3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4 fetchmail-2.2 (Sun Dec 8 23:17:01 EST 1996):
8 * If SMTP returns 571 (unsolicited mail refused) to a MAIL FROM, the
9 address is excluded by the local sendmail's spam filter. Drop the mail.
10 (This is the only circumstance in which mail is thrown away.)
12 * The header your mailserver uses to convey envelope addresses is no longer
13 wired to `X-Envelope-Header'. You can now specify it with the `envelope'
14 option in .fetchmailrc. (This header is not RFC822 standard, and we have a
15 report of and ISP using X-Frontier-To).
19 * Fixed a startup-time core dump introduced by 2.1's aka-list feature.
21 * Fixed a bug in non-implicit mode (poll specified host), also due to aka.
23 * Various minor portability fixes for Suns. Adding #include <errno.h>
24 in fetchmail.c was the most significant one.
26 * Avoid using -lresolv when possible, some Linux versions are badly broken.
28 * Fix error in MX record handling that was causing multidrop problems.
30 * Disable daemon SIGCLD handler while an MDA is running, to avoid snafus.
31 Thanks to Dave Bodenstab <imdave@synet.net> for spotting this obscure bug.
33 153 people on the contact list.
35 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
36 fetchmail-2.1 (Thu Nov 28 11:07:48 EST 1996):
42 * Try to pass envelope From to the listener so that logging and procmail
43 processing works right. If that fails, fall back on calling-user.
45 * Added `set logfile = ' option to rc syntax.
47 * We now use X-Envelope-To headers and parse the Received lines. If
48 X-Envelope-To is found, OK; otherwise we look for a `Received for' line;
49 either is treated as a true envelope address. If neither of these are
50 found we go to the To/Cc/Bcc header addresses.
52 * Added `*' as a wildcard option for multidrop to ... here. This will allow
53 names to be local names to be passed through from a multi-drop box on
56 * Added an `aka' option to allow users to declare mailserver aliases at start
57 of run, so DNS does less work. During a run, cache host matches on the
58 aka list so no potential alias has to be DNS-checked more than once.
59 A server being polled explicitly may be referred to by any of its aliaseses.
63 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix patch for MIT Kerberos support.
65 * Fixed a fencepost error in the APOP code that was causing a core dump.
67 * Skip flag wasn't getting reset on poll hosts following a skipped one.
69 * Include remote name in saved UID mappings so multiple POP accounts on
70 the same server won't get their UIDs confused.
72 138 people on the contact list.
74 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
75 fetchmail-2.0 (Mon Nov 18 00:32:17 EST 1996):
77 * Fix typo in setitimer call setup that caused obscure bugs under FreeBSD.
78 * Accept Apparently-To if there is no To header.
79 * Include Cameron McPherson's patch for handling multi-line SMTP responses.
80 * Don't try to feed listener the header From any more.
82 pl 1.9.9 (Mon Nov 11 10:40:14 EST 1996):
83 * Accept Resent-From & Apparently-From a la RFC822.
84 * Include file fixes for Solaris 2.5 and FreeBSD 2.2.
85 * Improved error notification on SMTP and no-matching-local-address errors.
86 * Delivery to multidrop mailboxes now always aborts on DNS errors.
87 * Batch limit option prevents long delivery delays on smail/qmail.
88 * Configuration now handles -lresolv and non-Linux bind libraries correctly.
90 pl 1.9.8 (Wed Nov 6 16:40:34 EST 1996):
91 * Don't append spurious NUL to the headers, qmail actually notices it.
92 * Fatal bug in multidrop code fixed.
93 * Fail cleanly, instead of core-dumping, on mail lacking an RFC822 From line.
94 * Don't try to keep the SMTP socket open across poll cycles.
96 pl 1.9.7 (Fri Nov 1 10:02:34 EST 1996):
97 * %s is back. Seems some popular MDAs actually choke on name arguments.
98 * We can handle responses longer than the socket atomic read length now.
100 pl 1.9.6 (Thu Oct 31 00:07:23 EST 1996):
101 * Make rewrite option handle multiple comma-separated local names correctly.
102 * Fix yet another fatal error in MDA argument list construction.
103 * Reset timeout every time input is received.
104 * Correct localname detection when --norewrite is on.
106 pl 1.9.5 (Tue Oct 29 20:07:41 EST 1996):
107 * Added -N, --nodetach option for debugging purposes.
108 * Use interval timers for poll-interval sleep and nonresponse timeout.
109 * fetchmail -q no longer parses the configuration file.
110 * Configuration file grammar is slightly cleaned up and improved.
112 pl 1.9.4 (Mon Oct 28 20:58:48 EST 1994):
113 * Correct status interpretation in closemailpipe() (thanks to Neil Harkins).
114 * Tweak SMTP forwarding to only open one listener per SMTP host in daemon mode.
116 pl 1.9.3 (Sun Oct 27 22:35:33 EST 1996):
117 * Handle nested parens in RFC822 comments.
118 * More gcc -Wall cleanup.
119 * Improved installation docs.
120 * Don't query DNS on startup unless needed for Kerberos or multidrop mailboxes.
122 pl 1.9.2 (Sun Oct 27 01:10:30 EST 1996):
123 * Fix initialization-time core dump when running as root
124 * Fix fatal error in MDA argument-list construction.
126 118 people on the contact list.
128 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
129 fetchmail-1.9 (Fri Oct 25 23:02:26 EDT 1996):
131 We've hit the century mark -- exactly 100 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
135 * FEATURE FREEZE IS NOW IN EFFECT! No new features until after 2.0. Thanks
136 to everybody who contributed ideas and criticism.
138 * It is now possible to specify multiple local recipients by giving a list
139 of names following "to" or "is". Each local recipient is checked for in the
140 To:, Cc: and Bcc: headers of each message; if a match is found, the message
141 is sent to that local recipient. This makes it possible to do mailing
142 lists and multidrop mailboxes. See the man page for details (and note
143 the caveat in the BUGS AND KNOWN PROBLEMS section).
145 * It is possible to specify a size limit for retrieved messages. I resisted
146 doing this because I don't want fetchmail to be in the filtering game, but
147 too many Europeans begged for it because their telecomms monopolies are
148 price-gouging them on per-second phone charges. I will ignore, or be
149 extremely rude to, anyone who takes this feature as a license to beg me
150 for kill files or any other form of content-based filtering. Use
151 procmail on your server if you want that.
153 * If you use an MDA, the internal changes to support multi-drop mailboxes
154 require that you *remove* the %s at the end of your MDA string. Local
155 delivery addresses will be appended to the end of the command in the
158 * The first message from a query now includes the number of old messages
159 when this can be determined (that is not under POP2).
161 * POP3 UID support really works now. I make rude noises at the POP3 mavens
162 who forced us to this with RFC1725, but thank Al Longyear <longyear@sii.com>
163 for fixing and verifying my slightly buggy implementation.
165 * Kerberos support ditto. Thanks to Chris Hanson <cph@martigny.mit.edu>
168 * When there's a daemon fetchmail in background, running fetchmail in
169 foreground without --quit now tries to wake the daemon and force it
172 * Add option to set server nonresponse timeout.
174 * Password is no longer displayed in verbose mode.
176 * You may use C-like escapes to embed non-printables in passwords and other
177 strings. Fetchmail -V will display them in a printable form.
179 * Program now tries to set itself to the ID of the local user before
180 running an MDA, and reset to root afterwards. This will work on
181 any system with seteuid(2), including Linux and the BSDs.
185 * Default user name to deliver to is now the calling user, unless
186 program is running as root in which case it is the remote user name
187 (default can be overridden with an `is' or `to' declaration).
188 In versions up to 1.7 it was the calling user; in 1.8 the remote
189 user ID. This created some confusion.
191 * Accept RFC822 headers with a tab after the colon.
193 * You now see a "skipping" message for each message not retrieved.
195 * --keep no longer overrides --flush.
197 * Rewrite "To: jrh (J. Random Hacker)" correctly.
199 * Find "nnn octets" anywhere on a POP3 server's RETR response line.
201 * Fixed various bugs in --check. It now reports PS_SUCCESS only if
202 there is new mail waiting.
204 * Under Linux, if fetchmail is run in daemon mode with the network
205 inaccessible, each poll leaves a socket allocated but in CLOSE state
206 (this is visible in netstat(1)'s output). These sockets aren't
207 garbage-collected until fetchmail exits. When whatever kernel table
208 is involved fills up, fetchmail can no longer run even if the network is up.
209 To avoid this, fetchmail now commits seppuku after some number of
210 unsuccessful socket opens.
212 * Don't try using FLAGS.SILENT, some allegedly IMAP2bis servers seem to
215 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
216 fetchmail-1.8 (Fri Oct 11 15:08:10 EDT 1996):
220 * Use kill(0, pid) to make lock handling a bit smarter (thanks to Johan
221 Vromans <JVromans@squirrel.nl> for the suggestion).
223 * Arrange for timeout of client after 5 minutes if connection to server is
224 dropped (thanks to Gaspar Sinai <gsinai@gol.com>).
226 * All pretensions to RPOP support have been dropped. Yes, this is a feature,
227 RPOP is very vulnerable to spoofing! Use APOP instead.
229 * Normal start-of-read message now displays the byte (excuse me, "octet")
230 size of the message. Yes, 3schwend, you can stop noodging me now :-).
232 * Normal progress notifications now take only 1 line per message, not 2.
234 * Linux packagers: building fetchmail now generates an RPM specfile for it.
236 * Kerberos support via KPOP protocol (thanks to Chris Hanson).
238 * New --check option for asking server whether there is mail without
239 actually retrieving or deleting it.
241 * UID support is back by popular demand. Bletch.
243 * Permit spaces in IMAP passwords (ship them as quoted strings).
247 * Fix buggy getopt specification of P and p options.
249 * Fix uninitialized-variable bug that was hanging second IMAP queries.
251 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
252 fetchmail-1.7 (Tue Oct 8 11:32:44 EDT 1996):
256 * Noise words for rcfile syntax make English-like syntax possible.
258 * Make configure more GNUish; it understands --prefix and other standard
259 autoconf options now (see INSTALL for details)
261 * Better documentation of the new .fetchmailrc extensions and the slightly
262 stricter rules for ordering options.
264 * Expanded installation instructions including how to test for correct
265 operation without losing mail to misconfigured MDAs, alias loops, etc.
269 * You may have to rearrange the order of options in your .fetchmailrc.
270 The grammar for the new multiple-user syntax requires that server
271 options (protocol and port) come before any user options.
273 * Fixed core dump bug that was screwing configurations with no .fetchmailrc.
275 * Fixed broken 'p' option.
277 * `norewrite' and `rewrite' in .fetchrc were the inverses of what they
278 should have been (but the rewrite default was set correctly).
280 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
281 fetchmail-1.6 (Sun Oct 6 20:55:09 EDT 1996):
285 * You can now have multiple entries for the same server but different
286 users, and the right thing will happen (each user's mailbox will
287 be queried). Even better, you can now specify multiple users in a
290 * Restore --mda, seems some people either can't run a port 25 listener
291 due to bizarre dynamic-SLIP problems, or won't for security reasons.
293 * When delivering to an MDA, print error and die (before deleting the message!)
294 if the MDA returns nonzero status. Better safe than sorry.
296 * If fetchmail is called through a link named `popclient' it will look in
297 ~/.poprc for a run control file. Unless that file includes the deleted
298 options limit and localfolder this should actually work.
302 * Makefile fixes for correct linking on Sparcs and avoiding duplication of
303 the md5 files (leading to harmless install-time error messages).
305 * Fix a bonehead coding error in pop3_delete() that was masked by the
306 Intel register architecture. *blush* Thanks to Jay Anderson
307 <anderson@optical.bms.com>.
309 * Fix bug that prevented SMTP from being specified on the defaults line.
311 * Allow program to generate correct lockfiles when USER is undefined
314 * Allow program to run with no .fetchmailrc file again.
316 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
317 fetchmail-1.5 (Thu Oct 3 04:35:15 EDT 1996):
319 * Naturally, my decision to announce 1.4 on comp.os.linux.announce
320 immediately caused the code to manifest its first real bug --
321 a core dump when the "From:" header is spelled "from:" (all lower
324 * Update and expansion of NOTES.
326 * The --all and --flush flag validity checks move to driver.c.
328 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
329 fetchmail-1.4 (Wed Oct 2 09:22:37 1996):
331 * More man page improvements.
333 * Lexer changes to work around bison's "feature" of silently ignoring 0-value
334 tokens (caused options nokeep, norewrite, nofetchall, noskip to be no-ops).
336 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
337 fetchmail-1.3 (Tue Oct 1 05:49:49 1996):
339 * Significant man page improvements.
341 * Escapes for newlines in .fetchmailrc are now optional.
343 * Kill off -2 and -3 options, redundant popclient remnants.
345 * IMAP code simplification and robustification. Use FETCH FLAGS to find
346 seen messages. Code should now work even if unseen messages are
347 interspersed with seen ones, and even if messages are appended to the
348 mailbox during the run.
350 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
351 fetchmail-1.2 (Sat Sep 28 15:40:50 EDT 1996):
353 * The great option massacre. Remove --stdout, --limit, --local, --mda.
354 We get a significant code and complexity shrinkage this way (a lot of the
355 configuration machinery goes away too). These things are your MDA's job.
356 (This also kills off the lose-mail-on-disk-full bug, which I've never
357 seen but two users reported.)
359 * Link APOP support by default.
361 * Fix embarrassing Makefile bug.
363 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
364 fetchmail-1.1 (Sat Sep 28 09:21:10 EDT 1996):
366 * In POP3, don't send LAST if STAT shows count of waiting messages to be zero.
368 * Document APOP better, we know it works now.
370 * Lose the .fetchids file and give up on POP3 UIDs, they're a dead loss.
372 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
373 fetchmail-1.0 (Thu Sep 26 11:59:38 EDT 1996):
375 * SMTP forwarding and header-rewrite features work with POP2 now.
377 * Stricter RFC822 conformance, so SMTP to qmail works. Thanks to
378 Cameron MacPherson <unsound@oz.net> for these changes.
380 * The program is quieter but more informative now (suppress printing of
381 server greeting message; add the server host being queried to the
382 message count information line).
384 * Add `skip' option to make it easier to set up test entries.
386 * Name change (it ain't just for POP any more).
388 ==============================================================================
389 popclient-3.2 (Mon Sep 23 13:29:46 EDT 1996):
391 * RPOP support (coded at a user's request but untested).
393 * Ported to QNX (see the Makefile).
395 * Add code by Michael Schwendt <3schwend@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> for
398 * Improved RFC822 parsing (thanks to Rob Funk).
400 * Move the per-user lockfile to /tmp so it gets cleared at reboot time.
402 * Warn users that running concurrent instances of popclient is a bad idea.
404 * Try USER and HOME to set defaults before going to the password file.
405 This should work better in Sun NIS environments.
407 popclient-3.1 (Thu Sep 12 15:45:25 EDT 1996):
409 * MDA arguments are now dumped when using the -V option.
411 * Sendmail delivery from background seems to work now.
413 * We have IMAP2bis/IMAP4 support.
415 * Code now autoprobes for a POP3, IMAP, or POP2 server if no protocol is
418 * SMTP forwarding support. Thanks to Harry Hochheiser <harry@tigger.jvnc.net>
419 for this simple but clever idea. It's now the default delivery mode.
421 * If no UNIX From line is found, popclient will now synthesize a correct
422 line from the RFC822 From line.
424 * It is now possible to specify the host TCP/IP port number to connect to.
426 popclient-3.05 (Thu Aug 22 22:59:04 EDT 1996):
428 * Experimental support for RFC1725-compliant POP servers with the UIDL
429 command and without LAST.
431 popclient-3.04 (Wed Aug 21 00:22:44 EDT 1996):
433 * Logfile option works.
437 * Minor bug fixes for password querying and redirection to stdout.
439 popclient-3.02 (Fri Jul 19 11:37:56 EDT 1996):
441 * Correct buggy processing of nokeep/noflush/fetchall.
443 * Fix buggy -mda option processing.
445 * Added -N/--norewrite option.
447 * Delivery via sendmail now works in non-daemon mode.
449 popclient-3.01 (Mon Jul 1 13:33:51 EDT 1996):
451 * Fixed a lexical analyzer bug in quoted-string processing.
453 * Fixed a bug in dump_options that caused username to be displayed incorrectly.
455 * The lock assertion code was in the wrong place relative to the daemonize()
458 popclient-3.0 (Fri Jun 28 11:33:34 EDT 1996):
460 Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> hacked extensively on 3.0b6 and took over
461 the package with the consent of Carl Harris, the original implementor.
462 Some of the 3.0 feature additions were inspired by Sean Oh's fetchpop 1.8
463 code, and a few use code directly lifted from fetchpop. Here are my (Eric's)
466 CONFIGURATION AND BUILDING
468 * The autoconfigure script incorrectly assumed that all Linuxes use
469 /usr/bin/deliver. Under Linux it now checks for both /usr/bin/delivermail
472 * I added a distribution-maker production to Makefile.in.
474 OPTIONS AND COMMAND LINE
476 * I have removed the -p command-line option. Given that there's a run control
477 facility there is no excuse for encouraging users to put plaintext passwords
478 in scripts which might be readable.
480 * Calling popclient with no arguments now causes it to query or operate
481 on every host in the run control file.
483 * I have made --version more useful by having it dump the computed
484 connection options for each server specified.
486 * The user can now explicitly set an MDA (such as procmail) with the
487 new option -m or -mda. Various possible MDAs are listed on the man page.
491 * The run control file lexer now supports "-enclosed strings which may
494 * I added a --yydebug option to enable run control parser debugging at
495 runtime if the parser was generated with --debug. It's not documented.
497 * You may now have a `defaults' entry in the run control file which sets
498 overrideable values for other entries. See the man page for details.
500 * It is now possible to set keep, flush and fetchall in your run control
503 * Fixed incorrect numbering of source lines in run control file parse error
506 * The configure.in specification no longer uses the obsolete AC_TRY_COMPILE
507 macro (it uses AC_TRY_LINK instead).
511 * I have added mandatory locking of mailbox files where supported.
512 This will cover Linux systems, in particular.
514 * The default behavior is now to do lock-protected append on the user's
515 system mailbox rather than using delivermail or some other MDA.
516 (This is a performance hack.)
518 * The autoconfigure script now looks for standard mail locations. The
519 default mail delivery agent is used only if it can't find a mail spool
520 directory in the standard places.
522 FUNCTIONAL ENHANCEMENTS
524 * When using POP3, message headers are edited so that replies won't foo up.
525 Anything that looks like a mail ID local to the POP host gets @ and the
526 pop servername attached to it before being appended to the user's
527 mailbox or passed to an MDA.
529 * I have implemented daemon mode.
531 * I have added a lock check to ensure that there is only one popclient
532 running per user, and a --quit option to kill the currently running
537 * All changes and feature additions have been tested in actual use and are
538 documented on the man page.
540 * I have turned the comments in the sample run control file into a new manual
541 section documenting the file format.
543 MISCELLANEOUS BUG FIXES
545 * I fixed some de-initialization bugs in pop2.c and pop3.c that led to
546 fd leaks (these became painfully obvious when I tested daemon mode!).
548 * I've fixed the flaky parser error messages. They turned out to be due
549 to a misdeclaration of yytext.
551 These are Carl Harris's change notes from previous releases:
554 o "From " header fix in pop2.c and pop3.c
555 o Surpress "..." output when --stdout option specified in pop3.c
559 o various diagnostic/informational message fixes.
562 o Support for retrieving only new messages from maildrop when
564 o Support for retrieving only the first n lines of each message
566 o APOP authentication support.
567 o Buffered socket input.
570 This is a "new features" release.
571 o support for .poprc file.
572 o GNU-style long options.
573 o fixed passwords appearing in 'ps' output
574 o support for multiple servers on one command line
577 This is mostly a test of the autoconfigure integration.
578 Among the functions performed by the new configure script, is
579 the ability to detect known system types, configures the mail
580 delivery agent (MDA) correctly. This should permanently solve
581 the problem of using something other than an MDA for mail
582 delivery (which continues to plague Linux slackware 1.2.9).
583 For this beta, please check the values of MDA_PATH and MDA_ARGS
584 carefully. They should match the values found in your
585 sendmail.cf file on the line which begins with "Mlocal".
587 Other changes from popclient version 2.21:
589 o no longer uses getpass() from the C library. The
590 internal getpassword() function allows the use of long
593 o integrated GNU getopt() for long options. Long option
594 names will appear in a future beta.
596 o Several compiler warnings fixed.
598 o Fixed problems related to missing include files in