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21 * POP2 is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail version.
22 * RPOP is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail release.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.
48 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
50 fetchmail 6.3.15 (not yet released):
53 * Fetchmail now supports a bad-header command line or rcfile option that takes
54 exactly one argument, accept or reject (default). This specifies how messages
55 with bad headers retrieved from the current server are to be treated.
58 * In the rcfile, recognize "local" as abbreviation for "localdomains", as
59 documented. The short form has not ever worked since this feature was added in
60 January 1997. Reported by Frédéric Marchal.
63 * The repository has been converted and moved from the Subversion (SVN) format
64 kindly hosted by Graham Wilson over the past years to Git format hosted on
65 Gitorious.org. My deepest thanks to Graham Wilson for this service that
66 kept us going when BerliOS's Subversion service was faulty in its early days.
67 * This opportunity was used to convert BRANCH_6-2 and BRANCH_1-9-9 to
68 GnuPG-signed tags, as a sign that these are now closed.
69 * The outdated SVN trunk is now called "oldtrunk" in Git just to save the work
70 for future reference. All development in the past few years was on BRANCH_6-3.
71 * master was branched from BRANCH_6-3 for user convenience.
74 * Web site and documentation were adjusted to reflect the SVN->Git move.
75 * The fetchmail manual page is now much clearer on the user id switching
76 (seteuid) when using --mda while running as the super user.
79 * [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
80 * [fr] French, by Frédéric Marchal
82 * [id] Indonesian, by Andhika Padmawan
83 * [it] Italian, by Vincenzo Campanella
84 * [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
85 * [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
86 * [vi] Vietnamese, by Clytie Siddall
89 fetchmail 6.3.14 (released 2010-02-05, 25487 LoC):
92 * CVE-2010-0562: SSL/TLS certificate information is now also reported properly
93 on computers that consider the "char" type signed. Fixes malloc() buffer
94 overrun. Workaround for older versions: do not use verbose mode.
95 See fetchmail-SA-2010-01.txt for details, including a minimal patch.
98 * The IMAP client no longer skips messages from several IMAP servers including
99 Dovecot if fetchmail's "idle" is in use. Causes were that fetchmail (a)
100 ignored some untagged responses when it should not (b) relied on EXISTS
101 messages in response to EXPUNGE, which aren't mandated by RFC-3501 (the IMAP
102 standard) and aren't sent by Dovecot either.
103 Fix by Sunil Shetye (the fix also consolidates IMAP response handling,
104 improving overall robustness of the IMAP client), bug report and testing by
105 Matt Doran, with further hints from Timo Sirainen.
106 * The SMTP client now recovers from errors (such as servers dropping the
107 connection after errors) when sending an RSET command.
108 Fix by Sunil Shetye. Report by James Moe.
109 * The IMAP client now uses "SEARCH UNSEEN" rather than "SEARCH UNSEEN NOT
110 DELETED" again on IMAP2, to fix a regression in fetchmail 6.2.5 reported by
111 Will Stringer in June 2004. (Sunil Shetye)
112 * The IMAP client now uses "SEARCH UNSEEN UNDELETED" on IMAP4 and IMAP4r1
113 servers (Sunil Shetye).
114 * Workaround: The IMAP client now falls back to "FETCH n:m FLAGS" if the server
115 does not support "SEARCH". (Sunil Shetye)
116 * The IMAP client now requests message numbers in batches of 1,000 to avoid
117 problems if there are more than 1860 unseen messages. (Sunil Shetye)
118 Note that this wasn't security relevant because fetchmail would only read up
119 to the maximum buffer size and leave the remainder of the string unread, going
120 out of synch afterwards.
121 * Stricter validation of IMAP responses containing byte or message counts.
124 * Only include gssapi.h if we're not including gssapi/gssapi.h, to fix a FreeBSD
125 compiler warning about gssapi.h being obsolete.
128 * The README.SSL document was revised for grammar, spelling, and clarity.
129 Courtesy of Robert Mullin.
131 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
132 * [it] Italian, by Vincenzo Campanella
136 fetchmail 6.3.13 (released 2009-10-30, 25333 LoC):
139 * The multiline SMTP error fix in release 6.3.12 caused fetchmail to lose
140 message codes 400..599 and treat all of these as temporary error. This would
141 cause messages to be left on the server even if softbounce was turned off.
142 Reported by Thomas Jarosch.
144 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
145 * [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
146 * [zh_CN] Chinese (simplified), by Ji ZhengYu
147 * [nl] Dutch, by Erwin Poeze
148 * [id] Indonesian, by Andhika Padmawan
149 * [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
150 * [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
151 * [es] Spanish (Castilian), by Franciso Molinero
152 * [vi] Vietnamese, by Clytie Siddall
155 fetchmail 6.3.12 (released 2009-10-05):
158 * The CVE-2009-2666 fix in fetchmail release 6.3.11 caused a free() of
159 unallocated memory on SSL connections, which caused crashes or program aborts
160 on some systems (depending on how initialization and free() of unallocated
161 memory is handled in compiler and libc).
162 Workaround for older versions: run in verbose mode.
163 Patch courtesy of Thomas Heinz, fixes Gentoo Bug #280760.
164 This regression affected only the 6.3.11 release, but not the patch that was
165 part of the security announcement fetchmail-SA-2009-01.
168 * Fix error reporting for GSSAPI on Heimdal (h5l) Kerberos.
169 * Look for MD5_Init in libcrypto rather than libssl, fixes Gentoo Kerberos
170 builds; fixes upstream parts of Gentoo Bugs #231400 and #185652, and fixes
172 * Report multiline SMTP errors properly, reported by Earl Chew; fixes Debian Bug
173 #529899, reported by Akihiro Terasaki.
174 Note: This fix introduced a regression, fixed in 6.3.13.
175 * Replace control characters in SMTP replies by '?'.
176 * Fetchmailconf: Fix descriptions for smtpaddress and smtpname options;
177 smtpaddress is for RCPT TO, not MAIL FROM. Found by Gerard Seibert.
179 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
180 * [ca] Catalan (Ernest Adrogué Calveras)
181 * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
182 * [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
183 * [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
184 * [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
185 * [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
186 * [vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
189 fetchmail 6.3.11 (released 2009-08-06):
192 * CVE-2009-2666: SSL NUL prefix impersonation attack through NULs in a
193 part of a X.509 certificate's CommonName and subjectAltName fields. These
194 fields use opaque strings with a separate length field, so that the NUL
195 character isn't a special character inside the certificate. Fetchmail, being
196 written in the C language, used to treat these strings as C strings
197 nonetheless, so that the domain comparison would end at the first embedded NUL
198 character, rather than at the real end of the string.
199 Fetchmail will now abort certificate verification as failed if NULs are
200 encountered inside either of these fields regardless of their position, and
201 drop the connection even if --sslcertck is not used, because NUL is not a
202 valid character in legitimate DNS names.
203 See fetchmail-SA-2009-01.txt for details, including a minimal patch.
206 * Remove the spurious message "message delimiter found while scanning headers".
207 RFC-5322 syntax states that the delimiter is part of the body, and the body is
209 * Convert all non-printable characters in certificate Subject/Issuer
210 Common Name or Subject Alternative Name fields to ANSI-C hex escapes (\xnn,
211 where nn are hex digits).
212 Note that this change introduces a regression, fixed in 6.3.12.
213 See the 6.3.12 documentation above for details and a workaround.
215 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
216 * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
217 * [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
220 fetchmail 6.3.10 (released 2009-07-02):
222 # INCOMPATIBLE BUGFIXES AND CHANGES
223 * Fetchmail no longer drops permanently undelivered messages by default, to
224 match historic documentation. It does this by adding a new "softbounce"
226 Fixes Debian Bug#471283, demotes Debian Bug#494418 to wishlist.
227 * There is a new "softbounce" global option that prevents the deletion of
228 messages that have not been forwarded. It defaults to "true" for fetchmail
229 6.3.X in order to match historic documentation. This may change its default
230 in the next major release.
233 * Fix misuse of canonical autoconf target as _TARGET when it should have been
234 _HOST. Report and patch courtesy of Diego E. "Flameeyes" Pettenò.
235 Details: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/01/01/the-canonical-target
236 * Do not lose PS_MAXFETCH (13) exit status when hitting maxpoll. Reported by
237 Michelle Konzack, Debian Bug#508667.
238 * Do not overlap source and destination fields in snprintf() in interface.c.
239 Courtesy of Nico Golde, Debian.
240 * When a pre- or post-connect command fails, now report the exit status or
241 termination signal properly through sys/wait.h macros.
242 * When acquiring a body, understand NIL ("no such data item"), as returned by
243 some MS Exchange versions. Fixes BerliOS Bug #11980 by KB Sriram.
244 * Make progress tickers (-v/--showdots) consistent, and update documentation
245 accordingly ("." for each 1024 octets read, "#" for a header written, and "*"
246 for each body line written.)
247 The conditions under which these had been printed were inconsistent,
248 illogical, and documentation hadn't matched real behaviour for long.
249 * For NTLM authentication, use dynamically allocated buffers.
250 Fixes Debian Bug#449179, reported by Stepan Golosunov.
251 * Non-delivery notice ("bounce mail") now mentions the original reason again,
252 before the address list. This fixes a regression introduced in 6.3.0.
253 * Several compiler warnings were fixed.
254 * The minimum recommended SMTP (RFC-5321) timeouts are enforced to leave
255 sufficient time for the listener to respond. Some synchronous listeners,
256 particularly when used with spam filtering and other policy enforcement
257 services, take extended amounts of time to process messages after the sender,
258 recipient, or data block and EOM line. This can cause fetchmail to not wait
259 long enough for the "250 Ok" and make fetchmail believe the message wasn't
260 properly delivered when in fact it was; fetchmail would then retry the
261 download next time and never make progress.
262 Fixes Berlios Bug #10972, reported by Viktor Binzberger.
263 * The ESMTP/LMTP client will now apply an application-specific timeout while
264 waiting for the EHLO/LHLO response, rather than wait for the server or TCP
266 * Treat 530 errors as temporary, so as not to delete messages on configuration
267 errors. Partially taken from Petr Cerny's patch in Novell Bugzilla #246829.
268 The 501 part of said patch was not added, as the maintainer is not convinced
269 501 is a temporary condition, and softbounce takes care of this anyways.
272 * Make the comparison of the SSL fingerprints case insensitive, to
273 ease its use. Suggested by Daniel Richard G.
274 * Proper precedence ordering for the syslog and logfile options. If the logfile
275 option is effective (i. e. we're in daemon mode and nodetach isn't used),
276 reset the syslog option. If logfile is ineffective (we're not in daemon mode,
277 or nodetach is set), syslog takes precedence.
278 * The sleeping at/awakened at messages appear in logfiles and syslog only if
279 verbose mode is enabled. On the console, they will still appear without
280 verbose mode. Fixes Debian Bug#282259.
281 * fetchmail only requests IPv6 addresses via name service if at least one is
282 configured on the local host, likewise for IPv4. (AI_ADDRCONFIG flag to
283 getaddrinfo()) Extended version of Redhat's patch.
284 * If the server name contains "yahoo.com", offers the "ID" capability, and we're
285 polling via IMAP, send an ID ("guid" "1") transaction first, ignoring its
286 result. This appears needed to be able to log into Yahoo's Zimbra servers, but
287 there are open issues (such as being only able to download one message and
288 server certificate mismatches).
291 * Fix bashism in contrib/fetchsetup. Fixes Debian Bug#530081.
294 * Some parts of the the manual page were revised for clarity, accuracy, and
295 updated recommendations (particularly SSL/TLS) and formatting conventions from
297 * The README and README.SSL documents were updated.
298 * A document, README.SSL-SERVER, was added to describe server-side requirements
299 for proper SSL and/or TLS service offerings. These are not specific to
301 * Documentation on how to make "NOMAIL" (exit code 1) not treated an error has
302 been added to the EXIT CODES section of the manpage and to the FAQ as item C8.
303 The suggested solution uses a tiny POSIX shell script fragment.
304 Fixes Debian Bug #530749, filed by Reuben Thomas.
306 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
307 * [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
308 * [en_GB] English/British
310 * [id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
311 * [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
312 * [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
313 * [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
314 * [ru] Russian (Pavel Maryanov), fixing Debian Bug #531925
315 * [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
316 * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
319 fetchmail 6.3.9 (released 2008-11-16):
321 # SECURITY AND CRITICAL BUG FIXES:
322 * CVE-2007-4565: Denial of service: When fetchmail tries to inject a warning
323 message it created itself, and the message is refused by the SMTP listener,
324 fetchmail dereferences a NULL pointer and crashes. Report & fix by Earl Chew.
325 Note while this is theoretically a remote denial of service attack vector,
326 fetchmail by default talks SMTP to the localhost, so the overall risk is
328 This bug was apparently introduced on 1998-11-27 when the bouncemail facility
329 was modularized. The bug then made its appearance in fetchmail release 4.6.8.
330 See also fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt.
331 * CVE-2008-2711: Denial of service: When fetchmail logs data blobs
332 (for instance, a To: header in -v -v verbose mode) in excess of 2048
333 bytes, it will crash, because it hands an uninitialized argument
334 pointer (not the format string though) to vsnprintf and reads a
335 random memory location (it calls va_arg() too often without
336 resetting it with va_start()). Based on a patch (BerliOS patch #2492)
337 by Petr Uzel, fixes Novell Bug #354291.
338 Note 6.3.9-rc1 did not completely fix this issue, so it was redrawn a few
339 hours after its release.
340 See also fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt.
341 * When expunging, mark the right messages as seen to avoid message loss in "keep
342 flush" configurations. Workaround for previous versions: "expunge 0".
343 Report and patch by Alexander Cherepanov - thanks a lot, Berlios Bug #11797,
344 "imap_mark_seen doesn't consider expunged messages".
345 * SSL fix: close memory leak when SSL connection fails; fetchmail used to forget
346 calling SSL_free() on the SSL context, leaking in excess of 500 kB RAM on a
347 x86_64 system per failed SSL connection attempt.
348 Bug reported and patch provided by Seiichi Ikarashi, Fujitsu.
351 * The configure script will additionally check for 'dn_skipname', to fix build
352 failures with µClibc. The new check still recognizes the resolver libraries on
353 Ubuntu 7.04, openSUSE 10.2, Solaris 8, NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 and FreeBSD 6.2.
354 Fixes Gentoo bug #134187.
355 NOTE: this is a bit of a hack, since we twist the HAVE_RES_SEARCH result, but
356 res_search() and dn_skipname() are only used together and scheduled for
357 removal in future versions, so this is probably fine.
358 * No longer complain about invalid sslproto "" when POP3 CAPA probe fails.
359 Fixes Debian Bug#421446 (Holger Leskien), Novell Bug #247233 (Jon Nelson).
360 Thanks to Matthias Strauß for a configuration to reproduce the issue.
361 * Allow .fetchmailrc and .fetchids to be symlinks, as the manpage does not
362 document they aren't allowed - fixes Debian Bug #452907 (Roger Leigh).
363 TOCTOU race persists.
364 * fetchmailconf quotes mailbox (folder) names when writing the configuration.
365 Fixes BerliOS Bug #13207 (reported + fix suggested by Terry Brown).
366 * Only print "Deleting fetchids file" if there actually is one.
367 Fixes Debian Bug#374514, reported by Dan Jacobson.
368 * SSL fix: check and report if SSL_set_fd fails.
371 * autoconf 2.60 is now required to build fetchmail; it uses
372 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to replace AC_AIX, AC_MINIX, and the like.
373 * Removed dead FETCHMAIL_DEBUG code from fetchmail.h that was disabled by
374 default with no switches in configure to enable it. However, the macro would
375 have been prone to a symlink attack. Found by Nico Golde.
376 * Removed dead FORCE_STUFFING code from socket.c that was disabled by default
377 with no switches in configure to enable it.
378 * Include the typedef for int16 in the #ifndef _AIX in smbencrypt.c (Peter
380 * Correct check for u_int32_t in configure.ac (seems to be typedef'ed in
381 namser.h on some platforms.) (Peter O'Gorman)
382 * In configure.ac change all CPFLAGS to CPPFLAGS, CEFLAGS to CFLAGS and LDEFLAGS
383 to LDFLAGS otherwise the results of some tests (additional -L and -I flags) do
384 not get used for later tests causing incorrect configure results. Makefile.am
385 was also changed to reflect this. (Peter O'Gorman)
386 * m4/gethostbyname_r.m4 does AC_TRY_COMPILE, which unfortunately can pass even
387 if there is no gethostbyname_r. Changed to AC_TRY_LINK. (Peter O'Gorman)
388 * Revise getnameinfo check to ensure NULL is defined and the result is properly
389 evaluated, to avoid bogus results on for instance FreeBSD and redefinitions of
390 NI_* at compile time. (Matthias Andree).
391 * __attribute__ ((unused)) is a gccism, removed from libesmtp/gethostbyname.c.
393 * In KAME/getnameinfo.c it's best to use the correct argument to inet_ntoa.
395 * In verbose mode, log if --check mode is enabled.
396 * Add sslcommonname option (rcfile and commandline) as a way to work around
397 misconfigured upstream SSL servers that use the wrong certificate name. It
398 specifies which CommonName fetchmail expects and logs. (Daniel Richard G.)
399 * Changed CRLF to LF line endings in contrib/delete-later (reporter: Petr Uzel)
400 * SSL change: enable all workarounds with SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx,SSL_OP_ALL)
401 * All translations have been re-enabled, in an attempt to rekindle translator or
405 * Add fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt and fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt.
406 * Re-add two lines to the manual page that had accidentally become comments
407 to nroff. One was part of the --sslproto documentation, and one in the
408 "Awakening the background daemon" section.
409 * The manual page no longer asserts that .fetchids were for exclusive POP3 use,
410 since it is planned to use the file with IMAP4 later.
411 * Add grammar fixes from Dan Jacobson to fetchmail.man. Debian Bug #461642.
412 * The manual page now mentions that user descriptions need to come before user
413 options. Reported by Francensco Pontortì, to fix Debian Bug #467010.
414 * The manual page no longer hints that multi-user declarations per server were
415 only useful in daemon mode running as root, to avoid hinting people to doing
417 * Several manual page rcfile examples now include "ssl".
418 * The manual page hints that option arguments beginning with numbers can be
420 * The manual page now mentions that the --logfile must already exist before
422 * The FAQ now recommends (#I9) not to use Google Mail for their disregard to the
423 protocols they claim to support.
424 * Documentation and program output now /consistently/ claim that the rcfile must
425 not have more than 0700 (u=rwx,g=,o=) permissions, but fetchmail will still
426 silently accept additional g=x permissions for compatibility with previous
427 6.2.X and 6.3.X versions.
428 Inconsistency (program 0710, manpage 0600) reported by Petr Uzel.
429 * The --logfile documentation is now clearer about requiring detached daemon
432 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
433 * [sq] Albanian (Besnik Bleta)
434 * [zh_CN] Chinese, simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
435 * [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
436 * [da] Danish (Byrial Ole Jensen) - outdated, but newer than in 6.3.8
437 * [nl] Dutch (Tony Vroon, Benno Schulenberg)
438 * [en_GB] English, British
439 * [fi] Finnish (Lauri Nurmi)
441 * [id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
442 * [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
443 * [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
444 * [ru] Russian (Pavel Maryanov)
445 * [es] Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Matthias Andree)
446 * [tr] Turkish (Engin Gündüz) - outdated, but newer than in 6.3.8
447 * [vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
451 fetchmail 6.3.8 (released 2007-04-06):
453 # SECURITY STRENGTHENING:
454 * Make the APOP challenge parser more distrustful and have it reject challenges
455 that do not conform to RFC-822 msg-id format, in the hope to make mounting
456 man-in-the-middle attacks (MITM) against APOP a bit more difficult.
457 (CVE-2007-1558, reported by Gaëtan Leurent, published 2007-04-02 on Bugtraq)
459 APOP is claimed insecure by Gaëtan Leurent for MITM scenarios for typical
460 setups: based on MD5 collisions, it is purportedly possible to recover the
461 first three characters of the shared secret (password), which would then make
462 recovery of the shared secret a matter of hours or minutes; this would then
463 enable the attacker to impersonate the client vis-à-vis the server.
465 For further details, check
466 * Gaëtan Leurent, "Message Freedom in MD4 and MD5 Collisions: Application
467 to APOP", Fast Software Encryption 2007, Luxembourg. (Proceedings to appear in
468 Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science.)
469 * The mailing list discussion thread at
470 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-devel/2007-March/000887.html>
473 * Fix pluralization of oversized-message warning mails.
474 * Fix manual page: --sslcheck -> --sslcertck, and do not set trailing
475 "recommended:" in bold. Fixes Debian Bug #413059, reported by Rafal Czlonka.
476 * Repoll immediately if a protocol error happens during the authentication
477 attempt after a failed opportunistic TLS upgrade.
478 Fixes comment #9 in Gentoo Bug #163782, reported by Takuto Matsuu.
479 * Fix rendering of the "24 - 26, 28, 29" paragraph in the exit codes section.
480 Reported by Nico Golde.
481 * If SOCKS support was compiled in, add 'socks' to the feature_options Python
482 list emitted in --configdump. Reported by Rob MacGregor.
483 * Do not crash with a null pointer dereference when opening the BSMTP file
484 fails. Improve error checking and reporting. Reported by Reto Schüttel,
485 Debian Bug#416625. Fix based on a patch by Nico Golde.
486 * Make BSMTP output actually work, it would persistently fail with SOCKET error
487 after writing the first header. Bug independently found and reported in
488 excellent detail by Reto Schüttel, Debian Bug#416812.
491 * Add fetchmail-SA-2007-01.txt
492 * Extend --mda documentation, discourage use of qmail-inject.
493 Based on a patch by Rob MacGregor.
494 * Document SOCKS configuration facility (SOCKS_CONF environment variable).
495 Thanks to Jochen Hayek, Michael Shuldman and Rob MacGregor.
496 * Use envelope option in multidrop example. Patch by Rob MacGregor.
497 * Document expected Received: line format when parsing for envelope addressees.
498 * Stripped option documentation from sample.rcfile, since this is bound to go
499 out of synch with the manual page, which is the only reference on options.
500 * Mention that --limit default is 0 bytes, which is special for "no limit".
501 * Corrected Robert M. Funk's name that I misspelled. My sincere apologies
505 * Add delete-later and delete-later.README, a script and documentation for
506 a MySQL/Tcl-based client-side "delete-after" feature.
507 Kindly donated by Yoo GmbH, Großvoigtsberg, Germany (Carsten Ralle).
509 # KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS:
510 (this section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the
511 current release information)
512 * fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
513 (See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
514 * BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output.
515 * Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in
516 64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit
517 fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code,
518 so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties.
519 * fetchmail does not track pending deletes over crashes
520 * the command line interface is a bit narrow-minded sometimes, for instance,
521 fetchmail -s doesn't work with a running daemon
522 * some of the logging output is not very helpful
523 * some of the documentation is still not up to date
527 fetchmail 6.3.7 (released 2007-02-18):
529 # FIXES FOR REGRESSIONS IN 6.3.6
530 * Fix KPOP. Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
531 * Fix repoll when server disconnects after opportunistic TLS failed for POP3.
532 Berlios Bug #10133 = Gentoo Bug #163782 reported by Andrej Kacian.
534 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
535 * Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki), Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
538 * Consider getaddrinfo() on Darwin 9 (Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard") thread-safe.
539 Reported by Uli Zappe.
542 fetchmail 6.3.6 (released 2007-01-04):
545 * CVE-2006-5867, fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt:
546 Password disclosure vulnerability fixed. This has several aspects:
548 - Fetchmail now implies sslproto 'tls1' if the sslfingerprint or sslcertck
549 options are used and the ssl option is not used, in order to be sure that
550 fetchmail gets a certificate from the mail server.
552 - Fetchmail breaks the connection if the TLS negotiation (or verification, if
553 requested) fails with sslproto 'tls1', sslfingerprint or sslcheck enabled.
555 - POP3 connections now use STLS reliably. They used to ignore STLS altogether
556 for serveral values of the "auth" option, when fetchmail forget to probe
557 server capabilities - see fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt for details.
559 - POP3 connections will no longer fall back USER/PASS authentication if
560 strong challenge-response authenticators such as CRAM-MD5 are configured
561 but the server does not advertise these in its CAPA response.
563 - POP2 is obsolete and does not support STLS or anything beyond password-based
564 authentication. The attempt to use STLS or strong authenticators now causes
567 Configurations using both ssl and sslcertck however have been semi-safe in
568 that they would send the password in the clear. The USER/PASS fallback
569 problem however applies to these too, so that the password was only safe on
572 * CVE-2006-5974, fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt:
573 Repairs a regression in 6.3.5 that crashes fetchmail when a message with
574 invalid headers is found while fetchmail's mda option is in use. BerliOS bugs
575 #9364, #9412, #9449. Stack backtrace provided by Neil Hoggarth - thanks.
577 # REGRESSION FIXES (recently introduced bugs)
578 * Repair --logfile, broken in 6.3.5. BerliOS Bug #9059,
579 reported by Brian Harring.
580 * Repair --user, broken in 6.3.5 (as a side effect of the authenticate external
581 patch): using SSL certificate/key authentication overrode the --user option.
582 Now the latter takes precedence, and only defaults to the certificate's common
583 name. Debian Bug #400950, reported by Jorgen Schaefer <forcer@debian.org>.
585 # BUG FIXES (long-standing bugs):
586 * RPOP: used to log the password locally rather than an asterisk as the other
587 protocols do. The password is now shrouded in the local logs.
588 * POP3: Probes capabilities now when Kerberos V5 is enabled, so that we can
589 actually detect if the server supports it.
590 * Robustness: If a stale lockfile cannot be deleted, truncate it so that
591 fetchmail doesn't later believe itself to be running if the PID is recycled
592 by a non-fetchmail process.
593 * DNS: Detect /etc/resolv.conf changes: On systems that have res_search(),
594 assume we also have res_init() and call it (suggested by Ulrich Drepper,
595 glibc bug #3675) in order to make libc or libresolv reread the resolver
596 configuration at the beginning of a poll cycle. This is important when
597 fetchmail is in daemon mode and /etc/resolv.conf is changed later by dhcpcd,
598 dhclient, pppd, openvpn or other ip-up/ipchange scripts. Should fix Debian
599 Bug#389270, Bug#391698.
600 * Robustness: Fix crash on systems that do not provide strdup(), the crash
601 happens only in out-of-memory conditions when fetchmail cannot proceed
602 anyways. Patch by Andreas Krennmair.
603 * Robustness: When HOME and FETCHMAILHOME are unset, be sure to copy user
604 database information, so it is not trashed later. Patch by Jim Correia.
607 * Workaround: Improve handling of IMAP IDLE, some servers do not reset their
608 time counters after sending information asynchronously. Patch by Sunil
609 Shetye, after report from Andrew Baumann.
610 * Usability: When requesting Kerberos or GSSAPI, complain and exit with syntax
611 error if any of these requested features has not been compiled in. This is
612 to fail early and with precise error message. Reported by Isaac Wilcox.
613 * --version will now add +KRB4 or +KRB5 if Kerberos v4 or v5, respectively, have
614 been compiled in. Reported missing by Isaac Wilcox.
617 * New en_GB (British English) translation by David Lodge.
618 * Update Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki), Polish (Jakub Bogusz), Russian (Pavel
619 Maryanov) and Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall) translations.
620 ! Note that not all these translations are complete -- this isn't the
621 translators' fault though, but due to delays at the BerliOS hosting site and
622 the translation project handlers. You may see a few untranslated messages.
625 * Dropped exit status 15 from manual page, it's not used by fetchmail.
626 Reported by Isaac Wilcox.
627 * Documented exit codes 24 - 29 as internal.
629 fetchmail 6.3.5 (released 2006-10-09):
632 * For protocols such as IMAP that are not delimited by "." lines, truncate the
633 input buffer when the message has been completely read, to avoid taking
634 trailing garbage into the message if the terminal CRLF is missing. Fixes
635 Debian Bug#312415. (Patch suggested by Mike Jones, Manchester Univ.).
636 * When using NTLM authentication, use regular IMAP response code handler after
637 completing NTLM handshake, for robustness and consistency.
638 (Taken from the NetBSD portable packages collection, patch-ac.)
639 * Support Kerberos installations where krb5.h and perhaps roken.h are in
640 .../include/krb5. Taken from NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ae.
641 * On NetBSD, link against -lroken -lcom_err if --with-kerberos is enabled.
642 * Drop #include <com_err.h> from Kerberos 5 header file, fixes compile error on
644 * Fix des_pcbc_encrypt compile warnings in kerberos.c line 246.
645 * If krb5-config provides gssapi library information, use that rather than
647 * Improve --with-gssapi auto detection for /usr-based GSSAPI installs.
648 * Fix --with-gssapi builds for NetBSD 3.0.
649 * Improve KAME/getnameinfo.c portability to Linux libc5 systems.
650 Based on a patch by Dan Fandrich.
651 * Provide INET6 to KAME/getnameinfo.c (only useful on IPv6-enabled systems that
652 lack getnameinfo, and there only visible in some Received: headers).
653 Found by Dan Fandrich.
654 * POP3: some UID flags may not be set properly on UIDL lists. (Sunil Shetye)
655 * Make IMAP4 IDLE work on servers that do not update RECENT counts.
656 Reported by Lars Tewes.
657 * IMAP4 patch by Sunil Shetye:
658 - do not depend on server updating RECENT counts at all
659 - also enter IDLE loop when messages are present on the server.
660 * Fix --flush description in the manual page, fetchmail does not mark messages
661 seen unless it has successfully delivered them. Suggested by Frederic Marchal.
662 * Fetchmail no longer attempts to stat the "-" file in daemon mode -- this is a
663 special name to read the RC file from stdin, and cannot always be re-read
664 anyways. BerliOS bug #7858.
665 * When looking up ports for a service, the lookup succeeds and the returned
666 address family isn't IPv4 or IPv6, properly free the allocated memory from the
667 service lookup. Found by Uli Zappe.
668 * When looking up ports for a service, only look up TCP ports.
669 * Avoid compiling empty files, to avoid diagnostics from strict compilers.
670 * If the lockfile ends before the process ID, treat it as stale and unlink it.
671 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #376603.
672 * SIGHUP wake-up behavior was broken since 5.9.13's Cygwin changes, in that for
673 non-root users, SIGHUP would abort the first poll and subsequently interfere
674 with new polls, and SIGHUP would be ignored for root users. SIGHUP now matches
675 documented behavior. SIGUSR1 has always been a wakeup signal for both root
676 (undocumented) and non-root users. See also the deprecation warning above.
677 * Track getaddrinfo() results to properly free them after timeouts and make sure
678 that getaddrinfo() isn't interrupted by a timeout (which breaks on MacOS X),
679 reported by Uli Zappe. This should fix Debian Bug#294547 and Bug#377135.
680 * --logfile is now handled more carefully, errors opening the logfile are
681 now reported to the TTY where fetchmail was started from.
682 * fetchmail now complains and aborts when it cannot properly daemonize itself.
683 * fix compilation on systems that don't know struct addrinfo (Solaris 2.6).
684 * ignore SIGPIPE signals and rely on functions to return EPIPE instead. This is
685 necessary because the former longjmp() from the signal handler is unsafe and
686 makes the whole fetchmail behavior undefined after the event.
687 * Avoid crash in env.c/host_fqdn if we cannot canonicalize our own hostname.
688 Reported by Alexander Holler.
689 * SSL fix by Miloslav Trmac (Red Hat): free the SSL contexts after the
690 connection, to avoid from growing SSL certpaths without bounds, avoid using
691 SSL contexts for unrelated connections, and to fix Red Hat Bug #206346.
694 * Rename all fetchmail-internal lock_* functions to fm_lock_*. Obsoletes
695 NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ah, patch-ai and patch-aj.
696 * Configure prints a warning (but proceeds) if Kerberos IV support is enabled.
697 * In verbose mode, log every IP fetchmail tries to connect to, to avoid
698 misleading the user. Suppress EAFNOSUPPORT errors from socket() call, too.
699 Fixes Debian Bug #361825, reported by Daniel Baur.
700 * In idle mode, fetchmail complains about the fetchall option.
701 * When a connection fails, log not only the IP address, but also host and
702 service name and the port number. Log the latter when trying to connect in
704 * Keep syslog output at one line per message (this works if no errors occur).
705 * Fetchmail in verbose mode now logs if it opportunistically upgrades a POP3
706 or IMAP connection to TLS security with STLS/STARTTLS.
707 * fetchmail now supports foo@example.org=bar user mappings for multidrop boxes.
708 * switch setjmp/longjmp to sigsetjmp/siglongjmp
709 * IMAP now supports the EXTERNAL authentication method, courtesy of
710 Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095 with minor changes.
711 Note that this change causes --sslcert to override --user.
712 * The sslproto keywords are now case insensitive, courtesy of
713 Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095.
714 * When going to sleep, log for how long. Suggested by Claudia Ludwig.
715 * When the server name cannot be canonicalized, log the gai_strerror value.
717 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
718 * Catalan/ca (Ernest Adrogué Calveras), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki) - also
719 made gettext 0.15 ready, Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Russian/ru (Pavel
720 Maryanov), Spanish/es (Héctor García Álvarez), Vietnamese/vi (Clytie Siddall)
722 # CONTRIBUTED SCRIPTS:
723 * PopDel.py was revised by Joshua Crawford to display the From: address and
724 list every email, even if it has no Subject: header; and not delete the wrong
725 message in the presence of mail without Subject: headers.
727 fetchmail 6.3.4 (released 2006-04-14):
730 * configure: detect res_* functions properly with newer glibc ABIs.
731 Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
732 * tracepolls: add folder information if available. Reported by Terry Brown.
733 * lexer: add %option noyywrap to avoid link errors about missing yywrap().
734 * a few more type fixes for report/snprintf, patch by Miloslav Trmac.
735 * bouncing: fetchmail would still send "General SMTP/ESMTP error." bounces
736 in spite of "no bouncemail" configuration.
737 * SSL/TLS: if, for a certain server, an sslfingerprint is specified and
738 sslcertck is NOT set, suppress printing SSL certificate mismatch errors.
739 (Reported by Hannes Erven.)
740 * SSL/TLS: always print if the sslfingerprint mismatches, even in silent
741 mode. (This is for consistency with certificate verification errors.)
743 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
744 * German/de (Matthias Andree), French/fr (Matthias Andree), Spanish/es (Héctor
745 García), Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki)
746 * New Vietnamese/vi translation (Clytie Siddall).
747 * Updated French descriptions for the .spec file (Stéphane Schildknecht,
748 Luc Pionchon, Matthias Andree).
751 * pidfile: there is a new command-line (--pidfile PATH) and global option for
752 the rcfile (set pidfile [=] "/path/to/pidfile") option to allow overriding
753 the default location of the PID file.
754 Requested by Héctor García, Debian maintainer.
755 * specgen.sh: Converted to UTF-8 to support translated texts better.
757 fetchmail 6.3.3 (released 2006-03-30):
760 * SEGFAULT: Do not attempt to overwrite the netrc password if none has been
761 specified. This fixes a segmentation fault bug introduced into 6.3.2.
762 Fixes BerliOS bug #6234. BerliOS patch #804 by Craig Leres.
763 The patch, as accepted into fetchmail, was available separately from
764 <http://download.berlios.de/fetchmail/patch-6.3.2.1-fix-netrc-SIGSEGV.diff>
765 * SEGFAULT: Work around C libraries that return a NULL in getaddrinfo()'s
766 ai_canonname record, to avoid a segfault. Affects for instance FreeBSD 4.10,
767 4.11 and 5.3 when dotted quads are given as server names.
768 Analysis and fix by Vladimir Olegovich Ravodin (Владимир Олегович Раводин).
769 * IMAP: fix hangs in NOOP-based IDLE emulation. Reported by Casper Gripenberg
770 and Brendan Lynch, fix by Sunil Shetye (his patch was merged) and Brendan Lynch.
771 * IMAP: Handle other clients concurrently accessing IMAP mailboxes better.
772 Fetchmail quits the poll if the EXPUNGE count does not match expectations, and
773 servers not updating RECENT counts after EXPUNGE are handled in a better way.
774 (Patch by Sunil Shetye.)
775 * IMAP: Stop sending EXPUNGE after NOOP-idling (patch by Sunil Shetye).
776 * POP3: fetchmail can now use UIDL in fetchall keep mode, to avoid re-fetching
777 the same messages again when the fetchall keyword is removed. Patch by
778 Sunil Shetye. For details, please see
779 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2006-March/000308.html>
780 * LMTP: fix bug in LMTP port validation (patch by Miloslav Trmac).
781 * SDPS: fetchmail no longer replaces the local user ID for an empty envelope
782 sender when using the proprietary SDPS extension for POP3.
783 Fixes Debian Bug#353575, reported by Roger Lynn.
784 * SDPS: Warn and disable SDPS if POP3 is disabled to avoid compilation errors.
785 * fetchmail no longer prints empty lines in verbose mode when using syslog.
786 * fetchmail no longer prints UID lists in verbose mode when using syslog.
787 * ./configure --quiet is now quieter (no SSL and fallback-related output).
788 * Miloslav Trmac's patch (with minor changes) to fix char * sign consistency,
789 unused arguments and variables.
790 * More signedness, unused argument/variable and other warning fixes.
793 * --idle can now be specified on the command line, too.
794 * --fetchall is now supported on the command-line.
795 * POP3: Lower default fastuidl span to 4 (i. e. every 4th run fetches the
796 whole UIDL list), patch by Sunil Shetye.
799 * "ssl" is a user option rather than a server option. Patch by Nico Golde.
800 Fixes Debian Bug#354661, reported by Keith Hellman.
801 * The manual page now suggests "--" before the addresses in the sendmail MDA
803 * The FAQ item X9, Domino IMAP omits Content-Transfer-Encoding header, was
804 added. Information provided by Anthony Kim on the fetchmail-friends list
806 * Credit Chris Boyle with the NOOP emulation code for IDLE in fetchmail 6.2.4.
807 Eric forgot to credit Chris, thanks to Sunil Shetye for providing these links:
808 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007705.html
809 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007713.html
810 * Added a section about RETR vs. TOP to the manual page.
811 * Changed section/subsection levels in some areas.
813 fetchmail 6.3.2 (released 2006-01-22):
815 Unless otherwise noted, changes to this release were made by Matthias Andree.
817 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
818 * CVE-2006-0321: Fix segfault or bus error after bouncing a message. This bug
819 was introduced into 6.3.0 when removing alloca(); it caused fetchmail to free
820 random memory. Reported by Nathaniel W. Turner, Debian Bug#348747.
821 See fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt
823 # INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE:
824 * Automatically disable the POP3 TOP command if the greeting string contains
825 "Maillennium POP3/PROXY server", which is used by comcast and known to
826 truncate messages after 80 kByte. Fall back to RETR, and complain if we had
827 used TOP otherwise (the warning is printed only once per server in daemon
828 mode). Suggested by Ed Wilts.
829 *Note* that this means messages are marked read on these servers, which is a
830 deviation from how 6.3.1 behaved, but we have no alternative, comcast haven't
831 fixed this bug in years. Preventing the loss of the remainder of the message
832 justifies this incompatible fix.
833 * fetchmail, since 6.3.0, requires write permission to the directory holding the
834 idfile. See the amendment in the 6.3.0 MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES section
835 below for details. The manual page was updated.
837 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS:
838 * The outdated BUGS document was removed from the distribution.
839 * Added fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt to the distribution.
842 * SMTP/LMTP cleanup to fix these two bugs:
843 - switch back to SMTP after having tried LMTP hosts (multiple smtphost hosts)
844 - switch back to LMTP after sending a bounce.
845 The patch removes the global state variable that was the root of this problem.
846 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
847 * Don't complain about fetchall keep in --configdump mode. Bug introduced in
849 * fetchmailconf.py: Fix novice help for Poll interval and fetchall.
850 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #344978.
851 * Some verbose output disappeared in debug mode. Adding further -v options would
852 alternate between verbose and debug mode. debug mode now comprises all verbose
853 output, and adding more -v options does not switch back from debug to verbose
855 * fetchmail.man: Fix accented characters in Héctor García's name. Merged from
856 downstream debian/patches/01_man_page.dpatch.
857 * Add missing --help text for "--sslcertck" option.
858 * fetchmailconf.py: Accept --help and --version.
859 * fetchmail --version now prints the copyright notice.
860 * don't complain about READ-ONLY IMAP folders in --fetchall --keep mode.
861 Reported Alexander Zangerl, Debian Bug#348964.
862 * the RPM .spec file now generates a -debuginfo package on newer RPM versions.
864 fetchmail 6.3.1 (released 2005-12-19):
866 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
867 * CVE-2005-4348 Fix segmentation fault (null pointer dereference) in
868 multidrop mode with headerless email. See fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt.
869 Reported by Daniel Drake, patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
871 # OTHER BUG FIXES, DOCUMENTATION AND TRANSLATION UPDATES
872 * Fix broken default port in POP2. Patch by Stanislav Brabec, SUSE [CZ]. (MA)
873 * Fix manual page, some lines starting with ' were escaped by \&.
874 Reported by Simon Barner. (MA)
875 * Ship with gettext-0.14.3 again, as 6.2.9-rc10 did. Found by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
876 * Actually set default SSL certificate path if --sslcertpath is unset.
877 Reported by Heino Tiedemann and Rob MacGregor. (MA)
878 * Remove bogus Netscape IMAP4rev1 Service >= 3.6 warning about BODY[TEXT]
879 that we are not using. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
880 * Plug potential memory and socket leak when polling multiple folders or when
881 the upstream sends bogus message sizes. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
882 * Update Catalan translation, by Ernest Adrogué Calveras. (MA)
883 * Fix segfault (null pointer dereference) on some operating systems with
884 fetchmail's obsolete DNS MX/host alias lookups in multidrop mode.
885 Patch by Dr.-Ing. Andreas Haakh. (MA)
886 * Close SMTP sockets early, to reduce resource usage, trigger earlier delivery
887 with some MTAs and avoid SIGPIPE (SIG 13) when the SMTP listener gets bored
888 and drops the connection after timeout. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
889 * Don't treat hitting a fetch limit as error. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
890 * Fix negative "messages left on server" on idle/repoll with fetchlimit.
891 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
892 * Properly track logout stage. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
893 * Preserve error conditions across postconnect script. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
894 * Do not trash destination domain if multiple messages are forwarded into the
895 same SMTP/LMTP connection. Reported by Joachim Feise, Berlios Bug #5849. (MA)
896 * Manual page: Add "-md5" to "openssl x509" example in --sslfingerprint
897 documentation, since OpenSSL 0.9.8 changed the default to SHA1.
898 Suggested by Jason White. (MA)
899 * Cope with servers that return UID information in response to non-UID
900 RFC822.{SIZE|HEADER} requests. Reported by Jason White.
901 Patch suggestion by by Sunil Shetye, simplified by MA.
903 fetchmail 6.3.0 (released 2005-11-30):
905 # SECURITY FIXES IN THIS RELEASE
906 * CVE-2005-2335: The POP3 UIDL code doesn't sufficiently validate/truncate the
907 input length, so a (malicious or compromised) server that sends UIDs longer
908 than 128 bytes can corrupt fetchmail's stack and crash fetchmail.
909 This vulnerability is remotely exploitable to inject code run in a
910 root shell. Edward J. Shornock, Ludwig Nussel. fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
911 * CVE-2005-3088: fetchmailconf now changes the output file to mode 0600 BEFORE
912 writing to it, so there is no window where passwords could be read by the
913 world. Matthias Andree. fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt
915 # MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
916 * Remove support for --netsec/-T options, the required inet6_apps library is no
918 http://www.inner.net/pub/ipv6/ states, as of 2005-07-03: "/pub/ipv6
919 Our IPv6 software is now long defunct. Please find a more modern source."
920 I haven't been able to find a more modern source. Matthias Andree
921 * Operating systems that do not conform to the Single Unix Specification v2
922 (1997) or v3 (2001, aka IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) are no longer supported. They
923 may continue to work and non-intrusive patches to support them may be
924 accepted. Matthias Andree
925 * The default for --smtphost is now always "localhost" regardless of
926 authentication types and protocols, so as to simplify configurations for
927 workstations where the SMTP daemon only listens on the loopback interface.
928 Sunil Shetye & Matthias Andree
929 Amendment, 2006-01-04:
930 * fetchmail's idfile (.fetchids) is no longer written directly, but the ids are
931 written to a temporary file which is renamed into place after being written
932 completely. This is to avoid writing incomplete idfiles when running out of
933 space, which would cause excessive duplicate refetches of messages, this might
934 make matters even worse. This means that fetchmail requires write permission
935 on the directory holding the idfile. This will usually affect system-global
936 daemons only, for instance, Debian. Found by Dan Jacobson. Matthias Andree.
937 Escalated to "incompatible", 2006-01-13:
938 * Try to obtain FQDN as our own host by default, rather than using "localhost".
939 If hostname cannot be qualified, complain noisily and continue, unless
940 Kerberos, ODMR or ETRN are used (these have always required an FQDN).
941 Partial fix of Debian Bug#150137. Fixes Debian Bug#316454. Matthias Andree
943 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS AND USERS
944 * fetchmailconf is now a shell wrapper that calls the byte-compiled
945 fetchmailconf.py script, which is now installed in the regular python
946 directory. Matthias Andree.
947 * The --enable-inet6 configure option was removed. The code is mostly protocol
948 agnostic, a fully IPv6 aware OS is expected to provide getaddrinfo(),
949 getnameinfo() and the macro AF_INET6. Matthias Andree.
950 * gettext (intl/) has been removed from the fetchmail package. Install GNU
951 gettext 0.14 separately for NLS (i18n). Matthias Andree
952 * Added Russian translation, courtesy of Pavel Maryanov of the
953 Russian translation team. (MA)
954 * Updated and re-enabled Czech translation, by Miloslav Trmac (MA).
955 * Dropped da=Danish, el=Greek and tr=Turkish translations which have more than
956 10% (61+) untranslated or fuzzy messages. Matthias Andree.
958 # OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
959 * Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR)
960 * PopDel.py removed from contrib at author's request. (ESR)
961 * Matthias Andree's fix for Sunil Shetye's fetch-split patch. (ESR)
962 * Include James Stone's moldremover.py script. (ESR)
963 * Enable .fetchmailrc permissions checking under Cygwin. (ESR)
964 * Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication. (ESR)
965 * Revised Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication (the
966 original version would go into an infinite loop when CAPA failed;
967 found by David Greaves.) (MA)
968 * HOME_ETC patch for PLD Linux. (ESR)
969 * Sunil Shetye's fix for SSL configuration. (ESR)
970 * Simon Josefsson's patch for GSS library support. (ESR)
971 * Added Andrey Lelikov's recipe for Hotmail and Lycos Webmail. (ESR)
972 * Remove blank between MAIL FROM: and <, which causes Cyrus to complain.
973 Patch by Phil Endecott. (RF)
974 * Build fixes for HESIOD and resolv.h trouble on FreeBSD. (MA)
975 * Fabrice Bellet's fix for Red Hat bug #113492, fetchmail hangs in IMAP
976 mode after EXPUNGE when the server (Dovecot 0.99.10) doesn't update
977 RECENT and EXISTS counts. (MA)
978 * Holger Mauermann's bounce patch, to use a NULL envelope from, not
979 write a Return-Path header (both to meet RFC-2821), changed From,
980 added Subject header, rewording the human readable part. Fixes Debian
982 * Merge Sunil Shetye's time.h handling fix. (MA)
983 * Merge Gerd von Egidy's patch to avoid a segfault in multidrop/received
984 mode when the Received: headers are malformatted. (MA)
985 * MIME-encode bodies and Subject headers of warning messages, limiting
986 the header to 7 bits. (MA)
987 * Normalize most locale codesets to IANA codesets, based on
988 norm_charmap.c by Markus Kuhn. (MA)
989 * Remove sleep(3) after POP3 login, patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
990 * Fix option parsing bug that trashes the showdots setting when more
991 than one server is configured. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
992 * Honor sslcertpath setting even if sslcertck is unset. Patch by Brian
994 * SSL certificate checking fixes, don't display same error message twice
995 in succession, make sure that Common Name and fingerprint checking are
996 only done once. Print all validation warnings/errors even if not in
997 verbose mode. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
998 * Import Bjorn Reese and Daniel Stenberg's MIT-licensed Trio 1.10 from
999 http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/ for systems that do not support
1000 snprintf or vsnprintf. (MA)
1001 * Clean up the horrible #ifdef HAVE_[V]SNPRINTF that made the code
1002 unreadable. Use Trio where [v]snprintf is/are missing. (MA)
1003 * Default to Linux 2.2 /proc/net/dev format, and use uname(2) to determine the
1004 kernel version instead of calling uname(1). Thanks to Paul Slootman. (MA)
1005 * Be more careful when swapping UID lists or writing the .fetchids file,
1006 requested by Manfred Weihs. (MA)
1007 * Print a warning if multidrop configuration is attempted without
1008 envelope option. (MA)
1009 * Split information on fetchmail versions before 6.0.0 to a separate
1011 * Merge SuSE patches: (sent by Stanislav Brabec, merged by Matthias Andree)
1012 - fetchmail-6.2.5-declaration.patch (double sigint_handler decl/getpass.c)
1013 - fetchmail-6.2.5-implicit-declaration.patch (missing #include)
1014 - fetchmail-6.2.5-random-result.patch (uninitialized variable/opie.c)
1015 * Revised some bogus assertions about POP3 LAST and UIDL use in the
1016 manual page. UIDL isn't flaky as the man page suggested, but a
1017 reliability feature. In fact, IMAP4 code is flaky in that it relies on
1018 the upstream seen flags. (MA)
1019 * Miloslav Trmac's patch for fetchmailconf to support string-type values
1020 of the "port" variable, avoiding "port None" corruption in .fetchmailrc.
1021 To fix Redhat Bug #55623 (MA)
1022 * de.po fixes from Nico Golde (MA)
1023 * es.po fixes from Jesus Roncero, Debian bug #286044 (MA)
1024 * sink.c fix from Cesar Eduardo Barros, to avoid double @ in address
1025 when username contains an @ and the envelope sender is null, Debian
1027 * configure.ac cleanups by Miloslav Trmac (MA)
1028 * Miloslav Trmac's fix to reply_hack() type, for systems where
1029 sizeof(int) != sizeof(size_t). (MA)
1030 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for driver.c to not call the private Kerberos
1031 krb5_init_ets() function. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1032 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for sink.c/transact.c to reserve sufficient
1033 space for \r\n trailers in snprintf calls. Sent by Miloslav Trmac,
1034 possibly fixing Red Hat bug #114470. (MA).
1035 * Nalin Dahyabhai's patch to use the krb5-config script, if present.
1036 Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1037 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix to make rpa.c compile. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1038 * Trivial fetchmailconf.man to redirect to fetchmail.1.
1039 Reported by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1040 * Internationalization (i18n) updates by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1041 * Fix "couldn't find canonical DNS name of NN (MM)" for hosts that have
1042 only IPv6 addresses. Matthias Andree.
1043 * Revised INSTALL after question from Brian Candler, inet6-apps is no
1044 longer available: remove inet6-apps hints for IPv6, and add some
1045 apologetic message for IPsec. Note the code may be removed in a future
1046 version. Matthias Andree.
1047 * Brian Candler's FAQ update about SSL certificate verification. (MA)
1048 * Nico Golde's patch to support "proto RPOP" in the configuration file,
1049 reported by Dr. Andreas Krüger, Debian bug #242384 (MA)
1050 * Skip sending POP3 PASS command when USER command failed. Matthias Andree.
1051 * Run fetchmail.man through automatic spell checker. Matthias Andree.
1052 * Major fetchmail(1) manual page overhaul by R. Hannes Beinert, to
1053 clarify singledrop vs. multidrop operation. (MA)
1054 * Make tracepolls a server option, as documented. Fixes Debian bug
1055 #156094. Matthias Andree.
1056 * Fix some minor inaccuracies (RFC-1893 related, grammar/spelling) in
1058 * Rename ESR's design notes to esrs-design-notes.html and add a new
1059 design-notes.html document. The NOTES file will contain both of them.
1061 * Fix Debian bug #301964, fetchmail leaks sockets when SSL negotiation
1062 fails. Fix suggested by Goswin Brederlow. (MA)
1063 * Really fix Debian Bug#207919 (garbage in Received: lines when smtphost set),
1064 patch by Tobias Diedrich. The 6.2.5 NEWS claimed Gregan's patch had fixed
1065 #207919 but it had fixed #212484 instead and #207919 remained unfixed in
1066 6.2.5. The entry below has been corrected to read #212484 now. (MA)
1067 * When writing the PID file, write a FHS 2.3 compliant PID file.
1068 Fixes Debian bug #230615. Matthias Andree.
1069 * Make ODMR really silent, suppress "fetchmail: receiving message
1070 data". Fixes Debian Bug#296163. Matthias Andree.
1071 * Add From: header to warning emails. Debian Bug#244828. Matthias Andree.
1072 * Fix IMAP code to use password of arbitrary length from configuration
1073 file (although not when read interactively). Debian Bug#276424.
1075 * Document that fetchmail may automatically enable UIDL option.
1076 Debian Bug#304701. Matthias Andree.
1077 * Put *BOLD* text into the manual page near --mda to state unmistakably that
1078 the --mda %T and %F substitutions add single quotes, hoping to avoid bogus
1079 bug reports such as Debian Bug #224564. Matthias Andree
1080 * Rename lock_release to fm_lock_release, to avoid namespace collision on
1081 Darwin. NetBSD PR#28543 (pkg/28543). Matthias Andree.
1082 * The RFC-822 parser no longer strips the last character of bare addresses.
1084 * The IP address matching code was broken and
1085 1. didn't search exhaustively, but matched only the first IP address of the
1086 server's queryname against the IP addresses of the server name to match.
1087 2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts. Matthias Andree
1088 * The "port" option, while still understood, is being replaced by the "service"
1089 option, which is now supported even without --enable-inet6. Matthias Andree.
1090 * The default distribution format is now bzip2. Matthias Andree.
1091 * fetchmailconf redirects fetchmail's input from /dev/null so it doesn't
1092 wait for the user to enter a password when the user doesn't even see
1093 the prompt. Reported by Michal Marek. Matthias Andree.
1094 * Write RFC-compliant BSMTP envelopes. Reported by Nico Golde. Matthias Andree.
1095 * Fix --with-gssapi compilation problem. Simon Josefsson. (MA)
1096 * Foster protocol-independence to support IPv6 better, for instance, providing
1097 IPv6 addresses in Received: headers. Matthias Andree.
1098 * Received: headers now enclose the for <...> destination address in angle
1099 brackets for consistency with Postfix. Matthias Andree.
1100 * Operating systems that do not support at least one of gethostbyname,
1101 gethostbyname_r, getipnodebyname are no longer supported. Matthias Andree.
1102 * Fixes to --with-hesiod option. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1103 * Delete oversized messages with the new --limitflush option. Debian
1104 Bug#212240. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1105 * Fix MacOS X compilation failures in sink.c (ru_*time has incomplete type).
1106 Berlios Bug #4725. Matthias Andree.
1107 * Fix "auth ntlm" to send AUTH NTLM (rather than AUTH MSN). Add "auth msn"
1108 officially. Reported by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
1109 * Expunge between IMAP folders when polling multiple folders.
1111 * Fix IMAP expunged message counting. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1112 * Add full support for --service option. Matthias Andree
1113 * When getaddrinfo() fails resolving a service, log getaddrinfo() error. (MA)
1114 * Fix bogus "cannot resolve service * to port number" error. Simon Barner. (MA)
1115 * Failure to set up SSL connections now results in PS_SOCKET. Suggested by
1116 Thomas Wolff. Matthias Andree.
1117 * Kerberos IV detection fix for FreeBSD 4. Simon Barner. (MA)
1118 * Fix display and documentation of --envelope option. Matthias Andree
1119 * Make "envelope 'Delivered-To'" work with dropdelivered. Timothy Lee. (MA)
1120 * Add -DBIND_8_COMPAT to Darwin (MacOS X) compiles, to fix build problems on
1121 newer Darwin versions. Matthias Andree.
1122 * fetchmail should now automatically detect if OpenSSL requires -ldl.
1124 * Fix Solaris build with --disable-nls (blastwave.org). Matthias Andree.
1125 * Missed --port/--service/--ssl cleanups in the manual. Reminder from Thomas
1127 * Complain in POP3 if NTLM/MSN auth is requested but had not been enabled at
1128 compile time. This configuration mismatch now causes an error message and
1129 authentication failure. Found by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
1130 * fetchmailconf now allows expert users to choose the authorization type and
1131 also offers MSN and NTLM, suggested by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
1132 * fetchmailconf now (as of 1.49) writes its version to the comment of the
1133 saved run control file. Matthias Andree
1134 * Properly shut down SSL connections. Berlios Patch #647 by Arkadiusz
1136 * Global variable cleanup, to fix daemon mode reinitialization problems. Patch
1137 by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1138 * fetchmailconf -h documents the fetchmailconf -h option. Matthias Andree
1139 * fetchmailconf -V now prints the fetchmailconf version. Matthias Andree
1140 * Add support for SubjectAltName (RFC-2595 or 2818), to avoid bogus certificate
1141 mismatch errors. Patch by Roland Stigge, Debian Bug#201113. (MA)
1142 * make fetchmail --silent --quit really silent, Debian Bug #229014 by Dr.
1143 Andreas Krüger. Matthias Andree
1144 * cleanup --quit handling again (so that --silent --quit just kills the
1145 existing daemon, rather than continue running), and document it more clearly.
1147 * Print an error message if multiple "defaults" records are found in the
1148 configuration file. Matthias Andree
1149 * Bury on_exit officially - the necessary code had been missing from 6.0.0,
1150 6.2.0, 6.2.5. Matthias Andree
1151 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be read. Matthias Andree
1152 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be created exclusively, this got
1153 broken in a 6.2.6-pre, 6.2.5.2 and older were fine. Matthias Andree
1154 * Do not break some other process's lockfile in "-q" mode, but wait for the
1155 other process's exit. Matthias Andree
1156 * Man page: --sslfingerprint points user to x509(1ssl) and gives an example
1157 how to use it. Debian Bug#213484, Eduard Bloch. (MA)
1158 * fetchmailconf now sets the service properly after autoprobe. Fixes Debian
1159 Bug#320645. Matthias Andree
1160 * Man page: Fix Debian Bug#241883, making global options more clear. Matt
1161 Swift, Matthias Andree.
1162 * When eating IMAP message trailer, don't see any line containing "OK" as the
1163 end of the trailer, but wait for the proper tagged OK line. To work around
1164 the qmail + Courier-IMAP problem in Debian Bug#338007. Matthias Andree
1165 * Fix Debian Bug#317761: when trying to send a bounce message, don't bail out
1166 if we cannot qualify our own hostname, so we aren't losing the bounce.
1167 Instead, pass the buck on to the SMTP server and use our own unqualified
1168 hostname. Matthias Andree
1169 * Revise some error messages so they are less confusing. Sunil Shetye.
1170 * Man page: update --smtphost documentation. Sunil Shetye, Matthias Andree.
1171 * Man page: clarify --loghost works only while detached. Matthias Andree
1172 * Man page: update --smtpaddress documentation. Sunil Shetye.
1173 * Fix several memory leaks and bugs in the SMTP/LMTP retry logic where
1174 fetchmail confused UNIX and Internet domain sockets. Sunil Shetye.
1175 * Man page (BUGS): document that passwords are length limited. Matthias Andree
1176 * Man page: Document that quoted strings that run across line boundaries
1177 contain the control characters (CR or LF). Document explicitly the backslash
1178 escape sequences and their differences from the escape sequences used in the
1179 C programming language. Matthias Andree
1180 * Fix segfault when run control file ends with a backslash inside an
1181 unterminated quoted string. Matthias Andree.
1182 * In quoted strings, support backslash as last character on a line to join the
1183 following line to the current. Matthias Andree.
1184 * Parsing untagged IMAP responses is more robust now. Matthias Andree.
1185 * Man page: Remove some procmail praises in --mda documentation, suggest
1186 maildrop instead, warn of procmail fallthrough behavior. Matthias Andree.
1187 * Man page: Revise AUTHORS and SEE ALSO sections. Matthias Andree.
1188 * Updated translations: Albanian [sq] (Besnik Bleta), Catalan [ca] (Ernest
1189 Adrogué Calveras), Czech [cs] (Miloslav Trmac), German [de] (MA),
1190 Spanish (Castilian) [es] (Javier Kohen), French [fr] (MA),
1191 Polish [pl] (Jakub Bogusz), Russian [ru] (Pavel Maryanov).
1192 * In oversized warning messages, print the account name, too. Fixes Debian
1193 Bug#213299. Sunil Shetye (MA).
1194 * Fix installation without Python. Sunil Shetye, reported by Peter Church. (MA)
1195 * Update Japanese translation. Fixes Debian Bug#329342, Takeshi Hamasaki. (MA)
1196 * Fix imap.c size safeguard that broke on x86_64 architecture. Matthias Andree
1197 * The FAQ is now available for duplex DIN A4 printing in PDF format.
1198 Don't bother to ask for a Letter version, I don't care. Matthias Andree
1199 * Man page: Use \- in the manual page where appropriate so that copy & paste
1200 works. I hope we got them all. Héctor García, Matthias Andree.
1203 * Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
1204 * Got rid of alloca() in fetchmail proper. Matthias Andree
1205 * Got rid of ipv6-connect, inner_connect and thereabouts. Matthias Andree
1207 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1209 fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:
1211 * Updated Spanish, Turkish, and German translation files.
1212 * Matthew Gregan's patch to handle garbage lengths from dbmail;
1213 closes Debian bug #212484.
1214 * Fix IMAP query so new-message count doesn't include deleted messages.
1215 * Man page typo fix, closes Debian bug #205892.
1216 * OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl@acm.org.
1217 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
1218 flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
1219 * Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of
1221 * Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
1222 * Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
1223 * Sunil Shetye's patches to break up fetching of sizes and UIDLs.
1225 There are 599 people on fetchmail-friends and 748 on fetchmail-announce.
1227 fetchmail-6.2.4 (Wed Aug 13 04:27:35 EDT 2003), 22625 lines:
1229 * Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
1230 * IDLE is now supported using NOOP commands even if the server doesn't support
1231 the IMAP IDLE extension. Patch by Chris Boyle.
1232 * Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
1233 * Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
1234 * Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
1235 * Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
1236 * Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.
1238 There are 585 people on fetchmail-friends and 745 on fetchmail-announce.
1240 fetchmail-6.2.3 (Thu Jul 17 14:53:00 EDT 2003), 22490 lines:
1242 * French, German, Danish, Spanish, and Turkish translations updated.
1243 * Brian Sammon's patch to deal with malformed message lines containing NULs.
1244 * Fai's patch to ignore all but the first Return-Path (some spams have
1245 more than one of these).
1246 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to properly byte-stuff when talking to BSMTP.
1247 Fixes Debian bug #184469.
1248 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to enable auth=cram-md5.
1249 Fixes Debian bug #185232.
1250 * Sunil Shetye's configure.in patch to avoid spurious search order messages
1252 * Header-reading code now copes better with lines ending in \n only.
1253 * Elias Israel's patches for POP3 NTLM support and dealing with byte-
1254 stuffing failures at socket level.
1256 There are 580 people on fetchmail-friends and 750 on fetchmail-announce.
1258 fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:
1260 * Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior on empty messages.
1261 * Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful
1262 STARTTLS negotiation.
1263 * Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
1264 * Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security.
1265 * Christophe GIAUME <christophe@giaume.com> finished the implementation
1267 * Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
1268 * Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
1269 * Fix for Debian bug #108977, clean up config file evaluation,
1272 There are 554 people on fetchmail-friends and 727 on fetchmail-announce.
1274 fetchmail-6.2.1 (Tue Jan 14 08:17:19 EST 2003), 22219 lines:
1276 * Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
1277 * Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
1278 * Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check,
1279 we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
1280 * Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.
1282 There are 536 people on fetchmail-friends and 716 on fetchmail-announce.
1284 fetchmail-6.2.0 (Fri Dec 13 00:10:07 EST 2002), 22235 lines:
1286 * Applied Steffen Esser's fix for a buffer-overflow bug in rfc822.c
1287 * Updated Danish, German, and Turkish translation files.
1288 * Sunil Shetye's SMTP timeout patch.
1290 There are 538 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
1292 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1294 fetchmail-6.1.3 (Thu Nov 28 05:35:15 EST 2002), 22203 lines:
1296 * Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
1297 * Added Slovak support.
1298 * Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas).
1299 * Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
1300 * Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
1301 * Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
1302 * Sunil's fix for the STARTTLS problem -- repoll if TLS nabdshake
1303 fails. The attempt to set up STARTTLS can be suppressed with 'sslproto ""'.
1305 There are 540 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
1307 fetchmail-6.1.2 (Thu Oct 31 11:41:02 EST 2002), 22135 lines:
1309 * Jan Klaverstijn's verbosity-lowering patch.
1310 * Updated Turkish, German, Catalan, and Danish translation files.
1311 * Fix processing of POP3 messages with missing bodies.
1312 * Minor fixes by Sunil Shetye: fix generation of auth fail note, handle
1313 unexpected SIGALRM, plug memory leak, handle lines beginning with '\0',
1314 try to bulletproof error handling against read failures.
1316 There are 535 people on fetchmail-friends and 696 on fetchmail-announce.
1318 fetchmail-6.1.1 (Fri Oct 18 14:53:51 EDT 2002), 22087 lines:
1320 * OTP fix patches from Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
1321 * fix patch for writing antispam capability correctly in conf.c.
1322 * Fix patches for Debian bugs #162571, #156592.
1323 * Correction to manpage re -b and qmail.
1324 * Patch to disable use of STLS if auth passwd is specified.
1325 * Fix specfile generation to handle SSL correctly.
1326 * New Danish, Turkish, and Catalan translation files.
1327 * Improved ODMR debug messages.
1328 * IMAP efficiency hack; don't fetch sizes unless needed.
1329 * Detect and rewrite invalid return paths beginning with @.
1330 * Fix for subtle freeing bug that suppressed information in some bounce msgs.
1331 * Newline fix patches for internationalization files.
1332 * Fix reversed test guarding authentication-failure warnings.
1333 * Fix POP3 breakage starting at 5.9.14.
1335 There are 529 people on fetchmail-friends and 693 on fetchmail-announce.
1337 fetchmail-6.1.0 (Sun Sep 22 18:31:23 EDT 2002), 21999 lines:
1339 * Updated French translation.
1340 * Stefan Esser's fix for potential remote vulnerability in multidrop mode.
1341 This is an important security fix!
1343 There are 519 people on fetchmail-friends and 680 on fetchmail-announce.
1345 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1347 fetchmail-6.0.0 (Tue Sep 17 19:48:25 EDT 2002), 21972 lines:
1349 * Applied Matt Kraai's fix for minor Debian bug #144539.
1350 * Nerijus Baliunas's patch to support STARTTLS over IMAP.
1351 * More cleanups and minor bugfixes from Sunil Shetye.
1352 * Default antispam-response list is now empty.
1353 * Updated de and po translations.
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1357 There are 520 people on fetchmail-friends and 683 on fetchmail-announce.
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