1 Fetchmail Release Notes
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4 This file is in Unicode charset with UTF-8 encoding.
5 All dates are in Universal Time unless otherwise noted.
7 (The `lines' figures total .c, .h, .l, and .y files under version control.
8 Abbreviations in parentheses are the maintainers who committed the respective
9 change. MA = Matthias Andree, ESR = Eric S. Raymond, RF = Rob Funk.)
11 # ADVANCE WARNING OF FEATURES TO BE REMOVED OR CHANGED IN FUTURE VERSIONS
12 (There are no plans to remove features from a 6.3.X release, but they may be
13 removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.)
14 * The MX and host alias DNS lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode
15 are based on assumptions that are rarely met in practice, somewhat defective,
16 deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version.
17 They have never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4).
18 Non-DNS based alias keywords such as "aka" will remain in fetchmail.
19 * The monitor and interface options may be removed from a future fetchmail
20 version as they are not reasonably portable across operating systems.
21 * POP2 is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail version.
22 * IMAP2 and IMAP4 (not IMAP4r1) are obsolete, support may be removed from a
23 future fetchmail version.
24 * RPOP is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail release.
25 * --sslcertck will become a default setting in a future fetchmail version.
26 * The multidrop To/Cc guessing code along with the fragile duplicate suppressor
27 is deprecated and may be removed from a future release.
28 * The "envelope Received" option may be removed from a future release, because
29 the Received header was never meant to be machine-readable, the format varies
30 widely, and various other differences in behavior make parsing Received an
31 unreliable undertaking. The envelope option as such will remain though, in
32 order to support Delivered-To, X-Envelope-To, X-Original-To and similar.
33 See also <http://home.pages.de/~mandree/mail/multidrop>.
34 * The --enable-fallback (fall back to MDA if MTA unavailable) will be removed
35 from a future fetchmail release, because it makes fetchmail's behavior
36 inconsistent and confusing.
37 * The "protocol auto" default inside fetchmail may be removed from a future
38 fetchmail release. Explicit configuration of the protocol is recommended.
39 * Kerberos IV support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
40 * Kerberos 5 support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
41 * The --principal option may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
42 * SIGHUP wakeup support may be removed from a future fetchmail release and
43 cause fetchmail to terminate - it was broken for many years.
44 * Support for operating systems that are not sufficiently POSIX compliant may be
45 removed or operation on such systems may be suboptimal for future releases.
46 This means that fetchmail may only continue to work on C99 and POSIX 2001
48 * The maintainer may migrate fetchmail to C++ with STL or C#, and impose further
49 requirements (dependencies), such as Boost or other class libraries.
50 * The softbounce option default will change to "false" in the next release.
51 * The --bsmtp - mode of operation may be removed in a future release.
52 * Given that OpenSSL is severely underdocumented, and needs license exceptions,
53 fetchmail may switch to a different SSL library.
55 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
57 fetchmail-6.3.20 (not yet released):
60 * fetchmail no longer supports SSL v2, nor the corresponding SSL2 option to
61 --sslproto. SSLv2 is insecure and had been deprecated 15 years ago. fetchmail
62 will actively forbid SSLv2 negotiation by means of SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2.
63 To fix Debian Bug#622054.
64 * fetchmail now always uses its own MD5 implementation. The library and header
65 variants are too diverse, and we've been bitten before -- and configure
66 complains noisily on Cyrus-SASL's RFC1321 md5.h.
67 * fetchmail now supports an environment variable to suppress marking deleted
68 messages as seen at the same time, FETCHMAIL_IMAP_DELETED_REMAINS_UNSEEN.
69 See the manual page for details. Requested by Jonathan Buschmann.
70 * fetchmail sets Internet domain sockets to "keepalive" mode now. Note that
71 there is no portable way to configure actual timeouts for this mode, and some
72 systems only support a system-wide timeout setting.
75 * Call strlen() only once when removing CRLF from a line. (Sunil Shetye)
76 * Do not search for UNSEEN messages in ranges. Usually, there are very few new
77 messages and most of the range searches result in nothing. Instead, split the
78 long response to make the IMAP driver think that there are multiple lines of
79 response. (Sunil Shetye)
80 * Do not print "skipping message" for old messages even in verbose mode. If
81 there are too many old messages, the logs just get filled without any real
82 activity. (Sunil Shetye) (suggested by Yunfan Jiang)
85 [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
88 fetchmail-6.3.19 (released 2010-12-10, 25945 LoC):
90 # ERRATUM NOTICE ISSUED
91 * fetchmail 6.3.18 contains several bug fixes that were considered sufficiently
92 grave to warrant the issue of an erratum notice, fetchmail-EN-2010-03.txt.
95 * When specifying multiple local multidrop lists, do not lose wildcard flag.
96 (Affects "user foo is bar baz * is joe here")
97 * In multidrop configurations, an asterisk can now appear anywhere in the list
98 of local users, not just at the end.
99 * In multidrop mode, header parsing is now more verbose in -vv mode, so that it
100 becomes possible to see which header is used.
101 * Make --antispam work from command line (these used to work in rcfiles).
102 Reported by Kees Bakker, BerliOS Bug #17599. (Sunil Shetye)
103 * Smoke test XHTML 1.1 validation, and if it fails, skip validating HTML
104 documents. Skip validating Mailbox-Names-UTF7.html. Several systems have
105 broken XHTML 1.1 DTD installations that jeopardize the build.
106 Reported by Mihail Nechkin against FreeBSD port.
107 Workaround for 6.3.18: build in a separate directory, i. e:
108 mkdir build && cd build && ../configure --options-go-here
109 * Send a NOOP only after a failed STARTTLS in IMAP. (Sunil Shetye)
110 * Demote GSSAPI verbose/debug syslog to INFO severity. Requested by Carlos E. R.
111 and Derek Simkowiak via the fetchmail-users@ mailing list.
112 * Do STARTTLS/STLS negotiation in IMAP/POP3 if it is mandatory even if the
113 server capabilities do not show support for upgradation to TLS.
114 To use this, configure --sslproto tls1. (Sunil Shetye)
115 * IMAP: Understand empty strings as FETCH response, seen on Yahoo. Reported by
116 Yasin Malli to fetchmail-users@ 2010-12-10.
117 Note that fetchmail continues to expect literals as FETCH response for now.
120 * The manual page now links to IANA for GSSAPI service names.
122 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
123 [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
124 [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
126 [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
127 [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
129 # KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS
130 (this section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the
131 current release information - however, it was stuck with 6.3.8 for a while)
132 * fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
133 (See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
134 * BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output.
135 * Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in
136 64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit
137 fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code,
138 so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties.
139 * fetchmail does not track pending deletes over crashes.
140 * the command line interface is sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance,
141 fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running.
142 * Linux systems may return duplicates of an IP address in some circumstances if
143 no or no global IPv6 addresses are configured.
144 (No workaround. Ubuntu Bug#582585, Novell Bug#606980.)
145 * Kerberos 5 may be broken, particularly on Heimdal, and provide bogus error
146 messages. This will not be fixed, because the maintainer has no Kerberos 5
147 server to test against. Use GSSAPI.
150 fetchmail-6.3.18 (released 2010-10-09, 25936 LoC):
152 # SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS TO DEFANG X.509 CERTIFICATE ABUSE
153 * Fetchmail now only accepts wildcard certificate common names and subject
154 alternative names if they start with "*.". Previous versions would accept
155 wildcards even if no period followed immediately.
156 * Fetchmail now disallows wildcards in certificates to match domain literals
157 (such as 10.9.8.7), or wildcards in domain literals ("*.168.23.23").
158 The test is overly picky and triggers if the pattern (after skipping the
159 initial wildcard "*") or domain consists solely of digits and dots, and thus
160 matches more than needed.
161 * Fetchmail now disallows wildcarding top-level domains.
163 # CRITICAL BUG FIXES AND REGRESSION FIXES
164 * Fetchmail 6.3.15, 6.3.16, and 6.3.17 would pick up libmd5 to obtain MD5*
165 functions, as an effect of an undocumented Solaris MD5 fix.
166 This caused all MD5-related functions to malfunction if, for instance,
167 libmd5.so was installed on other operating systems as part of libwww on
168 machines where long isn't 32-bits, i. e. usually on 64-bit computers.
169 Fixes Gentoo Bug #319283, reported, including libwww hint, by Karl Hakimian.
170 Side effect: fetchmail will now use -lmd on Solaris rather than -lmd5.
171 * Fetchmail 6.3.17 warned about insecure SSL/TLS connections even if a matching
172 --sslfingerprint was specified. This is an omission from an SSL usability
173 change made in 6.3.17.
174 Fixes Debian Bug#580796 reported by Roland Stigge.
175 * Fetchmail will now apply timeouts to the authentication stage.
176 This stage encompasses STARTTLS/STLS negotiation in IMAP/POP3.
177 Reported missing by Thomas Jarosch.
178 * Fetchmail now cancels GSSAPI authentication properly when encountering GSS
179 errors, such as no or unsuitable credentials.
180 It now sends an asterisk on a line by its own, as required in SASL.
181 This fixes protocol synchronization issues that cause Authentication
182 failures, often observed with kerberized MS Exchange servers.
183 Fixes Debian Bug #568455 reported by Patrick Rynhart, and Alan Murrell, to the
184 fetchmail-users list. Fix verified by Thomas Voigtmann and Patrick Rynhart.
187 * Fetchmail will no longer print connection attempts and errors for one host
188 in "silent" and "normal" logging modes, unless all connections fail. This
189 should reduce irritation around refused-connection logging if services are
190 only on an IPv4 socket if the host also supports IPv6. Often observed as
191 connections refused to ::1/25 when the subsequent connection to 127.0.0.1/25
192 then - silently - succeeds. Fetchmail, unless in verbose mode, will collect
193 all connect errors and only report them if all of them fail.
194 * Fetchmail will not try GSSAPI authentication automatically, unless it has GSS
195 credentials. However, if GSSAPI authentication is requested explicitly,
196 fetchmail will always try it.
197 * Fetchmail now parses response to "FETCH n:m RFC822.SIZE" and "FETCH n
198 RFC822.HEADER" in a more flexible manner. (Sunil Shetye)
199 * The manual page clearly states that --principal is for Kerberos 4 only, not
200 for Kerberos 5 or GSSAPI. Found by Thomas Voigtmann.
203 * When encountering incorrect headers, fetchmail will refer to the bad-header
204 option in the manpage.
205 Fixes BerliOS Bug #17272, change suggested by Björn Voigt.
206 * Fetchmail now decodes and reports GSSAPI status codes upon errors.
207 * Fetchmail now autoprobes NTLM also for POP3.
208 * The Fetchmail FAQ has a new item #R15 on authentication failures.
211 * The common NTLM authentication code was factored out from pop3.c and imap.c.
213 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
214 [zh_CN] Chinese/simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
215 [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
216 [nl] Dutch (Erwin Poeze)
217 [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
219 [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
220 [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
221 [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
222 [sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka)
225 fetchmail-6.3.17 (released 2010-05-06, 25767 LoC):
228 * CVE-2010-1167: Fetchmail before release 6.3.17 did not properly sanitize
229 external input (mail headers and UID). When a multi-character locale (such as
230 UTF-8) was in use, this could cause memory exhaustion and thus a denial of
231 service, because fetchmail's report.c functions assumed that non-success of
232 [v]snprintf was due to insufficient buffer size allocation. It would then
233 repeatedly reallocate a larger buffer and fail formatting again.
234 See fetchmail-SA-2010-02.txt.
237 * Fetchmail now supports a --sslcertfile <file> option to specify a "CA bundle"
238 file (a file that contains trusted CA certificates). Since these bundled CA
239 files do not require c_rehash to be run, they are easier to use and immune to
240 OpenSSL library updates that affect the hash function.
241 * Fetchmail now supports a FETCHMAIL_INCLUDE_DEFAULT_X509_CA_CERTS
242 environment variable to force loading the default SSL CA certificate
243 locations even if --sslcertfile or --sslcertpath is used.
244 If neither option is in effect, fetchmail loads the default locations.
247 * Fix string handling in rcfile scanner, which caused fetchmail to misparse a
248 run control file in certain circumstances. Fixes BerliOS bug #14257.
249 Patch by Michael Banack. This fixes a regression introduced before 6.3.0.
252 * Plug memory leak when using a "defaults" entry in the run control file.
253 * Do not print SSL certificate mismatches unless verbose or --sslcertck is
255 * Do not lose "set invisible" in fetchmailconf. (Michael Barnack)
258 * Usability: SSL certificate chains are fully printed in -v -v mode, and there
259 are now helpful pointers to --sslcertpath and c_rehash for "unable to get
260 local issuer certificate" and self-signed certificates -- these usually hint
261 to missing root signing CAs in the certs directory.
262 * Several fixes for compiler (GCC, Intel C++, CLang) and autotools warnings
263 * Memory allocation failures will now cause abnormal program abort (SIGABRT),
264 no longer an exit with unspecified code.
265 * Print a warning if certificate verification failed and the user did not
269 * Fix table of global option to read "set softbounce" where there used to be a
270 2nd copy of "set spambounce". Patch by Michael Banack, BerliOS Bug #17067.
271 * In the --sslcertpath description, mention that OpenSSL upgrade (and a 0.9.X
272 to 1.0.0 upgrade in particular) may require running c_rehash.
274 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
275 [zh_CN] Chinese/simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
276 [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
277 [nl] Dutch (Erwin Poeze)
278 [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
280 [id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
281 [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
282 [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
283 [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
284 [sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka)
285 [vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
288 fetchmail-6.3.16 (released 2010-04-06, 25574 LoC):
291 * Fix --interface option, broken in 6.3.15. Reported by Vladmimir Stavrinov.
292 Fixes Debian Bug #576717.
295 * Call OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms(). This is needed to support non-mandatory
296 and non-standard algorithms in certificates.
297 Sjoerd Simons, to fix Debian Bug #576430.
298 OpenSSL 0.9.8* does not load - for instance - the SHA256 digest by default.
299 Reported as OpenSSL RT#2224.
302 fetchmail-6.3.15 (released 2010-03-28, 25572 LoC):
305 * Fetchmail now supports a bad-header command line or rcfile option that takes
306 exactly one argument, accept or reject (default). This specifies how messages
307 with bad headers retrieved from the current server are to be treated.
310 * In the rcfile, recognize "local" as abbreviation for "localdomains", as
311 documented. The short form has not ever worked since this feature was added in
312 January 1997. Reported by Frédéric Marchal.
313 * Do not close stdout when using mda and "bsmtp -" at the same time.
314 * Log operating system errors when BSMTP writes fail.
315 * Fix verbose mode progress formatting regression from 6.3.10; SMTP trace lines
316 were no longer on a line of their own. Reported by Melchior Franz.
317 * Check seteuid() return value and abort running MDA if switch fails.
318 * Set global flags in a consistent manner. Make --nosoftbounce and
319 --nobounce work from command line (these used to work in rcfiles).
320 Reported and fix confirmed working by N.J. Mann. (Sunil Shetye)
321 * Properly import h_errno declarations, even on systems where h_errno isn't a
322 macro. (Adds ./configure check, fixes Cygwin dllimport warnings.)
325 * The repository has been converted and moved from the Subversion (SVN) format
326 kindly hosted by Graham Wilson over the past years to Git format hosted on
327 Gitorious.org. My deepest thanks to Graham Wilson for this service that
328 kept us going when BerliOS's Subversion service was faulty in its early days.
329 * This opportunity was used to convert BRANCH_6-2 and BRANCH_1-9-9 to
330 GnuPG-signed tags, as a sign that these are now closed.
331 * The outdated SVN trunk is now called "oldtrunk" in Git just to save the work
332 for future reference. All development in the past few years was on BRANCH_6-3.
333 * master was branched from BRANCH_6-3. BRANCH_6-3 is now obsolete (and in fact
334 was also converted to a tag to record where the conversion from SVN to Git
336 * "make check" now skips HTML validation if xmllint or XHTML DTD are missing.
339 * Web site and documentation were adjusted to reflect the SVN->Git move.
340 * The fetchmail manual page is now much clearer on the user id switching
341 (seteuid) when using --mda while running as the super user.
343 # TRANSLATION UPDATES, by language name
344 * [zh_CN] Chinese (Simplified), by Ji Zheng-Yu
345 * [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
346 * [nl] Dutch, by Erwin Poeze
347 * [fr] French, by Frédéric Marchal
349 * [id] Indonesian, by Andhika Padmawan
350 * [it] Italian, by Vincenzo Campanella
351 * [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
352 * [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
353 * [vi] Vietnamese, by Clytie Siddall
356 fetchmail 6.3.14 (released 2010-02-05, 25487 LoC):
359 * CVE-2010-0562: SSL/TLS certificate information is now also reported properly
360 on computers that consider the "char" type signed. Fixes malloc() buffer
361 overrun. Workaround for older versions: do not use verbose mode.
362 See fetchmail-SA-2010-01.txt for details, including a minimal patch.
365 * The IMAP client no longer skips messages from several IMAP servers including
366 Dovecot if fetchmail's "idle" is in use. Causes were that fetchmail (a)
367 ignored some untagged responses when it should not (b) relied on EXISTS
368 messages in response to EXPUNGE, which aren't mandated by RFC-3501 (the IMAP
369 standard) and aren't sent by Dovecot either.
370 Fix by Sunil Shetye (the fix also consolidates IMAP response handling,
371 improving overall robustness of the IMAP client), bug report and testing by
372 Matt Doran, with further hints from Timo Sirainen.
373 * The SMTP client now recovers from errors (such as servers dropping the
374 connection after errors) when sending an RSET command.
375 Fix by Sunil Shetye. Report by James Moe.
376 * The IMAP client now uses "SEARCH UNSEEN" rather than "SEARCH UNSEEN NOT
377 DELETED" again on IMAP2, to fix a regression in fetchmail 6.2.5 reported by
378 Will Stringer in June 2004. (Sunil Shetye)
379 * The IMAP client now uses "SEARCH UNSEEN UNDELETED" on IMAP4 and IMAP4r1
380 servers (Sunil Shetye).
381 * Workaround: The IMAP client now falls back to "FETCH n:m FLAGS" if the server
382 does not support "SEARCH". (Sunil Shetye)
383 * The IMAP client now requests message numbers in batches of 1,000 to avoid
384 problems if there are more than 1860 unseen messages. (Sunil Shetye)
385 Note that this wasn't security relevant because fetchmail would only read up
386 to the maximum buffer size and leave the remainder of the string unread, going
387 out of synch afterwards.
388 * Stricter validation of IMAP responses containing byte or message counts.
391 * Only include gssapi.h if we're not including gssapi/gssapi.h, to fix a FreeBSD
392 compiler warning about gssapi.h being obsolete.
395 * The README.SSL document was revised for grammar, spelling, and clarity.
396 Courtesy of Robert Mullin.
398 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
399 * [it] Italian, by Vincenzo Campanella
403 fetchmail 6.3.13 (released 2009-10-30, 25333 LoC):
406 * The multiline SMTP error fix in release 6.3.12 caused fetchmail to lose
407 message codes 400..599 and treat all of these as temporary error. This would
408 cause messages to be left on the server even if softbounce was turned off.
409 Reported by Thomas Jarosch.
411 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
412 * [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
413 * [zh_CN] Chinese (simplified), by Ji ZhengYu
414 * [nl] Dutch, by Erwin Poeze
415 * [id] Indonesian, by Andhika Padmawan
416 * [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
417 * [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
418 * [es] Spanish (Castilian), by Franciso Molinero
419 * [vi] Vietnamese, by Clytie Siddall
422 fetchmail 6.3.12 (released 2009-10-05):
425 * The CVE-2009-2666 fix in fetchmail release 6.3.11 caused a free() of
426 unallocated memory on SSL connections, which caused crashes or program aborts
427 on some systems (depending on how initialization and free() of unallocated
428 memory is handled in compiler and libc).
429 Workaround for older versions: run in verbose mode.
430 Patch courtesy of Thomas Heinz, fixes Gentoo Bug #280760.
431 This regression affected only the 6.3.11 release, but not the patch that was
432 part of the security announcement fetchmail-SA-2009-01.
435 * Fix error reporting for GSSAPI on Heimdal (h5l) Kerberos.
436 * Look for MD5_Init in libcrypto rather than libssl, fixes Gentoo Kerberos
437 builds; fixes upstream parts of Gentoo Bugs #231400 and #185652, and fixes
439 * Report multiline SMTP errors properly, reported by Earl Chew; fixes Debian Bug
440 #529899, reported by Akihiro Terasaki.
441 Note: This fix introduced a regression, fixed in 6.3.13.
442 * Replace control characters in SMTP replies by '?'.
443 * Fetchmailconf: Fix descriptions for smtpaddress and smtpname options;
444 smtpaddress is for RCPT TO, not MAIL FROM. Found by Gerard Seibert.
446 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
447 * [ca] Catalan (Ernest Adrogué Calveras)
448 * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
449 * [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
450 * [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
451 * [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
452 * [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
453 * [vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
456 fetchmail 6.3.11 (released 2009-08-06):
459 * CVE-2009-2666: SSL NUL prefix impersonation attack through NULs in a
460 part of a X.509 certificate's CommonName and subjectAltName fields. These
461 fields use opaque strings with a separate length field, so that the NUL
462 character isn't a special character inside the certificate. Fetchmail, being
463 written in the C language, used to treat these strings as C strings
464 nonetheless, so that the domain comparison would end at the first embedded NUL
465 character, rather than at the real end of the string.
466 Fetchmail will now abort certificate verification as failed if NULs are
467 encountered inside either of these fields regardless of their position, and
468 drop the connection even if --sslcertck is not used, because NUL is not a
469 valid character in legitimate DNS names.
470 See fetchmail-SA-2009-01.txt for details, including a minimal patch.
473 * Remove the spurious message "message delimiter found while scanning headers".
474 RFC-5322 syntax states that the delimiter is part of the body, and the body is
476 * Convert all non-printable characters in certificate Subject/Issuer
477 Common Name or Subject Alternative Name fields to ANSI-C hex escapes (\xnn,
478 where nn are hex digits).
479 Note that this change introduces a regression, fixed in 6.3.12.
480 See the 6.3.12 documentation above for details and a workaround.
482 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
483 * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
484 * [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
487 fetchmail 6.3.10 (released 2009-07-02):
489 # INCOMPATIBLE BUGFIXES AND CHANGES
490 * Fetchmail no longer drops permanently undelivered messages by default, to
491 match historic documentation. It does this by adding a new "softbounce"
493 Fixes Debian Bug#471283, demotes Debian Bug#494418 to wishlist.
494 * There is a new "softbounce" global option that prevents the deletion of
495 messages that have not been forwarded. It defaults to "true" for fetchmail
496 6.3.X in order to match historic documentation. This may change its default
497 in the next major release.
500 * Fix misuse of canonical autoconf target as _TARGET when it should have been
501 _HOST. Report and patch courtesy of Diego E. "Flameeyes" Pettenò.
502 Details: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/01/01/the-canonical-target
503 * Do not lose PS_MAXFETCH (13) exit status when hitting maxpoll. Reported by
504 Michelle Konzack, Debian Bug#508667.
505 * Do not overlap source and destination fields in snprintf() in interface.c.
506 Courtesy of Nico Golde, Debian.
507 * When a pre- or post-connect command fails, now report the exit status or
508 termination signal properly through sys/wait.h macros.
509 * When acquiring a body, understand NIL ("no such data item"), as returned by
510 some MS Exchange versions. Fixes BerliOS Bug #11980 by KB Sriram.
511 * Make progress tickers (-v/--showdots) consistent, and update documentation
512 accordingly ("." for each 1024 octets read, "#" for a header written, and "*"
513 for each body line written.)
514 The conditions under which these had been printed were inconsistent,
515 illogical, and documentation hadn't matched real behaviour for long.
516 * For NTLM authentication, use dynamically allocated buffers.
517 Fixes Debian Bug#449179, reported by Stepan Golosunov.
518 * Non-delivery notice ("bounce mail") now mentions the original reason again,
519 before the address list. This fixes a regression introduced in 6.3.0.
520 * Several compiler warnings were fixed.
521 * The minimum recommended SMTP (RFC-5321) timeouts are enforced to leave
522 sufficient time for the listener to respond. Some synchronous listeners,
523 particularly when used with spam filtering and other policy enforcement
524 services, take extended amounts of time to process messages after the sender,
525 recipient, or data block and EOM line. This can cause fetchmail to not wait
526 long enough for the "250 Ok" and make fetchmail believe the message wasn't
527 properly delivered when in fact it was; fetchmail would then retry the
528 download next time and never make progress.
529 Fixes Berlios Bug #10972, reported by Viktor Binzberger.
530 * The ESMTP/LMTP client will now apply an application-specific timeout while
531 waiting for the EHLO/LHLO response, rather than wait for the server or TCP
533 * Treat 530 errors as temporary, so as not to delete messages on configuration
534 errors. Partially taken from Petr Cerny's patch in Novell Bugzilla #246829.
535 The 501 part of said patch was not added, as the maintainer is not convinced
536 501 is a temporary condition, and softbounce takes care of this anyways.
539 * Make the comparison of the SSL fingerprints case insensitive, to
540 ease its use. Suggested by Daniel Richard G.
541 * Proper precedence ordering for the syslog and logfile options. If the logfile
542 option is effective (i. e. we're in daemon mode and nodetach isn't used),
543 reset the syslog option. If logfile is ineffective (we're not in daemon mode,
544 or nodetach is set), syslog takes precedence.
545 * The sleeping at/awakened at messages appear in logfiles and syslog only if
546 verbose mode is enabled. On the console, they will still appear without
547 verbose mode. Fixes Debian Bug#282259.
548 * fetchmail only requests IPv6 addresses via name service if at least one is
549 configured on the local host, likewise for IPv4. (AI_ADDRCONFIG flag to
550 getaddrinfo()) Extended version of Redhat's patch.
551 * If the server name contains "yahoo.com", offers the "ID" capability, and we're
552 polling via IMAP, send an ID ("guid" "1") transaction first, ignoring its
553 result. This appears needed to be able to log into Yahoo's Zimbra servers, but
554 there are open issues (such as being only able to download one message and
555 server certificate mismatches).
558 * Fix bashism in contrib/fetchsetup. Fixes Debian Bug#530081.
561 * Some parts of the the manual page were revised for clarity, accuracy, and
562 updated recommendations (particularly SSL/TLS) and formatting conventions from
564 * The README and README.SSL documents were updated.
565 * A document, README.SSL-SERVER, was added to describe server-side requirements
566 for proper SSL and/or TLS service offerings. These are not specific to
568 * Documentation on how to make "NOMAIL" (exit code 1) not treated an error has
569 been added to the EXIT CODES section of the manpage and to the FAQ as item C8.
570 The suggested solution uses a tiny POSIX shell script fragment.
571 Fixes Debian Bug #530749, filed by Reuben Thomas.
573 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
574 * [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
575 * [en_GB] English/British
577 * [id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
578 * [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
579 * [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
580 * [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
581 * [ru] Russian (Pavel Maryanov), fixing Debian Bug #531925
582 * [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
583 * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
586 fetchmail 6.3.9 (released 2008-11-16):
588 # SECURITY AND CRITICAL BUG FIXES:
589 * CVE-2007-4565: Denial of service: When fetchmail tries to inject a warning
590 message it created itself, and the message is refused by the SMTP listener,
591 fetchmail dereferences a NULL pointer and crashes. Report & fix by Earl Chew.
592 Note while this is theoretically a remote denial of service attack vector,
593 fetchmail by default talks SMTP to the localhost, so the overall risk is
595 This bug was apparently introduced on 1998-11-27 when the bouncemail facility
596 was modularized. The bug then made its appearance in fetchmail release 4.6.8.
597 See also fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt.
598 * CVE-2008-2711: Denial of service: When fetchmail logs data blobs
599 (for instance, a To: header in -v -v verbose mode) in excess of 2048
600 bytes, it will crash, because it hands an uninitialized argument
601 pointer (not the format string though) to vsnprintf and reads a
602 random memory location (it calls va_arg() too often without
603 resetting it with va_start()). Based on a patch (BerliOS patch #2492)
604 by Petr Uzel, fixes Novell Bug #354291.
605 Note 6.3.9-rc1 did not completely fix this issue, so it was redrawn a few
606 hours after its release.
607 See also fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt.
608 * When expunging, mark the right messages as seen to avoid message loss in "keep
609 flush" configurations. Workaround for previous versions: "expunge 0".
610 Report and patch by Alexander Cherepanov - thanks a lot, Berlios Bug #11797,
611 "imap_mark_seen doesn't consider expunged messages".
612 * SSL fix: close memory leak when SSL connection fails; fetchmail used to forget
613 calling SSL_free() on the SSL context, leaking in excess of 500 kB RAM on a
614 x86_64 system per failed SSL connection attempt.
615 Bug reported and patch provided by Seiichi Ikarashi, Fujitsu.
618 * The configure script will additionally check for 'dn_skipname', to fix build
619 failures with µClibc. The new check still recognizes the resolver libraries on
620 Ubuntu 7.04, openSUSE 10.2, Solaris 8, NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 and FreeBSD 6.2.
621 Fixes Gentoo bug #134187.
622 NOTE: this is a bit of a hack, since we twist the HAVE_RES_SEARCH result, but
623 res_search() and dn_skipname() are only used together and scheduled for
624 removal in future versions, so this is probably fine.
625 * No longer complain about invalid sslproto "" when POP3 CAPA probe fails.
626 Fixes Debian Bug#421446 (Holger Leskien), Novell Bug #247233 (Jon Nelson),
628 Thanks to Matthias Strauß for a configuration to reproduce the issue.
629 * Allow .fetchmailrc and .fetchids to be symlinks, as the manpage does not
630 document they aren't allowed - fixes Debian Bug #452907 (Roger Leigh).
631 TOCTOU race persists.
632 * fetchmailconf quotes mailbox (folder) names when writing the configuration.
633 Fixes BerliOS Bug #13207 (reported + fix suggested by Terry Brown).
634 * Only print "Deleting fetchids file" if there actually is one.
635 Fixes Debian Bug#374514, reported by Dan Jacobson.
636 * SSL fix: check and report if SSL_set_fd fails.
639 * autoconf 2.60 is now required to build fetchmail; it uses
640 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to replace AC_AIX, AC_MINIX, and the like.
641 * Removed dead FETCHMAIL_DEBUG code from fetchmail.h that was disabled by
642 default with no switches in configure to enable it. However, the macro would
643 have been prone to a symlink attack. Found by Nico Golde.
644 * Removed dead FORCE_STUFFING code from socket.c that was disabled by default
645 with no switches in configure to enable it.
646 * Include the typedef for int16 in the #ifndef _AIX in smbencrypt.c (Peter
648 * Correct check for u_int32_t in configure.ac (seems to be typedef'ed in
649 namser.h on some platforms.) (Peter O'Gorman)
650 * In configure.ac change all CPFLAGS to CPPFLAGS, CEFLAGS to CFLAGS and LDEFLAGS
651 to LDFLAGS otherwise the results of some tests (additional -L and -I flags) do
652 not get used for later tests causing incorrect configure results. Makefile.am
653 was also changed to reflect this. (Peter O'Gorman)
654 * m4/gethostbyname_r.m4 does AC_TRY_COMPILE, which unfortunately can pass even
655 if there is no gethostbyname_r. Changed to AC_TRY_LINK. (Peter O'Gorman)
656 * Revise getnameinfo check to ensure NULL is defined and the result is properly
657 evaluated, to avoid bogus results on for instance FreeBSD and redefinitions of
658 NI_* at compile time. (Matthias Andree).
659 * __attribute__ ((unused)) is a gccism, removed from libesmtp/gethostbyname.c.
661 * In KAME/getnameinfo.c it's best to use the correct argument to inet_ntoa.
663 * In verbose mode, log if --check mode is enabled.
664 * Add sslcommonname option (rcfile and commandline) as a way to work around
665 misconfigured upstream SSL servers that use the wrong certificate name. It
666 specifies which CommonName fetchmail expects and logs. (Daniel Richard G.)
667 * Changed CRLF to LF line endings in contrib/delete-later (reporter: Petr Uzel)
668 * SSL change: enable all workarounds with SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx,SSL_OP_ALL)
669 * All translations have been re-enabled, in an attempt to rekindle translator or
673 * Add fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt and fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt.
674 * Re-add two lines to the manual page that had accidentally become comments
675 to nroff. One was part of the --sslproto documentation, and one in the
676 "Awakening the background daemon" section.
677 * The manual page no longer asserts that .fetchids were for exclusive POP3 use,
678 since it is planned to use the file with IMAP4 later.
679 * Add grammar fixes from Dan Jacobson to fetchmail.man. Debian Bug #461642.
680 * The manual page now mentions that user descriptions need to come before user
681 options. Reported by Francensco Pontortì, to fix Debian Bug #467010.
682 * The manual page no longer hints that multi-user declarations per server were
683 only useful in daemon mode running as root, to avoid hinting people to doing
685 * Several manual page rcfile examples now include "ssl".
686 * The manual page hints that option arguments beginning with numbers can be
688 * The manual page now mentions that the --logfile must already exist before
690 * The FAQ now recommends (#I9) not to use Google Mail for their disregard to the
691 protocols they claim to support.
692 * Documentation and program output now /consistently/ claim that the rcfile must
693 not have more than 0700 (u=rwx,g=,o=) permissions, but fetchmail will still
694 silently accept additional g=x permissions for compatibility with previous
695 6.2.X and 6.3.X versions.
696 Inconsistency (program 0710, manpage 0600) reported by Petr Uzel.
697 * The --logfile documentation is now clearer about requiring detached daemon
700 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
701 * [sq] Albanian (Besnik Bleta)
702 * [zh_CN] Chinese, simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
703 * [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
704 * [da] Danish (Byrial Ole Jensen) - outdated, but newer than in 6.3.8
705 * [nl] Dutch (Tony Vroon, Benno Schulenberg)
706 * [en_GB] English, British
707 * [fi] Finnish (Lauri Nurmi)
709 * [id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
710 * [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
711 * [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
712 * [ru] Russian (Pavel Maryanov)
713 * [es] Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Matthias Andree)
714 * [tr] Turkish (Engin Gündüz) - outdated, but newer than in 6.3.8
715 * [vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
719 fetchmail 6.3.8 (released 2007-04-06):
721 # SECURITY STRENGTHENING:
722 * Make the APOP challenge parser more distrustful and have it reject challenges
723 that do not conform to RFC-822 msg-id format, in the hope to make mounting
724 man-in-the-middle attacks (MITM) against APOP a bit more difficult.
725 (CVE-2007-1558, reported by Gaëtan Leurent, published 2007-04-02 on Bugtraq)
727 APOP is claimed insecure by Gaëtan Leurent for MITM scenarios for typical
728 setups: based on MD5 collisions, it is purportedly possible to recover the
729 first three characters of the shared secret (password), which would then make
730 recovery of the shared secret a matter of hours or minutes; this would then
731 enable the attacker to impersonate the client vis-à-vis the server.
733 For further details, check
734 * Gaëtan Leurent, "Message Freedom in MD4 and MD5 Collisions: Application
735 to APOP", Fast Software Encryption 2007, Luxembourg. (Proceedings to appear in
736 Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science.)
737 * The mailing list discussion thread at
738 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-devel/2007-March/000887.html>
741 * Fix pluralization of oversized-message warning mails.
742 * Fix manual page: --sslcheck -> --sslcertck, and do not set trailing
743 "recommended:" in bold. Fixes Debian Bug #413059, reported by Rafal Czlonka.
744 * Repoll immediately if a protocol error happens during the authentication
745 attempt after a failed opportunistic TLS upgrade.
746 Fixes comment #9 in Gentoo Bug #163782, reported by Takuto Matsuu.
747 * Fix rendering of the "24 - 26, 28, 29" paragraph in the exit codes section.
748 Reported by Nico Golde.
749 * If SOCKS support was compiled in, add 'socks' to the feature_options Python
750 list emitted in --configdump. Reported by Rob MacGregor.
751 * Do not crash with a null pointer dereference when opening the BSMTP file
752 fails. Improve error checking and reporting. Reported by Reto Schüttel,
753 Debian Bug#416625. Fix based on a patch by Nico Golde.
754 * Make BSMTP output actually work, it would persistently fail with SOCKET error
755 after writing the first header. Bug independently found and reported in
756 excellent detail by Reto Schüttel, Debian Bug#416812.
759 * Add fetchmail-SA-2007-01.txt
760 * Extend --mda documentation, discourage use of qmail-inject.
761 Based on a patch by Rob MacGregor.
762 * Document SOCKS configuration facility (SOCKS_CONF environment variable).
763 Thanks to Jochen Hayek, Michael Shuldman and Rob MacGregor.
764 * Use envelope option in multidrop example. Patch by Rob MacGregor.
765 * Document expected Received: line format when parsing for envelope addressees.
766 * Stripped option documentation from sample.rcfile, since this is bound to go
767 out of synch with the manual page, which is the only reference on options.
768 * Mention that --limit default is 0 bytes, which is special for "no limit".
769 * Corrected Robert M. Funk's name that I misspelled. My sincere apologies
773 * Add delete-later and delete-later.README, a script and documentation for
774 a MySQL/Tcl-based client-side "delete-after" feature.
775 Kindly donated by Yoo GmbH, Großvoigtsberg, Germany (Carsten Ralle).
778 fetchmail 6.3.7 (released 2007-02-18):
780 # FIXES FOR REGRESSIONS IN 6.3.6
781 * Fix KPOP. Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
782 * Fix repoll when server disconnects after opportunistic TLS failed for POP3.
783 Berlios Bug #10133 = Gentoo Bug #163782 reported by Andrej Kacian.
785 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
786 * Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki), Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
789 * Consider getaddrinfo() on Darwin 9 (Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard") thread-safe.
790 Reported by Uli Zappe.
793 fetchmail 6.3.6 (released 2007-01-04):
796 * CVE-2006-5867, fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt:
797 Password disclosure vulnerability fixed. This has several aspects:
799 - Fetchmail now implies sslproto 'tls1' if the sslfingerprint or sslcertck
800 options are used and the ssl option is not used, in order to be sure that
801 fetchmail gets a certificate from the mail server.
803 - Fetchmail breaks the connection if the TLS negotiation (or verification, if
804 requested) fails with sslproto 'tls1', sslfingerprint or sslcheck enabled.
806 - POP3 connections now use STLS reliably. They used to ignore STLS altogether
807 for serveral values of the "auth" option, when fetchmail forget to probe
808 server capabilities - see fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt for details.
810 - POP3 connections will no longer fall back USER/PASS authentication if
811 strong challenge-response authenticators such as CRAM-MD5 are configured
812 but the server does not advertise these in its CAPA response.
814 - POP2 is obsolete and does not support STLS or anything beyond password-based
815 authentication. The attempt to use STLS or strong authenticators now causes
818 Configurations using both ssl and sslcertck however have been semi-safe in
819 that they would send the password in the clear. The USER/PASS fallback
820 problem however applies to these too, so that the password was only safe on
823 * CVE-2006-5974, fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt:
824 Repairs a regression in 6.3.5 that crashes fetchmail when a message with
825 invalid headers is found while fetchmail's mda option is in use. BerliOS bugs
826 #9364, #9412, #9449. Stack backtrace provided by Neil Hoggarth - thanks.
828 # REGRESSION FIXES (recently introduced bugs)
829 * Repair --logfile, broken in 6.3.5. BerliOS Bug #9059,
830 reported by Brian Harring.
831 * Repair --user, broken in 6.3.5 (as a side effect of the authenticate external
832 patch): using SSL certificate/key authentication overrode the --user option.
833 Now the latter takes precedence, and only defaults to the certificate's common
834 name. Debian Bug #400950, reported by Jorgen Schaefer <forcer@debian.org>.
836 # BUG FIXES (long-standing bugs):
837 * RPOP: used to log the password locally rather than an asterisk as the other
838 protocols do. The password is now shrouded in the local logs.
839 * POP3: Probes capabilities now when Kerberos V5 is enabled, so that we can
840 actually detect if the server supports it.
841 * Robustness: If a stale lockfile cannot be deleted, truncate it so that
842 fetchmail doesn't later believe itself to be running if the PID is recycled
843 by a non-fetchmail process.
844 * DNS: Detect /etc/resolv.conf changes: On systems that have res_search(),
845 assume we also have res_init() and call it (suggested by Ulrich Drepper,
846 glibc bug #3675) in order to make libc or libresolv reread the resolver
847 configuration at the beginning of a poll cycle. This is important when
848 fetchmail is in daemon mode and /etc/resolv.conf is changed later by dhcpcd,
849 dhclient, pppd, openvpn or other ip-up/ipchange scripts. Should fix Debian
850 Bug#389270, Bug#391698.
851 * Robustness: Fix crash on systems that do not provide strdup(), the crash
852 happens only in out-of-memory conditions when fetchmail cannot proceed
853 anyways. Patch by Andreas Krennmair.
854 * Robustness: When HOME and FETCHMAILHOME are unset, be sure to copy user
855 database information, so it is not trashed later. Patch by Jim Correia.
858 * Workaround: Improve handling of IMAP IDLE, some servers do not reset their
859 time counters after sending information asynchronously. Patch by Sunil
860 Shetye, after report from Andrew Baumann.
861 * Usability: When requesting Kerberos or GSSAPI, complain and exit with syntax
862 error if any of these requested features has not been compiled in. This is
863 to fail early and with precise error message. Reported by Isaac Wilcox.
864 * --version will now add +KRB4 or +KRB5 if Kerberos v4 or v5, respectively, have
865 been compiled in. Reported missing by Isaac Wilcox.
868 * New en_GB (British English) translation by David Lodge.
869 * Update Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki), Polish (Jakub Bogusz), Russian (Pavel
870 Maryanov) and Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall) translations.
871 ! Note that not all these translations are complete -- this isn't the
872 translators' fault though, but due to delays at the BerliOS hosting site and
873 the translation project handlers. You may see a few untranslated messages.
876 * Dropped exit status 15 from manual page, it's not used by fetchmail.
877 Reported by Isaac Wilcox.
878 * Documented exit codes 24 - 29 as internal.
880 fetchmail 6.3.5 (released 2006-10-09):
883 * For protocols such as IMAP that are not delimited by "." lines, truncate the
884 input buffer when the message has been completely read, to avoid taking
885 trailing garbage into the message if the terminal CRLF is missing. Fixes
886 Debian Bug#312415. (Patch suggested by Mike Jones, Manchester Univ.).
887 * When using NTLM authentication, use regular IMAP response code handler after
888 completing NTLM handshake, for robustness and consistency.
889 (Taken from the NetBSD portable packages collection, patch-ac.)
890 * Support Kerberos installations where krb5.h and perhaps roken.h are in
891 .../include/krb5. Taken from NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ae.
892 * On NetBSD, link against -lroken -lcom_err if --with-kerberos is enabled.
893 * Drop #include <com_err.h> from Kerberos 5 header file, fixes compile error on
895 * Fix des_pcbc_encrypt compile warnings in kerberos.c line 246.
896 * If krb5-config provides gssapi library information, use that rather than
898 * Improve --with-gssapi auto detection for /usr-based GSSAPI installs.
899 * Fix --with-gssapi builds for NetBSD 3.0.
900 * Improve KAME/getnameinfo.c portability to Linux libc5 systems.
901 Based on a patch by Dan Fandrich.
902 * Provide INET6 to KAME/getnameinfo.c (only useful on IPv6-enabled systems that
903 lack getnameinfo, and there only visible in some Received: headers).
904 Found by Dan Fandrich.
905 * POP3: some UID flags may not be set properly on UIDL lists. (Sunil Shetye)
906 * Make IMAP4 IDLE work on servers that do not update RECENT counts.
907 Reported by Lars Tewes.
908 * IMAP4 patch by Sunil Shetye:
909 - do not depend on server updating RECENT counts at all
910 - also enter IDLE loop when messages are present on the server.
911 * Fix --flush description in the manual page, fetchmail does not mark messages
912 seen unless it has successfully delivered them. Suggested by Frederic Marchal.
913 * Fetchmail no longer attempts to stat the "-" file in daemon mode -- this is a
914 special name to read the RC file from stdin, and cannot always be re-read
915 anyways. BerliOS bug #7858.
916 * When looking up ports for a service, the lookup succeeds and the returned
917 address family isn't IPv4 or IPv6, properly free the allocated memory from the
918 service lookup. Found by Uli Zappe.
919 * When looking up ports for a service, only look up TCP ports.
920 * Avoid compiling empty files, to avoid diagnostics from strict compilers.
921 * If the lockfile ends before the process ID, treat it as stale and unlink it.
922 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #376603.
923 * SIGHUP wake-up behavior was broken since 5.9.13's Cygwin changes, in that for
924 non-root users, SIGHUP would abort the first poll and subsequently interfere
925 with new polls, and SIGHUP would be ignored for root users. SIGHUP now matches
926 documented behavior. SIGUSR1 has always been a wakeup signal for both root
927 (undocumented) and non-root users. See also the deprecation warning above.
928 * Track getaddrinfo() results to properly free them after timeouts and make sure
929 that getaddrinfo() isn't interrupted by a timeout (which breaks on MacOS X),
930 reported by Uli Zappe. This should fix Debian Bug#294547 and Bug#377135.
931 * --logfile is now handled more carefully, errors opening the logfile are
932 now reported to the TTY where fetchmail was started from.
933 * fetchmail now complains and aborts when it cannot properly daemonize itself.
934 * fix compilation on systems that don't know struct addrinfo (Solaris 2.6).
935 * ignore SIGPIPE signals and rely on functions to return EPIPE instead. This is
936 necessary because the former longjmp() from the signal handler is unsafe and
937 makes the whole fetchmail behavior undefined after the event.
938 * Avoid crash in env.c/host_fqdn if we cannot canonicalize our own hostname.
939 Reported by Alexander Holler.
940 * SSL fix by Miloslav Trmac (Red Hat): free the SSL contexts after the
941 connection, to avoid from growing SSL certpaths without bounds, avoid using
942 SSL contexts for unrelated connections, and to fix Red Hat Bug #206346.
945 * Rename all fetchmail-internal lock_* functions to fm_lock_*. Obsoletes
946 NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ah, patch-ai and patch-aj.
947 * Configure prints a warning (but proceeds) if Kerberos IV support is enabled.
948 * In verbose mode, log every IP fetchmail tries to connect to, to avoid
949 misleading the user. Suppress EAFNOSUPPORT errors from socket() call, too.
950 Fixes Debian Bug #361825, reported by Daniel Baur.
951 * In idle mode, fetchmail complains about the fetchall option.
952 * When a connection fails, log not only the IP address, but also host and
953 service name and the port number. Log the latter when trying to connect in
955 * Keep syslog output at one line per message (this works if no errors occur).
956 * Fetchmail in verbose mode now logs if it opportunistically upgrades a POP3
957 or IMAP connection to TLS security with STLS/STARTTLS.
958 * fetchmail now supports foo@example.org=bar user mappings for multidrop boxes.
959 * switch setjmp/longjmp to sigsetjmp/siglongjmp
960 * IMAP now supports the EXTERNAL authentication method, courtesy of
961 Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095 with minor changes.
962 Note that this change causes --sslcert to override --user.
963 * The sslproto keywords are now case insensitive, courtesy of
964 Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095.
965 * When going to sleep, log for how long. Suggested by Claudia Ludwig.
966 * When the server name cannot be canonicalized, log the gai_strerror value.
968 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
969 * Catalan/ca (Ernest Adrogué Calveras), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki) - also
970 made gettext 0.15 ready, Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Russian/ru (Pavel
971 Maryanov), Spanish/es (Héctor García Álvarez), Vietnamese/vi (Clytie Siddall)
973 # CONTRIBUTED SCRIPTS:
974 * PopDel.py was revised by Joshua Crawford to display the From: address and
975 list every email, even if it has no Subject: header; and not delete the wrong
976 message in the presence of mail without Subject: headers.
978 fetchmail 6.3.4 (released 2006-04-14):
981 * configure: detect res_* functions properly with newer glibc ABIs.
982 Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
983 * tracepolls: add folder information if available. Reported by Terry Brown.
984 * lexer: add %option noyywrap to avoid link errors about missing yywrap().
985 * a few more type fixes for report/snprintf, patch by Miloslav Trmac.
986 * bouncing: fetchmail would still send "General SMTP/ESMTP error." bounces
987 in spite of "no bouncemail" configuration.
988 * SSL/TLS: if, for a certain server, an sslfingerprint is specified and
989 sslcertck is NOT set, suppress printing SSL certificate mismatch errors.
990 (Reported by Hannes Erven.)
991 * SSL/TLS: always print if the sslfingerprint mismatches, even in silent
992 mode. (This is for consistency with certificate verification errors.)
994 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
995 * German/de (Matthias Andree), French/fr (Matthias Andree), Spanish/es (Héctor
996 García), Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki)
997 * New Vietnamese/vi translation (Clytie Siddall).
998 * Updated French descriptions for the .spec file (Stéphane Schildknecht,
999 Luc Pionchon, Matthias Andree).
1002 * pidfile: there is a new command-line (--pidfile PATH) and global option for
1003 the rcfile (set pidfile [=] "/path/to/pidfile") option to allow overriding
1004 the default location of the PID file.
1005 Requested by Héctor García, Debian maintainer.
1006 * specgen.sh: Converted to UTF-8 to support translated texts better.
1008 fetchmail 6.3.3 (released 2006-03-30):
1011 * SEGFAULT: Do not attempt to overwrite the netrc password if none has been
1012 specified. This fixes a segmentation fault bug introduced into 6.3.2.
1013 Fixes BerliOS bug #6234. BerliOS patch #804 by Craig Leres.
1014 The patch, as accepted into fetchmail, was available separately from
1015 <http://download.berlios.de/fetchmail/patch-6.3.2.1-fix-netrc-SIGSEGV.diff>
1016 * SEGFAULT: Work around C libraries that return a NULL in getaddrinfo()'s
1017 ai_canonname record, to avoid a segfault. Affects for instance FreeBSD 4.10,
1018 4.11 and 5.3 when dotted quads are given as server names.
1019 Analysis and fix by Vladimir Olegovich Ravodin (Владимир Олегович Раводин).
1020 * IMAP: fix hangs in NOOP-based IDLE emulation. Reported by Casper Gripenberg
1021 and Brendan Lynch, fix by Sunil Shetye (his patch was merged) and Brendan Lynch.
1022 * IMAP: Handle other clients concurrently accessing IMAP mailboxes better.
1023 Fetchmail quits the poll if the EXPUNGE count does not match expectations, and
1024 servers not updating RECENT counts after EXPUNGE are handled in a better way.
1025 (Patch by Sunil Shetye.)
1026 * IMAP: Stop sending EXPUNGE after NOOP-idling (patch by Sunil Shetye).
1027 * POP3: fetchmail can now use UIDL in fetchall keep mode, to avoid re-fetching
1028 the same messages again when the fetchall keyword is removed. Patch by
1029 Sunil Shetye. For details, please see
1030 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2006-March/000308.html>
1031 * LMTP: fix bug in LMTP port validation (patch by Miloslav Trmac).
1032 * SDPS: fetchmail no longer replaces the local user ID for an empty envelope
1033 sender when using the proprietary SDPS extension for POP3.
1034 Fixes Debian Bug#353575, reported by Roger Lynn.
1035 * SDPS: Warn and disable SDPS if POP3 is disabled to avoid compilation errors.
1036 * fetchmail no longer prints empty lines in verbose mode when using syslog.
1037 * fetchmail no longer prints UID lists in verbose mode when using syslog.
1038 * ./configure --quiet is now quieter (no SSL and fallback-related output).
1039 * Miloslav Trmac's patch (with minor changes) to fix char * sign consistency,
1040 unused arguments and variables.
1041 * More signedness, unused argument/variable and other warning fixes.
1044 * --idle can now be specified on the command line, too.
1045 * --fetchall is now supported on the command-line.
1046 * POP3: Lower default fastuidl span to 4 (i. e. every 4th run fetches the
1047 whole UIDL list), patch by Sunil Shetye.
1050 * "ssl" is a user option rather than a server option. Patch by Nico Golde.
1051 Fixes Debian Bug#354661, reported by Keith Hellman.
1052 * The manual page now suggests "--" before the addresses in the sendmail MDA
1053 example, for safety.
1054 * The FAQ item X9, Domino IMAP omits Content-Transfer-Encoding header, was
1055 added. Information provided by Anthony Kim on the fetchmail-friends list
1057 * Credit Chris Boyle with the NOOP emulation code for IDLE in fetchmail 6.2.4.
1058 Eric forgot to credit Chris, thanks to Sunil Shetye for providing these links:
1059 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007705.html
1060 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007713.html
1061 * Added a section about RETR vs. TOP to the manual page.
1062 * Changed section/subsection levels in some areas.
1064 fetchmail 6.3.2 (released 2006-01-22):
1066 Unless otherwise noted, changes to this release were made by Matthias Andree.
1068 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
1069 * CVE-2006-0321: Fix segfault or bus error after bouncing a message. This bug
1070 was introduced into 6.3.0 when removing alloca(); it caused fetchmail to free
1071 random memory. Reported by Nathaniel W. Turner, Debian Bug#348747.
1072 See fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt
1074 # INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE:
1075 * Automatically disable the POP3 TOP command if the greeting string contains
1076 "Maillennium POP3/PROXY server", which is used by comcast and known to
1077 truncate messages after 80 kByte. Fall back to RETR, and complain if we had
1078 used TOP otherwise (the warning is printed only once per server in daemon
1079 mode). Suggested by Ed Wilts.
1080 *Note* that this means messages are marked read on these servers, which is a
1081 deviation from how 6.3.1 behaved, but we have no alternative, comcast haven't
1082 fixed this bug in years. Preventing the loss of the remainder of the message
1083 justifies this incompatible fix.
1084 * fetchmail, since 6.3.0, requires write permission to the directory holding the
1085 idfile. See the amendment in the 6.3.0 MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES section
1086 below for details. The manual page was updated.
1088 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS:
1089 * The outdated BUGS document was removed from the distribution.
1090 * Added fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt to the distribution.
1093 * SMTP/LMTP cleanup to fix these two bugs:
1094 - switch back to SMTP after having tried LMTP hosts (multiple smtphost hosts)
1095 - switch back to LMTP after sending a bounce.
1096 The patch removes the global state variable that was the root of this problem.
1097 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1098 * Don't complain about fetchall keep in --configdump mode. Bug introduced in
1100 * fetchmailconf.py: Fix novice help for Poll interval and fetchall.
1101 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #344978.
1102 * Some verbose output disappeared in debug mode. Adding further -v options would
1103 alternate between verbose and debug mode. debug mode now comprises all verbose
1104 output, and adding more -v options does not switch back from debug to verbose
1106 * fetchmail.man: Fix accented characters in Héctor García's name. Merged from
1107 downstream debian/patches/01_man_page.dpatch.
1108 * Add missing --help text for "--sslcertck" option.
1109 * fetchmailconf.py: Accept --help and --version.
1110 * fetchmail --version now prints the copyright notice.
1111 * don't complain about READ-ONLY IMAP folders in --fetchall --keep mode.
1112 Reported Alexander Zangerl, Debian Bug#348964.
1113 * the RPM .spec file now generates a -debuginfo package on newer RPM versions.
1115 fetchmail 6.3.1 (released 2005-12-19):
1117 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
1118 * CVE-2005-4348 Fix segmentation fault (null pointer dereference) in
1119 multidrop mode with headerless email. See fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt.
1120 Reported by Daniel Drake, patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1122 # OTHER BUG FIXES, DOCUMENTATION AND TRANSLATION UPDATES
1123 * Fix broken default port in POP2. Patch by Stanislav Brabec, SUSE [CZ]. (MA)
1124 * Fix manual page, some lines starting with ' were escaped by \&.
1125 Reported by Simon Barner. (MA)
1126 * Ship with gettext-0.14.3 again, as 6.2.9-rc10 did. Found by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1127 * Actually set default SSL certificate path if --sslcertpath is unset.
1128 Reported by Heino Tiedemann and Rob MacGregor. (MA)
1129 * Remove bogus Netscape IMAP4rev1 Service >= 3.6 warning about BODY[TEXT]
1130 that we are not using. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1131 * Plug potential memory and socket leak when polling multiple folders or when
1132 the upstream sends bogus message sizes. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1133 * Update Catalan translation, by Ernest Adrogué Calveras. (MA)
1134 * Fix segfault (null pointer dereference) on some operating systems with
1135 fetchmail's obsolete DNS MX/host alias lookups in multidrop mode.
1136 Patch by Dr.-Ing. Andreas Haakh. (MA)
1137 * Close SMTP sockets early, to reduce resource usage, trigger earlier delivery
1138 with some MTAs and avoid SIGPIPE (SIG 13) when the SMTP listener gets bored
1139 and drops the connection after timeout. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1140 * Don't treat hitting a fetch limit as error. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1141 * Fix negative "messages left on server" on idle/repoll with fetchlimit.
1142 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1143 * Properly track logout stage. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1144 * Preserve error conditions across postconnect script. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1145 * Do not trash destination domain if multiple messages are forwarded into the
1146 same SMTP/LMTP connection. Reported by Joachim Feise, Berlios Bug #5849. (MA)
1147 * Manual page: Add "-md5" to "openssl x509" example in --sslfingerprint
1148 documentation, since OpenSSL 0.9.8 changed the default to SHA1.
1149 Suggested by Jason White. (MA)
1150 * Cope with servers that return UID information in response to non-UID
1151 RFC822.{SIZE|HEADER} requests. Reported by Jason White.
1152 Patch suggestion by by Sunil Shetye, simplified by MA.
1154 fetchmail 6.3.0 (released 2005-11-30):
1156 # SECURITY FIXES IN THIS RELEASE
1157 * CVE-2005-2335: The POP3 UIDL code doesn't sufficiently validate/truncate the
1158 input length, so a (malicious or compromised) server that sends UIDs longer
1159 than 128 bytes can corrupt fetchmail's stack and crash fetchmail.
1160 This vulnerability is remotely exploitable to inject code run in a
1161 root shell. Edward J. Shornock, Ludwig Nussel. fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
1162 * CVE-2005-3088: fetchmailconf now changes the output file to mode 0600 BEFORE
1163 writing to it, so there is no window where passwords could be read by the
1164 world. Matthias Andree. fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt
1166 # MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
1167 * Remove support for --netsec/-T options, the required inet6_apps library is no
1169 http://www.inner.net/pub/ipv6/ states, as of 2005-07-03: "/pub/ipv6
1170 Our IPv6 software is now long defunct. Please find a more modern source."
1171 I haven't been able to find a more modern source. Matthias Andree
1172 * Operating systems that do not conform to the Single Unix Specification v2
1173 (1997) or v3 (2001, aka IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) are no longer supported. They
1174 may continue to work and non-intrusive patches to support them may be
1175 accepted. Matthias Andree
1176 * The default for --smtphost is now always "localhost" regardless of
1177 authentication types and protocols, so as to simplify configurations for
1178 workstations where the SMTP daemon only listens on the loopback interface.
1179 Sunil Shetye & Matthias Andree
1180 Amendment, 2006-01-04:
1181 * fetchmail's idfile (.fetchids) is no longer written directly, but the ids are
1182 written to a temporary file which is renamed into place after being written
1183 completely. This is to avoid writing incomplete idfiles when running out of
1184 space, which would cause excessive duplicate refetches of messages, this might
1185 make matters even worse. This means that fetchmail requires write permission
1186 on the directory holding the idfile. This will usually affect system-global
1187 daemons only, for instance, Debian. Found by Dan Jacobson. Matthias Andree.
1188 Escalated to "incompatible", 2006-01-13:
1189 * Try to obtain FQDN as our own host by default, rather than using "localhost".
1190 If hostname cannot be qualified, complain noisily and continue, unless
1191 Kerberos, ODMR or ETRN are used (these have always required an FQDN).
1192 Partial fix of Debian Bug#150137. Fixes Debian Bug#316454. Matthias Andree
1194 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS AND USERS
1195 * fetchmailconf is now a shell wrapper that calls the byte-compiled
1196 fetchmailconf.py script, which is now installed in the regular python
1197 directory. Matthias Andree.
1198 * The --enable-inet6 configure option was removed. The code is mostly protocol
1199 agnostic, a fully IPv6 aware OS is expected to provide getaddrinfo(),
1200 getnameinfo() and the macro AF_INET6. Matthias Andree.
1201 * gettext (intl/) has been removed from the fetchmail package. Install GNU
1202 gettext 0.14 separately for NLS (i18n). Matthias Andree
1203 * Added Russian translation, courtesy of Pavel Maryanov of the
1204 Russian translation team. (MA)
1205 * Updated and re-enabled Czech translation, by Miloslav Trmac (MA).
1206 * Dropped da=Danish, el=Greek and tr=Turkish translations which have more than
1207 10% (61+) untranslated or fuzzy messages. Matthias Andree.
1209 # OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
1210 * Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR)
1211 * PopDel.py removed from contrib at author's request. (ESR)
1212 * Matthias Andree's fix for Sunil Shetye's fetch-split patch. (ESR)
1213 * Include James Stone's moldremover.py script. (ESR)
1214 * Enable .fetchmailrc permissions checking under Cygwin. (ESR)
1215 * Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication. (ESR)
1216 * Revised Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication (the
1217 original version would go into an infinite loop when CAPA failed;
1218 found by David Greaves.) (MA)
1219 * HOME_ETC patch for PLD Linux. (ESR)
1220 * Sunil Shetye's fix for SSL configuration. (ESR)
1221 * Simon Josefsson's patch for GSS library support. (ESR)
1222 * Added Andrey Lelikov's recipe for Hotmail and Lycos Webmail. (ESR)
1223 * Remove blank between MAIL FROM: and <, which causes Cyrus to complain.
1224 Patch by Phil Endecott. (RF)
1225 * Build fixes for HESIOD and resolv.h trouble on FreeBSD. (MA)
1226 * Fabrice Bellet's fix for Red Hat bug #113492, fetchmail hangs in IMAP
1227 mode after EXPUNGE when the server (Dovecot 0.99.10) doesn't update
1228 RECENT and EXISTS counts. (MA)
1229 * Holger Mauermann's bounce patch, to use a NULL envelope from, not
1230 write a Return-Path header (both to meet RFC-2821), changed From,
1231 added Subject header, rewording the human readable part. Fixes Debian
1233 * Merge Sunil Shetye's time.h handling fix. (MA)
1234 * Merge Gerd von Egidy's patch to avoid a segfault in multidrop/received
1235 mode when the Received: headers are malformatted. (MA)
1236 * MIME-encode bodies and Subject headers of warning messages, limiting
1237 the header to 7 bits. (MA)
1238 * Normalize most locale codesets to IANA codesets, based on
1239 norm_charmap.c by Markus Kuhn. (MA)
1240 * Remove sleep(3) after POP3 login, patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
1241 * Fix option parsing bug that trashes the showdots setting when more
1242 than one server is configured. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
1243 * Honor sslcertpath setting even if sslcertck is unset. Patch by Brian
1245 * SSL certificate checking fixes, don't display same error message twice
1246 in succession, make sure that Common Name and fingerprint checking are
1247 only done once. Print all validation warnings/errors even if not in
1248 verbose mode. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
1249 * Import Bjorn Reese and Daniel Stenberg's MIT-licensed Trio 1.10 from
1250 http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/ for systems that do not support
1251 snprintf or vsnprintf. (MA)
1252 * Clean up the horrible #ifdef HAVE_[V]SNPRINTF that made the code
1253 unreadable. Use Trio where [v]snprintf is/are missing. (MA)
1254 * Default to Linux 2.2 /proc/net/dev format, and use uname(2) to determine the
1255 kernel version instead of calling uname(1). Thanks to Paul Slootman. (MA)
1256 * Be more careful when swapping UID lists or writing the .fetchids file,
1257 requested by Manfred Weihs. (MA)
1258 * Print a warning if multidrop configuration is attempted without
1259 envelope option. (MA)
1260 * Split information on fetchmail versions before 6.0.0 to a separate
1262 * Merge SuSE patches: (sent by Stanislav Brabec, merged by Matthias Andree)
1263 - fetchmail-6.2.5-declaration.patch (double sigint_handler decl/getpass.c)
1264 - fetchmail-6.2.5-implicit-declaration.patch (missing #include)
1265 - fetchmail-6.2.5-random-result.patch (uninitialized variable/opie.c)
1266 * Revised some bogus assertions about POP3 LAST and UIDL use in the
1267 manual page. UIDL isn't flaky as the man page suggested, but a
1268 reliability feature. In fact, IMAP4 code is flaky in that it relies on
1269 the upstream seen flags. (MA)
1270 * Miloslav Trmac's patch for fetchmailconf to support string-type values
1271 of the "port" variable, avoiding "port None" corruption in .fetchmailrc.
1272 To fix Redhat Bug #55623 (MA)
1273 * de.po fixes from Nico Golde (MA)
1274 * es.po fixes from Jesus Roncero, Debian bug #286044 (MA)
1275 * sink.c fix from Cesar Eduardo Barros, to avoid double @ in address
1276 when username contains an @ and the envelope sender is null, Debian
1278 * configure.ac cleanups by Miloslav Trmac (MA)
1279 * Miloslav Trmac's fix to reply_hack() type, for systems where
1280 sizeof(int) != sizeof(size_t). (MA)
1281 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for driver.c to not call the private Kerberos
1282 krb5_init_ets() function. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1283 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for sink.c/transact.c to reserve sufficient
1284 space for \r\n trailers in snprintf calls. Sent by Miloslav Trmac,
1285 possibly fixing Red Hat bug #114470. (MA).
1286 * Nalin Dahyabhai's patch to use the krb5-config script, if present.
1287 Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1288 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix to make rpa.c compile. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1289 * Trivial fetchmailconf.man to redirect to fetchmail.1.
1290 Reported by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1291 * Internationalization (i18n) updates by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1292 * Fix "couldn't find canonical DNS name of NN (MM)" for hosts that have
1293 only IPv6 addresses. Matthias Andree.
1294 * Revised INSTALL after question from Brian Candler, inet6-apps is no
1295 longer available: remove inet6-apps hints for IPv6, and add some
1296 apologetic message for IPsec. Note the code may be removed in a future
1297 version. Matthias Andree.
1298 * Brian Candler's FAQ update about SSL certificate verification. (MA)
1299 * Nico Golde's patch to support "proto RPOP" in the configuration file,
1300 reported by Dr. Andreas Krüger, Debian bug #242384 (MA)
1301 * Skip sending POP3 PASS command when USER command failed. Matthias Andree.
1302 * Run fetchmail.man through automatic spell checker. Matthias Andree.
1303 * Major fetchmail(1) manual page overhaul by R. Hannes Beinert, to
1304 clarify singledrop vs. multidrop operation. (MA)
1305 * Make tracepolls a server option, as documented. Fixes Debian bug
1306 #156094. Matthias Andree.
1307 * Fix some minor inaccuracies (RFC-1893 related, grammar/spelling) in
1309 * Rename ESR's design notes to esrs-design-notes.html and add a new
1310 design-notes.html document. The NOTES file will contain both of them.
1312 * Fix Debian bug #301964, fetchmail leaks sockets when SSL negotiation
1313 fails. Fix suggested by Goswin Brederlow. (MA)
1314 * Really fix Debian Bug#207919 (garbage in Received: lines when smtphost set),
1315 patch by Tobias Diedrich. The 6.2.5 NEWS claimed Gregan's patch had fixed
1316 #207919 but it had fixed #212484 instead and #207919 remained unfixed in
1317 6.2.5. The entry below has been corrected to read #212484 now. (MA)
1318 * When writing the PID file, write a FHS 2.3 compliant PID file.
1319 Fixes Debian bug #230615. Matthias Andree.
1320 * Make ODMR really silent, suppress "fetchmail: receiving message
1321 data". Fixes Debian Bug#296163. Matthias Andree.
1322 * Add From: header to warning emails. Debian Bug#244828. Matthias Andree.
1323 * Fix IMAP code to use password of arbitrary length from configuration
1324 file (although not when read interactively). Debian Bug#276424.
1326 * Document that fetchmail may automatically enable UIDL option.
1327 Debian Bug#304701. Matthias Andree.
1328 * Put *BOLD* text into the manual page near --mda to state unmistakably that
1329 the --mda %T and %F substitutions add single quotes, hoping to avoid bogus
1330 bug reports such as Debian Bug #224564. Matthias Andree
1331 * Rename lock_release to fm_lock_release, to avoid namespace collision on
1332 Darwin. NetBSD PR#28543 (pkg/28543). Matthias Andree.
1333 * The RFC-822 parser no longer strips the last character of bare addresses.
1335 * The IP address matching code was broken and
1336 1. didn't search exhaustively, but matched only the first IP address of the
1337 server's queryname against the IP addresses of the server name to match.
1338 2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts. Matthias Andree
1339 * The "port" option, while still understood, is being replaced by the "service"
1340 option, which is now supported even without --enable-inet6. Matthias Andree.
1341 * The default distribution format is now bzip2. Matthias Andree.
1342 * fetchmailconf redirects fetchmail's input from /dev/null so it doesn't
1343 wait for the user to enter a password when the user doesn't even see
1344 the prompt. Reported by Michal Marek. Matthias Andree.
1345 * Write RFC-compliant BSMTP envelopes. Reported by Nico Golde. Matthias Andree.
1346 * Fix --with-gssapi compilation problem. Simon Josefsson. (MA)
1347 * Foster protocol-independence to support IPv6 better, for instance, providing
1348 IPv6 addresses in Received: headers. Matthias Andree.
1349 * Received: headers now enclose the for <...> destination address in angle
1350 brackets for consistency with Postfix. Matthias Andree.
1351 * Operating systems that do not support at least one of gethostbyname,
1352 gethostbyname_r, getipnodebyname are no longer supported. Matthias Andree.
1353 * Fixes to --with-hesiod option. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1354 * Delete oversized messages with the new --limitflush option. Debian
1355 Bug#212240. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1356 * Fix MacOS X compilation failures in sink.c (ru_*time has incomplete type).
1357 Berlios Bug #4725. Matthias Andree.
1358 * Fix "auth ntlm" to send AUTH NTLM (rather than AUTH MSN). Add "auth msn"
1359 officially. Reported by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
1360 * Expunge between IMAP folders when polling multiple folders.
1362 * Fix IMAP expunged message counting. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1363 * Add full support for --service option. Matthias Andree
1364 * When getaddrinfo() fails resolving a service, log getaddrinfo() error. (MA)
1365 * Fix bogus "cannot resolve service * to port number" error. Simon Barner. (MA)
1366 * Failure to set up SSL connections now results in PS_SOCKET. Suggested by
1367 Thomas Wolff. Matthias Andree.
1368 * Kerberos IV detection fix for FreeBSD 4. Simon Barner. (MA)
1369 * Fix display and documentation of --envelope option. Matthias Andree
1370 * Make "envelope 'Delivered-To'" work with dropdelivered. Timothy Lee. (MA)
1371 * Add -DBIND_8_COMPAT to Darwin (MacOS X) compiles, to fix build problems on
1372 newer Darwin versions. Matthias Andree.
1373 * fetchmail should now automatically detect if OpenSSL requires -ldl.
1375 * Fix Solaris build with --disable-nls (blastwave.org). Matthias Andree.
1376 * Missed --port/--service/--ssl cleanups in the manual. Reminder from Thomas
1378 * Complain in POP3 if NTLM/MSN auth is requested but had not been enabled at
1379 compile time. This configuration mismatch now causes an error message and
1380 authentication failure. Found by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
1381 * fetchmailconf now allows expert users to choose the authorization type and
1382 also offers MSN and NTLM, suggested by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
1383 * fetchmailconf now (as of 1.49) writes its version to the comment of the
1384 saved run control file. Matthias Andree
1385 * Properly shut down SSL connections. Berlios Patch #647 by Arkadiusz
1387 * Global variable cleanup, to fix daemon mode reinitialization problems. Patch
1388 by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1389 * fetchmailconf -h documents the fetchmailconf -h option. Matthias Andree
1390 * fetchmailconf -V now prints the fetchmailconf version. Matthias Andree
1391 * Add support for SubjectAltName (RFC-2595 or 2818), to avoid bogus certificate
1392 mismatch errors. Patch by Roland Stigge, Debian Bug#201113. (MA)
1393 * make fetchmail --silent --quit really silent, Debian Bug #229014 by Dr.
1394 Andreas Krüger. Matthias Andree
1395 * cleanup --quit handling again (so that --silent --quit just kills the
1396 existing daemon, rather than continue running), and document it more clearly.
1398 * Print an error message if multiple "defaults" records are found in the
1399 configuration file. Matthias Andree
1400 * Bury on_exit officially - the necessary code had been missing from 6.0.0,
1401 6.2.0, 6.2.5. Matthias Andree
1402 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be read. Matthias Andree
1403 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be created exclusively, this got
1404 broken in a 6.2.6-pre, 6.2.5.2 and older were fine. Matthias Andree
1405 * Do not break some other process's lockfile in "-q" mode, but wait for the
1406 other process's exit. Matthias Andree
1407 * Man page: --sslfingerprint points user to x509(1ssl) and gives an example
1408 how to use it. Debian Bug#213484, Eduard Bloch. (MA)
1409 * fetchmailconf now sets the service properly after autoprobe. Fixes Debian
1410 Bug#320645. Matthias Andree
1411 * Man page: Fix Debian Bug#241883, making global options more clear. Matt
1412 Swift, Matthias Andree.
1413 * When eating IMAP message trailer, don't see any line containing "OK" as the
1414 end of the trailer, but wait for the proper tagged OK line. To work around
1415 the qmail + Courier-IMAP problem in Debian Bug#338007. Matthias Andree
1416 * Fix Debian Bug#317761: when trying to send a bounce message, don't bail out
1417 if we cannot qualify our own hostname, so we aren't losing the bounce.
1418 Instead, pass the buck on to the SMTP server and use our own unqualified
1419 hostname. Matthias Andree
1420 * Revise some error messages so they are less confusing. Sunil Shetye.
1421 * Man page: update --smtphost documentation. Sunil Shetye, Matthias Andree.
1422 * Man page: clarify --loghost works only while detached. Matthias Andree
1423 * Man page: update --smtpaddress documentation. Sunil Shetye.
1424 * Fix several memory leaks and bugs in the SMTP/LMTP retry logic where
1425 fetchmail confused UNIX and Internet domain sockets. Sunil Shetye.
1426 * Man page (BUGS): document that passwords are length limited. Matthias Andree
1427 * Man page: Document that quoted strings that run across line boundaries
1428 contain the control characters (CR or LF). Document explicitly the backslash
1429 escape sequences and their differences from the escape sequences used in the
1430 C programming language. Matthias Andree
1431 * Fix segfault when run control file ends with a backslash inside an
1432 unterminated quoted string. Matthias Andree.
1433 * In quoted strings, support backslash as last character on a line to join the
1434 following line to the current. Matthias Andree.
1435 * Parsing untagged IMAP responses is more robust now. Matthias Andree.
1436 * Man page: Remove some procmail praises in --mda documentation, suggest
1437 maildrop instead, warn of procmail fallthrough behavior. Matthias Andree.
1438 * Man page: Revise AUTHORS and SEE ALSO sections. Matthias Andree.
1439 * Updated translations: Albanian [sq] (Besnik Bleta), Catalan [ca] (Ernest
1440 Adrogué Calveras), Czech [cs] (Miloslav Trmac), German [de] (MA),
1441 Spanish (Castilian) [es] (Javier Kohen), French [fr] (MA),
1442 Polish [pl] (Jakub Bogusz), Russian [ru] (Pavel Maryanov).
1443 * In oversized warning messages, print the account name, too. Fixes Debian
1444 Bug#213299. Sunil Shetye (MA).
1445 * Fix installation without Python. Sunil Shetye, reported by Peter Church. (MA)
1446 * Update Japanese translation. Fixes Debian Bug#329342, Takeshi Hamasaki. (MA)
1447 * Fix imap.c size safeguard that broke on x86_64 architecture. Matthias Andree
1448 * The FAQ is now available for duplex DIN A4 printing in PDF format.
1449 Don't bother to ask for a Letter version, I don't care. Matthias Andree
1450 * Man page: Use \- in the manual page where appropriate so that copy & paste
1451 works. I hope we got them all. Héctor García, Matthias Andree.
1454 * Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
1455 * Got rid of alloca() in fetchmail proper. Matthias Andree
1456 * Got rid of ipv6-connect, inner_connect and thereabouts. Matthias Andree
1458 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1460 fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:
1462 * Updated Spanish, Turkish, and German translation files.
1463 * Matthew Gregan's patch to handle garbage lengths from dbmail;
1464 closes Debian bug #212484.
1465 * Fix IMAP query so new-message count doesn't include deleted messages.
1466 * Man page typo fix, closes Debian bug #205892.
1467 * OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl@acm.org.
1468 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
1469 flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
1470 * Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of
1472 * Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
1473 * Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
1474 * Sunil Shetye's patches to break up fetching of sizes and UIDLs.
1476 There are 599 people on fetchmail-friends and 748 on fetchmail-announce.
1478 fetchmail-6.2.4 (Wed Aug 13 04:27:35 EDT 2003), 22625 lines:
1480 * Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
1481 * IDLE is now supported using NOOP commands even if the server doesn't support
1482 the IMAP IDLE extension. Patch by Chris Boyle.
1483 * Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
1484 * Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
1485 * Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
1486 * Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
1487 * Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.
1489 There are 585 people on fetchmail-friends and 745 on fetchmail-announce.
1491 fetchmail-6.2.3 (Thu Jul 17 14:53:00 EDT 2003), 22490 lines:
1493 * French, German, Danish, Spanish, and Turkish translations updated.
1494 * Brian Sammon's patch to deal with malformed message lines containing NULs.
1495 * Fai's patch to ignore all but the first Return-Path (some spams have
1496 more than one of these).
1497 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to properly byte-stuff when talking to BSMTP.
1498 Fixes Debian bug #184469.
1499 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to enable auth=cram-md5.
1500 Fixes Debian bug #185232.
1501 * Sunil Shetye's configure.in patch to avoid spurious search order messages
1503 * Header-reading code now copes better with lines ending in \n only.
1504 * Elias Israel's patches for POP3 NTLM support and dealing with byte-
1505 stuffing failures at socket level.
1507 There are 580 people on fetchmail-friends and 750 on fetchmail-announce.
1509 fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:
1511 * Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior on empty messages.
1512 * Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful
1513 STARTTLS negotiation.
1514 * Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
1515 * Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security.
1516 * Christophe GIAUME <christophe@giaume.com> finished the implementation
1518 * Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
1519 * Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
1520 * Fix for Debian bug #108977, clean up config file evaluation,
1523 There are 554 people on fetchmail-friends and 727 on fetchmail-announce.
1525 fetchmail-6.2.1 (Tue Jan 14 08:17:19 EST 2003), 22219 lines:
1527 * Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
1528 * Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
1529 * Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check,
1530 we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
1531 * Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.
1533 There are 536 people on fetchmail-friends and 716 on fetchmail-announce.
1535 fetchmail-6.2.0 (Fri Dec 13 00:10:07 EST 2002), 22235 lines:
1537 * Applied Steffen Esser's fix for a buffer-overflow bug in rfc822.c
1538 * Updated Danish, German, and Turkish translation files.
1539 * Sunil Shetye's SMTP timeout patch.
1541 There are 538 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
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1545 fetchmail-6.1.3 (Thu Nov 28 05:35:15 EST 2002), 22203 lines:
1547 * Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
1548 * Added Slovak support.
1549 * Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas).
1550 * Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
1551 * Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
1552 * Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
1553 * Sunil's fix for the STARTTLS problem -- repoll if TLS nabdshake
1554 fails. The attempt to set up STARTTLS can be suppressed with 'sslproto ""'.
1556 There are 540 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
1558 fetchmail-6.1.2 (Thu Oct 31 11:41:02 EST 2002), 22135 lines:
1560 * Jan Klaverstijn's verbosity-lowering patch.
1561 * Updated Turkish, German, Catalan, and Danish translation files.
1562 * Fix processing of POP3 messages with missing bodies.
1563 * Minor fixes by Sunil Shetye: fix generation of auth fail note, handle
1564 unexpected SIGALRM, plug memory leak, handle lines beginning with '\0',
1565 try to bulletproof error handling against read failures.
1567 There are 535 people on fetchmail-friends and 696 on fetchmail-announce.
1569 fetchmail-6.1.1 (Fri Oct 18 14:53:51 EDT 2002), 22087 lines:
1571 * OTP fix patches from Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
1572 * fix patch for writing antispam capability correctly in conf.c.
1573 * Fix patches for Debian bugs #162571, #156592.
1574 * Correction to manpage re -b and qmail.
1575 * Patch to disable use of STLS if auth passwd is specified.
1576 * Fix specfile generation to handle SSL correctly.
1577 * New Danish, Turkish, and Catalan translation files.
1578 * Improved ODMR debug messages.
1579 * IMAP efficiency hack; don't fetch sizes unless needed.
1580 * Detect and rewrite invalid return paths beginning with @.
1581 * Fix for subtle freeing bug that suppressed information in some bounce msgs.
1582 * Newline fix patches for internationalization files.
1583 * Fix reversed test guarding authentication-failure warnings.
1584 * Fix POP3 breakage starting at 5.9.14.
1586 There are 529 people on fetchmail-friends and 693 on fetchmail-announce.
1588 fetchmail-6.1.0 (Sun Sep 22 18:31:23 EDT 2002), 21999 lines:
1590 * Updated French translation.
1591 * Stefan Esser's fix for potential remote vulnerability in multidrop mode.
1592 This is an important security fix!
1594 There are 519 people on fetchmail-friends and 680 on fetchmail-announce.
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1598 fetchmail-6.0.0 (Tue Sep 17 19:48:25 EDT 2002), 21972 lines:
1600 * Applied Matt Kraai's fix for minor Debian bug #144539.
1601 * Nerijus Baliunas's patch to support STARTTLS over IMAP.
1602 * More cleanups and minor bugfixes from Sunil Shetye.
1603 * Default antispam-response list is now empty.
1604 * Updated de and po translations.
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1608 There are 520 people on fetchmail-friends and 683 on fetchmail-announce.
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