3 (The `lines' figures total .c, .h, .l, and .y files under version control.
4 Names in parentheses are the maintainers who handled the respective change.
5 Abbreviations: MA = Matthias Andree, ESR = Eric S. Raymond, RF = Rob Funk)
7 fetchmail 6.3.0 (not yet released officially):
10 * The POP3 UIDL code doesn't sufficiently validate/truncate the input
11 length, so a (malicious or compromised) server that sends UIDs longer
12 than 128 bytes can corrupt fetchmail's stack and crash fetchmail.
13 This vulnerability is remotely exploitable to inject code run in a
14 root shell. This is tracked under the CVE Name: CAN-2005-2335
16 # MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
17 * Remove support for --netsec/-T options, the required inet6_apps library is no
19 http://www.inner.net/pub/ipv6/ states, as of 2005-07-03: "/pub/ipv6
20 Our IPv6 software is now long defunct. Please find a more modern source."
21 I haven't been able to find a more modern source. Matthias Andree
22 * Operating systems that do not conform to the Single Unix Specification v2
23 (1997) or v3 (2001, aka IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) are no longer supported. They
24 may continue to work and non-intrusive patches to support them may be
25 accepted. Matthias Andree
28 * The MX and host alias lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode are
29 obsolete, deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version
30 without further notice. Their support for IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4)
31 is unspecified. Matthias Andree
32 * The monitor and interface options may also be removed from a future fetchmail
33 version as they are not sufficiently portable.
35 # OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
36 * Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR)
37 * PopDel.py removed from contrib at author's request. (ESR)
38 * Matthias Andree's fix for Sunil Shetye's fetch-split patch. (ESR)
39 * Include James Stone's moldremover.py script. (ESR)
40 * Enable .fetchmailrc permissions checking under Cygwin. (ESR)
41 * Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication. (ESR)
42 * Revised Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication (the
43 original version would go into an infinite loop when CAPA failed;
44 found by David Greaves.) (MA)
45 * HOME_ETC patch for PLD Linux. (ESR)
46 * Sunil Shetye's fix for SSL configuration. (ESR)
47 * Simon Josefsson's patch for GSS library support. (ESR)
48 * Added Andrey Lelikov's recipe for Hotmail and Lycos Webmail. (ESR)
49 * Remove blank between MAIL FROM: and <, which causes Cyrus to complain.
50 Patch by Phil Endecott. (RF)
51 * Build fixes for HESIOD and resolv.h trouble on FreeBSD. (MA)
52 * Fabrice Bellet's fix for Red Hat bug #113492, fetchmail hangs in IMAP
53 mode after EXPUNGE when the server (Dovecot 0.99.10) doesn't update
54 RECENT and EXISTS counts. (MA)
55 * Holger Mauermann's bounce patch, to use a NULL envelope from, not
56 write a Return-Path header (both to meet RFC-2821), changed From,
57 added Subject header, rewording the human readable part. Fixes Debian
59 * Merge Sunil Shetye's time.h handling fix. (MA)
60 * Merge Gerd von Egidy's patch to avoid a segfault in multidrop/received
61 mode when the Received: headers are malformatted. (MA)
62 * MIME-encode bodies and Subject headers of warning messages, limiting
63 the header to 7 bits. (MA)
64 * Normalize most locale codesets to IANA codesets, based on
65 norm_charmap.c by Markus Kuhn. (MA)
66 * Remove sleep(3) after POP3 login, patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
67 * Fix option parsing bug that trashes the showdots setting when more
68 than one server is configured. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
69 * Honor sslcertpath setting even if sslcertck is unset. Patch by Brian
71 * SSL certificate checking fixes, don't display same error message twice
72 in succession, make sure that Common Name and fingerprint checking are
73 only done once. Print all validation warnings/errors even if not in
74 verbose mode. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
75 * Import Bjorn Reese and Daniel Stenberg's MIT-licensed Trio 1.10 from
76 http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/ for systems that do not support
77 snprintf or vsnprintf. (MA)
78 * Clean up the horrible #ifdef HAVE_[V]SNPRINTF that made the code
79 unreadable. Use Trio where [v]snprintf is/are missing. (MA)
80 * Default to Linux 2.2 /proc/net/dev format, and use uname(2) to determine the
81 kernel version instead of calling uname(1). Thanks to Paul Slootman. (MA)
82 * Be more careful when swapping UID lists or writing the .fetchids file,
83 requested by Manfred Weihs. (MA)
84 * Print a warning if multidrop configuration is attempted without
86 * Split information on fetchmail versions before 6.0.0 to a separate
88 * Merge SuSE patches: (sent by Stanislav Brabec, merged by Matthias Andree)
89 - fetchmail-6.2.5-declaration.patch (double sigint_handler decl/getpass.c)
90 - fetchmail-6.2.5-implicit-declaration.patch (missing #include)
91 - fetchmail-6.2.5-random-result.patch (uninitialized variable/opie.c)
92 * Revised some bogus assertions about POP3 LAST and UIDL use in the
93 manual page. UIDL isn't flaky as the man page suggested, but a
94 reliability feature. In fact, IMAP4 code is flaky in that it relies on
95 the upstream seen flags. (MA)
96 * Miloslav Trmac's patch for fetchmailconf to support string-type values
97 of the "port" variable, avoiding "port None" corruption in .fetchmailrc.
98 To fix Redhat Bug #55623 (MA)
99 * de.po fixes from Nico Golde (MA)
100 * es.po fixes from Jesus Roncero, Debian bug #286044 (MA)
101 * sink.c fix from Cesar Eduardo Barros, to avoid double @ in address
102 when username contains an @ and the envelope sender is null, Debian
104 * configure.ac cleanups by Miloslav Trmac (MA)
105 * Miloslav Trmac's fix to reply_hack() type, for systems where
106 sizeof(int) != sizeof(size_t). (MA)
107 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for driver.c to not call the private Kerberos
108 krb5_init_ets() function. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
109 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for sink.c/transact.c to reserve sufficient
110 space for \r\n trailers in snprintf calls. Sent by Miloslav Trmac,
111 possibly fixing Red Hat bug #114470. (MA).
112 * Nalin Dahyabhai's patch to use the krb5-config script, if present.
113 Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
114 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix to make rpa.c compile. Sent by Miloslav Trmac.
116 * Trivial fetchmailconf.man to redirect to fetchmail.1.
117 Reported by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
118 * Updated and re-enabled Czech translation, by Miloslav Trmac (MA).
119 * Internationalization (i18n) updates by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
120 * Fix "couldn't find canonical DNS name of NN (MM)" for hosts that have
121 only IPv6 addresses. Matthias Andree.
122 * Revised INSTALL after question from Brian Candler, inet6-apps is no
123 longer available: remove inet6-apps hints for IPv6, and add some
124 apologetic message for IPsec. Note the code may be removed in a future
125 version. Matthias Andree.
126 * Brian Candler's FAQ update about SSL certificate verification. (MA)
127 * Nico Golde's patch to support "proto RPOP" in the configuration file,
128 reported by Dr. Andreas Krüger, Debian bug #242384 (MA)
129 * Added Russian translation, courtesy of Pavel Maryanov of the
130 Russian translation team. (MA)
131 * Dropped da=Danish, el=Greek, ja=Japanese, sq=Albanian and tr=Turkish
132 translations which have more than 10% (61+) untranslated or fuzzy
133 messages. Matthias Andree.
134 * Skip sending POP3 PASS command when USER command failed. Matthias Andree.
135 * Run fetchmail.man through automatic spell checker. Matthias Andree.
136 * Major fetchmail(1) manual page overhaul by R. Hannes Beinert, to
137 clarify singledrop vs. multidrop operation. (MA)
138 * Make tracepolls a server option, as documented. Fixes Debian bug
139 #156094. Matthias Andree.
140 * Updated some translations. (MA)
141 * Fix some minor inaccuracies (RFC-1893 related, grammar/spelling) in
143 * Rename ESR's design notes to esrs-design-notes.html and add a new
144 design-notes.html document. The NOTES file will contain both of them.
146 * Fix Debian bug #301964, fetchmail leaks sockets when SSL negotiation
147 fails. Fix suggested Goswin Brederlow. (MA)
148 * Really fix Debian Bug#207919 (garbage in Received: lines when smtphost set),
149 patch by Tobias Diedrich. The 6.2.5 NEWS claimed Gregan's patch had fixed
150 #207919 but it had fixed #212484 instead and #207919 remained unfixed in
151 6.2.5. The entry below has been corrected to read #212484 now. (MA)
152 * When writing the PID file, write a FHS 2.3 compliant PID file.
153 Fixes Debian bug #230615. Matthias Andree.
154 * Make ODMR really silent, suppress "fetchmail: receiving message
155 data". Fixes Debian Bug#296163. Matthias Andree.
156 * Add From: header to warning emails. Debian Bug#244828. Matthias Andree.
157 * Fix IMAP code to use password of arbitrary length from configuration
158 file (although not when read interactively). Debian Bug#276424.
160 * Document that fetchmail may automatically enable UIDL option.
161 Debian Bug#304701. Matthias Andree.
162 * Put *BOLD* text into the manual page near --mda to state unmistakably that
163 the --mda %T and %F substitutions add single quotes, hoping to avoid bogus
164 bug reports such as Debian Bug #224564. Matthias Andree
165 * Rename lock_release to fm_lock_release, to avoid namespace collision on
166 Darwin. NetBSD PR#28543 (pkg/28543). Matthias Andree.
167 * The RFC-822 parser no longer strips the last character of bare addresses.
169 * The IP address matching code was broken and
170 1. didn't search exhaustively, but matched only the first IP address of the
171 server's queryname against the IP addresses of the server name to match.
172 2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts. Matthias Andree
173 * gettext (intl/) has been removed from the fetchmail package. Install GNU
174 gettext 0.14 separately for NLS (i18n). Matthias Andree
175 * fetchmailconf is now a shell wrapper that calls the byte-compiled
176 fetchmailconf.py script, which is now installed in the regular python
177 directory. Matthias Andree.
178 * The "port" option, while still understood, is being replaced by the "service"
179 option, which is now supported even without --enable-inet6. Matthias Andree.
180 * The default distribution format is now bzip2. Matthias Andree.
181 * fetchmailconf redirects fetchmail's input from /dev/null so it doesn't
182 wait for the user to enter a password when the user doesn't even see
183 the prompt. Reported by Michal Marek. Matthias Andree.
184 * Write RFC-compliant BSMTP envelopes. Reported by Nico Golde. Matthias Andree.
185 * Fix --with-gssapi compilation problem. Simon Josefsson. (MA)
186 * Foster protocol-independence to support IPv6 better, for instance, providing
187 IPv6 addresses in Received: headers. Matthias Andree.
188 * The --enable-inet6 configure option was removed. The code is mostly protocol
189 agnostic, a fully IPv6 aware OS is expected to provide getaddrinfo(),
190 getnameinfo() and the macro AF_INET6. Matthias Andree.
191 * Received: headers now enclose the for <...> destination address in angle
192 brackets for consistency with Postfix. Matthias Andree.
193 * Operating systems that do not support at least one of gethostbyname,
194 gethostbyname_r, getipnodebyname are no longer supported. Matthias Andree.
195 * Fixes to --with-hesiod option. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
196 * Delete oversized messages with the news --limitflush option. Debian
197 Bug#212240. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
198 * Fix MacOS X compilation failures in sink.c (ru_*time has incomplete type).
199 Berlios Bug #4725. Matthias Andree.
200 * Fix "auth ntlm" to send AUTH NTLM (rather than AUTH MSN). Add "auth msn"
201 officially. Reported by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
202 * Expunge between IMAP folders when polling multiple folders.
204 * Fix IMAP expunged message counting. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
207 * Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
208 * Got rid of alloca() in fetchmail proper. Matthias Andree
209 * Got rid of ipv6-connect, inner_connect and thereabouts. Matthias Andree
211 fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:
213 * Updated Spanish, Turkish, and German translation files.
214 * Matthew Gregan's patch to handle garbage lengths from dbmail;
215 closes Debian bug #212484.
216 * Fix IMAP query so new-message count doesn't include deleted messages.
217 * Man page typo fix, closes Debian bug #205892.
218 * OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl@acm.org.
219 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
220 flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
221 * Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of
223 * Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
224 * Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
225 * Sunil Shetye's patches to break up fetching of sizes and UIDLs.
227 There are 599 people on fetchmail-friends and 748 on fetchmail-announce.
229 fetchmail-6.2.4 (Wed Aug 13 04:27:35 EDT 2003), 22625 lines:
231 * Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
232 * IDLE is now supported using no-ops even if the server doesn't support
233 the IMAP IDLE extension.
234 * Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
235 * Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
236 * Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
237 * Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
238 * Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.
240 There are 585 people on fetchmail-friends and 745 on fetchmail-announce.
242 fetchmail-6.2.3 (Thu Jul 17 14:53:00 EDT 2003), 22490 lines:
244 * French, German, Danish, Spanish, and Turkish translations updated.
245 * Brian Sammon's patch to deal with malformed message lines containing NULs.
246 * Fai's patch to ignore all but the first Return-Path (some spams have
247 more than one of these).
248 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to properly byte-stuff when talking to BSNTP.
249 Fixes Debian bug #184469.
250 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to enable auth=cram-md5.
251 Fixes Debian bug #185232.
252 * Sunil Shetye's configure.in patch to avoid spurious search order messages
254 * Header-reading code now copes better with lines ending in \n only.
255 * Elias Israel's patches for POP3 NTLM support and dealing with byte-
256 stuffing failures at socket level.
258 There are 580 people on fetchmail-friends and 750 on fetchmail-announce.
260 fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:
262 * Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior on empty messages.
263 * Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful
264 STARTTLS negotiation.
265 * Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
266 * Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security.
267 * Christophe GIAUME <christophe@giaume.com> finished the implementation
269 * Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
270 * Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
271 * Fix for Debian bug #108977, clean up config file evaluation,
274 There are 554 people on fetchmail-friends and 727 on fetchmail-announce.
276 fetchmail-6.2.1 (Tue Jan 14 08:17:19 EST 2003), 22219 lines:
278 * Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
279 * Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
280 * Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check,
281 we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
282 * Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.
284 There are 536 people on fetchmail-friends and 716 on fetchmail-announce.
286 fetchmail-6.2.0 (Fri Dec 13 00:10:07 EST 2002), 22235 lines:
288 * Applied Steffen Esser's fix for a buffer-overflow bug in rfc822.c
289 * Updated Danish, German, and Turkish translation files.
290 * Sunil Shetye's SMTP timeout patch.
292 There are 538 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
294 fetchmail-6.1.3 (Thu Nov 28 05:35:15 EST 2002), 22203 lines:
296 * Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
297 * Added Slovak support.
298 * Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas).
299 * Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
300 * Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
301 * Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
302 * Sunil's fix for the STARTTLS problem -- repoll if TLS nabdshake
303 fails. The attempt to set up STARTTLS can be suppressed with 'sslproto ""'.
305 There are 540 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
307 fetchmail-6.1.2 (Thu Oct 31 11:41:02 EST 2002), 22135 lines:
309 * Jan Klaverstijn's verbosity-lowering patch.
310 * Updated Turkish, German, Catalan, and Danish translation files.
311 * Fix processing of POP3 messages with missing bodies.
312 * Minor fixes by Sunil Shetye: fix generation of auth fail note, handle
313 unexpected SIGALRM, plug memory leak, handle lines beginning with '\0',
314 try to bulletproof error handling against read failures.
316 There are 535 people on fetchmail-friends and 696 on fetchmail-announce.
318 fetchmail-6.1.1 (Fri Oct 18 14:53:51 EDT 2002), 22087 lines:
320 * OTP fix patches from Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
321 * fix patch for writing antispam capability correctly in conf.c.
322 * Fix patches for Debian bugs #162571, #156592.
323 * Correction to manpage re -b and qmail.
324 * Patch to disable use of STLS if auth passwd is specified.
325 * Fix specfile generation to handle SSL correctly.
326 * New Danish, Turkish, and Catalan translation files.
327 * Improved ODMR debug messages.
328 * IMAP efficiency hack; don't fetch sizes unless needed.
329 * Detect and rewrite invalid return paths beginning with @.
330 * Fix for subtle freeing bug that suppressed information in some bounce msgs.
331 * Newline fix patches for internationalization files.
332 * Fix reversed test guarding authentication-failure warnings.
333 * Fix POP3 breakage starting at 5.9.14.
335 There are 529 people on fetchmail-friends and 693 on fetchmail-announce.
337 fetchmail-6.1.0 (Sun Sep 22 18:31:23 EDT 2002), 21999 lines:
339 * Updated French translation.
340 * Stefan Esser's fix for potential remote vulnerability in multidrop mode.
341 This is an important security fix!
343 There are 519 people on fetchmail-friends and 680 on fetchmail-announce.
345 fetchmail-6.0.0 (Tue Sep 17 19:48:25 EDT 2002), 21972 lines:
347 * Applied Matt Kraai's fix for minor Debian bug #144539.
348 * Nerijus Baliunas's patch to support STARTTLS over IMAP.
349 * More cleanups and minor bugfixes from Sunil Shetye.
350 * Default antispam-response list is now empty.
351 * Updated de and po translations.
353 There are 520 people on fetchmail-friends and 683 on fetchmail-announce.
355 vim:tw=79 com=bf\:* ts=8 sts=8 sw=8 ai: