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 # DEPRECATED FEATURES AND MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE ADVANCE WARNINGS
12 * The MX and host alias DNS lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode
13 are obsolete, deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version.
14 They have never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4) anyhow.
15 Non-DNS based alias keywords such as "aka" will remain in fetchmail.
16 * The monitor and interface options may be removed from a future fetchmail
17 version as they are not sufficiently portable.
19 Support for POP2 may be removed from a future fetchmail version.
20 * RPOP is obsolete, support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
21 * --sslcertck may become a default setting in a future fetchmail version.
22 * The multidrop To/Cc guessing code along with the fragile duplicate suppressor
23 is deprecated and may be removed from a future release.
24 * The "envelope Received" option may be removed from a future release, because
25 the Received header was never meant to be machine-readable, the format varies
26 widely, and various other differences in behavior make parsing Received an
27 unreliable undertaking. The enveloper option as such will remain though, in
28 order to support Delivered-To, X-Envelope-To, X-Original-To and similar.
29 See also <http://home.pages.de/~mandree/mail/multidrop>.
30 * The --enable-fallback (fall back to MDA if MTA unavailable) may be removed
31 from a future fetchmail release.
32 * The "protocol auto" default inside fetchmail may be removed from a future
33 fetchmail release. Explicit configuration of the protocol is recommended.
34 * Kerberos IV support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
35 * SIGHUP wakeup may be removed from a future fetchmail release and cause it
37 * Support for operating systems that are not sufficiently POSIX compliant may be
38 removed or operation on such systems may be suboptimal for future releases.
40 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
42 fetchmail 6.3.6 (not yet released):
44 # SECURITY FIXES (CHANGE BEHAVIOUR):
45 * CVE-2006-5867, fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt:
46 Password disclosure vulnerability. This has several aspects:
48 - Fetchmail now implies sslproto 'tls1' if the sslfingerprint or sslcertck
49 options are used, to be sure there is a certificate to check against.
51 - Fetchmail breaks the connection if the TLS negotiation (or verification, if
52 requested) fails with sslproto 'tls1' (also applies if this is implicit).
54 - POP3 connections ignored STLS altogether in many circumstances, because
55 fetchmail did not probe server capabilities for all values of "auth" - see
56 fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt for details.
58 - POP3 connections could retry USER/PASS authentication even if strong
59 challenge-response schemes such as CRAM-MD5 had explicitly been requested,
60 if these were not advertised in the CAPA response.
62 - POP2 is obsolete and does not support STLS or anything beyond password-based
63 authentication. The attempt to use STLS or stronger authenticators causes
66 Configurations using --ssl --sslcertck however have been semi-safe in that
67 they would not expose the password over the wire.
70 * CVE-2006-5974, fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt:
71 Repair regression in 6.3.5 that crashes fetchmail when a message with invalid
72 headers is found while fetchmail's mda option is in use. BerliOS bugs #9364,
73 #9412, #9449. Stack backtrace provided by Neil Hoggarth - thanks.
76 * Repair --logfile, broken in 6.3.5. BerliOS Bug #9059,
77 reported by Brian Harring.
78 * POP3: Probe capabilities when Kerberos V5 is attempted.
79 * RPOP: The password is now shrouded in the local logs.
80 * Robustness: If a stale lockfile cannot be deleted, truncate it to avoid
81 trouble later if the PID is recycled by a non-fetchmail process.
82 * On systems that have res_search(), assume we also have res_init() and call it
83 (suggested by Ulrich Drepper, glibc bug #3675) in order to make libc or
84 libresolv reread the resolver configuration at the beginning of a poll cycle.
85 This is important when fetchmail is in daemon mode and /etc/resolv.conf is
86 changed later by dhcpcd, dhclient, pppd, openvpn or other ip-up/ipchange
87 scripts. Should fix Debian Bug#389270, Bug#391698.
88 * Fix crash on systems that do not provide strdup() in out-of-memory conditions.
89 Patch by Andreas Krennmair.
92 * New en_GB (British English) translation by David Lodge.
93 * Update Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki), Polish (Jakub Bogusz), Russian (Pavel
94 Maryanov) and Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall) translations.
97 * Dropped exit status 15 from manual page, it's not used by fetchmail.
98 Reported by Isaac Wilcox.
100 # KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS:
101 (this section floats upwards through the NEWS to be on top of the list)
102 * fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
103 (See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
104 * Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the lexer in 64-bit mode.
105 Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit fetchmail.
106 Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code anyways,
107 so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should be fine.
108 * fetchmail expects Received: headers in a particular format when parsing
110 * fetchmail does not track pending deletes over crashes
111 * the command line interface is a bit narrow-minded sometimes, for instance,
112 fetchmail -s doesn't work with a running daemon
113 * some of the logging output is not very helpful
114 * some of the documentation is still not up to date
116 fetchmail 6.3.5 (released 2006-10-09):
119 * For protocols such as IMAP that are not delimited by "." lines, truncate the
120 input buffer when the message has been completely read, to avoid taking
121 trailing garbage into the message if the terminal CRLF is missing. Fixes
122 Debian Bug#312415. (Patch suggested by Mike Jones, Manchester Univ.).
123 * When using NTLM authentication, use regular IMAP response code handler after
124 completing NTLM handshake, for robustness and consistency.
125 (Taken from the NetBSD portable packages collection, patch-ac.)
126 * Support Kerberos installations where krb5.h and perhaps roken.h are in
127 .../include/krb5. Taken from NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ae.
128 * On NetBSD, link against -lroken -lcom_err if --with-kerberos is enabled.
129 * Drop #include <com_err.h> from Kerberos 5 header file, fixes compile error on
131 * Fix des_pcbc_encrypt compile warnings in kerberos.c line 246.
132 * If krb5-config provides gssapi library information, use that rather than
134 * Improve --with-gssapi auto detection for /usr-based GSSAPI installs.
135 * Fix --with-gssapi builds for NetBSD 3.0.
136 * Improve KAME/getnameinfo.c portability to Linux libc5 systems.
137 Based on a patch by Dan Fandrich.
138 * Provide INET6 to KAME/getnameinfo.c (only useful on IPv6-enabled systems that
139 lack getnameinfo, and there only visible in some Received: headers).
140 Found by Dan Fandrich.
141 * POP3: some UID flags may not be set properly on UIDL lists. (Sunil Shetye)
142 * Make IMAP4 IDLE work on servers that do not update RECENT counts.
143 Reported by Lars Tewes.
144 * IMAP4 patch by Sunil Shetye:
145 - do not depend on server updating RECENT counts at all
146 - also enter IDLE loop when messages are present on the server.
147 * Fix --flush description in the manual page, fetchmail does not mark messages
148 seen unless it has successfully delivered them. Suggested by Frederic Marchal.
149 * Fetchmail no longer attempts to stat the "-" file in daemon mode -- this is a
150 special name to read the RC file from stdin, and cannot always be re-read
151 anyways. BerliOS bug #7858.
152 * When looking up ports for a service, the lookup succeeds and the returned
153 address family isn't IPv4 or IPv6, properly free the allocated memory from the
154 service lookup. Found by Uli Zappe.
155 * When looking up ports for a service, only look up TCP ports.
156 * Avoid compiling empty files, to avoid diagnostics from strict compilers.
157 * If the lockfile ends before the process ID, treat it as stale and unlink it.
158 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #376603.
159 * SIGHUP wake-up behavior was broken since 5.9.13's Cygwin changes, in that for
160 non-root users, SIGHUP would abort the first poll and subsequently interfere
161 with new polls, and SIGHUP would be ignored for root users. SIGHUP now matches
162 documented behavior. SIGUSR1 has always been a wakeup signal for both root
163 (undocumented) and non-root users. See also the deprecation warning above.
164 * Track getaddrinfo() results to properly free them after timeouts and make sure
165 that getaddrinfo() isn't interrupted by a timeout (which breaks on MacOS X),
166 reported by Uli Zappe. This should fix Debian Bug#294547 and Bug#377135.
167 * --logfile is now handled more carefully, errors opening the logfile are
168 now reported to the TTY where fetchmail was started from.
169 * fetchmail now complains and aborts when it cannot properly daemonize itself.
170 * fix compilation on systems that don't know struct addrinfo (Solaris 2.6).
171 * ignore SIGPIPE signals and rely on functions to return EPIPE instead. This is
172 necessary because the former longjmp() from the signal handler is unsafe and
173 makes the whole fetchmail behavior undefined after the event.
174 * Avoid crash in env.c/host_fqdn if we cannot canonicalize our own hostname.
175 Reported by Alexander Holler.
176 * SSL fix by Miloslav Trmac (Red Hat): free the SSL contexts after the
177 connection, to avoid from growing SSL certpaths without bounds, avoid using
178 SSL contexts for unrelated connections, and to fix Red Hat Bug #206346.
181 * Rename all fetchmail-internal lock_* functions to fm_lock_*. Obsoletes
182 NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ah, patch-ai and patch-aj.
183 * Configure prints a warning (but proceeds) if Kerberos IV support is enabled.
184 * In verbose mode, log every IP fetchmail tries to connect to, to avoid
185 misleading the user. Suppress EAFNOSUPPORT errors from socket() call, too.
186 Fixes Debian Bug #361825, reported by Daniel Baur.
187 * In idle mode, fetchmail complains about the fetchall option.
188 * When a connection fails, log not only the IP address, but also host and
189 service name and the port number. Log the latter when trying to connect in
191 * Keep syslog output at one line per message (this works if no errors occur).
192 * Fetchmail in verbose mode now logs if it opportunistically upgrades a POP3
193 or IMAP connection to TLS security with STLS/STARTTLS.
194 * fetchmail now supports foo@example.org=bar user mappings for multidrop boxes.
195 * switch setjmp/longjmp to sigsetjmp/siglongjmp
196 * IMAP now supports the EXTERNAL authentication method, courtesy of
197 Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095 with minor changes.
198 Note that this change causes --sslcert to override --user.
199 * The sslproto keywords are now case insensitive, courtesy of
200 Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095.
201 * When going to sleep, log for how long. Suggested by Claudia Ludwig.
202 * When the server name cannot be canonicalized, log the gai_strerror value.
204 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
205 * Catalan/ca (Ernest Adrogué Calveras), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki) - also
206 made gettext 0.15 ready, Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Russian/ru (Pavel
207 Maryanov), Spanish/es (Héctor García Álvarez), Vietnamese/vi (Clytie Siddall)
209 # CONTRIBUTED SCRIPTS:
210 * PopDel.py was revised by Joshua Crawford to display the From: address and
211 list every email, even if it has no Subject: header; and not delete the wrong
212 message in the presence of mail without Subject: headers.
214 fetchmail 6.3.4 (released 2006-04-14):
217 * configure: detect res_* functions properly with newer glibc ABIs.
218 Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
219 * tracepolls: add folder information if available. Reported by Terry Brown.
220 * lexer: add %option noyywrap to avoid link errors about missing yywrap().
221 * a few more type fixes for report/snprintf, patch by Miloslav Trmac.
222 * bouncing: fetchmail would still send "General SMTP/ESMTP error." bounces
223 in spite of "no bouncemail" configuration.
224 * SSL/TLS: if, for a certain server, an sslfingerprint is specified and
225 sslcertck is NOT set, suppress printing SSL certificate mismatch errors.
226 (Reported by Hannes Erven.)
227 * SSL/TLS: always print if the sslfingerprint mismatches, even in silent
228 mode. (This is for consistency with certificate verification errors.)
230 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
231 * German/de (Matthias Andree), French/fr (Matthias Andree), Spanish/es (Héctor
232 García), Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki)
233 * New Vietnamese/vi translation (Clytie Siddall).
234 * Updated French descriptions for the .spec file (Stéphane Schildknecht,
235 Luc Pionchon, Matthias Andree).
238 * pidfile: there is a new command-line (--pidfile PATH) and global option for
239 the rcfile (set pidfile [=] "/path/to/pidfile") option to allow overriding
240 the default location of the PID file.
241 Requested by Héctor García, Debian maintainer.
242 * specgen.sh: Converted to UTF-8 to support translated texts better.
244 fetchmail 6.3.3 (released 2006-03-30):
247 * SEGFAULT: Do not attempt to overwrite the netrc password if none has been
248 specified. This fixes a segmentation fault bug introduced into 6.3.2.
249 Fixes BerliOS bug #6234. BerliOS patch #804 by Craig Leres.
250 The patch, as accepted into fetchmail, was available separately from
251 <http://download.berlios.de/fetchmail/patch-6.3.2.1-fix-netrc-SIGSEGV.diff>
252 * SEGFAULT: Work around C libraries that return a NULL in getaddrinfo()'s
253 ai_canonname record, to avoid a segfault. Affects for instance FreeBSD 4.10,
254 4.11 and 5.3 when dotted quads are given as server names.
255 Analysis and fix by Vladimir Olegovich Ravodin (Владимир Олегович Раводин).
256 * IMAP: fix hangs in NOOP-based IDLE emulation. Reported by Casper Gripenberg
257 and Brendan Lynch, fix by Sunil Shetye (his patch was merged) and Brendan Lynch.
258 * IMAP: Handle other clients concurrently accessing IMAP mailboxes better.
259 Fetchmail quits the poll if the EXPUNGE count does not match expectations, and
260 servers not updating RECENT counts after EXPUNGE are handled in a better way.
261 (Patch by Sunil Shetye.)
262 * IMAP: Stop sending EXPUNGE after NOOP-idling (patch by Sunil Shetye).
263 * POP3: fetchmail can now use UIDL in fetchall keep mode, to avoid re-fetching
264 the same messages again when the fetchall keyword is removed. Patch by
265 Sunil Shetye. For details, please see
266 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2006-March/000308.html>
267 * LMTP: fix bug in LMTP port validation (patch by Miloslav Trmac).
268 * SDPS: fetchmail no longer replaces the local user ID for an empty envelope
269 sender when using the proprietary SDPS extension for POP3.
270 Fixes Debian Bug#353575, reported by Roger Lynn.
271 * SDPS: Warn and disable SDPS if POP3 is disabled to avoid compilation errors.
272 * fetchmail no longer prints empty lines in verbose mode when using syslog.
273 * fetchmail no longer prints UID lists in verbose mode when using syslog.
274 * ./configure --quiet is now quieter (no SSL and fallback-related output).
275 * Miloslav Trmac's patch (with minor changes) to fix char * sign consistency,
276 unused arguments and variables.
277 * More signedness, unused argument/variable and other warning fixes.
280 * --idle can now be specified on the command line, too.
281 * --fetchall is now supported on the command-line.
282 * POP3: Lower default fastuidl span to 4 (i. e. every 4th run fetches the
283 whole UIDL list), patch by Sunil Shetye.
286 * "ssl" is a user option rather than a server option. Patch by Nico Golde.
287 Fixes Debian Bug#354661, reported by Keith Hellman.
288 * The manual page now suggests "--" before the addresses in the sendmail MDA
290 * The FAQ item X9, Domino IMAP omits Content-Transfer-Encoding header, was
291 added. Information provided by Anthony Kim on the fetchmail-friends list
293 * Credit Chris Boyle with the NOOP emulation code for IDLE in fetchmail 6.2.4.
294 Eric forgot to credit Chris, thanks to Sunil Shetye for providing these links:
295 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007705.html
296 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007713.html
297 * Added a section about RETR vs. TOP to the manual page.
298 * Changed section/subsection levels in some areas.
300 fetchmail 6.3.2 (released 2006-01-22):
302 Unless otherwise noted, changes to this release were made by Matthias Andree.
304 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
305 * CVE-2006-0321: Fix segfault or bus error after bouncing a message. This bug
306 was introduced into 6.3.0 when removing alloca(); it caused fetchmail to free
307 random memory. Reported by Nathaniel W. Turner, Debian Bug#348747.
308 See fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt
310 # INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE:
311 * Automatically disable the POP3 TOP command if the greeting string contains
312 "Maillennium POP3/PROXY server", which is used by comcast and known to
313 truncate messages after 80 kByte. Fall back to RETR, and complain if we had
314 used TOP otherwise (the warning is printed only once per server in daemon
315 mode). Suggested by Ed Wilts.
316 *Note* that this means messages are marked read on these servers, which is a
317 deviation from how 6.3.1 behaved, but we have no alternative, comcast haven't
318 fixed this bug in years. Preventing the loss of the remainder of the message
319 justifies this incompatible fix.
320 * fetchmail, since 6.3.0, requires write permission to the directory holding the
321 idfile. See the amendment in the 6.3.0 MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES section
322 below for details. The manual page was updated.
324 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS:
325 * The outdated BUGS document was removed from the distribution.
326 * Added fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt to the distribution.
329 * SMTP/LMTP cleanup to fix these two bugs:
330 - switch back to SMTP after having tried LMTP hosts (multiple smtphost hosts)
331 - switch back to LMTP after sending a bounce.
332 The patch removes the global state variable that was the root of this problem.
333 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
334 * Don't complain about fetchall keep in --configdump mode. Bug introduced in
336 * fetchmailconf.py: Fix novice help for Poll interval and fetchall.
337 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #344978.
338 * Some verbose output disappeared in debug mode. Adding further -v options would
339 alternate between verbose and debug mode. debug mode now comprises all verbose
340 output, and adding more -v options does not switch back from debug to verbose
342 * fetchmail.man: Fix accented characters in Héctor García's name. Merged from
343 downstream debian/patches/01_man_page.dpatch.
344 * Add missing --help text for "--sslcertck" option.
345 * fetchmailconf.py: Accept --help and --version.
346 * fetchmail --version now prints the copyright notice.
347 * don't complain about READ-ONLY IMAP folders in --fetchall --keep mode.
348 Reported Alexander Zangerl, Debian Bug#348964.
349 * the RPM .spec file now generates a -debuginfo package on newer RPM versions.
351 fetchmail 6.3.1 (released 2005-12-19):
353 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
354 * CVE-2005-4348 Fix segmentation fault (null pointer dereference) in
355 multidrop mode with headerless email. See fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt.
356 Reported by Daniel Drake, patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
358 # OTHER BUG FIXES, DOCUMENTATION AND TRANSLATION UPDATES
359 * Fix broken default port in POP2. Patch by Stanislav Brabec, SUSE [CZ]. (MA)
360 * Fix manual page, some lines starting with ' were escaped by \&.
361 Reported by Simon Barner. (MA)
362 * Ship with gettext-0.14.3 again, as 6.2.9-rc10 did. Found by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
363 * Actually set default SSL certificate path if --sslcertpath is unset.
364 Reported by Heino Tiedemann and Rob MacGregor. (MA)
365 * Remove bogus Netscape IMAP4rev1 Service >= 3.6 warning about BODY[TEXT]
366 that we are not using. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
367 * Plug potential memory and socket leak when polling multiple folders or when
368 the upstream sends bogus message sizes. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
369 * Update Catalan translation, by Ernest Adrogué Calveras. (MA)
370 * Fix segfault (null pointer dereference) on some operating systems with
371 fetchmail's obsolete DNS MX/host alias lookups in multidrop mode.
372 Patch by Dr.-Ing. Andreas Haakh. (MA)
373 * Close SMTP sockets early, to reduce resource usage, trigger earlier delivery
374 with some MTAs and avoid SIGPIPE (SIG 13) when the SMTP listener gets bored
375 and drops the connection after timeout. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
376 * Don't treat hitting a fetch limit as error. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
377 * Fix negative "messages left on server" on idle/repoll with fetchlimit.
378 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
379 * Properly track logout stage. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
380 * Preserve error conditions across postconnect script. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
381 * Do not trash destination domain if multiple messages are forwarded into the
382 same SMTP/LMTP connection. Reported by Joachim Feise, Berlios Bug #5849. (MA)
383 * Manual page: Add "-md5" to "openssl x509" example in --sslfingerprint
384 documentation, since OpenSSL 0.9.8 changed the default to SHA1.
385 Suggested by Jason White. (MA)
386 * Cope with servers that return UID information in response to non-UID
387 RFC822.{SIZE|HEADER} requests. Reported by Jason White.
388 Patch suggestion by by Sunil Shetye, simplified by MA.
390 fetchmail 6.3.0 (released 2005-11-30):
392 # SECURITY FIXES IN THIS RELEASE
393 * CVE-2005-2335: The POP3 UIDL code doesn't sufficiently validate/truncate the
394 input length, so a (malicious or compromised) server that sends UIDs longer
395 than 128 bytes can corrupt fetchmail's stack and crash fetchmail.
396 This vulnerability is remotely exploitable to inject code run in a
397 root shell. Edward J. Shornock, Ludwig Nussel. fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
398 * CVE-2005-3088: fetchmailconf now changes the output file to mode 0600 BEFORE
399 writing to it, so there is no window where passwords could be read by the
400 world. Matthias Andree. fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt
402 # MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
403 * Remove support for --netsec/-T options, the required inet6_apps library is no
405 http://www.inner.net/pub/ipv6/ states, as of 2005-07-03: "/pub/ipv6
406 Our IPv6 software is now long defunct. Please find a more modern source."
407 I haven't been able to find a more modern source. Matthias Andree
408 * Operating systems that do not conform to the Single Unix Specification v2
409 (1997) or v3 (2001, aka IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) are no longer supported. They
410 may continue to work and non-intrusive patches to support them may be
411 accepted. Matthias Andree
412 * The default for --smtphost is now always "localhost" regardless of
413 authentication types and protocols, so as to simplify configurations for
414 workstations where the SMTP daemon only listens on the loopback interface.
415 Sunil Shetye & Matthias Andree
416 Amendment, 2006-01-04:
417 * fetchmail's idfile (.fetchids) is no longer written directly, but the ids are
418 written to a temporary file which is renamed into place after being written
419 completely. This is to avoid writing incomplete idfiles when running out of
420 space, which would cause excessive duplicate refetches of messages, this might
421 make matters even worse. This means that fetchmail requires write permission
422 on the directory holding the idfile. This will usually affect system-global
423 daemons only, for instance, Debian. Found by Dan Jacobson. Matthias Andree.
424 Escalated to "incompatible", 2006-01-13:
425 * Try to obtain FQDN as our own host by default, rather than using "localhost".
426 If hostname cannot be qualified, complain noisily and continue, unless
427 Kerberos, ODMR or ETRN are used (these have always required an FQDN).
428 Partial fix of Debian Bug#150137. Fixes Debian Bug#316454. Matthias Andree
430 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS AND USERS
431 * fetchmailconf is now a shell wrapper that calls the byte-compiled
432 fetchmailconf.py script, which is now installed in the regular python
433 directory. Matthias Andree.
434 * The --enable-inet6 configure option was removed. The code is mostly protocol
435 agnostic, a fully IPv6 aware OS is expected to provide getaddrinfo(),
436 getnameinfo() and the macro AF_INET6. Matthias Andree.
437 * gettext (intl/) has been removed from the fetchmail package. Install GNU
438 gettext 0.14 separately for NLS (i18n). Matthias Andree
439 * Added Russian translation, courtesy of Pavel Maryanov of the
440 Russian translation team. (MA)
441 * Updated and re-enabled Czech translation, by Miloslav Trmac (MA).
442 * Dropped da=Danish, el=Greek and tr=Turkish translations which have more than
443 10% (61+) untranslated or fuzzy messages. Matthias Andree.
445 # OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
446 * Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR)
447 * PopDel.py removed from contrib at author's request. (ESR)
448 * Matthias Andree's fix for Sunil Shetye's fetch-split patch. (ESR)
449 * Include James Stone's moldremover.py script. (ESR)
450 * Enable .fetchmailrc permissions checking under Cygwin. (ESR)
451 * Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication. (ESR)
452 * Revised Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication (the
453 original version would go into an infinite loop when CAPA failed;
454 found by David Greaves.) (MA)
455 * HOME_ETC patch for PLD Linux. (ESR)
456 * Sunil Shetye's fix for SSL configuration. (ESR)
457 * Simon Josefsson's patch for GSS library support. (ESR)
458 * Added Andrey Lelikov's recipe for Hotmail and Lycos Webmail. (ESR)
459 * Remove blank between MAIL FROM: and <, which causes Cyrus to complain.
460 Patch by Phil Endecott. (RF)
461 * Build fixes for HESIOD and resolv.h trouble on FreeBSD. (MA)
462 * Fabrice Bellet's fix for Red Hat bug #113492, fetchmail hangs in IMAP
463 mode after EXPUNGE when the server (Dovecot 0.99.10) doesn't update
464 RECENT and EXISTS counts. (MA)
465 * Holger Mauermann's bounce patch, to use a NULL envelope from, not
466 write a Return-Path header (both to meet RFC-2821), changed From,
467 added Subject header, rewording the human readable part. Fixes Debian
469 * Merge Sunil Shetye's time.h handling fix. (MA)
470 * Merge Gerd von Egidy's patch to avoid a segfault in multidrop/received
471 mode when the Received: headers are malformatted. (MA)
472 * MIME-encode bodies and Subject headers of warning messages, limiting
473 the header to 7 bits. (MA)
474 * Normalize most locale codesets to IANA codesets, based on
475 norm_charmap.c by Markus Kuhn. (MA)
476 * Remove sleep(3) after POP3 login, patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
477 * Fix option parsing bug that trashes the showdots setting when more
478 than one server is configured. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
479 * Honor sslcertpath setting even if sslcertck is unset. Patch by Brian
481 * SSL certificate checking fixes, don't display same error message twice
482 in succession, make sure that Common Name and fingerprint checking are
483 only done once. Print all validation warnings/errors even if not in
484 verbose mode. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
485 * Import Bjorn Reese and Daniel Stenberg's MIT-licensed Trio 1.10 from
486 http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/ for systems that do not support
487 snprintf or vsnprintf. (MA)
488 * Clean up the horrible #ifdef HAVE_[V]SNPRINTF that made the code
489 unreadable. Use Trio where [v]snprintf is/are missing. (MA)
490 * Default to Linux 2.2 /proc/net/dev format, and use uname(2) to determine the
491 kernel version instead of calling uname(1). Thanks to Paul Slootman. (MA)
492 * Be more careful when swapping UID lists or writing the .fetchids file,
493 requested by Manfred Weihs. (MA)
494 * Print a warning if multidrop configuration is attempted without
495 envelope option. (MA)
496 * Split information on fetchmail versions before 6.0.0 to a separate
498 * Merge SuSE patches: (sent by Stanislav Brabec, merged by Matthias Andree)
499 - fetchmail-6.2.5-declaration.patch (double sigint_handler decl/getpass.c)
500 - fetchmail-6.2.5-implicit-declaration.patch (missing #include)
501 - fetchmail-6.2.5-random-result.patch (uninitialized variable/opie.c)
502 * Revised some bogus assertions about POP3 LAST and UIDL use in the
503 manual page. UIDL isn't flaky as the man page suggested, but a
504 reliability feature. In fact, IMAP4 code is flaky in that it relies on
505 the upstream seen flags. (MA)
506 * Miloslav Trmac's patch for fetchmailconf to support string-type values
507 of the "port" variable, avoiding "port None" corruption in .fetchmailrc.
508 To fix Redhat Bug #55623 (MA)
509 * de.po fixes from Nico Golde (MA)
510 * es.po fixes from Jesus Roncero, Debian bug #286044 (MA)
511 * sink.c fix from Cesar Eduardo Barros, to avoid double @ in address
512 when username contains an @ and the envelope sender is null, Debian
514 * configure.ac cleanups by Miloslav Trmac (MA)
515 * Miloslav Trmac's fix to reply_hack() type, for systems where
516 sizeof(int) != sizeof(size_t). (MA)
517 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for driver.c to not call the private Kerberos
518 krb5_init_ets() function. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
519 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for sink.c/transact.c to reserve sufficient
520 space for \r\n trailers in snprintf calls. Sent by Miloslav Trmac,
521 possibly fixing Red Hat bug #114470. (MA).
522 * Nalin Dahyabhai's patch to use the krb5-config script, if present.
523 Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
524 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix to make rpa.c compile. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
525 * Trivial fetchmailconf.man to redirect to fetchmail.1.
526 Reported by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
527 * Internationalization (i18n) updates by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
528 * Fix "couldn't find canonical DNS name of NN (MM)" for hosts that have
529 only IPv6 addresses. Matthias Andree.
530 * Revised INSTALL after question from Brian Candler, inet6-apps is no
531 longer available: remove inet6-apps hints for IPv6, and add some
532 apologetic message for IPsec. Note the code may be removed in a future
533 version. Matthias Andree.
534 * Brian Candler's FAQ update about SSL certificate verification. (MA)
535 * Nico Golde's patch to support "proto RPOP" in the configuration file,
536 reported by Dr. Andreas Krüger, Debian bug #242384 (MA)
537 * Skip sending POP3 PASS command when USER command failed. Matthias Andree.
538 * Run fetchmail.man through automatic spell checker. Matthias Andree.
539 * Major fetchmail(1) manual page overhaul by R. Hannes Beinert, to
540 clarify singledrop vs. multidrop operation. (MA)
541 * Make tracepolls a server option, as documented. Fixes Debian bug
542 #156094. Matthias Andree.
543 * Fix some minor inaccuracies (RFC-1893 related, grammar/spelling) in
545 * Rename ESR's design notes to esrs-design-notes.html and add a new
546 design-notes.html document. The NOTES file will contain both of them.
548 * Fix Debian bug #301964, fetchmail leaks sockets when SSL negotiation
549 fails. Fix suggested by Goswin Brederlow. (MA)
550 * Really fix Debian Bug#207919 (garbage in Received: lines when smtphost set),
551 patch by Tobias Diedrich. The 6.2.5 NEWS claimed Gregan's patch had fixed
552 #207919 but it had fixed #212484 instead and #207919 remained unfixed in
553 6.2.5. The entry below has been corrected to read #212484 now. (MA)
554 * When writing the PID file, write a FHS 2.3 compliant PID file.
555 Fixes Debian bug #230615. Matthias Andree.
556 * Make ODMR really silent, suppress "fetchmail: receiving message
557 data". Fixes Debian Bug#296163. Matthias Andree.
558 * Add From: header to warning emails. Debian Bug#244828. Matthias Andree.
559 * Fix IMAP code to use password of arbitrary length from configuration
560 file (although not when read interactively). Debian Bug#276424.
562 * Document that fetchmail may automatically enable UIDL option.
563 Debian Bug#304701. Matthias Andree.
564 * Put *BOLD* text into the manual page near --mda to state unmistakably that
565 the --mda %T and %F substitutions add single quotes, hoping to avoid bogus
566 bug reports such as Debian Bug #224564. Matthias Andree
567 * Rename lock_release to fm_lock_release, to avoid namespace collision on
568 Darwin. NetBSD PR#28543 (pkg/28543). Matthias Andree.
569 * The RFC-822 parser no longer strips the last character of bare addresses.
571 * The IP address matching code was broken and
572 1. didn't search exhaustively, but matched only the first IP address of the
573 server's queryname against the IP addresses of the server name to match.
574 2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts. Matthias Andree
575 * The "port" option, while still understood, is being replaced by the "service"
576 option, which is now supported even without --enable-inet6. Matthias Andree.
577 * The default distribution format is now bzip2. Matthias Andree.
578 * fetchmailconf redirects fetchmail's input from /dev/null so it doesn't
579 wait for the user to enter a password when the user doesn't even see
580 the prompt. Reported by Michal Marek. Matthias Andree.
581 * Write RFC-compliant BSMTP envelopes. Reported by Nico Golde. Matthias Andree.
582 * Fix --with-gssapi compilation problem. Simon Josefsson. (MA)
583 * Foster protocol-independence to support IPv6 better, for instance, providing
584 IPv6 addresses in Received: headers. Matthias Andree.
585 * Received: headers now enclose the for <...> destination address in angle
586 brackets for consistency with Postfix. Matthias Andree.
587 * Operating systems that do not support at least one of gethostbyname,
588 gethostbyname_r, getipnodebyname are no longer supported. Matthias Andree.
589 * Fixes to --with-hesiod option. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
590 * Delete oversized messages with the new --limitflush option. Debian
591 Bug#212240. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
592 * Fix MacOS X compilation failures in sink.c (ru_*time has incomplete type).
593 Berlios Bug #4725. Matthias Andree.
594 * Fix "auth ntlm" to send AUTH NTLM (rather than AUTH MSN). Add "auth msn"
595 officially. Reported by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
596 * Expunge between IMAP folders when polling multiple folders.
598 * Fix IMAP expunged message counting. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
599 * Add full support for --service option. Matthias Andree
600 * When getaddrinfo() fails resolving a service, log getaddrinfo() error. (MA)
601 * Fix bogus "cannot resolve service * to port number" error. Simon Barner. (MA)
602 * Failure to set up SSL connections now results in PS_SOCKET. Suggested by
603 Thomas Wolff. Matthias Andree.
604 * Kerberos IV detection fix for FreeBSD 4. Simon Barner. (MA)
605 * Fix display and documentation of --envelope option. Matthias Andree
606 * Make "envelope 'Delivered-To'" work with dropdelivered. Timothy Lee. (MA)
607 * Add -DBIND_8_COMPAT to Darwin (MacOS X) compiles, to fix build problems on
608 newer Darwin versions. Matthias Andree.
609 * fetchmail should now automatically detect if OpenSSL requires -ldl.
611 * Fix Solaris build with --disable-nls (blastwave.org). Matthias Andree.
612 * Missed --port/--service/--ssl cleanups in the manual. Reminder from Thomas
614 * Complain in POP3 if NTLM/MSN auth is requested but had not been enabled at
615 compile time. This configuration mismatch now causes an error message and
616 authentication failure. Found by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
617 * fetchmailconf now allows expert users to choose the authorization type and
618 also offers MSN and NTLM, suggested by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
619 * fetchmailconf now (as of 1.49) writes its version to the comment of the
620 saved run control file. Matthias Andree
621 * Properly shut down SSL connections. Berlios Patch #647 by Arkadiusz
623 * Global variable cleanup, to fix daemon mode reinitialization problems. Patch
624 by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
625 * fetchmailconf -h documents the fetchmailconf -h option. Matthias Andree
626 * fetchmailconf -V now prints the fetchmailconf version. Matthias Andree
627 * Add support for SubjectAltName (RFC-2595 or 2818), to avoid bogus certificate
628 mismatch errors. Patch by Roland Stigge, Debian Bug#201113. (MA)
629 * make fetchmail --silent --quit really silent, Debian Bug #229014 by Dr.
630 Andreas Krüger. Matthias Andree
631 * cleanup --quit handling again (so that --silent --quit just kills the
632 existing daemon, rather than continue running), and document it more clearly.
634 * Print an error message if multiple "defaults" records are found in the
635 configuration file. Matthias Andree
636 * Bury on_exit officially - the necessary code had been missing from 6.0.0,
637 6.2.0, 6.2.5. Matthias Andree
638 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be read. Matthias Andree
639 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be created exclusively, this got
640 broken in a 6.2.6-pre, 6.2.5.2 and older were fine. Matthias Andree
641 * Do not break some other process's lockfile in "-q" mode, but wait for the
642 other process's exit. Matthias Andree
643 * Man page: --sslfingerprint points user to x509(1ssl) and gives an example
644 how to use it. Debian Bug#213484, Eduard Bloch. (MA)
645 * fetchmailconf now sets the service properly after autoprobe. Fixes Debian
646 Bug#320645. Matthias Andree
647 * Man page: Fix Debian Bug#241883, making global options more clear. Matt
648 Swift, Matthias Andree.
649 * When eating IMAP message trailer, don't see any line containing "OK" as the
650 end of the trailer, but wait for the proper tagged OK line. To work around
651 the qmail + Courier-IMAP problem in Debian Bug#338007. Matthias Andree
652 * Fix Debian Bug#317761: when trying to send a bounce message, don't bail out
653 if we cannot qualify our own hostname, so we aren't losing the bounce.
654 Instead, pass the buck on to the SMTP server and use our own unqualified
655 hostname. Matthias Andree
656 * Revise some error messages so they are less confusing. Sunil Shetye.
657 * Man page: update --smtphost documentation. Sunil Shetye, Matthias Andree.
658 * Man page: clarify --loghost works only while detached. Matthias Andree
659 * Man page: update --smtpaddress documentation. Sunil Shetye.
660 * Fix several memory leaks and bugs in the SMTP/LMTP retry logic where
661 fetchmail confused UNIX and Internet domain sockets. Sunil Shetye.
662 * Man page (BUGS): document that passwords are length limited. Matthias Andree
663 * Man page: Document that quoted strings that run across line boundaries
664 contain the control characters (CR or LF). Document explicitly the backslash
665 escape sequences and their differences from the escape sequences used in the
666 C programming language. Matthias Andree
667 * Fix segfault when run control file ends with a backslash inside an
668 unterminated quoted string. Matthias Andree.
669 * In quoted strings, support backslash as last character on a line to join the
670 following line to the current. Matthias Andree.
671 * Parsing untagged IMAP responses is more robust now. Matthias Andree.
672 * Man page: Remove some procmail praises in --mda documentation, suggest
673 maildrop instead, warn of procmail fallthrough behavior. Matthias Andree.
674 * Man page: Revise AUTHORS and SEE ALSO sections. Matthias Andree.
675 * Updated translations: Albanian [sq] (Besnik Bleta), Catalan [ca] (Ernest
676 Adrogué Calveras), Czech [cs] (Miloslav Trmac), German [de] (MA),
677 Spanish (Castilian) [es] (Javier Kohen), French [fr] (MA),
678 Polish [pl] (Jakub Bogusz), Russian [ru] (Pavel Maryanov).
679 * In oversized warning messages, print the account name, too. Fixes Debian
680 Bug#213299. Sunil Shetye (MA).
681 * Fix installation without Python. Sunil Shetye, reported by Peter Church. (MA)
682 * Update Japanese translation. Fixes Debian Bug#329342, Takeshi Hamasaki. (MA)
683 * Fix imap.c size safeguard that broke on x86_64 architecture. Matthias Andree
684 * The FAQ is now available for duplex DIN A4 printing in PDF format.
685 Don't bother to ask for a Letter version, I don't care. Matthias Andree
686 * Man page: Use \- in the manual page where appropriate so that copy & paste
687 works. I hope we got them all. Héctor García, Matthias Andree.
690 * Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
691 * Got rid of alloca() in fetchmail proper. Matthias Andree
692 * Got rid of ipv6-connect, inner_connect and thereabouts. Matthias Andree
694 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
696 fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:
698 * Updated Spanish, Turkish, and German translation files.
699 * Matthew Gregan's patch to handle garbage lengths from dbmail;
700 closes Debian bug #212484.
701 * Fix IMAP query so new-message count doesn't include deleted messages.
702 * Man page typo fix, closes Debian bug #205892.
703 * OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl@acm.org.
704 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
705 flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
706 * Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of
708 * Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
709 * Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
710 * Sunil Shetye's patches to break up fetching of sizes and UIDLs.
712 There are 599 people on fetchmail-friends and 748 on fetchmail-announce.
714 fetchmail-6.2.4 (Wed Aug 13 04:27:35 EDT 2003), 22625 lines:
716 * Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
717 * IDLE is now supported using NOOP commands even if the server doesn't support
718 the IMAP IDLE extension. Patch by Chris Boyle.
719 * Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
720 * Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
721 * Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
722 * Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
723 * Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.
725 There are 585 people on fetchmail-friends and 745 on fetchmail-announce.
727 fetchmail-6.2.3 (Thu Jul 17 14:53:00 EDT 2003), 22490 lines:
729 * French, German, Danish, Spanish, and Turkish translations updated.
730 * Brian Sammon's patch to deal with malformed message lines containing NULs.
731 * Fai's patch to ignore all but the first Return-Path (some spams have
732 more than one of these).
733 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to properly byte-stuff when talking to BSMTP.
734 Fixes Debian bug #184469.
735 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to enable auth=cram-md5.
736 Fixes Debian bug #185232.
737 * Sunil Shetye's configure.in patch to avoid spurious search order messages
739 * Header-reading code now copes better with lines ending in \n only.
740 * Elias Israel's patches for POP3 NTLM support and dealing with byte-
741 stuffing failures at socket level.
743 There are 580 people on fetchmail-friends and 750 on fetchmail-announce.
745 fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:
747 * Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior on empty messages.
748 * Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful
749 STARTTLS negotiation.
750 * Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
751 * Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security.
752 * Christophe GIAUME <christophe@giaume.com> finished the implementation
754 * Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
755 * Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
756 * Fix for Debian bug #108977, clean up config file evaluation,
759 There are 554 people on fetchmail-friends and 727 on fetchmail-announce.
761 fetchmail-6.2.1 (Tue Jan 14 08:17:19 EST 2003), 22219 lines:
763 * Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
764 * Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
765 * Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check,
766 we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
767 * Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.
769 There are 536 people on fetchmail-friends and 716 on fetchmail-announce.
771 fetchmail-6.2.0 (Fri Dec 13 00:10:07 EST 2002), 22235 lines:
773 * Applied Steffen Esser's fix for a buffer-overflow bug in rfc822.c
774 * Updated Danish, German, and Turkish translation files.
775 * Sunil Shetye's SMTP timeout patch.
777 There are 538 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
779 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
781 fetchmail-6.1.3 (Thu Nov 28 05:35:15 EST 2002), 22203 lines:
783 * Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
784 * Added Slovak support.
785 * Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas).
786 * Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
787 * Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
788 * Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
789 * Sunil's fix for the STARTTLS problem -- repoll if TLS nabdshake
790 fails. The attempt to set up STARTTLS can be suppressed with 'sslproto ""'.
792 There are 540 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
794 fetchmail-6.1.2 (Thu Oct 31 11:41:02 EST 2002), 22135 lines:
796 * Jan Klaverstijn's verbosity-lowering patch.
797 * Updated Turkish, German, Catalan, and Danish translation files.
798 * Fix processing of POP3 messages with missing bodies.
799 * Minor fixes by Sunil Shetye: fix generation of auth fail note, handle
800 unexpected SIGALRM, plug memory leak, handle lines beginning with '\0',
801 try to bulletproof error handling against read failures.
803 There are 535 people on fetchmail-friends and 696 on fetchmail-announce.
805 fetchmail-6.1.1 (Fri Oct 18 14:53:51 EDT 2002), 22087 lines:
807 * OTP fix patches from Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
808 * fix patch for writing antispam capability correctly in conf.c.
809 * Fix patches for Debian bugs #162571, #156592.
810 * Correction to manpage re -b and qmail.
811 * Patch to disable use of STLS if auth passwd is specified.
812 * Fix specfile generation to handle SSL correctly.
813 * New Danish, Turkish, and Catalan translation files.
814 * Improved ODMR debug messages.
815 * IMAP efficiency hack; don't fetch sizes unless needed.
816 * Detect and rewrite invalid return paths beginning with @.
817 * Fix for subtle freeing bug that suppressed information in some bounce msgs.
818 * Newline fix patches for internationalization files.
819 * Fix reversed test guarding authentication-failure warnings.
820 * Fix POP3 breakage starting at 5.9.14.
822 There are 529 people on fetchmail-friends and 693 on fetchmail-announce.
824 fetchmail-6.1.0 (Sun Sep 22 18:31:23 EDT 2002), 21999 lines:
826 * Updated French translation.
827 * Stefan Esser's fix for potential remote vulnerability in multidrop mode.
828 This is an important security fix!
830 There are 519 people on fetchmail-friends and 680 on fetchmail-announce.
832 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
834 fetchmail-6.0.0 (Tue Sep 17 19:48:25 EDT 2002), 21972 lines:
836 * Applied Matt Kraai's fix for minor Debian bug #144539.
837 * Nerijus Baliunas's patch to support STARTTLS over IMAP.
838 * More cleanups and minor bugfixes from Sunil Shetye.
839 * Default antispam-response list is now empty.
840 * Updated de and po translations.
842 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
844 There are 520 people on fetchmail-friends and 683 on fetchmail-announce.
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