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20 * RPOP is obsolete, support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.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.
35 * SIGHUP wakeup may be removed from a future fetchmail release and cause it
37 * Support for operating systems that are not sufficiently POSIX compliant may be
38 removed or operation on such systems may be suboptimal for future releases.
40 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
42 fetchmail 6.3.5 (not yet released):
44 # KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS:
45 (this section floats upwards through the NEWS to be on top of the list)
46 * fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
47 (See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
48 * Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the lexer in 64-bit mode.
49 Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit fetchmail.
50 Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code anyways,
51 so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should be fine.
52 * fetchmail expects Received: headers in a particular format when parsing
56 * For protocols such as IMAP that are not delimited by "." lines, truncate the
57 input buffer when the message has been completely read, to avoid taking
58 trailing garbage into the message if the terminal CRLF is missing. Fixes
59 Debian Bug#312415. (Patch suggested by Mike Jones, Manchester Univ.).
60 * When using NTLM authentication, use regular IMAP response code handler after
61 completing NTLM handshake, for robustness and consistency.
62 (Taken from the NetBSD portable packages collection, patch-ac.)
63 * Support Kerberos installations where krb5.h and perhaps roken.h are in
64 .../include/krb5. Taken from NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ae.
65 * On NetBSD, link against -lroken -lcom_err if --with-kerberos is enabled.
66 * Drop #include <com_err.h> from Kerberos 5 header file, fixes compile error on
68 * Fix des_pcbc_encrypt compile warnings in kerberos.c line 246.
69 * If krb5-config provides gssapi library information, use that rather than
71 * Improve --with-gssapi auto detection for /usr-based GSSAPI installs.
72 * Fix --with-gssapi builds for NetBSD 3.0.
73 * Improve KAME/getnameinfo.c portability to Linux libc5 systems.
74 Based on a patch by Dan Fandrich.
75 * Provide INET6 to KAME/getnameinfo.c (only useful on IPv6-enabled systems that
76 lack getnameinfo, and there only visible in some Received: headers).
77 Found by Dan Fandrich.
78 * POP3: some UID flags may not be set properly on UIDL lists. (Sunil Shetye)
79 * Make IMAP4 IDLE work on servers that do not update RECENT counts.
80 Reported by Lars Tewes.
81 * IMAP4 patch by Sunil Shetye:
82 - do not depend on server updating RECENT counts at all
83 - also enter IDLE loop when messages are present on the server.
84 * Fix --flush description in the manual page, fetchmail does not mark messages
85 seen unless it has successfully delivered them. Suggested by Frederic Marchal.
86 * Fetchmail no longer attempts to stat the "-" file in daemon mode -- this is a
87 special name to read the RC file from stdin, and cannot always be re-read
88 anyways. BerliOS bug #7858.
89 * When looking up ports for a service, the lookup succeeds and the returned
90 address family isn't IPv4 or IPv6, properly free the allocated memory from the
91 service lookup. Found by Uli Zappe.
92 * When looking up ports for a service, only look up TCP ports.
93 * Avoid compiling empty files, to avoid diagnostics from strict compilers.
94 * If the lockfile ends before the process ID, treat it as stale and unlink it.
95 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #376603.
96 * SIGHUP wake-up behavior was broken since 5.9.13's Cygwin changes, in that for
97 non-root users, SIGHUP would abort the first poll and subsequently interfere
98 with new polls, and SIGHUP would be ignored for root users. SIGHUP now matches
99 documented behavior. SIGUSR1 has always been a wakeup signal for both root
100 (undocumented) and non-root users. See also the deprecation warning above.
101 * Track getaddrinfo() results to properly free them after timeouts and make sure
102 that getaddrinfo() isn't interrupted by a timeout (which breaks on MacOS X),
103 reported by Uli Zappe. This should fix Debian Bug#294547 and Bug#377135.
104 * --logfile is now handled more carefully, errors opening the logfile are
105 now reported to the TTY where fetchmail was started from.
106 * fetchmail now complains and aborts when it cannot properly daemonize itself.
107 * fix compilation on systems that don't know struct addrinfo (Solaris 2.6).
108 * ignore SIGPIPE signals and rely on functions to return EPIPE instead. This is
109 necessary because the former longjmp() from the signal handler is unsafe and
110 makes the whole fetchmail behavior undefined after the event.
113 * Rename all fetchmail-internal lock_* functions to fm_lock_*. Obsoletes
114 NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ah, patch-ai and patch-aj.
115 * Configure prints a warning (but proceeds) if Kerberos IV support is enabled.
116 * In verbose mode, log every IP fetchmail tries to connect to, to avoid
117 misleading the user. Suppress EAFNOSUPPORT errors from socket() call, too.
118 Fixes Debian Bug #361825, reported by Daniel Baur.
119 * In idle mode, fetchmail complains about the fetchall option.
120 * When a connection fails, log not only the IP address, but also host and
121 service name and the port number. Log the latter when trying to connect in
123 * Keep syslog output at one line per message (this works if no errors occur).
124 * Fetchmail in verbose mode now logs if it opportunistically upgrades a POP3
125 or IMAP connection to TLS security with STLS/STARTTLS.
126 * fetchmail now supports foo@example.org=bar user mappings for multidrop boxes.
127 * switch setjmp/longjmp to sigsetjmp/siglongjmp
129 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
130 * Russian/ru (Pavel Maryanov), Vietnamese/vi (Clytie Siddall)
132 # CONTRIBUTED SCRIPTS:
133 * PopDel.py was revised by Joshua Crawford to display the From: address and
134 list every email, even if it has no Subject: header; and not delete the wrong
135 message in the presence of mail without Subject: headers.
137 fetchmail 6.3.4 (released 2006-04-14):
140 * configure: detect res_* functions properly with newer glibc ABIs.
141 Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
142 * tracepolls: add folder information if available. Reported by Terry Brown.
143 * lexer: add %option noyywrap to avoid link errors about missing yywrap().
144 * a few more type fixes for report/snprintf, patch by Miloslav Trmac.
145 * bouncing: fetchmail would still send "General SMTP/ESMTP error." bounces
146 in spite of "no bouncemail" configuration.
147 * SSL/TLS: if, for a certain server, an sslfingerprint is specified and
148 sslcertck is NOT set, suppress printing SSL certificate mismatch errors.
149 (Reported by Hannes Erven.)
150 * SSL/TLS: always print if the sslfingerprint mismatches, even in silent
151 mode. (This is for consistency with certificate verification errors.)
153 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
154 * German/de (Matthias Andree), French/fr (Matthias Andree), Spanish/es (Héctor
155 García), Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki)
156 * New Vietnamese/vi translation (Clytie Siddall).
157 * Updated French descriptions for the .spec file (Stéphane Schildknecht,
158 Luc Pionchon, Matthias Andree).
161 * pidfile: there is a new command-line (--pidfile PATH) and global option for
162 the rcfile (set pidfile [=] "/path/to/pidfile") option to allow overriding
163 the default location of the PID file.
164 Requested by Héctor García, Debian maintainer.
165 * specgen.sh: Converted to UTF-8 to support translated texts better.
167 fetchmail 6.3.3 (released 2006-03-30):
170 * SEGFAULT: Do not attempt to overwrite the netrc password if none has been
171 specified. This fixes a segmentation fault bug introduced into 6.3.2.
172 Fixes BerliOS bug #6234. BerliOS patch #804 by Craig Leres.
173 The patch, as accepted into fetchmail, was available separately from
174 <http://download.berlios.de/fetchmail/patch-6.3.2.1-fix-netrc-SIGSEGV.diff>
175 * SEGFAULT: Work around C libraries that return a NULL in getaddrinfo()'s
176 ai_canonname record, to avoid a segfault. Affects for instance FreeBSD 4.10,
177 4.11 and 5.3 when dotted quads are given as server names.
178 Analysis and fix by Vladimir Olegovich Ravodin (Владимир Олегович Раводин).
179 * IMAP: fix hangs in NOOP-based IDLE emulation. Reported by Casper Gripenberg
180 and Brendan Lynch, fix by Sunil Shetye (his patch was merged) and Brendan Lynch.
181 * IMAP: Handle other clients concurrently accessing IMAP mailboxes better.
182 Fetchmail quits the poll if the EXPUNGE count does not match expectations, and
183 servers not updating RECENT counts after EXPUNGE are handled in a better way.
184 (Patch by Sunil Shetye.)
185 * IMAP: Stop sending EXPUNGE after NOOP-idling (patch by Sunil Shetye).
186 * POP3: fetchmail can now use UIDL in fetchall keep mode, to avoid re-fetching
187 the same messages again when the fetchall keyword is removed. Patch by
188 Sunil Shetye. For details, please see
189 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2006-March/000308.html>
190 * LMTP: fix bug in LMTP port validation (patch by Miloslav Trmac).
191 * SDPS: fetchmail no longer replaces the local user ID for an empty envelope
192 sender when using the proprietary SDPS extension for POP3.
193 Fixes Debian Bug#353575, reported by Roger Lynn.
194 * SDPS: Warn and disable SDPS if POP3 is disabled to avoid compilation errors.
195 * fetchmail no longer prints empty lines in verbose mode when using syslog.
196 * fetchmail no longer prints UID lists in verbose mode when using syslog.
197 * ./configure --quiet is now quieter (no SSL and fallback-related output).
198 * Miloslav Trmac's patch (with minor changes) to fix char * sign consistency,
199 unused arguments and variables.
200 * More signedness, unused argument/variable and other warning fixes.
203 * --idle can now be specified on the command line, too.
204 * --fetchall is now supported on the command-line.
205 * POP3: Lower default fastuidl span to 4 (i. e. every 4th run fetches the
206 whole UIDL list), patch by Sunil Shetye.
209 * "ssl" is a user option rather than a server option. Patch by Nico Golde.
210 Fixes Debian Bug#354661, reported by Keith Hellman.
211 * The manual page now suggests "--" before the addresses in the sendmail MDA
213 * The FAQ item X9, Domino IMAP omits Content-Transfer-Encoding header, was
214 added. Information provided by Anthony Kim on the fetchmail-friends list
216 * Credit Chris Boyle with the NOOP emulation code for IDLE in fetchmail 6.2.4.
217 Eric forgot to credit Chris, thanks to Sunil Shetye for providing these links:
218 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007705.html
219 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007713.html
220 * Added a section about RETR vs. TOP to the manual page.
221 * Changed section/subsection levels in some areas.
223 fetchmail 6.3.2 (released 2006-01-22):
225 Unless otherwise noted, changes to this release were made by Matthias Andree.
227 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
228 * CVE-2006-0321: Fix segfault or bus error after bouncing a message. This bug
229 was introduced into 6.3.0 when removing alloca(); it caused fetchmail to free
230 random memory. Reported by Nathaniel W. Turner, Debian Bug#348747.
231 See fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt
233 # INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE:
234 * Automatically disable the POP3 TOP command if the greeting string contains
235 "Maillennium POP3/PROXY server", which is used by comcast and known to
236 truncate messages after 80 kByte. Fall back to RETR, and complain if we had
237 used TOP otherwise (the warning is printed only once per server in daemon
238 mode). Suggested by Ed Wilts.
239 *Note* that this means messages are marked read on these servers, which is a
240 deviation from how 6.3.1 behaved, but we have no alternative, comcast haven't
241 fixed this bug in years. Preventing the loss of the remainder of the message
242 justifies this incompatible fix.
243 * fetchmail, since 6.3.0, requires write permission to the directory holding the
244 idfile. See the amendment in the 6.3.0 MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES section
245 below for details. The manual page was updated.
247 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS:
248 * The outdated BUGS document was removed from the distribution.
249 * Added fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt to the distribution.
252 * SMTP/LMTP cleanup to fix these two bugs:
253 - switch back to SMTP after having tried LMTP hosts (multiple smtphost hosts)
254 - switch back to LMTP after sending a bounce.
255 The patch removes the global state variable that was the root of this problem.
256 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
257 * Don't complain about fetchall keep in --configdump mode. Bug introduced in
259 * fetchmailconf.py: Fix novice help for Poll interval and fetchall.
260 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #344978.
261 * Some verbose output disappeared in debug mode. Adding further -v options would
262 alternate between verbose and debug mode. debug mode now comprises all verbose
263 output, and adding more -v options does not switch back from debug to verbose
265 * fetchmail.man: Fix accented characters in Héctor García's name. Merged from
266 downstream debian/patches/01_man_page.dpatch.
267 * Add missing --help text for "--sslcertck" option.
268 * fetchmailconf.py: Accept --help and --version.
269 * fetchmail --version now prints the copyright notice.
270 * don't complain about READ-ONLY IMAP folders in --fetchall --keep mode.
271 Reported Alexander Zangerl, Debian Bug#348964.
272 * the RPM .spec file now generates a -debuginfo package on newer RPM versions.
274 fetchmail 6.3.1 (released 2005-12-19):
276 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
277 * CVE-2005-4348 Fix segmentation fault (null pointer dereference) in
278 multidrop mode with headerless email. See fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt.
279 Reported by Daniel Drake, patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
281 # OTHER BUG FIXES, DOCUMENTATION AND TRANSLATION UPDATES
282 * Fix broken default port in POP2. Patch by Stanislav Brabec, SUSE [CZ]. (MA)
283 * Fix manual page, some lines starting with ' were escaped by \&.
284 Reported by Simon Barner. (MA)
285 * Ship with gettext-0.14.3 again, as 6.2.9-rc10 did. Found by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
286 * Actually set default SSL certificate path if --sslcertpath is unset.
287 Reported by Heino Tiedemann and Rob MacGregor. (MA)
288 * Remove bogus Netscape IMAP4rev1 Service >= 3.6 warning about BODY[TEXT]
289 that we are not using. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
290 * Plug potential memory and socket leak when polling multiple folders or when
291 the upstream sends bogus message sizes. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
292 * Update Catalan translation, by Ernest Adrogué Calveras. (MA)
293 * Fix segfault (null pointer dereference) on some operating systems with
294 fetchmail's obsolete DNS MX/host alias lookups in multidrop mode.
295 Patch by Dr.-Ing. Andreas Haakh. (MA)
296 * Close SMTP sockets early, to reduce resource usage, trigger earlier delivery
297 with some MTAs and avoid SIGPIPE (SIG 13) when the SMTP listener gets bored
298 and drops the connection after timeout. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
299 * Don't treat hitting a fetch limit as error. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
300 * Fix negative "messages left on server" on idle/repoll with fetchlimit.
301 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
302 * Properly track logout stage. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
303 * Preserve error conditions across postconnect script. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
304 * Do not trash destination domain if multiple messages are forwarded into the
305 same SMTP/LMTP connection. Reported by Joachim Feise, Berlios Bug #5849. (MA)
306 * Manual page: Add "-md5" to "openssl x509" example in --sslfingerprint
307 documentation, since OpenSSL 0.9.8 changed the default to SHA1.
308 Suggested by Jason White. (MA)
309 * Cope with servers that return UID information in response to non-UID
310 RFC822.{SIZE|HEADER} requests. Reported by Jason White.
311 Patch suggestion by by Sunil Shetye, simplified by MA.
313 fetchmail 6.3.0 (released 2005-11-30):
315 # SECURITY FIXES IN THIS RELEASE
316 * CVE-2005-2335: The POP3 UIDL code doesn't sufficiently validate/truncate the
317 input length, so a (malicious or compromised) server that sends UIDs longer
318 than 128 bytes can corrupt fetchmail's stack and crash fetchmail.
319 This vulnerability is remotely exploitable to inject code run in a
320 root shell. Edward J. Shornock, Ludwig Nussel. fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
321 * CVE-2005-3088: fetchmailconf now changes the output file to mode 0600 BEFORE
322 writing to it, so there is no window where passwords could be read by the
323 world. Matthias Andree. fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt
325 # MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
326 * Remove support for --netsec/-T options, the required inet6_apps library is no
328 http://www.inner.net/pub/ipv6/ states, as of 2005-07-03: "/pub/ipv6
329 Our IPv6 software is now long defunct. Please find a more modern source."
330 I haven't been able to find a more modern source. Matthias Andree
331 * Operating systems that do not conform to the Single Unix Specification v2
332 (1997) or v3 (2001, aka IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) are no longer supported. They
333 may continue to work and non-intrusive patches to support them may be
334 accepted. Matthias Andree
335 * The default for --smtphost is now always "localhost" regardless of
336 authentication types and protocols, so as to simplify configurations for
337 workstations where the SMTP daemon only listens on the loopback interface.
338 Sunil Shetye & Matthias Andree
339 Amendment, 2006-01-04:
340 * fetchmail's idfile (.fetchids) is no longer written directly, but the ids are
341 written to a temporary file which is renamed into place after being written
342 completely. This is to avoid writing incomplete idfiles when running out of
343 space, which would cause excessive duplicate refetches of messages, this might
344 make matters even worse. This means that fetchmail requires write permission
345 on the directory holding the idfile. This will usually affect system-global
346 daemons only, for instance, Debian. Found by Dan Jacobson. Matthias Andree.
347 Escalated to "incompatible", 2006-01-13:
348 * Try to obtain FQDN as our own host by default, rather than using "localhost".
349 If hostname cannot be qualified, complain noisily and continue, unless
350 Kerberos, ODMR or ETRN are used (these have always required an FQDN).
351 Partial fix of Debian Bug#150137. Fixes Debian Bug#316454. Matthias Andree
353 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS AND USERS
354 * fetchmailconf is now a shell wrapper that calls the byte-compiled
355 fetchmailconf.py script, which is now installed in the regular python
356 directory. Matthias Andree.
357 * The --enable-inet6 configure option was removed. The code is mostly protocol
358 agnostic, a fully IPv6 aware OS is expected to provide getaddrinfo(),
359 getnameinfo() and the macro AF_INET6. Matthias Andree.
360 * gettext (intl/) has been removed from the fetchmail package. Install GNU
361 gettext 0.14 separately for NLS (i18n). Matthias Andree
362 * Added Russian translation, courtesy of Pavel Maryanov of the
363 Russian translation team. (MA)
364 * Updated and re-enabled Czech translation, by Miloslav Trmac (MA).
365 * Dropped da=Danish, el=Greek and tr=Turkish translations which have more than
366 10% (61+) untranslated or fuzzy messages. Matthias Andree.
368 # OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
369 * Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR)
370 * PopDel.py removed from contrib at author's request. (ESR)
371 * Matthias Andree's fix for Sunil Shetye's fetch-split patch. (ESR)
372 * Include James Stone's moldremover.py script. (ESR)
373 * Enable .fetchmailrc permissions checking under Cygwin. (ESR)
374 * Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication. (ESR)
375 * Revised Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication (the
376 original version would go into an infinite loop when CAPA failed;
377 found by David Greaves.) (MA)
378 * HOME_ETC patch for PLD Linux. (ESR)
379 * Sunil Shetye's fix for SSL configuration. (ESR)
380 * Simon Josefsson's patch for GSS library support. (ESR)
381 * Added Andrey Lelikov's recipe for Hotmail and Lycos Webmail. (ESR)
382 * Remove blank between MAIL FROM: and <, which causes Cyrus to complain.
383 Patch by Phil Endecott. (RF)
384 * Build fixes for HESIOD and resolv.h trouble on FreeBSD. (MA)
385 * Fabrice Bellet's fix for Red Hat bug #113492, fetchmail hangs in IMAP
386 mode after EXPUNGE when the server (Dovecot 0.99.10) doesn't update
387 RECENT and EXISTS counts. (MA)
388 * Holger Mauermann's bounce patch, to use a NULL envelope from, not
389 write a Return-Path header (both to meet RFC-2821), changed From,
390 added Subject header, rewording the human readable part. Fixes Debian
392 * Merge Sunil Shetye's time.h handling fix. (MA)
393 * Merge Gerd von Egidy's patch to avoid a segfault in multidrop/received
394 mode when the Received: headers are malformatted. (MA)
395 * MIME-encode bodies and Subject headers of warning messages, limiting
396 the header to 7 bits. (MA)
397 * Normalize most locale codesets to IANA codesets, based on
398 norm_charmap.c by Markus Kuhn. (MA)
399 * Remove sleep(3) after POP3 login, patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
400 * Fix option parsing bug that trashes the showdots setting when more
401 than one server is configured. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
402 * Honor sslcertpath setting even if sslcertck is unset. Patch by Brian
404 * SSL certificate checking fixes, don't display same error message twice
405 in succession, make sure that Common Name and fingerprint checking are
406 only done once. Print all validation warnings/errors even if not in
407 verbose mode. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
408 * Import Bjorn Reese and Daniel Stenberg's MIT-licensed Trio 1.10 from
409 http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/ for systems that do not support
410 snprintf or vsnprintf. (MA)
411 * Clean up the horrible #ifdef HAVE_[V]SNPRINTF that made the code
412 unreadable. Use Trio where [v]snprintf is/are missing. (MA)
413 * Default to Linux 2.2 /proc/net/dev format, and use uname(2) to determine the
414 kernel version instead of calling uname(1). Thanks to Paul Slootman. (MA)
415 * Be more careful when swapping UID lists or writing the .fetchids file,
416 requested by Manfred Weihs. (MA)
417 * Print a warning if multidrop configuration is attempted without
418 envelope option. (MA)
419 * Split information on fetchmail versions before 6.0.0 to a separate
421 * Merge SuSE patches: (sent by Stanislav Brabec, merged by Matthias Andree)
422 - fetchmail-6.2.5-declaration.patch (double sigint_handler decl/getpass.c)
423 - fetchmail-6.2.5-implicit-declaration.patch (missing #include)
424 - fetchmail-6.2.5-random-result.patch (uninitialized variable/opie.c)
425 * Revised some bogus assertions about POP3 LAST and UIDL use in the
426 manual page. UIDL isn't flaky as the man page suggested, but a
427 reliability feature. In fact, IMAP4 code is flaky in that it relies on
428 the upstream seen flags. (MA)
429 * Miloslav Trmac's patch for fetchmailconf to support string-type values
430 of the "port" variable, avoiding "port None" corruption in .fetchmailrc.
431 To fix Redhat Bug #55623 (MA)
432 * de.po fixes from Nico Golde (MA)
433 * es.po fixes from Jesus Roncero, Debian bug #286044 (MA)
434 * sink.c fix from Cesar Eduardo Barros, to avoid double @ in address
435 when username contains an @ and the envelope sender is null, Debian
437 * configure.ac cleanups by Miloslav Trmac (MA)
438 * Miloslav Trmac's fix to reply_hack() type, for systems where
439 sizeof(int) != sizeof(size_t). (MA)
440 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for driver.c to not call the private Kerberos
441 krb5_init_ets() function. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
442 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for sink.c/transact.c to reserve sufficient
443 space for \r\n trailers in snprintf calls. Sent by Miloslav Trmac,
444 possibly fixing Red Hat bug #114470. (MA).
445 * Nalin Dahyabhai's patch to use the krb5-config script, if present.
446 Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
447 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix to make rpa.c compile. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
448 * Trivial fetchmailconf.man to redirect to fetchmail.1.
449 Reported by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
450 * Internationalization (i18n) updates by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
451 * Fix "couldn't find canonical DNS name of NN (MM)" for hosts that have
452 only IPv6 addresses. Matthias Andree.
453 * Revised INSTALL after question from Brian Candler, inet6-apps is no
454 longer available: remove inet6-apps hints for IPv6, and add some
455 apologetic message for IPsec. Note the code may be removed in a future
456 version. Matthias Andree.
457 * Brian Candler's FAQ update about SSL certificate verification. (MA)
458 * Nico Golde's patch to support "proto RPOP" in the configuration file,
459 reported by Dr. Andreas Krüger, Debian bug #242384 (MA)
460 * Skip sending POP3 PASS command when USER command failed. Matthias Andree.
461 * Run fetchmail.man through automatic spell checker. Matthias Andree.
462 * Major fetchmail(1) manual page overhaul by R. Hannes Beinert, to
463 clarify singledrop vs. multidrop operation. (MA)
464 * Make tracepolls a server option, as documented. Fixes Debian bug
465 #156094. Matthias Andree.
466 * Fix some minor inaccuracies (RFC-1893 related, grammar/spelling) in
468 * Rename ESR's design notes to esrs-design-notes.html and add a new
469 design-notes.html document. The NOTES file will contain both of them.
471 * Fix Debian bug #301964, fetchmail leaks sockets when SSL negotiation
472 fails. Fix suggested by Goswin Brederlow. (MA)
473 * Really fix Debian Bug#207919 (garbage in Received: lines when smtphost set),
474 patch by Tobias Diedrich. The 6.2.5 NEWS claimed Gregan's patch had fixed
475 #207919 but it had fixed #212484 instead and #207919 remained unfixed in
476 6.2.5. The entry below has been corrected to read #212484 now. (MA)
477 * When writing the PID file, write a FHS 2.3 compliant PID file.
478 Fixes Debian bug #230615. Matthias Andree.
479 * Make ODMR really silent, suppress "fetchmail: receiving message
480 data". Fixes Debian Bug#296163. Matthias Andree.
481 * Add From: header to warning emails. Debian Bug#244828. Matthias Andree.
482 * Fix IMAP code to use password of arbitrary length from configuration
483 file (although not when read interactively). Debian Bug#276424.
485 * Document that fetchmail may automatically enable UIDL option.
486 Debian Bug#304701. Matthias Andree.
487 * Put *BOLD* text into the manual page near --mda to state unmistakably that
488 the --mda %T and %F substitutions add single quotes, hoping to avoid bogus
489 bug reports such as Debian Bug #224564. Matthias Andree
490 * Rename lock_release to fm_lock_release, to avoid namespace collision on
491 Darwin. NetBSD PR#28543 (pkg/28543). Matthias Andree.
492 * The RFC-822 parser no longer strips the last character of bare addresses.
494 * The IP address matching code was broken and
495 1. didn't search exhaustively, but matched only the first IP address of the
496 server's queryname against the IP addresses of the server name to match.
497 2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts. Matthias Andree
498 * The "port" option, while still understood, is being replaced by the "service"
499 option, which is now supported even without --enable-inet6. Matthias Andree.
500 * The default distribution format is now bzip2. Matthias Andree.
501 * fetchmailconf redirects fetchmail's input from /dev/null so it doesn't
502 wait for the user to enter a password when the user doesn't even see
503 the prompt. Reported by Michal Marek. Matthias Andree.
504 * Write RFC-compliant BSMTP envelopes. Reported by Nico Golde. Matthias Andree.
505 * Fix --with-gssapi compilation problem. Simon Josefsson. (MA)
506 * Foster protocol-independence to support IPv6 better, for instance, providing
507 IPv6 addresses in Received: headers. Matthias Andree.
508 * Received: headers now enclose the for <...> destination address in angle
509 brackets for consistency with Postfix. Matthias Andree.
510 * Operating systems that do not support at least one of gethostbyname,
511 gethostbyname_r, getipnodebyname are no longer supported. Matthias Andree.
512 * Fixes to --with-hesiod option. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
513 * Delete oversized messages with the new --limitflush option. Debian
514 Bug#212240. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
515 * Fix MacOS X compilation failures in sink.c (ru_*time has incomplete type).
516 Berlios Bug #4725. Matthias Andree.
517 * Fix "auth ntlm" to send AUTH NTLM (rather than AUTH MSN). Add "auth msn"
518 officially. Reported by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
519 * Expunge between IMAP folders when polling multiple folders.
521 * Fix IMAP expunged message counting. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
522 * Add full support for --service option. Matthias Andree
523 * When getaddrinfo() fails resolving a service, log getaddrinfo() error. (MA)
524 * Fix bogus "cannot resolve service * to port number" error. Simon Barner. (MA)
525 * Failure to set up SSL connections now results in PS_SOCKET. Suggested by
526 Thomas Wolff. Matthias Andree.
527 * Kerberos IV detection fix for FreeBSD 4. Simon Barner. (MA)
528 * Fix display and documentation of --envelope option. Matthias Andree
529 * Make "envelope 'Delivered-To'" work with dropdelivered. Timothy Lee. (MA)
530 * Add -DBIND_8_COMPAT to Darwin (MacOS X) compiles, to fix build problems on
531 newer Darwin versions. Matthias Andree.
532 * fetchmail should now automatically detect if OpenSSL requires -ldl.
534 * Fix Solaris build with --disable-nls (blastwave.org). Matthias Andree.
535 * Missed --port/--service/--ssl cleanups in the manual. Reminder from Thomas
537 * Complain in POP3 if NTLM/MSN auth is requested but had not been enabled at
538 compile time. This configuration mismatch now causes an error message and
539 authentication failure. Found by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
540 * fetchmailconf now allows expert users to choose the authorization type and
541 also offers MSN and NTLM, suggested by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
542 * fetchmailconf now (as of 1.49) writes its version to the comment of the
543 saved run control file. Matthias Andree
544 * Properly shut down SSL connections. Berlios Patch #647 by Arkadiusz
546 * Global variable cleanup, to fix daemon mode reinitialization problems. Patch
547 by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
548 * fetchmailconf -h documents the fetchmailconf -h option. Matthias Andree
549 * fetchmailconf -V now prints the fetchmailconf version. Matthias Andree
550 * Add support for SubjectAltName (RFC-2595 or 2818), to avoid bogus certificate
551 mismatch errors. Patch by Roland Stigge, Debian Bug#201113. (MA)
552 * make fetchmail --silent --quit really silent, Debian Bug #229014 by Dr.
553 Andreas Krüger. Matthias Andree
554 * cleanup --quit handling again (so that --silent --quit just kills the
555 existing daemon, rather than continue running), and document it more clearly.
557 * Print an error message if multiple "defaults" records are found in the
558 configuration file. Matthias Andree
559 * Bury on_exit officially - the necessary code had been missing from 6.0.0,
560 6.2.0, 6.2.5. Matthias Andree
561 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be read. Matthias Andree
562 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be created exclusively, this got
563 broken in a 6.2.6-pre, 6.2.5.2 and older were fine. Matthias Andree
564 * Do not break some other process's lockfile in "-q" mode, but wait for the
565 other process's exit. Matthias Andree
566 * Man page: --sslfingerprint points user to x509(1ssl) and gives an example
567 how to use it. Debian Bug#213484, Eduard Bloch. (MA)
568 * fetchmailconf now sets the service properly after autoprobe. Fixes Debian
569 Bug#320645. Matthias Andree
570 * Man page: Fix Debian Bug#241883, making global options more clear. Matt
571 Swift, Matthias Andree.
572 * When eating IMAP message trailer, don't see any line containing "OK" as the
573 end of the trailer, but wait for the proper tagged OK line. To work around
574 the qmail + Courier-IMAP problem in Debian Bug#338007. Matthias Andree
575 * Fix Debian Bug#317761: when trying to send a bounce message, don't bail out
576 if we cannot qualify our own hostname, so we aren't losing the bounce.
577 Instead, pass the buck on to the SMTP server and use our own unqualified
578 hostname. Matthias Andree
579 * Revise some error messages so they are less confusing. Sunil Shetye.
580 * Man page: update --smtphost documentation. Sunil Shetye, Matthias Andree.
581 * Man page: clarify --loghost works only while detached. Matthias Andree
582 * Man page: update --smtpaddress documentation. Sunil Shetye.
583 * Fix several memory leaks and bugs in the SMTP/LMTP retry logic where
584 fetchmail confused UNIX and Internet domain sockets. Sunil Shetye.
585 * Man page (BUGS): document that passwords are length limited. Matthias Andree
586 * Man page: Document that quoted strings that run across line boundaries
587 contain the control characters (CR or LF). Document explicitly the backslash
588 escape sequences and their differences from the escape sequences used in the
589 C programming language. Matthias Andree
590 * Fix segfault when run control file ends with a backslash inside an
591 unterminated quoted string. Matthias Andree.
592 * In quoted strings, support backslash as last character on a line to join the
593 following line to the current. Matthias Andree.
594 * Parsing untagged IMAP responses is more robust now. Matthias Andree.
595 * Man page: Remove some procmail praises in --mda documentation, suggest
596 maildrop instead, warn of procmail fallthrough behavior. Matthias Andree.
597 * Man page: Revise AUTHORS and SEE ALSO sections. Matthias Andree.
598 * Updated translations: Albanian [sq] (Besnik Bleta), Catalan [ca] (Ernest
599 Adrogué Calveras), Czech [cs] (Miloslav Trmac), German [de] (MA),
600 Spanish (Castilian) [es] (Javier Kohen), French [fr] (MA),
601 Polish [pl] (Jakub Bogusz), Russian [ru] (Pavel Maryanov).
602 * In oversized warning messages, print the account name, too. Fixes Debian
603 Bug#213299. Sunil Shetye (MA).
604 * Fix installation without Python. Sunil Shetye, reported by Peter Church. (MA)
605 * Update Japanese translation. Fixes Debian Bug#329342, Takeshi Hamasaki. (MA)
606 * Fix imap.c size safeguard that broke on x86_64 architecture. Matthias Andree
607 * The FAQ is now available for duplex DIN A4 printing in PDF format.
608 Don't bother to ask for a Letter version, I don't care. Matthias Andree
609 * Man page: Use \- in the manual page where appropriate so that copy & paste
610 works. I hope we got them all. Héctor García, Matthias Andree.
613 * Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
614 * Got rid of alloca() in fetchmail proper. Matthias Andree
615 * Got rid of ipv6-connect, inner_connect and thereabouts. Matthias Andree
617 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
619 fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:
621 * Updated Spanish, Turkish, and German translation files.
622 * Matthew Gregan's patch to handle garbage lengths from dbmail;
623 closes Debian bug #212484.
624 * Fix IMAP query so new-message count doesn't include deleted messages.
625 * Man page typo fix, closes Debian bug #205892.
626 * OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl@acm.org.
627 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
628 flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
629 * Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of
631 * Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
632 * Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
633 * Sunil Shetye's patches to break up fetching of sizes and UIDLs.
635 There are 599 people on fetchmail-friends and 748 on fetchmail-announce.
637 fetchmail-6.2.4 (Wed Aug 13 04:27:35 EDT 2003), 22625 lines:
639 * Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
640 * IDLE is now supported using NOOP commands even if the server doesn't support
641 the IMAP IDLE extension. Patch by Chris Boyle.
642 * Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
643 * Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
644 * Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
645 * Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
646 * Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.
648 There are 585 people on fetchmail-friends and 745 on fetchmail-announce.
650 fetchmail-6.2.3 (Thu Jul 17 14:53:00 EDT 2003), 22490 lines:
652 * French, German, Danish, Spanish, and Turkish translations updated.
653 * Brian Sammon's patch to deal with malformed message lines containing NULs.
654 * Fai's patch to ignore all but the first Return-Path (some spams have
655 more than one of these).
656 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to properly byte-stuff when talking to BSMTP.
657 Fixes Debian bug #184469.
658 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to enable auth=cram-md5.
659 Fixes Debian bug #185232.
660 * Sunil Shetye's configure.in patch to avoid spurious search order messages
662 * Header-reading code now copes better with lines ending in \n only.
663 * Elias Israel's patches for POP3 NTLM support and dealing with byte-
664 stuffing failures at socket level.
666 There are 580 people on fetchmail-friends and 750 on fetchmail-announce.
668 fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:
670 * Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior on empty messages.
671 * Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful
672 STARTTLS negotiation.
673 * Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
674 * Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security.
675 * Christophe GIAUME <christophe@giaume.com> finished the implementation
677 * Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
678 * Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
679 * Fix for Debian bug #108977, clean up config file evaluation,
682 There are 554 people on fetchmail-friends and 727 on fetchmail-announce.
684 fetchmail-6.2.1 (Tue Jan 14 08:17:19 EST 2003), 22219 lines:
686 * Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
687 * Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
688 * Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check,
689 we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
690 * Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.
692 There are 536 people on fetchmail-friends and 716 on fetchmail-announce.
694 fetchmail-6.2.0 (Fri Dec 13 00:10:07 EST 2002), 22235 lines:
696 * Applied Steffen Esser's fix for a buffer-overflow bug in rfc822.c
697 * Updated Danish, German, and Turkish translation files.
698 * Sunil Shetye's SMTP timeout patch.
700 There are 538 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
702 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
704 fetchmail-6.1.3 (Thu Nov 28 05:35:15 EST 2002), 22203 lines:
706 * Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
707 * Added Slovak support.
708 * Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas).
709 * Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
710 * Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
711 * Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
712 * Sunil's fix for the STARTTLS problem -- repoll if TLS nabdshake
713 fails. The attempt to set up STARTTLS can be suppressed with 'sslproto ""'.
715 There are 540 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
717 fetchmail-6.1.2 (Thu Oct 31 11:41:02 EST 2002), 22135 lines:
719 * Jan Klaverstijn's verbosity-lowering patch.
720 * Updated Turkish, German, Catalan, and Danish translation files.
721 * Fix processing of POP3 messages with missing bodies.
722 * Minor fixes by Sunil Shetye: fix generation of auth fail note, handle
723 unexpected SIGALRM, plug memory leak, handle lines beginning with '\0',
724 try to bulletproof error handling against read failures.
726 There are 535 people on fetchmail-friends and 696 on fetchmail-announce.
728 fetchmail-6.1.1 (Fri Oct 18 14:53:51 EDT 2002), 22087 lines:
730 * OTP fix patches from Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
731 * fix patch for writing antispam capability correctly in conf.c.
732 * Fix patches for Debian bugs #162571, #156592.
733 * Correction to manpage re -b and qmail.
734 * Patch to disable use of STLS if auth passwd is specified.
735 * Fix specfile generation to handle SSL correctly.
736 * New Danish, Turkish, and Catalan translation files.
737 * Improved ODMR debug messages.
738 * IMAP efficiency hack; don't fetch sizes unless needed.
739 * Detect and rewrite invalid return paths beginning with @.
740 * Fix for subtle freeing bug that suppressed information in some bounce msgs.
741 * Newline fix patches for internationalization files.
742 * Fix reversed test guarding authentication-failure warnings.
743 * Fix POP3 breakage starting at 5.9.14.
745 There are 529 people on fetchmail-friends and 693 on fetchmail-announce.
747 fetchmail-6.1.0 (Sun Sep 22 18:31:23 EDT 2002), 21999 lines:
749 * Updated French translation.
750 * Stefan Esser's fix for potential remote vulnerability in multidrop mode.
751 This is an important security fix!
753 There are 519 people on fetchmail-friends and 680 on fetchmail-announce.
755 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
757 fetchmail-6.0.0 (Tue Sep 17 19:48:25 EDT 2002), 21972 lines:
759 * Applied Matt Kraai's fix for minor Debian bug #144539.
760 * Nerijus Baliunas's patch to support STARTTLS over IMAP.
761 * More cleanups and minor bugfixes from Sunil Shetye.
762 * Default antispam-response list is now empty.
763 * Updated de and po translations.
765 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
767 There are 520 people on fetchmail-friends and 683 on fetchmail-announce.
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