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 these features from a 6.3.X release, but they may
13 be removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.)
14 * The MX and host alias DNS lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode
15 are based on assumptions that are rarely met in practice, somewhat defective,
16 deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version. They have
17 never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4).
18 Non-DNS based alias keywords such as "aka" will remain in fetchmail.
19 * The monitor and interface options may be removed from a future fetchmail
20 version as they are not reasonably portable.
21 * POP2 is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail version.
22 * RPOP is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail release.
23 * --sslcertck will become a default setting in a future fetchmail version.
24 * The multidrop To/Cc guessing code along with the fragile duplicate suppressor
25 is deprecated and may be removed from a future release.
26 * The "envelope Received" option may be removed from a future release, because
27 the Received header was never meant to be machine-readable, the format varies
28 widely, and various other differences in behavior make parsing Received an
29 unreliable undertaking. The envelope option as such will remain though, in
30 order to support Delivered-To, X-Envelope-To, X-Original-To and similar.
31 See also <http://home.pages.de/~mandree/mail/multidrop>.
32 * The --enable-fallback (fall back to MDA if MTA unavailable) will be removed
33 from a future fetchmail release, because it makes fetchmail's behavior
34 inconsistent and confusing.
35 * The "protocol auto" default inside fetchmail may be removed from a future
36 fetchmail release. Explicit configuration of the protocol is recommended.
37 * Kerberos IV support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
38 * SIGHUP wakeup support may be removed from a future fetchmail release and
39 cause fetchmail to terminate - it was broken for many years.
40 * Support for operating systems that are not sufficiently POSIX compliant may be
41 removed or operation on such systems may be suboptimal for future releases.
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45 fetchmail 6.3.8 (not yet released):
47 # SECURITY STRENGTHENING:
48 * Make the APOP challenge parser more distrustful and have it reject challenges
49 that do not conform to RFC-822 msg-id format, in the hope to make mounting
50 man-in-the-middle attacks (MITM) against APOP a bit more difficult.
53 APOP is claimed insecure by Gaëtan Leurent for MITM scenarios for typical
54 setups: based on MD5 collisions, it is purportedly possible to recover the
55 first three characters of the shared secret (password), which would then make
56 recovery of the shared secret a matter of hours or minutes; this would then
57 enable the attacker to impersonate the client vis-à-vis the server.
59 For further details, check
60 * Gaëtan Leurent, "Message Freedom in MD4 and MD5 Collisions: Application
61 to APOP", Fast Software Encryption 2007, Luxembourg. (Proceedings to appear in
62 Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science.)
63 * The mailing list discussion thread at
64 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-devel/2007-March/000887.html>
67 * Fix pluralization of oversized-message warning mails.
68 * Fix manual page: --sslcheck -> --sslcertck, and do not set trailing
69 "recommended:" in bold. Fixes Debian Bug #413059, reported by Rafal Czlonka.
70 * Repoll immediately if a protocol error happens during the authentication
71 attempt after a failed opportunistic TLS upgrade.
72 Fixes comment #9 in Gentoo Bug #163782, reported by Takuto Matsuu.
73 * Fix rendering of the "24 - 26, 28, 29" paragraph in the exit codes section.
74 Reported by Nico Golde.
75 * If SOCKS support was compiled in, add 'socks' to the feature_options Python
76 list emitted in --configdump. Reported by Rob MacGregor.
77 * Do not crash with a null pointer dereference when opening the BSMTP file
78 fails. Improve error checking and reporting. Reported by Reto Schüttel,
79 Debian Bug#416625. Fix based on a patch by Nico Golde.
80 * Make BSMTP output actually work, it would persistently fail with SOCKET error
81 after writing the first header.
84 * Extend --mda documentation, discourage use of qmail-inject.
85 Based on a patch by Rob MacGregor.
86 * Document SOCKS configuration facility (SOCKS_CONF environment variable).
87 Thanks to Jochen Hayek, Michael Shuldman and Rob MacGregor.
88 * Use envelope option in multidrop example. Patch by Rob MacGregor.
89 * Document expected Received: line format when parsing for envelope addressees.
90 * Stripped option documentation from sample.rcfile, since this is bound to go
91 out of synch with the manual page, which is the only reference on options.
94 * Add delete-later and delete-later.README, a script and documentation for
95 a MySQL/Tcl-based client-side "delete-after" feature.
96 Kindly donated by Yoo GmbH, Großvoigtsberg, Germany (Carsten Ralle).
98 # KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS:
99 (this section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the
100 current release information)
101 * fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
102 (See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
103 * Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in
104 64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit
105 fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code,
106 so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties.
107 * fetchmail does not track pending deletes over crashes
108 * the command line interface is a bit narrow-minded sometimes, for instance,
109 fetchmail -s doesn't work with a running daemon
110 * some of the logging output is not very helpful
111 * some of the documentation is still not up to date
115 fetchmail 6.3.7 (released 2007-02-18):
117 # FIXES FOR REGRESSIONS IN 6.3.6
118 * Fix KPOP. Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
119 * Fix repoll when server disconnects after opportunistic TLS failed for POP3.
120 Berlios Bug #10133 = Gentoo Bug #163782 reported by Andrej Kacian.
122 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
123 * Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki), Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
126 * Consider getaddrinfo() on Darwin 9 (Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard") thread-safe.
127 Reported by Uli Zappe.
130 fetchmail 6.3.6 (released 2007-01-04):
133 * CVE-2006-5867, fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt:
134 Password disclosure vulnerability fixed. This has several aspects:
136 - Fetchmail now implies sslproto 'tls1' if the sslfingerprint or sslcertck
137 options are used and the ssl option is not used, in order to be sure that
138 fetchmail gets a certificate from the mail server.
140 - Fetchmail breaks the connection if the TLS negotiation (or verification, if
141 requested) fails with sslproto 'tls1', sslfingerprint or sslcheck enabled.
143 - POP3 connections now use STLS reliably. They used to ignore STLS altogether
144 for serveral values of the "auth" option, when fetchmail forget to probe
145 server capabilities - see fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt for details.
147 - POP3 connections will no longer fall back USER/PASS authentication if
148 strong challenge-response authenticators such as CRAM-MD5 are configured
149 but the server does not advertise these in its CAPA response.
151 - POP2 is obsolete and does not support STLS or anything beyond password-based
152 authentication. The attempt to use STLS or strong authenticators now causes
155 Configurations using both ssl and sslcertck however have been semi-safe in
156 that they would send the password in the clear. The USER/PASS fallback
157 problem however applies to these too, so that the password was only safe on
160 * CVE-2006-5974, fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt:
161 Repairs a regression in 6.3.5 that crashes fetchmail when a message with
162 invalid headers is found while fetchmail's mda option is in use. BerliOS bugs
163 #9364, #9412, #9449. Stack backtrace provided by Neil Hoggarth - thanks.
165 # REGRESSION FIXES (recently introduced bugs)
166 * Repair --logfile, broken in 6.3.5. BerliOS Bug #9059,
167 reported by Brian Harring.
168 * Repair --user, broken in 6.3.5 (as a side effect of the authenticate external
169 patch): using SSL certificate/key authentication overrode the --user option.
170 Now the latter takes precedence, and only defaults to the certificate's common
171 name. Debian Bug #400950, reported by Jorgen Schaefer <forcer@debian.org>.
173 # BUG FIXES (long-standing bugs):
174 * RPOP: used to log the password locally rather than an asterisk as the other
175 protocols do. The password is now shrouded in the local logs.
176 * POP3: Probes capabilities now when Kerberos V5 is enabled, so that we can
177 actually detect if the server supports it.
178 * Robustness: If a stale lockfile cannot be deleted, truncate it so that
179 fetchmail doesn't later believe itself to be running if the PID is recycled
180 by a non-fetchmail process.
181 * DNS: Detect /etc/resolv.conf changes: On systems that have res_search(),
182 assume we also have res_init() and call it (suggested by Ulrich Drepper,
183 glibc bug #3675) in order to make libc or libresolv reread the resolver
184 configuration at the beginning of a poll cycle. This is important when
185 fetchmail is in daemon mode and /etc/resolv.conf is changed later by dhcpcd,
186 dhclient, pppd, openvpn or other ip-up/ipchange scripts. Should fix Debian
187 Bug#389270, Bug#391698.
188 * Robustness: Fix crash on systems that do not provide strdup(), the crash
189 happens only in out-of-memory conditions when fetchmail cannot proceed
190 anyways. Patch by Andreas Krennmair.
191 * Robustness: When HOME and FETCHMAILHOME are unset, be sure to copy user
192 database information, so it is not trashed later. Patch by Jim Correia.
195 * Workaround: Improve handling of IMAP IDLE, some servers do not reset their
196 time counters after sending information asynchronously. Patch by Sunil
197 Shetye, after report from Andrew Baumann.
198 * Usability: When requesting Kerberos or GSSAPI, complain and exit with syntax
199 error if any of these requested features has not been compiled in. This is
200 to fail early and with precise error message. Reported by Isaac Wilcox.
201 * --version will now add +KRB4 or +KRB5 if Kerberos v4 or v5, respectively, have
202 been compiled in. Reported missing by Isaac Wilcox.
205 * New en_GB (British English) translation by David Lodge.
206 * Update Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki), Polish (Jakub Bogusz), Russian (Pavel
207 Maryanov) and Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall) translations.
208 ! Note that not all these translations are complete -- this isn't the
209 translators' fault though, but due to delays at the BerliOS hosting site and
210 the translation project handlers. You may see a few untranslated messages.
213 * Dropped exit status 15 from manual page, it's not used by fetchmail.
214 Reported by Isaac Wilcox.
215 * Documented exit codes 24 - 29 as internal.
217 fetchmail 6.3.5 (released 2006-10-09):
220 * For protocols such as IMAP that are not delimited by "." lines, truncate the
221 input buffer when the message has been completely read, to avoid taking
222 trailing garbage into the message if the terminal CRLF is missing. Fixes
223 Debian Bug#312415. (Patch suggested by Mike Jones, Manchester Univ.).
224 * When using NTLM authentication, use regular IMAP response code handler after
225 completing NTLM handshake, for robustness and consistency.
226 (Taken from the NetBSD portable packages collection, patch-ac.)
227 * Support Kerberos installations where krb5.h and perhaps roken.h are in
228 .../include/krb5. Taken from NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ae.
229 * On NetBSD, link against -lroken -lcom_err if --with-kerberos is enabled.
230 * Drop #include <com_err.h> from Kerberos 5 header file, fixes compile error on
232 * Fix des_pcbc_encrypt compile warnings in kerberos.c line 246.
233 * If krb5-config provides gssapi library information, use that rather than
235 * Improve --with-gssapi auto detection for /usr-based GSSAPI installs.
236 * Fix --with-gssapi builds for NetBSD 3.0.
237 * Improve KAME/getnameinfo.c portability to Linux libc5 systems.
238 Based on a patch by Dan Fandrich.
239 * Provide INET6 to KAME/getnameinfo.c (only useful on IPv6-enabled systems that
240 lack getnameinfo, and there only visible in some Received: headers).
241 Found by Dan Fandrich.
242 * POP3: some UID flags may not be set properly on UIDL lists. (Sunil Shetye)
243 * Make IMAP4 IDLE work on servers that do not update RECENT counts.
244 Reported by Lars Tewes.
245 * IMAP4 patch by Sunil Shetye:
246 - do not depend on server updating RECENT counts at all
247 - also enter IDLE loop when messages are present on the server.
248 * Fix --flush description in the manual page, fetchmail does not mark messages
249 seen unless it has successfully delivered them. Suggested by Frederic Marchal.
250 * Fetchmail no longer attempts to stat the "-" file in daemon mode -- this is a
251 special name to read the RC file from stdin, and cannot always be re-read
252 anyways. BerliOS bug #7858.
253 * When looking up ports for a service, the lookup succeeds and the returned
254 address family isn't IPv4 or IPv6, properly free the allocated memory from the
255 service lookup. Found by Uli Zappe.
256 * When looking up ports for a service, only look up TCP ports.
257 * Avoid compiling empty files, to avoid diagnostics from strict compilers.
258 * If the lockfile ends before the process ID, treat it as stale and unlink it.
259 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #376603.
260 * SIGHUP wake-up behavior was broken since 5.9.13's Cygwin changes, in that for
261 non-root users, SIGHUP would abort the first poll and subsequently interfere
262 with new polls, and SIGHUP would be ignored for root users. SIGHUP now matches
263 documented behavior. SIGUSR1 has always been a wakeup signal for both root
264 (undocumented) and non-root users. See also the deprecation warning above.
265 * Track getaddrinfo() results to properly free them after timeouts and make sure
266 that getaddrinfo() isn't interrupted by a timeout (which breaks on MacOS X),
267 reported by Uli Zappe. This should fix Debian Bug#294547 and Bug#377135.
268 * --logfile is now handled more carefully, errors opening the logfile are
269 now reported to the TTY where fetchmail was started from.
270 * fetchmail now complains and aborts when it cannot properly daemonize itself.
271 * fix compilation on systems that don't know struct addrinfo (Solaris 2.6).
272 * ignore SIGPIPE signals and rely on functions to return EPIPE instead. This is
273 necessary because the former longjmp() from the signal handler is unsafe and
274 makes the whole fetchmail behavior undefined after the event.
275 * Avoid crash in env.c/host_fqdn if we cannot canonicalize our own hostname.
276 Reported by Alexander Holler.
277 * SSL fix by Miloslav Trmac (Red Hat): free the SSL contexts after the
278 connection, to avoid from growing SSL certpaths without bounds, avoid using
279 SSL contexts for unrelated connections, and to fix Red Hat Bug #206346.
282 * Rename all fetchmail-internal lock_* functions to fm_lock_*. Obsoletes
283 NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ah, patch-ai and patch-aj.
284 * Configure prints a warning (but proceeds) if Kerberos IV support is enabled.
285 * In verbose mode, log every IP fetchmail tries to connect to, to avoid
286 misleading the user. Suppress EAFNOSUPPORT errors from socket() call, too.
287 Fixes Debian Bug #361825, reported by Daniel Baur.
288 * In idle mode, fetchmail complains about the fetchall option.
289 * When a connection fails, log not only the IP address, but also host and
290 service name and the port number. Log the latter when trying to connect in
292 * Keep syslog output at one line per message (this works if no errors occur).
293 * Fetchmail in verbose mode now logs if it opportunistically upgrades a POP3
294 or IMAP connection to TLS security with STLS/STARTTLS.
295 * fetchmail now supports foo@example.org=bar user mappings for multidrop boxes.
296 * switch setjmp/longjmp to sigsetjmp/siglongjmp
297 * IMAP now supports the EXTERNAL authentication method, courtesy of
298 Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095 with minor changes.
299 Note that this change causes --sslcert to override --user.
300 * The sslproto keywords are now case insensitive, courtesy of
301 Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095.
302 * When going to sleep, log for how long. Suggested by Claudia Ludwig.
303 * When the server name cannot be canonicalized, log the gai_strerror value.
305 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
306 * Catalan/ca (Ernest Adrogué Calveras), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki) - also
307 made gettext 0.15 ready, Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Russian/ru (Pavel
308 Maryanov), Spanish/es (Héctor García Álvarez), Vietnamese/vi (Clytie Siddall)
310 # CONTRIBUTED SCRIPTS:
311 * PopDel.py was revised by Joshua Crawford to display the From: address and
312 list every email, even if it has no Subject: header; and not delete the wrong
313 message in the presence of mail without Subject: headers.
315 fetchmail 6.3.4 (released 2006-04-14):
318 * configure: detect res_* functions properly with newer glibc ABIs.
319 Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
320 * tracepolls: add folder information if available. Reported by Terry Brown.
321 * lexer: add %option noyywrap to avoid link errors about missing yywrap().
322 * a few more type fixes for report/snprintf, patch by Miloslav Trmac.
323 * bouncing: fetchmail would still send "General SMTP/ESMTP error." bounces
324 in spite of "no bouncemail" configuration.
325 * SSL/TLS: if, for a certain server, an sslfingerprint is specified and
326 sslcertck is NOT set, suppress printing SSL certificate mismatch errors.
327 (Reported by Hannes Erven.)
328 * SSL/TLS: always print if the sslfingerprint mismatches, even in silent
329 mode. (This is for consistency with certificate verification errors.)
331 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
332 * German/de (Matthias Andree), French/fr (Matthias Andree), Spanish/es (Héctor
333 García), Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki)
334 * New Vietnamese/vi translation (Clytie Siddall).
335 * Updated French descriptions for the .spec file (Stéphane Schildknecht,
336 Luc Pionchon, Matthias Andree).
339 * pidfile: there is a new command-line (--pidfile PATH) and global option for
340 the rcfile (set pidfile [=] "/path/to/pidfile") option to allow overriding
341 the default location of the PID file.
342 Requested by Héctor García, Debian maintainer.
343 * specgen.sh: Converted to UTF-8 to support translated texts better.
345 fetchmail 6.3.3 (released 2006-03-30):
348 * SEGFAULT: Do not attempt to overwrite the netrc password if none has been
349 specified. This fixes a segmentation fault bug introduced into 6.3.2.
350 Fixes BerliOS bug #6234. BerliOS patch #804 by Craig Leres.
351 The patch, as accepted into fetchmail, was available separately from
352 <http://download.berlios.de/fetchmail/patch-6.3.2.1-fix-netrc-SIGSEGV.diff>
353 * SEGFAULT: Work around C libraries that return a NULL in getaddrinfo()'s
354 ai_canonname record, to avoid a segfault. Affects for instance FreeBSD 4.10,
355 4.11 and 5.3 when dotted quads are given as server names.
356 Analysis and fix by Vladimir Olegovich Ravodin (Владимир Олегович Раводин).
357 * IMAP: fix hangs in NOOP-based IDLE emulation. Reported by Casper Gripenberg
358 and Brendan Lynch, fix by Sunil Shetye (his patch was merged) and Brendan Lynch.
359 * IMAP: Handle other clients concurrently accessing IMAP mailboxes better.
360 Fetchmail quits the poll if the EXPUNGE count does not match expectations, and
361 servers not updating RECENT counts after EXPUNGE are handled in a better way.
362 (Patch by Sunil Shetye.)
363 * IMAP: Stop sending EXPUNGE after NOOP-idling (patch by Sunil Shetye).
364 * POP3: fetchmail can now use UIDL in fetchall keep mode, to avoid re-fetching
365 the same messages again when the fetchall keyword is removed. Patch by
366 Sunil Shetye. For details, please see
367 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2006-March/000308.html>
368 * LMTP: fix bug in LMTP port validation (patch by Miloslav Trmac).
369 * SDPS: fetchmail no longer replaces the local user ID for an empty envelope
370 sender when using the proprietary SDPS extension for POP3.
371 Fixes Debian Bug#353575, reported by Roger Lynn.
372 * SDPS: Warn and disable SDPS if POP3 is disabled to avoid compilation errors.
373 * fetchmail no longer prints empty lines in verbose mode when using syslog.
374 * fetchmail no longer prints UID lists in verbose mode when using syslog.
375 * ./configure --quiet is now quieter (no SSL and fallback-related output).
376 * Miloslav Trmac's patch (with minor changes) to fix char * sign consistency,
377 unused arguments and variables.
378 * More signedness, unused argument/variable and other warning fixes.
381 * --idle can now be specified on the command line, too.
382 * --fetchall is now supported on the command-line.
383 * POP3: Lower default fastuidl span to 4 (i. e. every 4th run fetches the
384 whole UIDL list), patch by Sunil Shetye.
387 * "ssl" is a user option rather than a server option. Patch by Nico Golde.
388 Fixes Debian Bug#354661, reported by Keith Hellman.
389 * The manual page now suggests "--" before the addresses in the sendmail MDA
391 * The FAQ item X9, Domino IMAP omits Content-Transfer-Encoding header, was
392 added. Information provided by Anthony Kim on the fetchmail-friends list
394 * Credit Chris Boyle with the NOOP emulation code for IDLE in fetchmail 6.2.4.
395 Eric forgot to credit Chris, thanks to Sunil Shetye for providing these links:
396 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007705.html
397 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007713.html
398 * Added a section about RETR vs. TOP to the manual page.
399 * Changed section/subsection levels in some areas.
401 fetchmail 6.3.2 (released 2006-01-22):
403 Unless otherwise noted, changes to this release were made by Matthias Andree.
405 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
406 * CVE-2006-0321: Fix segfault or bus error after bouncing a message. This bug
407 was introduced into 6.3.0 when removing alloca(); it caused fetchmail to free
408 random memory. Reported by Nathaniel W. Turner, Debian Bug#348747.
409 See fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt
411 # INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE:
412 * Automatically disable the POP3 TOP command if the greeting string contains
413 "Maillennium POP3/PROXY server", which is used by comcast and known to
414 truncate messages after 80 kByte. Fall back to RETR, and complain if we had
415 used TOP otherwise (the warning is printed only once per server in daemon
416 mode). Suggested by Ed Wilts.
417 *Note* that this means messages are marked read on these servers, which is a
418 deviation from how 6.3.1 behaved, but we have no alternative, comcast haven't
419 fixed this bug in years. Preventing the loss of the remainder of the message
420 justifies this incompatible fix.
421 * fetchmail, since 6.3.0, requires write permission to the directory holding the
422 idfile. See the amendment in the 6.3.0 MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES section
423 below for details. The manual page was updated.
425 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS:
426 * The outdated BUGS document was removed from the distribution.
427 * Added fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt to the distribution.
430 * SMTP/LMTP cleanup to fix these two bugs:
431 - switch back to SMTP after having tried LMTP hosts (multiple smtphost hosts)
432 - switch back to LMTP after sending a bounce.
433 The patch removes the global state variable that was the root of this problem.
434 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
435 * Don't complain about fetchall keep in --configdump mode. Bug introduced in
437 * fetchmailconf.py: Fix novice help for Poll interval and fetchall.
438 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #344978.
439 * Some verbose output disappeared in debug mode. Adding further -v options would
440 alternate between verbose and debug mode. debug mode now comprises all verbose
441 output, and adding more -v options does not switch back from debug to verbose
443 * fetchmail.man: Fix accented characters in Héctor García's name. Merged from
444 downstream debian/patches/01_man_page.dpatch.
445 * Add missing --help text for "--sslcertck" option.
446 * fetchmailconf.py: Accept --help and --version.
447 * fetchmail --version now prints the copyright notice.
448 * don't complain about READ-ONLY IMAP folders in --fetchall --keep mode.
449 Reported Alexander Zangerl, Debian Bug#348964.
450 * the RPM .spec file now generates a -debuginfo package on newer RPM versions.
452 fetchmail 6.3.1 (released 2005-12-19):
454 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
455 * CVE-2005-4348 Fix segmentation fault (null pointer dereference) in
456 multidrop mode with headerless email. See fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt.
457 Reported by Daniel Drake, patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
459 # OTHER BUG FIXES, DOCUMENTATION AND TRANSLATION UPDATES
460 * Fix broken default port in POP2. Patch by Stanislav Brabec, SUSE [CZ]. (MA)
461 * Fix manual page, some lines starting with ' were escaped by \&.
462 Reported by Simon Barner. (MA)
463 * Ship with gettext-0.14.3 again, as 6.2.9-rc10 did. Found by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
464 * Actually set default SSL certificate path if --sslcertpath is unset.
465 Reported by Heino Tiedemann and Rob MacGregor. (MA)
466 * Remove bogus Netscape IMAP4rev1 Service >= 3.6 warning about BODY[TEXT]
467 that we are not using. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
468 * Plug potential memory and socket leak when polling multiple folders or when
469 the upstream sends bogus message sizes. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
470 * Update Catalan translation, by Ernest Adrogué Calveras. (MA)
471 * Fix segfault (null pointer dereference) on some operating systems with
472 fetchmail's obsolete DNS MX/host alias lookups in multidrop mode.
473 Patch by Dr.-Ing. Andreas Haakh. (MA)
474 * Close SMTP sockets early, to reduce resource usage, trigger earlier delivery
475 with some MTAs and avoid SIGPIPE (SIG 13) when the SMTP listener gets bored
476 and drops the connection after timeout. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
477 * Don't treat hitting a fetch limit as error. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
478 * Fix negative "messages left on server" on idle/repoll with fetchlimit.
479 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
480 * Properly track logout stage. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
481 * Preserve error conditions across postconnect script. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
482 * Do not trash destination domain if multiple messages are forwarded into the
483 same SMTP/LMTP connection. Reported by Joachim Feise, Berlios Bug #5849. (MA)
484 * Manual page: Add "-md5" to "openssl x509" example in --sslfingerprint
485 documentation, since OpenSSL 0.9.8 changed the default to SHA1.
486 Suggested by Jason White. (MA)
487 * Cope with servers that return UID information in response to non-UID
488 RFC822.{SIZE|HEADER} requests. Reported by Jason White.
489 Patch suggestion by by Sunil Shetye, simplified by MA.
491 fetchmail 6.3.0 (released 2005-11-30):
493 # SECURITY FIXES IN THIS RELEASE
494 * CVE-2005-2335: The POP3 UIDL code doesn't sufficiently validate/truncate the
495 input length, so a (malicious or compromised) server that sends UIDs longer
496 than 128 bytes can corrupt fetchmail's stack and crash fetchmail.
497 This vulnerability is remotely exploitable to inject code run in a
498 root shell. Edward J. Shornock, Ludwig Nussel. fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
499 * CVE-2005-3088: fetchmailconf now changes the output file to mode 0600 BEFORE
500 writing to it, so there is no window where passwords could be read by the
501 world. Matthias Andree. fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt
503 # MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
504 * Remove support for --netsec/-T options, the required inet6_apps library is no
506 http://www.inner.net/pub/ipv6/ states, as of 2005-07-03: "/pub/ipv6
507 Our IPv6 software is now long defunct. Please find a more modern source."
508 I haven't been able to find a more modern source. Matthias Andree
509 * Operating systems that do not conform to the Single Unix Specification v2
510 (1997) or v3 (2001, aka IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) are no longer supported. They
511 may continue to work and non-intrusive patches to support them may be
512 accepted. Matthias Andree
513 * The default for --smtphost is now always "localhost" regardless of
514 authentication types and protocols, so as to simplify configurations for
515 workstations where the SMTP daemon only listens on the loopback interface.
516 Sunil Shetye & Matthias Andree
517 Amendment, 2006-01-04:
518 * fetchmail's idfile (.fetchids) is no longer written directly, but the ids are
519 written to a temporary file which is renamed into place after being written
520 completely. This is to avoid writing incomplete idfiles when running out of
521 space, which would cause excessive duplicate refetches of messages, this might
522 make matters even worse. This means that fetchmail requires write permission
523 on the directory holding the idfile. This will usually affect system-global
524 daemons only, for instance, Debian. Found by Dan Jacobson. Matthias Andree.
525 Escalated to "incompatible", 2006-01-13:
526 * Try to obtain FQDN as our own host by default, rather than using "localhost".
527 If hostname cannot be qualified, complain noisily and continue, unless
528 Kerberos, ODMR or ETRN are used (these have always required an FQDN).
529 Partial fix of Debian Bug#150137. Fixes Debian Bug#316454. Matthias Andree
531 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS AND USERS
532 * fetchmailconf is now a shell wrapper that calls the byte-compiled
533 fetchmailconf.py script, which is now installed in the regular python
534 directory. Matthias Andree.
535 * The --enable-inet6 configure option was removed. The code is mostly protocol
536 agnostic, a fully IPv6 aware OS is expected to provide getaddrinfo(),
537 getnameinfo() and the macro AF_INET6. Matthias Andree.
538 * gettext (intl/) has been removed from the fetchmail package. Install GNU
539 gettext 0.14 separately for NLS (i18n). Matthias Andree
540 * Added Russian translation, courtesy of Pavel Maryanov of the
541 Russian translation team. (MA)
542 * Updated and re-enabled Czech translation, by Miloslav Trmac (MA).
543 * Dropped da=Danish, el=Greek and tr=Turkish translations which have more than
544 10% (61+) untranslated or fuzzy messages. Matthias Andree.
546 # OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
547 * Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR)
548 * PopDel.py removed from contrib at author's request. (ESR)
549 * Matthias Andree's fix for Sunil Shetye's fetch-split patch. (ESR)
550 * Include James Stone's moldremover.py script. (ESR)
551 * Enable .fetchmailrc permissions checking under Cygwin. (ESR)
552 * Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication. (ESR)
553 * Revised Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication (the
554 original version would go into an infinite loop when CAPA failed;
555 found by David Greaves.) (MA)
556 * HOME_ETC patch for PLD Linux. (ESR)
557 * Sunil Shetye's fix for SSL configuration. (ESR)
558 * Simon Josefsson's patch for GSS library support. (ESR)
559 * Added Andrey Lelikov's recipe for Hotmail and Lycos Webmail. (ESR)
560 * Remove blank between MAIL FROM: and <, which causes Cyrus to complain.
561 Patch by Phil Endecott. (RF)
562 * Build fixes for HESIOD and resolv.h trouble on FreeBSD. (MA)
563 * Fabrice Bellet's fix for Red Hat bug #113492, fetchmail hangs in IMAP
564 mode after EXPUNGE when the server (Dovecot 0.99.10) doesn't update
565 RECENT and EXISTS counts. (MA)
566 * Holger Mauermann's bounce patch, to use a NULL envelope from, not
567 write a Return-Path header (both to meet RFC-2821), changed From,
568 added Subject header, rewording the human readable part. Fixes Debian
570 * Merge Sunil Shetye's time.h handling fix. (MA)
571 * Merge Gerd von Egidy's patch to avoid a segfault in multidrop/received
572 mode when the Received: headers are malformatted. (MA)
573 * MIME-encode bodies and Subject headers of warning messages, limiting
574 the header to 7 bits. (MA)
575 * Normalize most locale codesets to IANA codesets, based on
576 norm_charmap.c by Markus Kuhn. (MA)
577 * Remove sleep(3) after POP3 login, patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
578 * Fix option parsing bug that trashes the showdots setting when more
579 than one server is configured. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
580 * Honor sslcertpath setting even if sslcertck is unset. Patch by Brian
582 * SSL certificate checking fixes, don't display same error message twice
583 in succession, make sure that Common Name and fingerprint checking are
584 only done once. Print all validation warnings/errors even if not in
585 verbose mode. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
586 * Import Bjorn Reese and Daniel Stenberg's MIT-licensed Trio 1.10 from
587 http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/ for systems that do not support
588 snprintf or vsnprintf. (MA)
589 * Clean up the horrible #ifdef HAVE_[V]SNPRINTF that made the code
590 unreadable. Use Trio where [v]snprintf is/are missing. (MA)
591 * Default to Linux 2.2 /proc/net/dev format, and use uname(2) to determine the
592 kernel version instead of calling uname(1). Thanks to Paul Slootman. (MA)
593 * Be more careful when swapping UID lists or writing the .fetchids file,
594 requested by Manfred Weihs. (MA)
595 * Print a warning if multidrop configuration is attempted without
596 envelope option. (MA)
597 * Split information on fetchmail versions before 6.0.0 to a separate
599 * Merge SuSE patches: (sent by Stanislav Brabec, merged by Matthias Andree)
600 - fetchmail-6.2.5-declaration.patch (double sigint_handler decl/getpass.c)
601 - fetchmail-6.2.5-implicit-declaration.patch (missing #include)
602 - fetchmail-6.2.5-random-result.patch (uninitialized variable/opie.c)
603 * Revised some bogus assertions about POP3 LAST and UIDL use in the
604 manual page. UIDL isn't flaky as the man page suggested, but a
605 reliability feature. In fact, IMAP4 code is flaky in that it relies on
606 the upstream seen flags. (MA)
607 * Miloslav Trmac's patch for fetchmailconf to support string-type values
608 of the "port" variable, avoiding "port None" corruption in .fetchmailrc.
609 To fix Redhat Bug #55623 (MA)
610 * de.po fixes from Nico Golde (MA)
611 * es.po fixes from Jesus Roncero, Debian bug #286044 (MA)
612 * sink.c fix from Cesar Eduardo Barros, to avoid double @ in address
613 when username contains an @ and the envelope sender is null, Debian
615 * configure.ac cleanups by Miloslav Trmac (MA)
616 * Miloslav Trmac's fix to reply_hack() type, for systems where
617 sizeof(int) != sizeof(size_t). (MA)
618 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for driver.c to not call the private Kerberos
619 krb5_init_ets() function. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
620 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for sink.c/transact.c to reserve sufficient
621 space for \r\n trailers in snprintf calls. Sent by Miloslav Trmac,
622 possibly fixing Red Hat bug #114470. (MA).
623 * Nalin Dahyabhai's patch to use the krb5-config script, if present.
624 Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
625 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix to make rpa.c compile. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
626 * Trivial fetchmailconf.man to redirect to fetchmail.1.
627 Reported by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
628 * Internationalization (i18n) updates by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
629 * Fix "couldn't find canonical DNS name of NN (MM)" for hosts that have
630 only IPv6 addresses. Matthias Andree.
631 * Revised INSTALL after question from Brian Candler, inet6-apps is no
632 longer available: remove inet6-apps hints for IPv6, and add some
633 apologetic message for IPsec. Note the code may be removed in a future
634 version. Matthias Andree.
635 * Brian Candler's FAQ update about SSL certificate verification. (MA)
636 * Nico Golde's patch to support "proto RPOP" in the configuration file,
637 reported by Dr. Andreas Krüger, Debian bug #242384 (MA)
638 * Skip sending POP3 PASS command when USER command failed. Matthias Andree.
639 * Run fetchmail.man through automatic spell checker. Matthias Andree.
640 * Major fetchmail(1) manual page overhaul by R. Hannes Beinert, to
641 clarify singledrop vs. multidrop operation. (MA)
642 * Make tracepolls a server option, as documented. Fixes Debian bug
643 #156094. Matthias Andree.
644 * Fix some minor inaccuracies (RFC-1893 related, grammar/spelling) in
646 * Rename ESR's design notes to esrs-design-notes.html and add a new
647 design-notes.html document. The NOTES file will contain both of them.
649 * Fix Debian bug #301964, fetchmail leaks sockets when SSL negotiation
650 fails. Fix suggested by Goswin Brederlow. (MA)
651 * Really fix Debian Bug#207919 (garbage in Received: lines when smtphost set),
652 patch by Tobias Diedrich. The 6.2.5 NEWS claimed Gregan's patch had fixed
653 #207919 but it had fixed #212484 instead and #207919 remained unfixed in
654 6.2.5. The entry below has been corrected to read #212484 now. (MA)
655 * When writing the PID file, write a FHS 2.3 compliant PID file.
656 Fixes Debian bug #230615. Matthias Andree.
657 * Make ODMR really silent, suppress "fetchmail: receiving message
658 data". Fixes Debian Bug#296163. Matthias Andree.
659 * Add From: header to warning emails. Debian Bug#244828. Matthias Andree.
660 * Fix IMAP code to use password of arbitrary length from configuration
661 file (although not when read interactively). Debian Bug#276424.
663 * Document that fetchmail may automatically enable UIDL option.
664 Debian Bug#304701. Matthias Andree.
665 * Put *BOLD* text into the manual page near --mda to state unmistakably that
666 the --mda %T and %F substitutions add single quotes, hoping to avoid bogus
667 bug reports such as Debian Bug #224564. Matthias Andree
668 * Rename lock_release to fm_lock_release, to avoid namespace collision on
669 Darwin. NetBSD PR#28543 (pkg/28543). Matthias Andree.
670 * The RFC-822 parser no longer strips the last character of bare addresses.
672 * The IP address matching code was broken and
673 1. didn't search exhaustively, but matched only the first IP address of the
674 server's queryname against the IP addresses of the server name to match.
675 2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts. Matthias Andree
676 * The "port" option, while still understood, is being replaced by the "service"
677 option, which is now supported even without --enable-inet6. Matthias Andree.
678 * The default distribution format is now bzip2. Matthias Andree.
679 * fetchmailconf redirects fetchmail's input from /dev/null so it doesn't
680 wait for the user to enter a password when the user doesn't even see
681 the prompt. Reported by Michal Marek. Matthias Andree.
682 * Write RFC-compliant BSMTP envelopes. Reported by Nico Golde. Matthias Andree.
683 * Fix --with-gssapi compilation problem. Simon Josefsson. (MA)
684 * Foster protocol-independence to support IPv6 better, for instance, providing
685 IPv6 addresses in Received: headers. Matthias Andree.
686 * Received: headers now enclose the for <...> destination address in angle
687 brackets for consistency with Postfix. Matthias Andree.
688 * Operating systems that do not support at least one of gethostbyname,
689 gethostbyname_r, getipnodebyname are no longer supported. Matthias Andree.
690 * Fixes to --with-hesiod option. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
691 * Delete oversized messages with the new --limitflush option. Debian
692 Bug#212240. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
693 * Fix MacOS X compilation failures in sink.c (ru_*time has incomplete type).
694 Berlios Bug #4725. Matthias Andree.
695 * Fix "auth ntlm" to send AUTH NTLM (rather than AUTH MSN). Add "auth msn"
696 officially. Reported by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
697 * Expunge between IMAP folders when polling multiple folders.
699 * Fix IMAP expunged message counting. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
700 * Add full support for --service option. Matthias Andree
701 * When getaddrinfo() fails resolving a service, log getaddrinfo() error. (MA)
702 * Fix bogus "cannot resolve service * to port number" error. Simon Barner. (MA)
703 * Failure to set up SSL connections now results in PS_SOCKET. Suggested by
704 Thomas Wolff. Matthias Andree.
705 * Kerberos IV detection fix for FreeBSD 4. Simon Barner. (MA)
706 * Fix display and documentation of --envelope option. Matthias Andree
707 * Make "envelope 'Delivered-To'" work with dropdelivered. Timothy Lee. (MA)
708 * Add -DBIND_8_COMPAT to Darwin (MacOS X) compiles, to fix build problems on
709 newer Darwin versions. Matthias Andree.
710 * fetchmail should now automatically detect if OpenSSL requires -ldl.
712 * Fix Solaris build with --disable-nls (blastwave.org). Matthias Andree.
713 * Missed --port/--service/--ssl cleanups in the manual. Reminder from Thomas
715 * Complain in POP3 if NTLM/MSN auth is requested but had not been enabled at
716 compile time. This configuration mismatch now causes an error message and
717 authentication failure. Found by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
718 * fetchmailconf now allows expert users to choose the authorization type and
719 also offers MSN and NTLM, suggested by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
720 * fetchmailconf now (as of 1.49) writes its version to the comment of the
721 saved run control file. Matthias Andree
722 * Properly shut down SSL connections. Berlios Patch #647 by Arkadiusz
724 * Global variable cleanup, to fix daemon mode reinitialization problems. Patch
725 by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
726 * fetchmailconf -h documents the fetchmailconf -h option. Matthias Andree
727 * fetchmailconf -V now prints the fetchmailconf version. Matthias Andree
728 * Add support for SubjectAltName (RFC-2595 or 2818), to avoid bogus certificate
729 mismatch errors. Patch by Roland Stigge, Debian Bug#201113. (MA)
730 * make fetchmail --silent --quit really silent, Debian Bug #229014 by Dr.
731 Andreas Krüger. Matthias Andree
732 * cleanup --quit handling again (so that --silent --quit just kills the
733 existing daemon, rather than continue running), and document it more clearly.
735 * Print an error message if multiple "defaults" records are found in the
736 configuration file. Matthias Andree
737 * Bury on_exit officially - the necessary code had been missing from 6.0.0,
738 6.2.0, 6.2.5. Matthias Andree
739 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be read. Matthias Andree
740 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be created exclusively, this got
741 broken in a 6.2.6-pre, 6.2.5.2 and older were fine. Matthias Andree
742 * Do not break some other process's lockfile in "-q" mode, but wait for the
743 other process's exit. Matthias Andree
744 * Man page: --sslfingerprint points user to x509(1ssl) and gives an example
745 how to use it. Debian Bug#213484, Eduard Bloch. (MA)
746 * fetchmailconf now sets the service properly after autoprobe. Fixes Debian
747 Bug#320645. Matthias Andree
748 * Man page: Fix Debian Bug#241883, making global options more clear. Matt
749 Swift, Matthias Andree.
750 * When eating IMAP message trailer, don't see any line containing "OK" as the
751 end of the trailer, but wait for the proper tagged OK line. To work around
752 the qmail + Courier-IMAP problem in Debian Bug#338007. Matthias Andree
753 * Fix Debian Bug#317761: when trying to send a bounce message, don't bail out
754 if we cannot qualify our own hostname, so we aren't losing the bounce.
755 Instead, pass the buck on to the SMTP server and use our own unqualified
756 hostname. Matthias Andree
757 * Revise some error messages so they are less confusing. Sunil Shetye.
758 * Man page: update --smtphost documentation. Sunil Shetye, Matthias Andree.
759 * Man page: clarify --loghost works only while detached. Matthias Andree
760 * Man page: update --smtpaddress documentation. Sunil Shetye.
761 * Fix several memory leaks and bugs in the SMTP/LMTP retry logic where
762 fetchmail confused UNIX and Internet domain sockets. Sunil Shetye.
763 * Man page (BUGS): document that passwords are length limited. Matthias Andree
764 * Man page: Document that quoted strings that run across line boundaries
765 contain the control characters (CR or LF). Document explicitly the backslash
766 escape sequences and their differences from the escape sequences used in the
767 C programming language. Matthias Andree
768 * Fix segfault when run control file ends with a backslash inside an
769 unterminated quoted string. Matthias Andree.
770 * In quoted strings, support backslash as last character on a line to join the
771 following line to the current. Matthias Andree.
772 * Parsing untagged IMAP responses is more robust now. Matthias Andree.
773 * Man page: Remove some procmail praises in --mda documentation, suggest
774 maildrop instead, warn of procmail fallthrough behavior. Matthias Andree.
775 * Man page: Revise AUTHORS and SEE ALSO sections. Matthias Andree.
776 * Updated translations: Albanian [sq] (Besnik Bleta), Catalan [ca] (Ernest
777 Adrogué Calveras), Czech [cs] (Miloslav Trmac), German [de] (MA),
778 Spanish (Castilian) [es] (Javier Kohen), French [fr] (MA),
779 Polish [pl] (Jakub Bogusz), Russian [ru] (Pavel Maryanov).
780 * In oversized warning messages, print the account name, too. Fixes Debian
781 Bug#213299. Sunil Shetye (MA).
782 * Fix installation without Python. Sunil Shetye, reported by Peter Church. (MA)
783 * Update Japanese translation. Fixes Debian Bug#329342, Takeshi Hamasaki. (MA)
784 * Fix imap.c size safeguard that broke on x86_64 architecture. Matthias Andree
785 * The FAQ is now available for duplex DIN A4 printing in PDF format.
786 Don't bother to ask for a Letter version, I don't care. Matthias Andree
787 * Man page: Use \- in the manual page where appropriate so that copy & paste
788 works. I hope we got them all. Héctor García, Matthias Andree.
791 * Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
792 * Got rid of alloca() in fetchmail proper. Matthias Andree
793 * Got rid of ipv6-connect, inner_connect and thereabouts. Matthias Andree
795 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
797 fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:
799 * Updated Spanish, Turkish, and German translation files.
800 * Matthew Gregan's patch to handle garbage lengths from dbmail;
801 closes Debian bug #212484.
802 * Fix IMAP query so new-message count doesn't include deleted messages.
803 * Man page typo fix, closes Debian bug #205892.
804 * OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl@acm.org.
805 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
806 flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
807 * Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of
809 * Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
810 * Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
811 * Sunil Shetye's patches to break up fetching of sizes and UIDLs.
813 There are 599 people on fetchmail-friends and 748 on fetchmail-announce.
815 fetchmail-6.2.4 (Wed Aug 13 04:27:35 EDT 2003), 22625 lines:
817 * Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
818 * IDLE is now supported using NOOP commands even if the server doesn't support
819 the IMAP IDLE extension. Patch by Chris Boyle.
820 * Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
821 * Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
822 * Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
823 * Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
824 * Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.
826 There are 585 people on fetchmail-friends and 745 on fetchmail-announce.
828 fetchmail-6.2.3 (Thu Jul 17 14:53:00 EDT 2003), 22490 lines:
830 * French, German, Danish, Spanish, and Turkish translations updated.
831 * Brian Sammon's patch to deal with malformed message lines containing NULs.
832 * Fai's patch to ignore all but the first Return-Path (some spams have
833 more than one of these).
834 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to properly byte-stuff when talking to BSMTP.
835 Fixes Debian bug #184469.
836 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to enable auth=cram-md5.
837 Fixes Debian bug #185232.
838 * Sunil Shetye's configure.in patch to avoid spurious search order messages
840 * Header-reading code now copes better with lines ending in \n only.
841 * Elias Israel's patches for POP3 NTLM support and dealing with byte-
842 stuffing failures at socket level.
844 There are 580 people on fetchmail-friends and 750 on fetchmail-announce.
846 fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:
848 * Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior on empty messages.
849 * Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful
850 STARTTLS negotiation.
851 * Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
852 * Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security.
853 * Christophe GIAUME <christophe@giaume.com> finished the implementation
855 * Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
856 * Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
857 * Fix for Debian bug #108977, clean up config file evaluation,
860 There are 554 people on fetchmail-friends and 727 on fetchmail-announce.
862 fetchmail-6.2.1 (Tue Jan 14 08:17:19 EST 2003), 22219 lines:
864 * Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
865 * Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
866 * Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check,
867 we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
868 * Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.
870 There are 536 people on fetchmail-friends and 716 on fetchmail-announce.
872 fetchmail-6.2.0 (Fri Dec 13 00:10:07 EST 2002), 22235 lines:
874 * Applied Steffen Esser's fix for a buffer-overflow bug in rfc822.c
875 * Updated Danish, German, and Turkish translation files.
876 * Sunil Shetye's SMTP timeout patch.
878 There are 538 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
880 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
882 fetchmail-6.1.3 (Thu Nov 28 05:35:15 EST 2002), 22203 lines:
884 * Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
885 * Added Slovak support.
886 * Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas).
887 * Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
888 * Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
889 * Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
890 * Sunil's fix for the STARTTLS problem -- repoll if TLS nabdshake
891 fails. The attempt to set up STARTTLS can be suppressed with 'sslproto ""'.
893 There are 540 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
895 fetchmail-6.1.2 (Thu Oct 31 11:41:02 EST 2002), 22135 lines:
897 * Jan Klaverstijn's verbosity-lowering patch.
898 * Updated Turkish, German, Catalan, and Danish translation files.
899 * Fix processing of POP3 messages with missing bodies.
900 * Minor fixes by Sunil Shetye: fix generation of auth fail note, handle
901 unexpected SIGALRM, plug memory leak, handle lines beginning with '\0',
902 try to bulletproof error handling against read failures.
904 There are 535 people on fetchmail-friends and 696 on fetchmail-announce.
906 fetchmail-6.1.1 (Fri Oct 18 14:53:51 EDT 2002), 22087 lines:
908 * OTP fix patches from Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
909 * fix patch for writing antispam capability correctly in conf.c.
910 * Fix patches for Debian bugs #162571, #156592.
911 * Correction to manpage re -b and qmail.
912 * Patch to disable use of STLS if auth passwd is specified.
913 * Fix specfile generation to handle SSL correctly.
914 * New Danish, Turkish, and Catalan translation files.
915 * Improved ODMR debug messages.
916 * IMAP efficiency hack; don't fetch sizes unless needed.
917 * Detect and rewrite invalid return paths beginning with @.
918 * Fix for subtle freeing bug that suppressed information in some bounce msgs.
919 * Newline fix patches for internationalization files.
920 * Fix reversed test guarding authentication-failure warnings.
921 * Fix POP3 breakage starting at 5.9.14.
923 There are 529 people on fetchmail-friends and 693 on fetchmail-announce.
925 fetchmail-6.1.0 (Sun Sep 22 18:31:23 EDT 2002), 21999 lines:
927 * Updated French translation.
928 * Stefan Esser's fix for potential remote vulnerability in multidrop mode.
929 This is an important security fix!
931 There are 519 people on fetchmail-friends and 680 on fetchmail-announce.
933 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
935 fetchmail-6.0.0 (Tue Sep 17 19:48:25 EDT 2002), 21972 lines:
937 * Applied Matt Kraai's fix for minor Debian bug #144539.
938 * Nerijus Baliunas's patch to support STARTTLS over IMAP.
939 * More cleanups and minor bugfixes from Sunil Shetye.
940 * Default antispam-response list is now empty.
941 * Updated de and po translations.
943 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
945 There are 520 people on fetchmail-friends and 683 on fetchmail-announce.
947 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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