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18 * RPOP is obsolete, support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.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 * Do not attempt to overwrite the netrc password if none has been specified.
33 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 * Handle other clients concurrently accessing IMAP mailboxes better.
38 Fetchmail quits the poll if the EXPUNGE count does not match expectations, and
39 servers not updating RECENT counts after EXPUNGE are handled in a better way.
40 (Patch by Sunil Shetye.)
41 * fetchmail no longer replaces the local user ID for an empty envelope sender
42 when using the proprietary SDPS extension for POP3. Fixes Debian Bug#353575,
43 reported by Roger Lynn.
44 * fetchmail no longer prints empty lines in verbose mode when using syslog.
45 * fetchmail no longer prints UID lists in verbose mode when using syslog.
46 * POP3: fetchmail can now use UIDL in fetchall keep mode, to avoid re-fetching
47 the same messages again when the fetchall keyword is removed. Patch by
48 Sunil Shetye. For details, please see
49 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2006-March/000308.html>
50 * IMAP: fix hangs in NOOP-based IDLE emulation. Reported by Casper Gripenberg
51 and Brendan Lynch, fix by Sunil Shetye (his patch was merged) and Brendan
53 * ./configure --quiet is now quieter (no SSL and fallback-related output).
54 * LMTP: fix bug in LMTP port validation (patch by Miloslav Trmac).
55 * Miloslav Trmac's patch (with minor changes) to fix char * sign consistency,
56 unused arguments and variables.
57 * SDPS: Warn and disable SDPS if POP3 is disabled to avoid compilation errors.
58 * More signedness, unused argument/variable and other warning fixes.
59 * IMAP: Stop sending EXPUNGE after NOOP-idling (patch by Sunil Shetye).
62 * --idle can now be specified on the command line, too.
63 * --fetchall is now supported on the command-line.
64 * POP3: Lower default fastuidl span to 4 (i. e. every 4th run fetches the
65 whole UIDL list), patch by Sunil Shetye.
68 * "ssl" is a user option rather than a server option. Patch by Nico Golde.
69 Fixes Debian Bug#354661, reported by Keith Hellman.
70 * The manual page now suggests "--" before the addresses in the sendmail MDA
72 * The FAQ item X9, Domino IMAP omits Content-Transfer-Encoding header, was
73 added. Information provided by Anthony Kim on the fetchmail-friends list
75 * Credit Chris Boyle with the NOOP emulation code for IDLE in fetchmail 6.2.4.
76 Eric forgot to credit Chris, thanks to Sunil Shetye for providing these links:
77 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007705.html
78 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007713.html
80 fetchmail 6.3.2 (released 2006-01-22):
82 Unless otherwise noted, changes to this release were made by Matthias Andree.
84 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
85 * CVE-2006-0321: Fix segfault or bus error after bouncing a message. This bug
86 was introduced into 6.3.0 when removing alloca(); it caused fetchmail to free
87 random memory. Reported by Nathaniel W. Turner, Debian Bug#348747.
88 See fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt
90 # INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE:
91 * Automatically disable the POP3 TOP command if the greeting string contains
92 "Maillennium POP3/PROXY server", which is used by comcast and known to
93 truncate messages after 80 kByte. Fall back to RETR, and complain if we had
94 used TOP otherwise (the warning is printed only once per server in daemon
95 mode). Suggested by Ed Wilts.
96 *Note* that this means messages are marked read on these servers, which is a
97 deviation from how 6.3.1 behaved, but we have no alternative, comcast haven't
98 fixed this bug in years. Preventing the loss of the remainder of the message
99 justifies this incompatible fix.
100 * fetchmail, since 6.3.0, requires write permission to the directory holding the
101 idfile. See the amendment in the 6.3.0 MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES section
102 below for details. The manual page was updated.
104 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS:
105 * The outdated BUGS document was removed from the distribution.
106 * Added fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt to the distribution.
109 * SMTP/LMTP cleanup to fix these two bugs:
110 - switch back to SMTP after having tried LMTP hosts (multiple smtphost hosts)
111 - switch back to LMTP after sending a bounce.
112 The patch removes the global state variable that was the root of this problem.
113 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
114 * Don't complain about fetchall keep in --configdump mode. Bug introduced in
116 * fetchmailconf.py: Fix novice help for Poll interval and fetchall.
117 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #344978.
118 * Some verbose output disappeared in debug mode. Adding further -v options would
119 alternate between verbose and debug mode. debug mode now comprises all verbose
120 output, and adding more -v options does not switch back from debug to verbose
122 * fetchmail.man: Fix accented characters in Héctor García's name. Merged from
123 downstream debian/patches/01_man_page.dpatch.
124 * Add missing --help text for "--sslcertck" option.
125 * fetchmailconf.py: Accept --help and --version.
126 * fetchmail --version now prints the copyright notice.
127 * don't complain about READ-ONLY IMAP folders in --fetchall --keep mode.
128 Reported Alexander Zangerl, Debian Bug#348964.
129 * the RPM .spec file now generates a -debuginfo package on newer RPM versions.
131 fetchmail 6.3.1 (released 2005-12-19):
133 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
134 * CVE-2005-4348 Fix segmentation fault (null pointer dereference) in
135 multidrop mode with headerless email. See fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt.
136 Reported by Daniel Drake, patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
138 # OTHER BUG FIXES, DOCUMENTATION AND TRANSLATION UPDATES
139 * Fix broken default port in POP2. Patch by Stanislav Brabec, SUSE [CZ]. (MA)
140 * Fix manual page, some lines starting with ' were escaped by \&.
141 Reported by Simon Barner. (MA)
142 * Ship with gettext-0.14.3 again, as 6.2.9-rc10 did. Found by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
143 * Actually set default SSL certificate path if --sslcertpath is unset.
144 Reported by Heino Tiedemann and Rob MacGregor. (MA)
145 * Remove bogus Netscape IMAP4rev1 Service >= 3.6 warning about BODY[TEXT]
146 that we are not using. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
147 * Plug potential memory and socket leak when polling multiple folders or when
148 the upstream sends bogus message sizes. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
149 * Update Catalan translation, by Ernest Adrogué Calveras. (MA)
150 * Fix segfault (null pointer dereference) on some operating systems with
151 fetchmail's obsolete DNS MX/host alias lookups in multidrop mode.
152 Patch by Dr.-Ing. Andreas Haakh. (MA)
153 * Close SMTP sockets early, to reduce resource usage, trigger earlier delivery
154 with some MTAs and avoid SIGPIPE (SIG 13) when the SMTP listener gets bored
155 and drops the connection after timeout. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
156 * Don't treat hitting a fetch limit as error. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
157 * Fix negative "messages left on server" on idle/repoll with fetchlimit.
158 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
159 * Properly track logout stage. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
160 * Preserve error conditions across postconnect script. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
161 * Do not trash destination domain if multiple messages are forwarded into the
162 same SMTP/LMTP connection. Reported by Joachim Feise, Berlios Bug #5849. (MA)
163 * Manual page: Add "-md5" to "openssl x509" example in --sslfingerprint
164 documentation, since OpenSSL 0.9.8 changed the default to SHA1.
165 Suggested by Jason White. (MA)
166 * Cope with servers that return UID information in response to non-UID
167 RFC822.{SIZE|HEADER} requests. Reported by Jason White.
168 Patch suggestion by by Sunil Shetye, simplified by MA.
170 fetchmail 6.3.0 (released 2005-11-30):
172 # SECURITY FIXES IN THIS RELEASE
173 * CVE-2005-2335: The POP3 UIDL code doesn't sufficiently validate/truncate the
174 input length, so a (malicious or compromised) server that sends UIDs longer
175 than 128 bytes can corrupt fetchmail's stack and crash fetchmail.
176 This vulnerability is remotely exploitable to inject code run in a
177 root shell. Edward J. Shornock, Ludwig Nussel. fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
178 * CVE-2005-3088: fetchmailconf now changes the output file to mode 0600 BEFORE
179 writing to it, so there is no window where passwords could be read by the
180 world. Matthias Andree. fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt
182 # MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
183 * Remove support for --netsec/-T options, the required inet6_apps library is no
185 http://www.inner.net/pub/ipv6/ states, as of 2005-07-03: "/pub/ipv6
186 Our IPv6 software is now long defunct. Please find a more modern source."
187 I haven't been able to find a more modern source. Matthias Andree
188 * Operating systems that do not conform to the Single Unix Specification v2
189 (1997) or v3 (2001, aka IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) are no longer supported. They
190 may continue to work and non-intrusive patches to support them may be
191 accepted. Matthias Andree
192 * The default for --smtphost is now always "localhost" regardless of
193 authentication types and protocols, so as to simplify configurations for
194 workstations where the SMTP daemon only listens on the loopback interface.
195 Sunil Shetye & Matthias Andree
196 Amendment, 2006-01-04:
197 * fetchmail's idfile (.fetchids) is no longer written directly, but the ids are
198 written to a temporary file which is renamed into place after being written
199 completely. This is to avoid writing incomplete idfiles when running out of
200 space, which would cause excessive duplicate refetches of messages, this might
201 make matters even worse. This means that fetchmail requires write permission
202 on the directory holding the idfile. This will usually affect system-global
203 daemons only, for instance, Debian. Found by Dan Jacobson. Matthias Andree.
204 Escalated to "incompatible", 2006-01-13:
205 * Try to obtain FQDN as our own host by default, rather than using "localhost".
206 If hostname cannot be qualified, complain noisily and continue, unless
207 Kerberos, ODMR or ETRN are used (these have always required an FQDN).
208 Partial fix of Debian Bug#150137. Fixes Debian Bug#316454. Matthias Andree
210 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS AND USERS
211 * fetchmailconf is now a shell wrapper that calls the byte-compiled
212 fetchmailconf.py script, which is now installed in the regular python
213 directory. Matthias Andree.
214 * The --enable-inet6 configure option was removed. The code is mostly protocol
215 agnostic, a fully IPv6 aware OS is expected to provide getaddrinfo(),
216 getnameinfo() and the macro AF_INET6. Matthias Andree.
217 * gettext (intl/) has been removed from the fetchmail package. Install GNU
218 gettext 0.14 separately for NLS (i18n). Matthias Andree
219 * Added Russian translation, courtesy of Pavel Maryanov of the
220 Russian translation team. (MA)
221 * Updated and re-enabled Czech translation, by Miloslav Trmac (MA).
222 * Dropped da=Danish, el=Greek and tr=Turkish translations which have more than
223 10% (61+) untranslated or fuzzy messages. Matthias Andree.
225 # OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
226 * Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR)
227 * PopDel.py removed from contrib at author's request. (ESR)
228 * Matthias Andree's fix for Sunil Shetye's fetch-split patch. (ESR)
229 * Include James Stone's moldremover.py script. (ESR)
230 * Enable .fetchmailrc permissions checking under Cygwin. (ESR)
231 * Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication. (ESR)
232 * Revised Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication (the
233 original version would go into an infinite loop when CAPA failed;
234 found by David Greaves.) (MA)
235 * HOME_ETC patch for PLD Linux. (ESR)
236 * Sunil Shetye's fix for SSL configuration. (ESR)
237 * Simon Josefsson's patch for GSS library support. (ESR)
238 * Added Andrey Lelikov's recipe for Hotmail and Lycos Webmail. (ESR)
239 * Remove blank between MAIL FROM: and <, which causes Cyrus to complain.
240 Patch by Phil Endecott. (RF)
241 * Build fixes for HESIOD and resolv.h trouble on FreeBSD. (MA)
242 * Fabrice Bellet's fix for Red Hat bug #113492, fetchmail hangs in IMAP
243 mode after EXPUNGE when the server (Dovecot 0.99.10) doesn't update
244 RECENT and EXISTS counts. (MA)
245 * Holger Mauermann's bounce patch, to use a NULL envelope from, not
246 write a Return-Path header (both to meet RFC-2821), changed From,
247 added Subject header, rewording the human readable part. Fixes Debian
249 * Merge Sunil Shetye's time.h handling fix. (MA)
250 * Merge Gerd von Egidy's patch to avoid a segfault in multidrop/received
251 mode when the Received: headers are malformatted. (MA)
252 * MIME-encode bodies and Subject headers of warning messages, limiting
253 the header to 7 bits. (MA)
254 * Normalize most locale codesets to IANA codesets, based on
255 norm_charmap.c by Markus Kuhn. (MA)
256 * Remove sleep(3) after POP3 login, patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
257 * Fix option parsing bug that trashes the showdots setting when more
258 than one server is configured. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
259 * Honor sslcertpath setting even if sslcertck is unset. Patch by Brian
261 * SSL certificate checking fixes, don't display same error message twice
262 in succession, make sure that Common Name and fingerprint checking are
263 only done once. Print all validation warnings/errors even if not in
264 verbose mode. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
265 * Import Bjorn Reese and Daniel Stenberg's MIT-licensed Trio 1.10 from
266 http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/ for systems that do not support
267 snprintf or vsnprintf. (MA)
268 * Clean up the horrible #ifdef HAVE_[V]SNPRINTF that made the code
269 unreadable. Use Trio where [v]snprintf is/are missing. (MA)
270 * Default to Linux 2.2 /proc/net/dev format, and use uname(2) to determine the
271 kernel version instead of calling uname(1). Thanks to Paul Slootman. (MA)
272 * Be more careful when swapping UID lists or writing the .fetchids file,
273 requested by Manfred Weihs. (MA)
274 * Print a warning if multidrop configuration is attempted without
275 envelope option. (MA)
276 * Split information on fetchmail versions before 6.0.0 to a separate
278 * Merge SuSE patches: (sent by Stanislav Brabec, merged by Matthias Andree)
279 - fetchmail-6.2.5-declaration.patch (double sigint_handler decl/getpass.c)
280 - fetchmail-6.2.5-implicit-declaration.patch (missing #include)
281 - fetchmail-6.2.5-random-result.patch (uninitialized variable/opie.c)
282 * Revised some bogus assertions about POP3 LAST and UIDL use in the
283 manual page. UIDL isn't flaky as the man page suggested, but a
284 reliability feature. In fact, IMAP4 code is flaky in that it relies on
285 the upstream seen flags. (MA)
286 * Miloslav Trmac's patch for fetchmailconf to support string-type values
287 of the "port" variable, avoiding "port None" corruption in .fetchmailrc.
288 To fix Redhat Bug #55623 (MA)
289 * de.po fixes from Nico Golde (MA)
290 * es.po fixes from Jesus Roncero, Debian bug #286044 (MA)
291 * sink.c fix from Cesar Eduardo Barros, to avoid double @ in address
292 when username contains an @ and the envelope sender is null, Debian
294 * configure.ac cleanups by Miloslav Trmac (MA)
295 * Miloslav Trmac's fix to reply_hack() type, for systems where
296 sizeof(int) != sizeof(size_t). (MA)
297 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for driver.c to not call the private Kerberos
298 krb5_init_ets() function. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
299 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for sink.c/transact.c to reserve sufficient
300 space for \r\n trailers in snprintf calls. Sent by Miloslav Trmac,
301 possibly fixing Red Hat bug #114470. (MA).
302 * Nalin Dahyabhai's patch to use the krb5-config script, if present.
303 Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
304 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix to make rpa.c compile. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
305 * Trivial fetchmailconf.man to redirect to fetchmail.1.
306 Reported by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
307 * Internationalization (i18n) updates by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
308 * Fix "couldn't find canonical DNS name of NN (MM)" for hosts that have
309 only IPv6 addresses. Matthias Andree.
310 * Revised INSTALL after question from Brian Candler, inet6-apps is no
311 longer available: remove inet6-apps hints for IPv6, and add some
312 apologetic message for IPsec. Note the code may be removed in a future
313 version. Matthias Andree.
314 * Brian Candler's FAQ update about SSL certificate verification. (MA)
315 * Nico Golde's patch to support "proto RPOP" in the configuration file,
316 reported by Dr. Andreas Krüger, Debian bug #242384 (MA)
317 * Skip sending POP3 PASS command when USER command failed. Matthias Andree.
318 * Run fetchmail.man through automatic spell checker. Matthias Andree.
319 * Major fetchmail(1) manual page overhaul by R. Hannes Beinert, to
320 clarify singledrop vs. multidrop operation. (MA)
321 * Make tracepolls a server option, as documented. Fixes Debian bug
322 #156094. Matthias Andree.
323 * Fix some minor inaccuracies (RFC-1893 related, grammar/spelling) in
325 * Rename ESR's design notes to esrs-design-notes.html and add a new
326 design-notes.html document. The NOTES file will contain both of them.
328 * Fix Debian bug #301964, fetchmail leaks sockets when SSL negotiation
329 fails. Fix suggested by Goswin Brederlow. (MA)
330 * Really fix Debian Bug#207919 (garbage in Received: lines when smtphost set),
331 patch by Tobias Diedrich. The 6.2.5 NEWS claimed Gregan's patch had fixed
332 #207919 but it had fixed #212484 instead and #207919 remained unfixed in
333 6.2.5. The entry below has been corrected to read #212484 now. (MA)
334 * When writing the PID file, write a FHS 2.3 compliant PID file.
335 Fixes Debian bug #230615. Matthias Andree.
336 * Make ODMR really silent, suppress "fetchmail: receiving message
337 data". Fixes Debian Bug#296163. Matthias Andree.
338 * Add From: header to warning emails. Debian Bug#244828. Matthias Andree.
339 * Fix IMAP code to use password of arbitrary length from configuration
340 file (although not when read interactively). Debian Bug#276424.
342 * Document that fetchmail may automatically enable UIDL option.
343 Debian Bug#304701. Matthias Andree.
344 * Put *BOLD* text into the manual page near --mda to state unmistakably that
345 the --mda %T and %F substitutions add single quotes, hoping to avoid bogus
346 bug reports such as Debian Bug #224564. Matthias Andree
347 * Rename lock_release to fm_lock_release, to avoid namespace collision on
348 Darwin. NetBSD PR#28543 (pkg/28543). Matthias Andree.
349 * The RFC-822 parser no longer strips the last character of bare addresses.
351 * The IP address matching code was broken and
352 1. didn't search exhaustively, but matched only the first IP address of the
353 server's queryname against the IP addresses of the server name to match.
354 2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts. Matthias Andree
355 * The "port" option, while still understood, is being replaced by the "service"
356 option, which is now supported even without --enable-inet6. Matthias Andree.
357 * The default distribution format is now bzip2. Matthias Andree.
358 * fetchmailconf redirects fetchmail's input from /dev/null so it doesn't
359 wait for the user to enter a password when the user doesn't even see
360 the prompt. Reported by Michal Marek. Matthias Andree.
361 * Write RFC-compliant BSMTP envelopes. Reported by Nico Golde. Matthias Andree.
362 * Fix --with-gssapi compilation problem. Simon Josefsson. (MA)
363 * Foster protocol-independence to support IPv6 better, for instance, providing
364 IPv6 addresses in Received: headers. Matthias Andree.
365 * Received: headers now enclose the for <...> destination address in angle
366 brackets for consistency with Postfix. Matthias Andree.
367 * Operating systems that do not support at least one of gethostbyname,
368 gethostbyname_r, getipnodebyname are no longer supported. Matthias Andree.
369 * Fixes to --with-hesiod option. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
370 * Delete oversized messages with the new --limitflush option. Debian
371 Bug#212240. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
372 * Fix MacOS X compilation failures in sink.c (ru_*time has incomplete type).
373 Berlios Bug #4725. Matthias Andree.
374 * Fix "auth ntlm" to send AUTH NTLM (rather than AUTH MSN). Add "auth msn"
375 officially. Reported by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
376 * Expunge between IMAP folders when polling multiple folders.
378 * Fix IMAP expunged message counting. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
379 * Add full support for --service option. Matthias Andree
380 * When getaddrinfo() fails resolving a service, log getaddrinfo() error. (MA)
381 * Fix bogus "cannot resolve service * to port number" error. Simon Barner. (MA)
382 * Failure to set up SSL connections now results in PS_SOCKET. Suggested by
383 Thomas Wolff. Matthias Andree.
384 * Kerberos IV detection fix for FreeBSD 4. Simon Barner. (MA)
385 * Fix display and documentation of --envelope option. Matthias Andree
386 * Make "envelope 'Delivered-To'" work with dropdelivered. Timothy Lee. (MA)
387 * Add -DBIND_8_COMPAT to Darwin (MacOS X) compiles, to fix build problems on
388 newer Darwin versions. Matthias Andree.
389 * fetchmail should now automatically detect if OpenSSL requires -ldl.
391 * Fix Solaris build with --disable-nls (blastwave.org). Matthias Andree.
392 * Missed --port/--service/--ssl cleanups in the manual. Reminder from Thomas
394 * Complain in POP3 if NTLM/MSN auth is requested but had not been enabled at
395 compile time. This configuration mismatch now causes an error message and
396 authentication failure. Found by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
397 * fetchmailconf now allows expert users to choose the authorization type and
398 also offers MSN and NTLM, suggested by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
399 * fetchmailconf now (as of 1.49) writes its version to the comment of the
400 saved run control file. Matthias Andree
401 * Properly shut down SSL connections. Berlios Patch #647 by Arkadiusz
403 * Global variable cleanup, to fix daemon mode reinitialization problems. Patch
404 by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
405 * fetchmailconf -h documents the fetchmailconf -h option. Matthias Andree
406 * fetchmailconf -V now prints the fetchmailconf version. Matthias Andree
407 * Add support for SubjectAltName (RFC-2595 or 2818), to avoid bogus certificate
408 mismatch errors. Patch by Roland Stigge, Debian Bug#201113. (MA)
409 * make fetchmail --silent --quit really silent, Debian Bug #229014 by Dr.
410 Andreas Krüger. Matthias Andree
411 * cleanup --quit handling again (so that --silent --quit just kills the
412 existing daemon, rather than continue running), and document it more clearly.
414 * Print an error message if multiple "defaults" records are found in the
415 configuration file. Matthias Andree
416 * Bury on_exit officially - the necessary code had been missing from 6.0.0,
417 6.2.0, 6.2.5. Matthias Andree
418 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be read. Matthias Andree
419 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be created exclusively, this got
420 broken in a 6.2.6-pre, 6.2.5.2 and older were fine. Matthias Andree
421 * Do not break some other process's lockfile in "-q" mode, but wait for the
422 other process's exit. Matthias Andree
423 * Man page: --sslfingerprint points user to x509(1ssl) and gives an example
424 how to use it. Debian Bug#213484, Eduard Bloch. (MA)
425 * fetchmailconf now sets the service properly after autoprobe. Fixes Debian
426 Bug#320645. Matthias Andree
427 * Man page: Fix Debian Bug#241883, making global options more clear. Matt
428 Swift, Matthias Andree.
429 * When eating IMAP message trailer, don't see any line containing "OK" as the
430 end of the trailer, but wait for the proper tagged OK line. To work around
431 the qmail + Courier-IMAP problem in Debian Bug#338007. Matthias Andree
432 * Fix Debian Bug#317761: when trying to send a bounce message, don't bail out
433 if we cannot qualify our own hostname, so we aren't losing the bounce.
434 Instead, pass the buck on to the SMTP server and use our own unqualified
435 hostname. Matthias Andree
436 * Revise some error messages so they are less confusing. Sunil Shetye.
437 * Man page: update --smtphost documentation. Sunil Shetye, Matthias Andree.
438 * Man page: clarify --loghost works only while detached. Matthias Andree
439 * Man page: update --smtpaddress documentation. Sunil Shetye.
440 * Fix several memory leaks and bugs in the SMTP/LMTP retry logic where
441 fetchmail confused UNIX and Internet domain sockets. Sunil Shetye.
442 * Man page (BUGS): document that passwords are length limited. Matthias Andree
443 * Man page: Document that quoted strings that run across line boundaries
444 contain the control characters (CR or LF). Document explicitly the backslash
445 escape sequences and their differences from the escape sequences used in the
446 C programming language. Matthias Andree
447 * Fix segfault when run control file ends with a backslash inside an
448 unterminated quoted string. Matthias Andree.
449 * In quoted strings, support backslash as last character on a line to join the
450 following line to the current. Matthias Andree.
451 * Parsing untagged IMAP responses is more robust now. Matthias Andree.
452 * Man page: Remove some procmail praises in --mda documentation, suggest
453 maildrop instead, warn of procmail fallthrough behavior. Matthias Andree.
454 * Man page: Revise AUTHORS and SEE ALSO sections. Matthias Andree.
455 * Updated translations: Albanian [sq] (Besnik Bleta), Catalan [ca] (Ernest
456 Adrogué Calveras), Czech [cs] (Miloslav Trmac), German [de] (MA),
457 Spanish (Castilian) [es] (Javier Kohen), French [fr] (MA),
458 Polish [pl] (Jakub Bogusz), Russian [ru] (Pavel Maryanov).
459 * In oversized warning messages, print the account name, too. Fixes Debian
460 Bug#213299. Sunil Shetye (MA).
461 * Fix installation without Python. Sunil Shetye, reported by Peter Church. (MA)
462 * Update Japanese translation. Fixes Debian Bug#329342, Takeshi Hamasaki. (MA)
463 * Fix imap.c size safeguard that broke on x86_64 architecture. Matthias Andree
464 * The FAQ is now available for duplex DIN A4 printing in PDF format.
465 Don't bother to ask for a Letter version, I don't care. Matthias Andree
466 * Man page: Use \- in the manual page where appropriate so that copy & paste
467 works. I hope we got them all. Héctor García, Matthias Andree.
470 * Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
471 * Got rid of alloca() in fetchmail proper. Matthias Andree
472 * Got rid of ipv6-connect, inner_connect and thereabouts. Matthias Andree
474 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
476 fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:
478 * Updated Spanish, Turkish, and German translation files.
479 * Matthew Gregan's patch to handle garbage lengths from dbmail;
480 closes Debian bug #212484.
481 * Fix IMAP query so new-message count doesn't include deleted messages.
482 * Man page typo fix, closes Debian bug #205892.
483 * OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl@acm.org.
484 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
485 flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
486 * Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of
488 * Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
489 * Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
490 * Sunil Shetye's patches to break up fetching of sizes and UIDLs.
492 There are 599 people on fetchmail-friends and 748 on fetchmail-announce.
494 fetchmail-6.2.4 (Wed Aug 13 04:27:35 EDT 2003), 22625 lines:
496 * Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
497 * IDLE is now supported using NOOP commands even if the server doesn't support
498 the IMAP IDLE extension. Patch by Chris Boyle.
499 * Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
500 * Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
501 * Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
502 * Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
503 * Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.
505 There are 585 people on fetchmail-friends and 745 on fetchmail-announce.
507 fetchmail-6.2.3 (Thu Jul 17 14:53:00 EDT 2003), 22490 lines:
509 * French, German, Danish, Spanish, and Turkish translations updated.
510 * Brian Sammon's patch to deal with malformed message lines containing NULs.
511 * Fai's patch to ignore all but the first Return-Path (some spams have
512 more than one of these).
513 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to properly byte-stuff when talking to BSMTP.
514 Fixes Debian bug #184469.
515 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to enable auth=cram-md5.
516 Fixes Debian bug #185232.
517 * Sunil Shetye's configure.in patch to avoid spurious search order messages
519 * Header-reading code now copes better with lines ending in \n only.
520 * Elias Israel's patches for POP3 NTLM support and dealing with byte-
521 stuffing failures at socket level.
523 There are 580 people on fetchmail-friends and 750 on fetchmail-announce.
525 fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:
527 * Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior on empty messages.
528 * Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful
529 STARTTLS negotiation.
530 * Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
531 * Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security.
532 * Christophe GIAUME <christophe@giaume.com> finished the implementation
534 * Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
535 * Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
536 * Fix for Debian bug #108977, clean up config file evaluation,
539 There are 554 people on fetchmail-friends and 727 on fetchmail-announce.
541 fetchmail-6.2.1 (Tue Jan 14 08:17:19 EST 2003), 22219 lines:
543 * Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
544 * Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
545 * Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check,
546 we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
547 * Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.
549 There are 536 people on fetchmail-friends and 716 on fetchmail-announce.
551 fetchmail-6.2.0 (Fri Dec 13 00:10:07 EST 2002), 22235 lines:
553 * Applied Steffen Esser's fix for a buffer-overflow bug in rfc822.c
554 * Updated Danish, German, and Turkish translation files.
555 * Sunil Shetye's SMTP timeout patch.
557 There are 538 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
559 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
561 fetchmail-6.1.3 (Thu Nov 28 05:35:15 EST 2002), 22203 lines:
563 * Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
564 * Added Slovak support.
565 * Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas).
566 * Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
567 * Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
568 * Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
569 * Sunil's fix for the STARTTLS problem -- repoll if TLS nabdshake
570 fails. The attempt to set up STARTTLS can be suppressed with 'sslproto ""'.
572 There are 540 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
574 fetchmail-6.1.2 (Thu Oct 31 11:41:02 EST 2002), 22135 lines:
576 * Jan Klaverstijn's verbosity-lowering patch.
577 * Updated Turkish, German, Catalan, and Danish translation files.
578 * Fix processing of POP3 messages with missing bodies.
579 * Minor fixes by Sunil Shetye: fix generation of auth fail note, handle
580 unexpected SIGALRM, plug memory leak, handle lines beginning with '\0',
581 try to bulletproof error handling against read failures.
583 There are 535 people on fetchmail-friends and 696 on fetchmail-announce.
585 fetchmail-6.1.1 (Fri Oct 18 14:53:51 EDT 2002), 22087 lines:
587 * OTP fix patches from Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
588 * fix patch for writing antispam capability correctly in conf.c.
589 * Fix patches for Debian bugs #162571, #156592.
590 * Correction to manpage re -b and qmail.
591 * Patch to disable use of STLS if auth passwd is specified.
592 * Fix specfile generation to handle SSL correctly.
593 * New Danish, Turkish, and Catalan translation files.
594 * Improved ODMR debug messages.
595 * IMAP efficiency hack; don't fetch sizes unless needed.
596 * Detect and rewrite invalid return paths beginning with @.
597 * Fix for subtle freeing bug that suppressed information in some bounce msgs.
598 * Newline fix patches for internationalization files.
599 * Fix reversed test guarding authentication-failure warnings.
600 * Fix POP3 breakage starting at 5.9.14.
602 There are 529 people on fetchmail-friends and 693 on fetchmail-announce.
604 fetchmail-6.1.0 (Sun Sep 22 18:31:23 EDT 2002), 21999 lines:
606 * Updated French translation.
607 * Stefan Esser's fix for potential remote vulnerability in multidrop mode.
608 This is an important security fix!
610 There are 519 people on fetchmail-friends and 680 on fetchmail-announce.
612 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
614 fetchmail-6.0.0 (Tue Sep 17 19:48:25 EDT 2002), 21972 lines:
616 * Applied Matt Kraai's fix for minor Debian bug #144539.
617 * Nerijus Baliunas's patch to support STARTTLS over IMAP.
618 * More cleanups and minor bugfixes from Sunil Shetye.
619 * Default antispam-response list is now empty.
620 * Updated de and po translations.
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624 There are 520 people on fetchmail-friends and 683 on fetchmail-announce.
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