* The monitor and interface options may be removed from a future fetchmail
version as they are not reasonably portable across operating systems.
* POP2 is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail version.
+* IMAP2 and IMAP4 (not IMAP4r1) are obsolete, support may be removed from a
+ future fetchmail version.
* RPOP is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail release.
* --sslcertck will become a default setting in a future fetchmail version.
-* --sslfingerprint may be removed from a future fetchmail version, because it's
- just too easily abused to create a false sense of security.
* The multidrop To/Cc guessing code along with the fragile duplicate suppressor
is deprecated and may be removed from a future release.
* The "envelope Received" option may be removed from a future release, because
* The "protocol auto" default inside fetchmail may be removed from a future
fetchmail release. Explicit configuration of the protocol is recommended.
* Kerberos IV support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
+* Kerberos 5 support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
+* The --principal option may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
* SIGHUP wakeup support may be removed from a future fetchmail release and
cause fetchmail to terminate - it was broken for many years.
* Support for operating systems that are not sufficiently POSIX compliant may be
* The maintainer may migrate fetchmail to C++ with STL or C#, and impose further
requirements (dependencies), such as Boost or other class libraries.
* The softbounce option default will change to "false" in the next release.
+* The --bsmtp - mode of operation may be removed in a future release.
+* Given that OpenSSL is severely underdocumented, and needs license exceptions,
+ fetchmail may switch to a different SSL library.
+* SSLv2 support will be removed from a future fetchmail release. It has been
+ obsolete for more than a decade.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-fetchmail 6.3.12 (released XXXX-XX-XX - not yet):
+fetchmail-6.3.25 (not yet released):
+
+# BUG FIXES
+* Fix a memory leak in out-of-memory error condition while handling plugins.
+ Report and patch by John Beck (found with Parfait static code analyzer).
+* Fix a NULL pointer dereference in out-of-memory error condition while handling
+ plugins.
+ Report and patch by John Beck (found with Parfait static code analyzer).
+
+# CHANGES
+* Improved reporting when SSL/TLS X.509 certificate validation has failed,
+ working around a not-so-recent swapping of two OpenSSL error codes, and
+ a practical impossibility to distinguish broken certification chains from
+ missing trust anchors (root certificates).
+* OpenSSL decoded errors are now reported through report(), rather than dumped
+ to stderr, so that they should show up in logfiles and/or syslog.
+
+# WORKAROUNDS
+* Older systems that provide the older RFC-2553 implementation of getaddrinfo,
+ rather than the current RFC-3493, and systems that do not provide this
+ getaddrinfo() interface at all and thus use the replacement functions from
+ libesmtp/getaddrinfo.?, might return EAI_NODATA when a host is registered in
+ DNS as MX or similar, but without A or AAAA records. Handle this situation
+ when checking for multidrop aliases and treat EAI_NODATA the same as
+ EAI_NONAME, i. e. name cannot be resolved.
+
+ The proper fix, however, is to upgrade the operating system.
+
+
+fetchmail-6.3.24 (released 2012-12-23, 26108 LoC):
+
+# NOTE THAT THE RELEASE OF FUTURE FETCHMAIL 6.3.X VERSIONS IS UNCLEAR.
+Should a 7.0 release be made earlier, chances are that the 6.3.X branch
+is abandoned and its changes be folded into the 7.0 release, with changes
+after 6.3.24 not available on their own in a newer 6.3.X release.
+
+# NOTE THAT FETCHMAIL IS NO LONGER PUBLISHED THROUGH IBIBLIO.
+ They have stopped accepting submissions and consider themselves an archive.
+
+# CRITICAL AND REGRESSION FIXES
+* Plug a memory leak in OpenSSL's certificate verification callback.
+ This would affect fetchmail configurations running with SSL in daemon mode
+ more than one-shot runs.
+ Reported by Erik Thiele, and pinned by Dominik Heeg,
+ fixes Debian Bug #688015.
+ This bug was introduced into fetchmail 6.3.0 (committed 2005-10-29)
+ when support for subjectAltName was added through a patch by Roland
+ Stigge, submitted as Debian Bug#201113.
+
+* The --logfile option now works again outside daemon mode, reported by Heinz
+ Diehl. The documentation that I had been reading was inconsistent with the
+ code, and only parts of the manual page claimed that --logfile was only
+ effective in daemon mode.
+
+# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS
+ (This section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the
+ current release information)
+* Fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
+ (See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
+* BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output.
+* Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in
+ 64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit
+ fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code,
+ so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties.
+* Fetchmail does not track pending deletes across crashes.
+* The command line interface is sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance,
+ fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running.
+* Linux systems may return duplicates of an IP address in some circumstances if
+ no or no global IPv6 addresses are configured.
+ (No workaround. Ubuntu Bug#582585, Novell Bug#606980.)
+* Kerberos 5 may be broken, particularly on Heimdal, and provide bogus error
+ messages. This will not be fixed, because the maintainer has no Kerberos 5
+ server to test against. Use GSSAPI.
+
+
+fetchmail-6.3.23 (released 2012-12-10, 26106 LoC):
+
+# REGRESSION FIXES
+* Fix compilation with OpenSSL implementations before 0.9.8m that lack
+ SSL_CTX_clear_options. Patch by Earl Chew.
+ Note that the use of older OpenSSL versions with fetchmail is unsupported and
+ *not* recommended.
+
+# BUG FIXES
+* Fix combination of --plugin and -f -. Patch by Alexander Zangerl,
+ to fix Debian Bug#671294.
+* Clean up logfile vs. syslog handling, and in case logfile overrides
+ syslog, send a message to the latter stating where logging goes.
+
+# CHANGES
+* The build process can now be made a bit more silent and concise through
+ ./configure --enable-silent-rules, or by adding "V=0" to the make command.
+
+# WORKAROUNDS
+* Make Maillennium POP3 workarounds less specific, to encompass
+ Maillennium POP3/UNIBOX (Maillennium V05.00c++). Reported by Eddie
+ via fetchmail-users mailing list, 2012-10-13.
+
+# TRANSLATION UPDATES
+[cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
+[da] Danish, by Joe Hansen
+[de] German
+[fr] French, Frédéric Marchal
+[ja] Japanese, Takeshi Hamasaki
+[pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
+[sv] Swedish, by Göran Uddeborg
+[vi] Vietnamese, Trần Ngọc Quân
+
+
+fetchmail-6.3.22 (released 2012-08-29, 26077 LoC):
+
+# SECURITY FIXES
+* for CVE-2012-3482:
+ NTLM: fetchmail mistook an error message that the server sent in response to
+ an NTLM request for protocol exchange, tried to decode it, and crashed while
+ reading from a bad memory location.
+ Also, with a carefully crafted NTLM challenge packet sent from the server, it
+ would be possible that fetchmail conveyed confidential data not meant for the
+ server through the NTLM response packet.
+ Fix: Detect base64 decoding errors, validate the NTLM challenge, and abort
+ NTLM authentication in case of error.
+ See fetchmail-SA-2012-02.txt for further details.
+ Reported by J. Porter Clark.
+
+* for CVE-2011-3389:
+ SSL/TLS (wrapped and STARTTLS): fetchmail used to disable a countermeasure
+ against a certain kind of attack against cipher block chaining initialization
+ vectors (SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS).
+ Whether this creates an exploitable situation, depends on the server and the
+ negotiated ciphers.
+ As a precaution, fetchmail 6.3.22 enables the countermeasure, by clearing
+ SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS.
+
+ NOTE that this can cause connections to certain non-conforming servers to
+ fail, in which case you can set the environment variable
+ FETCHMAIL_DISABLE_CBC_IV_COUNTERMEASURE to any non-empty value when starting
+ fetchmail to re-instate the compatibility option at the expense of security.
+
+ Reported by Apple Product Security.
+
+ For technical details, refer to <http://www.openssl.org/~bodo/tls-cbc.txt>.
+ See fetchmail-SA-2012-01.txt for further details.
+
+# BUG FIX
+* The Server certificate: message in verbose mode now appears on stdout like the
+ remainder of the output. Reported by Henry Jensen, to fix Debian Bug #639807.
+
+* The GSSAPI-related autoconf code now matches gssapi.c better, and uses
+ a different check to look for GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE.
+ This fixes the GSSAPI-enabled build on NetBSD 6 Beta.
+
+# CHANGES
+* On systems where SSLv2_client_method isn't defined in OpenSSL (such as
+ newer Debian, and Ubuntu starting with 11.10 oneiric ocelot), don't
+ reference it (to fix the build) and if configured, print a run-time error
+ that the OS does not support SSLv2. Fixes Debian Bug #622054,
+ but note that that bug report has a more thorough patch that does away with
+ SSLv2 altogether.
+
+* The security and errata notices fetchmail-{EN,SA}-20??-??.txt are now
+ under the more relaxed CC BY-ND 3.0 license (the noncommercial clause
+ was dropped). The Creative Commons address was updated.
+
+* The Python-related Makefile.am parts were simplified to avoid an automake
+ 1.11.X bug around noinst_PYTHON, Automake Bug #10995.
+
+* Configuring fetchmail without SSL now triggers a configure warning,
+ and asks the user to consider running configure --with-ssl.
+
+# WORKAROUND
+* Some servers, notably Zimbra, return A1234 987 FETCH () in response to
+ a header request, in the face of message corruption. fetchmail now treats
+ these as temporary errors. Report and Patch by Mikulas Patocka, Red Hat.
+
+* Some servers, notably Microsoft Exchange, return "A0009 OK FETCH completed."
+ without any header in response to a header request for meeting reminder
+ messages (with a "meeting.ics" attachment). fetchmail now treats these as
+ transient errors. Report by John Connett, Patch by Sunil Shetye.
+
+# TRANSLATION UPDATES
+* [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
+* [de] German
+* [fr] French, by Frédéric Marchal
+* [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
+* [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
+* [sv] Swedish, by Göran Uddeborg --- NEW TRANSLATION - Thank you!
+* [vi] Vietnamese, by Trần Ngọc Quân
+
+
+fetchmail-6.3.21 (released 2011-08-21, 26011 LoC):
+
+# CRITICAL BUG FIX
+* The IMAP client no longer inserts NUL bytes into the last line of a message
+ when it is not closed with a LF or CRLF sequence. Reported by Antoine Levitt.
+ As a side effect of the fix, and in order to avoid a full rewrite, fetchmail
+ will now CRLF-terminate the last line fetched through IMAP, even if it is
+ originally not terminated by LF or CRLF. This bears no relevance if your
+ messages end up in mbox, but adds line termination for storages (like Maildir)
+ that do not require that the last line be LF- or CRLF-terminated.
+
+# CONTRIB/ addition
+* There is a patch against fetchnews's source, contrib/rawlog.patch, that can
+ log (and hexdump non-printing characters) raw socket data to a file. It proved
+ useful to debug Antoine's bug described above.
+
+
+fetchmail-6.3.20 (released 2011-06-06, 26005 LoC):
+
+# SECURITY BUG FIXES
+* CVE-2011-1947:
+ STARTTLS: Fetchmail runs the IMAP STARTTLS or POP3 STLS negotiation with the
+ set timeout (default five minutes) now. This was reported missing, with
+ observed fetchmail freezes beyond a week, by Thomas Jarosch.
+ SSL-wrapped connections were unaffected by this timeout, so users of older
+ versions can force ssl-wrapped connections -- if supported by the server --
+ with the --ssl command line or ssl rcfile option.
+ See fetchmail-SA-2011-01.txt for further details.
+
+# BUG FIXES
+* IMAP: Do not search for UNSEEN messages in ranges. Usually, there are very few
+ new messages and most of the range searches result in nothing. Instead, split
+ the long response to make the IMAP driver think that there are multiple lines
+ of response. (Sunil Shetye)
+* Do not print "skipping message" for old messages even in verbose mode. If
+ there are too many old messages, the logs just get filled without any real
+ activity. (Sunil Shetye) (suggested by Yunfan Jiang)
+* Build: fetchmail now always uses its own MD5 implementation rather than trying
+ to find a system library with matched header. The library and header variants
+ found on systems are too diverse, and the code size saving is not worth any
+ more wasted user or programmer time.
+
+# CHANGES
+* Call strlen() only once when removing CRLF from a line. (Sunil Shetye)
+* fetchmail sets Internet domain sockets to "keepalive" mode now. Note that
+ there is no portable way to configure actual timeouts for this mode, and some
+ systems only support a system-wide timeout setting. fetchmail does not
+ attempt to tune the time spans of keepalive mode.
+
+# TRANSLATION UPDATES
+ [cs] Chech (Petr Pisar)
+ [nl] Dutch (Erwin Poeze)
+ [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
+ [de] German (Matthias Andree)
+ [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
+ [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
+ [sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka)
+
+
+fetchmail-6.3.19 (released 2010-12-10, 25945 LoC):
+
+# ERRATUM NOTICE ISSUED
+* fetchmail 6.3.18 contains several bug fixes that were considered sufficiently
+ grave to warrant the issue of an erratum notice, fetchmail-EN-2010-03.txt.
+
+# BUG FIXES
+* When specifying multiple local multidrop lists, do not lose wildcard flag.
+ (Affects "user foo is bar baz * is joe here")
+* In multidrop configurations, an asterisk can now appear anywhere in the list
+ of local users, not just at the end.
+* In multidrop mode, header parsing is now more verbose in -vv mode, so that it
+ becomes possible to see which header is used.
+* Make --antispam work from command line (these used to work in rcfiles).
+ Reported by Kees Bakker, BerliOS Bug #17599. (Sunil Shetye)
+* Smoke test XHTML 1.1 validation, and if it fails, skip validating HTML
+ documents. Skip validating Mailbox-Names-UTF7.html. Several systems have
+ broken XHTML 1.1 DTD installations that jeopardize the build.
+ Reported by Mihail Nechkin against FreeBSD port.
+ Workaround for 6.3.18: build in a separate directory, i. e:
+ mkdir build && cd build && ../configure --options-go-here
+* Send a NOOP only after a failed STARTTLS in IMAP. (Sunil Shetye)
+* Demote GSSAPI verbose/debug syslog to INFO severity. Requested by Carlos E. R.
+ and Derek Simkowiak via the fetchmail-users@ mailing list.
+* Do STARTTLS/STLS negotiation in IMAP/POP3 if it is mandatory even if the
+ server capabilities do not show support for upgradation to TLS.
+ To use this, configure --sslproto tls1. (Sunil Shetye)
+* IMAP: Understand empty strings as FETCH response, seen on Yahoo. Reported by
+ Yasin Malli to fetchmail-users@ 2010-12-10.
+ Note that fetchmail continues to expect literals as FETCH response for now.
+
+# DOCUMENTATION
+* The manual page now links to IANA for GSSAPI service names.
+
+# TRANSLATION UPDATES
+ [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
+ [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
+ [de] German
+ [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
+ [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
+
+
+fetchmail-6.3.18 (released 2010-10-09, 25936 LoC):
+
+# SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS TO DEFANG X.509 CERTIFICATE ABUSE
+* Fetchmail now only accepts wildcard certificate common names and subject
+ alternative names if they start with "*.". Previous versions would accept
+ wildcards even if no period followed immediately.
+* Fetchmail now disallows wildcards in certificates to match domain literals
+ (such as 10.9.8.7), or wildcards in domain literals ("*.168.23.23").
+ The test is overly picky and triggers if the pattern (after skipping the
+ initial wildcard "*") or domain consists solely of digits and dots, and thus
+ matches more than needed.
+* Fetchmail now disallows wildcarding top-level domains.
+
+# CRITICAL BUG FIXES AND REGRESSION FIXES
+* Fetchmail 6.3.15, 6.3.16, and 6.3.17 would pick up libmd5 to obtain MD5*
+ functions, as an effect of an undocumented Solaris MD5 fix.
+ This caused all MD5-related functions to malfunction if, for instance,
+ libmd5.so was installed on other operating systems as part of libwww on
+ machines where long isn't 32-bits, i. e. usually on 64-bit computers.
+ Fixes Gentoo Bug #319283, reported, including libwww hint, by Karl Hakimian.
+ Side effect: fetchmail will now use -lmd on Solaris rather than -lmd5.
+* Fetchmail 6.3.17 warned about insecure SSL/TLS connections even if a matching
+ --sslfingerprint was specified. This is an omission from an SSL usability
+ change made in 6.3.17.
+ Fixes Debian Bug#580796 reported by Roland Stigge.
+* Fetchmail will now apply timeouts to the authentication stage.
+ This stage encompasses STARTTLS/STLS negotiation in IMAP/POP3.
+ Reported missing by Thomas Jarosch.
+* Fetchmail now cancels GSSAPI authentication properly when encountering GSS
+ errors, such as no or unsuitable credentials.
+ It now sends an asterisk on a line by its own, as required in SASL.
+ This fixes protocol synchronization issues that cause Authentication
+ failures, often observed with kerberized MS Exchange servers.
+ Fixes Debian Bug #568455 reported by Patrick Rynhart, and Alan Murrell, to the
+ fetchmail-users list. Fix verified by Thomas Voigtmann and Patrick Rynhart.
+
+# BUG FIXES
+* Fetchmail will no longer print connection attempts and errors for one host
+ in "silent" and "normal" logging modes, unless all connections fail. This
+ should reduce irritation around refused-connection logging if services are
+ only on an IPv4 socket if the host also supports IPv6. Often observed as
+ connections refused to ::1/25 when the subsequent connection to 127.0.0.1/25
+ then - silently - succeeds. Fetchmail, unless in verbose mode, will collect
+ all connect errors and only report them if all of them fail.
+* Fetchmail will not try GSSAPI authentication automatically, unless it has GSS
+ credentials. However, if GSSAPI authentication is requested explicitly,
+ fetchmail will always try it.
+* Fetchmail now parses response to "FETCH n:m RFC822.SIZE" and "FETCH n
+ RFC822.HEADER" in a more flexible manner. (Sunil Shetye)
+* The manual page clearly states that --principal is for Kerberos 4 only, not
+ for Kerberos 5 or GSSAPI. Found by Thomas Voigtmann.
+
+# CHANGES
+* When encountering incorrect headers, fetchmail will refer to the bad-header
+ option in the manpage.
+ Fixes BerliOS Bug #17272, change suggested by Björn Voigt.
+* Fetchmail now decodes and reports GSSAPI status codes upon errors.
+* Fetchmail now autoprobes NTLM also for POP3.
+* The Fetchmail FAQ has a new item #R15 on authentication failures.
+
+# INTERNAL CHANGES
+* The common NTLM authentication code was factored out from pop3.c and imap.c.
+
+# TRANSLATION UPDATES
+ [zh_CN] Chinese/simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
+ [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
+ [nl] Dutch (Erwin Poeze)
+ [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
+ [de] German
+ [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
+ [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
+ [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
+ [sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka)
+
+
+fetchmail-6.3.17 (released 2010-05-06, 25767 LoC):
+
+# SECURITY FIX
+* CVE-2010-1167: Fetchmail before release 6.3.17 did not properly sanitize
+ external input (mail headers and UID). When a multi-character locale (such as
+ UTF-8) was in use, this could cause memory exhaustion and thus a denial of
+ service, because fetchmail's report.c functions assumed that non-success of
+ [v]snprintf was due to insufficient buffer size allocation. It would then
+ repeatedly reallocate a larger buffer and fail formatting again.
+ See fetchmail-SA-2010-02.txt.
+
+# FEATURES
+* Fetchmail now supports a --sslcertfile <file> option to specify a "CA bundle"
+ file (a file that contains trusted CA certificates). Since these bundled CA
+ files do not require c_rehash to be run, they are easier to use and immune to
+ OpenSSL library updates that affect the hash function.
+* Fetchmail now supports a FETCHMAIL_INCLUDE_DEFAULT_X509_CA_CERTS
+ environment variable to force loading the default SSL CA certificate
+ locations even if --sslcertfile or --sslcertpath is used.
+ If neither option is in effect, fetchmail loads the default locations.
+
+# REGRESSION FIX
+* Fix string handling in rcfile scanner, which caused fetchmail to misparse a
+ run control file in certain circumstances. Fixes BerliOS bug #14257.
+ Patch by Michael Banack. This fixes a regression introduced before 6.3.0.
+
+# BUG FIXES
+* Plug memory leak when using a "defaults" entry in the run control file.
+* Do not print SSL certificate mismatches unless verbose or --sslcertck is
+ enabled.
+* Do not lose "set invisible" in fetchmailconf. (Michael Barnack)
+
+# CHANGES
+* Usability: SSL certificate chains are fully printed in -v -v mode, and there
+ are now helpful pointers to --sslcertpath and c_rehash for "unable to get
+ local issuer certificate" and self-signed certificates -- these usually hint
+ to missing root signing CAs in the certs directory.
+* Several fixes for compiler (GCC, Intel C++, CLang) and autotools warnings
+* Memory allocation failures will now cause abnormal program abort (SIGABRT),
+ no longer an exit with unspecified code.
+* Print a warning if certificate verification failed and the user did not
+ specify --sslcertck.
+
+# DOCUMENTATION
+* Fix table of global option to read "set softbounce" where there used to be a
+ 2nd copy of "set spambounce". Patch by Michael Banack, BerliOS Bug #17067.
+* In the --sslcertpath description, mention that OpenSSL upgrade (and a 0.9.X
+ to 1.0.0 upgrade in particular) may require running c_rehash.
+
+# TRANSLATION UPDATES
+ [zh_CN] Chinese/simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
+ [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
+ [nl] Dutch (Erwin Poeze)
+ [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
+ [de] German
+ [id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
+ [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
+ [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
+ [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
+ [sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka)
+ [vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
+
+
+fetchmail-6.3.16 (released 2010-04-06, 25574 LoC):
+
+# BUG FIX
+* Fix --interface option, broken in 6.3.15. Reported by Vladmimir Stavrinov.
+ Fixes Debian Bug #576717.
+
+# CHANGE
+* Call OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms(). This is needed to support non-mandatory
+ and non-standard algorithms in certificates.
+ Sjoerd Simons, to fix Debian Bug #576430.
+ OpenSSL 0.9.8* does not load - for instance - the SHA256 digest by default.
+ Reported as OpenSSL RT#2224.
+
+
+fetchmail-6.3.15 (released 2010-03-28, 25572 LoC):
+
+# FEATURE
+* Fetchmail now supports a bad-header command line or rcfile option that takes
+ exactly one argument, accept or reject (default). This specifies how messages
+ with bad headers retrieved from the current server are to be treated.
+
+# BUG FIXES
+* In the rcfile, recognize "local" as abbreviation for "localdomains", as
+ documented. The short form has not ever worked since this feature was added in
+ January 1997. Reported by Frédéric Marchal.
+* Do not close stdout when using mda and "bsmtp -" at the same time.
+* Log operating system errors when BSMTP writes fail.
+* Fix verbose mode progress formatting regression from 6.3.10; SMTP trace lines
+ were no longer on a line of their own. Reported by Melchior Franz.
+* Check seteuid() return value and abort running MDA if switch fails.
+* Set global flags in a consistent manner. Make --nosoftbounce and
+ --nobounce work from command line (these used to work in rcfiles).
+ Reported and fix confirmed working by N.J. Mann. (Sunil Shetye)
+* Properly import h_errno declarations, even on systems where h_errno isn't a
+ macro. (Adds ./configure check, fixes Cygwin dllimport warnings.)
+
+# CHANGES
+* The repository has been converted and moved from the Subversion (SVN) format
+ kindly hosted by Graham Wilson over the past years to Git format hosted on
+ Gitorious.org. My deepest thanks to Graham Wilson for this service that
+ kept us going when BerliOS's Subversion service was faulty in its early days.
+* This opportunity was used to convert BRANCH_6-2 and BRANCH_1-9-9 to
+ GnuPG-signed tags, as a sign that these are now closed.
+* The outdated SVN trunk is now called "oldtrunk" in Git just to save the work
+ for future reference. All development in the past few years was on BRANCH_6-3.
+* master was branched from BRANCH_6-3. BRANCH_6-3 is now obsolete (and in fact
+ was also converted to a tag to record where the conversion from SVN to Git
+ took place).
+* "make check" now skips HTML validation if xmllint or XHTML DTD are missing.
+
+# DOCUMENTATION
+* Web site and documentation were adjusted to reflect the SVN->Git move.
+* The fetchmail manual page is now much clearer on the user id switching
+ (seteuid) when using --mda while running as the super user.
+
+# TRANSLATION UPDATES, by language name
+* [zh_CN] Chinese (Simplified), by Ji Zheng-Yu
+* [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
+* [nl] Dutch, by Erwin Poeze
+* [fr] French, by Frédéric Marchal
+* [de] German
+* [id] Indonesian, by Andhika Padmawan
+* [it] Italian, by Vincenzo Campanella
+* [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
+* [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
+* [vi] Vietnamese, by Clytie Siddall
+
+
+fetchmail 6.3.14 (released 2010-02-05, 25487 LoC):
+
+# SECURITY FIXES
+* CVE-2010-0562: SSL/TLS certificate information is now also reported properly
+ on computers that consider the "char" type signed. Fixes malloc() buffer
+ overrun. Workaround for older versions: do not use verbose mode.
+ See fetchmail-SA-2010-01.txt for details, including a minimal patch.
+
+# BUG FIXES
+* The IMAP client no longer skips messages from several IMAP servers including
+ Dovecot if fetchmail's "idle" is in use. Causes were that fetchmail (a)
+ ignored some untagged responses when it should not (b) relied on EXISTS
+ messages in response to EXPUNGE, which aren't mandated by RFC-3501 (the IMAP
+ standard) and aren't sent by Dovecot either.
+ Fix by Sunil Shetye (the fix also consolidates IMAP response handling,
+ improving overall robustness of the IMAP client), bug report and testing by
+ Matt Doran, with further hints from Timo Sirainen.
+* The SMTP client now recovers from errors (such as servers dropping the
+ connection after errors) when sending an RSET command.
+ Fix by Sunil Shetye. Report by James Moe.
+* The IMAP client now uses "SEARCH UNSEEN" rather than "SEARCH UNSEEN NOT
+ DELETED" again on IMAP2, to fix a regression in fetchmail 6.2.5 reported by
+ Will Stringer in June 2004. (Sunil Shetye)
+* The IMAP client now uses "SEARCH UNSEEN UNDELETED" on IMAP4 and IMAP4r1
+ servers (Sunil Shetye).
+* Workaround: The IMAP client now falls back to "FETCH n:m FLAGS" if the server
+ does not support "SEARCH". (Sunil Shetye)
+* The IMAP client now requests message numbers in batches of 1,000 to avoid
+ problems if there are more than 1860 unseen messages. (Sunil Shetye)
+ Note that this wasn't security relevant because fetchmail would only read up
+ to the maximum buffer size and leave the remainder of the string unread, going
+ out of synch afterwards.
+* Stricter validation of IMAP responses containing byte or message counts.
+
+# CHANGES
+* Only include gssapi.h if we're not including gssapi/gssapi.h, to fix a FreeBSD
+ compiler warning about gssapi.h being obsolete.
+
+# DOCUMENTATION
+* The README.SSL document was revised for grammar, spelling, and clarity.
+ Courtesy of Robert Mullin.
+
+# TRANSLATION UPDATES
+* [it] Italian, by Vincenzo Campanella
+
+
+
+fetchmail 6.3.13 (released 2009-10-30, 25333 LoC):
# REGRESSION FIXES
-* The CVS-2009-2666 fix in fetchmail release 6.3.11 caused a free() of
+* The multiline SMTP error fix in release 6.3.12 caused fetchmail to lose
+ message codes 400..599 and treat all of these as temporary error. This would
+ cause messages to be left on the server even if softbounce was turned off.
+ Reported by Thomas Jarosch.
+
+# TRANSLATION UPDATES
+* [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
+* [zh_CN] Chinese (simplified), by Ji ZhengYu
+* [nl] Dutch, by Erwin Poeze
+* [id] Indonesian, by Andhika Padmawan
+* [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
+* [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
+* [es] Spanish (Castilian), by Franciso Molinero
+* [vi] Vietnamese, by Clytie Siddall
+
+
+fetchmail 6.3.12 (released 2009-10-05):
+
+# REGRESSION FIXES
+* The CVE-2009-2666 fix in fetchmail release 6.3.11 caused a free() of
unallocated memory on SSL connections, which caused crashes or program aborts
on some systems (depending on how initialization and free() of unallocated
memory is handled in compiler and libc).
+ Workaround for older versions: run in verbose mode.
Patch courtesy of Thomas Heinz, fixes Gentoo Bug #280760.
This regression affected only the 6.3.11 release, but not the patch that was
part of the security announcement fetchmail-SA-2009-01.
* Look for MD5_Init in libcrypto rather than libssl, fixes Gentoo Kerberos
builds; fixes upstream parts of Gentoo Bugs #231400 and #185652, and fixes
BerliOS Bug #16134.
+* Report multiline SMTP errors properly, reported by Earl Chew; fixes Debian Bug
+ #529899, reported by Akihiro Terasaki.
+ Note: This fix introduced a regression, fixed in 6.3.13.
+* Replace control characters in SMTP replies by '?'.
+* Fetchmailconf: Fix descriptions for smtpaddress and smtpname options;
+ smtpaddress is for RCPT TO, not MAIL FROM. Found by Gerard Seibert.
# TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
* [ca] Catalan (Ernest Adrogué Calveras)
+* [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
* [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
* [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
* [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
* [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
+* [vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
fetchmail 6.3.11 (released 2009-08-06):
* Convert all non-printable characters in certificate Subject/Issuer
Common Name or Subject Alternative Name fields to ANSI-C hex escapes (\xnn,
where nn are hex digits).
+ Note that this change introduces a regression, fixed in 6.3.12.
+ See the 6.3.12 documentation above for details and a workaround.
# TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
* [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
res_search() and dn_skipname() are only used together and scheduled for
removal in future versions, so this is probably fine.
* No longer complain about invalid sslproto "" when POP3 CAPA probe fails.
- Fixes Debian Bug#421446 (Holger Leskien), Novell Bug #247233 (Jon Nelson).
+ Fixes Debian Bug#421446 (Holger Leskien), Novell Bug #247233 (Jon Nelson),
+ Red Hat Bug#503881.
Thanks to Matthias Strauß for a configuration to reproduce the issue.
* Allow .fetchmailrc and .fetchids to be symlinks, as the manpage does not
document they aren't allowed - fixes Debian Bug #452907 (Roger Leigh).
a MySQL/Tcl-based client-side "delete-after" feature.
Kindly donated by Yoo GmbH, Großvoigtsberg, Germany (Carsten Ralle).
-# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS:
- (this section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the
- current release information)
-* fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
- (See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
-* BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output.
-* Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in
- 64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit
- fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code,
- so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties.
-* fetchmail does not track pending deletes over crashes
-* the command line interface is a bit narrow-minded sometimes, for instance,
- fetchmail -s doesn't work with a running daemon
-* some of the logging output is not very helpful
-* some of the documentation is still not up to date
-
-
fetchmail 6.3.7 (released 2007-02-18):
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