5 * Fixed a lexical analyzer bug in quoted-string processing.
7 * Fixed a bug in dump_options that cauded username to be displayed incorrectly.
9 * The lock assertion code was in the wrong place relative to the daemonize()
14 Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> hacked extensively on 3.0b6 and took over
15 the package with the consent of Carl Harris, the original implementor.
16 Some of the 3.0 feature additions were inspired by Sean Oh's fetchpop 1.8
17 code, and a few use code directly lifted from fetchpop. Here are my (Eric's)
20 CONFIGURATION AND BUILDING
22 * The autoconfigure script incorrectly assumed that all Linuxes use
23 /usr/bin/deliver. Under Linux it now checks for both /usr/bin/delivermail
26 * I added a distribution-maker production to Makefile.in.
28 OPTIONS AND COMMAND LINE
30 * I have removed the -p command-line option. Given that there's a .poprc
31 facility there is no excuse for encouraging users to put plaintext passwords
32 in scripts which might be readable.
34 * Calling popclient with no arguments now causes it to query or operate
35 on every host in the .poprc file.
37 * I have made --version more useful by having it dump the computed
38 connection options for each server specified.
40 * The user can now explicitly set an MDA (such as procmail) with the
41 new option -m or -mda. Various possible MDAs are listed on the man page.
45 * The .poprc lexer now supports "-enclosed strings which may contain
48 * I added a --yydebug option to enable .poprc parser debugging at runtime
49 if the parser was generated with --debug. It's not documented.
51 * You may now have a `defaults' entry in .poprc which sets overrideable
52 values for other entries. See the man page for details.
54 * It is now possible to set keep, flush and fetchall in your .poprc file.
56 * Fixed incorrect numbering of source lines in .poprc parse error messages.
58 * The configure.in specification no longer uses the obsolete AC_TRY_COMPILE
59 macro (it uses AC_TRY_LINK instead).
63 * I have added mandatory locking of mailbox files where supported.
64 This will cover Linux systems, in particular.
66 * The default behavior is now to do lock-protected append on the user's
67 system mailbox rather than using delivermail or some other MDA.
68 (This is a performance hack.)
70 * The autoconfigure script now looks for standard mail locations. The
71 default mail delivery agent is used only if it can't find a mail spool
72 directory in the standard places.
74 FUNCTIONAL ENHANCEMENTS
76 * When using POP3, message headers are edited so that replies won't foo up.
77 Anything that looks like a mail ID local to the POP host gets @ and the
78 pop servername attached to it before being appended to the user's
79 mailbox or passed to an MDA.
81 * I have implemented daemon mode.
83 * I have added a lock check to ensure that there is only one popclient
84 running per user, and a --quit option to kill the currently running
89 * All changes and feature additions have been tested in actual use and are
90 documented on the man page.
92 * I have turned the comments in the sample.poprc into a new manual
93 section documenting the .poprc format.
95 MISCELLANEOUS BUG FIXES
97 * I fixed some de-initialization bugs in pop2.c and pop3.c that led to
98 fd leaks (these became painfully obvious when I tested daemon mode!).
100 * I've fixed the flaky parser error messages. They turned out to be due
101 to a misdeclaration of yytext.
103 There's only one feature I haven't been able to add successfully. I
104 want a --logfile option that redirects the daemon-mode output to a
105 given file, but the code (in daemon.c near 200) unaccountably doesn't
106 work (so I haven't documented it yet).
108 These are Carl Harris's change notes from prevuious releases:
111 o "From " header fix in pop2.c and pop3.c
112 o Surpress "..." output when --stdout option specified in pop3.c
116 o various diagnostic/informational message fixes.
119 o Support for retrieving only new messages from maildrop when
121 o Support for retrieving only the first n lines of each message
123 o APOP authentication support.
124 o Buffered socket input.
127 This is a "new features" release.
128 o support for .poprc file.
129 o GNU-style long options.
130 o fixed passwords appearing in 'ps' output
131 o support for multiple servers on one command line
134 This is mostly a test of the autoconfigure integration.
135 Among the functions performed by the new configure script, is
136 the ability to detect known system types, configures the mail
137 delivery agent (MDA) correctly. This should permanently solve
138 the problem of using something other than an MDA for mail
139 delivery (which continues to plague Linux slackware 1.2.9).
140 For this beta, please check the values of MDA_PATH and MDA_ARGS
141 carefully. They should match the values found in your
142 sendmail.cf file on the line which begins with "Mlocal".
144 Other changes from popclient version 2.21:
146 o no longer uses getpass() from the C library. The
147 internal getpassword() function allows the use of long
150 o integrated GNU getopt() for long options. Long option
151 names will appear in a future beta.
153 o Several compiler warnings fixed.
155 o Fixed problems related to missing include files in