4 Revision 1.2 1996/06/26 19:08:55 esr
5 This is what I sent Harris.
7 Revision 1.1 1996/06/26 15:27:06 esr
10 Revision 1.3 1995/09/07 22:40:58 ceharris
13 Revision 1.2 1995/08/09 01:22:47 ceharris
14 Final preparation for 3.0b2 release.
16 Revision 1.1 1995/08/07 21:09:19 ceharris
17 Final preparation for popclient 3.0b1 release
19 This is a BETA release of popclient version 3. Little if any user support
20 is provided for this version of popclient. Consider this BETA version to
21 be a "developer/tester" release only.
27 Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> hacked on 3.0b6. Here are his change notes:
29 CONFIGURATION AND BUILDING
31 * The autoconfigure script incorrectly assumed that all Linuxes use
32 /usr/bin/deliver. Under Linux it now checks for both /usr/bin/delivermail
35 * I added a distribution-maker production to Makefile.in.
37 OPTIONS AND COMMAND LINE
39 * I have removed the -p command-line option. Given that there's a .poprc
40 facility there is no excuse for encouraging users to put plaintext passwords
41 in scripts which might be readable.
43 * Calling popclient with no arguments now causes it to query or operate
44 on every host in the .poprc file.
46 * I have made --version more useful by having it dump the computed
47 connection options for each server specified.
49 * The user can now explicitly set an MDA (such as procmail) with the
50 new option -m or -mda. Various possible MDAs are listed on the man page.
54 * The .poprc lexer now supports "-enclosed strings which may contain
57 * I added a --yydebug option to enable .poprc parser debugging at runtime
58 if the parser was generated with --debug. It's not documented.
60 * You may now have a `defaults' entry in .poprc which sets overrideable
61 values for other entries. See the man page for details.
63 * It is now possible to set keep, flush and fetchall in your .poprc file.
65 * Fixed incorrect numbering of source lines in .poprc parse error messages.
67 * The configure.in specification no longer uses the obsolete AC_TRY_COMPILE
68 macro (it uses AC_TRY_LINK instead).
72 * I have added mandatory locking of mailbox files where supported.
73 This will cover Linux systems, in particular.
75 * The default behavior is now to do lock-protected append on the user's
76 system mailbox rather than using delivermail or some other MDA.
77 (This is a performance hack.)
79 * The autoconfigure script now looks for standard mail locations. The
80 default mail delivery agent is used only if it can't find a mail spool
81 directory in the standard places.
83 FUNCTIONAL ENHANCEMENTS
85 * When using POP3, message headers are edited so that replies won't foo up.
86 Anything that looks like a mail ID local to the POP host gets @ and the
87 pop servername attached to it before being appended to the user's
88 mailbox or passed to an MDA.
90 * I have implemented daemon mode.
94 * All changes and feature additions have been tested in actual use and are
95 documented on the man page.
97 * I have turned the comments in the sample.poprc into a new manual
98 section documenting the .poprc format.
100 MISCELLANEOUS BUG FIXES
102 * I fixed some de-initialization bugs in pop2.c and pop3.c that led to
103 fd leaks (these became painfully obvious when I tested daemon mode!).
105 * I've fixed the flaky parser error messages. They turned out to be due
106 to a misdeclaration of yytext.
108 There's only one feature I haven't been able to add successfully. I
109 want a --logfile option that redirects the daemon-mode output to a
110 given file, but the code (in daemon.c near 200) unaccountably doesn't
111 work (so I haven't documented it yet).
114 o "From " header fix in pop2.c and pop3.c
115 o Surpress "..." output when --stdout option specified in pop3.c
119 o various diagnostic/informational message fixes.
122 o Support for retrieving only new messages from maildrop when
124 o Support for retrieving only the first n lines of each message
126 o APOP authentication support.
127 o Buffered socket input.
130 This is a "new features" release.
131 o support for .poprc file.
132 o GNU-style long options.
133 o fixed passwords appearing in 'ps' output
134 o support for multiple servers on one command line
137 This is mostly a test of the autoconfigure integration.
138 Among the functions performed by the new configure script, is
139 the ability to detect known system types, configures the mail
140 delivery agent (MDA) correctly. This should permanently solve
141 the problem of using something other than an MDA for mail
142 delivery (which continues to plague Linux slackware 1.2.9).
143 For this beta, please check the values of MDA_PATH and MDA_ARGS
144 carefully. They should match the values found in your
145 sendmail.cf file on the line which begins with "Mlocal".
147 Other changes from popclient version 2.21:
149 o no longer uses getpass() from the C library. The
150 internal getpassword() function allows the use of long
153 o integrated GNU getopt() for long options. Long option
154 names will appear in a future beta.
156 o Several compiler warnings fixed.
158 o Fixed problems related to missing include files in