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 # DEPRECATED FEATURES AND MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE ADVANCE WARNINGS
12 * The MX and host alias DNS lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode
13 are obsolete, deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version.
14 They have never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4) anyhow.
15 Non-DNS based alias keywords such as "aka" will remain in fetchmail.
16 * The monitor and interface options may be removed from a future fetchmail
17 version as they are not sufficiently portable.
19 Support for POP2 may be removed from a future fetchmail version.
20 * RPOP is obsolete, support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
21 * --sslcertck may become a default setting in a future fetchmail version.
22 * The multidrop To/Cc guessing code along with the fragile duplicate suppressor
23 is deprecated and may be removed from a future release.
24 * The "envelope Received" option may be removed from a future release, because
25 the Received header was never meant to be machine-readable, the format varies
26 widely, and various other differences in behavior make parsing Received an
27 unreliable undertaking. The enveloper option as such will remain though, in
28 order to support Delivered-To, X-Envelope-To, X-Original-To and similar.
29 See also <http://home.pages.de/~mandree/mail/multidrop>.
30 * The --enable-fallback (fall back to MDA if MTA unavailable) may be removed
31 from a future fetchmail release.
32 * The "protocol auto" default inside fetchmail may be removed from a future
33 fetchmail release. Explicit configuration of the protocol is recommended.
34 * Kerberos IV support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
35 * SIGHUP wakeup may be removed from a future fetchmail release and cause it
37 * Support for operating systems that are not sufficiently POSIX compliant may be
38 removed or operation on such systems may be suboptimal for future releases.
40 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
42 fetchmail 6.3.5 (not yet released):
44 # KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS:
45 (this section floats upwards through the NEWS to be on top of the list)
46 * fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
47 (See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
48 * Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the lexer in 64-bit mode.
49 Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit fetchmail.
50 Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code anyways,
51 so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should be fine.
52 * fetchmail expects Received: headers in a particular format when parsing
56 * For protocols such as IMAP that are not delimited by "." lines, truncate the
57 input buffer when the message has been completely read, to avoid taking
58 trailing garbage into the message if the terminal CRLF is missing. Fixes
59 Debian Bug#312415. (Patch suggested by Mike Jones, Manchester Univ.).
60 * When using NTLM authentication, use regular IMAP response code handler after
61 completing NTLM handshake, for robustness and consistency.
62 (Taken from the NetBSD portable packages collection, patch-ac.)
63 * Support Kerberos installations where krb5.h and perhaps roken.h are in
64 .../include/krb5. Taken from NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ae.
65 * On NetBSD, link against -lroken -lcom_err if --with-kerberos is enabled.
66 * Drop #include <com_err.h> from Kerberos 5 header file, fixes compile error on
68 * Fix des_pcbc_encrypt compile warnings in kerberos.c line 246.
69 * If krb5-config provides gssapi library information, use that rather than
71 * Improve --with-gssapi auto detection for /usr-based GSSAPI installs.
72 * Fix --with-gssapi builds for NetBSD 3.0.
73 * Improve KAME/getnameinfo.c portability to Linux libc5 systems.
74 Based on a patch by Dan Fandrich.
75 * Provide INET6 to KAME/getnameinfo.c (only useful on IPv6-enabled systems that
76 lack getnameinfo, and there only visible in some Received: headers).
77 Found by Dan Fandrich.
78 * POP3: some UID flags may not be set properly on UIDL lists. (Sunil Shetye)
79 * Make IMAP4 IDLE work on servers that do not update RECENT counts.
80 Reported by Lars Tewes.
81 * IMAP4 patch by Sunil Shetye:
82 - do not depend on server updating RECENT counts at all
83 - also enter IDLE loop when messages are present on the server.
84 * Fix --flush description in the manual page, fetchmail does not mark messages
85 seen unless it has successfully delivered them. Suggested by Frederic Marchal.
86 * Fetchmail no longer attempts to stat the "-" file in daemon mode -- this is a
87 special name to read the RC file from stdin, and cannot always be re-read
88 anyways. BerliOS bug #7858.
89 * When looking up ports for a service, the lookup succeeds and the returned
90 address family isn't IPv4 or IPv6, properly free the allocated memory from the
91 service lookup. Found by Uli Zappe.
92 * When looking up ports for a service, only look up TCP ports.
93 * Avoid compiling empty files, to avoid diagnostics from strict compilers.
94 * If the lockfile ends before the process ID, treat it as stale and unlink it.
95 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #376603.
96 * SIGHUP wake-up behavior was broken since 5.9.13's Cygwin changes, in that for
97 non-root users, SIGHUP would abort the first poll and subsequently interfere
98 with new polls, and SIGHUP would be ignored for root users. SIGHUP now matches
99 documented behavior. SIGUSR1 has always been a wakeup signal for both root
100 (undocumented) and non-root users. See also the deprecation warning above.
101 * Track getaddrinfo() results to properly free them after timeouts and make sure
102 that getaddrinfo() isn't interrupted by a timeout (which breaks on MacOS X),
103 reported by Uli Zappe. This should fix Debian Bug#294547 and Bug#377135.
104 * --logfile is now handled more carefully, errors opening the logfile are
105 now reported to the TTY where fetchmail was started from.
106 * fetchmail now complains and aborts when it cannot properly daemonize itself.
107 * fix compilation on systems that don't know struct addrinfo (Solaris 2.6).
108 * ignore SIGPIPE signals and rely on functions to return EPIPE instead. This is
109 necessary because the former longjmp() from the signal handler is unsafe and
110 makes the whole fetchmail behavior undefined after the event.
113 * Rename all fetchmail-internal lock_* functions to fm_lock_*. Obsoletes
114 NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ah, patch-ai and patch-aj.
115 * Configure prints a warning (but proceeds) if Kerberos IV support is enabled.
116 * In verbose mode, log every IP fetchmail tries to connect to, to avoid
117 misleading the user. Suppress EAFNOSUPPORT errors from socket() call, too.
118 Fixes Debian Bug #361825, reported by Daniel Baur.
119 * In idle mode, fetchmail complains about the fetchall option.
120 * When a connection fails, log not only the IP address, but also host and
121 service name and the port number. Log the latter when trying to connect in
123 * Keep syslog output at one line per message (this works if no errors occur).
124 * Fetchmail in verbose mode now logs if it opportunistically upgrades a POP3
125 or IMAP connection to TLS security with STLS/STARTTLS.
126 * fetchmail now supports foo@example.org=bar user mappings for multidrop boxes.
127 * switch setjmp/longjmp to sigsetjmp/siglongjmp
128 * IMAP now supports the EXTERNAL authentication method, courtesy of
129 Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095 with minor changes.
130 * The sslproto keywords are now case insensitive, courtesy of
131 Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095.
133 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
134 * Catalan/ca (Ernest Adrogué Calveras), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki) - also
135 made gettext 0.15 ready, Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Russian/ru (Pavel
136 Maryanov), Vietnamese/vi (Clytie Siddall)
138 # CONTRIBUTED SCRIPTS:
139 * PopDel.py was revised by Joshua Crawford to display the From: address and
140 list every email, even if it has no Subject: header; and not delete the wrong
141 message in the presence of mail without Subject: headers.
143 fetchmail 6.3.4 (released 2006-04-14):
146 * configure: detect res_* functions properly with newer glibc ABIs.
147 Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
148 * tracepolls: add folder information if available. Reported by Terry Brown.
149 * lexer: add %option noyywrap to avoid link errors about missing yywrap().
150 * a few more type fixes for report/snprintf, patch by Miloslav Trmac.
151 * bouncing: fetchmail would still send "General SMTP/ESMTP error." bounces
152 in spite of "no bouncemail" configuration.
153 * SSL/TLS: if, for a certain server, an sslfingerprint is specified and
154 sslcertck is NOT set, suppress printing SSL certificate mismatch errors.
155 (Reported by Hannes Erven.)
156 * SSL/TLS: always print if the sslfingerprint mismatches, even in silent
157 mode. (This is for consistency with certificate verification errors.)
159 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
160 * German/de (Matthias Andree), French/fr (Matthias Andree), Spanish/es (Héctor
161 García), Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki)
162 * New Vietnamese/vi translation (Clytie Siddall).
163 * Updated French descriptions for the .spec file (Stéphane Schildknecht,
164 Luc Pionchon, Matthias Andree).
167 * pidfile: there is a new command-line (--pidfile PATH) and global option for
168 the rcfile (set pidfile [=] "/path/to/pidfile") option to allow overriding
169 the default location of the PID file.
170 Requested by Héctor García, Debian maintainer.
171 * specgen.sh: Converted to UTF-8 to support translated texts better.
173 fetchmail 6.3.3 (released 2006-03-30):
176 * SEGFAULT: Do not attempt to overwrite the netrc password if none has been
177 specified. This fixes a segmentation fault bug introduced into 6.3.2.
178 Fixes BerliOS bug #6234. BerliOS patch #804 by Craig Leres.
179 The patch, as accepted into fetchmail, was available separately from
180 <http://download.berlios.de/fetchmail/patch-6.3.2.1-fix-netrc-SIGSEGV.diff>
181 * SEGFAULT: Work around C libraries that return a NULL in getaddrinfo()'s
182 ai_canonname record, to avoid a segfault. Affects for instance FreeBSD 4.10,
183 4.11 and 5.3 when dotted quads are given as server names.
184 Analysis and fix by Vladimir Olegovich Ravodin (Владимир Олегович Раводин).
185 * IMAP: fix hangs in NOOP-based IDLE emulation. Reported by Casper Gripenberg
186 and Brendan Lynch, fix by Sunil Shetye (his patch was merged) and Brendan Lynch.
187 * IMAP: Handle other clients concurrently accessing IMAP mailboxes better.
188 Fetchmail quits the poll if the EXPUNGE count does not match expectations, and
189 servers not updating RECENT counts after EXPUNGE are handled in a better way.
190 (Patch by Sunil Shetye.)
191 * IMAP: Stop sending EXPUNGE after NOOP-idling (patch by Sunil Shetye).
192 * POP3: fetchmail can now use UIDL in fetchall keep mode, to avoid re-fetching
193 the same messages again when the fetchall keyword is removed. Patch by
194 Sunil Shetye. For details, please see
195 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2006-March/000308.html>
196 * LMTP: fix bug in LMTP port validation (patch by Miloslav Trmac).
197 * SDPS: fetchmail no longer replaces the local user ID for an empty envelope
198 sender when using the proprietary SDPS extension for POP3.
199 Fixes Debian Bug#353575, reported by Roger Lynn.
200 * SDPS: Warn and disable SDPS if POP3 is disabled to avoid compilation errors.
201 * fetchmail no longer prints empty lines in verbose mode when using syslog.
202 * fetchmail no longer prints UID lists in verbose mode when using syslog.
203 * ./configure --quiet is now quieter (no SSL and fallback-related output).
204 * Miloslav Trmac's patch (with minor changes) to fix char * sign consistency,
205 unused arguments and variables.
206 * More signedness, unused argument/variable and other warning fixes.
209 * --idle can now be specified on the command line, too.
210 * --fetchall is now supported on the command-line.
211 * POP3: Lower default fastuidl span to 4 (i. e. every 4th run fetches the
212 whole UIDL list), patch by Sunil Shetye.
215 * "ssl" is a user option rather than a server option. Patch by Nico Golde.
216 Fixes Debian Bug#354661, reported by Keith Hellman.
217 * The manual page now suggests "--" before the addresses in the sendmail MDA
219 * The FAQ item X9, Domino IMAP omits Content-Transfer-Encoding header, was
220 added. Information provided by Anthony Kim on the fetchmail-friends list
222 * Credit Chris Boyle with the NOOP emulation code for IDLE in fetchmail 6.2.4.
223 Eric forgot to credit Chris, thanks to Sunil Shetye for providing these links:
224 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007705.html
225 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007713.html
226 * Added a section about RETR vs. TOP to the manual page.
227 * Changed section/subsection levels in some areas.
229 fetchmail 6.3.2 (released 2006-01-22):
231 Unless otherwise noted, changes to this release were made by Matthias Andree.
233 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
234 * CVE-2006-0321: Fix segfault or bus error after bouncing a message. This bug
235 was introduced into 6.3.0 when removing alloca(); it caused fetchmail to free
236 random memory. Reported by Nathaniel W. Turner, Debian Bug#348747.
237 See fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt
239 # INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE:
240 * Automatically disable the POP3 TOP command if the greeting string contains
241 "Maillennium POP3/PROXY server", which is used by comcast and known to
242 truncate messages after 80 kByte. Fall back to RETR, and complain if we had
243 used TOP otherwise (the warning is printed only once per server in daemon
244 mode). Suggested by Ed Wilts.
245 *Note* that this means messages are marked read on these servers, which is a
246 deviation from how 6.3.1 behaved, but we have no alternative, comcast haven't
247 fixed this bug in years. Preventing the loss of the remainder of the message
248 justifies this incompatible fix.
249 * fetchmail, since 6.3.0, requires write permission to the directory holding the
250 idfile. See the amendment in the 6.3.0 MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES section
251 below for details. The manual page was updated.
253 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS:
254 * The outdated BUGS document was removed from the distribution.
255 * Added fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt to the distribution.
258 * SMTP/LMTP cleanup to fix these two bugs:
259 - switch back to SMTP after having tried LMTP hosts (multiple smtphost hosts)
260 - switch back to LMTP after sending a bounce.
261 The patch removes the global state variable that was the root of this problem.
262 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
263 * Don't complain about fetchall keep in --configdump mode. Bug introduced in
265 * fetchmailconf.py: Fix novice help for Poll interval and fetchall.
266 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #344978.
267 * Some verbose output disappeared in debug mode. Adding further -v options would
268 alternate between verbose and debug mode. debug mode now comprises all verbose
269 output, and adding more -v options does not switch back from debug to verbose
271 * fetchmail.man: Fix accented characters in Héctor García's name. Merged from
272 downstream debian/patches/01_man_page.dpatch.
273 * Add missing --help text for "--sslcertck" option.
274 * fetchmailconf.py: Accept --help and --version.
275 * fetchmail --version now prints the copyright notice.
276 * don't complain about READ-ONLY IMAP folders in --fetchall --keep mode.
277 Reported Alexander Zangerl, Debian Bug#348964.
278 * the RPM .spec file now generates a -debuginfo package on newer RPM versions.
280 fetchmail 6.3.1 (released 2005-12-19):
282 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
283 * CVE-2005-4348 Fix segmentation fault (null pointer dereference) in
284 multidrop mode with headerless email. See fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt.
285 Reported by Daniel Drake, patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
287 # OTHER BUG FIXES, DOCUMENTATION AND TRANSLATION UPDATES
288 * Fix broken default port in POP2. Patch by Stanislav Brabec, SUSE [CZ]. (MA)
289 * Fix manual page, some lines starting with ' were escaped by \&.
290 Reported by Simon Barner. (MA)
291 * Ship with gettext-0.14.3 again, as 6.2.9-rc10 did. Found by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
292 * Actually set default SSL certificate path if --sslcertpath is unset.
293 Reported by Heino Tiedemann and Rob MacGregor. (MA)
294 * Remove bogus Netscape IMAP4rev1 Service >= 3.6 warning about BODY[TEXT]
295 that we are not using. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
296 * Plug potential memory and socket leak when polling multiple folders or when
297 the upstream sends bogus message sizes. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
298 * Update Catalan translation, by Ernest Adrogué Calveras. (MA)
299 * Fix segfault (null pointer dereference) on some operating systems with
300 fetchmail's obsolete DNS MX/host alias lookups in multidrop mode.
301 Patch by Dr.-Ing. Andreas Haakh. (MA)
302 * Close SMTP sockets early, to reduce resource usage, trigger earlier delivery
303 with some MTAs and avoid SIGPIPE (SIG 13) when the SMTP listener gets bored
304 and drops the connection after timeout. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
305 * Don't treat hitting a fetch limit as error. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
306 * Fix negative "messages left on server" on idle/repoll with fetchlimit.
307 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
308 * Properly track logout stage. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
309 * Preserve error conditions across postconnect script. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
310 * Do not trash destination domain if multiple messages are forwarded into the
311 same SMTP/LMTP connection. Reported by Joachim Feise, Berlios Bug #5849. (MA)
312 * Manual page: Add "-md5" to "openssl x509" example in --sslfingerprint
313 documentation, since OpenSSL 0.9.8 changed the default to SHA1.
314 Suggested by Jason White. (MA)
315 * Cope with servers that return UID information in response to non-UID
316 RFC822.{SIZE|HEADER} requests. Reported by Jason White.
317 Patch suggestion by by Sunil Shetye, simplified by MA.
319 fetchmail 6.3.0 (released 2005-11-30):
321 # SECURITY FIXES IN THIS RELEASE
322 * CVE-2005-2335: The POP3 UIDL code doesn't sufficiently validate/truncate the
323 input length, so a (malicious or compromised) server that sends UIDs longer
324 than 128 bytes can corrupt fetchmail's stack and crash fetchmail.
325 This vulnerability is remotely exploitable to inject code run in a
326 root shell. Edward J. Shornock, Ludwig Nussel. fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
327 * CVE-2005-3088: fetchmailconf now changes the output file to mode 0600 BEFORE
328 writing to it, so there is no window where passwords could be read by the
329 world. Matthias Andree. fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt
331 # MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
332 * Remove support for --netsec/-T options, the required inet6_apps library is no
334 http://www.inner.net/pub/ipv6/ states, as of 2005-07-03: "/pub/ipv6
335 Our IPv6 software is now long defunct. Please find a more modern source."
336 I haven't been able to find a more modern source. Matthias Andree
337 * Operating systems that do not conform to the Single Unix Specification v2
338 (1997) or v3 (2001, aka IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) are no longer supported. They
339 may continue to work and non-intrusive patches to support them may be
340 accepted. Matthias Andree
341 * The default for --smtphost is now always "localhost" regardless of
342 authentication types and protocols, so as to simplify configurations for
343 workstations where the SMTP daemon only listens on the loopback interface.
344 Sunil Shetye & Matthias Andree
345 Amendment, 2006-01-04:
346 * fetchmail's idfile (.fetchids) is no longer written directly, but the ids are
347 written to a temporary file which is renamed into place after being written
348 completely. This is to avoid writing incomplete idfiles when running out of
349 space, which would cause excessive duplicate refetches of messages, this might
350 make matters even worse. This means that fetchmail requires write permission
351 on the directory holding the idfile. This will usually affect system-global
352 daemons only, for instance, Debian. Found by Dan Jacobson. Matthias Andree.
353 Escalated to "incompatible", 2006-01-13:
354 * Try to obtain FQDN as our own host by default, rather than using "localhost".
355 If hostname cannot be qualified, complain noisily and continue, unless
356 Kerberos, ODMR or ETRN are used (these have always required an FQDN).
357 Partial fix of Debian Bug#150137. Fixes Debian Bug#316454. Matthias Andree
359 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS AND USERS
360 * fetchmailconf is now a shell wrapper that calls the byte-compiled
361 fetchmailconf.py script, which is now installed in the regular python
362 directory. Matthias Andree.
363 * The --enable-inet6 configure option was removed. The code is mostly protocol
364 agnostic, a fully IPv6 aware OS is expected to provide getaddrinfo(),
365 getnameinfo() and the macro AF_INET6. Matthias Andree.
366 * gettext (intl/) has been removed from the fetchmail package. Install GNU
367 gettext 0.14 separately for NLS (i18n). Matthias Andree
368 * Added Russian translation, courtesy of Pavel Maryanov of the
369 Russian translation team. (MA)
370 * Updated and re-enabled Czech translation, by Miloslav Trmac (MA).
371 * Dropped da=Danish, el=Greek and tr=Turkish translations which have more than
372 10% (61+) untranslated or fuzzy messages. Matthias Andree.
374 # OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
375 * Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR)
376 * PopDel.py removed from contrib at author's request. (ESR)
377 * Matthias Andree's fix for Sunil Shetye's fetch-split patch. (ESR)
378 * Include James Stone's moldremover.py script. (ESR)
379 * Enable .fetchmailrc permissions checking under Cygwin. (ESR)
380 * Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication. (ESR)
381 * Revised Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication (the
382 original version would go into an infinite loop when CAPA failed;
383 found by David Greaves.) (MA)
384 * HOME_ETC patch for PLD Linux. (ESR)
385 * Sunil Shetye's fix for SSL configuration. (ESR)
386 * Simon Josefsson's patch for GSS library support. (ESR)
387 * Added Andrey Lelikov's recipe for Hotmail and Lycos Webmail. (ESR)
388 * Remove blank between MAIL FROM: and <, which causes Cyrus to complain.
389 Patch by Phil Endecott. (RF)
390 * Build fixes for HESIOD and resolv.h trouble on FreeBSD. (MA)
391 * Fabrice Bellet's fix for Red Hat bug #113492, fetchmail hangs in IMAP
392 mode after EXPUNGE when the server (Dovecot 0.99.10) doesn't update
393 RECENT and EXISTS counts. (MA)
394 * Holger Mauermann's bounce patch, to use a NULL envelope from, not
395 write a Return-Path header (both to meet RFC-2821), changed From,
396 added Subject header, rewording the human readable part. Fixes Debian
398 * Merge Sunil Shetye's time.h handling fix. (MA)
399 * Merge Gerd von Egidy's patch to avoid a segfault in multidrop/received
400 mode when the Received: headers are malformatted. (MA)
401 * MIME-encode bodies and Subject headers of warning messages, limiting
402 the header to 7 bits. (MA)
403 * Normalize most locale codesets to IANA codesets, based on
404 norm_charmap.c by Markus Kuhn. (MA)
405 * Remove sleep(3) after POP3 login, patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
406 * Fix option parsing bug that trashes the showdots setting when more
407 than one server is configured. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
408 * Honor sslcertpath setting even if sslcertck is unset. Patch by Brian
410 * SSL certificate checking fixes, don't display same error message twice
411 in succession, make sure that Common Name and fingerprint checking are
412 only done once. Print all validation warnings/errors even if not in
413 verbose mode. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
414 * Import Bjorn Reese and Daniel Stenberg's MIT-licensed Trio 1.10 from
415 http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/ for systems that do not support
416 snprintf or vsnprintf. (MA)
417 * Clean up the horrible #ifdef HAVE_[V]SNPRINTF that made the code
418 unreadable. Use Trio where [v]snprintf is/are missing. (MA)
419 * Default to Linux 2.2 /proc/net/dev format, and use uname(2) to determine the
420 kernel version instead of calling uname(1). Thanks to Paul Slootman. (MA)
421 * Be more careful when swapping UID lists or writing the .fetchids file,
422 requested by Manfred Weihs. (MA)
423 * Print a warning if multidrop configuration is attempted without
424 envelope option. (MA)
425 * Split information on fetchmail versions before 6.0.0 to a separate
427 * Merge SuSE patches: (sent by Stanislav Brabec, merged by Matthias Andree)
428 - fetchmail-6.2.5-declaration.patch (double sigint_handler decl/getpass.c)
429 - fetchmail-6.2.5-implicit-declaration.patch (missing #include)
430 - fetchmail-6.2.5-random-result.patch (uninitialized variable/opie.c)
431 * Revised some bogus assertions about POP3 LAST and UIDL use in the
432 manual page. UIDL isn't flaky as the man page suggested, but a
433 reliability feature. In fact, IMAP4 code is flaky in that it relies on
434 the upstream seen flags. (MA)
435 * Miloslav Trmac's patch for fetchmailconf to support string-type values
436 of the "port" variable, avoiding "port None" corruption in .fetchmailrc.
437 To fix Redhat Bug #55623 (MA)
438 * de.po fixes from Nico Golde (MA)
439 * es.po fixes from Jesus Roncero, Debian bug #286044 (MA)
440 * sink.c fix from Cesar Eduardo Barros, to avoid double @ in address
441 when username contains an @ and the envelope sender is null, Debian
443 * configure.ac cleanups by Miloslav Trmac (MA)
444 * Miloslav Trmac's fix to reply_hack() type, for systems where
445 sizeof(int) != sizeof(size_t). (MA)
446 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for driver.c to not call the private Kerberos
447 krb5_init_ets() function. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
448 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for sink.c/transact.c to reserve sufficient
449 space for \r\n trailers in snprintf calls. Sent by Miloslav Trmac,
450 possibly fixing Red Hat bug #114470. (MA).
451 * Nalin Dahyabhai's patch to use the krb5-config script, if present.
452 Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
453 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix to make rpa.c compile. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
454 * Trivial fetchmailconf.man to redirect to fetchmail.1.
455 Reported by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
456 * Internationalization (i18n) updates by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
457 * Fix "couldn't find canonical DNS name of NN (MM)" for hosts that have
458 only IPv6 addresses. Matthias Andree.
459 * Revised INSTALL after question from Brian Candler, inet6-apps is no
460 longer available: remove inet6-apps hints for IPv6, and add some
461 apologetic message for IPsec. Note the code may be removed in a future
462 version. Matthias Andree.
463 * Brian Candler's FAQ update about SSL certificate verification. (MA)
464 * Nico Golde's patch to support "proto RPOP" in the configuration file,
465 reported by Dr. Andreas Krüger, Debian bug #242384 (MA)
466 * Skip sending POP3 PASS command when USER command failed. Matthias Andree.
467 * Run fetchmail.man through automatic spell checker. Matthias Andree.
468 * Major fetchmail(1) manual page overhaul by R. Hannes Beinert, to
469 clarify singledrop vs. multidrop operation. (MA)
470 * Make tracepolls a server option, as documented. Fixes Debian bug
471 #156094. Matthias Andree.
472 * Fix some minor inaccuracies (RFC-1893 related, grammar/spelling) in
474 * Rename ESR's design notes to esrs-design-notes.html and add a new
475 design-notes.html document. The NOTES file will contain both of them.
477 * Fix Debian bug #301964, fetchmail leaks sockets when SSL negotiation
478 fails. Fix suggested by Goswin Brederlow. (MA)
479 * Really fix Debian Bug#207919 (garbage in Received: lines when smtphost set),
480 patch by Tobias Diedrich. The 6.2.5 NEWS claimed Gregan's patch had fixed
481 #207919 but it had fixed #212484 instead and #207919 remained unfixed in
482 6.2.5. The entry below has been corrected to read #212484 now. (MA)
483 * When writing the PID file, write a FHS 2.3 compliant PID file.
484 Fixes Debian bug #230615. Matthias Andree.
485 * Make ODMR really silent, suppress "fetchmail: receiving message
486 data". Fixes Debian Bug#296163. Matthias Andree.
487 * Add From: header to warning emails. Debian Bug#244828. Matthias Andree.
488 * Fix IMAP code to use password of arbitrary length from configuration
489 file (although not when read interactively). Debian Bug#276424.
491 * Document that fetchmail may automatically enable UIDL option.
492 Debian Bug#304701. Matthias Andree.
493 * Put *BOLD* text into the manual page near --mda to state unmistakably that
494 the --mda %T and %F substitutions add single quotes, hoping to avoid bogus
495 bug reports such as Debian Bug #224564. Matthias Andree
496 * Rename lock_release to fm_lock_release, to avoid namespace collision on
497 Darwin. NetBSD PR#28543 (pkg/28543). Matthias Andree.
498 * The RFC-822 parser no longer strips the last character of bare addresses.
500 * The IP address matching code was broken and
501 1. didn't search exhaustively, but matched only the first IP address of the
502 server's queryname against the IP addresses of the server name to match.
503 2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts. Matthias Andree
504 * The "port" option, while still understood, is being replaced by the "service"
505 option, which is now supported even without --enable-inet6. Matthias Andree.
506 * The default distribution format is now bzip2. Matthias Andree.
507 * fetchmailconf redirects fetchmail's input from /dev/null so it doesn't
508 wait for the user to enter a password when the user doesn't even see
509 the prompt. Reported by Michal Marek. Matthias Andree.
510 * Write RFC-compliant BSMTP envelopes. Reported by Nico Golde. Matthias Andree.
511 * Fix --with-gssapi compilation problem. Simon Josefsson. (MA)
512 * Foster protocol-independence to support IPv6 better, for instance, providing
513 IPv6 addresses in Received: headers. Matthias Andree.
514 * Received: headers now enclose the for <...> destination address in angle
515 brackets for consistency with Postfix. Matthias Andree.
516 * Operating systems that do not support at least one of gethostbyname,
517 gethostbyname_r, getipnodebyname are no longer supported. Matthias Andree.
518 * Fixes to --with-hesiod option. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
519 * Delete oversized messages with the new --limitflush option. Debian
520 Bug#212240. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
521 * Fix MacOS X compilation failures in sink.c (ru_*time has incomplete type).
522 Berlios Bug #4725. Matthias Andree.
523 * Fix "auth ntlm" to send AUTH NTLM (rather than AUTH MSN). Add "auth msn"
524 officially. Reported by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
525 * Expunge between IMAP folders when polling multiple folders.
527 * Fix IMAP expunged message counting. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
528 * Add full support for --service option. Matthias Andree
529 * When getaddrinfo() fails resolving a service, log getaddrinfo() error. (MA)
530 * Fix bogus "cannot resolve service * to port number" error. Simon Barner. (MA)
531 * Failure to set up SSL connections now results in PS_SOCKET. Suggested by
532 Thomas Wolff. Matthias Andree.
533 * Kerberos IV detection fix for FreeBSD 4. Simon Barner. (MA)
534 * Fix display and documentation of --envelope option. Matthias Andree
535 * Make "envelope 'Delivered-To'" work with dropdelivered. Timothy Lee. (MA)
536 * Add -DBIND_8_COMPAT to Darwin (MacOS X) compiles, to fix build problems on
537 newer Darwin versions. Matthias Andree.
538 * fetchmail should now automatically detect if OpenSSL requires -ldl.
540 * Fix Solaris build with --disable-nls (blastwave.org). Matthias Andree.
541 * Missed --port/--service/--ssl cleanups in the manual. Reminder from Thomas
543 * Complain in POP3 if NTLM/MSN auth is requested but had not been enabled at
544 compile time. This configuration mismatch now causes an error message and
545 authentication failure. Found by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
546 * fetchmailconf now allows expert users to choose the authorization type and
547 also offers MSN and NTLM, suggested by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
548 * fetchmailconf now (as of 1.49) writes its version to the comment of the
549 saved run control file. Matthias Andree
550 * Properly shut down SSL connections. Berlios Patch #647 by Arkadiusz
552 * Global variable cleanup, to fix daemon mode reinitialization problems. Patch
553 by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
554 * fetchmailconf -h documents the fetchmailconf -h option. Matthias Andree
555 * fetchmailconf -V now prints the fetchmailconf version. Matthias Andree
556 * Add support for SubjectAltName (RFC-2595 or 2818), to avoid bogus certificate
557 mismatch errors. Patch by Roland Stigge, Debian Bug#201113. (MA)
558 * make fetchmail --silent --quit really silent, Debian Bug #229014 by Dr.
559 Andreas Krüger. Matthias Andree
560 * cleanup --quit handling again (so that --silent --quit just kills the
561 existing daemon, rather than continue running), and document it more clearly.
563 * Print an error message if multiple "defaults" records are found in the
564 configuration file. Matthias Andree
565 * Bury on_exit officially - the necessary code had been missing from 6.0.0,
566 6.2.0, 6.2.5. Matthias Andree
567 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be read. Matthias Andree
568 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be created exclusively, this got
569 broken in a 6.2.6-pre, 6.2.5.2 and older were fine. Matthias Andree
570 * Do not break some other process's lockfile in "-q" mode, but wait for the
571 other process's exit. Matthias Andree
572 * Man page: --sslfingerprint points user to x509(1ssl) and gives an example
573 how to use it. Debian Bug#213484, Eduard Bloch. (MA)
574 * fetchmailconf now sets the service properly after autoprobe. Fixes Debian
575 Bug#320645. Matthias Andree
576 * Man page: Fix Debian Bug#241883, making global options more clear. Matt
577 Swift, Matthias Andree.
578 * When eating IMAP message trailer, don't see any line containing "OK" as the
579 end of the trailer, but wait for the proper tagged OK line. To work around
580 the qmail + Courier-IMAP problem in Debian Bug#338007. Matthias Andree
581 * Fix Debian Bug#317761: when trying to send a bounce message, don't bail out
582 if we cannot qualify our own hostname, so we aren't losing the bounce.
583 Instead, pass the buck on to the SMTP server and use our own unqualified
584 hostname. Matthias Andree
585 * Revise some error messages so they are less confusing. Sunil Shetye.
586 * Man page: update --smtphost documentation. Sunil Shetye, Matthias Andree.
587 * Man page: clarify --loghost works only while detached. Matthias Andree
588 * Man page: update --smtpaddress documentation. Sunil Shetye.
589 * Fix several memory leaks and bugs in the SMTP/LMTP retry logic where
590 fetchmail confused UNIX and Internet domain sockets. Sunil Shetye.
591 * Man page (BUGS): document that passwords are length limited. Matthias Andree
592 * Man page: Document that quoted strings that run across line boundaries
593 contain the control characters (CR or LF). Document explicitly the backslash
594 escape sequences and their differences from the escape sequences used in the
595 C programming language. Matthias Andree
596 * Fix segfault when run control file ends with a backslash inside an
597 unterminated quoted string. Matthias Andree.
598 * In quoted strings, support backslash as last character on a line to join the
599 following line to the current. Matthias Andree.
600 * Parsing untagged IMAP responses is more robust now. Matthias Andree.
601 * Man page: Remove some procmail praises in --mda documentation, suggest
602 maildrop instead, warn of procmail fallthrough behavior. Matthias Andree.
603 * Man page: Revise AUTHORS and SEE ALSO sections. Matthias Andree.
604 * Updated translations: Albanian [sq] (Besnik Bleta), Catalan [ca] (Ernest
605 Adrogué Calveras), Czech [cs] (Miloslav Trmac), German [de] (MA),
606 Spanish (Castilian) [es] (Javier Kohen), French [fr] (MA),
607 Polish [pl] (Jakub Bogusz), Russian [ru] (Pavel Maryanov).
608 * In oversized warning messages, print the account name, too. Fixes Debian
609 Bug#213299. Sunil Shetye (MA).
610 * Fix installation without Python. Sunil Shetye, reported by Peter Church. (MA)
611 * Update Japanese translation. Fixes Debian Bug#329342, Takeshi Hamasaki. (MA)
612 * Fix imap.c size safeguard that broke on x86_64 architecture. Matthias Andree
613 * The FAQ is now available for duplex DIN A4 printing in PDF format.
614 Don't bother to ask for a Letter version, I don't care. Matthias Andree
615 * Man page: Use \- in the manual page where appropriate so that copy & paste
616 works. I hope we got them all. Héctor García, Matthias Andree.
619 * Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
620 * Got rid of alloca() in fetchmail proper. Matthias Andree
621 * Got rid of ipv6-connect, inner_connect and thereabouts. Matthias Andree
623 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
625 fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:
627 * Updated Spanish, Turkish, and German translation files.
628 * Matthew Gregan's patch to handle garbage lengths from dbmail;
629 closes Debian bug #212484.
630 * Fix IMAP query so new-message count doesn't include deleted messages.
631 * Man page typo fix, closes Debian bug #205892.
632 * OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl@acm.org.
633 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
634 flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
635 * Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of
637 * Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
638 * Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
639 * Sunil Shetye's patches to break up fetching of sizes and UIDLs.
641 There are 599 people on fetchmail-friends and 748 on fetchmail-announce.
643 fetchmail-6.2.4 (Wed Aug 13 04:27:35 EDT 2003), 22625 lines:
645 * Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
646 * IDLE is now supported using NOOP commands even if the server doesn't support
647 the IMAP IDLE extension. Patch by Chris Boyle.
648 * Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
649 * Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
650 * Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
651 * Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
652 * Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.
654 There are 585 people on fetchmail-friends and 745 on fetchmail-announce.
656 fetchmail-6.2.3 (Thu Jul 17 14:53:00 EDT 2003), 22490 lines:
658 * French, German, Danish, Spanish, and Turkish translations updated.
659 * Brian Sammon's patch to deal with malformed message lines containing NULs.
660 * Fai's patch to ignore all but the first Return-Path (some spams have
661 more than one of these).
662 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to properly byte-stuff when talking to BSMTP.
663 Fixes Debian bug #184469.
664 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to enable auth=cram-md5.
665 Fixes Debian bug #185232.
666 * Sunil Shetye's configure.in patch to avoid spurious search order messages
668 * Header-reading code now copes better with lines ending in \n only.
669 * Elias Israel's patches for POP3 NTLM support and dealing with byte-
670 stuffing failures at socket level.
672 There are 580 people on fetchmail-friends and 750 on fetchmail-announce.
674 fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:
676 * Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior on empty messages.
677 * Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful
678 STARTTLS negotiation.
679 * Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
680 * Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security.
681 * Christophe GIAUME <christophe@giaume.com> finished the implementation
683 * Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
684 * Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
685 * Fix for Debian bug #108977, clean up config file evaluation,
688 There are 554 people on fetchmail-friends and 727 on fetchmail-announce.
690 fetchmail-6.2.1 (Tue Jan 14 08:17:19 EST 2003), 22219 lines:
692 * Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
693 * Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
694 * Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check,
695 we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
696 * Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.
698 There are 536 people on fetchmail-friends and 716 on fetchmail-announce.
700 fetchmail-6.2.0 (Fri Dec 13 00:10:07 EST 2002), 22235 lines:
702 * Applied Steffen Esser's fix for a buffer-overflow bug in rfc822.c
703 * Updated Danish, German, and Turkish translation files.
704 * Sunil Shetye's SMTP timeout patch.
706 There are 538 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
708 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
710 fetchmail-6.1.3 (Thu Nov 28 05:35:15 EST 2002), 22203 lines:
712 * Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
713 * Added Slovak support.
714 * Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas).
715 * Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
716 * Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
717 * Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
718 * Sunil's fix for the STARTTLS problem -- repoll if TLS nabdshake
719 fails. The attempt to set up STARTTLS can be suppressed with 'sslproto ""'.
721 There are 540 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
723 fetchmail-6.1.2 (Thu Oct 31 11:41:02 EST 2002), 22135 lines:
725 * Jan Klaverstijn's verbosity-lowering patch.
726 * Updated Turkish, German, Catalan, and Danish translation files.
727 * Fix processing of POP3 messages with missing bodies.
728 * Minor fixes by Sunil Shetye: fix generation of auth fail note, handle
729 unexpected SIGALRM, plug memory leak, handle lines beginning with '\0',
730 try to bulletproof error handling against read failures.
732 There are 535 people on fetchmail-friends and 696 on fetchmail-announce.
734 fetchmail-6.1.1 (Fri Oct 18 14:53:51 EDT 2002), 22087 lines:
736 * OTP fix patches from Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
737 * fix patch for writing antispam capability correctly in conf.c.
738 * Fix patches for Debian bugs #162571, #156592.
739 * Correction to manpage re -b and qmail.
740 * Patch to disable use of STLS if auth passwd is specified.
741 * Fix specfile generation to handle SSL correctly.
742 * New Danish, Turkish, and Catalan translation files.
743 * Improved ODMR debug messages.
744 * IMAP efficiency hack; don't fetch sizes unless needed.
745 * Detect and rewrite invalid return paths beginning with @.
746 * Fix for subtle freeing bug that suppressed information in some bounce msgs.
747 * Newline fix patches for internationalization files.
748 * Fix reversed test guarding authentication-failure warnings.
749 * Fix POP3 breakage starting at 5.9.14.
751 There are 529 people on fetchmail-friends and 693 on fetchmail-announce.
753 fetchmail-6.1.0 (Sun Sep 22 18:31:23 EDT 2002), 21999 lines:
755 * Updated French translation.
756 * Stefan Esser's fix for potential remote vulnerability in multidrop mode.
757 This is an important security fix!
759 There are 519 people on fetchmail-friends and 680 on fetchmail-announce.
761 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
763 fetchmail-6.0.0 (Tue Sep 17 19:48:25 EDT 2002), 21972 lines:
765 * Applied Matt Kraai's fix for minor Debian bug #144539.
766 * Nerijus Baliunas's patch to support STARTTLS over IMAP.
767 * More cleanups and minor bugfixes from Sunil Shetye.
768 * Default antispam-response list is now empty.
769 * Updated de and po translations.
771 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
773 There are 520 people on fetchmail-friends and 683 on fetchmail-announce.
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