3 * Warn user that fetchmailconf autoprobe may take a while? (It can hang for
4 10 or 12 minutes if it hits a firewall that drops SYN packets sent to denied
7 * --all option that forces poll of skipped entries?
12 * Merged in official OpenBSD port patches.
14 There are 261 people on fetchmail-friends and 408 on fetchmail-announce.
16 fetchmail-5.0.4 (Fri Jun 11 18:32:58 EDT 1999):
17 * Fixed compilation error on systems without vnsprintf.
18 * No more GIFs! RPM is now patent-encumbrance-free.
19 * Fix yet another annoying qmail \n bug (thanks to Paul Gilmore).
20 * There is now a documented return code 13 for termination on fetchlimit.
21 * Added qpopper 2.53 warning to the FAQ and fetchmailconf.
22 * Fix fetchmailconf to handle window-manager destroy notifications.
23 * Todd <tastas@home.com> Sabin's RFC2195 support for AUTH=CRAM-MD5 under IMAP.
24 * New FAQ material on single-drop use with Daemon, thanks to Phil Hunt.
25 * Fix memory leak triggered by UIDL usage, and a .fetchids-trashing bug.
27 There are 261 people on fetchmail-friends and 407 on fetchmail-announce.
29 fetchmail-5.0.3 (Sun May 2 23:39:22 EDT 1999):
30 * Added FAQ item about things to check if --monitor fails with pppd.
31 * Fixed Matthias Andree's SMTP error bug.
33 There are 257 people on fetchmail-friends and 380 on fetchmail-announce.
35 fetchmail-5.0.2 (Thu Apr 29 22:09:46 EDT 1999):
36 * The IMAP driver now sets SEEN at deletion time, in case the server
37 ships DSNs when that bit is set (HP OpenMail does this).
38 * Delay between POP3 subsessions to allow the server time to release locks.
39 * Improved environment-query logic to handle mutiple names per UID.
40 (This also fixes the no-pidfile bug introduced in 5.0.1.)
41 * FAQ now includes the location of SSL patches.
43 There are 256 people on fetchmail-friends and 377 on fetchmail-announce.
45 fetchmail-5.0.1 (Sun Apr 18 14:59:56 EDT 1999):
46 * Try to discover user/home via getpwuid(getuid()) before using LOGNAME/HOME.
47 * Mike Pearce's fix for buggy DEFAULT handling in .netrc.
48 * Keep validation errors from generating message lines that qmail will reject.
49 * Can now use expunge option to chop POP3 retrievals into subsessions.
50 * Fix broken site-deletion code in fetchmailconf.
52 There are 254 people on fetchmail-friends and 370 on fetchmail-announce.
54 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
55 fetchmail-5.0.0 (Mon Apr 5 11:00:24 EDT 1999):
56 * Update for fetchsetup from Kent Robotti.
57 * Eliminate a realloc error in fetchmail -v -v progress message generation.
58 * Spanish-language update by Javier Kohen.
59 * French-language update by Guy Brand.
60 * Danish summary and description for specgen.sh.
61 * Henrik Storner's fix for the PGP/mimedecode problem.
62 * Fix netrc search code to be able to search >1 host entry per file.
63 * Added heads-up about SpryNet in the FAQ and a test in the autoprobe code.
64 * Removed the Hotmole script. Instead, the web page and FAQ now refer to it.
66 There are 254 people on fetchmail-friends and 369 on fetchmail-announce.
68 fetchmail-4.7.9 (Tue Mar 9 13:25:01 EST 1999):
69 * Patch by Dan Root to solve an endianness problem in IMAP-K4.
70 * Fix lexical-analyzer bug that rejected `set nobouncemail',
71 * Prevent send_bouncemail from stepping on SMTP antispam response.
72 * Added French internationalization (LC_ALL=fr) from Guy Brand.
73 * Added Hugo Rabson's script for fetching from Hotmail.
74 * Test for .fetchmailrc ownership using geteuid() when possible.
75 * Prevent parsing of delimited protocols from tripping up on a
76 MIME-armored line consisting of "=2E\r\n".
78 There are 263 people on fetchmail-friends and 361 on fetchmail-announce.
80 fetchmail-4.7.8 (Mon Feb 22 10:06:04 EST 1999):
81 * FreeBSD support for interface and monitor options by Andy Doran <ad@psn.ie>.
82 * Fixed server-deletion bug in fetchmailconf. Also, handle `port' properly.
83 * Timestamps now generated into logfiles at start of poll cycle.
84 * New `nobounce' debugging option (specifically exempted from feature freeze)
85 allows SMTP error bouncemail to be redirected from sender to local
87 * Suppress dancing progress dots when syslog is on.
88 * es.po update by Javier Kohen.
89 * Added FAQ material on what to do for a "do not relay" sendmail response.
90 * Can now build under Lynx 3.0.0.
92 There are 261 people on fetchmail-friends and 358 on fetchmail-announce.
94 fetchmail-4.7.7 (Tue Feb 2 18:57:04 EST 1999):
95 * Fixed off-by-one error in batchlimit logic (thanks to Brian Warner).
96 * Added MD5 checksums to web page.
97 * Get kernel type (and derive /proc/net/dev format) at startup.
98 * Fixes for fetchmailconf bugs reported by Gunther Leber.
99 * Return of the dancing progress dots!
101 There are 257 people on fetchmail-friends and 349 on fetchmail-announce.
103 fetchmail-4.7.6 (Sat Jan 30 19:44:24 EST 1999):
104 * Henrik Storner's fix for mimedecode
105 * ' now works as a string quote in. fetchmailrc syntax, just like ".
106 * All bounce messages now use FQDN return paths.
107 * Check for background mode before generating oversized-message mail. Duh!
108 * Paul Murphy's improvements for SDPS.
109 * Message deletion on miscellaneous 5xx SMTP errors is suppressed unless a
112 There are 262 people on fetchmail-friends and 343 on fetchmail-announce.
114 fetchmail-4.7.5 (Sat Jan 9 17:01:13 EST 1999):
115 * Issue proper logout after running fetchmail -c
116 * Fix prefix problem with internationalized version.
117 * Fix for Harry McGavran's VPATH bug.
118 * Progress messages now go to stdout. Errors still go to stderr
119 * Fetchmailconf can now launch fetchmail with a point-and-click interface.
120 * Many small cleanups suggested by Byrial Jensen.
121 * Polish-language (LC_ALL=pl) support. Turkish text in spec file.
123 There are 253 people on fetchmail-friends and 331 on fetchmail-announce.
125 fetchmail-4.7.4 (Mon Jan 4 13:26:32 EST 1999):
126 * Error message cleanup.
127 * HTML cleanup in design notes and FAQ, thanks to Byrial Jensen.
128 * Don't get message sizes when --check is on.
129 * Supply our own strerror() if system doesn't have one.
130 * Gunther Leber's cleanup for the plugin/plugout code.
131 * Hajimu UMEMOTO's code for localtime in timestamps.
132 * Michael Warfield's IPv6 fixes.
133 * Added Argentine Spanish as supported language (LC_ALL=es_AR) from a
134 po file by Javier Kohen <jkohen@tough.com>.
135 * Accept 'passwd' as a synonym for 'password' in .netrc files.
136 * In fetchmailconf, Save or Quit in a frame first performs that action
137 on all dependent frames.
138 * Source distribution now includes Debian package data under debian/
140 There are 249 people on fetchmail-friends and 334 on fetchmail-announce.
142 fetchmail-4.7.3 (Thu Dec 31 11:54:01 EST 1998):
143 * Added new FAQ item G11 and added material to R1.
144 * Do a full antispam check on the EOM response in case the local MTA does
145 content analysis of the message body.
146 * Bouncemail now conforms to RFC1984 correctly.
147 * Use sigprocmask to avoid Ron Gomes's weird hang bug (I hope).
149 There are 248 people on fetchmail-friends and 336 on fetchmail-announce.
151 fetchmail-4.7.2 (Fri Dec 25 01:01:54 EST 1998):
152 * Don't append the destination address to a postmaster name containing @.
153 * Added John Summerfield's getfetchmail script.
154 * Minor fixes in bouncemail format.
156 There are 246 people on fetchmail-friends and 329 on fetchmail-announce.
158 fetchmail-4.7.1 (Fri Dec 18 03:02:22 EST 1998):
159 * FEATURE FREEZE IS NOW IN EFFECT! No new features until after 5.0.0.
160 * Enable fetchmail to build correctly on systems without socketpair.
162 * Make sure user can see a trouble message in verbose mode when there
163 are no local matches for recipient addresses.
164 * Harry McGavran's configure.in fix for mixed Kerberos IV/V installations.
166 There are 246 people on fetchmail-friends and 329 on fetchmail-announce.
168 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
169 fetchmail-4.7.0 (Mon Dec 14 12:05:27 EST 1998):
170 * Minor correction to make i18n subdirectory builds work better.
171 * Rob Funk's old-message-check optimization.
172 * Fix an error in the logic for detecting when all connections are wedged.
173 * Unwedge connections on wakeup.
174 * Fix Ken Estes's LMTP coredump error.
175 * Bounce mail with addresses rejected by the listener back to the sender.
176 * Search .netrc on via name as well as poll name (thanks to Rob Funk).
177 * Handle SMTP error responses from DATA, so zmailer will work.
179 There are 246 people on fetchmail-friends and 327 on fetchmail-announce.
181 fetchmail-4.6.9 (Tue Dec 1 14:46:19 EST 1998):
182 * Better RFC822 conformance in fetchmail trace headers.
183 * Corrected MIME generation of bounce mail.
184 * Prevent core dumps on 'for' and 'by' in names (bug introduced in 4.6.8).
185 * Peter Hamlen's fix for bounce-message generation.
186 * Silent mode now suppresses progress messages from 2xx responses in ETRN.
187 * Fix for netrc.c core dump from Michael Pearce
188 <Michael_Pearce-AMP001@email.mot.com>.
190 There are 244 people on fetchmail-friends and 315 on fetchmail-announce.
192 fetchmail-4.6.8 (Sat Nov 28 21:07:46 EST 1998):
193 * Added bounce-mail capability on SMTP/ESMTP error conditions.
194 * Internationalization support via GNU gettext from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
195 <acme@conectiva.com.br> and Jorge Godoy <godoy@conectiva.com.br>. First
196 supported language is Brazilo-Portuegese (LC_ALL=pt_BR).
197 * Fixed Debian Bug#29913: -M on the command line causes SEGV in daemon mode.
198 * Emit an informational message when fetchlimit is reached.
199 * Documented fetchmail's actions on ESMTP errors on the man page.
200 * Fix an undead-message hole in POP3 with fetchall on.
201 * Fix a minor error in generation of fetchmail's trace headers.
202 * Better Received-line parsing (avoid some false positives).
204 There are 247 people on fetchmail-friends and 309 on fetchmail-announce.
206 fetchmail-4.6.7 (Sat Nov 21 13:59:47 EST 1998):
207 * Gerald Britton's patches to enable Hesiod support.
208 * Postmaster option fix from Bill Metzenthen <billm@melbpc.org.au>.
209 * Socks library support from Guiseppe Guerini.
210 * Notification mail is now sent to the user on 20 consecutive timeouts.
212 There are 247 people on fetchmail-friends and 308 on fetchmail-announce.
214 fetchmail-4.6.6 (Sat Nov 7 17:27:04 EST 1998):
215 * Fixed a core-dump bug in reply_hack with -v -v on.
216 * Fix fetchmailconf to be able to edit properties.
217 * Send calling user mail when password authentication fails in daemon mode.
218 * Added plugin/plugout features from Felix von Leitner.
219 * Dave Bodenstab's errno fix.
220 * You can make fetchmail read its config from stdin with the option `-f -'.
221 * Experimental, UNTESTED support of LSMTP (RFC2033).
223 There are 249 people on fetchmail-friends and 304 on fetchmail-announce.
225 fetchmail-4.6.5 (Wed Oct 28 18:28:01 EST 1998):
226 * Fixed a bug in reply_hack that could occasionally cause malloc smashes.
227 * Added --bsmtp option to dump mail as a BSMTP batch.
229 There are 247 people on fetchmail-friends and 306 on fetchmail-announce.
231 fetchmail-4.6.4 (Tue Oct 27 09:07:58 EST 1998):
232 * Code cleanup fixes by Jonathan T. Agnew <jtagnew@amherst.edu>.
233 * Fix to fetchmailconf to not output empty properties.
234 * Better instrumentation for the rewrite code -- hopefully this will
235 enable us to nail Sam Steingold's bug.
236 * Fixed bug in %T expansion.
238 There are 245 people on fetchmail-friends and 304 on fetchmail-announce.
240 fetchmail-4.6.3 (Tue Oct 20 12:37:25 EDT 1998):
241 * Introduced `debug' verbosity, invocable by -v -v.
242 * Make authentication failures more visible by syslogging them.
243 * fetchmailconf now has access to information about which fetchmail
244 compile-time options have been enabled, and uses it to control
245 the choices in various panels.
246 * Added `properties' option for extension scripts.
248 * Removed ad-hoc rewrite of Return-Path introduced in 4.6.1. This was
249 redundant with what reply_hack already does.
251 There are 249 people on fetchmail-friends and 294 on fetchmail-announce.
253 fetchmail-4.6.2 (Fri Oct 16 12:49:30 EDT 1998):
254 * Time out server open requests like we do reads. This protects against
255 buggy TCP/IP configurations that hang forever on a bad open.
256 * The '--limit' option can now be used with daemon mode. The user is notified
257 that some messages are being skipped on the mail server; the user get
258 notified by email that mentions all the messages being skipped (including
259 their size). A -w/--warnings per-user option specifies at what intervals
260 size warnings are sent to the user (default = 3600 sec).
261 * Added FAQ item M7 on diagnosing failures to extract envelope addresses
262 from sendmail trace headers.
263 * Added Andrea Sterbini's init script for Red Hat to the contrib directory.
265 There are 252 people on fetchmail-friends and 295 on fetchmail-announce.
267 fetchmail-4.6.1 (Wed Oct 14 18:46:58 EDT 1998):
268 * Fixed a minor memory leak in the IP-address-comparison code.
269 * Mark Staveley's patch to suppress progress dots from non-detached daemon
271 * Removed -pipe compilation option, it confuses too many non-GCC compilers.
272 * Major update of SDPS FAQ material from B.Candler@pobox.com.
273 * Fetchmailconf can deal with zsh now.
274 * Append "@localhost" to MAIL FROM if it's not an FQDN.
275 * Fix minor bug in processing postconnect option.
276 * Corrected contrib/fetchspool script as suggested by William Boughton.
278 There are 257 people on fetchmail-friends and 296 on fetchmail-announce.
280 fetchmail-4.6.0 (Fri Sep 18 13:17:17 EDT 1998):
281 * Added Bill Adams's mailqueue.pl to the contrib directory.
282 * Try to enable KPOP initialization to work even if `no dns' is on.
284 This is a "gold" version. It will be carried on the fetchmail home page
285 in addition to the current leading-edge one, until the next gold version.
287 There are 250 people on fetchmail-friends and 281 on fetchmail-announce.
289 fetchmail-4.5.8 (Tue Sep 8 12:06:26 EDT 1998):
291 * Prevent fetchmailconf from adding an additional layer of quotes on
292 preconnect/postconnect/smtpaddress options.
293 * Fix a --configdump bug affecting multidrop configurations.
295 There are 252 people on fetchmail-friends and 278 on fetchmail-announce.
297 fetchmail-4.5.7 (Thu Aug 27 17:10:46 EDT 1998):
298 * Fixed SDPS support (thanks to Chris Brooks).
299 * One more fix for the snakebit postmaster option.
300 * Compute FQDN from localhost when we're using Kerberos.
302 There are 249 people on fetchmail-friends and 273 on fetchmail-announce.
304 fetchmail-4.5.6 (Tue Aug 25 00:29:44 EDT 1998):
305 * SDPS support, experimental version 2. Requires configure --enable-SDPS.
306 * Major FAQ update. Added geocities warning.
307 * Fixed --configdump so embedded single and double quotes are handled.
308 * Fetchmailconf 1.3: fixed bug that prevented deletion of first items in lists.
309 * Fixed the `set postmaster' option to work correctly, grrr...
310 * Fix for Debian bug #25997, handling of >Received lines.
312 There are 253 people on fetchmail-friends and 272 on fetchmail-announce.
314 fetchmail-4.5.5 (Mon Aug 3 16:08:14 EDT 1998):
315 * Brendan Cully's FAQ entry on GSSAPI.
316 * Andrew Cagney's improvement to Received-line parsing.
317 * Kent Robotti sent an updated version of fetchsetup.
318 * Fixed the spam-block code that I broke in 4.5.3 :-(.
319 * Updated the entry on setting up sendmail spam blocks.
320 * Added setrlimit call to inhibit core dumps unless debugging is on.
321 * The default of smtplist has been changed; the undocumented feature that
322 it always included the fetchmail host's FQDN is gone (this is now
323 true for ETRN mode only).
324 * Modes other than ETRN no longer need to know the fetchmail host's FQDN.
325 This eliminates a gethostbyname() call and makes fetchmail more independent
326 of local DNS configuration quirks.
327 * Added experimental SDPS code for demon.co.uk users.
329 There are 256 people on fetchmail-friends and 256 on fetchmail-announce.
331 fetchmail-4.5.4 (Sat Jul 25 10:25:14 EDT 1998):
332 * Fixed processing of --antispam option.
333 * Antispam default value is now the list [571, 550, 501] corresponding
334 to the sendmail, old exim, and new exim spam-block responses.
335 * Fetchmailconf 1.2 has been fixed to handle list values of antispam.
337 There are 262 people on fetchmail-friends and 252 on fetchmail-announce.
339 fetchmail-4.5.3 (Mon Jul 20 15:02:08 EDT 1998):
340 * Minor fixes to the GSSAPI code. Seems to work with stock UW IMAP now.
341 * Fetchmail running as root now sends misaddressed multidrop mail to
342 `postmaster', not root. Added `postmaster' option to allow override.
343 * DNS names of target servers are now canonicalized only once, at start
344 of run, and then only if they'll actually be needed later for multidrop
345 checking or fetching Kerberos tickets. This change eliminates many
347 * It's now possible to specify multiple spam-block responses as a list.
348 * Download-progress dots are no longer generated when syslog is enabled.
349 * 1.1 version of fetchmailconf.
351 Note: the DNS-usage change might conceivably break your configuration
352 if (a) you're using `no dns' and multidrop and (b) you're not
353 specifying either a `via' option or pollname that is the host's
354 canonical name. The thing to watch for will be an illegal domain name
355 error from your listener. If this happens, just add a `via' option with
356 the cononical FQDN of the host as argument.
358 There are 267 people on fetchmail-friends and 249 on fetchmail-announce.
360 fetchmail-4.5.2 (Tue Jul 14 19:02:52 EDT 1998):
361 * German-language internationalization in the RPM, thanks to Jochen Hayek.
362 * .fetchmailrc files are now permitted to be executable by user and group.
363 * Eric Daniel's guard code against very long lines.
364 * Added --nosyslog option.
366 There are 270 people on fetchmail-friends and 245 on fetchmail-announce.
368 fetchmail-4.5.1 (Wed Jul 1 19:27:56 EDT 1998):
369 * Checkalias option from Enrico Musio <enrico.musio@spaziozerouno.it>.
370 * Discard Unix From_ lines in headers (copes with Debian bug report #23808).
371 * Tell fetchmailconf not to care if the attempt to create an icon window fails.
372 * All fetchmailconf windows now iconify with an image.
373 * obituary@freshmeat's enhancements to hook fetchmail into the Red Hat
375 * Even if RPA is enabled, it won't be done unless your remotename ends in
376 `@compuserve.com' as CompuServe requires. Thus CompuServe users may now
377 choose ordinary authentication at runtime.
379 There are 275 people on fetchmail-friends and 238 on fetchmail-announce.
381 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
382 fetchmail-4.5.0bis (Sat Jun 20 10:55:52 EDT 1998):
384 One-line fix for an embarrassing bug in the `gold' version; command-line
385 options were being ignored when there was no .fetchmailrc.
387 There are 281 people on fetchmail-friends and 229 on fetchmail-announce.
389 fetchmail-4.5.0 (Tue Jun 16 01:56:24 EDT 1998):
391 This is a "gold" version. It will be carried on the fetchmail home page
392 in addition to the current leading-edge one, until the next gold version.
394 * 1.0 version of fetchmailconf.
395 * Jochen Hayek's changes to make RPA less verbose.
396 * Harry McGavran's fix for subdirectory installation.
397 * Marty Lee fixed a bug in activation of hosts named on the command-line.
398 * The fetchall option forces RETR again. We can cope with USA.NET now.
399 * Gunther Leber's patch to make fetchmail -V less chatty when mode is ETRN.
400 * Gunther Leber's code to sanitize %T and %F expansion in the MDA string.
401 * Jonathan Marten's fix for list option handling.
403 There are 281 people on fetchmail-friends and 228 on fetchmail-announce.
405 fetchmail-4.4.9 (Thu Jun 4 10:41:02 EDT 1998):
406 * 0.93 beta version of fetchmailconf (now with autoprobing for servers!).
407 * Merging of command-line arguments has now been fixed (I think!).
408 * Make fetchmail 64-bit clean (thanks to John Franklin <john@iptimaging.com>).
409 * Fix man-page installation (thanks to Kevin Hawkins <khawkins@ncsa.uiuc.edu>).
410 * Should build on SunOS again (__STDC__ conditions changed to STDC_HEADERS).
411 * CompuServe RPA and idfile fixes from Rich Beerman <rbeerman@pobox.com>.
412 * Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@calm.imasy.or.jp> patched the address-rewrite logic to
413 deal with addresses of the form "John Smith (foo) <jsmith@bar.com>" better.
414 * POP3 TOP argument reduced to 99999999, the most CompuServe will accept.
415 * Brendan Cully's fixes for the GSS code.
417 There are 279 people on fetchmail-friends and 217 on fetchmail-announce.
419 fetchmail-4.4.8 (Tue May 26 12:30:58 EDT 1998):
420 * Added 0.90 beta version of fetchmailconf.
421 * Removed fetchall side-effect kluge, now that we know how to make TOP work
423 * Patch by Kok Seng to prevent loss of UID info when a query fails.
424 * Pascal Grudler <pg@dtx466.ledl.com> sent a fix for the idfile option.
425 * Several fixes for command-line processing from Gunther Leber:
427 * set tmpbuf to NULL after freeing the buffer (so this will hopefully
428 cause a coredump, when tmpbuf is used somewhere else)
429 * when makeing sure we have a nonempty host list to forward to, I
430 added "localhost" for non ETRN protocols. This should relieve the
431 situation for people, who do neither have a static ip-address
432 (hostname) assigned and don't bother to set up a dummy-interface
433 for their hostname. I think this feature was already in fetchmail
434 in an older version. We lost this, when we changed the code that it
435 would work with ETRN. My fix here works for both ETRN and non ETRN.
437 * changed char buf[...] to *buf + xmalloc to avoid buffer overuns and
438 possible resulting (and annoying) coredumps
439 * in parsecmdline(): replaced atoi by xatoi which uses strtol and
440 better validity checks for input numbers. This fix only works on
441 ANSI-C systems; old systems still use atoi.
442 - fixed reversed dumping of mimedecode option
444 There are 272 people on fetchmail-friends and 214 on fetchmail-announce.
446 fetchmail-4.4.7 (Sat May 23 08:26:58 EDT 1998):
447 * FEATURE FREEZE IS NOW IN EFFECT! No new features until after 4.5.0.
448 * Better workaround for TOP bounds-checking in qpopper 2.3+.
449 * Several fixes for option-parsing and elsewhere by Gunther Leber.
450 * George Colouris's second try at NetBSD autoconfiguration.
451 * Bruce Mah's fix for core dump in command-line host specification.
452 * Missing `idfile' declaration added to .fetchmailrc processing.
453 * Mimedecode default turned off pending a fix for the PGP-signature-
456 There are 270 people on fetchmail-friends and 216 on fetchmail-announce.
458 fetchmail-4.4.6 (Sat May 16 14:16:49 EDT 1998):
459 * Fix a bug introduced by my 4.4.5 bug-fix release :-(
460 * Make the internal line buffer eight times longer to cope with idiot
462 * Back out NetBSD configure.in change, it broke all other Kerberos installs.
463 * Fixed qmail dup problem, thanks to Chris Bond's smoking-gun -v transcript.
465 There are 270 people on fetchmail-friends and 212 on fetchmail-announce.
467 fetchmail-4.4.5 (Wed May 13 21:37:02 EDT 1998):
468 * Make RPA logging use error() rather than stderr.
469 * Autoconfiguration support for NetBSD.
470 * Henrik Storner's fix for a minor mimedecode bug.
472 There are 271 people on fetchmail-friends and 209 on fetchmail-announce.
474 fetchmail-4.4.4 (Wed May 6 10:08:15 EDT 1998):
475 * Francois Wautier's fix for qvirtual.
476 * Willem Hengeveld's fix for UID initialization.
477 * Strip out qvirtual prefix *before* doing name mapping or localdomain check.
479 There are 270 people on fetchmail-friends and 199 on fetchmail-announce.
481 fetchmail-4.4.3 (Sun Apr 19 18:22:00 EDT 1998):
482 * Back out one of the changes to the null Return-Path handling, as it caused
483 invalid rewrites leading to protocol sync errors under some configurations.
484 * Add code to disable using TOP for pop3.c when fetchall is on. Recent
485 versions of qpopper don't bounds-check TOP requests properly.
487 There are 277 people on fetchmail-friends and 186 on fetchmail-announce.
489 fetchmail-4.4.2 (Sun Apr 19 00:13:42 EDT 1998):
490 * Use TOP for POP3 retrieval to avoid marking messages seen. Duh!
491 * Another fix for command-line --smtphost option.
492 * Deal with "Return-Path: <>" more gracefully.
493 * Re-enable build on some random Solaris (memmove wasn't in the C library).
494 * Comparison of UIDs is no longer caseblind.
495 * Fix patch for unmime from Henrik Storner to correct "Content-Type:" header.
497 There are 277 people on fetchmail-friends and 185 on fetchmail-announce.
499 fetchmail-4.4.1 (Tue Mar 24 00:01:20 EST 1998):
500 * We now properly shroud IMAP passwords containing ", \, and SP.
501 * Checked for Y2K safety. No 2-digit dates anywhere, so we're safe.
502 * Added mimedecode option by Henrik Storner.
503 * Display a total byte count in the fetchmail status message.
504 * Fixed a strange core-dump bug that manifested when using -f and --smtphunt.
506 There are 279 people on fetchmail-friends and 165 on fetchmail-announce.
508 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
509 fetchmail-4.4.0 (Mon Mar 16 14:57:38 EST 1998):
510 * Fix bug that prevented graceful exit from POP3 validation on wrong password.
511 * Dominique Unruh's patch that copes gracefully with bodiless messages.
512 * Fix timer-leak problem with the SIGALRM fix, pointed out by Dave Bodenstab.
513 * Deal with more M$ Exchange braindamage (violating an RFC1939 limit).
514 * Allow spaces in IMAP usernames (thank Juerg Wanner <juerg.wanner@ubs.com>).
515 * Handle empty Return-Path (thank Dmitry Yaitskov <dyaitskov@insystems.com>).
516 * Improvements in UID handling; should be a cleaner fix for Dick van den Burg.
517 * Remove the LOGIN capability check for IMAPrev1 servers; Cyrus chokes on it.
519 There are 273 people on fetchmail-friends and 160 on fetchmail-announce.
521 fetchmail-4.3.9 (Fri Mar 6 10:45:32 EST 1998):
522 * Relax the LOGIN capability check in IMAP.
523 * John Stracke <francis@netscape.com> sent a workaround for SIGALRM flakiness
524 under glibc6 over Linux.
525 * Kerberos V support from Jon Dugan <jdugan@ncsa.uiuc.edu> and
526 Von Welch <vwelch@ncsa.uiuc.edu>.
527 * Ron Kaminsky <kam@Orbotech.Co.IL> sent a patch to RFC1730-encode passwords
528 sent to IMAP servers. This allows them to contain doublequotes and
530 * Made the antispam response configurable.
531 * UID-handling fix from Dick van den Burg <burg@is.ge.com>,
533 There are 275 people on fetchmail-friends and 153 on fetchmail-announce.
535 fetchmail-4.3.8 (Tue Feb 24 15:47:13 EST 1998):
536 * Documentation cleanup.
537 * -S is back to setting smtphost all the time; net-security option is now -T.
538 * net-security option is now per-server, with a `netsec' keyword.
539 * Handle "account" token in .netrc.
540 * Fix IMAP4rev1 detection.
541 * Added /-suffix capability to specify a port or service on smtphost args.
542 * More fixes by Nicholas Pitre.
543 * Fix for core-dump bug in the new UID-marking code by timw@aracnet.com.
544 * EMX changes support running fetchmail under OS/2.
546 There are 269 people on fetchmail-friends and 144 on fetchmail-announce.
548 fetchmail-4.3.7 (Tue Feb 17 21:30:26 EST 1998):
549 * Fixed a minor bug in the IMAP re-polling logic.
550 * Nicholas Pitre's extensive changes to multidrop:
551 - Seek for the true sender of a mail which is not necessarily in the
552 From: header. (see comments in the code for more explicit details).
553 This one is particularly important with list distributions...
554 - Respect the Resent-To/-Cc/-Bcc precedence over the To/Cc/Bcc headers
555 for recipient delivery. So avoid resending a message to a person who
556 just resent a mail to some other addresses.
557 - Fix a bug in find_server_names() wich caused recipient addresses to
558 figure twice in the recipient address list.
559 - Modified parse_received() to let full adress from the Received header to
560 pass through so local domains can be used (now has same policy as in
561 the find_server_names() function).
562 - Fixed memory leaks from readheaders().
563 - Made some strcmp() be strcasecmp() as it should be because it didn't
564 work correctly in some cases.
565 - Modified reply_hack() to meet the needs of above modifications.
566 Thomas says these changes have been tested for two weeks in a production
567 multidrop environment. I tested them for another week in mine.
568 * Doug Muth's runfetchmail version 1.1.
569 * Minor port patches from Philippe De Muyter.
570 * Patch by Chun-Chung Chen <cjj@u.washington.edu> to handle quotes in .netrc
571 * Corrected OTP support, IPv6 and IPSEC support patches from Craig Metz.
572 * Fix bad interaction between UID handling and fetchlimit.
574 There are 272 people on fetchmail-friends and 136 on fetchmail-announce.
576 fetchmail-4.3.6 (Fri Jan 23 00:25:57 EST 1998):
577 * Improved RPM packaging with correct grouping and an icon.
578 * Fixed another minor bug in handling of `expunge 0'.
579 * Kent Robotti sent a new version of fetchsetup.
580 * Scott Burson's tweak to allow USER=postmaster to work.
581 * Byrial Jensen's fix to handle NULs in mail correctly.
582 * Vojtech Pavlik's fix for simultaneous %F and %T.
583 * IMAP code can now deal with untagged responses during CAPABILITY
584 (at least one server issues the motd in a bunch of "* OK {ALERT]" lines
585 in response to the first command after connecting.)
586 * New --smtpaddress option from Henning P. Schmiedehausen allows you
587 to force the hostname used in MAIL FROM lines.
588 * If link can't find the bind library, force `no dns' on all connections.
589 * Change name of ordinary-user lockfile so .fetchmail can be used as a
591 * Close pipe to MDA when we get a nonresponse timeout. This should
592 prevent MDA zombies from piling up when we have errors.
593 * Treat Netscape's "X-Mozilla-Status" lines like "Status:" lines.
594 * More informative error messages on timeout.
596 There are 269 people on fetchmail-friends and 123 on fetchmail-announce.
598 fetchmail-4.3.5 (Mon Dec 15 06:07:08 EST 1997):
599 * Added Kent Robotti's fetchsetup configuration script.
600 * Corrected buggy handling of `expunge 0'.
601 * RFC 1731 GSSAPI support from Brendan Cully <brendan@kublai.com>.
602 * We no longer reveal the remotename in fetchmail's Received line, as this
603 may be sensitive information.
605 There are 264 people on fetchmail-friends and 106 on fetchmail-announce.
607 fetchmail-4.3.4 (Fri Dec 5 12:39:31 EST 1997):
608 * Yet another attempt on the Compuserve RPA moving target.
609 * Fix ETRN code to poll for the fetchmail host if there's no -S option.
610 * Allow `--quit' to be given with other options to shut down a running daemon
611 before anything else gets done (suggested by Greg Stark).
612 * Added Gordon Matzigkeit's warning about -F to the man page.
613 * Improved POP3 protocol-synchronization error messages.
614 * Allow fetchmail to proceed even if DNS is down or unavailable, if all
615 multidrop entries have `no dns'.
616 * Added Robert de Bath's "fetchspool" script to contrib.
617 * Use strftime(3) to gen a proper RFC822 date into fetchmail's Received header.
619 There are 272 people on fetchmail-friends and 96 on fetchmail-announce.
621 fetchmail-4.3.3 (Sat Nov 22 01:51:41 EST 1997):
622 * Robert Hardy <rhardy@webcon.net>'s patch to use IMAP EXAMINE in check mode.
623 * Alexander Kourakos's patch for cleaner handling of group addresses.
624 * Fixed expansion of MDA %-escapes (thanks Wez Furlong <wjf103@york.ac.uk>).
625 * Deal with the possibility that IMAP NOOP issued on rescan might not get an
626 EXISTS response (thanks to Jonathan T. Agnew <jtagnew@amherst.edu>).
627 * contrib/runfetchmail copyright now meets Debian Free Software Guidelines.
628 * RPA code is changed to track a change I'm told CompuServe made on the weekend
630 * Set %p 3000 in the lexer source to fix the Solaris 2.4 build.
631 * Changed the summary status message emitted by a foreground run. The old
632 user@host produced odd results under some virtual-domain setups, so it's
635 There are 281 people on fetchmail-friends and 83 on fetchmail-announce.
637 fetchmail-4.3.2 (Wed Oct 22 20:30:14 EDT 1997):
638 * More slow-UIDL patches from Wolfgang Wander.
639 * Yet another attempt to fix IMAP-K4. This one, my beta-testers say, works.
640 * Only re-poll on actual dispatches (not just fetches).
641 * Monitor patch for newer kernels by Keith Rohrer <kwrohrer@enteract.com>.
642 * Handle repolling multiple folders correctly.
644 There are 261 people on fetchmail-friends and 64 on fetchmail-announce.
646 fetchmail-4.3.1 (Mon Oct 13 17:12:40 EDT 1997):
647 * Minor portation fixes for early AIX versions and NextSTEP.
648 * Fixed a bad interaction between --limit and the repoll feature.
649 * = is now optional in global options.
650 * Code for parsing Received headers now strips out RFC822 routes.
651 * Fixed processing of -S/-r arguments so giving a comma-separated list works.
652 * Don't query for the fetchmail host machine by default in ETRN mode.
653 * Added skip prefix clause on `envelope' option
654 * Don't use TCP/IP for DNS queries, it interacts badly with diald.
655 * Allow usernames up to 40 chars long a la RFC1939.
656 * Fixed IMAP-K4 authorization sequence.
657 * Added --invisible option. Note: you can now either make fetchmail generate
658 a Received header (the default) *or* spoof your listener into thinking
659 fetchmail connected from the mailserver machine, *but not both*.
661 There are 269 people on fetchmail-friends and 40 on fetchmail-announce.
663 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
664 fetchmail-4.3.0 (Mon Oct 6 16:44:38 EDT 1997):
665 * Rearranged IMAP authentication so CAPABILITY is done first,
666 * FAQ update, including a major new item on how to protect your password.
667 * Added code to have %F in an MDA string expand to the From address
668 * Added code to prevent buffer spamming via the MDA %T/%s escape.
669 * Luca Olivetti's --qvirtual option patch for qmail users.
670 * Fixed a bug in the code that was supposed to suppress expansion of RFC822
671 groupnames. (Thanks to Santiago Vila Doncel for pointing this out)
672 * It's now possible to explicitly configure out POP3, IMAP, or ETRN.
673 * We no longer get the hostname for address rewrites and log messages from the
674 server greeting line, instead it's the server's canonical DNS name.
675 * Improved UID handling for RFC1725 POP3 servers coping with a line hit.
676 * Created fetchmail-announce list.
678 There are 281 people on fetchmail-friends and 8 on fetchmail-announce.
679 % fetchmail-friends list split
681 fetchmail-4.2.9 (Tue Sep 30 18:21:35 EDT 1997):
682 * Don't byte-stuff when writing to an MDA.
683 * IMAP mode now does smart re-polling, eliminating connection/authentication
684 overhead when messages are being delivered to the server mailbox while
685 the poll is in progress.
686 * Fetchmail's synthetic Received line is now inserted just before the first
687 existing Received line and *after* any From headers shipped up by the
688 server. This fixes odd problems with some sensitive sendmails.
689 * Compuserve RPA authentication support.
690 * Fixed a bug that screwed up message size queries on some IMAP2bis servers.
692 There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
694 fetchmail-4.2.8 (Sun Sep 28 16:59:59 EDT 1997):
695 * Fixed a bug in POP2 compilation introduced sometime after 4.0.8.
696 * Only emit length-mismatch messages in verbose mode.
697 * POP3 lock busy error is now treated as authorization failure (Greg Stark)
698 * Kerberos error is now treated as authorization failure (Greg Stark)
699 * New --expunge option allows you to better control resource use under IMAP.
701 There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
703 fetchmail-4.2.7 (Fri Sep 26 11:21:15 EDT 1997):
704 * Full OTP support with Craig Metz's libopie 2.32 or higher.
705 * Major upgrade of FAQ with a procedure for diagnosing mangled-mail problems.
706 * Emit fetchmail's Received with stuffline so stripcr/forcecr are implemented.
708 There are 284 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
710 fetchmail-4.2.6 (Wed Sep 24 17:37:13 EDT 1997):
711 * Prevent bad matches on Received line due to hostnames ending "for" and "by".
712 * Improved bug-tracking header, now also emitted when using an MDA.
713 * Cope with Post Office/NT's brain-dead habit of prepending bogus LIST items
715 * Return of the size consistency check; this time it works for POP3 too.
717 There are 283 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
719 fetchmail-4.2.5 (Mon Sep 22 23:38:46 EDT 1997):
720 * Greg Stark's patch for better autoconfiguration on mixed libc5/libc6 systems.
721 * We no longer mess with CFLAGS/LDFLAGS to get Kerberos support linked.
722 * fetchmail now generates its own Received header for bug-tracking.
723 * Improved handling of IMAP4rev1 CAPABILITY response.
724 * Better code to avoid buffer overruns on long To/Cc/Bcc headers.
726 There are 284 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
728 fetchmail-4.2.4 (Fri Sep 19 19:48:50 EDT 1997):
729 * Small compilation cleanups, thanks to Florian laRoche.
730 * Removed the length consistency check, it mysteriously fails under POP3.
731 * Added Alexander Kourakos's patch to improve address rewriting.
732 * Added Wilfried Teiken's patch allowing the password to be piped in.
734 There are 287 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
736 fetchmail-4.2.3 (Thu Sep 18 16:19:10 EDT 1997):
737 * Fix a bug in IMAP message-size retrieval.
738 * Yet another try at getting the size-consistency check right.
740 There are 286 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
742 fetchmail-4.2.2 (Wed Sep 17 22:56:05 EDT 1997):
743 * Re-enable --limit under IMAP (bug introduced in 4.2.0).
744 * Autoconfigure root-mode PID-file directory to /etc if no /var/run.
745 * ETRN mode no longer tries to flush queue for "localhost".
746 * Introduced new DNS error return 11 to indicate DNS failure at startup.
747 * More portation tweaks for unusual Unixes.
748 * Make sure any X-Fetchmail-Error: line is properly terminated.
750 There are 289 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
752 fetchmail-4.2.1 (Tue Sep 16 12:26:57 EDT 1997):
753 * Type and inclusion changes to eliminate warnings on weird Unixes.
754 * Detect and warn about servers like M$ Exchange that get lengths wrong.
756 There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
758 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
759 fetchmail-4.2.0 (Sun Sep 14 16:31:58 EDT 1997):
760 * Driver code changed so delimited protocols don't rely on message lengths
761 being correct (this means #@!%^# brain-dead Microsoft Exchange will work).
763 There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
765 fetchmail-4.1.8 (Thu Sep 11 16:20:15 EDT 1997):
766 * Fix nasty single-char-adddress bug in multidrop mode.
767 * Fixed cosmetic bug in ETRN mode -v output!
768 * Added warning about broken Microsoft Exchange server to FAQ.
769 * Will Renkel supplied an implementation of inet_aton().
771 There are 286 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
773 fetchmail-4.1.7 (Tue Sep 9 16:55:04 EDT 1997):
774 * Now works with Cyrus IMAP server.
775 * Will build OK even if local environment lacks strstr(3).
777 There are 283 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
779 fetchmail-4.1.6 (Sat Sep 6 13:11:59 EDT 1997):
780 * Correct autoconfiguration machinery for Amiga (thanks to Steffen Opel).
781 * Append hostname to fallback address in multidrop mode correctly.
782 * Suppress append of smtphost name to RCPT TO address when it has a @ already.
784 There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
786 fetchmail-4.1.5 (Fri Sep 5 15:06:13 EDT 1997):
787 * Prevent core dumps on messages with no destination lines.
788 * Decorate RCPT TO names with smtphost.
789 * Have AUTO mode croak on SMTP error.
790 * Fall back on localhost if smtphost is defaulted and `hostname` is not
793 There are 286 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
795 fetchmail-4.1.4 (Thu Sep 4 15:41:05 EDT 1997):
796 * Autoconfigure correctly for systems that lack inet_aton().
797 * Better failure reporting on SMTP connect failures.
798 * Autoconfigure the MD5 support for 64-bit machines.
800 Due to pilot error, there was no release actually numbered 4.1.3.
801 There are 286 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
803 fetchmail-4.1.2 (Wed Sep 3 18:44:58 EDT 1997):
804 * Fixed a bonehead bug in RCPT TO name generation introduced in 4.1.1.
805 * Added James Steven's ip-up wrapper to the contrib directory.
806 * Prevent buffer spamming in SockOpen by a broken DNS.
807 * Al Youngwerth's fix to prevent segfaults when Return-Path has no address.
808 * Phillippe De Muyter's port changes for sysV68 R3V7.1.
809 * Port changes for Kerberos under FreeBSD, thanks to Benjamin Greenwald.
810 * Don't use inet_addr() any more.
812 First release after my two-week vacation.
813 There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
815 fetchmail-4.1.1 (Fri Aug 15 21:02:50 EDT 1997):
816 * Fix an obvious bug in some snprintf calls (non-Linux systems only)
817 * No more hard limit on number of destination headers
818 * Wolfgang Wander's support for faster new-message detection using UIDL.
819 * Changed the default of the `envelope' option.
821 There are 269 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
823 fetchmail-4.1.0 (Mon Aug 11 17:19:57 EDT 1997):
824 * Make the RPM depend on `smtpdaemon', which the sendmail package provides.
825 * Clean up the Interactive UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2 port.
826 * Enable parser to detect and complain about the most common syntax error.
827 * More warnings about things that can go wrong with multidrop.
828 * Dave Bodenstab's fix for flaky phone lines.
829 * Always pass FQDNs in RCPT TO addresses (avoids minor tsuris with exim).
831 There are 263 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
832 % web page existed by this point
834 fetchmail-4.0.8 (Thu Aug 7 17:05:27 EDT 1997):
835 * Fixed core dump bug in UID handling introduced by the 4.0.6 change.
836 * Retrieval code for POP3 & older IMAP versions now skips X-IMAP message
837 used by UW IMAP4rev1 server to store UIDs.
838 * Port to Interactive UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2.
840 There are 263 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
842 fetchmail-4.0.7 (Tue Aug 5 22:47:11 EDT 1997):
843 * Fixed a minor bug in handling of DNS errors in multidrop mode.
844 * Added a `postconnect' analogous to `preconnect'.
845 * Make `interval' count polls skipped because of interface or monitor option.
846 * Fixed UIDL and dropstatus option processing.
848 There are 258 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
850 fetchmail-4.0.6 (Fri Aug 1 11:14:31 EDT 1997):
851 * Changed semantics of `via' and `poll <name>' to be more orthogonal.
852 * Substantially improved option coverage on the man page.
853 * Yet another try at getting the remote-build right for Harry McGavran.
854 * Don't emit "No mail" messages in (non-verbose) daemon mode).
855 * Fixed the stock POP3 authorization sequence, which got broken in 4.0.4.
856 * --kill option renamed to --nokeep for consistency
858 WARNING: If you are running multidrop, (RE)READ FAQ ITEM F1 NOW!
859 There are 258 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
861 fetchmail-4.0.5 (Wed Jul 30 10:27:25 EDT 1997):
862 * Increased %o in the Lex source to cope with Ultrix lex.
863 * RPMs are now built with --without-OPIE to avoid validation problems.
864 * Channge in computation of true name to avoid HELO (null) bug.
866 There are 255 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
868 fetchmail-4.0.4 (Mon Jul 28 23:38:20 EDT 1997):
869 * Overhauled the build machinery.
870 * The `no envelope' option now suppresses parsing of Received lines.
871 * Added Al Youngwerth as a backup maintainer.
873 This tries to fix the various yacc- and remote-build problems.
874 There are 256 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
876 fetchmail-4.0.3 (Mon Jul 28 16:39:17 EDT 1997):
877 * Replace vsprintf with vnsprintf to avoid buffer-overrun screws.
878 * Added via option to make ssh configuration cleaner.
879 * Added dropstatus option.
880 * Allow either `login' or `user' in .netrc files.
882 Interim release, mainly because I inadvertently messed up the web page.
883 Note: RFC1938 support is tentative, untested, and requires a patch to the
884 LIBOPIE library. See the file LIBOPIE.PATCH for the sad details.
885 There are 258 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
887 fetchmail-4.0.2 (Mon Jul 17 20:54:30 EDT 1997):
888 * Experimental RFC1938 one-time password support using OPIE library,
889 courtesy of Craig Metz <cmetz@inner.net> (couthor of RFC1938).
891 Private release to Craig Metz only for OPIE testing.
892 There are 251 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
894 fetchmail-4.0.1 (Wed Jul 16 14:32:08 EDT 1997):
895 * Compilation cleanup for DEC Unix 4.0 and AIX.
896 * Corrected the machinery for remote builds.
897 * Minor improvements in failed-connection error messages.
899 A minor cleanup release for non-Linux systems.
900 There are 254 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
902 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
903 fetchmail-4.0.0 (Wed Jul 9 10:30:16 EDT 1997):
905 This is a "gold" version. Bug cleanup was finished (I hope...) in 3.9.9.
906 And about time, too, I've been hacking on this code for a year now!
908 * Fixes for minor compilation glitches on non-Linux systems.
909 * Progress messages now show total count as well as message number.
910 * Removed the popclient backward-compatibility hacks.
911 * Leif Erlingsson <leif@lege.com> sent a patch to separate a "lock busy"
912 condition from other authentication failures on a POP3 server.
913 * Allow duplicate server hostnames again.
914 * Fetchmail now returns 0 if *any* poll during the run succeeded.
916 There are 251 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
918 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
919 fetchmail-3.9.9 (Wed Jun 25 11:01:51 EDT 1997):
920 * We can now process multiple To headers a la Microsoft Exchange Server.
921 * Avoid sending LIST and getting an error when no messages are waiting.
922 * Allow `fetchmail' to do wakeup even when no .fetchmailrc.
923 * Fixed Paul Sutcliffe's headerless-mail bug triggered by -s.
924 * Added `pass8bits' to help prevent internationalization lossage.
925 * Add Guenther Leber's fixes for ETRN mode.
927 There are 248 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
929 fetchmail-3.9.8 (Sat Jun 14 14:19:32 EDT 1997):
930 * Fetchmail is now normally built with optimization.
931 * POP2 support is no longer compiled by default, but you can configure
932 it in with `configure --enable-POP2'.
933 * If a .fetchmailrc entry has multiple user parts, the opening `username'
934 keyword is now required for all.
935 * Fetchall no longer overrides --limit.
936 * Values of --limit, --fetchlimit, and --batchlimit in .fetchmailrc can now
937 be overridden from the command line by specifying an explicit option of 0.
938 * Architecture-independent RPM building.
939 * Fix code to work correctly with POP3 servers that don't return a reliable
940 size in the response to FETCH.
942 There are 261 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
944 fetchmail-3.9.7 (Mon Jun 9 18:40:04 EDT 1997):
945 * Complain and exit if user tries to start fetchmail with options while a
946 background fetchmail is running.
947 * Various installation headaches are gone, INSTALL edited accordingly.
948 * Treat exim's 501 and (soon) 550 antispam responses as equivalent to 571.
949 * Separate header and body byte counts in IMAP progress messages.
950 * Man page updates, including removal of restriction on --syslog.
951 * You can now set --syslog in the .fetchmailrc file.
952 * Parse more different variants of IMAP "UNSEEN" message.
953 * Handle zero-length messages correctly.
955 There are 252 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
957 fetchmail-3.9.6 (Wed May 28 18:28:35 EDT 1997):
958 * Fix the libc6 configuration stuff (thanks to Jesse Thilo).
959 * Support for Kerberos-v4-authenticated IMAP (thanks to Rudolph Maceyko).
960 * Don't choke on RFC822 group names.
961 * More improvements in RFC822 name parsing.
962 * Interval skip feature, courtesy of Hal DeVore.
964 There are 257 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
966 fetchmail-3.9.5 (Sun May 18 01:05:13 EDT 1997):
967 * Add an error notification when an incoming message has embedded NULs.
968 * Throw out >From lines in headers to prevent getting hosed by upstream
969 sendmails with the 'E' option on.
970 * Enable forcecr to work on the \r\n header terminator line.
971 * Multiple-folder support for POP2 and IMAP.
972 * Under IMAP, bodies of messages refused by SMTP's 571 response are no longer
974 * Configure should do the right thing with libc6 now.
976 There are 249 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
978 fetchmail-3.9.4 (Wed May 14 12:27:22 EDT 1997):
979 * Fixed a compilation glitch for systems like SunOS & others without atexit(3).
980 * Fixed a compilation glitch in daemonize for HP-UX.
981 * Changes to compile correctly on systems that have on_exit() but not atexit().
982 * Changes to forbid duplicate server names in the rc file.
983 * Do caseblind comparisons of host and user names everywhere.
984 * IMAP retrieval can now handle messages with embedded NULs.
985 * Fixed a core dump in .netrc searching reported by Jim Spath.
987 There are 248 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
989 fetchmail-3.9.3 (Wed May 7 11:40:47 EDT 1997):
990 * Fix for -I option from George Sipe.
991 * Finally got error.c to compile under AIX, thanks to Dave Vinish.
992 * Prevent header rewrite logic from appending mailserver name to blank To.
993 * When header rewrite is on, hack Return-Path as well.
995 There are 240 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
997 fetchmail-3.9.2 (Wed Apr 23 14:07:03 EDT 1997):
998 * Fixed a glitch in the Makefile yacc and lex productions
999 * Add logic for X-Fetchmail-Warning emission of \r\n to pacify qmail.
1000 * Yet another try at getting error.c to play nice with AIX.
1002 There are 224 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1004 fetchmail-3.9.1 (Thu Apr 17 11:37:14 EDT 1997):
1005 * Hypertext FAQ added to distribution manifest.
1006 * RPM builder production fixed.
1007 * Minor additions and corrections to man page.
1008 * Delivery failures are now syslogged as LOG_ERR, not LOG_INFO.
1009 * --check now turns off --daemon.
1010 * --syslog is now independent of --daemon.
1011 * Multiple-error X- headers are improved.
1012 * Added `forcecr' to fix qmail problems by forcing CRLF termination.
1014 There are 222 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1015 % bad addresses dropped after the switchover to SmartList
1017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1018 fetchmail-3.9 (Wed Apr 2 13:36:22 EST 1997):
1022 * It is now possible to set a default poll interval with `set daemon'.
1024 * -U/uidl option to force UIDL use under POP3 (thanks, Ingmar Baumgart).
1028 * Server-response timeouts were broken. Various symptoms of this problem
1029 were reported by Klee Dienes <klee@mit.edu>, Dirk Eddelbuettel
1030 <edd@rosebud.sps.queensu.ca>, Robert V. Schipper <rvs@gol.com>,
1031 and Steven Brown <swbrown@ucsd.edu>.
1033 * George Sipe sent a fix for the --monitor code.
1035 * --norewrite was a no-op. Fixed.
1037 * Fetchmail was aborting with "partial message buffer overflow" on Suns
1038 due to unreliable vsprintf return. This has been fixed with changes
1041 There are 268 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1043 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1044 fetchmail-3.8 (Fri Mar 7 17:34:02 EST 1997):
1048 * More FAQ material on using `localdomains'.
1050 * Compilation hacks for ISC 4.0 (thanks, Larry Jones!).
1054 * Enabled ETRN and RPOP command-line options.
1056 * Yet another attempt to fix the error.c compilation problems under
1057 Solaris and NEXTSTEP.
1059 * Handle \( and \) correctly in RFC822 comments, thanks to Gareth McCaughan.
1061 * Fixed off-by-one error fingered by Brian Jones that prevented
1062 `localdomains' from working.
1064 There are 248 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1066 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1067 fetchmail-3.7 (Fri Feb 21 17:38:40 EST 1997):
1071 * You can now specify a hunt list of SMTP forwarding hosts.
1073 * Treat unexpected EOF as a protocol error.
1075 * DNS errors no longer abort an entire poll. Instead they just cause
1076 forwarding and deletion of the current message to be suppressed.
1078 * -v output now includes the version/pl numbers (help for harried maintainer!).
1082 * Fix password-shrouding logic so it doesn't crap out on a zero-length
1085 * Various error-logging fixes by Dave Bodenstab.
1087 * Fix parsing bug that broke UIDL-processing code.
1089 There are 233 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1091 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1092 fetchmail-3.6 (Mon Feb 17 00:19:55 EST 1997):
1096 * Use Return-Path for RCPT FROM if possible for better behavior on mailing
1097 lists and bouncemail.
1099 * New Makefile production to generate an RPM.
1101 * The `no received' option of 3.4 is gone. Instead, say `no envelope'.
1102 This suppresses all attempts to extract an envelope address and route
1103 based on it. If you set `no envelope' in the defaults entry it is possible
1104 to undo that in individual entries by using `envelope <string>'.
1108 * Yet another fix to the password-shrouding logic.
1110 * Fix bug that screwed up IMAP mail reception in -v mode *only*.
1112 There are 229 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1114 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1115 fetchmail-3.5 (Sat Feb 15 15:19:36 EST 1997):
1119 * The host that ETRN specifies is now set by the smtphost option.
1121 * It is now possible to suppress Received line parsing in multidrop mode
1122 with a new `no received' per-server option.
1124 * Major FAQ reorganization and additions.
1126 * .poprc-style `user'-less entry now triggers a warning.
1130 * The counter referred to by the batchlimit option used to count not only
1131 fetched messages but skipped ones. This has been fixed.
1133 * Compilation fixes for Kerberos V4 support and GNU glibc2 support.
1135 There are 230 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1137 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1138 fetchmail-3.4 (Wed Feb 12 19:23:06 EST 1997):
1142 * Support for ESMTP ETRN extension.
1144 * It is now possible to turn off option flags in individual server entries
1145 that had been turned on in a `defaults' entry.
1147 * The code should now deal gracefully with headerless mail.
1151 * The bug that displayed incorrect sizes for POP3 connections has been fixed.
1153 * Upped the %a option in the lexer file so SunOS 4.1.3 lex won't choke with a
1154 "Too Many Transitions" error.
1156 * Size-ticker dots are now disabled when verbose is on. This should eliminate
1157 some alarming but harmless "(message incomplete)" messages from the
1158 error-logging machinery.
1160 * A core dump in save_str_pair() that only showed up on some systems has
1163 There are 223 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1165 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
1167 fetchmail-3.3.2 (Mon Feb 3 12:59:33 EST 1997):
1168 * Minor fixes to stripcr and password-shrouding logic.
1170 fetchmail-3.3.1 (Sun Feb 2 02:17:07 EST 1997):
1171 * Fix incorrect stripcr processing
1172 * Unapply a patch that broke error logging to files.
1174 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
1175 fetchmail-3.3 (Sat Feb 1 15:15:13 EST 1997):
1179 * Whether or not carriage returns will be stripped on output is explicitly
1180 controllable with stripcr.
1182 * fetchmail -v messages no longer reveal password lengths.
1186 * Correction to length-extraction code for servers that return (nnn octets).
1188 * Correction to RF822 continuation code so it doesn't eat leading blank-led
1191 There are 215 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1193 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1194 fetchmail-3.2 (Mon Jan 27 02:51:10 EST 1997):
1198 * Better error notification on IMAP select failure.
1202 * The code can now handle arbitrarily long address lists.
1204 * Fix RFC822 parsing to strip comments at end of bare addresses.
1206 * Explicitly strip CRs out of fetched mail.
1208 * Corrections to 8BITMIME processing.
1210 There are 207 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1212 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1213 fetchmail-3.1 (Fri Jan 24 12:45:18 EST 1997):
1217 * Forwarding is now done via ESMTP where possible.
1219 * ESMTP 8BITMIME option is supported; when 8BITMIME is supported and the
1220 Content-Transfer-Encoding header is 7BIT or 8BIT, it is appended to the
1221 MAIL FROM command as a BODY option.
1223 * ESMTP SIZE option is supported when using IMAP2bis or IMAP4. This means
1224 messages too long for the local ESMTP listener will be rejected *before*
1225 they are passed to the ESMTP listener.
1227 * IMAP code now detects IMAP4rev1 capabilities (RFC 2060) and uses them.
1228 (It will fall back to IMAP4 or IMAP2bis depending on what it sees.)
1232 * Compilation fixes for non-Linux machines.
1234 There are 205 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1236 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1237 fetchmail-3.0 (Tue Jan 21 16:44:56 EST 1997):
1241 * `interface' and `monitor' options are now per-server.
1243 * `batchlimit' option is now per-user.
1245 * RFC822 header continuation for long address lists is is now handled properly.
1247 * There is now a `nodns' option to suppress DNS checking of address hostname
1248 parts in multidrop mode (make sure your aka list is complete before you use
1251 * Options such as `nokeep' can now be written `no keep'.
1253 * RPOP support is back by user request.
1255 Note: The first two changes mean that older .fetchmailrc files using
1256 the `set' syntax for these options will cause fetchmail to die with a
1257 parse error at initialization time. Conversion is trivial -- for
1258 details, see the FAQ.
1262 * Stricter parsing of greeting message for the host name; eliminates some
1263 minor errors when using IMAP and the hostname is something like jet.es.
1265 * --quit in root-daemon mode didn't work, fixed this.
1267 * Ensure that default server parameters get properly zeroed out after each
1268 poll or skip statement in .fetchmailrc.
1270 * Arrange an EXPUNGE after each delete when using IMAP, so deletions get done
1271 OK even if there's a socket error before termination.
1273 * Simpler and better header-rewrite code, fixing some weird cases where
1274 it failed. Thanks to Masafumi NAKANE <max@wide.ad.jp> and
1275 Carey Evans <c.evans@student.canterbury.ac.nz> for pointing out these
1278 * Handle zero-length messages properly; thanks to Bob Craycroft.
1280 Note: the RFC subdirectory is no longer included with the distribution
1281 (this cut its size in half!) Instead, applicable RFCs are listed on the
1284 There are 201 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1286 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1287 fetchmail-2.8 (Sat Jan 11 15:48:33 EST 1997):
1291 * We now get the hostname used for progress messages from the server greeting.
1292 This means you'll get sensible-looking progress messages even when using
1293 ssh to redirect secure connections.
1295 * Reorganized and improved man page.
1297 * Mail header parsing now handles RFC822 escapes properly.
1301 * Stop netrc parser from complaining about blank lines.
1303 * Add ssh recipe correction.
1305 * Eliminate infinite-loop bug in defaults handling.
1307 * Fixed some address-parsing bugs in rfc822.c:nxtaddr().
1309 * 2.7 broke portability to Solaris. Fix that.
1311 There are 184 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1313 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1314 fetchmail-2.7 (Thu Jan 9 03:18:15 EST 1997):
1318 * New --syslog option by Dave Bodenstab.
1320 * Automatic parsing of ~/.netrc for a mailserver password if necessary, thanks
1321 to Gordon Matzigkeit.
1323 * Added preconnect option for initializing ssh connections.
1325 * Added local-domains support for multidrop as requested by Pablo Saratxaga.
1327 * More FAQ material on how and when to use --interface.
1331 * Fixed a minor bug introduced into From handling by 2.6.
1333 * Fixed bug in SMTP forwarding of msg lines with leading dot.
1335 * Fixed a bug that generated incorrect HELO for second and subsequent
1336 poll entries attached to the same SMTP host.
1338 There are 177 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1340 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1341 fetchmail-2.6 (Fri Dec 27 12:42:56 EST 1996):
1345 * IMAP4 code now sets the server "seen" flag on each message if "keep" is on.
1347 * New FAQ material on how to use --interface.
1351 * Dropped back to separate SockGets/SockWrite code with no attempt at
1352 stdio buffering -- we hope this will fix the Solaris peoples' problems.
1354 * Fixed length-computation bug (apparently introduced in 2.3) that messed
1357 There are 169 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1359 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1360 fetchmail-2.5 (Mon Dec 23 04:18:54 EST 1996):
1364 * New --interface and --monitor options for Linux courtesy of George Sipe.
1368 * Replaced bug-prone setvbuf with setlinebuf.
1370 * Moved lock file to ~/.fetchmail to eliminate various /tmp problems.
1372 There are 165 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1374 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1375 fetchmail-2.4 (Sat Dec 21 05:24:44 EST 1996):
1379 * Add FAQ material on troubleshooting and working around SMTP connection
1384 * Fixed a core-dump bug in MX processing that's been lurking there for ghods
1385 know how long. It could never have been more than rare.
1387 * Fixed a minor bug in Received processing.
1389 * Restored compile-time portability to Solaris.
1391 * Initial 2.4 said: "Force line-buffering on socket streams (Linux apparently
1392 defaults to this). This may fix some hang problems reported under Solaris."
1393 Unfortunately this "fix" triggers horrible lossage on long messages and had
1396 There are 166 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1398 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1399 fetchmail-2.3 (Sat Dec 12 14:31:00 EST 1996):
1403 * Full IMAP4 support -- we now probe for IMAP4 capabilities and use
1404 RFC822.PEEK when possible to avoid marking messages seen on the server
1405 before they are deleted. This improves recovery from sendmail and
1406 dropped-connection errors.
1408 * True stdio buffering of sockets at last, thanks to Cameron McPherson.
1409 This should be good for a significant throughput increase.
1411 * Almost all error messages that might be emitted in daemon mode now go
1412 through the error() subroutine. This is a first step towards allowing
1413 a daemon-mode fetchmail to use syslog.
1415 * SIGUSR1 is now used for wakeup rather than SIGHUP. This eliminates any
1416 possible confusion about fetchmail's behavior at logout time.
1418 * Received line parsing for envelope addresses now matches MX as well as
1419 canonical DNS addresses, making multidrop routing slightly more reliable.
1421 * Added --fetchlimit option to limit number of messages fetched in a
1426 * Fixed a FreeBSD compilation glitch involving SIGCLD (thanks to
1429 * Added some port patches for NEXTSTEP.
1431 * SIGCHLD used everywhere now, not SIGCLD (this was strictly a cosmetic bug).
1433 * Prevent occasional hangs when fetchmail was terminated by signal.
1435 There are 168 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1437 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1438 fetchmail-2.2 (Mon Dec 9 00:15:01 EST 1996):
1442 * If SMTP returns 571 (unsolicited mail refused) to a MAIL FROM, the
1443 address is excluded by the local sendmail's spam filter. Drop the mail.
1444 (This is the only circumstance in which mail is thrown away.)
1446 * The header your mailserver uses to convey envelope addresses is no longer
1447 wired to `X-Envelope-Header'. You can now specify it with the `envelope'
1448 option in .fetchmailrc. (This header is not RFC822 standard, and we have a
1449 report of an ISP using X-Frontier-To).
1453 * Fixed a startup-time core dump introduced by 2.1's aka-list feature.
1455 * Fixed a bug in non-implicit mode (poll specified host), also due to aka.
1457 * Various minor portability fixes for Suns. Adding #include <errno.h>
1458 in fetchmail.c was the most significant one.
1460 * Avoid using -lresolv when possible, some Linux versions are badly broken.
1462 * Fix error in MX record handling that was causing multidrop problems.
1464 * Disable daemon SIGCHLD handler while an MDA is running, to avoid snafus.
1465 Thanks to Dave Bodenstab <imdave@synet.net> for spotting this obscure bug.
1467 There are 156 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1469 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1470 fetchmail-2.1 (Thu Nov 28 11:07:48 EST 1996):
1476 * Try to pass envelope From to the listener so that logging and procmail
1477 processing works right. If that fails, fall back on calling-user.
1479 * Added `set logfile = ' option to rc syntax.
1481 * We now use X-Envelope-To headers and parse the Received lines. If
1482 X-Envelope-To is found, OK; otherwise we look for a `Received for' line;
1483 either is treated as a true envelope address. If neither of these are
1484 found we go to the To/Cc/Bcc header addresses.
1486 * Added `*' as a wildcard option for multidrop to ... here. This will allow
1487 names to be local names to be passed through from a multi-drop box on
1490 * Added an `aka' option to allow users to declare mailserver aliases at start
1491 of run, so DNS does less work. During a run, cache host matches on the
1492 aka list so no potential alias has to be DNS-checked more than once.
1493 A server being polled explicitly may be referred to by any of its aliaseses.
1497 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix patch for MIT Kerberos V4 support.
1499 * Fixed a fencepost error in the APOP code that was causing a core dump.
1501 * Skip flag wasn't getting reset on poll hosts following a skipped one.
1503 * Include remote name in saved UID mappings so multiple POP accounts on
1504 the same server won't get their UIDs confused.
1506 There are 138 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1509 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1510 fetchmail-2.0 (Mon Nov 18 00:32:17 EST 1996):
1511 * Fix typo in setitimer call setup that caused obscure bugs under FreeBSD.
1512 * Accept Apparently-To if there is no To header.
1513 * Include Cameron McPherson's patch for handling multi-line SMTP responses.
1514 * Don't try to feed listener the header From any more.
1516 fetchmail-1.9.9 (Mon Nov 11 10:40:14 EST 1996):
1517 * Accept Resent-From & Apparently-From a la RFC822.
1518 * Include file fixes for Solaris 2.5 and FreeBSD 2.2.
1519 * Improved error notification on SMTP and no-matching-local-address errors.
1520 * Delivery to multidrop mailboxes now always aborts on DNS errors.
1521 * Batch limit option prevents long delivery delays on smail/qmail.
1522 * Configuration now handles -lresolv and non-Linux bind libraries correctly.
1524 fetchmail-1.9.8 (Wed Nov 6 16:40:34 EST 1996):
1525 * Don't append spurious NUL to the headers, qmail actually notices it.
1526 * Fatal bug in multidrop code fixed.
1527 * Fail cleanly, instead of core-dumping, on mail lacking an RFC822 From line.
1528 * Don't try to keep the SMTP socket open across poll cycles.
1530 fetchmail-1.9.7 (Fri Nov 1 10:02:34 EST 1996):
1531 * %s is back. Seems some popular MDAs actually choke on name arguments.
1532 * We can handle responses longer than the socket atomic read length now.
1534 fetchmail-1.9.6 (Thu Oct 31 00:07:23 EST 1996):
1535 * Make rewrite option handle multiple comma-separated local names correctly.
1536 * Fix yet another fatal error in MDA argument list construction.
1537 * Reset timeout every time input is received.
1538 * Correct localname detection when --norewrite is on.
1540 fetchmail-1.9.5 (Tue Oct 29 20:07:41 EST 1996):
1541 * Added -N, --nodetach option for debugging purposes.
1542 * Use interval timers for poll-interval sleep and nonresponse timeout.
1543 * fetchmail -q no longer parses the configuration file.
1544 * Configuration file grammar is slightly cleaned up and improved.
1546 fetchmail-1.9.4 (Mon Oct 28 20:58:48 EST 1996):
1547 * Correct status interpretation in closemailpipe() (thanks to Neil Harkins).
1548 * Tweak SMTP forwarding to only open one listener per SMTP host in daemon mode.
1550 fetchmail-1.9.3 (Sun Oct 27 22:35:33 EST 1996):
1551 * Handle nested parens in RFC822 comments.
1552 * More gcc -Wall cleanup.
1553 * Improved installation docs.
1554 * Don't query DNS on startup unless needed for Kerberos or multidrop mailboxes.
1556 fetchmail-1.9.2 (Sun Oct 27 01:10:30 EST 1996):
1557 * Fix initialization-time core dump when running as root
1558 * Fix fatal error in MDA argument-list construction.
1560 There are 118 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1562 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1563 fetchmail-1.9 (Fri Oct 25 23:02:26 EDT 1996):
1567 * FEATURE FREEZE IS NOW IN EFFECT! No new features until after 2.0. Thanks
1568 to everybody who contributed ideas and criticism.
1570 * It is now possible to specify multiple local recipients by giving a list
1571 of names following "to" or "is". Each local recipient is checked for in the
1572 To:, Cc: and Bcc: headers of each message; if a match is found, the message
1573 is sent to that local recipient. This makes it possible to do mailing
1574 lists and multidrop mailboxes. See the man page for details (and note
1575 the caveat in the BUGS AND KNOWN PROBLEMS section).
1577 * It is possible to specify a size limit for retrieved messages. I resisted
1578 doing this because I don't want fetchmail to be in the filtering game, but
1579 too many Europeans begged for it because their telecomms monopolies are
1580 price-gouging them on per-second phone charges. I will ignore, or be
1581 extremely rude to, anyone who takes this feature as a license to beg me
1582 for kill files or any other form of content-based filtering. Use
1583 procmail on your server if you want that.
1585 * If you use an MDA, the internal changes to support multi-drop mailboxes
1586 require that you *remove* the %s at the end of your MDA string. Local
1587 delivery addresses will be appended to the end of the command in the
1590 * The first message from a query now includes the number of old messages
1591 when this can be determined (that is not under POP2).
1593 * POP3 UID support really works now. I make rude noises at the POP3 mavens
1594 who forced us to this with RFC1725, but thank Al Longyear <longyear@sii.com>
1595 for fixing and verifying my slightly buggy implementation.
1597 * Kerberos V4 support ditto. Thanks to Chris Hanson <cph@martigny.mit.edu>
1600 * When there's a daemon fetchmail in background, running fetchmail in
1601 foreground without --quit now tries to wake the daemon and force it
1602 to poll immediately.
1604 * Add option to set server nonresponse timeout.
1606 * Password is no longer displayed in verbose mode.
1608 * You may use C-like escapes to embed non-printables in passwords and other
1609 strings. Fetchmail -V will display them in a printable form.
1611 * Program now tries to set itself to the ID of the local user before
1612 running an MDA, and reset to root afterwards. This will work on
1613 any system with seteuid(2), including Linux and the BSDs.
1617 * Default user name to deliver to is now the calling user, unless
1618 program is running as root in which case it is the remote user name
1619 (default can be overridden with an `is' or `to' declaration).
1620 In versions up to 1.7 it was the calling user; in 1.8 the remote
1621 user ID. This created some confusion.
1623 * Accept RFC822 headers with a tab after the colon.
1625 * You now see a "skipping" message for each message not retrieved.
1627 * --keep no longer overrides --flush.
1629 * Rewrite "To: jrh (J. Random Hacker)" correctly.
1631 * Find "nnn octets" anywhere on a POP3 server's RETR response line.
1633 * Fixed various bugs in --check. It now reports PS_SUCCESS only if
1634 there is new mail waiting.
1636 * Under Linux, if fetchmail is run in daemon mode with the network
1637 inaccessible, each poll leaves a socket allocated but in CLOSE state
1638 (this is visible in netstat(1)'s output). These sockets aren't
1639 garbage-collected until fetchmail exits. When whatever kernel table
1640 is involved fills up, fetchmail can no longer run even if the network is up.
1641 To avoid this, fetchmail now commits seppuku after some number of
1642 unsuccessful socket opens.
1644 * Don't try using FLAGS.SILENT, some allegedly IMAP2bis servers seem to
1647 There are 100 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1649 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1650 fetchmail-1.8 (Fri Oct 11 15:08:10 EDT 1996):
1654 * Use kill(0, pid) to make lock handling a bit smarter (thanks to Johan
1655 Vromans <JVromans@squirrel.nl> for the suggestion).
1657 * Arrange for timeout of client after 5 minutes if connection to server is
1658 dropped (thanks to Gaspar Sinai <gsinai@gol.com>).
1660 * All pretensions to RPOP support have been dropped. Yes, this is a feature,
1661 RPOP is very vulnerable to spoofing! Use APOP instead.
1663 * Normal start-of-read message now displays the byte (excuse me, "octet")
1664 size of the message. Yes, 3schwend, you can stop noodging me now :-).
1666 * Normal progress notifications now take only 1 line per message, not 2.
1668 * Linux packagers: building fetchmail now generates an RPM specfile for it.
1670 * Kerberos V4 support via KPOP protocol (thanks to Chris Hanson).
1672 * New --check option for asking server whether there is mail without
1673 actually retrieving or deleting it.
1675 * UID support is back by popular demand. Bletch.
1677 * Permit spaces in IMAP passwords (ship them as quoted strings).
1681 * Fix buggy getopt specification of P and p options.
1683 * Fix uninitialized-variable bug that was hanging second IMAP queries.
1685 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1686 fetchmail-1.7 (Tue Oct 8 11:32:44 EDT 1996):
1690 * Noise words for rcfile syntax make English-like syntax possible.
1692 * Make configure more GNUish; it understands --prefix and other standard
1693 autoconf options now (see INSTALL for details)
1695 * Better documentation of the new .fetchmailrc extensions and the slightly
1696 stricter rules for ordering options.
1698 * Expanded installation instructions including how to test for correct
1699 operation without losing mail to misconfigured MDAs, alias loops, etc.
1703 * You may have to rearrange the order of options in your .fetchmailrc.
1704 The grammar for the new multiple-user syntax requires that server
1705 options (protocol and port) come before any user options.
1707 * Fixed core dump bug that was screwing configurations with no .fetchmailrc.
1709 * Fixed broken 'p' option.
1711 * `norewrite' and `rewrite' in .fetchrc were the inverses of what they
1712 should have been (but the rewrite default was set correctly).
1714 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1715 fetchmail-1.6 (Sun Oct 6 20:55:09 EDT 1996):
1719 * You can now have multiple entries for the same server but different
1720 users, and the right thing will happen (each user's mailbox will
1721 be queried). Even better, you can now specify multiple users in a
1722 single server entry.
1724 * Restore --mda, seems some people either can't run a port 25 listener
1725 due to bizarre dynamic-SLIP problems, or won't for security reasons.
1727 * When delivering to an MDA, print error and die (before deleting the message!)
1728 if the MDA returns nonzero status. Better safe than sorry.
1730 * If fetchmail is called through a link named `popclient' it will look in
1731 ~/.poprc for a run control file. Unless that file includes the deleted
1732 options limit and localfolder this should actually work.
1736 * Makefile fixes for correct linking on Sparcs and avoiding duplication of
1737 the md5 files (leading to harmless install-time error messages).
1739 * Fix a bonehead coding error in pop3_delete() that was masked by the
1740 Intel register architecture. *blush* Thanks to Jay Anderson
1741 <anderson@optical.bms.com>.
1743 * Fix bug that prevented SMTP from being specified on the defaults line.
1745 * Allow program to generate correct lockfiles when USER is undefined
1748 * Allow program to run with no .fetchmailrc file again.
1750 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1751 fetchmail-1.5 (Thu Oct 3 04:35:15 EDT 1996):
1752 * Naturally, my decision to announce 1.4 on comp.os.linux.announce
1753 immediately caused the code to manifest its first real bug --
1754 a core dump when the "From:" header is spelled "from:" (all lower
1756 * Update and expansion of NOTES.
1757 * The --all and --flush flag validity checks move to driver.c.
1759 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1760 fetchmail-1.4 (Wed Oct 2 09:22:37 EDT 1996):
1761 * More man page improvements.
1762 * Lexer changes to work around bison's "feature" of silently ignoring 0-value
1763 tokens (caused options nokeep, norewrite, nofetchall, noskip to be no-ops).
1765 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1766 fetchmail-1.3 (Tue Oct 1 05:49:49 EDT 1996):
1767 * Significant man page improvements.
1768 * Escapes for newlines in .fetchmailrc are now optional.
1769 * Kill off -2 and -3 options, redundant popclient remnants.
1770 * IMAP code simplification and robustification. Use FETCH FLAGS to find
1771 seen messages. Code should now work even if unseen messages are
1772 interspersed with seen ones, and even if messages are appended to the
1773 mailbox during the run.
1775 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1776 fetchmail-1.2 (Sat Sep 28 15:40:50 EDT 1996):
1777 * The great option massacre. Remove --stdout, --limit, --local, --mda.
1778 We get a significant code and complexity shrinkage this way (a lot of the
1779 configuration machinery goes away too). These things are your MDA's job.
1780 (This also kills off the lose-mail-on-disk-full bug, which I've never
1781 seen but two users reported.)
1782 * Link APOP support by default.
1783 * Fix embarrassing Makefile bug.
1785 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1786 fetchmail-1.1 (Sat Sep 28 09:21:10 EDT 1996):
1787 * In POP3, don't send LAST if STAT shows count of waiting messages to be zero.
1788 * Document APOP better, we know it works now.
1789 * Lose the .fetchids file and give up on POP3 UIDs, they're a dead loss.
1791 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1792 fetchmail-1.0 (Thu Sep 26 11:59:38 EDT 1996):
1793 * SMTP forwarding and header-rewrite features work with POP2 now.
1794 * Stricter RFC822 conformance, so SMTP to qmail works. Thanks to
1795 Cameron MacPherson <unsound@oz.net> for these changes.
1796 * The program is quieter but more informative now (suppress printing of
1797 server greeting message; add the server host being queried to the
1798 message count information line).
1799 * Add `skip' option to make it easier to set up test entries.
1800 * Name change (it ain't just for POP any more).
1802 ==============================================================================
1803 popclient-3.2 (Mon Sep 23 13:29:46 EDT 1996):
1804 * RPOP support (coded at a user's request but untested).
1805 * Ported to QNX (see the Makefile).
1806 * Add code by Michael Schwendt <3schwend@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> for
1807 improved sizeticker.
1808 * Improved RFC822 parsing (thanks to Rob Funk).
1809 * Move the per-user lockfile to /tmp so it gets cleared at reboot time.
1810 * Warn users that running concurrent instances of popclient is a bad idea.
1811 * Try USER and HOME to set defaults before going to the password file.
1812 This should work better in Sun NIS environments.
1814 popclient-3.1 (Thu Sep 12 15:45:25 EDT 1996):
1815 * MDA arguments are now dumped when using the -V option.
1816 * Sendmail delivery from background seems to work now.
1817 * We have IMAP2bis/IMAP4 support.
1818 * Code now autoprobes for a POP3, IMAP, or POP2 server if no protocol is
1820 * SMTP forwarding support. Thanks to Harry Hochheiser <harry@tigger.jvnc.net>
1821 for this simple but clever idea. It's now the default delivery mode.
1822 * If no UNIX From line is found, popclient will now synthesize a correct
1823 line from the RFC822 From line.
1824 * It is now possible to specify the host TCP/IP port number to connect to.
1826 popclient-3.05 (Thu Aug 22 22:59:04 EDT 1996):
1827 * Experimental support for RFC1725-compliant POP servers with the UIDL
1828 command and without LAST.
1830 popclient-3.04 (Wed Aug 21 00:22:44 EDT 1996):
1831 * Logfile option works.
1834 * Minor bug fixes for password querying and redirection to stdout.
1836 popclient-3.02 (Fri Jul 19 11:37:56 EDT 1996):
1837 * Correct buggy processing of nokeep/noflush/fetchall.
1838 * Fix buggy -mda option processing.
1839 * Added -N/--norewrite option.
1840 * Delivery via sendmail now works in non-daemon mode.
1842 popclient-3.01 (Mon Jul 1 13:33:51 EDT 1996):
1843 * Fixed a lexical analyzer bug in quoted-string processing.
1844 * Fixed a bug in dump_options that caused username to be displayed incorrectly.
1845 * The lock assertion code was in the wrong place relative to the daemonize()
1848 popclient-3.0 (Fri Jun 28 11:33:34 EDT 1996):
1850 Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> hacked extensively on 3.0b6 and took over
1851 the package with the consent of Carl Harris, the original implementor.
1852 Some of the 3.0 feature additions were inspired by Sean Oh's fetchpop 1.8
1853 code, and a few use code directly lifted from fetchpop. Here are my (Eric's)
1856 CONFIGURATION AND BUILDING
1858 * The autoconfigure script incorrectly assumed that all Linuxes use
1859 /usr/bin/deliver. Under Linux it now checks for both /usr/bin/delivermail
1862 * I added a distribution-maker production to Makefile.in.
1864 OPTIONS AND COMMAND LINE
1866 * I have removed the -p command-line option. Given that there's a run control
1867 facility there is no excuse for encouraging users to put plaintext passwords
1868 in scripts which might be readable.
1870 * Calling popclient with no arguments now causes it to query or operate
1871 on every host in the run control file.
1873 * I have made --version more useful by having it dump the computed
1874 connection options for each server specified.
1876 * The user can now explicitly set an MDA (such as procmail) with the
1877 new option -m or -mda. Various possible MDAs are listed on the man page.
1881 * The run control file lexer now supports "-enclosed strings which may
1884 * I added a --yydebug option to enable run control parser debugging at
1885 runtime if the parser was generated with --debug. It's not documented.
1887 * You may now have a `defaults' entry in the run control file which sets
1888 overrideable values for other entries. See the man page for details.
1890 * It is now possible to set keep, flush and fetchall in your run control
1893 * Fixed incorrect numbering of source lines in run control file parse error
1896 * The configure.in specification no longer uses the obsolete AC_TRY_COMPILE
1897 macro (it uses AC_TRY_LINK instead).
1901 * I have added mandatory locking of mailbox files where supported.
1902 This will cover Linux systems, in particular.
1904 * The default behavior is now to do lock-protected append on the user's
1905 system mailbox rather than using delivermail or some other MDA.
1906 (This is a performance hack.)
1908 * The autoconfigure script now looks for standard mail locations. The
1909 default mail delivery agent is used only if it can't find a mail spool
1910 directory in the standard places.
1912 FUNCTIONAL ENHANCEMENTS
1914 * When using POP3, message headers are edited so that replies won't foo up.
1915 Anything that looks like a mail ID local to the POP host gets @ and the
1916 pop servername attached to it before being appended to the user's
1917 mailbox or passed to an MDA.
1919 * I have implemented daemon mode.
1921 * I have added a lock check to ensure that there is only one popclient
1922 running per user, and a --quit option to kill the currently running
1927 * All changes and feature additions have been tested in actual use and are
1928 documented on the man page.
1930 * I have turned the comments in the sample run control file into a new manual
1931 section documenting the file format.
1933 MISCELLANEOUS BUG FIXES
1935 * I fixed some de-initialization bugs in pop2.c and pop3.c that led to
1936 fd leaks (these became painfully obvious when I tested daemon mode!).
1938 * I've fixed the flaky parser error messages. They turned out to be due
1939 to a misdeclaration of yytext.
1941 These are Carl Harris's change notes from previous releases:
1944 o "From " header fix in pop2.c and pop3.c
1945 o Surpress "..." output when --stdout option specified in pop3.c
1949 o various diagnostic/informational message fixes.
1952 o Support for retrieving only new messages from maildrop when
1954 o Support for retrieving only the first n lines of each message
1956 o APOP authentication support.
1957 o Buffered socket input.
1960 This is a "new features" release.
1961 o support for .poprc file.
1962 o GNU-style long options.
1963 o fixed passwords appearing in 'ps' output
1964 o support for multiple servers on one command line
1967 This is mostly a test of the autoconfigure integration.
1968 Among the functions performed by the new configure script, is
1969 the ability to detect known system types, configures the mail
1970 delivery agent (MDA) correctly. This should permanently solve
1971 the problem of using something other than an MDA for mail
1972 delivery (which continues to plague Linux slackware 1.2.9).
1973 For this beta, please check the values of MDA_PATH and MDA_ARGS
1974 carefully. They should match the values found in your
1975 sendmail.cf file on the line which begins with "Mlocal".
1977 Other changes from popclient version 2.21:
1979 o no longer uses getpass() from the C library. The
1980 internal getpassword() function allows the use of long
1983 o integrated GNU getopt() for long options. Long option
1984 names will appear in a future beta.
1986 o Several compiler warnings fixed.
1988 o Fixed problems related to missing include files in