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18 * RPOP is obsolete, support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.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 (released 2006-03-29):
32 * Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the lexer in 64-bit mode.
33 Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit fetchmail.
34 Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code anyways,
35 so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should be fine.
38 * SEGFAULT: Do not attempt to overwrite the netrc password if none has been
39 specified. This fixes a segmentation fault bug introduced into 6.3.2.
40 Fixes BerliOS bug #6234. BerliOS patch #804 by Craig Leres.
41 The patch, as accepted into fetchmail, was available separately from
42 <http://download.berlios.de/fetchmail/patch-6.3.2.1-fix-netrc-SIGSEGV.diff>
43 * SEGFAULT: Work around C libraries that return a NULL in getaddrinfo()'s
44 ai_canonname record, to avoid a segfault. Affects for instance FreeBSD 4.10,
45 4.11 and 5.3 when dotted quads are given as server names.
46 Analysis and fix by Vladimir Olegovich Ravodin (Владимир Олегович Раводин).
47 * IMAP: fix hangs in NOOP-based IDLE emulation. Reported by Casper Gripenberg
48 and Brendan Lynch, fix by Sunil Shetye (his patch was merged) and Brendan Lynch.
49 * IMAP: Handle other clients concurrently accessing IMAP mailboxes better.
50 Fetchmail quits the poll if the EXPUNGE count does not match expectations, and
51 servers not updating RECENT counts after EXPUNGE are handled in a better way.
52 (Patch by Sunil Shetye.)
53 * IMAP: Stop sending EXPUNGE after NOOP-idling (patch by Sunil Shetye).
54 * POP3: fetchmail can now use UIDL in fetchall keep mode, to avoid re-fetching
55 the same messages again when the fetchall keyword is removed. Patch by
56 Sunil Shetye. For details, please see
57 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2006-March/000308.html>
58 * LMTP: fix bug in LMTP port validation (patch by Miloslav Trmac).
59 * SDPS: fetchmail no longer replaces the local user ID for an empty envelope
60 sender when using the proprietary SDPS extension for POP3.
61 Fixes Debian Bug#353575, reported by Roger Lynn.
62 * SDPS: Warn and disable SDPS if POP3 is disabled to avoid compilation errors.
63 * fetchmail no longer prints empty lines in verbose mode when using syslog.
64 * fetchmail no longer prints UID lists in verbose mode when using syslog.
65 * ./configure --quiet is now quieter (no SSL and fallback-related output).
66 * Miloslav Trmac's patch (with minor changes) to fix char * sign consistency,
67 unused arguments and variables.
68 * More signedness, unused argument/variable and other warning fixes.
71 * --idle can now be specified on the command line, too.
72 * --fetchall is now supported on the command-line.
73 * POP3: Lower default fastuidl span to 4 (i. e. every 4th run fetches the
74 whole UIDL list), patch by Sunil Shetye.
77 * "ssl" is a user option rather than a server option. Patch by Nico Golde.
78 Fixes Debian Bug#354661, reported by Keith Hellman.
79 * The manual page now suggests "--" before the addresses in the sendmail MDA
81 * The FAQ item X9, Domino IMAP omits Content-Transfer-Encoding header, was
82 added. Information provided by Anthony Kim on the fetchmail-friends list
84 * Credit Chris Boyle with the NOOP emulation code for IDLE in fetchmail 6.2.4.
85 Eric forgot to credit Chris, thanks to Sunil Shetye for providing these links:
86 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007705.html
87 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007713.html
88 * Added a section about RETR vs. TOP to the manual page.
89 * Changed section/subsection levels in some areas.
91 fetchmail 6.3.2 (released 2006-01-22):
93 Unless otherwise noted, changes to this release were made by Matthias Andree.
95 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
96 * CVE-2006-0321: Fix segfault or bus error after bouncing a message. This bug
97 was introduced into 6.3.0 when removing alloca(); it caused fetchmail to free
98 random memory. Reported by Nathaniel W. Turner, Debian Bug#348747.
99 See fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt
101 # INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE:
102 * Automatically disable the POP3 TOP command if the greeting string contains
103 "Maillennium POP3/PROXY server", which is used by comcast and known to
104 truncate messages after 80 kByte. Fall back to RETR, and complain if we had
105 used TOP otherwise (the warning is printed only once per server in daemon
106 mode). Suggested by Ed Wilts.
107 *Note* that this means messages are marked read on these servers, which is a
108 deviation from how 6.3.1 behaved, but we have no alternative, comcast haven't
109 fixed this bug in years. Preventing the loss of the remainder of the message
110 justifies this incompatible fix.
111 * fetchmail, since 6.3.0, requires write permission to the directory holding the
112 idfile. See the amendment in the 6.3.0 MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES section
113 below for details. The manual page was updated.
115 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS:
116 * The outdated BUGS document was removed from the distribution.
117 * Added fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt to the distribution.
120 * SMTP/LMTP cleanup to fix these two bugs:
121 - switch back to SMTP after having tried LMTP hosts (multiple smtphost hosts)
122 - switch back to LMTP after sending a bounce.
123 The patch removes the global state variable that was the root of this problem.
124 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
125 * Don't complain about fetchall keep in --configdump mode. Bug introduced in
127 * fetchmailconf.py: Fix novice help for Poll interval and fetchall.
128 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #344978.
129 * Some verbose output disappeared in debug mode. Adding further -v options would
130 alternate between verbose and debug mode. debug mode now comprises all verbose
131 output, and adding more -v options does not switch back from debug to verbose
133 * fetchmail.man: Fix accented characters in Héctor García's name. Merged from
134 downstream debian/patches/01_man_page.dpatch.
135 * Add missing --help text for "--sslcertck" option.
136 * fetchmailconf.py: Accept --help and --version.
137 * fetchmail --version now prints the copyright notice.
138 * don't complain about READ-ONLY IMAP folders in --fetchall --keep mode.
139 Reported Alexander Zangerl, Debian Bug#348964.
140 * the RPM .spec file now generates a -debuginfo package on newer RPM versions.
142 fetchmail 6.3.1 (released 2005-12-19):
144 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
145 * CVE-2005-4348 Fix segmentation fault (null pointer dereference) in
146 multidrop mode with headerless email. See fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt.
147 Reported by Daniel Drake, patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
149 # OTHER BUG FIXES, DOCUMENTATION AND TRANSLATION UPDATES
150 * Fix broken default port in POP2. Patch by Stanislav Brabec, SUSE [CZ]. (MA)
151 * Fix manual page, some lines starting with ' were escaped by \&.
152 Reported by Simon Barner. (MA)
153 * Ship with gettext-0.14.3 again, as 6.2.9-rc10 did. Found by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
154 * Actually set default SSL certificate path if --sslcertpath is unset.
155 Reported by Heino Tiedemann and Rob MacGregor. (MA)
156 * Remove bogus Netscape IMAP4rev1 Service >= 3.6 warning about BODY[TEXT]
157 that we are not using. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
158 * Plug potential memory and socket leak when polling multiple folders or when
159 the upstream sends bogus message sizes. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
160 * Update Catalan translation, by Ernest Adrogué Calveras. (MA)
161 * Fix segfault (null pointer dereference) on some operating systems with
162 fetchmail's obsolete DNS MX/host alias lookups in multidrop mode.
163 Patch by Dr.-Ing. Andreas Haakh. (MA)
164 * Close SMTP sockets early, to reduce resource usage, trigger earlier delivery
165 with some MTAs and avoid SIGPIPE (SIG 13) when the SMTP listener gets bored
166 and drops the connection after timeout. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
167 * Don't treat hitting a fetch limit as error. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
168 * Fix negative "messages left on server" on idle/repoll with fetchlimit.
169 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
170 * Properly track logout stage. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
171 * Preserve error conditions across postconnect script. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
172 * Do not trash destination domain if multiple messages are forwarded into the
173 same SMTP/LMTP connection. Reported by Joachim Feise, Berlios Bug #5849. (MA)
174 * Manual page: Add "-md5" to "openssl x509" example in --sslfingerprint
175 documentation, since OpenSSL 0.9.8 changed the default to SHA1.
176 Suggested by Jason White. (MA)
177 * Cope with servers that return UID information in response to non-UID
178 RFC822.{SIZE|HEADER} requests. Reported by Jason White.
179 Patch suggestion by by Sunil Shetye, simplified by MA.
181 fetchmail 6.3.0 (released 2005-11-30):
183 # SECURITY FIXES IN THIS RELEASE
184 * CVE-2005-2335: The POP3 UIDL code doesn't sufficiently validate/truncate the
185 input length, so a (malicious or compromised) server that sends UIDs longer
186 than 128 bytes can corrupt fetchmail's stack and crash fetchmail.
187 This vulnerability is remotely exploitable to inject code run in a
188 root shell. Edward J. Shornock, Ludwig Nussel. fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
189 * CVE-2005-3088: fetchmailconf now changes the output file to mode 0600 BEFORE
190 writing to it, so there is no window where passwords could be read by the
191 world. Matthias Andree. fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt
193 # MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
194 * Remove support for --netsec/-T options, the required inet6_apps library is no
196 http://www.inner.net/pub/ipv6/ states, as of 2005-07-03: "/pub/ipv6
197 Our IPv6 software is now long defunct. Please find a more modern source."
198 I haven't been able to find a more modern source. Matthias Andree
199 * Operating systems that do not conform to the Single Unix Specification v2
200 (1997) or v3 (2001, aka IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) are no longer supported. They
201 may continue to work and non-intrusive patches to support them may be
202 accepted. Matthias Andree
203 * The default for --smtphost is now always "localhost" regardless of
204 authentication types and protocols, so as to simplify configurations for
205 workstations where the SMTP daemon only listens on the loopback interface.
206 Sunil Shetye & Matthias Andree
207 Amendment, 2006-01-04:
208 * fetchmail's idfile (.fetchids) is no longer written directly, but the ids are
209 written to a temporary file which is renamed into place after being written
210 completely. This is to avoid writing incomplete idfiles when running out of
211 space, which would cause excessive duplicate refetches of messages, this might
212 make matters even worse. This means that fetchmail requires write permission
213 on the directory holding the idfile. This will usually affect system-global
214 daemons only, for instance, Debian. Found by Dan Jacobson. Matthias Andree.
215 Escalated to "incompatible", 2006-01-13:
216 * Try to obtain FQDN as our own host by default, rather than using "localhost".
217 If hostname cannot be qualified, complain noisily and continue, unless
218 Kerberos, ODMR or ETRN are used (these have always required an FQDN).
219 Partial fix of Debian Bug#150137. Fixes Debian Bug#316454. Matthias Andree
221 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS AND USERS
222 * fetchmailconf is now a shell wrapper that calls the byte-compiled
223 fetchmailconf.py script, which is now installed in the regular python
224 directory. Matthias Andree.
225 * The --enable-inet6 configure option was removed. The code is mostly protocol
226 agnostic, a fully IPv6 aware OS is expected to provide getaddrinfo(),
227 getnameinfo() and the macro AF_INET6. Matthias Andree.
228 * gettext (intl/) has been removed from the fetchmail package. Install GNU
229 gettext 0.14 separately for NLS (i18n). Matthias Andree
230 * Added Russian translation, courtesy of Pavel Maryanov of the
231 Russian translation team. (MA)
232 * Updated and re-enabled Czech translation, by Miloslav Trmac (MA).
233 * Dropped da=Danish, el=Greek and tr=Turkish translations which have more than
234 10% (61+) untranslated or fuzzy messages. Matthias Andree.
236 # OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
237 * Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR)
238 * PopDel.py removed from contrib at author's request. (ESR)
239 * Matthias Andree's fix for Sunil Shetye's fetch-split patch. (ESR)
240 * Include James Stone's moldremover.py script. (ESR)
241 * Enable .fetchmailrc permissions checking under Cygwin. (ESR)
242 * Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication. (ESR)
243 * Revised Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication (the
244 original version would go into an infinite loop when CAPA failed;
245 found by David Greaves.) (MA)
246 * HOME_ETC patch for PLD Linux. (ESR)
247 * Sunil Shetye's fix for SSL configuration. (ESR)
248 * Simon Josefsson's patch for GSS library support. (ESR)
249 * Added Andrey Lelikov's recipe for Hotmail and Lycos Webmail. (ESR)
250 * Remove blank between MAIL FROM: and <, which causes Cyrus to complain.
251 Patch by Phil Endecott. (RF)
252 * Build fixes for HESIOD and resolv.h trouble on FreeBSD. (MA)
253 * Fabrice Bellet's fix for Red Hat bug #113492, fetchmail hangs in IMAP
254 mode after EXPUNGE when the server (Dovecot 0.99.10) doesn't update
255 RECENT and EXISTS counts. (MA)
256 * Holger Mauermann's bounce patch, to use a NULL envelope from, not
257 write a Return-Path header (both to meet RFC-2821), changed From,
258 added Subject header, rewording the human readable part. Fixes Debian
260 * Merge Sunil Shetye's time.h handling fix. (MA)
261 * Merge Gerd von Egidy's patch to avoid a segfault in multidrop/received
262 mode when the Received: headers are malformatted. (MA)
263 * MIME-encode bodies and Subject headers of warning messages, limiting
264 the header to 7 bits. (MA)
265 * Normalize most locale codesets to IANA codesets, based on
266 norm_charmap.c by Markus Kuhn. (MA)
267 * Remove sleep(3) after POP3 login, patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
268 * Fix option parsing bug that trashes the showdots setting when more
269 than one server is configured. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
270 * Honor sslcertpath setting even if sslcertck is unset. Patch by Brian
272 * SSL certificate checking fixes, don't display same error message twice
273 in succession, make sure that Common Name and fingerprint checking are
274 only done once. Print all validation warnings/errors even if not in
275 verbose mode. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
276 * Import Bjorn Reese and Daniel Stenberg's MIT-licensed Trio 1.10 from
277 http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/ for systems that do not support
278 snprintf or vsnprintf. (MA)
279 * Clean up the horrible #ifdef HAVE_[V]SNPRINTF that made the code
280 unreadable. Use Trio where [v]snprintf is/are missing. (MA)
281 * Default to Linux 2.2 /proc/net/dev format, and use uname(2) to determine the
282 kernel version instead of calling uname(1). Thanks to Paul Slootman. (MA)
283 * Be more careful when swapping UID lists or writing the .fetchids file,
284 requested by Manfred Weihs. (MA)
285 * Print a warning if multidrop configuration is attempted without
286 envelope option. (MA)
287 * Split information on fetchmail versions before 6.0.0 to a separate
289 * Merge SuSE patches: (sent by Stanislav Brabec, merged by Matthias Andree)
290 - fetchmail-6.2.5-declaration.patch (double sigint_handler decl/getpass.c)
291 - fetchmail-6.2.5-implicit-declaration.patch (missing #include)
292 - fetchmail-6.2.5-random-result.patch (uninitialized variable/opie.c)
293 * Revised some bogus assertions about POP3 LAST and UIDL use in the
294 manual page. UIDL isn't flaky as the man page suggested, but a
295 reliability feature. In fact, IMAP4 code is flaky in that it relies on
296 the upstream seen flags. (MA)
297 * Miloslav Trmac's patch for fetchmailconf to support string-type values
298 of the "port" variable, avoiding "port None" corruption in .fetchmailrc.
299 To fix Redhat Bug #55623 (MA)
300 * de.po fixes from Nico Golde (MA)
301 * es.po fixes from Jesus Roncero, Debian bug #286044 (MA)
302 * sink.c fix from Cesar Eduardo Barros, to avoid double @ in address
303 when username contains an @ and the envelope sender is null, Debian
305 * configure.ac cleanups by Miloslav Trmac (MA)
306 * Miloslav Trmac's fix to reply_hack() type, for systems where
307 sizeof(int) != sizeof(size_t). (MA)
308 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for driver.c to not call the private Kerberos
309 krb5_init_ets() function. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
310 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for sink.c/transact.c to reserve sufficient
311 space for \r\n trailers in snprintf calls. Sent by Miloslav Trmac,
312 possibly fixing Red Hat bug #114470. (MA).
313 * Nalin Dahyabhai's patch to use the krb5-config script, if present.
314 Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
315 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix to make rpa.c compile. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
316 * Trivial fetchmailconf.man to redirect to fetchmail.1.
317 Reported by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
318 * Internationalization (i18n) updates by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
319 * Fix "couldn't find canonical DNS name of NN (MM)" for hosts that have
320 only IPv6 addresses. Matthias Andree.
321 * Revised INSTALL after question from Brian Candler, inet6-apps is no
322 longer available: remove inet6-apps hints for IPv6, and add some
323 apologetic message for IPsec. Note the code may be removed in a future
324 version. Matthias Andree.
325 * Brian Candler's FAQ update about SSL certificate verification. (MA)
326 * Nico Golde's patch to support "proto RPOP" in the configuration file,
327 reported by Dr. Andreas Krüger, Debian bug #242384 (MA)
328 * Skip sending POP3 PASS command when USER command failed. Matthias Andree.
329 * Run fetchmail.man through automatic spell checker. Matthias Andree.
330 * Major fetchmail(1) manual page overhaul by R. Hannes Beinert, to
331 clarify singledrop vs. multidrop operation. (MA)
332 * Make tracepolls a server option, as documented. Fixes Debian bug
333 #156094. Matthias Andree.
334 * Fix some minor inaccuracies (RFC-1893 related, grammar/spelling) in
336 * Rename ESR's design notes to esrs-design-notes.html and add a new
337 design-notes.html document. The NOTES file will contain both of them.
339 * Fix Debian bug #301964, fetchmail leaks sockets when SSL negotiation
340 fails. Fix suggested by Goswin Brederlow. (MA)
341 * Really fix Debian Bug#207919 (garbage in Received: lines when smtphost set),
342 patch by Tobias Diedrich. The 6.2.5 NEWS claimed Gregan's patch had fixed
343 #207919 but it had fixed #212484 instead and #207919 remained unfixed in
344 6.2.5. The entry below has been corrected to read #212484 now. (MA)
345 * When writing the PID file, write a FHS 2.3 compliant PID file.
346 Fixes Debian bug #230615. Matthias Andree.
347 * Make ODMR really silent, suppress "fetchmail: receiving message
348 data". Fixes Debian Bug#296163. Matthias Andree.
349 * Add From: header to warning emails. Debian Bug#244828. Matthias Andree.
350 * Fix IMAP code to use password of arbitrary length from configuration
351 file (although not when read interactively). Debian Bug#276424.
353 * Document that fetchmail may automatically enable UIDL option.
354 Debian Bug#304701. Matthias Andree.
355 * Put *BOLD* text into the manual page near --mda to state unmistakably that
356 the --mda %T and %F substitutions add single quotes, hoping to avoid bogus
357 bug reports such as Debian Bug #224564. Matthias Andree
358 * Rename lock_release to fm_lock_release, to avoid namespace collision on
359 Darwin. NetBSD PR#28543 (pkg/28543). Matthias Andree.
360 * The RFC-822 parser no longer strips the last character of bare addresses.
362 * The IP address matching code was broken and
363 1. didn't search exhaustively, but matched only the first IP address of the
364 server's queryname against the IP addresses of the server name to match.
365 2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts. Matthias Andree
366 * The "port" option, while still understood, is being replaced by the "service"
367 option, which is now supported even without --enable-inet6. Matthias Andree.
368 * The default distribution format is now bzip2. Matthias Andree.
369 * fetchmailconf redirects fetchmail's input from /dev/null so it doesn't
370 wait for the user to enter a password when the user doesn't even see
371 the prompt. Reported by Michal Marek. Matthias Andree.
372 * Write RFC-compliant BSMTP envelopes. Reported by Nico Golde. Matthias Andree.
373 * Fix --with-gssapi compilation problem. Simon Josefsson. (MA)
374 * Foster protocol-independence to support IPv6 better, for instance, providing
375 IPv6 addresses in Received: headers. Matthias Andree.
376 * Received: headers now enclose the for <...> destination address in angle
377 brackets for consistency with Postfix. Matthias Andree.
378 * Operating systems that do not support at least one of gethostbyname,
379 gethostbyname_r, getipnodebyname are no longer supported. Matthias Andree.
380 * Fixes to --with-hesiod option. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
381 * Delete oversized messages with the new --limitflush option. Debian
382 Bug#212240. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
383 * Fix MacOS X compilation failures in sink.c (ru_*time has incomplete type).
384 Berlios Bug #4725. Matthias Andree.
385 * Fix "auth ntlm" to send AUTH NTLM (rather than AUTH MSN). Add "auth msn"
386 officially. Reported by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
387 * Expunge between IMAP folders when polling multiple folders.
389 * Fix IMAP expunged message counting. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
390 * Add full support for --service option. Matthias Andree
391 * When getaddrinfo() fails resolving a service, log getaddrinfo() error. (MA)
392 * Fix bogus "cannot resolve service * to port number" error. Simon Barner. (MA)
393 * Failure to set up SSL connections now results in PS_SOCKET. Suggested by
394 Thomas Wolff. Matthias Andree.
395 * Kerberos IV detection fix for FreeBSD 4. Simon Barner. (MA)
396 * Fix display and documentation of --envelope option. Matthias Andree
397 * Make "envelope 'Delivered-To'" work with dropdelivered. Timothy Lee. (MA)
398 * Add -DBIND_8_COMPAT to Darwin (MacOS X) compiles, to fix build problems on
399 newer Darwin versions. Matthias Andree.
400 * fetchmail should now automatically detect if OpenSSL requires -ldl.
402 * Fix Solaris build with --disable-nls (blastwave.org). Matthias Andree.
403 * Missed --port/--service/--ssl cleanups in the manual. Reminder from Thomas
405 * Complain in POP3 if NTLM/MSN auth is requested but had not been enabled at
406 compile time. This configuration mismatch now causes an error message and
407 authentication failure. Found by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
408 * fetchmailconf now allows expert users to choose the authorization type and
409 also offers MSN and NTLM, suggested by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
410 * fetchmailconf now (as of 1.49) writes its version to the comment of the
411 saved run control file. Matthias Andree
412 * Properly shut down SSL connections. Berlios Patch #647 by Arkadiusz
414 * Global variable cleanup, to fix daemon mode reinitialization problems. Patch
415 by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
416 * fetchmailconf -h documents the fetchmailconf -h option. Matthias Andree
417 * fetchmailconf -V now prints the fetchmailconf version. Matthias Andree
418 * Add support for SubjectAltName (RFC-2595 or 2818), to avoid bogus certificate
419 mismatch errors. Patch by Roland Stigge, Debian Bug#201113. (MA)
420 * make fetchmail --silent --quit really silent, Debian Bug #229014 by Dr.
421 Andreas Krüger. Matthias Andree
422 * cleanup --quit handling again (so that --silent --quit just kills the
423 existing daemon, rather than continue running), and document it more clearly.
425 * Print an error message if multiple "defaults" records are found in the
426 configuration file. Matthias Andree
427 * Bury on_exit officially - the necessary code had been missing from 6.0.0,
428 6.2.0, 6.2.5. Matthias Andree
429 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be read. Matthias Andree
430 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be created exclusively, this got
431 broken in a 6.2.6-pre, 6.2.5.2 and older were fine. Matthias Andree
432 * Do not break some other process's lockfile in "-q" mode, but wait for the
433 other process's exit. Matthias Andree
434 * Man page: --sslfingerprint points user to x509(1ssl) and gives an example
435 how to use it. Debian Bug#213484, Eduard Bloch. (MA)
436 * fetchmailconf now sets the service properly after autoprobe. Fixes Debian
437 Bug#320645. Matthias Andree
438 * Man page: Fix Debian Bug#241883, making global options more clear. Matt
439 Swift, Matthias Andree.
440 * When eating IMAP message trailer, don't see any line containing "OK" as the
441 end of the trailer, but wait for the proper tagged OK line. To work around
442 the qmail + Courier-IMAP problem in Debian Bug#338007. Matthias Andree
443 * Fix Debian Bug#317761: when trying to send a bounce message, don't bail out
444 if we cannot qualify our own hostname, so we aren't losing the bounce.
445 Instead, pass the buck on to the SMTP server and use our own unqualified
446 hostname. Matthias Andree
447 * Revise some error messages so they are less confusing. Sunil Shetye.
448 * Man page: update --smtphost documentation. Sunil Shetye, Matthias Andree.
449 * Man page: clarify --loghost works only while detached. Matthias Andree
450 * Man page: update --smtpaddress documentation. Sunil Shetye.
451 * Fix several memory leaks and bugs in the SMTP/LMTP retry logic where
452 fetchmail confused UNIX and Internet domain sockets. Sunil Shetye.
453 * Man page (BUGS): document that passwords are length limited. Matthias Andree
454 * Man page: Document that quoted strings that run across line boundaries
455 contain the control characters (CR or LF). Document explicitly the backslash
456 escape sequences and their differences from the escape sequences used in the
457 C programming language. Matthias Andree
458 * Fix segfault when run control file ends with a backslash inside an
459 unterminated quoted string. Matthias Andree.
460 * In quoted strings, support backslash as last character on a line to join the
461 following line to the current. Matthias Andree.
462 * Parsing untagged IMAP responses is more robust now. Matthias Andree.
463 * Man page: Remove some procmail praises in --mda documentation, suggest
464 maildrop instead, warn of procmail fallthrough behavior. Matthias Andree.
465 * Man page: Revise AUTHORS and SEE ALSO sections. Matthias Andree.
466 * Updated translations: Albanian [sq] (Besnik Bleta), Catalan [ca] (Ernest
467 Adrogué Calveras), Czech [cs] (Miloslav Trmac), German [de] (MA),
468 Spanish (Castilian) [es] (Javier Kohen), French [fr] (MA),
469 Polish [pl] (Jakub Bogusz), Russian [ru] (Pavel Maryanov).
470 * In oversized warning messages, print the account name, too. Fixes Debian
471 Bug#213299. Sunil Shetye (MA).
472 * Fix installation without Python. Sunil Shetye, reported by Peter Church. (MA)
473 * Update Japanese translation. Fixes Debian Bug#329342, Takeshi Hamasaki. (MA)
474 * Fix imap.c size safeguard that broke on x86_64 architecture. Matthias Andree
475 * The FAQ is now available for duplex DIN A4 printing in PDF format.
476 Don't bother to ask for a Letter version, I don't care. Matthias Andree
477 * Man page: Use \- in the manual page where appropriate so that copy & paste
478 works. I hope we got them all. Héctor García, Matthias Andree.
481 * Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
482 * Got rid of alloca() in fetchmail proper. Matthias Andree
483 * Got rid of ipv6-connect, inner_connect and thereabouts. Matthias Andree
485 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
487 fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:
489 * Updated Spanish, Turkish, and German translation files.
490 * Matthew Gregan's patch to handle garbage lengths from dbmail;
491 closes Debian bug #212484.
492 * Fix IMAP query so new-message count doesn't include deleted messages.
493 * Man page typo fix, closes Debian bug #205892.
494 * OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl@acm.org.
495 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
496 flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
497 * Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of
499 * Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
500 * Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
501 * Sunil Shetye's patches to break up fetching of sizes and UIDLs.
503 There are 599 people on fetchmail-friends and 748 on fetchmail-announce.
505 fetchmail-6.2.4 (Wed Aug 13 04:27:35 EDT 2003), 22625 lines:
507 * Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
508 * IDLE is now supported using NOOP commands even if the server doesn't support
509 the IMAP IDLE extension. Patch by Chris Boyle.
510 * Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
511 * Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
512 * Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
513 * Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
514 * Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.
516 There are 585 people on fetchmail-friends and 745 on fetchmail-announce.
518 fetchmail-6.2.3 (Thu Jul 17 14:53:00 EDT 2003), 22490 lines:
520 * French, German, Danish, Spanish, and Turkish translations updated.
521 * Brian Sammon's patch to deal with malformed message lines containing NULs.
522 * Fai's patch to ignore all but the first Return-Path (some spams have
523 more than one of these).
524 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to properly byte-stuff when talking to BSMTP.
525 Fixes Debian bug #184469.
526 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to enable auth=cram-md5.
527 Fixes Debian bug #185232.
528 * Sunil Shetye's configure.in patch to avoid spurious search order messages
530 * Header-reading code now copes better with lines ending in \n only.
531 * Elias Israel's patches for POP3 NTLM support and dealing with byte-
532 stuffing failures at socket level.
534 There are 580 people on fetchmail-friends and 750 on fetchmail-announce.
536 fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:
538 * Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior on empty messages.
539 * Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful
540 STARTTLS negotiation.
541 * Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
542 * Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security.
543 * Christophe GIAUME <christophe@giaume.com> finished the implementation
545 * Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
546 * Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
547 * Fix for Debian bug #108977, clean up config file evaluation,
550 There are 554 people on fetchmail-friends and 727 on fetchmail-announce.
552 fetchmail-6.2.1 (Tue Jan 14 08:17:19 EST 2003), 22219 lines:
554 * Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
555 * Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
556 * Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check,
557 we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
558 * Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.
560 There are 536 people on fetchmail-friends and 716 on fetchmail-announce.
562 fetchmail-6.2.0 (Fri Dec 13 00:10:07 EST 2002), 22235 lines:
564 * Applied Steffen Esser's fix for a buffer-overflow bug in rfc822.c
565 * Updated Danish, German, and Turkish translation files.
566 * Sunil Shetye's SMTP timeout patch.
568 There are 538 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
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572 fetchmail-6.1.3 (Thu Nov 28 05:35:15 EST 2002), 22203 lines:
574 * Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
575 * Added Slovak support.
576 * Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas).
577 * Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
578 * Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
579 * Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
580 * Sunil's fix for the STARTTLS problem -- repoll if TLS nabdshake
581 fails. The attempt to set up STARTTLS can be suppressed with 'sslproto ""'.
583 There are 540 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
585 fetchmail-6.1.2 (Thu Oct 31 11:41:02 EST 2002), 22135 lines:
587 * Jan Klaverstijn's verbosity-lowering patch.
588 * Updated Turkish, German, Catalan, and Danish translation files.
589 * Fix processing of POP3 messages with missing bodies.
590 * Minor fixes by Sunil Shetye: fix generation of auth fail note, handle
591 unexpected SIGALRM, plug memory leak, handle lines beginning with '\0',
592 try to bulletproof error handling against read failures.
594 There are 535 people on fetchmail-friends and 696 on fetchmail-announce.
596 fetchmail-6.1.1 (Fri Oct 18 14:53:51 EDT 2002), 22087 lines:
598 * OTP fix patches from Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
599 * fix patch for writing antispam capability correctly in conf.c.
600 * Fix patches for Debian bugs #162571, #156592.
601 * Correction to manpage re -b and qmail.
602 * Patch to disable use of STLS if auth passwd is specified.
603 * Fix specfile generation to handle SSL correctly.
604 * New Danish, Turkish, and Catalan translation files.
605 * Improved ODMR debug messages.
606 * IMAP efficiency hack; don't fetch sizes unless needed.
607 * Detect and rewrite invalid return paths beginning with @.
608 * Fix for subtle freeing bug that suppressed information in some bounce msgs.
609 * Newline fix patches for internationalization files.
610 * Fix reversed test guarding authentication-failure warnings.
611 * Fix POP3 breakage starting at 5.9.14.
613 There are 529 people on fetchmail-friends and 693 on fetchmail-announce.
615 fetchmail-6.1.0 (Sun Sep 22 18:31:23 EDT 2002), 21999 lines:
617 * Updated French translation.
618 * Stefan Esser's fix for potential remote vulnerability in multidrop mode.
619 This is an important security fix!
621 There are 519 people on fetchmail-friends and 680 on fetchmail-announce.
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625 fetchmail-6.0.0 (Tue Sep 17 19:48:25 EDT 2002), 21972 lines:
627 * Applied Matt Kraai's fix for minor Debian bug #144539.
628 * Nerijus Baliunas's patch to support STARTTLS over IMAP.
629 * More cleanups and minor bugfixes from Sunil Shetye.
630 * Default antispam-response list is now empty.
631 * Updated de and po translations.
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635 There are 520 people on fetchmail-friends and 683 on fetchmail-announce.
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