouts to the authentication stage.
654 This stage encompasses STARTTLS/STLS negotiation in IMAP/POP3.
655 Reported missing by Thomas Jarosch.
656 * Fetchmail now cancels GSSAPI authentication properly when encountering GSS
657 errors, such as no or unsuitable credentials.
658 It now sends an asterisk on a line by its own, as required in SASL.
659 This fixes protocol synchronization issues that cause Authentication
660 failures, often observed with kerberized MS Exchange servers.
661 Fixes Debian Bug #568455 reported by Patrick Rynhart, and Alan Murrell, to the
662 fetchmail-users list. Fix verified by Thomas Voigtmann and Patrick Rynhart.
665 * Fetchmail will no longer print connection attempts and errors for one host
666 in "silent" and "normal" logging modes, unless all connections fail. This
667 should reduce irritation around refused-connection logging if services are
668 only on an IPv4 socket if the host also supports IPv6. Often observed as
669 connections refused to ::1/25 when the subsequent connection to 127.0.0.1/25
670 then - silently - succeeds. Fetchmail, unless in verbose mode, will collect
671 all connect errors and only report them if all of them fail.
672 * Fetchmail will not try GSSAPI authentication automatically, unless it has GSS
673 credentials. However, if GSSAPI authentication is requested explicitly,
674 fetchmail will always try it.
675 * Fetchmail now parses response to "FETCH n:m RFC822.SIZE" and "FETCH n
676 RFC822.HEADER" in a more flexible manner. (Sunil Shetye)
677 * The manual page clearly states that --principal is for Kerberos 4 only, not
678 for Kerberos 5 or GSSAPI. Found by Thomas Voigtmann.
681 * When encountering incorrect headers, fetchmail will refer to the bad-header
682 option in the manpage.
683 Fixes BerliOS Bug #17272, change suggested by Björn Voigt.
684 * Fetchmail now decodes and reports GSSAPI status codes upon errors.
685 * Fetchmail now autoprobes NTLM also for POP3.
686 * The Fetchmail FAQ has a new item #R15 on authentication failures.
689 * The common NTLM authentication code was factored out from pop3.c and imap.c.
691 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
692 [zh_CN] Chinese/simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
693 [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
694 [nl] Dutch (Erwin Poeze)
695 [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
697 [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
698 [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
699 [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
700 [sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka)
703 fetchmail-6.3.17 (released 2010-05-06, 25767 LoC):
706 * CVE-2010-1167: Fetchmail before release 6.3.17 did not properly sanitize
707 external input (mail headers and UID). When a multi-character locale (such as
708 UTF-8) was in use, this could cause memory exhaustion and thus a denial of
709 service, because fetchmail's report.c functions assumed that non-success of
710 [v]snprintf was due to insufficient buffer size allocation. It would then
711 repeatedly reallocate a larger buffer and fail formatting again.
712 See fetchmail-SA-2010-02.txt.
715 * Fetchmail now supports a --sslcertfile <file> option to specify a "CA bundle"
716 file (a file that contains trusted CA certificates). Since these bundled CA
717 files do not require c_rehash to be run, they are easier to use and immune to
718 OpenSSL library updates that affect the hash function.
719 * Fetchmail now supports a FETCHMAIL_INCLUDE_DEFAULT_X509_CA_CERTS
720 environment variable to force loading the default SSL CA certificate
721 locations even if --sslcertfile or --sslcertpath is used.
722 If neither option is in effect, fetchmail loads the default locations.
725 * Fix string handling in rcfile scanner, which caused fetchmail to misparse a
726 run control file in certain circumstances. Fixes BerliOS bug #14257.
727 Patch by Michael Banack. This fixes a regression introduced before 6.3.0.
730 * Plug memory leak when using a "defaults" entry in the run control file.
731 * Do not print SSL certificate mismatches unless verbose or --sslcertck is
733 * Do not lose "set invisible" in fetchmailconf. (Michael Barnack)
736 * Usability: SSL certificate chains are fully printed in -v -v mode, and there
737 are now helpful pointers to --sslcertpath and c_rehash for "unable to get
738 local issuer certificate" and self-signed certificates -- these usually hint
739 to missing root signing CAs in the certs directory.
740 * Several fixes for compiler (GCC, Intel C++, CLang) and autotools warnings
741 * Memory allocation failures will now cause abnormal program abort (SIGABRT),
742 no longer an exit with unspecified code.
743 * Print a warning if certificate verification failed and the user did not
747 * Fix table of global option to read "set softbounce" where there used to be a
748 2nd copy of "set spambounce". Patch by Michael Banack, BerliOS Bug #17067.
749 * In the --sslcertpath description, mention that OpenSSL upgrade (and a 0.9.X
750 to 1.0.0 upgrade in particular) may require running c_rehash.
752 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
753 [zh_CN] Chinese/simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
754 [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
755 [nl] Dutch (Erwin Poeze)
756 [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
758 [id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
759 [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
760 [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
761 [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
762 [sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka)
763 [vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
766 fetchmail-6.3.16 (released 2010-04-06, 25574 LoC):
769 * Fix --interface option, broken in 6.3.15. Reported by Vladmimir Stavrinov.
770 Fixes Debian Bug #576717.
773 * Call OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms(). This is needed to support non-mandatory
774 and non-standard algorithms in certificates.
775 Sjoerd Simons, to fix Debian Bug #576430.
776 OpenSSL 0.9.8* does not load - for instance - the SHA256 digest by default.
777 Reported as OpenSSL RT#2224.
780 fetchmail-6.3.15 (released 2010-03-28, 25572 LoC):
783 * Fetchmail now supports a bad-header command line or rcfile option that takes
784 exactly one argument, accept or reject (default). This specifies how messages
785 with bad headers retrieved from the current server are to be treated.
788 * In the rcfile, recognize "local" as abbreviation for "localdomains", as
789 documented. The short form has not ever worked since this feature was added in
790 January 1997. Reported by Frédéric Marchal.
791 * Do not close stdout when using mda and "bsmtp -" at the same time.
792 * Log operating system errors when BSMTP writes fail.
793 * Fix verbose mode progress formatting regression from 6.3.10; SMTP trace lines
794 were no longer on a line of their own. Reported by Melchior Franz.
795 * Check seteuid() return value and abort running MDA if switch fails.
796 * Set global flags in a consistent manner. Make --nosoftbounce and
797 --nobounce work from command line (these used to work in rcfiles).
798 Reported and fix confirmed working by N.J. Mann. (Sunil Shetye)
799 * Properly import h_errno declarations, even on systems where h_errno isn't a
800 macro. (Adds ./configure check, fixes Cygwin dllimport warnings.)
803 * The repository has been converted and moved from the Subversion (SVN) format
804 kindly hosted by Graham Wilson over the past years to Git format hosted on
805 Gitorious.org. My deepest thanks to Graham Wilson for this service that
806 kept us going when BerliOS's Subversion service was faulty in its early days.
807 * This opportunity was used to convert BRANCH_6-2 and BRANCH_1-9-9 to
808 GnuPG-signed tags, as a sign that these are now closed.
809 * The outdated SVN trunk is now called "oldtrunk" in Git just to save the work
810 for future reference. All development in the past few years was on BRANCH_6-3.
811 * master was branched from BRANCH_6-3. BRANCH_6-3 is now obsolete (and in fact
812 was also converted to a tag to record where the conversion from SVN to Git
814 * "make check" now skips HTML validation if xmllint or XHTML DTD are missing.
817 * Web site and documentation were adjusted to reflect the SVN->Git move.
818 * The fetchmail manual page is now much clearer on the user id switching
819 (seteuid) when using --mda while running as the super user.
821 # TRANSLATION UPDATES, by language name
822 * [zh_CN] Chinese (Simplified), by Ji Zheng-Yu
823 * [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
824 * [nl] Dutch, by Erwin Poeze
825 * [fr] French, by Frédéric Marchal
827 * [id] Indonesian, by Andhika Padmawan
828 * [it] Italian, by Vincenzo Campanella
829 * [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
830 * [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
831 * [vi] Vietnamese, by Clytie Siddall
834 fetchmail 6.3.14 (released 2010-02-05, 25487 LoC):
837 * CVE-2010-0562: SSL/TLS certificate information is now also reported properly
838 on computers that consider the "char" type signed. Fixes malloc() buffer
839 overrun. Workaround for older versions: do not use verbose mode.
840 See fetchmail-SA-2010-01.txt for details, including a minimal patch.
843 * The IMAP client no longer skips messages from several IMAP servers including
844 Dovecot if fetchmail's "idle" is in use. Causes were that fetchmail (a)
845 ignored some untagged responses when it should not (b) relied on EXISTS
846 messages in response to EXPUNGE, which aren't mandated by RFC-3501 (the IMAP
847 standard) and aren't sent by Dovecot either.
848 Fix by Sunil Shetye (the fix also consolidates IMAP response handling,
849 improving overall robustness of the IMAP client), bug report and testing by
850 Matt Doran, with further hints from Timo Sirainen.
851 * The SMTP client now recovers from errors (such as servers dropping the
852 connection after errors) when sending an RSET command.
853 Fix by Sunil Shetye. Report by James Moe.
854 * The IMAP client now uses "SEARCH UNSEEN" rather than "SEARCH UNSEEN NOT
855 DELETED" again on IMAP2, to fix a regression in fetchmail 6.2.5 reported by
856 Will Stringer in June 2004. (Sunil Shetye)
857 * The IMAP client now uses "SEARCH UNSEEN UNDELETED" on IMAP4 and IMAP4r1
858 servers (Sunil Shetye).
859 * Workaround: The IMAP client now falls back to "FETCH n:m FLAGS" if the server
860 does not support "SEARCH". (Sunil Shetye)
861 * The IMAP client now requests message numbers in batches of 1,000 to avoid
862 problems if there are more than 1860 unseen messages. (Sunil Shetye)
863 Note that this wasn't security relevant because fetchmail would only read up
864 to the maximum buffer size and leave the remainder of the string unread, going
865 out of synch afterwards.
866 * Stricter validation of IMAP responses containing byte or message counts.
869 * Only include gssapi.h if we're not including gssapi/gssapi.h, to fix a FreeBSD
870 compiler warning about gssapi.h being obsolete.
873 * The README.SSL document was revised for grammar, spelling, and clarity.
874 Courtesy of Robert Mullin.
876 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
877 * [it] Italian, by Vincenzo Campanella
881 fetchmail 6.3.13 (released 2009-10-30, 25333 LoC):
884 * The multiline SMTP error fix in release 6.3.12 caused fetchmail to lose
885 message codes 400..599 and treat all of these as temporary error. This would
886 cause messages to be left on the server even if softbounce was turned off.
887 Reported by Thomas Jarosch.
889 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
890 * [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
891 * [zh_CN] Chinese (simplified), by Ji ZhengYu
892 * [nl] Dutch, by Erwin Poeze
893 * [id] Indonesian, by Andhika Padmawan
894 * [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
895 * [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
896 * [es] Spanish (Castilian), by Franciso Molinero
897 * [vi] Vietnamese, by Clytie Siddall
900 fetchmail 6.3.12 (released 2009-10-05):
903 * The CVE-2009-2666 fix in fetchmail release 6.3.11 caused a free() of
904 unallocated memory on SSL connections, which caused crashes or program aborts
905 on some systems (depending on how initialization and free() of unallocated
906 memory is handled in compiler and libc).
907 Workaround for older versions: run in verbose mode.
908 Patch courtesy of Thomas Heinz, fixes Gentoo Bug #280760.
909 This regression affected only the 6.3.11 release, but not the patch that was
910 part of the security announcement fetchmail-SA-2009-01.
913 * Fix error reporting for GSSAPI on Heimdal (h5l) Kerberos.
914 * Look for MD5_Init in libcrypto rather than libssl, fixes Gentoo Kerberos
915 builds; fixes upstream parts of Gentoo Bugs #231400 and #185652, and fixes
917 * Report multiline SMTP errors properly, reported by Earl Chew; fixes Debian Bug
918 #529899, reported by Akihiro Terasaki.
919 Note: This fix introduced a regression, fixed in 6.3.13.
920 * Replace control characters in SMTP replies by '?'.
921 * Fetchmailconf: Fix descriptions for smtpaddress and smtpname options;
922 smtpaddress is for RCPT TO, not MAIL FROM. Found by Gerard Seibert.
924 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
925 * [ca] Catalan (Ernest Adrogué Calveras)
926 * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
927 * [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
928 * [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
929 * [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
930 * [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
931 * [vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
934 fetchmail 6.3.11 (released 2009-08-06):
937 * CVE-2009-2666: SSL NUL prefix impersonation attack through NULs in a
938 part of a X.509 certificate's CommonName and subjectAltName fields. These
939 fields use opaque strings with a separate length field, so that the NUL
940 character isn't a special character inside the certificate. Fetchmail, being
941 written in the C language, used to treat these strings as C strings
942 nonetheless, so that the domain comparison would end at the first embedded NUL
943 character, rather than at the real end of the string.
944 Fetchmail will now abort certificate verification as failed if NULs are
945 encountered inside either of these fields regardless of their position, and
946 drop the connection even if --sslcertck is not used, because NUL is not a
947 valid character in legitimate DNS names.
948 See fetchmail-SA-2009-01.txt for details, including a minimal patch.
951 * Remove the spurious message "message delimiter found while scanning headers".
952 RFC-5322 syntax states that the delimiter is part of the body, and the body is
954 * Convert all non-printable characters in certificate Subject/Issuer
955 Common Name or Subject Alternative Name fields to ANSI-C hex escapes (\xnn,
956 where nn are hex digits).
957 Note that this change introduces a regression, fixed in 6.3.12.
958 See the 6.3.12 documentation above for details and a workaround.
960 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
961 * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
962 * [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
965 fetchmail 6.3.10 (released 2009-07-02):
967 # INCOMPATIBLE BUGFIXES AND CHANGES
968 * Fetchmail no longer drops permanently undelivered messages by default, to
969 match historic documentation. It does this by adding a new "softbounce"
971 Fixes Debian Bug#471283, demotes Debian Bug#494418 to wishlist.
972 * There is a new "softbounce" global option that prevents the deletion of
973 messages that have not been forwarded. It defaults to "true" for fetchmail
974 6.3.X in order to match historic documentation. This may change its default
975 in the next major release.
978 * Fix misuse of canonical autoconf target as _TARGET when it should have been
979 _HOST. Report and patch courtesy of Diego E. "Flameeyes" Pettenò.
980 Details: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/01/01/the-canonical-target
981 * Do not lose PS_MAXFETCH (13) exit status when hitting maxpoll. Reported by
982 Michelle Konzack, Debian Bug#508667.
983 * Do not overlap source and destination fields in snprintf() in interface.c.
984 Courtesy of Nico Golde, Debian.
985 * When a pre- or post-connect command fails, now report the exit status or
986 termination signal properly through sys/wait.h macros.
987 * When acquiring a body, understand NIL ("no such data item"), as returned by
988 some MS Exchange versions. Fixes BerliOS Bug #11980 by KB Sriram.
989 * Make progress tickers (-v/--showdots) consistent, and update documentation
990 accordingly ("." for each 1024 octets read, "#" for a header written, and "*"
991 for each body line written.)
992 The conditions under which these had been printed were inconsistent,
993 illogical, and documentation hadn't matched real behaviour for long.
994 * For NTLM authentication, use dynamically allocated buffers.
995 Fixes Debian Bug#449179, reported by Stepan Golosunov.
996 * Non-delivery notice ("bounce mail") now mentions the original reason again,
997 before the address list. This fixes a regression introduced in 6.3.0.
998 * Several compiler warnings were fixed.
999 * The minimum recommended SMTP (RFC-5321) timeouts are enforced to leave
1000 sufficient time for the listener to respond. Some synchronous listeners,
1001 particularly when used with spam filtering and other policy enforcement
1002 services, take extended amounts of time to process messages after the sender,
1003 recipient, or data block and EOM line. This can cause fetchmail to not wait
1004 long enough for the "250 Ok" and make fetchmail believe the message wasn't
1005 properly delivered when in fact it was; fetchmail would then retry the
1006 download next time and never make progress.
1007 Fixes Berlios Bug #10972, reported by Viktor Binzberger.
1008 * The ESMTP/LMTP client will now apply an application-specific timeout while
1009 waiting for the EHLO/LHLO response, rather than wait for the server or TCP
1011 * Treat 530 errors as temporary, so as not to delete messages on configuration
1012 errors. Partially taken from Petr Cerny's patch in Novell Bugzilla #246829.
1013 The 501 part of said patch was not added, as the maintainer is not convinced
1014 501 is a temporary condition, and softbounce takes care of this anyways.
1017 * Make the comparison of the SSL fingerprints case insensitive, to
1018 ease its use. Suggested by Daniel Richard G.
1019 * Proper precedence ordering for the syslog and logfile options. If the logfile
1020 option is effective (i. e. we're in daemon mode and nodetach isn't used),
1021 reset the syslog option. If logfile is ineffective (we're not in daemon mode,
1022 or nodetach is set), syslog takes precedence.
1023 * The sleeping at/awakened at messages appear in logfiles and syslog only if
1024 verbose mode is enabled. On the console, they will still appear without
1025 verbose mode. Fixes Debian Bug#282259.
1026 * fetchmail only requests IPv6 addresses via name service if at least one is
1027 configured on the local host, likewise for IPv4. (AI_ADDRCONFIG flag to
1028 getaddrinfo()) Extended version of Redhat's patch.
1029 * If the server name contains "yahoo.com", offers the "ID" capability, and we're
1030 polling via IMAP, send an ID ("guid" "1") transaction first, ignoring its
1031 result. This appears needed to be able to log into Yahoo's Zimbra servers, but
1032 there are open issues (such as being only able to download one message and
1033 server certificate mismatches).
1035 # CHANGES TO CONTRIB
1036 * Fix bashism in contrib/fetchsetup. Fixes Debian Bug#530081.
1039 * Some parts of the the manual page were revised for clarity, accuracy, and
1040 updated recommendations (particularly SSL/TLS) and formatting conventions from
1042 * The README and README.SSL documents were updated.
1043 * A document, README.SSL-SERVER, was added to describe server-side requirements
1044 for proper SSL and/or TLS service offerings. These are not specific to
1046 * Documentation on how to make "NOMAIL" (exit code 1) not treated an error has
1047 been added to the EXIT CODES section of the manpage and to the FAQ as item C8.
1048 The suggested solution uses a tiny POSIX shell script fragment.
1049 Fixes Debian Bug #530749, filed by Reuben Thomas.
1051 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
1052 * [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
1053 * [en_GB] English/British
1055 * [id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
1056 * [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
1057 * [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
1058 * [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
1059 * [ru] Russian (Pavel Maryanov), fixing Debian Bug #531925
1060 * [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
1061 * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
1064 fetchmail 6.3.9 (released 2008-11-16):
1066 # SECURITY AND CRITICAL BUG FIXES:
1067 * CVE-2007-4565: Denial of service: When fetchmail tries to inject a warning
1068 message it created itself, and the message is refused by the SMTP listener,
1069 fetchmail dereferences a NULL pointer and crashes. Report & fix by Earl Chew.
1070 Note while this is theoretically a remote denial of service attack vector,
1071 fetchmail by default talks SMTP to the localhost, so the overall risk is
1073 This bug was apparently introduced on 1998-11-27 when the bouncemail facility
1074 was modularized. The bug then made its appearance in fetchmail release 4.6.8.
1075 See also fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt.
1076 * CVE-2008-2711: Denial of service: When fetchmail logs data blobs
1077 (for instance, a To: header in -v -v verbose mode) in excess of 2048
1078 bytes, it will crash, because it hands an uninitialized argument
1079 pointer (not the format string though) to vsnprintf and reads a
1080 random memory location (it calls va_arg() too often without
1081 resetting it with va_start()). Based on a patch (BerliOS patch #2492)
1082 by Petr Uzel, fixes Novell Bug #354291.
1083 Note 6.3.9-rc1 did not completely fix this issue, so it was redrawn a few
1084 hours after its release.
1085 See also fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt.
1086 * When expunging, mark the right messages as seen to avoid message loss in "keep
1087 flush" configurations. Workaround for previous versions: "expunge 0".
1088 Report and patch by Alexander Cherepanov - thanks a lot, Berlios Bug #11797,
1089 "imap_mark_seen doesn't consider expunged messages".
1090 * SSL fix: close memory leak when SSL connection fails; fetchmail used to forget
1091 calling SSL_free() on the SSL context, leaking in excess of 500 kB RAM on a
1092 x86_64 system per failed SSL connection attempt.
1093 Bug reported and patch provided by Seiichi Ikarashi, Fujitsu.
1096 * The configure script will additionally check for 'dn_skipname', to fix build
1097 failures with µClibc. The new check still recognizes the resolver libraries on
1098 Ubuntu 7.04, openSUSE 10.2, Solaris 8, NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 and FreeBSD 6.2.
1099 Fixes Gentoo bug #134187.
1100 NOTE: this is a bit of a hack, since we twist the HAVE_RES_SEARCH result, but
1101 res_search() and dn_skipname() are only used together and scheduled for
1102 removal in future versions, so this is probably fine.
1103 * No longer complain about invalid sslproto "" when POP3 CAPA probe fails.
1104 Fixes Debian Bug#421446 (Holger Leskien), Novell Bug #247233 (Jon Nelson),
1106 Thanks to Matthias Strauß for a configuration to reproduce the issue.
1107 * Allow .fetchmailrc and .fetchids to be symlinks, as the manpage does not
1108 document they aren't allowed - fixes Debian Bug #452907 (Roger Leigh).
1109 TOCTOU race persists.
1110 * fetchmailconf quotes mailbox (folder) names when writing the configuration.
1111 Fixes BerliOS Bug #13207 (reported + fix suggested by Terry Brown).
1112 * Only print "Deleting fetchids file" if there actually is one.
1113 Fixes Debian Bug#374514, reported by Dan Jacobson.
1114 * SSL fix: check and report if SSL_set_fd fails.
1117 * autoconf 2.60 is now required to build fetchmail; it uses
1118 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to replace AC_AIX, AC_MINIX, and the like.
1119 * Removed dead FETCHMAIL_DEBUG code from fetchmail.h that was disabled by
1120 default with no switches in configure to enable it. However, the macro would
1121 have been prone to a symlink attack. Found by Nico Golde.
1122 * Removed dead FORCE_STUFFING code from socket.c that was disabled by default
1123 with no switches in configure to enable it.
1124 * Include the typedef for int16 in the #ifndef _AIX in smbencrypt.c (Peter
1126 * Correct check for u_int32_t in configure.ac (seems to be typedef'ed in
1127 namser.h on some platforms.) (Peter O'Gorman)
1128 * In configure.ac change all CPFLAGS to CPPFLAGS, CEFLAGS to CFLAGS and LDEFLAGS
1129 to LDFLAGS otherwise the results of some tests (additional -L and -I flags) do
1130 not get used for later tests causing incorrect configure results. Makefile.am
1131 was also changed to reflect this. (Peter O'Gorman)
1132 * m4/gethostbyname_r.m4 does AC_TRY_COMPILE, which unfortunately can pass even
1133 if there is no gethostbyname_r. Changed to AC_TRY_LINK. (Peter O'Gorman)
1134 * Revise getnameinfo check to ensure NULL is defined and the result is properly
1135 evaluated, to avoid bogus results on for instance FreeBSD and redefinitions of
1136 NI_* at compile time. (Matthias Andree).
1137 * __attribute__ ((unused)) is a gccism, removed from libesmtp/gethostbyname.c.
1139 * In KAME/getnameinfo.c it's best to use the correct argument to inet_ntoa.
1141 * In verbose mode, log if --check mode is enabled.
1142 * Add sslcommonname option (rcfile and commandline) as a way to work around
1143 misconfigured upstream SSL servers that use the wrong certificate name. It
1144 specifies which CommonName fetchmail expects and logs. (Daniel Richard G.)
1145 * Changed CRLF to LF line endings in contrib/delete-later (reporter: Petr Uzel)
1146 * SSL change: enable all workarounds with SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx,SSL_OP_ALL)
1147 * All translations have been re-enabled, in an attempt to rekindle translator or
1151 * Add fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt and fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt.
1152 * Re-add two lines to the manual page that had accidentally become comments
1153 to nroff. One was part of the --sslproto documentation, and one in the
1154 "Awakening the background daemon" section.
1155 * The manual page no longer asserts that .fetchids were for exclusive POP3 use,
1156 since it is planned to use the file with IMAP4 later.
1157 * Add grammar fixes from Dan Jacobson to fetchmail.man. Debian Bug #461642.
1158 * The manual page now mentions that user descriptions need to come before user
1159 options. Reported by Francensco Pontortì, to fix Debian Bug #467010.
1160 * The manual page no longer hints that multi-user declarations per server were
1161 only useful in daemon mode running as root, to avoid hinting people to doing
1163 * Several manual page rcfile examples now include "ssl".
1164 * The manual page hints that option arguments beginning with numbers can be
1166 * The manual page now mentions that the --logfile must already exist before
1168 * The FAQ now recommends (#I9) not to use Google Mail for their disregard to the
1169 protocols they claim to support.
1170 * Documentation and program output now /consistently/ claim that the rcfile must
1171 not have more than 0700 (u=rwx,g=,o=) permissions, but fetchmail will still
1172 silently accept additional g=x permissions for compatibility with previous
1173 6.2.X and 6.3.X versions.
1174 Inconsistency (program 0710, manpage 0600) reported by Petr Uzel.
1175 * The --logfile documentation is now clearer about requiring detached daemon
1178 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
1179 * [sq] Albanian (Besnik Bleta)
1180 * [zh_CN] Chinese, simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
1181 * [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
1182 * [da] Danish (Byrial Ole Jensen) - outdated, but newer than in 6.3.8
1183 * [nl] Dutch (Tony Vroon, Benno Schulenberg)
1184 * [en_GB] English, British
1185 * [fi] Finnish (Lauri Nurmi)
1187 * [id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
1188 * [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
1189 * [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
1190 * [ru] Russian (Pavel Maryanov)
1191 * [es] Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Matthias Andree)
1192 * [tr] Turkish (Engin Gündüz) - outdated, but newer than in 6.3.8
1193 * [vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
1197 fetchmail 6.3.8 (released 2007-04-06):
1199 # SECURITY STRENGTHENING:
1200 * Make the APOP challenge parser more distrustful and have it reject challenges
1201 that do not conform to RFC-822 msg-id format, in the hope to make mounting
1202 man-in-the-middle attacks (MITM) against APOP a bit more difficult.
1203 (CVE-2007-1558, reported by Gaëtan Leurent, published 2007-04-02 on Bugtraq)
1205 APOP is claimed insecure by Gaëtan Leurent for MITM scenarios for typical
1206 setups: based on MD5 collisions, it is purportedly possible to recover the
1207 first three characters of the shared secret (password), which would then make
1208 recovery of the shared secret a matter of hours or minutes; this would then
1209 enable the attacker to impersonate the client vis-à-vis the server.
1211 For further details, check
1212 * Gaëtan Leurent, "Message Freedom in MD4 and MD5 Collisions: Application
1213 to APOP", Fast Software Encryption 2007, Luxembourg. (Proceedings to appear in
1214 Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science.)
1215 * The mailing list discussion thread at
1216 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-devel/2007-March/000887.html>
1219 * Fix pluralization of oversized-message warning mails.
1220 * Fix manual page: --sslcheck -> --sslcertck, and do not set trailing
1221 "recommended:" in bold. Fixes Debian Bug #413059, reported by Rafal Czlonka.
1222 * Repoll immediately if a protocol error happens during the authentication
1223 attempt after a failed opportunistic TLS upgrade.
1224 Fixes comment #9 in Gentoo Bug #163782, reported by Takuto Matsuu.
1225 * Fix rendering of the "24 - 26, 28, 29" paragraph in the exit codes section.
1226 Reported by Nico Golde.
1227 * If SOCKS support was compiled in, add 'socks' to the feature_options Python
1228 list emitted in --configdump. Reported by Rob MacGregor.
1229 * Do not crash with a null pointer dereference when opening the BSMTP file
1230 fails. Improve error checking and reporting. Reported by Reto Schüttel,
1231 Debian Bug#416625. Fix based on a patch by Nico Golde.
1232 * Make BSMTP output actually work, it would persistently fail with SOCKET error
1233 after writing the first header. Bug independently found and reported in
1234 excellent detail by Reto Schüttel, Debian Bug#416812.
1237 * Add fetchmail-SA-2007-01.txt
1238 * Extend --mda documentation, discourage use of qmail-inject.
1239 Based on a patch by Rob MacGregor.
1240 * Document SOCKS configuration facility (SOCKS_CONF environment variable).
1241 Thanks to Jochen Hayek, Michael Shuldman and Rob MacGregor.
1242 * Use envelope option in multidrop example. Patch by Rob MacGregor.
1243 * Document expected Received: line format when parsing for envelope addressees.
1244 * Stripped option documentation from sample.rcfile, since this is bound to go
1245 out of synch with the manual page, which is the only reference on options.
1246 * Mention that --limit default is 0 bytes, which is special for "no limit".
1247 * Corrected Robert M. Funk's name that I misspelled. My sincere apologies
1251 * Add delete-later and delete-later.README, a script and documentation for
1252 a MySQL/Tcl-based client-side "delete-after" feature.
1253 Kindly donated by Yoo GmbH, Großvoigtsberg, Germany (Carsten Ralle).
1256 fetchmail 6.3.7 (released 2007-02-18):
1258 # FIXES FOR REGRESSIONS IN 6.3.6
1259 * Fix KPOP. Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
1260 * Fix repoll when server disconnects after opportunistic TLS failed for POP3.
1261 Berlios Bug #10133 = Gentoo Bug #163782 reported by Andrej Kacian.
1263 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
1264 * Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki), Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
1267 * Consider getaddrinfo() on Darwin 9 (Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard") thread-safe.
1268 Reported by Uli Zappe.
1271 fetchmail 6.3.6 (released 2007-01-04):
1274 * CVE-2006-5867, fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt:
1275 Password disclosure vulnerability fixed. This has several aspects:
1277 - Fetchmail now implies sslproto 'tls1' if the sslfingerprint or sslcertck
1278 options are used and the ssl option is not used, in order to be sure that
1279 fetchmail gets a certificate from the mail server.
1281 - Fetchmail breaks the connection if the TLS negotiation (or verification, if
1282 requested) fails with sslproto 'tls1', sslfingerprint or sslcheck enabled.
1284 - POP3 connections now use STLS reliably. They used to ignore STLS altogether
1285 for serveral values of the "auth" option, when fetchmail forget to probe
1286 server capabilities - see fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt for details.
1288 - POP3 connections will no longer fall back USER/PASS authentication if
1289 strong challenge-response authenticators such as CRAM-MD5 are configured
1290 but the server does not advertise these in its CAPA response.
1292 - POP2 is obsolete and does not support STLS or anything beyond password-based
1293 authentication. The attempt to use STLS or strong authenticators now causes
1296 Configurations using both ssl and sslcertck however have been semi-safe in
1297 that they would send the password in the clear. The USER/PASS fallback
1298 problem however applies to these too, so that the password was only safe on
1299 trustworthy servers.
1301 * CVE-2006-5974, fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt:
1302 Repairs a regression in 6.3.5 that crashes fetchmail when a message with
1303 invalid headers is found while fetchmail's mda option is in use. BerliOS bugs
1304 #9364, #9412, #9449. Stack backtrace provided by Neil Hoggarth - thanks.
1306 # REGRESSION FIXES (recently introduced bugs)
1307 * Repair --logfile, broken in 6.3.5. BerliOS Bug #9059,
1308 reported by Brian Harring.
1309 * Repair --user, broken in 6.3.5 (as a side effect of the authenticate external
1310 patch): using SSL certificate/key authentication overrode the --user option.
1311 Now the latter takes precedence, and only defaults to the certificate's common
1312 name. Debian Bug #400950, reported by Jorgen Schaefer <forcer@debian.org>.
1314 # BUG FIXES (long-standing bugs):
1315 * RPOP: used to log the password locally rather than an asterisk as the other
1316 protocols do. The password is now shrouded in the local logs.
1317 * POP3: Probes capabilities now when Kerberos V5 is enabled, so that we can
1318 actually detect if the server supports it.
1319 * Robustness: If a stale lockfile cannot be deleted, truncate it so that
1320 fetchmail doesn't later believe itself to be running if the PID is recycled
1321 by a non-fetchmail process.
1322 * DNS: Detect /etc/resolv.conf changes: On systems that have res_search(),
1323 assume we also have res_init() and call it (suggested by Ulrich Drepper,
1324 glibc bug #3675) in order to make libc or libresolv reread the resolver
1325 configuration at the beginning of a poll cycle. This is important when
1326 fetchmail is in daemon mode and /etc/resolv.conf is changed later by dhcpcd,
1327 dhclient, pppd, openvpn or other ip-up/ipchange scripts. Should fix Debian
1328 Bug#389270, Bug#391698.
1329 * Robustness: Fix crash on systems that do not provide strdup(), the crash
1330 happens only in out-of-memory conditions when fetchmail cannot proceed
1331 anyways. Patch by Andreas Krennmair.
1332 * Robustness: When HOME and FETCHMAILHOME are unset, be sure to copy user
1333 database information, so it is not trashed later. Patch by Jim Correia.
1336 * Workaround: Improve handling of IMAP IDLE, some servers do not reset their
1337 time counters after sending information asynchronously. Patch by Sunil
1338 Shetye, after report from Andrew Baumann.
1339 * Usability: When requesting Kerberos or GSSAPI, complain and exit with syntax
1340 error if any of these requested features has not been compiled in. This is
1341 to fail early and with precise error message. Reported by Isaac Wilcox.
1342 * --version will now add +KRB4 or +KRB5 if Kerberos v4 or v5, respectively, have
1343 been compiled in. Reported missing by Isaac Wilcox.
1346 * New en_GB (British English) translation by David Lodge.
1347 * Update Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki), Polish (Jakub Bogusz), Russian (Pavel
1348 Maryanov) and Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall) translations.
1349 ! Note that not all these translations are complete -- this isn't the
1350 translators' fault though, but due to delays at the BerliOS hosting site and
1351 the translation project handlers. You may see a few untranslated messages.
1354 * Dropped exit status 15 from manual page, it's not used by fetchmail.
1355 Reported by Isaac Wilcox.
1356 * Documented exit codes 24 - 29 as internal.
1358 fetchmail 6.3.5 (released 2006-10-09):
1361 * For protocols such as IMAP that are not delimited by "." lines, truncate the
1362 input buffer when the message has been completely read, to avoid taking
1363 trailing garbage into the message if the terminal CRLF is missing. Fixes
1364 Debian Bug#312415. (Patch suggested by Mike Jones, Manchester Univ.).
1365 * When using NTLM authentication, use regular IMAP response code handler after
1366 completing NTLM handshake, for robustness and consistency.
1367 (Taken from the NetBSD portable packages collection, patch-ac.)
1368 * Support Kerberos installations where krb5.h and perhaps roken.h are in
1369 .../include/krb5. Taken from NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ae.
1370 * On NetBSD, link against -lroken -lcom_err if --with-kerberos is enabled.
1371 * Drop #include <com_err.h> from Kerberos 5 header file, fixes compile error on
1373 * Fix des_pcbc_encrypt compile warnings in kerberos.c line 246.
1374 * If krb5-config provides gssapi library information, use that rather than
1376 * Improve --with-gssapi auto detection for /usr-based GSSAPI installs.
1377 * Fix --with-gssapi builds for NetBSD 3.0.
1378 * Improve KAME/getnameinfo.c portability to Linux libc5 systems.
1379 Based on a patch by Dan Fandrich.
1380 * Provide INET6 to KAME/getnameinfo.c (only useful on IPv6-enabled systems that
1381 lack getnameinfo, and there only visible in some Received: headers).
1382 Found by Dan Fandrich.
1383 * POP3: some UID flags may not be set properly on UIDL lists. (Sunil Shetye)
1384 * Make IMAP4 IDLE work on servers that do not update RECENT counts.
1385 Reported by Lars Tewes.
1386 * IMAP4 patch by Sunil Shetye:
1387 - do not depend on server updating RECENT counts at all
1388 - also enter IDLE loop when messages are present on the server.
1389 * Fix --flush description in the manual page, fetchmail does not mark messages
1390 seen unless it has successfully delivered them. Suggested by Frederic Marchal.
1391 * Fetchmail no longer attempts to stat the "-" file in daemon mode -- this is a
1392 special name to read the RC file from stdin, and cannot always be re-read
1393 anyways. BerliOS bug #7858.
1394 * When looking up ports for a service, the lookup succeeds and the returned
1395 address family isn't IPv4 or IPv6, properly free the allocated memory from the
1396 service lookup. Found by Uli Zappe.
1397 * When looking up ports for a service, only look up TCP ports.
1398 * Avoid compiling empty files, to avoid diagnostics from strict compilers.
1399 * If the lockfile ends before the process ID, treat it as stale and unlink it.
1400 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #376603.
1401 * SIGHUP wake-up behavior was broken since 5.9.13's Cygwin changes, in that for
1402 non-root users, SIGHUP would abort the first poll and subsequently interfere
1403 with new polls, and SIGHUP would be ignored for root users. SIGHUP now matches
1404 documented behavior. SIGUSR1 has always been a wakeup signal for both root
1405 (undocumented) and non-root users. See also the deprecation warning above.
1406 * Track getaddrinfo() results to properly free them after timeouts and make sure
1407 that getaddrinfo() isn't interrupted by a timeout (which breaks on MacOS X),
1408 reported by Uli Zappe. This should fix Debian Bug#294547 and Bug#377135.
1409 * --logfile is now handled more carefully, errors opening the logfile are
1410 now reported to the TTY where fetchmail was started from.
1411 * fetchmail now complains and aborts when it cannot properly daemonize itself.
1412 * fix compilation on systems that don't know struct addrinfo (Solaris 2.6).
1413 * ignore SIGPIPE signals and rely on functions to return EPIPE instead. This is
1414 necessary because the former longjmp() from the signal handler is unsafe and
1415 makes the whole fetchmail behavior undefined after the event.
1416 * Avoid crash in env.c/host_fqdn if we cannot canonicalize our own hostname.
1417 Reported by Alexander Holler.
1418 * SSL fix by Miloslav Trmac (Red Hat): free the SSL contexts after the
1419 connection, to avoid from growing SSL certpaths without bounds, avoid using
1420 SSL contexts for unrelated connections, and to fix Red Hat Bug #206346.
1423 * Rename all fetchmail-internal lock_* functions to fm_lock_*. Obsoletes
1424 NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ah, patch-ai and patch-aj.
1425 * Configure prints a warning (but proceeds) if Kerberos IV support is enabled.
1426 * In verbose mode, log every IP fetchmail tries to connect to, to avoid
1427 misleading the user. Suppress EAFNOSUPPORT errors from socket() call, too.
1428 Fixes Debian Bug #361825, reported by Daniel Baur.
1429 * In idle mode, fetchmail complains about the fetchall option.
1430 * When a connection fails, log not only the IP address, but also host and
1431 service name and the port number. Log the latter when trying to connect in
1433 * Keep syslog output at one line per message (this works if no errors occur).
1434 * Fetchmail in verbose mode now logs if it opportunistically upgrades a POP3
1435 or IMAP connection to TLS security with STLS/STARTTLS.
1436 * fetchmail now supports foo@example.org=bar user mappings for multidrop boxes.
1437 * switch setjmp/longjmp to sigsetjmp/siglongjmp
1438 * IMAP now supports the EXTERNAL authentication method, courtesy of
1439 Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095 with minor changes.
1440 Note that this change causes --sslcert to override --user.
1441 * The sslproto keywords are now case insensitive, courtesy of
1442 Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095.
1443 * When going to sleep, log for how long. Suggested by Claudia Ludwig.
1444 * When the server name cannot be canonicalized, log the gai_strerror value.
1446 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
1447 * Catalan/ca (Ernest Adrogué Calveras), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki) - also
1448 made gettext 0.15 ready, Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Russian/ru (Pavel
1449 Maryanov), Spanish/es (Héctor García Álvarez), Vietnamese/vi (Clytie Siddall)
1451 # CONTRIBUTED SCRIPTS:
1452 * PopDel.py was revised by Joshua Crawford to display the From: address and
1453 list every email, even if it has no Subject: header; and not delete the wrong
1454 message in the presence of mail without Subject: headers.
1456 fetchmail 6.3.4 (released 2006-04-14):
1459 * configure: detect res_* functions properly with newer glibc ABIs.
1460 Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
1461 * tracepolls: add folder information if available. Reported by Terry Brown.
1462 * lexer: add %option noyywrap to avoid link errors about missing yywrap().
1463 * a few more type fixes for report/snprintf, patch by Miloslav Trmac.
1464 * bouncing: fetchmail would still send "General SMTP/ESMTP error." bounces
1465 in spite of "no bouncemail" configuration.
1466 * SSL/TLS: if, for a certain server, an sslfingerprint is specified and
1467 sslcertck is NOT set, suppress printing SSL certificate mismatch errors.
1468 (Reported by Hannes Erven.)
1469 * SSL/TLS: always print if the sslfingerprint mismatches, even in silent
1470 mode. (This is for consistency with certificate verification errors.)
1472 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
1473 * German/de (Matthias Andree), French/fr (Matthias Andree), Spanish/es (Héctor
1474 García), Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki)
1475 * New Vietnamese/vi translation (Clytie Siddall).
1476 * Updated French descriptions for the .spec file (Stéphane Schildknecht,
1477 Luc Pionchon, Matthias Andree).
1480 * pidfile: there is a new command-line (--pidfile PATH) and global option for
1481 the rcfile (set pidfile [=] "/path/to/pidfile") option to allow overriding
1482 the default location of the PID file.
1483 Requested by Héctor García, Debian maintainer.
1484 * specgen.sh: Converted to UTF-8 to support translated texts better.
1486 fetchmail 6.3.3 (released 2006-03-30):
1489 * SEGFAULT: Do not attempt to overwrite the netrc password if none has been
1490 specified. This fixes a segmentation fault bug introduced into 6.3.2.
1491 Fixes BerliOS bug #6234. BerliOS patch #804 by Craig Leres.
1492 The patch, as accepted into fetchmail, was available separately from
1493 <http://download.berlios.de/fetchmail/patch-6.3.2.1-fix-netrc-SIGSEGV.diff>
1494 * SEGFAULT: Work around C libraries that return a NULL in getaddrinfo()'s
1495 ai_canonname record, to avoid a segfault. Affects for instance FreeBSD 4.10,
1496 4.11 and 5.3 when dotted quads are given as server names.
1497 Analysis and fix by Vladimir Olegovich Ravodin (Владимир Олегович Раводин).
1498 * IMAP: fix hangs in NOOP-based IDLE emulation. Reported by Casper Gripenberg
1499 and Brendan Lynch, fix by Sunil Shetye (his patch was merged) and Brendan Lynch.
1500 * IMAP: Handle other clients concurrently accessing IMAP mailboxes better.
1501 Fetchmail quits the poll if the EXPUNGE count does not match expectations, and
1502 servers not updating RECENT counts after EXPUNGE are handled in a better way.
1503 (Patch by Sunil Shetye.)
1504 * IMAP: Stop sending EXPUNGE after NOOP-idling (patch by Sunil Shetye).
1505 * POP3: fetchmail can now use UIDL in fetchall keep mode, to avoid re-fetching
1506 the same messages again when the fetchall keyword is removed. Patch by
1507 Sunil Shetye. For details, please see
1508 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2006-March/000308.html>
1509 * LMTP: fix bug in LMTP port validation (patch by Miloslav Trmac).
1510 * SDPS: fetchmail no longer replaces the local user ID for an empty envelope
1511 sender when using the proprietary SDPS extension for POP3.
1512 Fixes Debian Bug#353575, reported by Roger Lynn.
1513 * SDPS: Warn and disable SDPS if POP3 is disabled to avoid compilation errors.
1514 * fetchmail no longer prints empty lines in verbose mode when using syslog.
1515 * fetchmail no longer prints UID lists in verbose mode when using syslog.
1516 * ./configure --quiet is now quieter (no SSL and fallback-related output).
1517 * Miloslav Trmac's patch (with minor changes) to fix char * sign consistency,
1518 unused arguments and variables.
1519 * More signedness, unused argument/variable and other warning fixes.
1522 * --idle can now be specified on the command line, too.
1523 * --fetchall is now supported on the command-line.
1524 * POP3: Lower default fastuidl span to 4 (i. e. every 4th run fetches the
1525 whole UIDL list), patch by Sunil Shetye.
1528 * "ssl" is a user option rather than a server option. Patch by Nico Golde.
1529 Fixes Debian Bug#354661, reported by Keith Hellman.
1530 * The manual page now suggests "--" before the addresses in the sendmail MDA
1531 example, for safety.
1532 * The FAQ item X9, Domino IMAP omits Content-Transfer-Encoding header, was
1533 added. Information provided by Anthony Kim on the fetchmail-friends list
1535 * Credit Chris Boyle with the NOOP emulation code for IDLE in fetchmail 6.2.4.
1536 Eric forgot to credit Chris, thanks to Sunil Shetye for providing these links:
1537 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007705.html
1538 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007713.html
1539 * Added a section about RETR vs. TOP to the manual page.
1540 * Changed section/subsection levels in some areas.
1542 fetchmail 6.3.2 (released 2006-01-22):
1544 Unless otherwise noted, changes to this release were made by Matthias Andree.
1546 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
1547 * CVE-2006-0321: Fix segfault or bus error after bouncing a message. This bug
1548 was introduced into 6.3.0 when removing alloca(); it caused fetchmail to free
1549 random memory. Reported by Nathaniel W. Turner, Debian Bug#348747.
1550 See fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt
1552 # INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE:
1553 * Automatically disable the POP3 TOP command if the greeting string contains
1554 "Maillennium POP3/PROXY server", which is used by comcast and known to
1555 truncate messages after 80 kByte. Fall back to RETR, and complain if we had
1556 used TOP otherwise (the warning is printed only once per server in daemon
1557 mode). Suggested by Ed Wilts.
1558 *Note* that this means messages are marked read on these servers, which is a
1559 deviation from how 6.3.1 behaved, but we have no alternative, comcast haven't
1560 fixed this bug in years. Preventing the loss of the remainder of the message
1561 justifies this incompatible fix.
1562 * fetchmail, since 6.3.0, requires write permission to the directory holding the
1563 idfile. See the amendment in the 6.3.0 MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES section
1564 below for details. The manual page was updated.
1566 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS:
1567 * The outdated BUGS document was removed from the distribution.
1568 * Added fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt to the distribution.
1571 * SMTP/LMTP cleanup to fix these two bugs:
1572 - switch back to SMTP after having tried LMTP hosts (multiple smtphost hosts)
1573 - switch back to LMTP after sending a bounce.
1574 The patch removes the global state variable that was the root of this problem.
1575 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1576 * Don't complain about fetchall keep in --configdump mode. Bug introduced in
1578 * fetchmailconf.py: Fix novice help for Poll interval and fetchall.
1579 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #344978.
1580 * Some verbose output disappeared in debug mode. Adding further -v options would
1581 alternate between verbose and debug mode. debug mode now comprises all verbose
1582 output, and adding more -v options does not switch back from debug to verbose
1584 * fetchmail.man: Fix accented characters in Héctor García's name. Merged from
1585 downstream debian/patches/01_man_page.dpatch.
1586 * Add missing --help text for "--sslcertck" option.
1587 * fetchmailconf.py: Accept --help and --version.
1588 * fetchmail --version now prints the copyright notice.
1589 * don't complain about READ-ONLY IMAP folders in --fetchall --keep mode.
1590 Reported Alexander Zangerl, Debian Bug#348964.
1591 * the RPM .spec file now generates a -debuginfo package on newer RPM versions.
1593 fetchmail 6.3.1 (released 2005-12-19):
1595 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
1596 * CVE-2005-4348 Fix segmentation fault (null pointer dereference) in
1597 multidrop mode with headerless email. See fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt.
1598 Reported by Daniel Drake, patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1600 # OTHER BUG FIXES, DOCUMENTATION AND TRANSLATION UPDATES
1601 * Fix broken default port in POP2. Patch by Stanislav Brabec, SUSE [CZ]. (MA)
1602 * Fix manual page, some lines starting with ' were escaped by \&.
1603 Reported by Simon Barner. (MA)
1604 * Ship with gettext-0.14.3 again, as 6.2.9-rc10 did. Found by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1605 * Actually set default SSL certificate path if --sslcertpath is unset.
1606 Reported by Heino Tiedemann and Rob MacGregor. (MA)
1607 * Remove bogus Netscape IMAP4rev1 Service >= 3.6 warning about BODY[TEXT]
1608 that we are not using. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1609 * Plug potential memory and socket leak when polling multiple folders or when
1610 the upstream sends bogus message sizes. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1611 * Update Catalan translation, by Ernest Adrogué Calveras. (MA)
1612 * Fix segfault (null pointer dereference) on some operating systems with
1613 fetchmail's obsolete DNS MX/host alias lookups in multidrop mode.
1614 Patch by Dr.-Ing. Andreas Haakh. (MA)
1615 * Close SMTP sockets early, to reduce resource usage, trigger earlier delivery
1616 with some MTAs and avoid SIGPIPE (SIG 13) when the SMTP listener gets bored
1617 and drops the connection after timeout. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1618 * Don't treat hitting a fetch limit as error. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1619 * Fix negative "messages left on server" on idle/repoll with fetchlimit.
1620 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1621 * Properly track logout stage. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1622 * Preserve error conditions across postconnect script. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1623 * Do not trash destination domain if multiple messages are forwarded into the
1624 same SMTP/LMTP connection. Reported by Joachim Feise, Berlios Bug #5849. (MA)
1625 * Manual page: Add "-md5" to "openssl x509" example in --sslfingerprint
1626 documentation, since OpenSSL 0.9.8 changed the default to SHA1.
1627 Suggested by Jason White. (MA)
1628 * Cope with servers that return UID information in response to non-UID
1629 RFC822.{SIZE|HEADER} requests. Reported by Jason White.
1630 Patch suggestion by by Sunil Shetye, simplified by MA.
1632 fetchmail 6.3.0 (released 2005-11-30):
1634 # SECURITY FIXES IN THIS RELEASE
1635 * CVE-2005-2335: The POP3 UIDL code doesn't sufficiently validate/truncate the
1636 input length, so a (malicious or compromised) server that sends UIDs longer
1637 than 128 bytes can corrupt fetchmail's stack and crash fetchmail.
1638 This vulnerability is remotely exploitable to inject code run in a
1639 root shell. Edward J. Shornock, Ludwig Nussel. fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
1640 * CVE-2005-3088: fetchmailconf now changes the output file to mode 0600 BEFORE
1641 writing to it, so there is no window where passwords could be read by the
1642 world. Matthias Andree. fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt
1644 # MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
1645 * Remove support for --netsec/-T options, the required inet6_apps library is no
1647 http://www.inner.net/pub/ipv6/ states, as of 2005-07-03: "/pub/ipv6
1648 Our IPv6 software is now long defunct. Please find a more modern source."
1649 I haven't been able to find a more modern source. Matthias Andree
1650 * Operating systems that do not conform to the Single Unix Specification v2
1651 (1997) or v3 (2001, aka IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) are no longer supported. They
1652 may continue to work and non-intrusive patches to support them may be
1653 accepted. Matthias Andree
1654 * The default for --smtphost is now always "localhost" regardless of
1655 authentication types and protocols, so as to simplify configurations for
1656 workstations where the SMTP daemon only listens on the loopback interface.
1657 Sunil Shetye & Matthias Andree
1658 Amendment, 2006-01-04:
1659 * fetchmail's idfile (.fetchids) is no longer written directly, but the ids are
1660 written to a temporary file which is renamed into place after being written
1661 completely. This is to avoid writing incomplete idfiles when running out of
1662 space, which would cause excessive duplicate refetches of messages, this might
1663 make matters even worse. This means that fetchmail requires write permission
1664 on the directory holding the idfile. This will usually affect system-global
1665 daemons only, for instance, Debian. Found by Dan Jacobson. Matthias Andree.
1666 Escalated to "incompatible", 2006-01-13:
1667 * Try to obtain FQDN as our own host by default, rather than using "localhost".
1668 If hostname cannot be qualified, complain noisily and continue, unless
1669 Kerberos, ODMR or ETRN are used (these have always required an FQDN).
1670 Partial fix of Debian Bug#150137. Fixes Debian Bug#316454. Matthias Andree
1672 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS AND USERS
1673 * fetchmailconf is now a shell wrapper that calls the byte-compiled
1674 fetchmailconf.py script, which is now installed in the regular python
1675 directory. Matthias Andree.
1676 * The --enable-inet6 configure option was removed. The code is mostly protocol
1677 agnostic, a fully IPv6 aware OS is expected to provide getaddrinfo(),
1678 getnameinfo() and the macro AF_INET6. Matthias Andree.
1679 * gettext (intl/) has been removed from the fetchmail package. Install GNU
1680 gettext 0.14 separately for NLS (i18n). Matthias Andree
1681 * Added Russian translation, courtesy of Pavel Maryanov of the
1682 Russian translation team. (MA)
1683 * Updated and re-enabled Czech translation, by Miloslav Trmac (MA).
1684 * Dropped da=Danish, el=Greek and tr=Turkish translations which have more than
1685 10% (61+) untranslated or fuzzy messages. Matthias Andree.
1687 # OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
1688 * Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR)
1689 * PopDel.py removed from contrib at author's request. (ESR)
1690 * Matthias Andree's fix for Sunil Shetye's fetch-split patch. (ESR)
1691 * Include James Stone's moldremover.py script. (ESR)
1692 * Enable .fetchmailrc permissions checking under Cygwin. (ESR)
1693 * Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication. (ESR)
1694 * Revised Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication (the
1695 original version would go into an infinite loop when CAPA failed;
1696 found by David Greaves.) (MA)
1697 * HOME_ETC patch for PLD Linux. (ESR)
1698 * Sunil Shetye's fix for SSL configuration. (ESR)
1699 * Simon Josefsson's patch for GSS library support. (ESR)
1700 * Added Andrey Lelikov's recipe for Hotmail and Lycos Webmail. (ESR)
1701 * Remove blank between MAIL FROM: and <, which causes Cyrus to complain.
1702 Patch by Phil Endecott. (RF)
1703 * Build fixes for HESIOD and resolv.h trouble on FreeBSD. (MA)
1704 * Fabrice Bellet's fix for Red Hat bug #113492, fetchmail hangs in IMAP
1705 mode after EXPUNGE when the server (Dovecot 0.99.10) doesn't update
1706 RECENT and EXISTS counts. (MA)
1707 * Holger Mauermann's bounce patch, to use a NULL envelope from, not
1708 write a Return-Path header (both to meet RFC-2821), changed From,
1709 added Subject header, rewording the human readable part. Fixes Debian
1711 * Merge Sunil Shetye's time.h handling fix. (MA)
1712 * Merge Gerd von Egidy's patch to avoid a segfault in multidrop/received
1713 mode when the Received: headers are malformatted. (MA)
1714 * MIME-encode bodies and Subject headers of warning messages, limiting
1715 the header to 7 bits. (MA)
1716 * Normalize most locale codesets to IANA codesets, based on
1717 norm_charmap.c by Markus Kuhn. (MA)
1718 * Remove sleep(3) after POP3 login, patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
1719 * Fix option parsing bug that trashes the showdots setting when more
1720 than one server is configured. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
1721 * Honor sslcertpath setting even if sslcertck is unset. Patch by Brian
1723 * SSL certificate checking fixes, don't display same error message twice
1724 in succession, make sure that Common Name and fingerprint checking are
1725 only done once. Print all validation warnings/errors even if not in
1726 verbose mode. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
1727 * Import Bjorn Reese and Daniel Stenberg's MIT-licensed Trio 1.10 from
1728 http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/ for systems that do not support
1729 snprintf or vsnprintf. (MA)
1730 * Clean up the horrible #ifdef HAVE_[V]SNPRINTF that made the code
1731 unreadable. Use Trio where [v]snprintf is/are missing. (MA)
1732 * Default to Linux 2.2 /proc/net/dev format, and use uname(2) to determine the
1733 kernel version instead of calling uname(1). Thanks to Paul Slootman. (MA)
1734 * Be more careful when swapping UID lists or writing the .fetchids file,
1735 requested by Manfred Weihs. (MA)
1736 * Print a warning if multidrop configuration is attempted without
1737 envelope option. (MA)
1738 * Split information on fetchmail versions before 6.0.0 to a separate
1740 * Merge SuSE patches: (sent by Stanislav Brabec, merged by Matthias Andree)
1741 - fetchmail-6.2.5-declaration.patch (double sigint_handler decl/getpass.c)
1742 - fetchmail-6.2.5-implicit-declaration.patch (missing #include)
1743 - fetchmail-6.2.5-random-result.patch (uninitialized variable/opie.c)
1744 * Revised some bogus assertions about POP3 LAST and UIDL use in the
1745 manual page. UIDL isn't flaky as the man page suggested, but a
1746 reliability feature. In fact, IMAP4 code is flaky in that it relies on
1747 the upstream seen flags. (MA)
1748 * Miloslav Trmac's patch for fetchmailconf to support string-type values
1749 of the "port" variable, avoiding "port None" corruption in .fetchmailrc.
1750 To fix Redhat Bug #55623 (MA)
1751 * de.po fixes from Nico Golde (MA)
1752 * es.po fixes from Jesus Roncero, Debian bug #286044 (MA)
1753 * sink.c fix from Cesar Eduardo Barros, to avoid double @ in address
1754 when username contains an @ and the envelope sender is null, Debian
1756 * configure.ac cleanups by Miloslav Trmac (MA)
1757 * Miloslav Trmac's fix to reply_hack() type, for systems where
1758 sizeof(int) != sizeof(size_t). (MA)
1759 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for driver.c to not call the private Kerberos
1760 krb5_init_ets() function. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1761 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for sink.c/transact.c to reserve sufficient
1762 space for \r\n trailers in snprintf calls. Sent by Miloslav Trmac,
1763 possibly fixing Red Hat bug #114470. (MA).
1764 * Nalin Dahyabhai's patch to use the krb5-config script, if present.
1765 Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1766 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix to make rpa.c compile. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1767 * Trivial fetchmailconf.man to redirect to fetchmail.1.
1768 Reported by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1769 * Internationalization (i18n) updates by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1770 * Fix "couldn't find canonical DNS name of NN (MM)" for hosts that have
1771 only IPv6 addresses. Matthias Andree.
1772 * Revised INSTALL after question from Brian Candler, inet6-apps is no
1773 longer available: remove inet6-apps hints for IPv6, and add some
1774 apologetic message for IPsec. Note the code may be removed in a future
1775 version. Matthias Andree.
1776 * Brian Candler's FAQ update about SSL certificate verification. (MA)
1777 * Nico Golde's patch to support "proto RPOP" in the configuration file,
1778 reported by Dr. Andreas Krüger, Debian bug #242384 (MA)
1779 * Skip sending POP3 PASS command when USER command failed. Matthias Andree.
1780 * Run fetchmail.man through automatic spell checker. Matthias Andree.
1781 * Major fetchmail(1) manual page overhaul by R. Hannes Beinert, to
1782 clarify singledrop vs. multidrop operation. (MA)
1783 * Make tracepolls a server option, as documented. Fixes Debian bug
1784 #156094. Matthias Andree.
1785 * Fix some minor inaccuracies (RFC-1893 related, grammar/spelling) in
1787 * Rename ESR's design notes to esrs-design-notes.html and add a new
1788 design-notes.html document. The NOTES file will contain both of them.
1790 * Fix Debian bug #301964, fetchmail leaks sockets when SSL negotiation
1791 fails. Fix suggested by Goswin Brederlow. (MA)
1792 * Really fix Debian Bug#207919 (garbage in Received: lines when smtphost set),
1793 patch by Tobias Diedrich. The 6.2.5 NEWS claimed Gregan's patch had fixed
1794 #207919 but it had fixed #212484 instead and #207919 remained unfixed in
1795 6.2.5. The entry below has been corrected to read #212484 now. (MA)
1796 * When writing the PID file, write a FHS 2.3 compliant PID file.
1797 Fixes Debian bug #230615. Matthias Andree.
1798 * Make ODMR really silent, suppress "fetchmail: receiving message
1799 data". Fixes Debian Bug#296163. Matthias Andree.
1800 * Add From: header to warning emails. Debian Bug#244828. Matthias Andree.
1801 * Fix IMAP code to use password of arbitrary length from configuration
1802 file (although not when read interactively). Debian Bug#276424.
1804 * Document that fetchmail may automatically enable UIDL option.
1805 Debian Bug#304701. Matthias Andree.
1806 * Put *BOLD* text into the manual page near --mda to state unmistakably that
1807 the --mda %T and %F substitutions add single quotes, hoping to avoid bogus
1808 bug reports such as Debian Bug #224564. Matthias Andree
1809 * Rename lock_release to fm_lock_release, to avoid namespace collision on
1810 Darwin. NetBSD PR#28543 (pkg/28543). Matthias Andree.
1811 * The RFC-822 parser no longer strips the last character of bare addresses.
1813 * The IP address matching code was broken and
1814 1. didn't search exhaustively, but matched only the first IP address of the
1815 server's queryname against the IP addresses of the server name to match.
1816 2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts. Matthias Andree
1817 * The "port" option, while still understood, is being replaced by the "service"
1818 option, which is now supported even without --enable-inet6. Matthias Andree.
1819 * The default distribution format is now bzip2. Matthias Andree.
1820 * fetchmailconf redirects fetchmail's input from /dev/null so it doesn't
1821 wait for the user to enter a password when the user doesn't even see
1822 the prompt. Reported by Michal Marek. Matthias Andree.
1823 * Write RFC-compliant BSMTP envelopes. Reported by Nico Golde. Matthias Andree.
1824 * Fix --with-gssapi compilation problem. Simon Josefsson. (MA)
1825 * Foster protocol-independence to support IPv6 better, for instance, providing
1826 IPv6 addresses in Received: headers. Matthias Andree.
1827 * Received: headers now enclose the for <...> destination address in angle
1828 brackets for consistency with Postfix. Matthias Andree.
1829 * Operating systems that do not support at least one of gethostbyname,
1830 gethostbyname_r, getipnodebyname are no longer supported. Matthias Andree.
1831 * Fixes to --with-hesiod option. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1832 * Delete oversized messages with the new --limitflush option. Debian
1833 Bug#212240. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1834 * Fix MacOS X compilation failures in sink.c (ru_*time has incomplete type).
1835 Berlios Bug #4725. Matthias Andree.
1836 * Fix "auth ntlm" to send AUTH NTLM (rather than AUTH MSN). Add "auth msn"
1837 officially. Reported by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
1838 * Expunge between IMAP folders when polling multiple folders.
1840 * Fix IMAP expunged message counting. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1841 * Add full support for --service option. Matthias Andree
1842 * When getaddrinfo() fails resolving a service, log getaddrinfo() error. (MA)
1843 * Fix bogus "cannot resolve service * to port number" error. Simon Barner. (MA)
1844 * Failure to set up SSL connections now results in PS_SOCKET. Suggested by
1845 Thomas Wolff. Matthias Andree.
1846 * Kerberos IV detection fix for FreeBSD 4. Simon Barner. (MA)
1847 * Fix display and documentation of --envelope option. Matthias Andree
1848 * Make "envelope 'Delivered-To'" work with dropdelivered. Timothy Lee. (MA)
1849 * Add -DBIND_8_COMPAT to Darwin (MacOS X) compiles, to fix build problems on
1850 newer Darwin versions. Matthias Andree.
1851 * fetchmail should now automatically detect if OpenSSL requires -ldl.
1853 * Fix Solaris build with --disable-nls (blastwave.org). Matthias Andree.
1854 * Missed --port/--service/--ssl cleanups in the manual. Reminder from Thomas
1856 * Complain in POP3 if NTLM/MSN auth is requested but had not been enabled at
1857 compile time. This configuration mismatch now causes an error message and
1858 authentication failure. Found by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
1859 * fetchmailconf now allows expert users to choose the authorization type and
1860 also offers MSN and NTLM, suggested by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
1861 * fetchmailconf now (as of 1.49) writes its version to the comment of the
1862 saved run control file. Matthias Andree
1863 * Properly shut down SSL connections. Berlios Patch #647 by Arkadiusz
1865 * Global variable cleanup, to fix daemon mode reinitialization problems. Patch
1866 by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1867 * fetchmailconf -h documents the fetchmailconf -h option. Matthias Andree
1868 * fetchmailconf -V now prints the fetchmailconf version. Matthias Andree
1869 * Add support for SubjectAltName (RFC-2595 or 2818), to avoid bogus certificate
1870 mismatch errors. Patch by Roland Stigge, Debian Bug#201113. (MA)
1871 * make fetchmail --silent --quit really silent, Debian Bug #229014 by Dr.
1872 Andreas Krüger. Matthias Andree
1873 * cleanup --quit handling again (so that --silent --quit just kills the
1874 existing daemon, rather than continue running), and document it more clearly.
1876 * Print an error message if multiple "defaults" records are found in the
1877 configuration file. Matthias Andree
1878 * Bury on_exit officially - the necessary code had been missing from 6.0.0,
1879 6.2.0, 6.2.5. Matthias Andree
1880 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be read. Matthias Andree
1881 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be created exclusively, this got
1882 broken in a 6.2.6-pre, 6.2.5.2 and older were fine. Matthias Andree
1883 * Do not break some other process's lockfile in "-q" mode, but wait for the
1884 other process's exit. Matthias Andree
1885 * Man page: --sslfingerprint points user to x509(1ssl) and gives an example
1886 how to use it. Debian Bug#213484, Eduard Bloch. (MA)
1887 * fetchmailconf now sets the service properly after autoprobe. Fixes Debian
1888 Bug#320645. Matthias Andree
1889 * Man page: Fix Debian Bug#241883, making global options more clear. Matt
1890 Swift, Matthias Andree.
1891 * When eating IMAP message trailer, don't see any line containing "OK" as the
1892 end of the trailer, but wait for the proper tagged OK line. To work around
1893 the qmail + Courier-IMAP problem in Debian Bug#338007. Matthias Andree
1894 * Fix Debian Bug#317761: when trying to send a bounce message, don't bail out
1895 if we cannot qualify our own hostname, so we aren't losing the bounce.
1896 Instead, pass the buck on to the SMTP server and use our own unqualified
1897 hostname. Matthias Andree
1898 * Revise some error messages so they are less confusing. Sunil Shetye.
1899 * Man page: update --smtphost documentation. Sunil Shetye, Matthias Andree.
1900 * Man page: clarify --loghost works only while detached. Matthias Andree
1901 * Man page: update --smtpaddress documentation. Sunil Shetye.
1902 * Fix several memory leaks and bugs in the SMTP/LMTP retry logic where
1903 fetchmail confused UNIX and Internet domain sockets. Sunil Shetye.
1904 * Man page (BUGS): document that passwords are length limited. Matthias Andree
1905 * Man page: Document that quoted strings that run across line boundaries
1906 contain the control characters (CR or LF). Document explicitly the backslash
1907 escape sequences and their differences from the escape sequences used in the
1908 C programming language. Matthias Andree
1909 * Fix segfault when run control file ends with a backslash inside an
1910 unterminated quoted string. Matthias Andree.
1911 * In quoted strings, support backslash as last character on a line to join the
1912 following line to the current. Matthias Andree.
1913 * Parsing untagged IMAP responses is more robust now. Matthias Andree.
1914 * Man page: Remove some procmail praises in --mda documentation, suggest
1915 maildrop instead, warn of procmail fallthrough behavior. Matthias Andree.
1916 * Man page: Revise AUTHORS and SEE ALSO sections. Matthias Andree.
1917 * Updated translations: Albanian [sq] (Besnik Bleta), Catalan [ca] (Ernest
1918 Adrogué Calveras), Czech [cs] (Miloslav Trmac), German [de] (MA),
1919 Spanish (Castilian) [es] (Javier Kohen), French [fr] (MA),
1920 Polish [pl] (Jakub Bogusz), Russian [ru] (Pavel Maryanov).
1921 * In oversized warning messages, print the account name, too. Fixes Debian
1922 Bug#213299. Sunil Shetye (MA).
1923 * Fix installation without Python. Sunil Shetye, reported by Peter Church. (MA)
1924 * Update Japanese translation. Fixes Debian Bug#329342, Takeshi Hamasaki. (MA)
1925 * Fix imap.c size safeguard that broke on x86_64 architecture. Matthias Andree
1926 * The FAQ is now available for duplex DIN A4 printing in PDF format.
1927 Don't bother to ask for a Letter version, I don't care. Matthias Andree
1928 * Man page: Use \- in the manual page where appropriate so that copy & paste
1929 works. I hope we got them all. Héctor García, Matthias Andree.
1932 * Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
1933 * Got rid of alloca() in fetchmail proper. Matthias Andree
1934 * Got rid of ipv6-connect, inner_connect and thereabouts. Matthias Andree
1936 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1938 fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:
1940 * Updated Spanish, Turkish, and German translation files.
1941 * Matthew Gregan's patch to handle garbage lengths from dbmail;
1942 closes Debian bug #212484.
1943 * Fix IMAP query so new-message count doesn't include deleted messages.
1944 * Man page typo fix, closes Debian bug #205892.
1945 * OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl@acm.org.
1946 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
1947 flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
1948 * Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of
1950 * Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
1951 * Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
1952 * Sunil Shetye's patches to break up fetching of sizes and UIDLs.
1954 There are 599 people on fetchmail-friends and 748 on fetchmail-announce.
1956 fetchmail-6.2.4 (Wed Aug 13 04:27:35 EDT 2003), 22625 lines:
1958 * Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
1959 * IDLE is now supported using NOOP commands even if the server doesn't support
1960 the IMAP IDLE extension. Patch by Chris Boyle.
1961 * Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
1962 * Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
1963 * Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
1964 * Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
1965 * Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.
1967 There are 585 people on fetchmail-friends and 745 on fetchmail-announce.
1969 fetchmail-6.2.3 (Thu Jul 17 14:53:00 EDT 2003), 22490 lines:
1971 * French, German, Danish, Spanish, and Turkish translations updated.
1972 * Brian Sammon's patch to deal with malformed message lines containing NULs.
1973 * Fai's patch to ignore all but the first Return-Path (some spams have
1974 more than one of these).
1975 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to properly byte-stuff when talking to BSMTP.
1976 Fixes Debian bug #184469.
1977 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to enable auth=cram-md5.
1978 Fixes Debian bug #185232.
1979 * Sunil Shetye's configure.in patch to avoid spurious search order messages
1981 * Header-reading code now copes better with lines ending in \n only.
1982 * Elias Israel's patches for POP3 NTLM support and dealing with byte-
1983 stuffing failures at socket level.
1985 There are 580 people on fetchmail-friends and 750 on fetchmail-announce.
1987 fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:
1989 * Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior on empty messages.
1990 * Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful
1991 STARTTLS negotiation.
1992 * Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
1993 * Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security.
1994 * Christophe GIAUME <christophe@giaume.com> finished the implementation
1996 * Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
1997 * Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
1998 * Fix for Debian bug #108977, clean up config file evaluation,
2001 There are 554 people on fetchmail-friends and 727 on fetchmail-announce.
2003 fetchmail-6.2.1 (Tue Jan 14 08:17:19 EST 2003), 22219 lines:
2005 * Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
2006 * Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
2007 * Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check,
2008 we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
2009 * Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.
2011 There are 536 people on fetchmail-friends and 716 on fetchmail-announce.
2013 fetchmail-6.2.0 (Fri Dec 13 00:10:07 EST 2002), 22235 lines:
2015 * Applied Steffen Esser's fix for a buffer-overflow bug in rfc822.c
2016 * Updated Danish, German, and Turkish translation files.
2017 * Sunil Shetye's SMTP timeout patch.
2019 There are 538 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2023 fetchmail-6.1.3 (Thu Nov 28 05:35:15 EST 2002), 22203 lines:
2025 * Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
2026 * Added Slovak support.
2027 * Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas).
2028 * Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
2029 * Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
2030 * Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
2031 * Sunil's fix for the STARTTLS problem -- repoll if TLS nabdshake
2032 fails. The attempt to set up STARTTLS can be suppressed with 'sslproto ""'.
2034 There are 540 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
2036 fetchmail-6.1.2 (Thu Oct 31 11:41:02 EST 2002), 22135 lines:
2038 * Jan Klaverstijn's verbosity-lowering patch.
2039 * Updated Turkish, German, Catalan, and Danish translation files.
2040 * Fix processing of POP3 messages with missing bodies.
2041 * Minor fixes by Sunil Shetye: fix generation of auth fail note, handle
2042 unexpected SIGALRM, plug memory leak, handle lines beginning with '\0',
2043 try to bulletproof error handling against read failures.
2045 There are 535 people on fetchmail-friends and 696 on fetchmail-announce.
2047 fetchmail-6.1.1 (Fri Oct 18 14:53:51 EDT 2002), 22087 lines:
2049 * OTP fix patches from Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
2050 * fix patch for writing antispam capability correctly in conf.c.
2051 * Fix patches for Debian bugs #162571, #156592.
2052 * Correction to manpage re -b and qmail.
2053 * Patch to disable use of STLS if auth passwd is specified.
2054 * Fix specfile generation to handle SSL correctly.
2055 * New Danish, Turkish, and Catalan translation files.
2056 * Improved ODMR debug messages.
2057 * IMAP efficiency hack; don't fetch sizes unless needed.
2058 * Detect and rewrite invalid return paths beginning with @.
2059 * Fix for subtle freeing bug that suppressed information in some bounce msgs.
2060 * Newline fix patches for internationalization files.
2061 * Fix reversed test guarding authentication-failure warnings.
2062 * Fix POP3 breakage starting at 5.9.14.
2064 There are 529 people on fetchmail-friends and 693 on fetchmail-announce.
2066 fetchmail-6.1.0 (Sun Sep 22 18:31:23 EDT 2002), 21999 lines:
2068 * Updated French translation.
2069 * Stefan Esser's fix for potential remote vulnerability in multidrop mode.
2070 This is an important security fix!
2072 There are 519 people on fetchmail-friends and 680 on fetchmail-announce.
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2076 fetchmail-6.0.0 (Tue Sep 17 19:48:25 EDT 2002), 21972 lines:
2078 * Applied Matt Kraai's fix for minor Debian bug #144539.
2079 * Nerijus Baliunas's patch to support STARTTLS over IMAP.
2080 * More cleanups and minor bugfixes from Sunil Shetye.
2081 * Default antispam-response list is now empty.
2082 * Updated de and po translations.
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2086 There are 520 people on fetchmail-friends and 683 on fetchmail-announce.
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