1 Fetchmail Release Notes
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4 This file is in Unicode charset with UTF-8 encoding.
6 (The `lines' figures total .c, .h, .l, and .y files under version control.
7 Abbreviations in parentheses are the maintainers who committed the respective
8 change. MA = Matthias Andree, ESR = Eric S. Raymond, RF = Rob Funk.)
10 # DEPRECATED FEATURES AND MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE ADVANCE WARNINGS
11 * The MX and host alias DNS lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode
12 are obsolete, deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version.
13 They have never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4) anyhow.
14 * The monitor and interface options may be removed from a future fetchmail
15 version as they are not sufficiently portable.
17 Support for POP2 may be removed from a future fetchmail version.
18 * RPOP is obsolete, support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
19 * --sslcertck may become a default setting in a future fetchmail version.
20 * The multidrop To/Cc guessing code along with the fragile duplicate suppressor
21 is deprecated and may be removed from a future release.
22 * The --enable-fallback (fall back to MDA if MTA unavailable) may be removed
23 from a future fetchmail release.
24 * The "protocol auto" default inside fetchmail may be removed from a future
25 fetchmail release. Explicit configuration of the protocol is recommended.
27 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
29 fetchmail 6.3.3 (not yet released):
32 * SEGFAULT: Do not attempt to overwrite the netrc password if none has been
33 specified. This fixes a segmentation fault bug introduced into 6.3.2.
34 Fixes BerliOS bug #6234. BerliOS patch #804 by Craig Leres.
35 The patch, as accepted into fetchmail, was available separately from
36 <http://download.berlios.de/fetchmail/patch-6.3.2.1-fix-netrc-SIGSEGV.diff>
37 * SEGFAULT: Work around C libraries that return a NULL in getaddrinfo()'s
38 ai_canonname record, to avoid a segfault. Affects, for instance, FreeBSD 4.11.
39 Reported and patched by "Voldemar".
40 * IMAP: fix hangs in NOOP-based IDLE emulation. Reported by Casper Gripenberg
41 and Brendan Lynch, fix by Sunil Shetye (his patch was merged) and Brendan
43 * IMAP: Handle other clients concurrently accessing IMAP mailboxes better.
44 Fetchmail quits the poll if the EXPUNGE count does not match expectations, and
45 servers not updating RECENT counts after EXPUNGE are handled in a better way.
46 (Patch by Sunil Shetye.)
47 * IMAP: Stop sending EXPUNGE after NOOP-idling (patch by Sunil Shetye).
48 * POP3: fetchmail can now use UIDL in fetchall keep mode, to avoid re-fetching
49 the same messages again when the fetchall keyword is removed. Patch by
50 Sunil Shetye. For details, please see
51 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2006-March/000308.html>
52 * LMTP: fix bug in LMTP port validation (patch by Miloslav Trmac).
53 * SDPS: fetchmail no longer replaces the local user ID for an empty envelope
54 sender when using the proprietary SDPS extension for POP3.
55 Fixes Debian Bug#353575, reported by Roger Lynn.
56 * SDPS: Warn and disable SDPS if POP3 is disabled to avoid compilation errors.
57 * fetchmail no longer prints empty lines in verbose mode when using syslog.
58 * fetchmail no longer prints UID lists in verbose mode when using syslog.
59 * ./configure --quiet is now quieter (no SSL and fallback-related output).
60 * Miloslav Trmac's patch (with minor changes) to fix char * sign consistency,
61 unused arguments and variables.
62 * More signedness, unused argument/variable and other warning fixes.
65 * --idle can now be specified on the command line, too.
66 * --fetchall is now supported on the command-line.
67 * POP3: Lower default fastuidl span to 4 (i. e. every 4th run fetches the
68 whole UIDL list), patch by Sunil Shetye.
71 * "ssl" is a user option rather than a server option. Patch by Nico Golde.
72 Fixes Debian Bug#354661, reported by Keith Hellman.
73 * The manual page now suggests "--" before the addresses in the sendmail MDA
75 * The FAQ item X9, Domino IMAP omits Content-Transfer-Encoding header, was
76 added. Information provided by Anthony Kim on the fetchmail-friends list
78 * Credit Chris Boyle with the NOOP emulation code for IDLE in fetchmail 6.2.4.
79 Eric forgot to credit Chris, thanks to Sunil Shetye for providing these links:
80 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007705.html
81 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007713.html
82 * Added a section about RETR vs. TOP to the manual page.
83 * Changed section/subsection levels in some areas.
85 fetchmail 6.3.2 (released 2006-01-22):
87 Unless otherwise noted, changes to this release were made by Matthias Andree.
89 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
90 * CVE-2006-0321: Fix segfault or bus error after bouncing a message. This bug
91 was introduced into 6.3.0 when removing alloca(); it caused fetchmail to free
92 random memory. Reported by Nathaniel W. Turner, Debian Bug#348747.
93 See fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt
95 # INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE:
96 * Automatically disable the POP3 TOP command if the greeting string contains
97 "Maillennium POP3/PROXY server", which is used by comcast and known to
98 truncate messages after 80 kByte. Fall back to RETR, and complain if we had
99 used TOP otherwise (the warning is printed only once per server in daemon
100 mode). Suggested by Ed Wilts.
101 *Note* that this means messages are marked read on these servers, which is a
102 deviation from how 6.3.1 behaved, but we have no alternative, comcast haven't
103 fixed this bug in years. Preventing the loss of the remainder of the message
104 justifies this incompatible fix.
105 * fetchmail, since 6.3.0, requires write permission to the directory holding the
106 idfile. See the amendment in the 6.3.0 MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES section
107 below for details. The manual page was updated.
109 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS:
110 * The outdated BUGS document was removed from the distribution.
111 * Added fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt to the distribution.
114 * SMTP/LMTP cleanup to fix these two bugs:
115 - switch back to SMTP after having tried LMTP hosts (multiple smtphost hosts)
116 - switch back to LMTP after sending a bounce.
117 The patch removes the global state variable that was the root of this problem.
118 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
119 * Don't complain about fetchall keep in --configdump mode. Bug introduced in
121 * fetchmailconf.py: Fix novice help for Poll interval and fetchall.
122 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #344978.
123 * Some verbose output disappeared in debug mode. Adding further -v options would
124 alternate between verbose and debug mode. debug mode now comprises all verbose
125 output, and adding more -v options does not switch back from debug to verbose
127 * fetchmail.man: Fix accented characters in Héctor García's name. Merged from
128 downstream debian/patches/01_man_page.dpatch.
129 * Add missing --help text for "--sslcertck" option.
130 * fetchmailconf.py: Accept --help and --version.
131 * fetchmail --version now prints the copyright notice.
132 * don't complain about READ-ONLY IMAP folders in --fetchall --keep mode.
133 Reported Alexander Zangerl, Debian Bug#348964.
134 * the RPM .spec file now generates a -debuginfo package on newer RPM versions.
136 fetchmail 6.3.1 (released 2005-12-19):
138 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
139 * CVE-2005-4348 Fix segmentation fault (null pointer dereference) in
140 multidrop mode with headerless email. See fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt.
141 Reported by Daniel Drake, patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
143 # OTHER BUG FIXES, DOCUMENTATION AND TRANSLATION UPDATES
144 * Fix broken default port in POP2. Patch by Stanislav Brabec, SUSE [CZ]. (MA)
145 * Fix manual page, some lines starting with ' were escaped by \&.
146 Reported by Simon Barner. (MA)
147 * Ship with gettext-0.14.3 again, as 6.2.9-rc10 did. Found by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
148 * Actually set default SSL certificate path if --sslcertpath is unset.
149 Reported by Heino Tiedemann and Rob MacGregor. (MA)
150 * Remove bogus Netscape IMAP4rev1 Service >= 3.6 warning about BODY[TEXT]
151 that we are not using. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
152 * Plug potential memory and socket leak when polling multiple folders or when
153 the upstream sends bogus message sizes. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
154 * Update Catalan translation, by Ernest Adrogué Calveras. (MA)
155 * Fix segfault (null pointer dereference) on some operating systems with
156 fetchmail's obsolete DNS MX/host alias lookups in multidrop mode.
157 Patch by Dr.-Ing. Andreas Haakh. (MA)
158 * Close SMTP sockets early, to reduce resource usage, trigger earlier delivery
159 with some MTAs and avoid SIGPIPE (SIG 13) when the SMTP listener gets bored
160 and drops the connection after timeout. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
161 * Don't treat hitting a fetch limit as error. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
162 * Fix negative "messages left on server" on idle/repoll with fetchlimit.
163 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
164 * Properly track logout stage. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
165 * Preserve error conditions across postconnect script. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
166 * Do not trash destination domain if multiple messages are forwarded into the
167 same SMTP/LMTP connection. Reported by Joachim Feise, Berlios Bug #5849. (MA)
168 * Manual page: Add "-md5" to "openssl x509" example in --sslfingerprint
169 documentation, since OpenSSL 0.9.8 changed the default to SHA1.
170 Suggested by Jason White. (MA)
171 * Cope with servers that return UID information in response to non-UID
172 RFC822.{SIZE|HEADER} requests. Reported by Jason White.
173 Patch suggestion by by Sunil Shetye, simplified by MA.
175 fetchmail 6.3.0 (released 2005-11-30):
177 # SECURITY FIXES IN THIS RELEASE
178 * CVE-2005-2335: The POP3 UIDL code doesn't sufficiently validate/truncate the
179 input length, so a (malicious or compromised) server that sends UIDs longer
180 than 128 bytes can corrupt fetchmail's stack and crash fetchmail.
181 This vulnerability is remotely exploitable to inject code run in a
182 root shell. Edward J. Shornock, Ludwig Nussel. fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
183 * CVE-2005-3088: fetchmailconf now changes the output file to mode 0600 BEFORE
184 writing to it, so there is no window where passwords could be read by the
185 world. Matthias Andree. fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt
187 # MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
188 * Remove support for --netsec/-T options, the required inet6_apps library is no
190 http://www.inner.net/pub/ipv6/ states, as of 2005-07-03: "/pub/ipv6
191 Our IPv6 software is now long defunct. Please find a more modern source."
192 I haven't been able to find a more modern source. Matthias Andree
193 * Operating systems that do not conform to the Single Unix Specification v2
194 (1997) or v3 (2001, aka IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) are no longer supported. They
195 may continue to work and non-intrusive patches to support them may be
196 accepted. Matthias Andree
197 * The default for --smtphost is now always "localhost" regardless of
198 authentication types and protocols, so as to simplify configurations for
199 workstations where the SMTP daemon only listens on the loopback interface.
200 Sunil Shetye & Matthias Andree
201 Amendment, 2006-01-04:
202 * fetchmail's idfile (.fetchids) is no longer written directly, but the ids are
203 written to a temporary file which is renamed into place after being written
204 completely. This is to avoid writing incomplete idfiles when running out of
205 space, which would cause excessive duplicate refetches of messages, this might
206 make matters even worse. This means that fetchmail requires write permission
207 on the directory holding the idfile. This will usually affect system-global
208 daemons only, for instance, Debian. Found by Dan Jacobson. Matthias Andree.
209 Escalated to "incompatible", 2006-01-13:
210 * Try to obtain FQDN as our own host by default, rather than using "localhost".
211 If hostname cannot be qualified, complain noisily and continue, unless
212 Kerberos, ODMR or ETRN are used (these have always required an FQDN).
213 Partial fix of Debian Bug#150137. Fixes Debian Bug#316454. Matthias Andree
215 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS AND USERS
216 * fetchmailconf is now a shell wrapper that calls the byte-compiled
217 fetchmailconf.py script, which is now installed in the regular python
218 directory. Matthias Andree.
219 * The --enable-inet6 configure option was removed. The code is mostly protocol
220 agnostic, a fully IPv6 aware OS is expected to provide getaddrinfo(),
221 getnameinfo() and the macro AF_INET6. Matthias Andree.
222 * gettext (intl/) has been removed from the fetchmail package. Install GNU
223 gettext 0.14 separately for NLS (i18n). Matthias Andree
224 * Added Russian translation, courtesy of Pavel Maryanov of the
225 Russian translation team. (MA)
226 * Updated and re-enabled Czech translation, by Miloslav Trmac (MA).
227 * Dropped da=Danish, el=Greek and tr=Turkish translations which have more than
228 10% (61+) untranslated or fuzzy messages. Matthias Andree.
230 # OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
231 * Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR)
232 * PopDel.py removed from contrib at author's request. (ESR)
233 * Matthias Andree's fix for Sunil Shetye's fetch-split patch. (ESR)
234 * Include James Stone's moldremover.py script. (ESR)
235 * Enable .fetchmailrc permissions checking under Cygwin. (ESR)
236 * Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication. (ESR)
237 * Revised Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication (the
238 original version would go into an infinite loop when CAPA failed;
239 found by David Greaves.) (MA)
240 * HOME_ETC patch for PLD Linux. (ESR)
241 * Sunil Shetye's fix for SSL configuration. (ESR)
242 * Simon Josefsson's patch for GSS library support. (ESR)
243 * Added Andrey Lelikov's recipe for Hotmail and Lycos Webmail. (ESR)
244 * Remove blank between MAIL FROM: and <, which causes Cyrus to complain.
245 Patch by Phil Endecott. (RF)
246 * Build fixes for HESIOD and resolv.h trouble on FreeBSD. (MA)
247 * Fabrice Bellet's fix for Red Hat bug #113492, fetchmail hangs in IMAP
248 mode after EXPUNGE when the server (Dovecot 0.99.10) doesn't update
249 RECENT and EXISTS counts. (MA)
250 * Holger Mauermann's bounce patch, to use a NULL envelope from, not
251 write a Return-Path header (both to meet RFC-2821), changed From,
252 added Subject header, rewording the human readable part. Fixes Debian
254 * Merge Sunil Shetye's time.h handling fix. (MA)
255 * Merge Gerd von Egidy's patch to avoid a segfault in multidrop/received
256 mode when the Received: headers are malformatted. (MA)
257 * MIME-encode bodies and Subject headers of warning messages, limiting
258 the header to 7 bits. (MA)
259 * Normalize most locale codesets to IANA codesets, based on
260 norm_charmap.c by Markus Kuhn. (MA)
261 * Remove sleep(3) after POP3 login, patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
262 * Fix option parsing bug that trashes the showdots setting when more
263 than one server is configured. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
264 * Honor sslcertpath setting even if sslcertck is unset. Patch by Brian
266 * SSL certificate checking fixes, don't display same error message twice
267 in succession, make sure that Common Name and fingerprint checking are
268 only done once. Print all validation warnings/errors even if not in
269 verbose mode. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
270 * Import Bjorn Reese and Daniel Stenberg's MIT-licensed Trio 1.10 from
271 http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/ for systems that do not support
272 snprintf or vsnprintf. (MA)
273 * Clean up the horrible #ifdef HAVE_[V]SNPRINTF that made the code
274 unreadable. Use Trio where [v]snprintf is/are missing. (MA)
275 * Default to Linux 2.2 /proc/net/dev format, and use uname(2) to determine the
276 kernel version instead of calling uname(1). Thanks to Paul Slootman. (MA)
277 * Be more careful when swapping UID lists or writing the .fetchids file,
278 requested by Manfred Weihs. (MA)
279 * Print a warning if multidrop configuration is attempted without
280 envelope option. (MA)
281 * Split information on fetchmail versions before 6.0.0 to a separate
283 * Merge SuSE patches: (sent by Stanislav Brabec, merged by Matthias Andree)
284 - fetchmail-6.2.5-declaration.patch (double sigint_handler decl/getpass.c)
285 - fetchmail-6.2.5-implicit-declaration.patch (missing #include)
286 - fetchmail-6.2.5-random-result.patch (uninitialized variable/opie.c)
287 * Revised some bogus assertions about POP3 LAST and UIDL use in the
288 manual page. UIDL isn't flaky as the man page suggested, but a
289 reliability feature. In fact, IMAP4 code is flaky in that it relies on
290 the upstream seen flags. (MA)
291 * Miloslav Trmac's patch for fetchmailconf to support string-type values
292 of the "port" variable, avoiding "port None" corruption in .fetchmailrc.
293 To fix Redhat Bug #55623 (MA)
294 * de.po fixes from Nico Golde (MA)
295 * es.po fixes from Jesus Roncero, Debian bug #286044 (MA)
296 * sink.c fix from Cesar Eduardo Barros, to avoid double @ in address
297 when username contains an @ and the envelope sender is null, Debian
299 * configure.ac cleanups by Miloslav Trmac (MA)
300 * Miloslav Trmac's fix to reply_hack() type, for systems where
301 sizeof(int) != sizeof(size_t). (MA)
302 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for driver.c to not call the private Kerberos
303 krb5_init_ets() function. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
304 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for sink.c/transact.c to reserve sufficient
305 space for \r\n trailers in snprintf calls. Sent by Miloslav Trmac,
306 possibly fixing Red Hat bug #114470. (MA).
307 * Nalin Dahyabhai's patch to use the krb5-config script, if present.
308 Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
309 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix to make rpa.c compile. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
310 * Trivial fetchmailconf.man to redirect to fetchmail.1.
311 Reported by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
312 * Internationalization (i18n) updates by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
313 * Fix "couldn't find canonical DNS name of NN (MM)" for hosts that have
314 only IPv6 addresses. Matthias Andree.
315 * Revised INSTALL after question from Brian Candler, inet6-apps is no
316 longer available: remove inet6-apps hints for IPv6, and add some
317 apologetic message for IPsec. Note the code may be removed in a future
318 version. Matthias Andree.
319 * Brian Candler's FAQ update about SSL certificate verification. (MA)
320 * Nico Golde's patch to support "proto RPOP" in the configuration file,
321 reported by Dr. Andreas Krüger, Debian bug #242384 (MA)
322 * Skip sending POP3 PASS command when USER command failed. Matthias Andree.
323 * Run fetchmail.man through automatic spell checker. Matthias Andree.
324 * Major fetchmail(1) manual page overhaul by R. Hannes Beinert, to
325 clarify singledrop vs. multidrop operation. (MA)
326 * Make tracepolls a server option, as documented. Fixes Debian bug
327 #156094. Matthias Andree.
328 * Fix some minor inaccuracies (RFC-1893 related, grammar/spelling) in
330 * Rename ESR's design notes to esrs-design-notes.html and add a new
331 design-notes.html document. The NOTES file will contain both of them.
333 * Fix Debian bug #301964, fetchmail leaks sockets when SSL negotiation
334 fails. Fix suggested by Goswin Brederlow. (MA)
335 * Really fix Debian Bug#207919 (garbage in Received: lines when smtphost set),
336 patch by Tobias Diedrich. The 6.2.5 NEWS claimed Gregan's patch had fixed
337 #207919 but it had fixed #212484 instead and #207919 remained unfixed in
338 6.2.5. The entry below has been corrected to read #212484 now. (MA)
339 * When writing the PID file, write a FHS 2.3 compliant PID file.
340 Fixes Debian bug #230615. Matthias Andree.
341 * Make ODMR really silent, suppress "fetchmail: receiving message
342 data". Fixes Debian Bug#296163. Matthias Andree.
343 * Add From: header to warning emails. Debian Bug#244828. Matthias Andree.
344 * Fix IMAP code to use password of arbitrary length from configuration
345 file (although not when read interactively). Debian Bug#276424.
347 * Document that fetchmail may automatically enable UIDL option.
348 Debian Bug#304701. Matthias Andree.
349 * Put *BOLD* text into the manual page near --mda to state unmistakably that
350 the --mda %T and %F substitutions add single quotes, hoping to avoid bogus
351 bug reports such as Debian Bug #224564. Matthias Andree
352 * Rename lock_release to fm_lock_release, to avoid namespace collision on
353 Darwin. NetBSD PR#28543 (pkg/28543). Matthias Andree.
354 * The RFC-822 parser no longer strips the last character of bare addresses.
356 * The IP address matching code was broken and
357 1. didn't search exhaustively, but matched only the first IP address of the
358 server's queryname against the IP addresses of the server name to match.
359 2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts. Matthias Andree
360 * The "port" option, while still understood, is being replaced by the "service"
361 option, which is now supported even without --enable-inet6. Matthias Andree.
362 * The default distribution format is now bzip2. Matthias Andree.
363 * fetchmailconf redirects fetchmail's input from /dev/null so it doesn't
364 wait for the user to enter a password when the user doesn't even see
365 the prompt. Reported by Michal Marek. Matthias Andree.
366 * Write RFC-compliant BSMTP envelopes. Reported by Nico Golde. Matthias Andree.
367 * Fix --with-gssapi compilation problem. Simon Josefsson. (MA)
368 * Foster protocol-independence to support IPv6 better, for instance, providing
369 IPv6 addresses in Received: headers. Matthias Andree.
370 * Received: headers now enclose the for <...> destination address in angle
371 brackets for consistency with Postfix. Matthias Andree.
372 * Operating systems that do not support at least one of gethostbyname,
373 gethostbyname_r, getipnodebyname are no longer supported. Matthias Andree.
374 * Fixes to --with-hesiod option. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
375 * Delete oversized messages with the new --limitflush option. Debian
376 Bug#212240. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
377 * Fix MacOS X compilation failures in sink.c (ru_*time has incomplete type).
378 Berlios Bug #4725. Matthias Andree.
379 * Fix "auth ntlm" to send AUTH NTLM (rather than AUTH MSN). Add "auth msn"
380 officially. Reported by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
381 * Expunge between IMAP folders when polling multiple folders.
383 * Fix IMAP expunged message counting. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
384 * Add full support for --service option. Matthias Andree
385 * When getaddrinfo() fails resolving a service, log getaddrinfo() error. (MA)
386 * Fix bogus "cannot resolve service * to port number" error. Simon Barner. (MA)
387 * Failure to set up SSL connections now results in PS_SOCKET. Suggested by
388 Thomas Wolff. Matthias Andree.
389 * Kerberos IV detection fix for FreeBSD 4. Simon Barner. (MA)
390 * Fix display and documentation of --envelope option. Matthias Andree
391 * Make "envelope 'Delivered-To'" work with dropdelivered. Timothy Lee. (MA)
392 * Add -DBIND_8_COMPAT to Darwin (MacOS X) compiles, to fix build problems on
393 newer Darwin versions. Matthias Andree.
394 * fetchmail should now automatically detect if OpenSSL requires -ldl.
396 * Fix Solaris build with --disable-nls (blastwave.org). Matthias Andree.
397 * Missed --port/--service/--ssl cleanups in the manual. Reminder from Thomas
399 * Complain in POP3 if NTLM/MSN auth is requested but had not been enabled at
400 compile time. This configuration mismatch now causes an error message and
401 authentication failure. Found by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
402 * fetchmailconf now allows expert users to choose the authorization type and
403 also offers MSN and NTLM, suggested by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
404 * fetchmailconf now (as of 1.49) writes its version to the comment of the
405 saved run control file. Matthias Andree
406 * Properly shut down SSL connections. Berlios Patch #647 by Arkadiusz
408 * Global variable cleanup, to fix daemon mode reinitialization problems. Patch
409 by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
410 * fetchmailconf -h documents the fetchmailconf -h option. Matthias Andree
411 * fetchmailconf -V now prints the fetchmailconf version. Matthias Andree
412 * Add support for SubjectAltName (RFC-2595 or 2818), to avoid bogus certificate
413 mismatch errors. Patch by Roland Stigge, Debian Bug#201113. (MA)
414 * make fetchmail --silent --quit really silent, Debian Bug #229014 by Dr.
415 Andreas Krüger. Matthias Andree
416 * cleanup --quit handling again (so that --silent --quit just kills the
417 existing daemon, rather than continue running), and document it more clearly.
419 * Print an error message if multiple "defaults" records are found in the
420 configuration file. Matthias Andree
421 * Bury on_exit officially - the necessary code had been missing from 6.0.0,
422 6.2.0, 6.2.5. Matthias Andree
423 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be read. Matthias Andree
424 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be created exclusively, this got
425 broken in a 6.2.6-pre, 6.2.5.2 and older were fine. Matthias Andree
426 * Do not break some other process's lockfile in "-q" mode, but wait for the
427 other process's exit. Matthias Andree
428 * Man page: --sslfingerprint points user to x509(1ssl) and gives an example
429 how to use it. Debian Bug#213484, Eduard Bloch. (MA)
430 * fetchmailconf now sets the service properly after autoprobe. Fixes Debian
431 Bug#320645. Matthias Andree
432 * Man page: Fix Debian Bug#241883, making global options more clear. Matt
433 Swift, Matthias Andree.
434 * When eating IMAP message trailer, don't see any line containing "OK" as the
435 end of the trailer, but wait for the proper tagged OK line. To work around
436 the qmail + Courier-IMAP problem in Debian Bug#338007. Matthias Andree
437 * Fix Debian Bug#317761: when trying to send a bounce message, don't bail out
438 if we cannot qualify our own hostname, so we aren't losing the bounce.
439 Instead, pass the buck on to the SMTP server and use our own unqualified
440 hostname. Matthias Andree
441 * Revise some error messages so they are less confusing. Sunil Shetye.
442 * Man page: update --smtphost documentation. Sunil Shetye, Matthias Andree.
443 * Man page: clarify --loghost works only while detached. Matthias Andree
444 * Man page: update --smtpaddress documentation. Sunil Shetye.
445 * Fix several memory leaks and bugs in the SMTP/LMTP retry logic where
446 fetchmail confused UNIX and Internet domain sockets. Sunil Shetye.
447 * Man page (BUGS): document that passwords are length limited. Matthias Andree
448 * Man page: Document that quoted strings that run across line boundaries
449 contain the control characters (CR or LF). Document explicitly the backslash
450 escape sequences and their differences from the escape sequences used in the
451 C programming language. Matthias Andree
452 * Fix segfault when run control file ends with a backslash inside an
453 unterminated quoted string. Matthias Andree.
454 * In quoted strings, support backslash as last character on a line to join the
455 following line to the current. Matthias Andree.
456 * Parsing untagged IMAP responses is more robust now. Matthias Andree.
457 * Man page: Remove some procmail praises in --mda documentation, suggest
458 maildrop instead, warn of procmail fallthrough behavior. Matthias Andree.
459 * Man page: Revise AUTHORS and SEE ALSO sections. Matthias Andree.
460 * Updated translations: Albanian [sq] (Besnik Bleta), Catalan [ca] (Ernest
461 Adrogué Calveras), Czech [cs] (Miloslav Trmac), German [de] (MA),
462 Spanish (Castilian) [es] (Javier Kohen), French [fr] (MA),
463 Polish [pl] (Jakub Bogusz), Russian [ru] (Pavel Maryanov).
464 * In oversized warning messages, print the account name, too. Fixes Debian
465 Bug#213299. Sunil Shetye (MA).
466 * Fix installation without Python. Sunil Shetye, reported by Peter Church. (MA)
467 * Update Japanese translation. Fixes Debian Bug#329342, Takeshi Hamasaki. (MA)
468 * Fix imap.c size safeguard that broke on x86_64 architecture. Matthias Andree
469 * The FAQ is now available for duplex DIN A4 printing in PDF format.
470 Don't bother to ask for a Letter version, I don't care. Matthias Andree
471 * Man page: Use \- in the manual page where appropriate so that copy & paste
472 works. I hope we got them all. Héctor García, Matthias Andree.
475 * Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
476 * Got rid of alloca() in fetchmail proper. Matthias Andree
477 * Got rid of ipv6-connect, inner_connect and thereabouts. Matthias Andree
479 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
481 fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:
483 * Updated Spanish, Turkish, and German translation files.
484 * Matthew Gregan's patch to handle garbage lengths from dbmail;
485 closes Debian bug #212484.
486 * Fix IMAP query so new-message count doesn't include deleted messages.
487 * Man page typo fix, closes Debian bug #205892.
488 * OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl@acm.org.
489 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
490 flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
491 * Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of
493 * Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
494 * Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
495 * Sunil Shetye's patches to break up fetching of sizes and UIDLs.
497 There are 599 people on fetchmail-friends and 748 on fetchmail-announce.
499 fetchmail-6.2.4 (Wed Aug 13 04:27:35 EDT 2003), 22625 lines:
501 * Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
502 * IDLE is now supported using NOOP commands even if the server doesn't support
503 the IMAP IDLE extension. Patch by Chris Boyle.
504 * Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
505 * Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
506 * Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
507 * Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
508 * Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.
510 There are 585 people on fetchmail-friends and 745 on fetchmail-announce.
512 fetchmail-6.2.3 (Thu Jul 17 14:53:00 EDT 2003), 22490 lines:
514 * French, German, Danish, Spanish, and Turkish translations updated.
515 * Brian Sammon's patch to deal with malformed message lines containing NULs.
516 * Fai's patch to ignore all but the first Return-Path (some spams have
517 more than one of these).
518 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to properly byte-stuff when talking to BSMTP.
519 Fixes Debian bug #184469.
520 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to enable auth=cram-md5.
521 Fixes Debian bug #185232.
522 * Sunil Shetye's configure.in patch to avoid spurious search order messages
524 * Header-reading code now copes better with lines ending in \n only.
525 * Elias Israel's patches for POP3 NTLM support and dealing with byte-
526 stuffing failures at socket level.
528 There are 580 people on fetchmail-friends and 750 on fetchmail-announce.
530 fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:
532 * Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior on empty messages.
533 * Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful
534 STARTTLS negotiation.
535 * Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
536 * Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security.
537 * Christophe GIAUME <christophe@giaume.com> finished the implementation
539 * Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
540 * Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
541 * Fix for Debian bug #108977, clean up config file evaluation,
544 There are 554 people on fetchmail-friends and 727 on fetchmail-announce.
546 fetchmail-6.2.1 (Tue Jan 14 08:17:19 EST 2003), 22219 lines:
548 * Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
549 * Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
550 * Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check,
551 we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
552 * Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.
554 There are 536 people on fetchmail-friends and 716 on fetchmail-announce.
556 fetchmail-6.2.0 (Fri Dec 13 00:10:07 EST 2002), 22235 lines:
558 * Applied Steffen Esser's fix for a buffer-overflow bug in rfc822.c
559 * Updated Danish, German, and Turkish translation files.
560 * Sunil Shetye's SMTP timeout patch.
562 There are 538 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
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566 fetchmail-6.1.3 (Thu Nov 28 05:35:15 EST 2002), 22203 lines:
568 * Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
569 * Added Slovak support.
570 * Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas).
571 * Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
572 * Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
573 * Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
574 * Sunil's fix for the STARTTLS problem -- repoll if TLS nabdshake
575 fails. The attempt to set up STARTTLS can be suppressed with 'sslproto ""'.
577 There are 540 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
579 fetchmail-6.1.2 (Thu Oct 31 11:41:02 EST 2002), 22135 lines:
581 * Jan Klaverstijn's verbosity-lowering patch.
582 * Updated Turkish, German, Catalan, and Danish translation files.
583 * Fix processing of POP3 messages with missing bodies.
584 * Minor fixes by Sunil Shetye: fix generation of auth fail note, handle
585 unexpected SIGALRM, plug memory leak, handle lines beginning with '\0',
586 try to bulletproof error handling against read failures.
588 There are 535 people on fetchmail-friends and 696 on fetchmail-announce.
590 fetchmail-6.1.1 (Fri Oct 18 14:53:51 EDT 2002), 22087 lines:
592 * OTP fix patches from Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
593 * fix patch for writing antispam capability correctly in conf.c.
594 * Fix patches for Debian bugs #162571, #156592.
595 * Correction to manpage re -b and qmail.
596 * Patch to disable use of STLS if auth passwd is specified.
597 * Fix specfile generation to handle SSL correctly.
598 * New Danish, Turkish, and Catalan translation files.
599 * Improved ODMR debug messages.
600 * IMAP efficiency hack; don't fetch sizes unless needed.
601 * Detect and rewrite invalid return paths beginning with @.
602 * Fix for subtle freeing bug that suppressed information in some bounce msgs.
603 * Newline fix patches for internationalization files.
604 * Fix reversed test guarding authentication-failure warnings.
605 * Fix POP3 breakage starting at 5.9.14.
607 There are 529 people on fetchmail-friends and 693 on fetchmail-announce.
609 fetchmail-6.1.0 (Sun Sep 22 18:31:23 EDT 2002), 21999 lines:
611 * Updated French translation.
612 * Stefan Esser's fix for potential remote vulnerability in multidrop mode.
613 This is an important security fix!
615 There are 519 people on fetchmail-friends and 680 on fetchmail-announce.
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619 fetchmail-6.0.0 (Tue Sep 17 19:48:25 EDT 2002), 21972 lines:
621 * Applied Matt Kraai's fix for minor Debian bug #144539.
622 * Nerijus Baliunas's patch to support STARTTLS over IMAP.
623 * More cleanups and minor bugfixes from Sunil Shetye.
624 * Default antispam-response list is now empty.
625 * Updated de and po translations.
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629 There are 520 people on fetchmail-friends and 683 on fetchmail-announce.
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