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19 * RPOP is obsolete, support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.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