3 * Add an "ident" per-user option for debugging that produces an
4 "X-Fetchmail-ID" header in fetched messages for debugging.
5 * -U/--userdefault option to specify postmaster overriding USER.
9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
11 * FEATURE FREEZE IS NOW IN EFFECT! No new features until after 4.5.0.
12 * Better workaround for TOP bounds-checking in qpopper 2.3+.
13 * Gunther Leber's fix to processing of command-line options.
14 * George Colouris's second try at NetBSD autoconfiguration.
15 * Bruce Mah's fix for core dump in command-line host specification.
16 * Missing `idfile' declaration added to .fetchmailrc processing.
17 * Mimedecode default turned off pending a fix for the PGP-signature-
20 There are 270 people on fetchmail-friends and 216 on fetchmail-announce.
22 fetchmail-4.4.6 (Sat May 16 14:16:49 EDT 1998)
23 * Fix a bug introduced by my 4.4.5 bug-fix release :-(
24 * Make the internal line buffer eight times longer to cope with idiot
26 * Back out NetBSD configure.in change, it broke all other Kerberos installs.
27 * Fixed qmail dup problem, thanks to Chris Bond's smoking-gun -v transcript.
29 There are 270 people on fetchmail-friends and 212 on fetchmail-announce.
31 fetchmail-4.4.5 (Wed May 13 21:37:02 EDT 1998):
32 * Make RPA logging use error() rather than stderr.
33 * Autoconfiguration support for NetBSD.
34 * Henrik Storner's fix for a minor mimedecode bug.
36 There are 271 people on fetchmail-friends and 209 on fetchmail-announce.
38 fetchmail-4.4.4 (Wed May 6 10:08:15 EDT 1998):
39 * Francois Wautier's fix for qvirtual.
40 * Willem Hengeveld's fix for UID initialization.
41 * Strip out qvirtual prefix *before* doing name mapping or localdomain check.
43 There are 270 people on fetchmail-friends and 199 on fetchmail-announce.
45 fetchmail-4.4.3 (Sun Apr 19 18:22:00 EDT 1998):
46 * Back out one of the changes to the null Return-Path handling, as it caused
47 invalid rewrites leading to protocol sync errors under some configurations.
48 * Add code to disable using TOP for pop3.c when fetchall is on. Recent
49 versions of qpopper don't bounds-check TOP requests properly.
51 There are 277 people on fetchmail-friends and 186 on fetchmail-announce.
53 fetchmail-4.4.2 (Sun Apr 19 00:13:42 EDT 1998):
54 * Use TOP for POP3 retrieval to avoid marking messages seen. Duh!
55 * Another fix for command-line --smtphost option.
56 * Deal with "Return-Path: <>" more gracefully.
57 * Re-enable build on some random Solaris (memmove wasn't in the C library).
58 * Comparison of UIDs is no longer caseblind.
59 * Fix patch for unmime from Henrik Storner to correct "Content-Type:" header.
61 There are 277 people on fetchmail-friends and 185 on fetchmail-announce.
63 fetchmail-4.4.1 (Tue Mar 24 00:01:20 EST 1998):
64 * We now properly shroud IMAP passwords containing ", \, and SP.
65 * Checked for Y2K safety. No 2-digit dates anywhere, so we're safe.
66 * Added mimedecode option by Henrik Storner.
67 * Display a total byte count in the fetchmail status message.
68 * Fixed a strange core-dump bug that manifested when using -f and --smtphunt.
70 There are 279 people on fetchmail-friends and 165 on fetchmail-announce.
72 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
73 fetchmail-4.4.0 (Mon Mar 16 14:57:38 EST 1998):
74 * Fix bug that prevented graceful exit from POP3 validation on wrong password.
75 * Dominique Unruh's patch that copes gracefully with bodiless messages.
76 * Fix timer-leak problem with the SIGALRM fix, pointed out by Dave Bodenstab.
77 * Deal with more M$ Exchange braindamage (violating an RFC1939 limit).
78 * Allow spaces in IMAP usernames (thank Juerg Wanner <juerg.wanner@ubs.com>).
79 * Handle empty Return-Path (thank Dmitry Yaitskov <dyaitskov@insystems.com>).
80 * Improvements in UID handling; should be a cleaner fix for Dick van den Burg.
81 * Remove the LOGIN capability check for IMAPrev1 servers; Cyrus chokes on it.
83 There are 273 people on fetchmail-friends and 160 on fetchmail-announce.
85 fetchmail-4.3.9 (Fri Mar 6 10:45:32 EST 1998):
86 * Relax the LOGIN capability check in IMAP.
87 * John Stracke <francis@netscape.com> sent a workaround for SIGALRM flakiness
88 under glibc6 over Linux.
89 * Kerberos V support from Jon Dugan <jdugan@ncsa.uiuc.edu> and
90 Von Welch <vwelch@ncsa.uiuc.edu>.
91 * Ron Kaminsky <kam@Orbotech.Co.IL> sent a patch to RFC1730-encode passwords
92 sent to IMAP servers. This allows them to contain doublequotes and
94 * Made the antispam response configurable.
95 * UID-handling fix from Dick van den Burg <burg@is.ge.com>,
97 There are 275 people on fetchmail-friends and 153 on fetchmail-announce.
99 fetchmail-4.3.8 (Tue Feb 24 15:47:13 EST 1998):
100 * Documentation cleanup.
101 * -S is back to setting smtphost all the time; net-security option is now -T.
102 * net-security option is now per-server, with a `netsec' keyword.
103 * Handle "account" token in .netrc.
104 * Fix IMAP4rev1 detection.
105 * Added /-suffix capability to specify a port or service on smtphost args.
106 * More fixes by Nicholas Pitre.
107 * Fix for core-dump bug in the new UID-marking code by timw@aracnet.com.
108 * EMX changes support running fetchmail under OS/2.
110 There are 269 people on fetchmail-friends and 144 on fetchmail-announce.
112 fetchmail-4.3.7 (Tue Feb 17 21:30:26 EST 1998)
113 * Fixed a minor bug in the IMAP re-polling logic.
114 * Nicholas Pitre's extensive changes to multidrop:
116 - Seek for the true sender of a mail which is not necessarily in the
117 From: header. (see comments in the code for more explicit details).
118 This one is particularly important with list distributions...
120 - Respect the Resent-To/-Cc/-Bcc precedence over the To/Cc/Bcc headers
121 for recipient delivery. So avoid resending a message to a person who
122 just resent a mail to some other addresses.
124 - Fix a bug in find_server_names() wich caused recipient addresses to
125 figure twice in the recipient address list.
127 - Modified parse_received() to let full adress from the Received header to
128 pass through so local domains can be used (now has same policy as in
129 the find_server_names() function).
131 - Fixed memory leaks from readheaders().
133 - Made some strcmp() be strcasecmp() as it should be because it didn't
134 work correctly in some cases.
136 - Modified reply_hack() to meet the needs of above modifications.
138 Thomas says these changes have been tested for two weeks in a production
139 multidrop environment. I tested them for another week in mine.
140 * Doug Muth's runfetchmail version 1.1.
141 * Minor port patches from Philippe De Muyter.
142 * Patch by Chun-Chung Chen <cjj@u.washington.edu> to handle quotes in .netrc
143 * Corrected OTP support, IPv6 and IPSEC support patches from Craig Metz.
144 * Fix bad interaction between UID handling and fetchlimit.
146 There are 272 people on fetchmail-friends and 136 on fetchmail-announce.
148 fetchmail-4.3.6 (Fri Jan 23 00:25:57 EST 1998)
149 * Improved RPM packaging with correct grouping and an icon.
150 * Fixed another minor bug in handling of `expunge 0'.
151 * Kent Robotti sent a new version of fetchsetup.
152 * Scott Burson's tweak to allow USER=postmaster to work.
153 * Byrial Jensen's fix to handle NULs in mail correctly.
154 * Vojtech Pavlik's fix for simultaneous %F and %T.
155 * IMAP code can now deal with untagged responses during CAPABILITY
156 (at least one server issues the motd in a bunch of "* OK {ALERT]" lines
157 in response to the first command after connecting.)
158 * New --smtpaddress option from Henning P. Schmiedehausen allows you
159 to force the hostname used in MAIL FROM lines.
160 * If link can't find the bind library, force `no dns' on all connections.
161 * Change name of ordinary-user lockfile so .fetchmail can be used as a
163 * Close pipe to MDA when we get a nonresponse timeout. This should
164 prevent MDA zombies from piling up when we have errors.
165 * Treat Netscape's "X-Mozilla-Status" lines like "Status:" lines.
166 * More informative error messages on timeout.
168 There are 269 people on fetchmail-friends and 123 on fetchmail-announce.
170 fetchmail-4.3.5 (Mon Dec 15 06:07:08 EST 1997)
171 * Added Kent Robotti's fetchsetup configuration script.
172 * Corrected buggy handling of `expunge 0'.
173 * RFC 1731 GSSAPI support from Brendan Cully <brendan@kublai.com>.
174 * We no longer reveal the remotename in fetchmail's Received line, as this
175 may be sensitive information.
177 There are 264 people on fetchmail-friends and 106 on fetchmail-announce.
179 fetchmail-4.3.4 (Fri Dec 5 12:39:31 EST 1997)
180 * Yet another attempt on the Compuserve RPA moving target.
181 * Fix ETRN code to poll for the fetchmail host if there's no -S option.
182 * Allow `--quit' to be given with other options to shut down a running daemon
183 before anything else gets done (suggested by Greg Stark).
184 * Added Gordon Matzigkeit's warning about -F to the man page.
185 * Improved POP3 protocol-synchronization error messages.
186 * Allow fetchmail to proceed even if DNS is down or unavailable, if all
187 multidrop entries have `no dns'.
188 * Added Robert de Bath's "fetchspool" script to contrib.
189 * Use strftime(3) to gen a proper RFC822 date into fetchmail's Received header.
191 There are 272 people on fetchmail-friends and 96 on fetchmail-announce.
193 fetchmail-4.3.3 (Sat Nov 22 01:51:41 EST 1997)
194 * Robert Hardy <rhardy@webcon.net>'s patch to use IMAP EXAMINE in check mode.
195 * Alexander Kourakos's patch for cleaner handling of group addresses.
196 * Fixed expansion of MDA %-escapes (thanks Wez Furlong <wjf103@york.ac.uk>).
197 * Deal with the possibility that IMAP NOOP issued on rescan might not get an
198 EXISTS response (thanks to Jonathan T. Agnew <jtagnew@amherst.edu>).
199 * contrib/runfetchmail copyright now meets Debian Free Software Guidelines.
200 * RPA code is changed to track a change I'm told CompuServe made on the weekend
202 * Set %p 3000 in the lexer source to fix the Solaris 2.4 build.
203 * Changed the summary status message emitted by a foreground run. The old
204 user@host produced odd results under some virtual-domain setups, so it's
207 There are 281 people on fetchmail-friends and 83 on fetchmail-announce.
209 fetchmail-4.3.2 (Wed Oct 22 20:30:14 EDT 1997)
210 * More slow-UIDL patches from Wolfgang Wander.
211 * Yet another attempt to fix IMAP-K4. This one, my beta-testers say, works.
212 * Only re-poll on actual dispatches (not just fetches).
213 * Monitor patch for newer kernels by Keith Rohrer <kwrohrer@enteract.com>.
214 * Handle repolling multiple folders correctly.
216 There are 261 people on fetchmail-friends and 64 on fetchmail-announce.
218 fetchmail-4.3.1 (Mon Oct 13 17:12:40 EDT 1997)
219 * Minor portation fixes for early AIX versions and NextSTEP.
220 * Fixed a bad interaction between --limit and the repoll feature.
221 * = is now optional in global options.
222 * Code for parsing Received headers now strips out RFC822 routes.
223 * Fixed processing of -S/-r arguments so giving a comma-separated list works.
224 * Don't query for the fetchmail host machine by default in ETRN mode.
225 * Added skip prefix clause on `envelope' option
226 * Don't use TCP/IP for DNS queries, it interacts badly with diald.
227 * Allow usernames up to 40 chars long a la RFC1939.
228 * Fixed IMAP-K4 authorization sequence.
229 * Added --invisible option. Note: you can now either make fetchmail generate
230 a Received header (the default) *or* spoof your listener into thinking
231 fetchmail connected from the mailserver machine, *but not both*.
233 There are 269 people on fetchmail-friends and 40 on fetchmail-announce.
235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
236 fetchmail-4.3.0 (Mon Oct 6 16:44:38 EDT 1997)
237 * Rearranged IMAP authentication so CAPABILITY is done first,
238 * FAQ update, including a major new item on how to protect your password.
239 * Added code to have %F in an MDA string expand to the From address
240 * Added code to prevent buffer spamming via the MDA %T/%s escape.
241 * Luca Olivetti's --qvirtual option patch for qmail users.
242 * Fixed a bug in the code that was supposed to suppress expansion of RFC822
243 groupnames. (Thanks to Santiago Vila Doncel for pointing this out)
244 * It's now possible to explicitly configure out POP3, IMAP, or ETRN.
245 * We no longer get the hostname for address rewrites and log messages from the
246 server greeting line, instead it's the server's canonical DNS name.
247 * Improved UID handling for RFC1725 POP3 servers coping with a line hit.
248 * Created fetchmail-announce list.
250 There are 281 people on fetchmail-friends and 8 on fetchmail-announce.
252 fetchmail-4.2.9 (Tue Sep 30 18:21:35 EDT 1997)
253 * Don't byte-stuff when writing to an MDA.
254 * IMAP mode now does smart re-polling, eliminating connection/authentication
255 overhead when messages are being delivered to the server mailbox while
256 the poll is in progress.
257 * Fetchmail's synthetic Received line is now inserted just before the first
258 existing Received line and *after* any From headers shipped up by the
259 server. This fixes odd problems with some sensitive sendmails.
260 * Compuserve RPA authentication support.
261 * Fixed a bug that screwed up message size queries on some IMAP2bis servers.
263 There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
265 fetchmail-4.2.8 (Sun Sep 28 16:59:59 EDT 1997)
266 * Fixed a bug in POP2 compilation introduced sometime after 4.0.8.
267 * Only emit length-mismatch messages in verbose mode.
268 * POP3 lock busy error is now treated as authorization failure (Greg Stark)
269 * Kerberos error is now treated as authorization failure (Greg Stark)
270 * New --expunge option allows you to better control resource use under IMAP.
272 There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
274 fetchmail-4.2.7 (Fri Sep 26 11:21:15 EDT 1997)
275 * Full OTP support with Craig Metz's libopie 2.32 or higher.
276 * Major upgrade of FAQ with a procedure for diagnosing mangled-mail problems.
277 * Emit fetchmail's Received with stuffline so stripcr/forcecr are implemented.
279 There are 284 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
281 fetchmail-4.2.6 (Wed Sep 24 17:37:13 EDT 1997)
282 * Prevent bad matches on Received line due to hostnames ending "for" and "by".
283 * Improved bug-tracking header, now also emitted when using an MDA.
284 * Cope with Post Office/NT's brain-dead habit of prepending bogus LIST items
286 * Return of the size consistency check; this time it works for POP3 too.
288 There are 283 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
290 fetchmail-4.2.5 (Mon Sep 22 23:38:46 EDT 1997)
291 * Greg Stark's patch for better autoconfiguration on mixed libc5/libc6 systems.
292 * We no longer mess with CFLAGS/LDFLAGS to get Kerberos support linked.
293 * fetchmail now generates its own Received header for bug-tracking.
294 * Improved handling of IMAP4rev1 CAPABILITY response.
295 * Better code to avoid buffer overruns on long To/Cc/Bcc headers.
297 There are 284 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
299 fetchmail-4.2.4 (Fri Sep 19 19:48:50 EDT 1997)
300 * Small compilation cleanups, thanks to Florian laRoche.
301 * Removed the length consistency check, it mysteriously fails under POP3.
302 * Added Alexander Kourakos's patch to improve address rewriting.
303 * Added Wilfried Teiken's patch allowing the password to be piped in.
305 There are 287 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
307 fetchmail-4.2.3 (Thu Sep 18 16:19:10 EDT 1997)
308 * Fix a bug in IMAP message-size retrieval.
309 * Yet another try at getting the size-consistency check right.
311 There are 286 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
313 fetchmail-4.2.2 (Wed Sep 17 22:56:05 EDT 1997)
314 * Re-enable --limit under IMAP (bug introduced in 4.2.0).
315 * Autoconfigure root-mode PID-file directory to /etc if no /var/run.
316 * ETRN mode no longer tries to flush queue for "localhost".
317 * Introduced new DNS error return 11 to indicate DNS failure at startup.
318 * More portation tweaks for unusual Unixes.
319 * Make sure any X-Fetchmail-Error: line is properly terminated.
321 There are 289 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
323 fetchmail-4.2.1 (Tue Sep 16 12:26:57 EDT 1997)
324 * Type and inclusion changes to eliminate warnings on weird Unixes.
325 * Detect and warn about servers like M$ Exchange that get lengths wrong.
327 There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
329 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
330 fetchmail-4.2.0 (Sun Sep 14 16:31:58 EDT 1997)
331 * Driver code changed so delimited protocols don't rely on message lengths
332 being correct (this means #@!%^# brain-dead Microsoft Exchange will work).
334 There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
336 fetchmail-4.1.8 (Thu Sep 11 16:20:15 EDT 1997)
337 * Fix nasty single-char-adddress bug in multidrop mode.
338 * Fixed cosmetic bug in ETRN mode -v output!
339 * Added warning about broken Microsoft Exchange server to FAQ.
340 * Will Renkel supplied an implementation of inet_aton().
342 There are 286 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
344 fetchmail-4.1.7 (Tue Sep 9 16:55:04 EDT 1997)
345 * Now works with Cyrus IMAP server.
346 * Will build OK even if local environment lacks strstr(3).
348 There are 283 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
350 fetchmail-4.1.6 (Sat Sep 6 13:11:59 EDT 1997)
351 * Correct autoconfiguration machinery for Amiga (thanks to Steffen Opel).
352 * Append hostname to fallback address in multidrop mode correctly.
353 * Suppress append of smtphost name to RCPT TO address when it has a @ already.
355 There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
357 fetchmail-4.1.5 (Fri Sep 5 15:06:13 EDT 1997)
358 * Prevent core dumps on messages with no destination lines.
359 * Decorate RCPT TO names with smtphost.
360 * Have AUTO mode croak on SMTP error.
361 * Fall back on localhost if smtphost is defaulted and `hostname` is not
364 There are 286 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
366 fetchmail-4.1.4 (Thu Sep 4 15:41:05 EDT 1997)
367 * Autoconfigure correctly for systems that lack inet_aton().
368 * Better failure reporting on SMTP connect failures.
369 * Autoconfigure the MD5 support for 64-bit machines.
371 Due to pilot error, there was no release actually numbered 4.1.3.
372 There are 286 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
374 fetchmail-4.1.2 (Wed Sep 3 18:44:58 EDT 1997)
375 * Fixed a bonehead bug in RCPT TO name generation introduced in 4.1.1.
376 * Added James Steven's ip-up wrapper to the contrib directory.
377 * Prevent buffer spamming in SockOpen by a broken DNS.
378 * Al Youngwerth's fix to prevent segfaults when Return-Path has no address.
379 * Phillippe De Muyter's port changes for sysV68 R3V7.1.
380 * Port changes for Kerberos under FreeBSD, thanks to Benjamin Greenwald.
381 * Don't use inet_addr() any more.
383 First release after my two-week vacation.
384 There are 285 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
386 fetchmail-4.1.1 (Fri Aug 15 21:02:50 EDT 1997)
387 * Fix an obvious bug in some snprintf calls (non-Linux systems only)
388 * No more hard limit on number of destination headers
389 * Wolfgang Wander's support for faster new-message detection using UIDL.
390 * Changed the default of the `envelope' option.
392 There are 269 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
394 fetchmail-4.1.0 (Mon Aug 11 17:19:57 EDT 1997)
395 * Make the RPM depend on `smtpdaemon', which the sendmail package provides.
396 * Clean up the Interactive UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2 port.
397 * Enable parser to detect and complain about the most common syntax error.
398 * More warnings about things that can go wrong with multidrop.
399 * Dave Bodenstab's fix for flaky phone lines.
400 * Always pass FQDNs in RCPT TO addresses (avoids minor tsuris with exim).
402 There are 263 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
404 fetchmail-4.0.8 (Thu Aug 7 17:05:27 EDT 1997)
405 * Fixed core dump bug in UID handling introduced by the 4.0.6 change.
406 * Retrieval code for POP3 & older IMAP versions now skips X-IMAP message
407 used by UW IMAP4rev1 server to store UIDs.
408 * Port to Interactive UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2.
410 There are 263 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
412 fetchmail-4.0.7 (Tue Aug 5 22:47:11 EDT 1997)
413 * Fixed a minor bug in handling of DNS errors in multidrop mode.
414 * Added a `postconnect' analogous to `preconnect'.
415 * Make `interval' count polls skipped because of interface or monitor option.
416 * Fixed UIDL and dropstatus option processing.
418 There are 258 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
420 fetchmail-4.0.6 (Fri Aug 1 11:14:31 EDT 1997)
421 * Changed semantics of `via' and `poll <name>' to be more orthogonal.
422 * Substantially improved option coverage on the man page.
423 * Yet another try at getting the remote-build right for Harry McGavran.
424 * Don't emit "No mail" messages in (non-verbose) daemon mode).
425 * Fixed the stock POP3 authorization sequence, which got broken in 4.0.4.
426 * --kill option renamed to --nokeep for consistency
428 WARNING: If you are running multidrop, (RE)READ FAQ ITEM F1 NOW!
429 There are 258 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
431 fetchmail-4.0.5 (Wed Jul 30 10:27:25 EDT 1997)
432 * Increased %o in the Lex source to cope with Ultrix lex.
433 * RPMs are now built with --without-OPIE to avoid validation problems.
434 * Channge in computation of true name to avoid HELO (null) bug.
436 There are 255 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
438 fetchmail-4.0.4 (Mon Jul 28 23:38:20 EDT 1997)
439 * Overhauled the build machinery.
440 * The `no envelope' option now suppresses parsing of Received lines.
441 * Added Al Youngwerth as a backup maintainer.
443 This tries to fix the various yacc- and remote-build problems.
444 There are 256 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
446 fetchmail-4.0.3 (Mon Jul 28 16:39:17 EDT 1997)
447 * Replace vsprintf with vnsprintf to avoid buffer-overrun screws.
448 * Added via option to make ssh configuration cleaner.
449 * Added dropstatus option.
450 * Allow either `login' or `user' in .netrc files.
452 Interim release, mainly because I inadvertently messed up the web page.
453 Note: RFC1938 support is tentative, untested, and requires a patch to the
454 LIBOPIE library. See the file LIBOPIE.PATCH for the sad details.
455 There are 258 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
457 fetchmail-4.0.2 (Mon Jul 17 20:54:30 EDT 1997)
458 * Experimental RFC1938 one-time password support using OPIE library,
459 courtesy of Craig Metz <cmetz@inner.net> (couthor of RFC1938).
461 Private release to Craig Metz only for OPIE testing.
462 There are 251 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
464 fetchmail-4.0.1 (Wed Jul 16 14:32:08 EDT 1997)
465 * Compilation cleanup for DEC Unix 4.0 and AIX.
466 * Corrected the machinery for remote builds.
467 * Minor improvements in failed-connection error messages.
469 A minor cleanup release for non-Linux systems.
470 There are 254 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
472 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
473 fetchmail-4.0.0 (Wed Jul 9 10:30:16 EDT 1997)
475 This is a "gold" version. Bug cleanup was finished (I hope...) in 3.9.9.
476 And about time, too, I've been hacking on this code for a year now!
478 * Fixes for minor compilation glitches on non-Linux systems.
479 * Progress messages now show total count as well as message number.
480 * Removed the popclient backward-compatibility hacks.
481 * Leif Erlingsson <leif@lege.com> sent a patch to separate a "lock busy"
482 condition from other authentication failures on a POP3 server.
483 * Allow duplicate server hostnames again.
484 * Fetchmail now returns 0 if *any* poll during the run succeeded.
486 There are 251 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
488 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
489 pl 3.9.9 (Wed Jun 25 11:01:51 EDT 1997):
490 * We can now process multiple To headers a la Microsoft Exchange Server.
491 * Avoid sending LIST and getting an error when no messages are waiting.
492 * Allow `fetchmail' to do wakeup even when no .fetchmailrc.
493 * Fixed Paul Sutcliffe's headerless-mail bug triggered by -s.
494 * Added `pass8bits' to help prevent internationalization lossage.
495 * Add Guenther Leber's fixes for ETRN mode.
497 There are 248 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
499 pl 3.9.8 (Sat Jun 14 14:19:32 EDT 1997):
500 * Fetchmail is now normally built with optimization.
501 * POP2 support is no longer compiled by default, but you can configure
502 it in with `configure --enable-POP2'.
503 * If a .fetchmailrc entry has multiple user parts, the opening `username'
504 keyword is now required for all.
505 * Fetchall no longer overrides --limit.
506 * Values of --limit, --fetchlimit, and --batchlimit in .fetchmailrc can now
507 be overridden from the command line by specifying an explicit option of 0.
508 * Architecture-independent RPM building.
509 * Fix code to work correctly with POP3 servers that don't return a reliable
510 size in the response to FETCH.
512 There are 261 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
514 pl 3.9.7 (Mon Jun 9 18:40:04 EDT 1997):
515 * Complain and exit if user tries to start fetchmail with options while a
516 background fetchmail is running.
517 * Various installation headaches are gone, INSTALL edited accordingly.
518 * Treat exim's 501 and (soon) 550 antispam responses as equivalent to 571.
519 * Separate header and body byte counts in IMAP progress messages.
520 * Man page updates, including removal of restriction on --syslog.
521 * You can now set --syslog in the .fetchmailrc file.
522 * Parse more different variants of IMAP "UNSEEN" message.
523 * Handle zero-length messages correctly.
525 There are 252 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
527 pl 3.9.6 (Wed May 28 18:28:35 EDT 1997):
528 * Fix the libc6 configuration stuff (thanks to Jesse Thilo).
529 * Support for Kerberos-v4-authenticated IMAP (thanks to Rudolph Maceyko).
530 * Don't choke on RFC822 group names.
531 * More improvements in RFC822 name parsing.
532 * Interval skip feature, courtesy of Hal DeVore.
534 There are 257 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
536 pl 3.9.5 (Sun May 18 01:05:13 EDT 1997):
537 * Add an error notification when an incoming message has embedded NULs.
538 * Throw out >From lines in headers to prevent getting hosed by upstream
539 sendmails with the 'E' option on.
540 * Enable forcecr to work on the \r\n header terminator line.
541 * Multiple-folder support for POP2 and IMAP.
542 * Under IMAP, bodies of messages refused by SMTP's 571 response are no longer
544 * Configure should do the right thing with libc6 now.
546 There are 249 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
548 pl 3.9.4 (Wed May 14 12:27:22 EDT 1997):
549 * Fixed a compilation glitch for systems like SunOS & others without atexit(3).
550 * Fixed a compilation glitch in daemonize for HP-UX.
551 * Changes to compile correctly on systems that have on_exit() but not atexit().
552 * Changes to forbid duplicate server names in the rc file.
553 * Do caseblind comparisons of host and user names everywhere.
554 * IMAP retrieval can now handle messages with embedded NULs.
555 * Fixed a core dump in .netrc searching reported by Jim Spath.
557 There are 248 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
559 pl 3.9.3 (Wed May 7 11:40:47 EDT 1997):
560 * Fix for -I option from George Sipe.
561 * Finally got error.c to compile under AIX, thanks to Dave Vinish.
562 * Prevent header rewrite logic from appending mailserver name to blank To.
563 * When header rewrite is on, hack Return-Path as well.
565 There are 240 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
567 pl 3.9.2 (Wed Apr 23 14:07:03 EDT 1997):
568 * Fixed a glitch in the Makefile yacc and lex productions
569 * Add logic for X-Fetchmail-Warning emission of \r\n to pacify qmail.
570 * Yet another try at getting error.c to play nice with AIX.
572 There are 224 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
574 pl 3.9.1 (Thu Apr 17 11:37:14 EDT 1997):
575 * Hypertext FAQ added to distribution manifest.
576 * RPM builder production fixed.
577 * Minor additions and corrections to man page.
578 * Delivery failures are now syslogged as LOG_ERR, not LOG_INFO.
579 * --check now turns off --daemon.
580 * --syslog is now independent of --daemon.
581 * Multiple-error X- headers are improved.
582 * Added `forcecr' to fix qmail problems by forcing CRLF termination.
584 There are 222 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
585 (many bad addresses were dropped after the switchover to SmartList)
587 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
588 fetchmail-3.9 (Wed Apr 2 13:36:22 EST 1997)
592 * It is now possible to set a default poll interval with `set daemon'.
594 * -U/uidl option to force UIDL use under POP3 (thanks, Ingmar Baumgart).
598 * Server-response timeouts were broken. Various symptoms of this problem
599 were reported by Klee Dienes <klee@mit.edu>, Dirk Eddelbuettel
600 <edd@rosebud.sps.queensu.ca>, Robert V. Schipper <rvs@gol.com>,
601 and Steven Brown <swbrown@ucsd.edu>.
603 * George Sipe sent a fix for the --monitor code.
605 * --norewrite was a no-op. Fixed.
607 * Fetchmail was aborting with "partial message buffer overflow" on Suns
608 due to unreliable vsprintf return. This has been fixed with changes
611 There are 268 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
613 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
614 fetchmail-3.8 (Fri Mar 7 17:34:02 EST 1997)
618 * More FAQ material on using `localdomains'.
620 * Compilation hacks for ISC 4.0 (thanks, Larry Jones!).
624 * Enabled ETRN and RPOP command-line options.
626 * Yet another attempt to fix the error.c compilation problems under
627 Solaris and NEXTSTEP.
629 * Handle \( and \) correctly in RFC822 comments, thanks to Gareth McCaughan.
631 * Fixed off-by-one error fingered by Brian Jones that prevented
632 `localdomains' from working.
634 There are 248 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
636 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
637 fetchmail-3.7 (Fri Feb 21 17:38:40 EST 1997)
641 * You can now specify a hunt list of SMTP forwarding hosts.
643 * Treat unexpected EOF as a protocol error.
645 * DNS errors no longer abort an entire poll. Instead they just cause
646 forwarding and deletion of the current message to be suppressed.
648 * -v output now includes the version/pl numbers (help for harried maintainer!).
652 * Fix password-shrouding logic so it doesn't crap out on a zero-length
655 * Various error-logging fixes by Dave Bodenstab.
657 * Fix parsing bug that broke UIDL-processing code.
659 There are 233 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
661 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
662 fetchmail-3.6 (Mon Feb 17 00:19:55 EST 1997)
666 * Use Return-Path for RCPT FROM if possible for better behavior on mailing
667 lists and bouncemail.
669 * New Makefile production to generate an RPM.
671 * The `no received' option of 3.4 is gone. Instead, say `no envelope'.
672 This suppresses all attempts to extract an envelope address and route
673 based on it. If you set `no envelope' in the defaults entry it is possible
674 to undo that in individual entries by using `envelope <string>'.
678 * Yet another fix to the password-shrouding logic.
680 * Fix bug that screwed up IMAP mail reception in -v mode *only*.
682 There are 229 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
684 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
685 fetchmail-3.5 (Sat Feb 15 15:19:36 EST 1997)
689 * The host that ETRN specifies is now set by the smtphost option.
691 * It is now possible to suppress Received line parsing in multidrop mode
692 with a new `no received' per-server option.
694 * Major FAQ reorganization and additions.
696 * .poprc-style `user'-less entry now triggers a warning.
700 * The counter referred to by the batchlimit option used to count not only
701 fetched messages but skipped ones. This has been fixed.
703 * Compilation fixes for Kerberos V4 support and GNU glibc2 support.
705 There are 230 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
707 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
708 fetchmail-3.4 (Wed Feb 12 19:23:06 EST 1997)
712 * Support for ESMTP ETRN extension.
714 * It is now possible to turn off option flags in individual server entries
715 that had been turned on in a `defaults' entry.
717 * The code should now deal gracefully with headerless mail.
721 * The bug that displayed incorrect sizes for POP3 connections has been fixed.
723 * Upped the %a option in the lexer file so SunOS 4.1.3 lex won't choke with a
724 "Too Many Transitions" error.
726 * Size-ticker dots are now disabled when verbose is on. This should eliminate
727 some alarming but harmless "(message incomplete)" messages from the
728 error-logging machinery.
730 * A core dump in save_str_pair() that only showed up on some systems has
733 There are 223 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
735 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
737 pl 3.3.2 (Mon Feb 3 12:59:33 EST 1997):
738 * Minor fixes to stripcr and password-shrouding logic.
740 pl 3.3.1 (Sun Feb 2 02:17:07 EST 1997):
741 * Fix incorrect stripcr processing
742 * Unapply a patch that broke error logging to files.
744 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
745 fetchmail-3.3 (Sat Feb 1 15:15:13 EST 1997)
749 * Whether or not carriage returns will be stripped on output is explicitly
750 controllable with stripcr.
752 * fetchmail -v messages no longer reveal password lengths.
756 * Correction to length-extraction code for servers that return (nnn octets).
758 * Correction to RF822 continuation code so it doesn't eat leading blank-led
761 There are 215 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
763 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
764 fetchmail-3.2 (Mon Jan 27 02:51:10 EST 1997)
768 * Better error notification on IMAP select failure.
772 * The code can now handle arbitrarily long address lists.
774 * Fix RFC822 parsing to strip comments at end of bare addresses.
776 * Explicitly strip CRs out of fetched mail.
778 * Corrections to 8BITMIME processing.
780 There are 207 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
782 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
783 fetchmail-3.1 (Fri Jan 24 12:45:18 EST 1997)
787 * Forwarding is now done via ESMTP where possible.
789 * ESMTP 8BITMIME option is supported; when 8BITMIME is supported and the
790 Content-Transfer-Encoding header is 7BIT or 8BIT, it is appended to the
791 MAIL FROM command as a BODY option.
793 * ESMTP SIZE option is supported when using IMAP2bis or IMAP4. This means
794 messages too long for the local ESMTP listener will be rejected *before*
795 they are passed to the ESMTP listener.
797 * IMAP code now detects IMAP4rev1 capabilities (RFC 2060) and uses them.
798 (It will fall back to IMAP4 or IMAP2bis depending on what it sees.)
802 * Compilation fixes for non-Linux machines.
804 There are 205 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
806 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
807 fetchmail-3.0 (Tue Jan 21 16:44:56 EST 1997)
811 * `interface' and `monitor' options are now per-server.
813 * `batchlimit' option is now per-user.
815 * RFC822 header continuation for long address lists is is now handled properly.
817 * There is now a `nodns' option to suppress DNS checking of address hostname
818 parts in multidrop mode (make sure your aka list is complete before you use
821 * Options such as `nokeep' can now be written `no keep'.
823 * RPOP support is back by user request.
825 Note: The first two changes mean that older .fetchmailrc files using
826 the `set' syntax for these options will cause fetchmail to die with a
827 parse error at initialization time. Conversion is trivial -- for
828 details, see the FAQ.
832 * Stricter parsing of greeting message for the host name; eliminates some
833 minor errors when using IMAP and the hostname is something like jet.es.
835 * --quit in root-daemon mode didn't work, fixed this.
837 * Ensure that default server parameters get properly zeroed out after each
838 poll or skip statement in .fetchmailrc.
840 * Arrange an EXPUNGE after each delete when using IMAP, so deletions get done
841 OK even if there's a socket error before termination.
843 * Simpler and better header-rewrite code, fixing some weird cases where
844 it failed. Thanks to Masafumi NAKANE <max@wide.ad.jp> and
845 Carey Evans <c.evans@student.canterbury.ac.nz> for pointing out these
848 * Handle zero-length messages properly; thanks to Bob Craycroft.
850 Note: the RFC subdirectory is no longer included with the distribution
851 (this cut its size in half!) Instead, applicable RFCs are listed on the
854 There are 201 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
856 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
857 fetchmail-2.8 (Sat Jan 11 15:48:33 EST 1997)
861 * We now get the hostname used for progress messages from the server greeting.
862 This means you'll get sensible-looking progress messages even when using
863 ssh to redirect secure connections.
865 * Reorganized and improved man page.
867 * Mail header parsing now handles RFC822 escapes properly.
871 * Stop netrc parser from complaining about blank lines.
873 * Add ssh recipe correction.
875 * Eliminate infinite-loop bug in defaults handling.
877 * Fixed some address-parsing bugs in rfc822.c:nxtaddr().
879 * 2.7 broke portability to Solaris. Fix that.
881 There are 184 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
883 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
884 fetchmail-2.7 (Thu Jan 9 03:18:15 EST 1997)
888 * New --syslog option by Dave Bodenstab.
890 * Automatic parsing of ~/.netrc for a mailserver password if necessary, thanks
891 to Gordon Matzigkeit.
893 * Added preconnect option for initializing ssh connections.
895 * Added local-domains support for multidrop as requested by Pablo Saratxaga.
897 * More FAQ material on how and when to use --interface.
901 * Fixed a minor bug introduced into From handling by 2.6.
903 * Fixed bug in SMTP forwarding of msg lines with leading dot.
905 * Fixed a bug that generated incorrect HELO for second and subsequent
906 poll entries attached to the same SMTP host.
908 There are 177 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
910 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
911 fetchmail-2.6 (Fri Dec 27 12:42:56 EST 1996)
915 * IMAP4 code now sets the server "seen" flag on each message if "keep" is on.
917 * New FAQ material on how to use --interface.
921 * Dropped back to separate SockGets/SockWrite code with no attempt at
922 stdio buffering -- we hope this will fix the Solaris peoples' problems.
924 * Fixed length-computation bug (apparently introduced in 2.3) that messed
927 There are 169 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
929 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
930 fetchmail-2.5 (Mon Dec 23 04:18:54 EST 1996)
934 * New --interface and --monitor options for Linux courtesy of George Sipe.
938 * Replaced bug-prone setvbuf with setlinebuf.
940 * Moved lock file to ~/.fetchmail to eliminate various /tmp problems.
942 There are 165 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
944 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
945 fetchmail-2.4 (Sat Dec 21 05:24:44 EST 1996)
949 * Add FAQ material on troubleshooting and working around SMTP connection
954 * Fixed a core-dump bug in MX processing that's been lurking there for ghods
955 know how long. It could never have been more than rare.
957 * Fixed a minor bug in Received processing.
959 * Restored compile-time portability to Solaris.
961 * Initial 2.4 said: "Force line-buffering on socket streams (Linux apparently
962 defaults to this). This may fix some hang problems reported under Solaris."
963 Unfortunately this "fix" triggers horrible lossage on long messages and had
966 There are 166 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
968 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
972 * Full IMAP4 support -- we now probe for IMAP4 capabilities and use
973 RFC822.PEEK when possible to avoid marking messages seen on the server
974 before they are deleted. This improves recovery from sendmail and
975 dropped-connection errors.
977 * True stdio buffering of sockets at last, thanks to Cameron McPherson.
978 This should be good for a significant throughput increase.
980 * Almost all error messages that might be emitted in daemon mode now go
981 through the error() subroutine. This is a first step towards allowing
982 a daemon-mode fetchmail to use syslog.
984 * SIGUSR1 is now used for wakeup rather than SIGHUP. This eliminates any
985 possible confusion about fetchmail's behavior at logout time.
987 * Received line parsing for envelope addresses now matches MX as well as
988 canonical DNS addresses, making multidrop routing slightly more reliable.
990 * Added --fetchlimit option to limit number of messages fetched in a
995 * Fixed a FreeBSD compilation glitch involving SIGCLD (thanks to
998 * Added some port patches for NEXTSTEP.
1000 * SIGCHLD used everywhere now, not SIGCLD (this was strictly a cosmetic bug).
1002 * Prevent occasional hangs when fetchmail was terminated by signal.
1004 There are 168 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1007 fetchmail-2.2 (Mon Dec 9 00:15:01 EST 1996):
1011 * If SMTP returns 571 (unsolicited mail refused) to a MAIL FROM, the
1012 address is excluded by the local sendmail's spam filter. Drop the mail.
1013 (This is the only circumstance in which mail is thrown away.)
1015 * The header your mailserver uses to convey envelope addresses is no longer
1016 wired to `X-Envelope-Header'. You can now specify it with the `envelope'
1017 option in .fetchmailrc. (This header is not RFC822 standard, and we have a
1018 report of an ISP using X-Frontier-To).
1022 * Fixed a startup-time core dump introduced by 2.1's aka-list feature.
1024 * Fixed a bug in non-implicit mode (poll specified host), also due to aka.
1026 * Various minor portability fixes for Suns. Adding #include <errno.h>
1027 in fetchmail.c was the most significant one.
1029 * Avoid using -lresolv when possible, some Linux versions are badly broken.
1031 * Fix error in MX record handling that was causing multidrop problems.
1033 * Disable daemon SIGCHLD handler while an MDA is running, to avoid snafus.
1034 Thanks to Dave Bodenstab <imdave@synet.net> for spotting this obscure bug.
1036 156 people on the contact list.
1038 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1039 fetchmail-2.1 (Thu Nov 28 11:07:48 EST 1996):
1045 * Try to pass envelope From to the listener so that logging and procmail
1046 processing works right. If that fails, fall back on calling-user.
1048 * Added `set logfile = ' option to rc syntax.
1050 * We now use X-Envelope-To headers and parse the Received lines. If
1051 X-Envelope-To is found, OK; otherwise we look for a `Received for' line;
1052 either is treated as a true envelope address. If neither of these are
1053 found we go to the To/Cc/Bcc header addresses.
1055 * Added `*' as a wildcard option for multidrop to ... here. This will allow
1056 names to be local names to be passed through from a multi-drop box on
1059 * Added an `aka' option to allow users to declare mailserver aliases at start
1060 of run, so DNS does less work. During a run, cache host matches on the
1061 aka list so no potential alias has to be DNS-checked more than once.
1062 A server being polled explicitly may be referred to by any of its aliaseses.
1066 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix patch for MIT Kerberos V4 support.
1068 * Fixed a fencepost error in the APOP code that was causing a core dump.
1070 * Skip flag wasn't getting reset on poll hosts following a skipped one.
1072 * Include remote name in saved UID mappings so multiple POP accounts on
1073 the same server won't get their UIDs confused.
1075 138 people on the contact list.
1077 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1078 fetchmail-2.0 (Mon Nov 18 00:32:17 EST 1996):
1080 * Fix typo in setitimer call setup that caused obscure bugs under FreeBSD.
1081 * Accept Apparently-To if there is no To header.
1082 * Include Cameron McPherson's patch for handling multi-line SMTP responses.
1083 * Don't try to feed listener the header From any more.
1085 pl 1.9.9 (Mon Nov 11 10:40:14 EST 1996):
1086 * Accept Resent-From & Apparently-From a la RFC822.
1087 * Include file fixes for Solaris 2.5 and FreeBSD 2.2.
1088 * Improved error notification on SMTP and no-matching-local-address errors.
1089 * Delivery to multidrop mailboxes now always aborts on DNS errors.
1090 * Batch limit option prevents long delivery delays on smail/qmail.
1091 * Configuration now handles -lresolv and non-Linux bind libraries correctly.
1093 pl 1.9.8 (Wed Nov 6 16:40:34 EST 1996):
1094 * Don't append spurious NUL to the headers, qmail actually notices it.
1095 * Fatal bug in multidrop code fixed.
1096 * Fail cleanly, instead of core-dumping, on mail lacking an RFC822 From line.
1097 * Don't try to keep the SMTP socket open across poll cycles.
1099 pl 1.9.7 (Fri Nov 1 10:02:34 EST 1996):
1100 * %s is back. Seems some popular MDAs actually choke on name arguments.
1101 * We can handle responses longer than the socket atomic read length now.
1103 pl 1.9.6 (Thu Oct 31 00:07:23 EST 1996):
1104 * Make rewrite option handle multiple comma-separated local names correctly.
1105 * Fix yet another fatal error in MDA argument list construction.
1106 * Reset timeout every time input is received.
1107 * Correct localname detection when --norewrite is on.
1109 pl 1.9.5 (Tue Oct 29 20:07:41 EST 1996):
1110 * Added -N, --nodetach option for debugging purposes.
1111 * Use interval timers for poll-interval sleep and nonresponse timeout.
1112 * fetchmail -q no longer parses the configuration file.
1113 * Configuration file grammar is slightly cleaned up and improved.
1115 pl 1.9.4 (Mon Oct 28 20:58:48 EST 1994):
1116 * Correct status interpretation in closemailpipe() (thanks to Neil Harkins).
1117 * Tweak SMTP forwarding to only open one listener per SMTP host in daemon mode.
1119 pl 1.9.3 (Sun Oct 27 22:35:33 EST 1996):
1120 * Handle nested parens in RFC822 comments.
1121 * More gcc -Wall cleanup.
1122 * Improved installation docs.
1123 * Don't query DNS on startup unless needed for Kerberos or multidrop mailboxes.
1125 pl 1.9.2 (Sun Oct 27 01:10:30 EST 1996):
1126 * Fix initialization-time core dump when running as root
1127 * Fix fatal error in MDA argument-list construction.
1129 118 people on the contact list.
1131 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1132 fetchmail-1.9 (Fri Oct 25 23:02:26 EDT 1996):
1134 We've hit the century mark -- exactly 100 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
1138 * FEATURE FREEZE IS NOW IN EFFECT! No new features until after 2.0. Thanks
1139 to everybody who contributed ideas and criticism.
1141 * It is now possible to specify multiple local recipients by giving a list
1142 of names following "to" or "is". Each local recipient is checked for in the
1143 To:, Cc: and Bcc: headers of each message; if a match is found, the message
1144 is sent to that local recipient. This makes it possible to do mailing
1145 lists and multidrop mailboxes. See the man page for details (and note
1146 the caveat in the BUGS AND KNOWN PROBLEMS section).
1148 * It is possible to specify a size limit for retrieved messages. I resisted
1149 doing this because I don't want fetchmail to be in the filtering game, but
1150 too many Europeans begged for it because their telecomms monopolies are
1151 price-gouging them on per-second phone charges. I will ignore, or be
1152 extremely rude to, anyone who takes this feature as a license to beg me
1153 for kill files or any other form of content-based filtering. Use
1154 procmail on your server if you want that.
1156 * If you use an MDA, the internal changes to support multi-drop mailboxes
1157 require that you *remove* the %s at the end of your MDA string. Local
1158 delivery addresses will be appended to the end of the command in the
1161 * The first message from a query now includes the number of old messages
1162 when this can be determined (that is not under POP2).
1164 * POP3 UID support really works now. I make rude noises at the POP3 mavens
1165 who forced us to this with RFC1725, but thank Al Longyear <longyear@sii.com>
1166 for fixing and verifying my slightly buggy implementation.
1168 * Kerberos V4 support ditto. Thanks to Chris Hanson <cph@martigny.mit.edu>
1171 * When there's a daemon fetchmail in background, running fetchmail in
1172 foreground without --quit now tries to wake the daemon and force it
1173 to poll immediately.
1175 * Add option to set server nonresponse timeout.
1177 * Password is no longer displayed in verbose mode.
1179 * You may use C-like escapes to embed non-printables in passwords and other
1180 strings. Fetchmail -V will display them in a printable form.
1182 * Program now tries to set itself to the ID of the local user before
1183 running an MDA, and reset to root afterwards. This will work on
1184 any system with seteuid(2), including Linux and the BSDs.
1188 * Default user name to deliver to is now the calling user, unless
1189 program is running as root in which case it is the remote user name
1190 (default can be overridden with an `is' or `to' declaration).
1191 In versions up to 1.7 it was the calling user; in 1.8 the remote
1192 user ID. This created some confusion.
1194 * Accept RFC822 headers with a tab after the colon.
1196 * You now see a "skipping" message for each message not retrieved.
1198 * --keep no longer overrides --flush.
1200 * Rewrite "To: jrh (J. Random Hacker)" correctly.
1202 * Find "nnn octets" anywhere on a POP3 server's RETR response line.
1204 * Fixed various bugs in --check. It now reports PS_SUCCESS only if
1205 there is new mail waiting.
1207 * Under Linux, if fetchmail is run in daemon mode with the network
1208 inaccessible, each poll leaves a socket allocated but in CLOSE state
1209 (this is visible in netstat(1)'s output). These sockets aren't
1210 garbage-collected until fetchmail exits. When whatever kernel table
1211 is involved fills up, fetchmail can no longer run even if the network is up.
1212 To avoid this, fetchmail now commits seppuku after some number of
1213 unsuccessful socket opens.
1215 * Don't try using FLAGS.SILENT, some allegedly IMAP2bis servers seem to
1218 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1219 fetchmail-1.8 (Fri Oct 11 15:08:10 EDT 1996):
1223 * Use kill(0, pid) to make lock handling a bit smarter (thanks to Johan
1224 Vromans <JVromans@squirrel.nl> for the suggestion).
1226 * Arrange for timeout of client after 5 minutes if connection to server is
1227 dropped (thanks to Gaspar Sinai <gsinai@gol.com>).
1229 * All pretensions to RPOP support have been dropped. Yes, this is a feature,
1230 RPOP is very vulnerable to spoofing! Use APOP instead.
1232 * Normal start-of-read message now displays the byte (excuse me, "octet")
1233 size of the message. Yes, 3schwend, you can stop noodging me now :-).
1235 * Normal progress notifications now take only 1 line per message, not 2.
1237 * Linux packagers: building fetchmail now generates an RPM specfile for it.
1239 * Kerberos V4 support via KPOP protocol (thanks to Chris Hanson).
1241 * New --check option for asking server whether there is mail without
1242 actually retrieving or deleting it.
1244 * UID support is back by popular demand. Bletch.
1246 * Permit spaces in IMAP passwords (ship them as quoted strings).
1250 * Fix buggy getopt specification of P and p options.
1252 * Fix uninitialized-variable bug that was hanging second IMAP queries.
1254 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1255 fetchmail-1.7 (Tue Oct 8 11:32:44 EDT 1996):
1259 * Noise words for rcfile syntax make English-like syntax possible.
1261 * Make configure more GNUish; it understands --prefix and other standard
1262 autoconf options now (see INSTALL for details)
1264 * Better documentation of the new .fetchmailrc extensions and the slightly
1265 stricter rules for ordering options.
1267 * Expanded installation instructions including how to test for correct
1268 operation without losing mail to misconfigured MDAs, alias loops, etc.
1272 * You may have to rearrange the order of options in your .fetchmailrc.
1273 The grammar for the new multiple-user syntax requires that server
1274 options (protocol and port) come before any user options.
1276 * Fixed core dump bug that was screwing configurations with no .fetchmailrc.
1278 * Fixed broken 'p' option.
1280 * `norewrite' and `rewrite' in .fetchrc were the inverses of what they
1281 should have been (but the rewrite default was set correctly).
1283 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1284 fetchmail-1.6 (Sun Oct 6 20:55:09 EDT 1996):
1288 * You can now have multiple entries for the same server but different
1289 users, and the right thing will happen (each user's mailbox will
1290 be queried). Even better, you can now specify multiple users in a
1291 single server entry.
1293 * Restore --mda, seems some people either can't run a port 25 listener
1294 due to bizarre dynamic-SLIP problems, or won't for security reasons.
1296 * When delivering to an MDA, print error and die (before deleting the message!)
1297 if the MDA returns nonzero status. Better safe than sorry.
1299 * If fetchmail is called through a link named `popclient' it will look in
1300 ~/.poprc for a run control file. Unless that file includes the deleted
1301 options limit and localfolder this should actually work.
1305 * Makefile fixes for correct linking on Sparcs and avoiding duplication of
1306 the md5 files (leading to harmless install-time error messages).
1308 * Fix a bonehead coding error in pop3_delete() that was masked by the
1309 Intel register architecture. *blush* Thanks to Jay Anderson
1310 <anderson@optical.bms.com>.
1312 * Fix bug that prevented SMTP from being specified on the defaults line.
1314 * Allow program to generate correct lockfiles when USER is undefined
1317 * Allow program to run with no .fetchmailrc file again.
1319 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1320 fetchmail-1.5 (Thu Oct 3 04:35:15 EDT 1996):
1322 * Naturally, my decision to announce 1.4 on comp.os.linux.announce
1323 immediately caused the code to manifest its first real bug --
1324 a core dump when the "From:" header is spelled "from:" (all lower
1327 * Update and expansion of NOTES.
1329 * The --all and --flush flag validity checks move to driver.c.
1331 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1332 fetchmail-1.4 (Wed Oct 2 09:22:37 1996):
1334 * More man page improvements.
1336 * Lexer changes to work around bison's "feature" of silently ignoring 0-value
1337 tokens (caused options nokeep, norewrite, nofetchall, noskip to be no-ops).
1339 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1340 fetchmail-1.3 (Tue Oct 1 05:49:49 1996):
1342 * Significant man page improvements.
1344 * Escapes for newlines in .fetchmailrc are now optional.
1346 * Kill off -2 and -3 options, redundant popclient remnants.
1348 * IMAP code simplification and robustification. Use FETCH FLAGS to find
1349 seen messages. Code should now work even if unseen messages are
1350 interspersed with seen ones, and even if messages are appended to the
1351 mailbox during the run.
1353 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1354 fetchmail-1.2 (Sat Sep 28 15:40:50 EDT 1996):
1356 * The great option massacre. Remove --stdout, --limit, --local, --mda.
1357 We get a significant code and complexity shrinkage this way (a lot of the
1358 configuration machinery goes away too). These things are your MDA's job.
1359 (This also kills off the lose-mail-on-disk-full bug, which I've never
1360 seen but two users reported.)
1362 * Link APOP support by default.
1364 * Fix embarrassing Makefile bug.
1366 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1367 fetchmail-1.1 (Sat Sep 28 09:21:10 EDT 1996):
1369 * In POP3, don't send LAST if STAT shows count of waiting messages to be zero.
1371 * Document APOP better, we know it works now.
1373 * Lose the .fetchids file and give up on POP3 UIDs, they're a dead loss.
1375 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1376 fetchmail-1.0 (Thu Sep 26 11:59:38 EDT 1996):
1378 * SMTP forwarding and header-rewrite features work with POP2 now.
1380 * Stricter RFC822 conformance, so SMTP to qmail works. Thanks to
1381 Cameron MacPherson <unsound@oz.net> for these changes.
1383 * The program is quieter but more informative now (suppress printing of
1384 server greeting message; add the server host being queried to the
1385 message count information line).
1387 * Add `skip' option to make it easier to set up test entries.
1389 * Name change (it ain't just for POP any more).
1391 ==============================================================================
1392 popclient-3.2 (Mon Sep 23 13:29:46 EDT 1996):
1394 * RPOP support (coded at a user's request but untested).
1396 * Ported to QNX (see the Makefile).
1398 * Add code by Michael Schwendt <3schwend@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> for
1399 improved sizeticker.
1401 * Improved RFC822 parsing (thanks to Rob Funk).
1403 * Move the per-user lockfile to /tmp so it gets cleared at reboot time.
1405 * Warn users that running concurrent instances of popclient is a bad idea.
1407 * Try USER and HOME to set defaults before going to the password file.
1408 This should work better in Sun NIS environments.
1410 popclient-3.1 (Thu Sep 12 15:45:25 EDT 1996):
1412 * MDA arguments are now dumped when using the -V option.
1414 * Sendmail delivery from background seems to work now.
1416 * We have IMAP2bis/IMAP4 support.
1418 * Code now autoprobes for a POP3, IMAP, or POP2 server if no protocol is
1421 * SMTP forwarding support. Thanks to Harry Hochheiser <harry@tigger.jvnc.net>
1422 for this simple but clever idea. It's now the default delivery mode.
1424 * If no UNIX From line is found, popclient will now synthesize a correct
1425 line from the RFC822 From line.
1427 * It is now possible to specify the host TCP/IP port number to connect to.
1429 popclient-3.05 (Thu Aug 22 22:59:04 EDT 1996):
1431 * Experimental support for RFC1725-compliant POP servers with the UIDL
1432 command and without LAST.
1434 popclient-3.04 (Wed Aug 21 00:22:44 EDT 1996):
1436 * Logfile option works.
1440 * Minor bug fixes for password querying and redirection to stdout.
1442 popclient-3.02 (Fri Jul 19 11:37:56 EDT 1996):
1444 * Correct buggy processing of nokeep/noflush/fetchall.
1446 * Fix buggy -mda option processing.
1448 * Added -N/--norewrite option.
1450 * Delivery via sendmail now works in non-daemon mode.
1452 popclient-3.01 (Mon Jul 1 13:33:51 EDT 1996):
1454 * Fixed a lexical analyzer bug in quoted-string processing.
1456 * Fixed a bug in dump_options that caused username to be displayed incorrectly.
1458 * The lock assertion code was in the wrong place relative to the daemonize()
1461 popclient-3.0 (Fri Jun 28 11:33:34 EDT 1996):
1463 Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> hacked extensively on 3.0b6 and took over
1464 the package with the consent of Carl Harris, the original implementor.
1465 Some of the 3.0 feature additions were inspired by Sean Oh's fetchpop 1.8
1466 code, and a few use code directly lifted from fetchpop. Here are my (Eric's)
1469 CONFIGURATION AND BUILDING
1471 * The autoconfigure script incorrectly assumed that all Linuxes use
1472 /usr/bin/deliver. Under Linux it now checks for both /usr/bin/delivermail
1475 * I added a distribution-maker production to Makefile.in.
1477 OPTIONS AND COMMAND LINE
1479 * I have removed the -p command-line option. Given that there's a run control
1480 facility there is no excuse for encouraging users to put plaintext passwords
1481 in scripts which might be readable.
1483 * Calling popclient with no arguments now causes it to query or operate
1484 on every host in the run control file.
1486 * I have made --version more useful by having it dump the computed
1487 connection options for each server specified.
1489 * The user can now explicitly set an MDA (such as procmail) with the
1490 new option -m or -mda. Various possible MDAs are listed on the man page.
1494 * The run control file lexer now supports "-enclosed strings which may
1497 * I added a --yydebug option to enable run control parser debugging at
1498 runtime if the parser was generated with --debug. It's not documented.
1500 * You may now have a `defaults' entry in the run control file which sets
1501 overrideable values for other entries. See the man page for details.
1503 * It is now possible to set keep, flush and fetchall in your run control
1506 * Fixed incorrect numbering of source lines in run control file parse error
1509 * The configure.in specification no longer uses the obsolete AC_TRY_COMPILE
1510 macro (it uses AC_TRY_LINK instead).
1514 * I have added mandatory locking of mailbox files where supported.
1515 This will cover Linux systems, in particular.
1517 * The default behavior is now to do lock-protected append on the user's
1518 system mailbox rather than using delivermail or some other MDA.
1519 (This is a performance hack.)
1521 * The autoconfigure script now looks for standard mail locations. The
1522 default mail delivery agent is used only if it can't find a mail spool
1523 directory in the standard places.
1525 FUNCTIONAL ENHANCEMENTS
1527 * When using POP3, message headers are edited so that replies won't foo up.
1528 Anything that looks like a mail ID local to the POP host gets @ and the
1529 pop servername attached to it before being appended to the user's
1530 mailbox or passed to an MDA.
1532 * I have implemented daemon mode.
1534 * I have added a lock check to ensure that there is only one popclient
1535 running per user, and a --quit option to kill the currently running
1540 * All changes and feature additions have been tested in actual use and are
1541 documented on the man page.
1543 * I have turned the comments in the sample run control file into a new manual
1544 section documenting the file format.
1546 MISCELLANEOUS BUG FIXES
1548 * I fixed some de-initialization bugs in pop2.c and pop3.c that led to
1549 fd leaks (these became painfully obvious when I tested daemon mode!).
1551 * I've fixed the flaky parser error messages. They turned out to be due
1552 to a misdeclaration of yytext.
1554 These are Carl Harris's change notes from previous releases:
1557 o "From " header fix in pop2.c and pop3.c
1558 o Surpress "..." output when --stdout option specified in pop3.c
1562 o various diagnostic/informational message fixes.
1565 o Support for retrieving only new messages from maildrop when
1567 o Support for retrieving only the first n lines of each message
1569 o APOP authentication support.
1570 o Buffered socket input.
1573 This is a "new features" release.
1574 o support for .poprc file.
1575 o GNU-style long options.
1576 o fixed passwords appearing in 'ps' output
1577 o support for multiple servers on one command line
1580 This is mostly a test of the autoconfigure integration.
1581 Among the functions performed by the new configure script, is
1582 the ability to detect known system types, configures the mail
1583 delivery agent (MDA) correctly. This should permanently solve
1584 the problem of using something other than an MDA for mail
1585 delivery (which continues to plague Linux slackware 1.2.9).
1586 For this beta, please check the values of MDA_PATH and MDA_ARGS
1587 carefully. They should match the values found in your
1588 sendmail.cf file on the line which begins with "Mlocal".
1590 Other changes from popclient version 2.21:
1592 o no longer uses getpass() from the C library. The
1593 internal getpassword() function allows the use of long
1596 o integrated GNU getopt() for long options. Long option
1597 names will appear in a future beta.
1599 o Several compiler warnings fixed.
1601 o Fixed problems related to missing include files in