1 Fetchmail Release Notes
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4 This file is in Unicode charset with UTF-8 encoding.
5 All dates are in Universal Time unless otherwise noted.
7 (The `lines' figures total .c, .h, .l, and .y files under version control.
8 Abbreviations in parentheses are the maintainers who committed the respective
9 change. MA = Matthias Andree, ESR = Eric S. Raymond, RF = Rob Funk.)
11 # ADVANCE WARNING OF FEATURES TO BE REMOVED OR CHANGED IN FUTURE VERSIONS
12 (There are no plans to remove features from a 6.3.X release, but they may be
13 removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.)
14 * The MX and host alias DNS lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode
15 are based on assumptions that are rarely met in practice, somewhat defective,
16 deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version.
17 They have never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4).
18 Non-DNS based alias keywords such as "aka" will remain in fetchmail.
19 * The monitor and interface options may be removed from a future fetchmail
20 version as they are not reasonably portable across operating systems.
21 * POP2 is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail version.
22 * RPOP is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail release.
23 * --sslcertck will become a default setting in a future fetchmail version.
24 * The multidrop To/Cc guessing code along with the fragile duplicate suppressor
25 is deprecated and may be removed from a future release.
26 * The "envelope Received" option may be removed from a future release, because
27 the Received header was never meant to be machine-readable, the format varies
28 widely, and various other differences in behavior make parsing Received an
29 unreliable undertaking. The envelope option as such will remain though, in
30 order to support Delivered-To, X-Envelope-To, X-Original-To and similar.
31 See also <http://home.pages.de/~mandree/mail/multidrop>.
32 * The --enable-fallback (fall back to MDA if MTA unavailable) will be removed
33 from a future fetchmail release, because it makes fetchmail's behavior
34 inconsistent and confusing.
35 * The "protocol auto" default inside fetchmail may be removed from a future
36 fetchmail release. Explicit configuration of the protocol is recommended.
37 * Kerberos IV support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
38 * SIGHUP wakeup support may be removed from a future fetchmail release and
39 cause fetchmail to terminate - it was broken for many years.
40 * Support for operating systems that are not sufficiently POSIX compliant may be
41 removed or operation on such systems may be suboptimal for future releases.
42 This means that fetchmail may only continue to work on C99 and POSIX 2001
44 * The maintainer may migrate fetchmail to C++ with STL or C#, and impose further
45 requirements (dependencies), such as Boost or other class libraries.
46 * The softbounce option default will change to "false" in the next release.
47 * The --bsmtp - mode of operation may be removed in a future release.
49 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
51 fetchmail 6.3.15 (not yet released):
54 * Fetchmail now supports a bad-header command line or rcfile option that takes
55 exactly one argument, accept or reject (default). This specifies how messages
56 with bad headers retrieved from the current server are to be treated.
59 * In the rcfile, recognize "local" as abbreviation for "localdomains", as
60 documented. The short form has not ever worked since this feature was added in
61 January 1997. Reported by Frédéric Marchal.
62 * Do not close stdout when using mda and "bsmtp -" at the same time.
63 * Log operating system errors when BSMTP writes fail.
66 * The repository has been converted and moved from the Subversion (SVN) format
67 kindly hosted by Graham Wilson over the past years to Git format hosted on
68 Gitorious.org. My deepest thanks to Graham Wilson for this service that
69 kept us going when BerliOS's Subversion service was faulty in its early days.
70 * This opportunity was used to convert BRANCH_6-2 and BRANCH_1-9-9 to
71 GnuPG-signed tags, as a sign that these are now closed.
72 * The outdated SVN trunk is now called "oldtrunk" in Git just to save the work
73 for future reference. All development in the past few years was on BRANCH_6-3.
74 * master was branched from BRANCH_6-3 for user convenience.
77 * Web site and documentation were adjusted to reflect the SVN->Git move.
78 * The fetchmail manual page is now much clearer on the user id switching
79 (seteuid) when using --mda while running as the super user.
82 * [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
83 * [fr] French, by Frédéric Marchal
85 * [id] Indonesian, by Andhika Padmawan
86 * [it] Italian, by Vincenzo Campanella
87 * [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
88 * [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
89 * [vi] Vietnamese, by Clytie Siddall
92 fetchmail 6.3.14 (released 2010-02-05, 25487 LoC):
95 * CVE-2010-0562: SSL/TLS certificate information is now also reported properly
96 on computers that consider the "char" type signed. Fixes malloc() buffer
97 overrun. Workaround for older versions: do not use verbose mode.
98 See fetchmail-SA-2010-01.txt for details, including a minimal patch.
101 * The IMAP client no longer skips messages from several IMAP servers including
102 Dovecot if fetchmail's "idle" is in use. Causes were that fetchmail (a)
103 ignored some untagged responses when it should not (b) relied on EXISTS
104 messages in response to EXPUNGE, which aren't mandated by RFC-3501 (the IMAP
105 standard) and aren't sent by Dovecot either.
106 Fix by Sunil Shetye (the fix also consolidates IMAP response handling,
107 improving overall robustness of the IMAP client), bug report and testing by
108 Matt Doran, with further hints from Timo Sirainen.
109 * The SMTP client now recovers from errors (such as servers dropping the
110 connection after errors) when sending an RSET command.
111 Fix by Sunil Shetye. Report by James Moe.
112 * The IMAP client now uses "SEARCH UNSEEN" rather than "SEARCH UNSEEN NOT
113 DELETED" again on IMAP2, to fix a regression in fetchmail 6.2.5 reported by
114 Will Stringer in June 2004. (Sunil Shetye)
115 * The IMAP client now uses "SEARCH UNSEEN UNDELETED" on IMAP4 and IMAP4r1
116 servers (Sunil Shetye).
117 * Workaround: The IMAP client now falls back to "FETCH n:m FLAGS" if the server
118 does not support "SEARCH". (Sunil Shetye)
119 * The IMAP client now requests message numbers in batches of 1,000 to avoid
120 problems if there are more than 1860 unseen messages. (Sunil Shetye)
121 Note that this wasn't security relevant because fetchmail would only read up
122 to the maximum buffer size and leave the remainder of the string unread, going
123 out of synch afterwards.
124 * Stricter validation of IMAP responses containing byte or message counts.
127 * Only include gssapi.h if we're not including gssapi/gssapi.h, to fix a FreeBSD
128 compiler warning about gssapi.h being obsolete.
131 * The README.SSL document was revised for grammar, spelling, and clarity.
132 Courtesy of Robert Mullin.
134 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
135 * [it] Italian, by Vincenzo Campanella
139 fetchmail 6.3.13 (released 2009-10-30, 25333 LoC):
142 * The multiline SMTP error fix in release 6.3.12 caused fetchmail to lose
143 message codes 400..599 and treat all of these as temporary error. This would
144 cause messages to be left on the server even if softbounce was turned off.
145 Reported by Thomas Jarosch.
147 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
148 * [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
149 * [zh_CN] Chinese (simplified), by Ji ZhengYu
150 * [nl] Dutch, by Erwin Poeze
151 * [id] Indonesian, by Andhika Padmawan
152 * [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
153 * [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
154 * [es] Spanish (Castilian), by Franciso Molinero
155 * [vi] Vietnamese, by Clytie Siddall
158 fetchmail 6.3.12 (released 2009-10-05):
161 * The CVE-2009-2666 fix in fetchmail release 6.3.11 caused a free() of
162 unallocated memory on SSL connections, which caused crashes or program aborts
163 on some systems (depending on how initialization and free() of unallocated
164 memory is handled in compiler and libc).
165 Workaround for older versions: run in verbose mode.
166 Patch courtesy of Thomas Heinz, fixes Gentoo Bug #280760.
167 This regression affected only the 6.3.11 release, but not the patch that was
168 part of the security announcement fetchmail-SA-2009-01.
171 * Fix error reporting for GSSAPI on Heimdal (h5l) Kerberos.
172 * Look for MD5_Init in libcrypto rather than libssl, fixes Gentoo Kerberos
173 builds; fixes upstream parts of Gentoo Bugs #231400 and #185652, and fixes
175 * Report multiline SMTP errors properly, reported by Earl Chew; fixes Debian Bug
176 #529899, reported by Akihiro Terasaki.
177 Note: This fix introduced a regression, fixed in 6.3.13.
178 * Replace control characters in SMTP replies by '?'.
179 * Fetchmailconf: Fix descriptions for smtpaddress and smtpname options;
180 smtpaddress is for RCPT TO, not MAIL FROM. Found by Gerard Seibert.
182 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
183 * [ca] Catalan (Ernest Adrogué Calveras)
184 * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
185 * [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
186 * [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
187 * [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
188 * [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
189 * [vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
192 fetchmail 6.3.11 (released 2009-08-06):
195 * CVE-2009-2666: SSL NUL prefix impersonation attack through NULs in a
196 part of a X.509 certificate's CommonName and subjectAltName fields. These
197 fields use opaque strings with a separate length field, so that the NUL
198 character isn't a special character inside the certificate. Fetchmail, being
199 written in the C language, used to treat these strings as C strings
200 nonetheless, so that the domain comparison would end at the first embedded NUL
201 character, rather than at the real end of the string.
202 Fetchmail will now abort certificate verification as failed if NULs are
203 encountered inside either of these fields regardless of their position, and
204 drop the connection even if --sslcertck is not used, because NUL is not a
205 valid character in legitimate DNS names.
206 See fetchmail-SA-2009-01.txt for details, including a minimal patch.
209 * Remove the spurious message "message delimiter found while scanning headers".
210 RFC-5322 syntax states that the delimiter is part of the body, and the body is
212 * Convert all non-printable characters in certificate Subject/Issuer
213 Common Name or Subject Alternative Name fields to ANSI-C hex escapes (\xnn,
214 where nn are hex digits).
215 Note that this change introduces a regression, fixed in 6.3.12.
216 See the 6.3.12 documentation above for details and a workaround.
218 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
219 * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
220 * [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
223 fetchmail 6.3.10 (released 2009-07-02):
225 # INCOMPATIBLE BUGFIXES AND CHANGES
226 * Fetchmail no longer drops permanently undelivered messages by default, to
227 match historic documentation. It does this by adding a new "softbounce"
229 Fixes Debian Bug#471283, demotes Debian Bug#494418 to wishlist.
230 * There is a new "softbounce" global option that prevents the deletion of
231 messages that have not been forwarded. It defaults to "true" for fetchmail
232 6.3.X in order to match historic documentation. This may change its default
233 in the next major release.
236 * Fix misuse of canonical autoconf target as _TARGET when it should have been
237 _HOST. Report and patch courtesy of Diego E. "Flameeyes" Pettenò.
238 Details: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/01/01/the-canonical-target
239 * Do not lose PS_MAXFETCH (13) exit status when hitting maxpoll. Reported by
240 Michelle Konzack, Debian Bug#508667.
241 * Do not overlap source and destination fields in snprintf() in interface.c.
242 Courtesy of Nico Golde, Debian.
243 * When a pre- or post-connect command fails, now report the exit status or
244 termination signal properly through sys/wait.h macros.
245 * When acquiring a body, understand NIL ("no such data item"), as returned by
246 some MS Exchange versions. Fixes BerliOS Bug #11980 by KB Sriram.
247 * Make progress tickers (-v/--showdots) consistent, and update documentation
248 accordingly ("." for each 1024 octets read, "#" for a header written, and "*"
249 for each body line written.)
250 The conditions under which these had been printed were inconsistent,
251 illogical, and documentation hadn't matched real behaviour for long.
252 * For NTLM authentication, use dynamically allocated buffers.
253 Fixes Debian Bug#449179, reported by Stepan Golosunov.
254 * Non-delivery notice ("bounce mail") now mentions the original reason again,
255 before the address list. This fixes a regression introduced in 6.3.0.
256 * Several compiler warnings were fixed.
257 * The minimum recommended SMTP (RFC-5321) timeouts are enforced to leave
258 sufficient time for the listener to respond. Some synchronous listeners,
259 particularly when used with spam filtering and other policy enforcement
260 services, take extended amounts of time to process messages after the sender,
261 recipient, or data block and EOM line. This can cause fetchmail to not wait
262 long enough for the "250 Ok" and make fetchmail believe the message wasn't
263 properly delivered when in fact it was; fetchmail would then retry the
264 download next time and never make progress.
265 Fixes Berlios Bug #10972, reported by Viktor Binzberger.
266 * The ESMTP/LMTP client will now apply an application-specific timeout while
267 waiting for the EHLO/LHLO response, rather than wait for the server or TCP
269 * Treat 530 errors as temporary, so as not to delete messages on configuration
270 errors. Partially taken from Petr Cerny's patch in Novell Bugzilla #246829.
271 The 501 part of said patch was not added, as the maintainer is not convinced
272 501 is a temporary condition, and softbounce takes care of this anyways.
275 * Make the comparison of the SSL fingerprints case insensitive, to
276 ease its use. Suggested by Daniel Richard G.
277 * Proper precedence ordering for the syslog and logfile options. If the logfile
278 option is effective (i. e. we're in daemon mode and nodetach isn't used),
279 reset the syslog option. If logfile is ineffective (we're not in daemon mode,
280 or nodetach is set), syslog takes precedence.
281 * The sleeping at/awakened at messages appear in logfiles and syslog only if
282 verbose mode is enabled. On the console, they will still appear without
283 verbose mode. Fixes Debian Bug#282259.
284 * fetchmail only requests IPv6 addresses via name service if at least one is
285 configured on the local host, likewise for IPv4. (AI_ADDRCONFIG flag to
286 getaddrinfo()) Extended version of Redhat's patch.
287 * If the server name contains "yahoo.com", offers the "ID" capability, and we're
288 polling via IMAP, send an ID ("guid" "1") transaction first, ignoring its
289 result. This appears needed to be able to log into Yahoo's Zimbra servers, but
290 there are open issues (such as being only able to download one message and
291 server certificate mismatches).
294 * Fix bashism in contrib/fetchsetup. Fixes Debian Bug#530081.
297 * Some parts of the the manual page were revised for clarity, accuracy, and
298 updated recommendations (particularly SSL/TLS) and formatting conventions from
300 * The README and README.SSL documents were updated.
301 * A document, README.SSL-SERVER, was added to describe server-side requirements
302 for proper SSL and/or TLS service offerings. These are not specific to
304 * Documentation on how to make "NOMAIL" (exit code 1) not treated an error has
305 been added to the EXIT CODES section of the manpage and to the FAQ as item C8.
306 The suggested solution uses a tiny POSIX shell script fragment.
307 Fixes Debian Bug #530749, filed by Reuben Thomas.
309 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
310 * [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
311 * [en_GB] English/British
313 * [id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
314 * [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
315 * [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
316 * [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
317 * [ru] Russian (Pavel Maryanov), fixing Debian Bug #531925
318 * [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
319 * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
322 fetchmail 6.3.9 (released 2008-11-16):
324 # SECURITY AND CRITICAL BUG FIXES:
325 * CVE-2007-4565: Denial of service: When fetchmail tries to inject a warning
326 message it created itself, and the message is refused by the SMTP listener,
327 fetchmail dereferences a NULL pointer and crashes. Report & fix by Earl Chew.
328 Note while this is theoretically a remote denial of service attack vector,
329 fetchmail by default talks SMTP to the localhost, so the overall risk is
331 This bug was apparently introduced on 1998-11-27 when the bouncemail facility
332 was modularized. The bug then made its appearance in fetchmail release 4.6.8.
333 See also fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt.
334 * CVE-2008-2711: Denial of service: When fetchmail logs data blobs
335 (for instance, a To: header in -v -v verbose mode) in excess of 2048
336 bytes, it will crash, because it hands an uninitialized argument
337 pointer (not the format string though) to vsnprintf and reads a
338 random memory location (it calls va_arg() too often without
339 resetting it with va_start()). Based on a patch (BerliOS patch #2492)
340 by Petr Uzel, fixes Novell Bug #354291.
341 Note 6.3.9-rc1 did not completely fix this issue, so it was redrawn a few
342 hours after its release.
343 See also fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt.
344 * When expunging, mark the right messages as seen to avoid message loss in "keep
345 flush" configurations. Workaround for previous versions: "expunge 0".
346 Report and patch by Alexander Cherepanov - thanks a lot, Berlios Bug #11797,
347 "imap_mark_seen doesn't consider expunged messages".
348 * SSL fix: close memory leak when SSL connection fails; fetchmail used to forget
349 calling SSL_free() on the SSL context, leaking in excess of 500 kB RAM on a
350 x86_64 system per failed SSL connection attempt.
351 Bug reported and patch provided by Seiichi Ikarashi, Fujitsu.
354 * The configure script will additionally check for 'dn_skipname', to fix build
355 failures with µClibc. The new check still recognizes the resolver libraries on
356 Ubuntu 7.04, openSUSE 10.2, Solaris 8, NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 and FreeBSD 6.2.
357 Fixes Gentoo bug #134187.
358 NOTE: this is a bit of a hack, since we twist the HAVE_RES_SEARCH result, but
359 res_search() and dn_skipname() are only used together and scheduled for
360 removal in future versions, so this is probably fine.
361 * No longer complain about invalid sslproto "" when POP3 CAPA probe fails.
362 Fixes Debian Bug#421446 (Holger Leskien), Novell Bug #247233 (Jon Nelson).
363 Thanks to Matthias Strauß for a configuration to reproduce the issue.
364 * Allow .fetchmailrc and .fetchids to be symlinks, as the manpage does not
365 document they aren't allowed - fixes Debian Bug #452907 (Roger Leigh).
366 TOCTOU race persists.
367 * fetchmailconf quotes mailbox (folder) names when writing the configuration.
368 Fixes BerliOS Bug #13207 (reported + fix suggested by Terry Brown).
369 * Only print "Deleting fetchids file" if there actually is one.
370 Fixes Debian Bug#374514, reported by Dan Jacobson.
371 * SSL fix: check and report if SSL_set_fd fails.
374 * autoconf 2.60 is now required to build fetchmail; it uses
375 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to replace AC_AIX, AC_MINIX, and the like.
376 * Removed dead FETCHMAIL_DEBUG code from fetchmail.h that was disabled by
377 default with no switches in configure to enable it. However, the macro would
378 have been prone to a symlink attack. Found by Nico Golde.
379 * Removed dead FORCE_STUFFING code from socket.c that was disabled by default
380 with no switches in configure to enable it.
381 * Include the typedef for int16 in the #ifndef _AIX in smbencrypt.c (Peter
383 * Correct check for u_int32_t in configure.ac (seems to be typedef'ed in
384 namser.h on some platforms.) (Peter O'Gorman)
385 * In configure.ac change all CPFLAGS to CPPFLAGS, CEFLAGS to CFLAGS and LDEFLAGS
386 to LDFLAGS otherwise the results of some tests (additional -L and -I flags) do
387 not get used for later tests causing incorrect configure results. Makefile.am
388 was also changed to reflect this. (Peter O'Gorman)
389 * m4/gethostbyname_r.m4 does AC_TRY_COMPILE, which unfortunately can pass even
390 if there is no gethostbyname_r. Changed to AC_TRY_LINK. (Peter O'Gorman)
391 * Revise getnameinfo check to ensure NULL is defined and the result is properly
392 evaluated, to avoid bogus results on for instance FreeBSD and redefinitions of
393 NI_* at compile time. (Matthias Andree).
394 * __attribute__ ((unused)) is a gccism, removed from libesmtp/gethostbyname.c.
396 * In KAME/getnameinfo.c it's best to use the correct argument to inet_ntoa.
398 * In verbose mode, log if --check mode is enabled.
399 * Add sslcommonname option (rcfile and commandline) as a way to work around
400 misconfigured upstream SSL servers that use the wrong certificate name. It
401 specifies which CommonName fetchmail expects and logs. (Daniel Richard G.)
402 * Changed CRLF to LF line endings in contrib/delete-later (reporter: Petr Uzel)
403 * SSL change: enable all workarounds with SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx,SSL_OP_ALL)
404 * All translations have been re-enabled, in an attempt to rekindle translator or
408 * Add fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt and fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt.
409 * Re-add two lines to the manual page that had accidentally become comments
410 to nroff. One was part of the --sslproto documentation, and one in the
411 "Awakening the background daemon" section.
412 * The manual page no longer asserts that .fetchids were for exclusive POP3 use,
413 since it is planned to use the file with IMAP4 later.
414 * Add grammar fixes from Dan Jacobson to fetchmail.man. Debian Bug #461642.
415 * The manual page now mentions that user descriptions need to come before user
416 options. Reported by Francensco Pontortì, to fix Debian Bug #467010.
417 * The manual page no longer hints that multi-user declarations per server were
418 only useful in daemon mode running as root, to avoid hinting people to doing
420 * Several manual page rcfile examples now include "ssl".
421 * The manual page hints that option arguments beginning with numbers can be
423 * The manual page now mentions that the --logfile must already exist before
425 * The FAQ now recommends (#I9) not to use Google Mail for their disregard to the
426 protocols they claim to support.
427 * Documentation and program output now /consistently/ claim that the rcfile must
428 not have more than 0700 (u=rwx,g=,o=) permissions, but fetchmail will still
429 silently accept additional g=x permissions for compatibility with previous
430 6.2.X and 6.3.X versions.
431 Inconsistency (program 0710, manpage 0600) reported by Petr Uzel.
432 * The --logfile documentation is now clearer about requiring detached daemon
435 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
436 * [sq] Albanian (Besnik Bleta)
437 * [zh_CN] Chinese, simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
438 * [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
439 * [da] Danish (Byrial Ole Jensen) - outdated, but newer than in 6.3.8
440 * [nl] Dutch (Tony Vroon, Benno Schulenberg)
441 * [en_GB] English, British
442 * [fi] Finnish (Lauri Nurmi)
444 * [id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
445 * [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
446 * [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
447 * [ru] Russian (Pavel Maryanov)
448 * [es] Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Matthias Andree)
449 * [tr] Turkish (Engin Gündüz) - outdated, but newer than in 6.3.8
450 * [vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
454 fetchmail 6.3.8 (released 2007-04-06):
456 # SECURITY STRENGTHENING:
457 * Make the APOP challenge parser more distrustful and have it reject challenges
458 that do not conform to RFC-822 msg-id format, in the hope to make mounting
459 man-in-the-middle attacks (MITM) against APOP a bit more difficult.
460 (CVE-2007-1558, reported by Gaëtan Leurent, published 2007-04-02 on Bugtraq)
462 APOP is claimed insecure by Gaëtan Leurent for MITM scenarios for typical
463 setups: based on MD5 collisions, it is purportedly possible to recover the
464 first three characters of the shared secret (password), which would then make
465 recovery of the shared secret a matter of hours or minutes; this would then
466 enable the attacker to impersonate the client vis-à-vis the server.
468 For further details, check
469 * Gaëtan Leurent, "Message Freedom in MD4 and MD5 Collisions: Application
470 to APOP", Fast Software Encryption 2007, Luxembourg. (Proceedings to appear in
471 Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science.)
472 * The mailing list discussion thread at
473 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-devel/2007-March/000887.html>
476 * Fix pluralization of oversized-message warning mails.
477 * Fix manual page: --sslcheck -> --sslcertck, and do not set trailing
478 "recommended:" in bold. Fixes Debian Bug #413059, reported by Rafal Czlonka.
479 * Repoll immediately if a protocol error happens during the authentication
480 attempt after a failed opportunistic TLS upgrade.
481 Fixes comment #9 in Gentoo Bug #163782, reported by Takuto Matsuu.
482 * Fix rendering of the "24 - 26, 28, 29" paragraph in the exit codes section.
483 Reported by Nico Golde.
484 * If SOCKS support was compiled in, add 'socks' to the feature_options Python
485 list emitted in --configdump. Reported by Rob MacGregor.
486 * Do not crash with a null pointer dereference when opening the BSMTP file
487 fails. Improve error checking and reporting. Reported by Reto Schüttel,
488 Debian Bug#416625. Fix based on a patch by Nico Golde.
489 * Make BSMTP output actually work, it would persistently fail with SOCKET error
490 after writing the first header. Bug independently found and reported in
491 excellent detail by Reto Schüttel, Debian Bug#416812.
494 * Add fetchmail-SA-2007-01.txt
495 * Extend --mda documentation, discourage use of qmail-inject.
496 Based on a patch by Rob MacGregor.
497 * Document SOCKS configuration facility (SOCKS_CONF environment variable).
498 Thanks to Jochen Hayek, Michael Shuldman and Rob MacGregor.
499 * Use envelope option in multidrop example. Patch by Rob MacGregor.
500 * Document expected Received: line format when parsing for envelope addressees.
501 * Stripped option documentation from sample.rcfile, since this is bound to go
502 out of synch with the manual page, which is the only reference on options.
503 * Mention that --limit default is 0 bytes, which is special for "no limit".
504 * Corrected Robert M. Funk's name that I misspelled. My sincere apologies
508 * Add delete-later and delete-later.README, a script and documentation for
509 a MySQL/Tcl-based client-side "delete-after" feature.
510 Kindly donated by Yoo GmbH, Großvoigtsberg, Germany (Carsten Ralle).
512 # KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS:
513 (this section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the
514 current release information)
515 * fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
516 (See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
517 * BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output.
518 * Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in
519 64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit
520 fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code,
521 so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties.
522 * fetchmail does not track pending deletes over crashes
523 * the command line interface is a bit narrow-minded sometimes, for instance,
524 fetchmail -s doesn't work with a running daemon
525 * some of the logging output is not very helpful
526 * some of the documentation is still not up to date
530 fetchmail 6.3.7 (released 2007-02-18):
532 # FIXES FOR REGRESSIONS IN 6.3.6
533 * Fix KPOP. Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
534 * Fix repoll when server disconnects after opportunistic TLS failed for POP3.
535 Berlios Bug #10133 = Gentoo Bug #163782 reported by Andrej Kacian.
537 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
538 * Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki), Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
541 * Consider getaddrinfo() on Darwin 9 (Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard") thread-safe.
542 Reported by Uli Zappe.
545 fetchmail 6.3.6 (released 2007-01-04):
548 * CVE-2006-5867, fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt:
549 Password disclosure vulnerability fixed. This has several aspects:
551 - Fetchmail now implies sslproto 'tls1' if the sslfingerprint or sslcertck
552 options are used and the ssl option is not used, in order to be sure that
553 fetchmail gets a certificate from the mail server.
555 - Fetchmail breaks the connection if the TLS negotiation (or verification, if
556 requested) fails with sslproto 'tls1', sslfingerprint or sslcheck enabled.
558 - POP3 connections now use STLS reliably. They used to ignore STLS altogether
559 for serveral values of the "auth" option, when fetchmail forget to probe
560 server capabilities - see fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt for details.
562 - POP3 connections will no longer fall back USER/PASS authentication if
563 strong challenge-response authenticators such as CRAM-MD5 are configured
564 but the server does not advertise these in its CAPA response.
566 - POP2 is obsolete and does not support STLS or anything beyond password-based
567 authentication. The attempt to use STLS or strong authenticators now causes
570 Configurations using both ssl and sslcertck however have been semi-safe in
571 that they would send the password in the clear. The USER/PASS fallback
572 problem however applies to these too, so that the password was only safe on
575 * CVE-2006-5974, fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt:
576 Repairs a regression in 6.3.5 that crashes fetchmail when a message with
577 invalid headers is found while fetchmail's mda option is in use. BerliOS bugs
578 #9364, #9412, #9449. Stack backtrace provided by Neil Hoggarth - thanks.
580 # REGRESSION FIXES (recently introduced bugs)
581 * Repair --logfile, broken in 6.3.5. BerliOS Bug #9059,
582 reported by Brian Harring.
583 * Repair --user, broken in 6.3.5 (as a side effect of the authenticate external
584 patch): using SSL certificate/key authentication overrode the --user option.
585 Now the latter takes precedence, and only defaults to the certificate's common
586 name. Debian Bug #400950, reported by Jorgen Schaefer <forcer@debian.org>.
588 # BUG FIXES (long-standing bugs):
589 * RPOP: used to log the password locally rather than an asterisk as the other
590 protocols do. The password is now shrouded in the local logs.
591 * POP3: Probes capabilities now when Kerberos V5 is enabled, so that we can
592 actually detect if the server supports it.
593 * Robustness: If a stale lockfile cannot be deleted, truncate it so that
594 fetchmail doesn't later believe itself to be running if the PID is recycled
595 by a non-fetchmail process.
596 * DNS: Detect /etc/resolv.conf changes: On systems that have res_search(),
597 assume we also have res_init() and call it (suggested by Ulrich Drepper,
598 glibc bug #3675) in order to make libc or libresolv reread the resolver
599 configuration at the beginning of a poll cycle. This is important when
600 fetchmail is in daemon mode and /etc/resolv.conf is changed later by dhcpcd,
601 dhclient, pppd, openvpn or other ip-up/ipchange scripts. Should fix Debian
602 Bug#389270, Bug#391698.
603 * Robustness: Fix crash on systems that do not provide strdup(), the crash
604 happens only in out-of-memory conditions when fetchmail cannot proceed
605 anyways. Patch by Andreas Krennmair.
606 * Robustness: When HOME and FETCHMAILHOME are unset, be sure to copy user
607 database information, so it is not trashed later. Patch by Jim Correia.
610 * Workaround: Improve handling of IMAP IDLE, some servers do not reset their
611 time counters after sending information asynchronously. Patch by Sunil
612 Shetye, after report from Andrew Baumann.
613 * Usability: When requesting Kerberos or GSSAPI, complain and exit with syntax
614 error if any of these requested features has not been compiled in. This is
615 to fail early and with precise error message. Reported by Isaac Wilcox.
616 * --version will now add +KRB4 or +KRB5 if Kerberos v4 or v5, respectively, have
617 been compiled in. Reported missing by Isaac Wilcox.
620 * New en_GB (British English) translation by David Lodge.
621 * Update Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki), Polish (Jakub Bogusz), Russian (Pavel
622 Maryanov) and Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall) translations.
623 ! Note that not all these translations are complete -- this isn't the
624 translators' fault though, but due to delays at the BerliOS hosting site and
625 the translation project handlers. You may see a few untranslated messages.
628 * Dropped exit status 15 from manual page, it's not used by fetchmail.
629 Reported by Isaac Wilcox.
630 * Documented exit codes 24 - 29 as internal.
632 fetchmail 6.3.5 (released 2006-10-09):
635 * For protocols such as IMAP that are not delimited by "." lines, truncate the
636 input buffer when the message has been completely read, to avoid taking
637 trailing garbage into the message if the terminal CRLF is missing. Fixes
638 Debian Bug#312415. (Patch suggested by Mike Jones, Manchester Univ.).
639 * When using NTLM authentication, use regular IMAP response code handler after
640 completing NTLM handshake, for robustness and consistency.
641 (Taken from the NetBSD portable packages collection, patch-ac.)
642 * Support Kerberos installations where krb5.h and perhaps roken.h are in
643 .../include/krb5. Taken from NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ae.
644 * On NetBSD, link against -lroken -lcom_err if --with-kerberos is enabled.
645 * Drop #include <com_err.h> from Kerberos 5 header file, fixes compile error on
647 * Fix des_pcbc_encrypt compile warnings in kerberos.c line 246.
648 * If krb5-config provides gssapi library information, use that rather than
650 * Improve --with-gssapi auto detection for /usr-based GSSAPI installs.
651 * Fix --with-gssapi builds for NetBSD 3.0.
652 * Improve KAME/getnameinfo.c portability to Linux libc5 systems.
653 Based on a patch by Dan Fandrich.
654 * Provide INET6 to KAME/getnameinfo.c (only useful on IPv6-enabled systems that
655 lack getnameinfo, and there only visible in some Received: headers).
656 Found by Dan Fandrich.
657 * POP3: some UID flags may not be set properly on UIDL lists. (Sunil Shetye)
658 * Make IMAP4 IDLE work on servers that do not update RECENT counts.
659 Reported by Lars Tewes.
660 * IMAP4 patch by Sunil Shetye:
661 - do not depend on server updating RECENT counts at all
662 - also enter IDLE loop when messages are present on the server.
663 * Fix --flush description in the manual page, fetchmail does not mark messages
664 seen unless it has successfully delivered them. Suggested by Frederic Marchal.
665 * Fetchmail no longer attempts to stat the "-" file in daemon mode -- this is a
666 special name to read the RC file from stdin, and cannot always be re-read
667 anyways. BerliOS bug #7858.
668 * When looking up ports for a service, the lookup succeeds and the returned
669 address family isn't IPv4 or IPv6, properly free the allocated memory from the
670 service lookup. Found by Uli Zappe.
671 * When looking up ports for a service, only look up TCP ports.
672 * Avoid compiling empty files, to avoid diagnostics from strict compilers.
673 * If the lockfile ends before the process ID, treat it as stale and unlink it.
674 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #376603.
675 * SIGHUP wake-up behavior was broken since 5.9.13's Cygwin changes, in that for
676 non-root users, SIGHUP would abort the first poll and subsequently interfere
677 with new polls, and SIGHUP would be ignored for root users. SIGHUP now matches
678 documented behavior. SIGUSR1 has always been a wakeup signal for both root
679 (undocumented) and non-root users. See also the deprecation warning above.
680 * Track getaddrinfo() results to properly free them after timeouts and make sure
681 that getaddrinfo() isn't interrupted by a timeout (which breaks on MacOS X),
682 reported by Uli Zappe. This should fix Debian Bug#294547 and Bug#377135.
683 * --logfile is now handled more carefully, errors opening the logfile are
684 now reported to the TTY where fetchmail was started from.
685 * fetchmail now complains and aborts when it cannot properly daemonize itself.
686 * fix compilation on systems that don't know struct addrinfo (Solaris 2.6).
687 * ignore SIGPIPE signals and rely on functions to return EPIPE instead. This is
688 necessary because the former longjmp() from the signal handler is unsafe and
689 makes the whole fetchmail behavior undefined after the event.
690 * Avoid crash in env.c/host_fqdn if we cannot canonicalize our own hostname.
691 Reported by Alexander Holler.
692 * SSL fix by Miloslav Trmac (Red Hat): free the SSL contexts after the
693 connection, to avoid from growing SSL certpaths without bounds, avoid using
694 SSL contexts for unrelated connections, and to fix Red Hat Bug #206346.
697 * Rename all fetchmail-internal lock_* functions to fm_lock_*. Obsoletes
698 NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ah, patch-ai and patch-aj.
699 * Configure prints a warning (but proceeds) if Kerberos IV support is enabled.
700 * In verbose mode, log every IP fetchmail tries to connect to, to avoid
701 misleading the user. Suppress EAFNOSUPPORT errors from socket() call, too.
702 Fixes Debian Bug #361825, reported by Daniel Baur.
703 * In idle mode, fetchmail complains about the fetchall option.
704 * When a connection fails, log not only the IP address, but also host and
705 service name and the port number. Log the latter when trying to connect in
707 * Keep syslog output at one line per message (this works if no errors occur).
708 * Fetchmail in verbose mode now logs if it opportunistically upgrades a POP3
709 or IMAP connection to TLS security with STLS/STARTTLS.
710 * fetchmail now supports foo@example.org=bar user mappings for multidrop boxes.
711 * switch setjmp/longjmp to sigsetjmp/siglongjmp
712 * IMAP now supports the EXTERNAL authentication method, courtesy of
713 Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095 with minor changes.
714 Note that this change causes --sslcert to override --user.
715 * The sslproto keywords are now case insensitive, courtesy of
716 Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095.
717 * When going to sleep, log for how long. Suggested by Claudia Ludwig.
718 * When the server name cannot be canonicalized, log the gai_strerror value.
720 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
721 * Catalan/ca (Ernest Adrogué Calveras), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki) - also
722 made gettext 0.15 ready, Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Russian/ru (Pavel
723 Maryanov), Spanish/es (Héctor García Álvarez), Vietnamese/vi (Clytie Siddall)
725 # CONTRIBUTED SCRIPTS:
726 * PopDel.py was revised by Joshua Crawford to display the From: address and
727 list every email, even if it has no Subject: header; and not delete the wrong
728 message in the presence of mail without Subject: headers.
730 fetchmail 6.3.4 (released 2006-04-14):
733 * configure: detect res_* functions properly with newer glibc ABIs.
734 Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
735 * tracepolls: add folder information if available. Reported by Terry Brown.
736 * lexer: add %option noyywrap to avoid link errors about missing yywrap().
737 * a few more type fixes for report/snprintf, patch by Miloslav Trmac.
738 * bouncing: fetchmail would still send "General SMTP/ESMTP error." bounces
739 in spite of "no bouncemail" configuration.
740 * SSL/TLS: if, for a certain server, an sslfingerprint is specified and
741 sslcertck is NOT set, suppress printing SSL certificate mismatch errors.
742 (Reported by Hannes Erven.)
743 * SSL/TLS: always print if the sslfingerprint mismatches, even in silent
744 mode. (This is for consistency with certificate verification errors.)
746 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
747 * German/de (Matthias Andree), French/fr (Matthias Andree), Spanish/es (Héctor
748 García), Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki)
749 * New Vietnamese/vi translation (Clytie Siddall).
750 * Updated French descriptions for the .spec file (Stéphane Schildknecht,
751 Luc Pionchon, Matthias Andree).
754 * pidfile: there is a new command-line (--pidfile PATH) and global option for
755 the rcfile (set pidfile [=] "/path/to/pidfile") option to allow overriding
756 the default location of the PID file.
757 Requested by Héctor García, Debian maintainer.
758 * specgen.sh: Converted to UTF-8 to support translated texts better.
760 fetchmail 6.3.3 (released 2006-03-30):
763 * SEGFAULT: Do not attempt to overwrite the netrc password if none has been
764 specified. This fixes a segmentation fault bug introduced into 6.3.2.
765 Fixes BerliOS bug #6234. BerliOS patch #804 by Craig Leres.
766 The patch, as accepted into fetchmail, was available separately from
767 <http://download.berlios.de/fetchmail/patch-6.3.2.1-fix-netrc-SIGSEGV.diff>
768 * SEGFAULT: Work around C libraries that return a NULL in getaddrinfo()'s
769 ai_canonname record, to avoid a segfault. Affects for instance FreeBSD 4.10,
770 4.11 and 5.3 when dotted quads are given as server names.
771 Analysis and fix by Vladimir Olegovich Ravodin (Владимир Олегович Раводин).
772 * IMAP: fix hangs in NOOP-based IDLE emulation. Reported by Casper Gripenberg
773 and Brendan Lynch, fix by Sunil Shetye (his patch was merged) and Brendan Lynch.
774 * IMAP: Handle other clients concurrently accessing IMAP mailboxes better.
775 Fetchmail quits the poll if the EXPUNGE count does not match expectations, and
776 servers not updating RECENT counts after EXPUNGE are handled in a better way.
777 (Patch by Sunil Shetye.)
778 * IMAP: Stop sending EXPUNGE after NOOP-idling (patch by Sunil Shetye).
779 * POP3: fetchmail can now use UIDL in fetchall keep mode, to avoid re-fetching
780 the same messages again when the fetchall keyword is removed. Patch by
781 Sunil Shetye. For details, please see
782 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2006-March/000308.html>
783 * LMTP: fix bug in LMTP port validation (patch by Miloslav Trmac).
784 * SDPS: fetchmail no longer replaces the local user ID for an empty envelope
785 sender when using the proprietary SDPS extension for POP3.
786 Fixes Debian Bug#353575, reported by Roger Lynn.
787 * SDPS: Warn and disable SDPS if POP3 is disabled to avoid compilation errors.
788 * fetchmail no longer prints empty lines in verbose mode when using syslog.
789 * fetchmail no longer prints UID lists in verbose mode when using syslog.
790 * ./configure --quiet is now quieter (no SSL and fallback-related output).
791 * Miloslav Trmac's patch (with minor changes) to fix char * sign consistency,
792 unused arguments and variables.
793 * More signedness, unused argument/variable and other warning fixes.
796 * --idle can now be specified on the command line, too.
797 * --fetchall is now supported on the command-line.
798 * POP3: Lower default fastuidl span to 4 (i. e. every 4th run fetches the
799 whole UIDL list), patch by Sunil Shetye.
802 * "ssl" is a user option rather than a server option. Patch by Nico Golde.
803 Fixes Debian Bug#354661, reported by Keith Hellman.
804 * The manual page now suggests "--" before the addresses in the sendmail MDA
806 * The FAQ item X9, Domino IMAP omits Content-Transfer-Encoding header, was
807 added. Information provided by Anthony Kim on the fetchmail-friends list
809 * Credit Chris Boyle with the NOOP emulation code for IDLE in fetchmail 6.2.4.
810 Eric forgot to credit Chris, thanks to Sunil Shetye for providing these links:
811 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007705.html
812 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007713.html
813 * Added a section about RETR vs. TOP to the manual page.
814 * Changed section/subsection levels in some areas.
816 fetchmail 6.3.2 (released 2006-01-22):
818 Unless otherwise noted, changes to this release were made by Matthias Andree.
820 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
821 * CVE-2006-0321: Fix segfault or bus error after bouncing a message. This bug
822 was introduced into 6.3.0 when removing alloca(); it caused fetchmail to free
823 random memory. Reported by Nathaniel W. Turner, Debian Bug#348747.
824 See fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt
826 # INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE:
827 * Automatically disable the POP3 TOP command if the greeting string contains
828 "Maillennium POP3/PROXY server", which is used by comcast and known to
829 truncate messages after 80 kByte. Fall back to RETR, and complain if we had
830 used TOP otherwise (the warning is printed only once per server in daemon
831 mode). Suggested by Ed Wilts.
832 *Note* that this means messages are marked read on these servers, which is a
833 deviation from how 6.3.1 behaved, but we have no alternative, comcast haven't
834 fixed this bug in years. Preventing the loss of the remainder of the message
835 justifies this incompatible fix.
836 * fetchmail, since 6.3.0, requires write permission to the directory holding the
837 idfile. See the amendment in the 6.3.0 MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES section
838 below for details. The manual page was updated.
840 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS:
841 * The outdated BUGS document was removed from the distribution.
842 * Added fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt to the distribution.
845 * SMTP/LMTP cleanup to fix these two bugs:
846 - switch back to SMTP after having tried LMTP hosts (multiple smtphost hosts)
847 - switch back to LMTP after sending a bounce.
848 The patch removes the global state variable that was the root of this problem.
849 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
850 * Don't complain about fetchall keep in --configdump mode. Bug introduced in
852 * fetchmailconf.py: Fix novice help for Poll interval and fetchall.
853 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #344978.
854 * Some verbose output disappeared in debug mode. Adding further -v options would
855 alternate between verbose and debug mode. debug mode now comprises all verbose
856 output, and adding more -v options does not switch back from debug to verbose
858 * fetchmail.man: Fix accented characters in Héctor García's name. Merged from
859 downstream debian/patches/01_man_page.dpatch.
860 * Add missing --help text for "--sslcertck" option.
861 * fetchmailconf.py: Accept --help and --version.
862 * fetchmail --version now prints the copyright notice.
863 * don't complain about READ-ONLY IMAP folders in --fetchall --keep mode.
864 Reported Alexander Zangerl, Debian Bug#348964.
865 * the RPM .spec file now generates a -debuginfo package on newer RPM versions.
867 fetchmail 6.3.1 (released 2005-12-19):
869 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
870 * CVE-2005-4348 Fix segmentation fault (null pointer dereference) in
871 multidrop mode with headerless email. See fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt.
872 Reported by Daniel Drake, patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
874 # OTHER BUG FIXES, DOCUMENTATION AND TRANSLATION UPDATES
875 * Fix broken default port in POP2. Patch by Stanislav Brabec, SUSE [CZ]. (MA)
876 * Fix manual page, some lines starting with ' were escaped by \&.
877 Reported by Simon Barner. (MA)
878 * Ship with gettext-0.14.3 again, as 6.2.9-rc10 did. Found by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
879 * Actually set default SSL certificate path if --sslcertpath is unset.
880 Reported by Heino Tiedemann and Rob MacGregor. (MA)
881 * Remove bogus Netscape IMAP4rev1 Service >= 3.6 warning about BODY[TEXT]
882 that we are not using. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
883 * Plug potential memory and socket leak when polling multiple folders or when
884 the upstream sends bogus message sizes. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
885 * Update Catalan translation, by Ernest Adrogué Calveras. (MA)
886 * Fix segfault (null pointer dereference) on some operating systems with
887 fetchmail's obsolete DNS MX/host alias lookups in multidrop mode.
888 Patch by Dr.-Ing. Andreas Haakh. (MA)
889 * Close SMTP sockets early, to reduce resource usage, trigger earlier delivery
890 with some MTAs and avoid SIGPIPE (SIG 13) when the SMTP listener gets bored
891 and drops the connection after timeout. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
892 * Don't treat hitting a fetch limit as error. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
893 * Fix negative "messages left on server" on idle/repoll with fetchlimit.
894 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
895 * Properly track logout stage. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
896 * Preserve error conditions across postconnect script. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
897 * Do not trash destination domain if multiple messages are forwarded into the
898 same SMTP/LMTP connection. Reported by Joachim Feise, Berlios Bug #5849. (MA)
899 * Manual page: Add "-md5" to "openssl x509" example in --sslfingerprint
900 documentation, since OpenSSL 0.9.8 changed the default to SHA1.
901 Suggested by Jason White. (MA)
902 * Cope with servers that return UID information in response to non-UID
903 RFC822.{SIZE|HEADER} requests. Reported by Jason White.
904 Patch suggestion by by Sunil Shetye, simplified by MA.
906 fetchmail 6.3.0 (released 2005-11-30):
908 # SECURITY FIXES IN THIS RELEASE
909 * CVE-2005-2335: The POP3 UIDL code doesn't sufficiently validate/truncate the
910 input length, so a (malicious or compromised) server that sends UIDs longer
911 than 128 bytes can corrupt fetchmail's stack and crash fetchmail.
912 This vulnerability is remotely exploitable to inject code run in a
913 root shell. Edward J. Shornock, Ludwig Nussel. fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
914 * CVE-2005-3088: fetchmailconf now changes the output file to mode 0600 BEFORE
915 writing to it, so there is no window where passwords could be read by the
916 world. Matthias Andree. fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt
918 # MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
919 * Remove support for --netsec/-T options, the required inet6_apps library is no
921 http://www.inner.net/pub/ipv6/ states, as of 2005-07-03: "/pub/ipv6
922 Our IPv6 software is now long defunct. Please find a more modern source."
923 I haven't been able to find a more modern source. Matthias Andree
924 * Operating systems that do not conform to the Single Unix Specification v2
925 (1997) or v3 (2001, aka IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) are no longer supported. They
926 may continue to work and non-intrusive patches to support them may be
927 accepted. Matthias Andree
928 * The default for --smtphost is now always "localhost" regardless of
929 authentication types and protocols, so as to simplify configurations for
930 workstations where the SMTP daemon only listens on the loopback interface.
931 Sunil Shetye & Matthias Andree
932 Amendment, 2006-01-04:
933 * fetchmail's idfile (.fetchids) is no longer written directly, but the ids are
934 written to a temporary file which is renamed into place after being written
935 completely. This is to avoid writing incomplete idfiles when running out of
936 space, which would cause excessive duplicate refetches of messages, this might
937 make matters even worse. This means that fetchmail requires write permission
938 on the directory holding the idfile. This will usually affect system-global
939 daemons only, for instance, Debian. Found by Dan Jacobson. Matthias Andree.
940 Escalated to "incompatible", 2006-01-13:
941 * Try to obtain FQDN as our own host by default, rather than using "localhost".
942 If hostname cannot be qualified, complain noisily and continue, unless
943 Kerberos, ODMR or ETRN are used (these have always required an FQDN).
944 Partial fix of Debian Bug#150137. Fixes Debian Bug#316454. Matthias Andree
946 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS AND USERS
947 * fetchmailconf is now a shell wrapper that calls the byte-compiled
948 fetchmailconf.py script, which is now installed in the regular python
949 directory. Matthias Andree.
950 * The --enable-inet6 configure option was removed. The code is mostly protocol
951 agnostic, a fully IPv6 aware OS is expected to provide getaddrinfo(),
952 getnameinfo() and the macro AF_INET6. Matthias Andree.
953 * gettext (intl/) has been removed from the fetchmail package. Install GNU
954 gettext 0.14 separately for NLS (i18n). Matthias Andree
955 * Added Russian translation, courtesy of Pavel Maryanov of the
956 Russian translation team. (MA)
957 * Updated and re-enabled Czech translation, by Miloslav Trmac (MA).
958 * Dropped da=Danish, el=Greek and tr=Turkish translations which have more than
959 10% (61+) untranslated or fuzzy messages. Matthias Andree.
961 # OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
962 * Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR)
963 * PopDel.py removed from contrib at author's request. (ESR)
964 * Matthias Andree's fix for Sunil Shetye's fetch-split patch. (ESR)
965 * Include James Stone's moldremover.py script. (ESR)
966 * Enable .fetchmailrc permissions checking under Cygwin. (ESR)
967 * Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication. (ESR)
968 * Revised Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication (the
969 original version would go into an infinite loop when CAPA failed;
970 found by David Greaves.) (MA)
971 * HOME_ETC patch for PLD Linux. (ESR)
972 * Sunil Shetye's fix for SSL configuration. (ESR)
973 * Simon Josefsson's patch for GSS library support. (ESR)
974 * Added Andrey Lelikov's recipe for Hotmail and Lycos Webmail. (ESR)
975 * Remove blank between MAIL FROM: and <, which causes Cyrus to complain.
976 Patch by Phil Endecott. (RF)
977 * Build fixes for HESIOD and resolv.h trouble on FreeBSD. (MA)
978 * Fabrice Bellet's fix for Red Hat bug #113492, fetchmail hangs in IMAP
979 mode after EXPUNGE when the server (Dovecot 0.99.10) doesn't update
980 RECENT and EXISTS counts. (MA)
981 * Holger Mauermann's bounce patch, to use a NULL envelope from, not
982 write a Return-Path header (both to meet RFC-2821), changed From,
983 added Subject header, rewording the human readable part. Fixes Debian
985 * Merge Sunil Shetye's time.h handling fix. (MA)
986 * Merge Gerd von Egidy's patch to avoid a segfault in multidrop/received
987 mode when the Received: headers are malformatted. (MA)
988 * MIME-encode bodies and Subject headers of warning messages, limiting
989 the header to 7 bits. (MA)
990 * Normalize most locale codesets to IANA codesets, based on
991 norm_charmap.c by Markus Kuhn. (MA)
992 * Remove sleep(3) after POP3 login, patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
993 * Fix option parsing bug that trashes the showdots setting when more
994 than one server is configured. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
995 * Honor sslcertpath setting even if sslcertck is unset. Patch by Brian
997 * SSL certificate checking fixes, don't display same error message twice
998 in succession, make sure that Common Name and fingerprint checking are
999 only done once. Print all validation warnings/errors even if not in
1000 verbose mode. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
1001 * Import Bjorn Reese and Daniel Stenberg's MIT-licensed Trio 1.10 from
1002 http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/ for systems that do not support
1003 snprintf or vsnprintf. (MA)
1004 * Clean up the horrible #ifdef HAVE_[V]SNPRINTF that made the code
1005 unreadable. Use Trio where [v]snprintf is/are missing. (MA)
1006 * Default to Linux 2.2 /proc/net/dev format, and use uname(2) to determine the
1007 kernel version instead of calling uname(1). Thanks to Paul Slootman. (MA)
1008 * Be more careful when swapping UID lists or writing the .fetchids file,
1009 requested by Manfred Weihs. (MA)
1010 * Print a warning if multidrop configuration is attempted without
1011 envelope option. (MA)
1012 * Split information on fetchmail versions before 6.0.0 to a separate
1014 * Merge SuSE patches: (sent by Stanislav Brabec, merged by Matthias Andree)
1015 - fetchmail-6.2.5-declaration.patch (double sigint_handler decl/getpass.c)
1016 - fetchmail-6.2.5-implicit-declaration.patch (missing #include)
1017 - fetchmail-6.2.5-random-result.patch (uninitialized variable/opie.c)
1018 * Revised some bogus assertions about POP3 LAST and UIDL use in the
1019 manual page. UIDL isn't flaky as the man page suggested, but a
1020 reliability feature. In fact, IMAP4 code is flaky in that it relies on
1021 the upstream seen flags. (MA)
1022 * Miloslav Trmac's patch for fetchmailconf to support string-type values
1023 of the "port" variable, avoiding "port None" corruption in .fetchmailrc.
1024 To fix Redhat Bug #55623 (MA)
1025 * de.po fixes from Nico Golde (MA)
1026 * es.po fixes from Jesus Roncero, Debian bug #286044 (MA)
1027 * sink.c fix from Cesar Eduardo Barros, to avoid double @ in address
1028 when username contains an @ and the envelope sender is null, Debian
1030 * configure.ac cleanups by Miloslav Trmac (MA)
1031 * Miloslav Trmac's fix to reply_hack() type, for systems where
1032 sizeof(int) != sizeof(size_t). (MA)
1033 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for driver.c to not call the private Kerberos
1034 krb5_init_ets() function. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1035 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for sink.c/transact.c to reserve sufficient
1036 space for \r\n trailers in snprintf calls. Sent by Miloslav Trmac,
1037 possibly fixing Red Hat bug #114470. (MA).
1038 * Nalin Dahyabhai's patch to use the krb5-config script, if present.
1039 Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1040 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix to make rpa.c compile. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1041 * Trivial fetchmailconf.man to redirect to fetchmail.1.
1042 Reported by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1043 * Internationalization (i18n) updates by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1044 * Fix "couldn't find canonical DNS name of NN (MM)" for hosts that have
1045 only IPv6 addresses. Matthias Andree.
1046 * Revised INSTALL after question from Brian Candler, inet6-apps is no
1047 longer available: remove inet6-apps hints for IPv6, and add some
1048 apologetic message for IPsec. Note the code may be removed in a future
1049 version. Matthias Andree.
1050 * Brian Candler's FAQ update about SSL certificate verification. (MA)
1051 * Nico Golde's patch to support "proto RPOP" in the configuration file,
1052 reported by Dr. Andreas Krüger, Debian bug #242384 (MA)
1053 * Skip sending POP3 PASS command when USER command failed. Matthias Andree.
1054 * Run fetchmail.man through automatic spell checker. Matthias Andree.
1055 * Major fetchmail(1) manual page overhaul by R. Hannes Beinert, to
1056 clarify singledrop vs. multidrop operation. (MA)
1057 * Make tracepolls a server option, as documented. Fixes Debian bug
1058 #156094. Matthias Andree.
1059 * Fix some minor inaccuracies (RFC-1893 related, grammar/spelling) in
1061 * Rename ESR's design notes to esrs-design-notes.html and add a new
1062 design-notes.html document. The NOTES file will contain both of them.
1064 * Fix Debian bug #301964, fetchmail leaks sockets when SSL negotiation
1065 fails. Fix suggested by Goswin Brederlow. (MA)
1066 * Really fix Debian Bug#207919 (garbage in Received: lines when smtphost set),
1067 patch by Tobias Diedrich. The 6.2.5 NEWS claimed Gregan's patch had fixed
1068 #207919 but it had fixed #212484 instead and #207919 remained unfixed in
1069 6.2.5. The entry below has been corrected to read #212484 now. (MA)
1070 * When writing the PID file, write a FHS 2.3 compliant PID file.
1071 Fixes Debian bug #230615. Matthias Andree.
1072 * Make ODMR really silent, suppress "fetchmail: receiving message
1073 data". Fixes Debian Bug#296163. Matthias Andree.
1074 * Add From: header to warning emails. Debian Bug#244828. Matthias Andree.
1075 * Fix IMAP code to use password of arbitrary length from configuration
1076 file (although not when read interactively). Debian Bug#276424.
1078 * Document that fetchmail may automatically enable UIDL option.
1079 Debian Bug#304701. Matthias Andree.
1080 * Put *BOLD* text into the manual page near --mda to state unmistakably that
1081 the --mda %T and %F substitutions add single quotes, hoping to avoid bogus
1082 bug reports such as Debian Bug #224564. Matthias Andree
1083 * Rename lock_release to fm_lock_release, to avoid namespace collision on
1084 Darwin. NetBSD PR#28543 (pkg/28543). Matthias Andree.
1085 * The RFC-822 parser no longer strips the last character of bare addresses.
1087 * The IP address matching code was broken and
1088 1. didn't search exhaustively, but matched only the first IP address of the
1089 server's queryname against the IP addresses of the server name to match.
1090 2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts. Matthias Andree
1091 * The "port" option, while still understood, is being replaced by the "service"
1092 option, which is now supported even without --enable-inet6. Matthias Andree.
1093 * The default distribution format is now bzip2. Matthias Andree.
1094 * fetchmailconf redirects fetchmail's input from /dev/null so it doesn't
1095 wait for the user to enter a password when the user doesn't even see
1096 the prompt. Reported by Michal Marek. Matthias Andree.
1097 * Write RFC-compliant BSMTP envelopes. Reported by Nico Golde. Matthias Andree.
1098 * Fix --with-gssapi compilation problem. Simon Josefsson. (MA)
1099 * Foster protocol-independence to support IPv6 better, for instance, providing
1100 IPv6 addresses in Received: headers. Matthias Andree.
1101 * Received: headers now enclose the for <...> destination address in angle
1102 brackets for consistency with Postfix. Matthias Andree.
1103 * Operating systems that do not support at least one of gethostbyname,
1104 gethostbyname_r, getipnodebyname are no longer supported. Matthias Andree.
1105 * Fixes to --with-hesiod option. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1106 * Delete oversized messages with the new --limitflush option. Debian
1107 Bug#212240. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1108 * Fix MacOS X compilation failures in sink.c (ru_*time has incomplete type).
1109 Berlios Bug #4725. Matthias Andree.
1110 * Fix "auth ntlm" to send AUTH NTLM (rather than AUTH MSN). Add "auth msn"
1111 officially. Reported by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
1112 * Expunge between IMAP folders when polling multiple folders.
1114 * Fix IMAP expunged message counting. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1115 * Add full support for --service option. Matthias Andree
1116 * When getaddrinfo() fails resolving a service, log getaddrinfo() error. (MA)
1117 * Fix bogus "cannot resolve service * to port number" error. Simon Barner. (MA)
1118 * Failure to set up SSL connections now results in PS_SOCKET. Suggested by
1119 Thomas Wolff. Matthias Andree.
1120 * Kerberos IV detection fix for FreeBSD 4. Simon Barner. (MA)
1121 * Fix display and documentation of --envelope option. Matthias Andree
1122 * Make "envelope 'Delivered-To'" work with dropdelivered. Timothy Lee. (MA)
1123 * Add -DBIND_8_COMPAT to Darwin (MacOS X) compiles, to fix build problems on
1124 newer Darwin versions. Matthias Andree.
1125 * fetchmail should now automatically detect if OpenSSL requires -ldl.
1127 * Fix Solaris build with --disable-nls (blastwave.org). Matthias Andree.
1128 * Missed --port/--service/--ssl cleanups in the manual. Reminder from Thomas
1130 * Complain in POP3 if NTLM/MSN auth is requested but had not been enabled at
1131 compile time. This configuration mismatch now causes an error message and
1132 authentication failure. Found by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
1133 * fetchmailconf now allows expert users to choose the authorization type and
1134 also offers MSN and NTLM, suggested by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
1135 * fetchmailconf now (as of 1.49) writes its version to the comment of the
1136 saved run control file. Matthias Andree
1137 * Properly shut down SSL connections. Berlios Patch #647 by Arkadiusz
1139 * Global variable cleanup, to fix daemon mode reinitialization problems. Patch
1140 by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1141 * fetchmailconf -h documents the fetchmailconf -h option. Matthias Andree
1142 * fetchmailconf -V now prints the fetchmailconf version. Matthias Andree
1143 * Add support for SubjectAltName (RFC-2595 or 2818), to avoid bogus certificate
1144 mismatch errors. Patch by Roland Stigge, Debian Bug#201113. (MA)
1145 * make fetchmail --silent --quit really silent, Debian Bug #229014 by Dr.
1146 Andreas Krüger. Matthias Andree
1147 * cleanup --quit handling again (so that --silent --quit just kills the
1148 existing daemon, rather than continue running), and document it more clearly.
1150 * Print an error message if multiple "defaults" records are found in the
1151 configuration file. Matthias Andree
1152 * Bury on_exit officially - the necessary code had been missing from 6.0.0,
1153 6.2.0, 6.2.5. Matthias Andree
1154 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be read. Matthias Andree
1155 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be created exclusively, this got
1156 broken in a 6.2.6-pre, 6.2.5.2 and older were fine. Matthias Andree
1157 * Do not break some other process's lockfile in "-q" mode, but wait for the
1158 other process's exit. Matthias Andree
1159 * Man page: --sslfingerprint points user to x509(1ssl) and gives an example
1160 how to use it. Debian Bug#213484, Eduard Bloch. (MA)
1161 * fetchmailconf now sets the service properly after autoprobe. Fixes Debian
1162 Bug#320645. Matthias Andree
1163 * Man page: Fix Debian Bug#241883, making global options more clear. Matt
1164 Swift, Matthias Andree.
1165 * When eating IMAP message trailer, don't see any line containing "OK" as the
1166 end of the trailer, but wait for the proper tagged OK line. To work around
1167 the qmail + Courier-IMAP problem in Debian Bug#338007. Matthias Andree
1168 * Fix Debian Bug#317761: when trying to send a bounce message, don't bail out
1169 if we cannot qualify our own hostname, so we aren't losing the bounce.
1170 Instead, pass the buck on to the SMTP server and use our own unqualified
1171 hostname. Matthias Andree
1172 * Revise some error messages so they are less confusing. Sunil Shetye.
1173 * Man page: update --smtphost documentation. Sunil Shetye, Matthias Andree.
1174 * Man page: clarify --loghost works only while detached. Matthias Andree
1175 * Man page: update --smtpaddress documentation. Sunil Shetye.
1176 * Fix several memory leaks and bugs in the SMTP/LMTP retry logic where
1177 fetchmail confused UNIX and Internet domain sockets. Sunil Shetye.
1178 * Man page (BUGS): document that passwords are length limited. Matthias Andree
1179 * Man page: Document that quoted strings that run across line boundaries
1180 contain the control characters (CR or LF). Document explicitly the backslash
1181 escape sequences and their differences from the escape sequences used in the
1182 C programming language. Matthias Andree
1183 * Fix segfault when run control file ends with a backslash inside an
1184 unterminated quoted string. Matthias Andree.
1185 * In quoted strings, support backslash as last character on a line to join the
1186 following line to the current. Matthias Andree.
1187 * Parsing untagged IMAP responses is more robust now. Matthias Andree.
1188 * Man page: Remove some procmail praises in --mda documentation, suggest
1189 maildrop instead, warn of procmail fallthrough behavior. Matthias Andree.
1190 * Man page: Revise AUTHORS and SEE ALSO sections. Matthias Andree.
1191 * Updated translations: Albanian [sq] (Besnik Bleta), Catalan [ca] (Ernest
1192 Adrogué Calveras), Czech [cs] (Miloslav Trmac), German [de] (MA),
1193 Spanish (Castilian) [es] (Javier Kohen), French [fr] (MA),
1194 Polish [pl] (Jakub Bogusz), Russian [ru] (Pavel Maryanov).
1195 * In oversized warning messages, print the account name, too. Fixes Debian
1196 Bug#213299. Sunil Shetye (MA).
1197 * Fix installation without Python. Sunil Shetye, reported by Peter Church. (MA)
1198 * Update Japanese translation. Fixes Debian Bug#329342, Takeshi Hamasaki. (MA)
1199 * Fix imap.c size safeguard that broke on x86_64 architecture. Matthias Andree
1200 * The FAQ is now available for duplex DIN A4 printing in PDF format.
1201 Don't bother to ask for a Letter version, I don't care. Matthias Andree
1202 * Man page: Use \- in the manual page where appropriate so that copy & paste
1203 works. I hope we got them all. Héctor García, Matthias Andree.
1206 * Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
1207 * Got rid of alloca() in fetchmail proper. Matthias Andree
1208 * Got rid of ipv6-connect, inner_connect and thereabouts. Matthias Andree
1210 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1212 fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:
1214 * Updated Spanish, Turkish, and German translation files.
1215 * Matthew Gregan's patch to handle garbage lengths from dbmail;
1216 closes Debian bug #212484.
1217 * Fix IMAP query so new-message count doesn't include deleted messages.
1218 * Man page typo fix, closes Debian bug #205892.
1219 * OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl@acm.org.
1220 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
1221 flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
1222 * Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of
1224 * Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
1225 * Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
1226 * Sunil Shetye's patches to break up fetching of sizes and UIDLs.
1228 There are 599 people on fetchmail-friends and 748 on fetchmail-announce.
1230 fetchmail-6.2.4 (Wed Aug 13 04:27:35 EDT 2003), 22625 lines:
1232 * Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
1233 * IDLE is now supported using NOOP commands even if the server doesn't support
1234 the IMAP IDLE extension. Patch by Chris Boyle.
1235 * Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
1236 * Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
1237 * Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
1238 * Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
1239 * Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.
1241 There are 585 people on fetchmail-friends and 745 on fetchmail-announce.
1243 fetchmail-6.2.3 (Thu Jul 17 14:53:00 EDT 2003), 22490 lines:
1245 * French, German, Danish, Spanish, and Turkish translations updated.
1246 * Brian Sammon's patch to deal with malformed message lines containing NULs.
1247 * Fai's patch to ignore all but the first Return-Path (some spams have
1248 more than one of these).
1249 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to properly byte-stuff when talking to BSMTP.
1250 Fixes Debian bug #184469.
1251 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to enable auth=cram-md5.
1252 Fixes Debian bug #185232.
1253 * Sunil Shetye's configure.in patch to avoid spurious search order messages
1255 * Header-reading code now copes better with lines ending in \n only.
1256 * Elias Israel's patches for POP3 NTLM support and dealing with byte-
1257 stuffing failures at socket level.
1259 There are 580 people on fetchmail-friends and 750 on fetchmail-announce.
1261 fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:
1263 * Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior on empty messages.
1264 * Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful
1265 STARTTLS negotiation.
1266 * Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
1267 * Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security.
1268 * Christophe GIAUME <christophe@giaume.com> finished the implementation
1270 * Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
1271 * Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
1272 * Fix for Debian bug #108977, clean up config file evaluation,
1275 There are 554 people on fetchmail-friends and 727 on fetchmail-announce.
1277 fetchmail-6.2.1 (Tue Jan 14 08:17:19 EST 2003), 22219 lines:
1279 * Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
1280 * Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
1281 * Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check,
1282 we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
1283 * Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.
1285 There are 536 people on fetchmail-friends and 716 on fetchmail-announce.
1287 fetchmail-6.2.0 (Fri Dec 13 00:10:07 EST 2002), 22235 lines:
1289 * Applied Steffen Esser's fix for a buffer-overflow bug in rfc822.c
1290 * Updated Danish, German, and Turkish translation files.
1291 * Sunil Shetye's SMTP timeout patch.
1293 There are 538 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
1295 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1297 fetchmail-6.1.3 (Thu Nov 28 05:35:15 EST 2002), 22203 lines:
1299 * Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
1300 * Added Slovak support.
1301 * Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas).
1302 * Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
1303 * Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
1304 * Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
1305 * Sunil's fix for the STARTTLS problem -- repoll if TLS nabdshake
1306 fails. The attempt to set up STARTTLS can be suppressed with 'sslproto ""'.
1308 There are 540 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
1310 fetchmail-6.1.2 (Thu Oct 31 11:41:02 EST 2002), 22135 lines:
1312 * Jan Klaverstijn's verbosity-lowering patch.
1313 * Updated Turkish, German, Catalan, and Danish translation files.
1314 * Fix processing of POP3 messages with missing bodies.
1315 * Minor fixes by Sunil Shetye: fix generation of auth fail note, handle
1316 unexpected SIGALRM, plug memory leak, handle lines beginning with '\0',
1317 try to bulletproof error handling against read failures.
1319 There are 535 people on fetchmail-friends and 696 on fetchmail-announce.
1321 fetchmail-6.1.1 (Fri Oct 18 14:53:51 EDT 2002), 22087 lines:
1323 * OTP fix patches from Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
1324 * fix patch for writing antispam capability correctly in conf.c.
1325 * Fix patches for Debian bugs #162571, #156592.
1326 * Correction to manpage re -b and qmail.
1327 * Patch to disable use of STLS if auth passwd is specified.
1328 * Fix specfile generation to handle SSL correctly.
1329 * New Danish, Turkish, and Catalan translation files.
1330 * Improved ODMR debug messages.
1331 * IMAP efficiency hack; don't fetch sizes unless needed.
1332 * Detect and rewrite invalid return paths beginning with @.
1333 * Fix for subtle freeing bug that suppressed information in some bounce msgs.
1334 * Newline fix patches for internationalization files.
1335 * Fix reversed test guarding authentication-failure warnings.
1336 * Fix POP3 breakage starting at 5.9.14.
1338 There are 529 people on fetchmail-friends and 693 on fetchmail-announce.
1340 fetchmail-6.1.0 (Sun Sep 22 18:31:23 EDT 2002), 21999 lines:
1342 * Updated French translation.
1343 * Stefan Esser's fix for potential remote vulnerability in multidrop mode.
1344 This is an important security fix!
1346 There are 519 people on fetchmail-friends and 680 on fetchmail-announce.
1348 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1350 fetchmail-6.0.0 (Tue Sep 17 19:48:25 EDT 2002), 21972 lines:
1352 * Applied Matt Kraai's fix for minor Debian bug #144539.
1353 * Nerijus Baliunas's patch to support STARTTLS over IMAP.
1354 * More cleanups and minor bugfixes from Sunil Shetye.
1355 * Default antispam-response list is now empty.
1356 * Updated de and po translations.
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1360 There are 520 people on fetchmail-friends and 683 on fetchmail-announce.
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