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18 * RPOP is obsolete, support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.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