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 # DEPRECATED FEATURES AND MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE ADVANCE WARNINGS
12 * The MX and host alias DNS lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode
13 are obsolete, deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version.
14 They have never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4) anyhow.
15 Non-DNS based alias keywords such as "aka" will remain in fetchmail.
16 * The monitor and interface options may be removed from a future fetchmail
17 version as they are not sufficiently portable.
19 Support for POP2 may be removed from a future fetchmail version.
20 * RPOP is obsolete, support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
21 * --sslcertck may become a default setting in a future fetchmail version.
22 * The multidrop To/Cc guessing code along with the fragile duplicate suppressor
23 is deprecated and may be removed from a future release.
24 * The "envelope Received" option may be removed from a future release, because
25 the Received header was never meant to be machine-readable, the format varies
26 widely, and various other differences in behavior make parsing Received an
27 unreliable undertaking. The enveloper option as such will remain though, in
28 order to support Delivered-To, X-Envelope-To, X-Original-To and similar.
29 See also <http://home.pages.de/~mandree/mail/multidrop>.
30 * The --enable-fallback (fall back to MDA if MTA unavailable) may be removed
31 from a future fetchmail release.
32 * The "protocol auto" default inside fetchmail may be removed from a future
33 fetchmail release. Explicit configuration of the protocol is recommended.
34 * Kerberos IV support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
36 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
38 fetchmail 6.3.5 (not yet released):
40 # KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS:
41 (this section floats upwards through the NEWS to be on top of the list)
42 * fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
43 (See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
44 * Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the lexer in 64-bit mode.
45 Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit fetchmail.
46 Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code anyways,
47 so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should be fine.
48 * The code still isn't 100% ISO-C compliant, some configurations attempt to
49 compile files that are empty after preprocessing, which can cause compiler
50 diagnostics and perhaps jam the compilation on strict compilers.
51 * fetchmail expects Received: headers in a particular format when parsing
55 * For protocols such as IMAP that are not delimited by "." lines, truncate the
56 input buffer when the message has been completely read, to avoid taking
57 trailing garbage into the message if the terminal CRLF is missing. Fixes
58 Debian Bug#312415. (Patch suggested by Mike Jones, Manchester Univ.).
59 * When using NTLM authentication, use regular IMAP response code handler after
60 completing NTLM handshake, for robustness and consistency.
61 (Taken from the NetBSD portable packages collection, patch-ac.)
62 * Support Kerberos installations where krb5.h and perhaps roken.h are in
63 .../include/krb5. Taken from NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ae.
64 * On NetBSD, link against -lroken -lcom_err if --with-kerberos is enabled.
65 * Drop #include <com_err.h> from Kerberos 5 header file, fixes compile error on
67 * Fix des_pcbc_encrypt compile warnings in kerberos.c line 246.
68 * If krb5-config provides gssapi library information, use that rather than
70 * Improve --with-gssapi auto detection for /usr-based GSSAPI installs.
71 * Fix --with-gssapi builds for NetBSD 3.0.
72 * Improve KAME/getnameinfo.c portability to Linux libc5 systems.
73 Based on a patch by Dan Fandrich.
74 * Provide INET6 to KAME/getnameinfo.c (only useful on IPv6-enabled systems that
75 lack getnameinfo, and there only visible in some Received: headers).
76 Found by Dan Fandrich.
77 * Make IMAP4 IDLE work on servers that do not update RECENT counts.
78 Reported by Lars Tewes.
79 * IMAP4 patch by Sunil Shetye:
80 - do not depend on server updating RECENT counts at all
81 - also enter IDLE loop when messages are present on the server.
82 * Fix --flush description in the manual page, fetchmail does not mark messages
83 seen unless it has successfully delivered them. Suggested by Frederic Marchal.
86 * Rename all fetchmail-internal lock_* functions to fm_lock_*. Obsoletes
87 NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ah, patch-ai and patch-aj.
88 * Configure prints a warning (but proceeds) if Kerberos IV support is enabled.
89 * In verbose mode, log every IP fetchmail tries to connect to, to avoid
90 misleading the user. Suppress EAFNOSUPPORT errors from socket() call, too.
91 Fixes Debian Bug #361825, reported by Daniel Baur.
92 * In idle mode, fetchmail complains about the fetchall option.
94 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
95 * Russian/ru (Pavel Maryanov), Vietnamese/vi (Clytie Siddall)
97 # CONTRIBUTED SCRIPTS:
98 * PopDel.py was revised by Joshua Crawford to display the From: address and
99 list every email, even if it has no Subject: header; and not delete the wrong
100 message in the presence of mail without Subject: headers.
102 fetchmail 6.3.4 (released 2006-04-14):
105 * configure: detect res_* functions properly with newer glibc ABIs.
106 Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
107 * tracepolls: add folder information if available. Reported by Terry Brown.
108 * lexer: add %option noyywrap to avoid link errors about missing yywrap().
109 * a few more type fixes for report/snprintf, patch by Miloslav Trmac.
110 * bouncing: fetchmail would still send "General SMTP/ESMTP error." bounces
111 in spite of "no bouncemail" configuration.
112 * SSL/TLS: if, for a certain server, an sslfingerprint is specified and
113 sslcertck is NOT set, suppress printing SSL certificate mismatch errors.
114 (Reported by Hannes Erven.)
115 * SSL/TLS: always print if the sslfingerprint mismatches, even in silent
116 mode. (This is for consistency with certificate verification errors.)
118 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
119 * German/de (Matthias Andree), French/fr (Matthias Andree), Spanish/es (Héctor
120 García), Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki)
121 * New Vietnamese/vi translation (Clytie Siddall).
122 * Updated French descriptions for the .spec file (Stéphane Schildknecht,
123 Luc Pionchon, Matthias Andree).
126 * pidfile: there is a new command-line (--pidfile PATH) and global option for
127 the rcfile (set pidfile [=] "/path/to/pidfile") option to allow overriding
128 the default location of the PID file.
129 Requested by Héctor García, Debian maintainer.
130 * specgen.sh: Converted to UTF-8 to support translated texts better.
132 fetchmail 6.3.3 (released 2006-03-30):
135 * SEGFAULT: Do not attempt to overwrite the netrc password if none has been
136 specified. This fixes a segmentation fault bug introduced into 6.3.2.
137 Fixes BerliOS bug #6234. BerliOS patch #804 by Craig Leres.
138 The patch, as accepted into fetchmail, was available separately from
139 <http://download.berlios.de/fetchmail/patch-6.3.2.1-fix-netrc-SIGSEGV.diff>
140 * SEGFAULT: Work around C libraries that return a NULL in getaddrinfo()'s
141 ai_canonname record, to avoid a segfault. Affects for instance FreeBSD 4.10,
142 4.11 and 5.3 when dotted quads are given as server names.
143 Analysis and fix by Vladimir Olegovich Ravodin (Владимир Олегович Раводин).
144 * IMAP: fix hangs in NOOP-based IDLE emulation. Reported by Casper Gripenberg
145 and Brendan Lynch, fix by Sunil Shetye (his patch was merged) and Brendan Lynch.
146 * IMAP: Handle other clients concurrently accessing IMAP mailboxes better.
147 Fetchmail quits the poll if the EXPUNGE count does not match expectations, and
148 servers not updating RECENT counts after EXPUNGE are handled in a better way.
149 (Patch by Sunil Shetye.)
150 * IMAP: Stop sending EXPUNGE after NOOP-idling (patch by Sunil Shetye).
151 * POP3: fetchmail can now use UIDL in fetchall keep mode, to avoid re-fetching
152 the same messages again when the fetchall keyword is removed. Patch by
153 Sunil Shetye. For details, please see
154 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2006-March/000308.html>
155 * LMTP: fix bug in LMTP port validation (patch by Miloslav Trmac).
156 * SDPS: fetchmail no longer replaces the local user ID for an empty envelope
157 sender when using the proprietary SDPS extension for POP3.
158 Fixes Debian Bug#353575, reported by Roger Lynn.
159 * SDPS: Warn and disable SDPS if POP3 is disabled to avoid compilation errors.
160 * fetchmail no longer prints empty lines in verbose mode when using syslog.
161 * fetchmail no longer prints UID lists in verbose mode when using syslog.
162 * ./configure --quiet is now quieter (no SSL and fallback-related output).
163 * Miloslav Trmac's patch (with minor changes) to fix char * sign consistency,
164 unused arguments and variables.
165 * More signedness, unused argument/variable and other warning fixes.
168 * --idle can now be specified on the command line, too.
169 * --fetchall is now supported on the command-line.
170 * POP3: Lower default fastuidl span to 4 (i. e. every 4th run fetches the
171 whole UIDL list), patch by Sunil Shetye.
174 * "ssl" is a user option rather than a server option. Patch by Nico Golde.
175 Fixes Debian Bug#354661, reported by Keith Hellman.
176 * The manual page now suggests "--" before the addresses in the sendmail MDA
178 * The FAQ item X9, Domino IMAP omits Content-Transfer-Encoding header, was
179 added. Information provided by Anthony Kim on the fetchmail-friends list
181 * Credit Chris Boyle with the NOOP emulation code for IDLE in fetchmail 6.2.4.
182 Eric forgot to credit Chris, thanks to Sunil Shetye for providing these links:
183 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007705.html
184 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007713.html
185 * Added a section about RETR vs. TOP to the manual page.
186 * Changed section/subsection levels in some areas.
188 fetchmail 6.3.2 (released 2006-01-22):
190 Unless otherwise noted, changes to this release were made by Matthias Andree.
192 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
193 * CVE-2006-0321: Fix segfault or bus error after bouncing a message. This bug
194 was introduced into 6.3.0 when removing alloca(); it caused fetchmail to free
195 random memory. Reported by Nathaniel W. Turner, Debian Bug#348747.
196 See fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt
198 # INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE:
199 * Automatically disable the POP3 TOP command if the greeting string contains
200 "Maillennium POP3/PROXY server", which is used by comcast and known to
201 truncate messages after 80 kByte. Fall back to RETR, and complain if we had
202 used TOP otherwise (the warning is printed only once per server in daemon
203 mode). Suggested by Ed Wilts.
204 *Note* that this means messages are marked read on these servers, which is a
205 deviation from how 6.3.1 behaved, but we have no alternative, comcast haven't
206 fixed this bug in years. Preventing the loss of the remainder of the message
207 justifies this incompatible fix.
208 * fetchmail, since 6.3.0, requires write permission to the directory holding the
209 idfile. See the amendment in the 6.3.0 MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES section
210 below for details. The manual page was updated.
212 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS:
213 * The outdated BUGS document was removed from the distribution.
214 * Added fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt to the distribution.
217 * SMTP/LMTP cleanup to fix these two bugs:
218 - switch back to SMTP after having tried LMTP hosts (multiple smtphost hosts)
219 - switch back to LMTP after sending a bounce.
220 The patch removes the global state variable that was the root of this problem.
221 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
222 * Don't complain about fetchall keep in --configdump mode. Bug introduced in
224 * fetchmailconf.py: Fix novice help for Poll interval and fetchall.
225 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #344978.
226 * Some verbose output disappeared in debug mode. Adding further -v options would
227 alternate between verbose and debug mode. debug mode now comprises all verbose
228 output, and adding more -v options does not switch back from debug to verbose
230 * fetchmail.man: Fix accented characters in Héctor García's name. Merged from
231 downstream debian/patches/01_man_page.dpatch.
232 * Add missing --help text for "--sslcertck" option.
233 * fetchmailconf.py: Accept --help and --version.
234 * fetchmail --version now prints the copyright notice.
235 * don't complain about READ-ONLY IMAP folders in --fetchall --keep mode.
236 Reported Alexander Zangerl, Debian Bug#348964.
237 * the RPM .spec file now generates a -debuginfo package on newer RPM versions.
239 fetchmail 6.3.1 (released 2005-12-19):
241 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
242 * CVE-2005-4348 Fix segmentation fault (null pointer dereference) in
243 multidrop mode with headerless email. See fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt.
244 Reported by Daniel Drake, patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
246 # OTHER BUG FIXES, DOCUMENTATION AND TRANSLATION UPDATES
247 * Fix broken default port in POP2. Patch by Stanislav Brabec, SUSE [CZ]. (MA)
248 * Fix manual page, some lines starting with ' were escaped by \&.
249 Reported by Simon Barner. (MA)
250 * Ship with gettext-0.14.3 again, as 6.2.9-rc10 did. Found by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
251 * Actually set default SSL certificate path if --sslcertpath is unset.
252 Reported by Heino Tiedemann and Rob MacGregor. (MA)
253 * Remove bogus Netscape IMAP4rev1 Service >= 3.6 warning about BODY[TEXT]
254 that we are not using. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
255 * Plug potential memory and socket leak when polling multiple folders or when
256 the upstream sends bogus message sizes. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
257 * Update Catalan translation, by Ernest Adrogué Calveras. (MA)
258 * Fix segfault (null pointer dereference) on some operating systems with
259 fetchmail's obsolete DNS MX/host alias lookups in multidrop mode.
260 Patch by Dr.-Ing. Andreas Haakh. (MA)
261 * Close SMTP sockets early, to reduce resource usage, trigger earlier delivery
262 with some MTAs and avoid SIGPIPE (SIG 13) when the SMTP listener gets bored
263 and drops the connection after timeout. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
264 * Don't treat hitting a fetch limit as error. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
265 * Fix negative "messages left on server" on idle/repoll with fetchlimit.
266 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
267 * Properly track logout stage. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
268 * Preserve error conditions across postconnect script. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
269 * Do not trash destination domain if multiple messages are forwarded into the
270 same SMTP/LMTP connection. Reported by Joachim Feise, Berlios Bug #5849. (MA)
271 * Manual page: Add "-md5" to "openssl x509" example in --sslfingerprint
272 documentation, since OpenSSL 0.9.8 changed the default to SHA1.
273 Suggested by Jason White. (MA)
274 * Cope with servers that return UID information in response to non-UID
275 RFC822.{SIZE|HEADER} requests. Reported by Jason White.
276 Patch suggestion by by Sunil Shetye, simplified by MA.
278 fetchmail 6.3.0 (released 2005-11-30):
280 # SECURITY FIXES IN THIS RELEASE
281 * CVE-2005-2335: The POP3 UIDL code doesn't sufficiently validate/truncate the
282 input length, so a (malicious or compromised) server that sends UIDs longer
283 than 128 bytes can corrupt fetchmail's stack and crash fetchmail.
284 This vulnerability is remotely exploitable to inject code run in a
285 root shell. Edward J. Shornock, Ludwig Nussel. fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
286 * CVE-2005-3088: fetchmailconf now changes the output file to mode 0600 BEFORE
287 writing to it, so there is no window where passwords could be read by the
288 world. Matthias Andree. fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt
290 # MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
291 * Remove support for --netsec/-T options, the required inet6_apps library is no
293 http://www.inner.net/pub/ipv6/ states, as of 2005-07-03: "/pub/ipv6
294 Our IPv6 software is now long defunct. Please find a more modern source."
295 I haven't been able to find a more modern source. Matthias Andree
296 * Operating systems that do not conform to the Single Unix Specification v2
297 (1997) or v3 (2001, aka IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) are no longer supported. They
298 may continue to work and non-intrusive patches to support them may be
299 accepted. Matthias Andree
300 * The default for --smtphost is now always "localhost" regardless of
301 authentication types and protocols, so as to simplify configurations for
302 workstations where the SMTP daemon only listens on the loopback interface.
303 Sunil Shetye & Matthias Andree
304 Amendment, 2006-01-04:
305 * fetchmail's idfile (.fetchids) is no longer written directly, but the ids are
306 written to a temporary file which is renamed into place after being written
307 completely. This is to avoid writing incomplete idfiles when running out of
308 space, which would cause excessive duplicate refetches of messages, this might
309 make matters even worse. This means that fetchmail requires write permission
310 on the directory holding the idfile. This will usually affect system-global
311 daemons only, for instance, Debian. Found by Dan Jacobson. Matthias Andree.
312 Escalated to "incompatible", 2006-01-13:
313 * Try to obtain FQDN as our own host by default, rather than using "localhost".
314 If hostname cannot be qualified, complain noisily and continue, unless
315 Kerberos, ODMR or ETRN are used (these have always required an FQDN).
316 Partial fix of Debian Bug#150137. Fixes Debian Bug#316454. Matthias Andree
318 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS AND USERS
319 * fetchmailconf is now a shell wrapper that calls the byte-compiled
320 fetchmailconf.py script, which is now installed in the regular python
321 directory. Matthias Andree.
322 * The --enable-inet6 configure option was removed. The code is mostly protocol
323 agnostic, a fully IPv6 aware OS is expected to provide getaddrinfo(),
324 getnameinfo() and the macro AF_INET6. Matthias Andree.
325 * gettext (intl/) has been removed from the fetchmail package. Install GNU
326 gettext 0.14 separately for NLS (i18n). Matthias Andree
327 * Added Russian translation, courtesy of Pavel Maryanov of the
328 Russian translation team. (MA)
329 * Updated and re-enabled Czech translation, by Miloslav Trmac (MA).
330 * Dropped da=Danish, el=Greek and tr=Turkish translations which have more than
331 10% (61+) untranslated or fuzzy messages. Matthias Andree.
333 # OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
334 * Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR)
335 * PopDel.py removed from contrib at author's request. (ESR)
336 * Matthias Andree's fix for Sunil Shetye's fetch-split patch. (ESR)
337 * Include James Stone's moldremover.py script. (ESR)
338 * Enable .fetchmailrc permissions checking under Cygwin. (ESR)
339 * Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication. (ESR)
340 * Revised Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication (the
341 original version would go into an infinite loop when CAPA failed;
342 found by David Greaves.) (MA)
343 * HOME_ETC patch for PLD Linux. (ESR)
344 * Sunil Shetye's fix for SSL configuration. (ESR)
345 * Simon Josefsson's patch for GSS library support. (ESR)
346 * Added Andrey Lelikov's recipe for Hotmail and Lycos Webmail. (ESR)
347 * Remove blank between MAIL FROM: and <, which causes Cyrus to complain.
348 Patch by Phil Endecott. (RF)
349 * Build fixes for HESIOD and resolv.h trouble on FreeBSD. (MA)
350 * Fabrice Bellet's fix for Red Hat bug #113492, fetchmail hangs in IMAP
351 mode after EXPUNGE when the server (Dovecot 0.99.10) doesn't update
352 RECENT and EXISTS counts. (MA)
353 * Holger Mauermann's bounce patch, to use a NULL envelope from, not
354 write a Return-Path header (both to meet RFC-2821), changed From,
355 added Subject header, rewording the human readable part. Fixes Debian
357 * Merge Sunil Shetye's time.h handling fix. (MA)
358 * Merge Gerd von Egidy's patch to avoid a segfault in multidrop/received
359 mode when the Received: headers are malformatted. (MA)
360 * MIME-encode bodies and Subject headers of warning messages, limiting
361 the header to 7 bits. (MA)
362 * Normalize most locale codesets to IANA codesets, based on
363 norm_charmap.c by Markus Kuhn. (MA)
364 * Remove sleep(3) after POP3 login, patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
365 * Fix option parsing bug that trashes the showdots setting when more
366 than one server is configured. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
367 * Honor sslcertpath setting even if sslcertck is unset. Patch by Brian
369 * SSL certificate checking fixes, don't display same error message twice
370 in succession, make sure that Common Name and fingerprint checking are
371 only done once. Print all validation warnings/errors even if not in
372 verbose mode. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
373 * Import Bjorn Reese and Daniel Stenberg's MIT-licensed Trio 1.10 from
374 http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/ for systems that do not support
375 snprintf or vsnprintf. (MA)
376 * Clean up the horrible #ifdef HAVE_[V]SNPRINTF that made the code
377 unreadable. Use Trio where [v]snprintf is/are missing. (MA)
378 * Default to Linux 2.2 /proc/net/dev format, and use uname(2) to determine the
379 kernel version instead of calling uname(1). Thanks to Paul Slootman. (MA)
380 * Be more careful when swapping UID lists or writing the .fetchids file,
381 requested by Manfred Weihs. (MA)
382 * Print a warning if multidrop configuration is attempted without
383 envelope option. (MA)
384 * Split information on fetchmail versions before 6.0.0 to a separate
386 * Merge SuSE patches: (sent by Stanislav Brabec, merged by Matthias Andree)
387 - fetchmail-6.2.5-declaration.patch (double sigint_handler decl/getpass.c)
388 - fetchmail-6.2.5-implicit-declaration.patch (missing #include)
389 - fetchmail-6.2.5-random-result.patch (uninitialized variable/opie.c)
390 * Revised some bogus assertions about POP3 LAST and UIDL use in the
391 manual page. UIDL isn't flaky as the man page suggested, but a
392 reliability feature. In fact, IMAP4 code is flaky in that it relies on
393 the upstream seen flags. (MA)
394 * Miloslav Trmac's patch for fetchmailconf to support string-type values
395 of the "port" variable, avoiding "port None" corruption in .fetchmailrc.
396 To fix Redhat Bug #55623 (MA)
397 * de.po fixes from Nico Golde (MA)
398 * es.po fixes from Jesus Roncero, Debian bug #286044 (MA)
399 * sink.c fix from Cesar Eduardo Barros, to avoid double @ in address
400 when username contains an @ and the envelope sender is null, Debian
402 * configure.ac cleanups by Miloslav Trmac (MA)
403 * Miloslav Trmac's fix to reply_hack() type, for systems where
404 sizeof(int) != sizeof(size_t). (MA)
405 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for driver.c to not call the private Kerberos
406 krb5_init_ets() function. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
407 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for sink.c/transact.c to reserve sufficient
408 space for \r\n trailers in snprintf calls. Sent by Miloslav Trmac,
409 possibly fixing Red Hat bug #114470. (MA).
410 * Nalin Dahyabhai's patch to use the krb5-config script, if present.
411 Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
412 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix to make rpa.c compile. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
413 * Trivial fetchmailconf.man to redirect to fetchmail.1.
414 Reported by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
415 * Internationalization (i18n) updates by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
416 * Fix "couldn't find canonical DNS name of NN (MM)" for hosts that have
417 only IPv6 addresses. Matthias Andree.
418 * Revised INSTALL after question from Brian Candler, inet6-apps is no
419 longer available: remove inet6-apps hints for IPv6, and add some
420 apologetic message for IPsec. Note the code may be removed in a future
421 version. Matthias Andree.
422 * Brian Candler's FAQ update about SSL certificate verification. (MA)
423 * Nico Golde's patch to support "proto RPOP" in the configuration file,
424 reported by Dr. Andreas Krüger, Debian bug #242384 (MA)
425 * Skip sending POP3 PASS command when USER command failed. Matthias Andree.
426 * Run fetchmail.man through automatic spell checker. Matthias Andree.
427 * Major fetchmail(1) manual page overhaul by R. Hannes Beinert, to
428 clarify singledrop vs. multidrop operation. (MA)
429 * Make tracepolls a server option, as documented. Fixes Debian bug
430 #156094. Matthias Andree.
431 * Fix some minor inaccuracies (RFC-1893 related, grammar/spelling) in
433 * Rename ESR's design notes to esrs-design-notes.html and add a new
434 design-notes.html document. The NOTES file will contain both of them.
436 * Fix Debian bug #301964, fetchmail leaks sockets when SSL negotiation
437 fails. Fix suggested by Goswin Brederlow. (MA)
438 * Really fix Debian Bug#207919 (garbage in Received: lines when smtphost set),
439 patch by Tobias Diedrich. The 6.2.5 NEWS claimed Gregan's patch had fixed
440 #207919 but it had fixed #212484 instead and #207919 remained unfixed in
441 6.2.5. The entry below has been corrected to read #212484 now. (MA)
442 * When writing the PID file, write a FHS 2.3 compliant PID file.
443 Fixes Debian bug #230615. Matthias Andree.
444 * Make ODMR really silent, suppress "fetchmail: receiving message
445 data". Fixes Debian Bug#296163. Matthias Andree.
446 * Add From: header to warning emails. Debian Bug#244828. Matthias Andree.
447 * Fix IMAP code to use password of arbitrary length from configuration
448 file (although not when read interactively). Debian Bug#276424.
450 * Document that fetchmail may automatically enable UIDL option.
451 Debian Bug#304701. Matthias Andree.
452 * Put *BOLD* text into the manual page near --mda to state unmistakably that
453 the --mda %T and %F substitutions add single quotes, hoping to avoid bogus
454 bug reports such as Debian Bug #224564. Matthias Andree
455 * Rename lock_release to fm_lock_release, to avoid namespace collision on
456 Darwin. NetBSD PR#28543 (pkg/28543). Matthias Andree.
457 * The RFC-822 parser no longer strips the last character of bare addresses.
459 * The IP address matching code was broken and
460 1. didn't search exhaustively, but matched only the first IP address of the
461 server's queryname against the IP addresses of the server name to match.
462 2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts. Matthias Andree
463 * The "port" option, while still understood, is being replaced by the "service"
464 option, which is now supported even without --enable-inet6. Matthias Andree.
465 * The default distribution format is now bzip2. Matthias Andree.
466 * fetchmailconf redirects fetchmail's input from /dev/null so it doesn't
467 wait for the user to enter a password when the user doesn't even see
468 the prompt. Reported by Michal Marek. Matthias Andree.
469 * Write RFC-compliant BSMTP envelopes. Reported by Nico Golde. Matthias Andree.
470 * Fix --with-gssapi compilation problem. Simon Josefsson. (MA)
471 * Foster protocol-independence to support IPv6 better, for instance, providing
472 IPv6 addresses in Received: headers. Matthias Andree.
473 * Received: headers now enclose the for <...> destination address in angle
474 brackets for consistency with Postfix. Matthias Andree.
475 * Operating systems that do not support at least one of gethostbyname,
476 gethostbyname_r, getipnodebyname are no longer supported. Matthias Andree.
477 * Fixes to --with-hesiod option. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
478 * Delete oversized messages with the new --limitflush option. Debian
479 Bug#212240. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
480 * Fix MacOS X compilation failures in sink.c (ru_*time has incomplete type).
481 Berlios Bug #4725. Matthias Andree.
482 * Fix "auth ntlm" to send AUTH NTLM (rather than AUTH MSN). Add "auth msn"
483 officially. Reported by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
484 * Expunge between IMAP folders when polling multiple folders.
486 * Fix IMAP expunged message counting. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
487 * Add full support for --service option. Matthias Andree
488 * When getaddrinfo() fails resolving a service, log getaddrinfo() error. (MA)
489 * Fix bogus "cannot resolve service * to port number" error. Simon Barner. (MA)
490 * Failure to set up SSL connections now results in PS_SOCKET. Suggested by
491 Thomas Wolff. Matthias Andree.
492 * Kerberos IV detection fix for FreeBSD 4. Simon Barner. (MA)
493 * Fix display and documentation of --envelope option. Matthias Andree
494 * Make "envelope 'Delivered-To'" work with dropdelivered. Timothy Lee. (MA)
495 * Add -DBIND_8_COMPAT to Darwin (MacOS X) compiles, to fix build problems on
496 newer Darwin versions. Matthias Andree.
497 * fetchmail should now automatically detect if OpenSSL requires -ldl.
499 * Fix Solaris build with --disable-nls (blastwave.org). Matthias Andree.
500 * Missed --port/--service/--ssl cleanups in the manual. Reminder from Thomas
502 * Complain in POP3 if NTLM/MSN auth is requested but had not been enabled at
503 compile time. This configuration mismatch now causes an error message and
504 authentication failure. Found by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
505 * fetchmailconf now allows expert users to choose the authorization type and
506 also offers MSN and NTLM, suggested by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
507 * fetchmailconf now (as of 1.49) writes its version to the comment of the
508 saved run control file. Matthias Andree
509 * Properly shut down SSL connections. Berlios Patch #647 by Arkadiusz
511 * Global variable cleanup, to fix daemon mode reinitialization problems. Patch
512 by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
513 * fetchmailconf -h documents the fetchmailconf -h option. Matthias Andree
514 * fetchmailconf -V now prints the fetchmailconf version. Matthias Andree
515 * Add support for SubjectAltName (RFC-2595 or 2818), to avoid bogus certificate
516 mismatch errors. Patch by Roland Stigge, Debian Bug#201113. (MA)
517 * make fetchmail --silent --quit really silent, Debian Bug #229014 by Dr.
518 Andreas Krüger. Matthias Andree
519 * cleanup --quit handling again (so that --silent --quit just kills the
520 existing daemon, rather than continue running), and document it more clearly.
522 * Print an error message if multiple "defaults" records are found in the
523 configuration file. Matthias Andree
524 * Bury on_exit officially - the necessary code had been missing from 6.0.0,
525 6.2.0, 6.2.5. Matthias Andree
526 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be read. Matthias Andree
527 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be created exclusively, this got
528 broken in a 6.2.6-pre, 6.2.5.2 and older were fine. Matthias Andree
529 * Do not break some other process's lockfile in "-q" mode, but wait for the
530 other process's exit. Matthias Andree
531 * Man page: --sslfingerprint points user to x509(1ssl) and gives an example
532 how to use it. Debian Bug#213484, Eduard Bloch. (MA)
533 * fetchmailconf now sets the service properly after autoprobe. Fixes Debian
534 Bug#320645. Matthias Andree
535 * Man page: Fix Debian Bug#241883, making global options more clear. Matt
536 Swift, Matthias Andree.
537 * When eating IMAP message trailer, don't see any line containing "OK" as the
538 end of the trailer, but wait for the proper tagged OK line. To work around
539 the qmail + Courier-IMAP problem in Debian Bug#338007. Matthias Andree
540 * Fix Debian Bug#317761: when trying to send a bounce message, don't bail out
541 if we cannot qualify our own hostname, so we aren't losing the bounce.
542 Instead, pass the buck on to the SMTP server and use our own unqualified
543 hostname. Matthias Andree
544 * Revise some error messages so they are less confusing. Sunil Shetye.
545 * Man page: update --smtphost documentation. Sunil Shetye, Matthias Andree.
546 * Man page: clarify --loghost works only while detached. Matthias Andree
547 * Man page: update --smtpaddress documentation. Sunil Shetye.
548 * Fix several memory leaks and bugs in the SMTP/LMTP retry logic where
549 fetchmail confused UNIX and Internet domain sockets. Sunil Shetye.
550 * Man page (BUGS): document that passwords are length limited. Matthias Andree
551 * Man page: Document that quoted strings that run across line boundaries
552 contain the control characters (CR or LF). Document explicitly the backslash
553 escape sequences and their differences from the escape sequences used in the
554 C programming language. Matthias Andree
555 * Fix segfault when run control file ends with a backslash inside an
556 unterminated quoted string. Matthias Andree.
557 * In quoted strings, support backslash as last character on a line to join the
558 following line to the current. Matthias Andree.
559 * Parsing untagged IMAP responses is more robust now. Matthias Andree.
560 * Man page: Remove some procmail praises in --mda documentation, suggest
561 maildrop instead, warn of procmail fallthrough behavior. Matthias Andree.
562 * Man page: Revise AUTHORS and SEE ALSO sections. Matthias Andree.
563 * Updated translations: Albanian [sq] (Besnik Bleta), Catalan [ca] (Ernest
564 Adrogué Calveras), Czech [cs] (Miloslav Trmac), German [de] (MA),
565 Spanish (Castilian) [es] (Javier Kohen), French [fr] (MA),
566 Polish [pl] (Jakub Bogusz), Russian [ru] (Pavel Maryanov).
567 * In oversized warning messages, print the account name, too. Fixes Debian
568 Bug#213299. Sunil Shetye (MA).
569 * Fix installation without Python. Sunil Shetye, reported by Peter Church. (MA)
570 * Update Japanese translation. Fixes Debian Bug#329342, Takeshi Hamasaki. (MA)
571 * Fix imap.c size safeguard that broke on x86_64 architecture. Matthias Andree
572 * The FAQ is now available for duplex DIN A4 printing in PDF format.
573 Don't bother to ask for a Letter version, I don't care. Matthias Andree
574 * Man page: Use \- in the manual page where appropriate so that copy & paste
575 works. I hope we got them all. Héctor García, Matthias Andree.
578 * Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
579 * Got rid of alloca() in fetchmail proper. Matthias Andree
580 * Got rid of ipv6-connect, inner_connect and thereabouts. Matthias Andree
582 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
584 fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:
586 * Updated Spanish, Turkish, and German translation files.
587 * Matthew Gregan's patch to handle garbage lengths from dbmail;
588 closes Debian bug #212484.
589 * Fix IMAP query so new-message count doesn't include deleted messages.
590 * Man page typo fix, closes Debian bug #205892.
591 * OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl@acm.org.
592 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
593 flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
594 * Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of
596 * Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
597 * Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
598 * Sunil Shetye's patches to break up fetching of sizes and UIDLs.
600 There are 599 people on fetchmail-friends and 748 on fetchmail-announce.
602 fetchmail-6.2.4 (Wed Aug 13 04:27:35 EDT 2003), 22625 lines:
604 * Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
605 * IDLE is now supported using NOOP commands even if the server doesn't support
606 the IMAP IDLE extension. Patch by Chris Boyle.
607 * Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
608 * Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
609 * Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
610 * Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
611 * Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.
613 There are 585 people on fetchmail-friends and 745 on fetchmail-announce.
615 fetchmail-6.2.3 (Thu Jul 17 14:53:00 EDT 2003), 22490 lines:
617 * French, German, Danish, Spanish, and Turkish translations updated.
618 * Brian Sammon's patch to deal with malformed message lines containing NULs.
619 * Fai's patch to ignore all but the first Return-Path (some spams have
620 more than one of these).
621 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to properly byte-stuff when talking to BSMTP.
622 Fixes Debian bug #184469.
623 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to enable auth=cram-md5.
624 Fixes Debian bug #185232.
625 * Sunil Shetye's configure.in patch to avoid spurious search order messages
627 * Header-reading code now copes better with lines ending in \n only.
628 * Elias Israel's patches for POP3 NTLM support and dealing with byte-
629 stuffing failures at socket level.
631 There are 580 people on fetchmail-friends and 750 on fetchmail-announce.
633 fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:
635 * Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior on empty messages.
636 * Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful
637 STARTTLS negotiation.
638 * Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
639 * Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security.
640 * Christophe GIAUME <christophe@giaume.com> finished the implementation
642 * Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
643 * Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
644 * Fix for Debian bug #108977, clean up config file evaluation,
647 There are 554 people on fetchmail-friends and 727 on fetchmail-announce.
649 fetchmail-6.2.1 (Tue Jan 14 08:17:19 EST 2003), 22219 lines:
651 * Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
652 * Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
653 * Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check,
654 we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
655 * Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.
657 There are 536 people on fetchmail-friends and 716 on fetchmail-announce.
659 fetchmail-6.2.0 (Fri Dec 13 00:10:07 EST 2002), 22235 lines:
661 * Applied Steffen Esser's fix for a buffer-overflow bug in rfc822.c
662 * Updated Danish, German, and Turkish translation files.
663 * Sunil Shetye's SMTP timeout patch.
665 There are 538 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
667 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
669 fetchmail-6.1.3 (Thu Nov 28 05:35:15 EST 2002), 22203 lines:
671 * Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
672 * Added Slovak support.
673 * Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas).
674 * Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
675 * Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
676 * Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
677 * Sunil's fix for the STARTTLS problem -- repoll if TLS nabdshake
678 fails. The attempt to set up STARTTLS can be suppressed with 'sslproto ""'.
680 There are 540 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
682 fetchmail-6.1.2 (Thu Oct 31 11:41:02 EST 2002), 22135 lines:
684 * Jan Klaverstijn's verbosity-lowering patch.
685 * Updated Turkish, German, Catalan, and Danish translation files.
686 * Fix processing of POP3 messages with missing bodies.
687 * Minor fixes by Sunil Shetye: fix generation of auth fail note, handle
688 unexpected SIGALRM, plug memory leak, handle lines beginning with '\0',
689 try to bulletproof error handling against read failures.
691 There are 535 people on fetchmail-friends and 696 on fetchmail-announce.
693 fetchmail-6.1.1 (Fri Oct 18 14:53:51 EDT 2002), 22087 lines:
695 * OTP fix patches from Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
696 * fix patch for writing antispam capability correctly in conf.c.
697 * Fix patches for Debian bugs #162571, #156592.
698 * Correction to manpage re -b and qmail.
699 * Patch to disable use of STLS if auth passwd is specified.
700 * Fix specfile generation to handle SSL correctly.
701 * New Danish, Turkish, and Catalan translation files.
702 * Improved ODMR debug messages.
703 * IMAP efficiency hack; don't fetch sizes unless needed.
704 * Detect and rewrite invalid return paths beginning with @.
705 * Fix for subtle freeing bug that suppressed information in some bounce msgs.
706 * Newline fix patches for internationalization files.
707 * Fix reversed test guarding authentication-failure warnings.
708 * Fix POP3 breakage starting at 5.9.14.
710 There are 529 people on fetchmail-friends and 693 on fetchmail-announce.
712 fetchmail-6.1.0 (Sun Sep 22 18:31:23 EDT 2002), 21999 lines:
714 * Updated French translation.
715 * Stefan Esser's fix for potential remote vulnerability in multidrop mode.
716 This is an important security fix!
718 There are 519 people on fetchmail-friends and 680 on fetchmail-announce.
720 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
722 fetchmail-6.0.0 (Tue Sep 17 19:48:25 EDT 2002), 21972 lines:
724 * Applied Matt Kraai's fix for minor Debian bug #144539.
725 * Nerijus Baliunas's patch to support STARTTLS over IMAP.
726 * More cleanups and minor bugfixes from Sunil Shetye.
727 * Default antispam-response list is now empty.
728 * Updated de and po translations.
730 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
732 There are 520 people on fetchmail-friends and 683 on fetchmail-announce.
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