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* The MX and host alias DNS lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode
are obsolete, deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version.
They have never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4) anyhow.
+ Non-DNS based alias keywords such as "aka" will remain in fetchmail.
* The monitor and interface options may be removed from a future fetchmail
version as they are not sufficiently portable.
* POP2 is obsolete.
* --sslcertck may become a default setting in a future fetchmail version.
* 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 Received header was never meant to be machine-readable, the format varies
+ widely, and various other differences in behavior make parsing Received an
+ unreliable undertaking. The enveloper option as such will remain though, in
+ order to support Delivered-To, X-Envelope-To, X-Original-To and similar.
+ See also <http://home.pages.de/~mandree/mail/multidrop>.
* The --enable-fallback (fall back to MDA if MTA unavailable) may be removed
from a future fetchmail release.
* 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.
+* SIGHUP wakeup may be removed from a future fetchmail release and cause it
+ to terminate.
+* Support for operating systems that are not sufficiently POSIX compliant may be
+ removed or operation on such systems may be suboptimal for future releases.
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-fetchmail 6.3.3 (released 2006-03-29):
+fetchmail 6.3.6 (not yet released):
-# KNOWN BUGS:
+# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS:
+ (this section floats upwards through the NEWS to be on top of the list)
+* fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
+ (See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
* Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the 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 anyways,
so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should be fine.
+* fetchmail expects Received: headers in a particular format when parsing
+ envelopes.
+* 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
+
+# IMPORTANT CHANGE:
+* sslproto 'tls1' enforces STARTTLS for POP3/IMAP and terminates the connection
+ if unsuccessful. The same configuration causes connection failure with POP2.
+ Reported by Isaac Wilcox.
+
+# BUG FIXES:
+* Repair --logfile, broken in 6.3.5. BerliOS Bug #9059,
+ reported by Brian Harring.
+
+fetchmail 6.3.5 (released 2006-10-09):
+
+# BUG FIXES:
+* For protocols such as IMAP that are not delimited by "." lines, truncate the
+ input buffer when the message has been completely read, to avoid taking
+ trailing garbage into the message if the terminal CRLF is missing. Fixes
+ Debian Bug#312415. (Patch suggested by Mike Jones, Manchester Univ.).
+* When using NTLM authentication, use regular IMAP response code handler after
+ completing NTLM handshake, for robustness and consistency.
+ (Taken from the NetBSD portable packages collection, patch-ac.)
+* Support Kerberos installations where krb5.h and perhaps roken.h are in
+ .../include/krb5. Taken from NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ae.
+* On NetBSD, link against -lroken -lcom_err if --with-kerberos is enabled.
+* Drop #include <com_err.h> from Kerberos 5 header file, fixes compile error on
+ SUSE Linux 10.0.
+* Fix des_pcbc_encrypt compile warnings in kerberos.c line 246.
+* If krb5-config provides gssapi library information, use that rather than
+ guessing.
+* Improve --with-gssapi auto detection for /usr-based GSSAPI installs.
+* Fix --with-gssapi builds for NetBSD 3.0.
+* Improve KAME/getnameinfo.c portability to Linux libc5 systems.
+ Based on a patch by Dan Fandrich.
+* Provide INET6 to KAME/getnameinfo.c (only useful on IPv6-enabled systems that
+ lack getnameinfo, and there only visible in some Received: headers).
+ Found by Dan Fandrich.
+* POP3: some UID flags may not be set properly on UIDL lists. (Sunil Shetye)
+* Make IMAP4 IDLE work on servers that do not update RECENT counts.
+ Reported by Lars Tewes.
+* IMAP4 patch by Sunil Shetye:
+ - do not depend on server updating RECENT counts at all
+ - also enter IDLE loop when messages are present on the server.
+* Fix --flush description in the manual page, fetchmail does not mark messages
+ seen unless it has successfully delivered them. Suggested by Frederic Marchal.
+* Fetchmail no longer attempts to stat the "-" file in daemon mode -- this is a
+ special name to read the RC file from stdin, and cannot always be re-read
+ anyways. BerliOS bug #7858.
+* When looking up ports for a service, the lookup succeeds and the returned
+ address family isn't IPv4 or IPv6, properly free the allocated memory from the
+ service lookup. Found by Uli Zappe.
+* When looking up ports for a service, only look up TCP ports.
+* Avoid compiling empty files, to avoid diagnostics from strict compilers.
+* If the lockfile ends before the process ID, treat it as stale and unlink it.
+ Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #376603.
+* SIGHUP wake-up behavior was broken since 5.9.13's Cygwin changes, in that for
+ non-root users, SIGHUP would abort the first poll and subsequently interfere
+ with new polls, and SIGHUP would be ignored for root users. SIGHUP now matches
+ documented behavior. SIGUSR1 has always been a wakeup signal for both root
+ (undocumented) and non-root users. See also the deprecation warning above.
+* Track getaddrinfo() results to properly free them after timeouts and make sure
+ that getaddrinfo() isn't interrupted by a timeout (which breaks on MacOS X),
+ reported by Uli Zappe. This should fix Debian Bug#294547 and Bug#377135.
+* --logfile is now handled more carefully, errors opening the logfile are
+ now reported to the TTY where fetchmail was started from.
+* fetchmail now complains and aborts when it cannot properly daemonize itself.
+* fix compilation on systems that don't know struct addrinfo (Solaris 2.6).
+* ignore SIGPIPE signals and rely on functions to return EPIPE instead. This is
+ necessary because the former longjmp() from the signal handler is unsafe and
+ makes the whole fetchmail behavior undefined after the event.
+* Avoid crash in env.c/host_fqdn if we cannot canonicalize our own hostname.
+ Reported by Alexander Holler.
+* SSL fix by Miloslav Trmac (Red Hat): free the SSL contexts after the
+ connection, to avoid from growing SSL certpaths without bounds, avoid using
+ SSL contexts for unrelated connections, and to fix Red Hat Bug #206346.
+
+# CHANGES:
+* Rename all fetchmail-internal lock_* functions to fm_lock_*. Obsoletes
+ NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ah, patch-ai and patch-aj.
+* Configure prints a warning (but proceeds) if Kerberos IV support is enabled.
+* In verbose mode, log every IP fetchmail tries to connect to, to avoid
+ misleading the user. Suppress EAFNOSUPPORT errors from socket() call, too.
+ Fixes Debian Bug #361825, reported by Daniel Baur.
+* In idle mode, fetchmail complains about the fetchall option.
+* When a connection fails, log not only the IP address, but also host and
+ service name and the port number. Log the latter when trying to connect in
+ verbose mode, too.
+* Keep syslog output at one line per message (this works if no errors occur).
+* Fetchmail in verbose mode now logs if it opportunistically upgrades a POP3
+ or IMAP connection to TLS security with STLS/STARTTLS.
+* fetchmail now supports foo@example.org=bar user mappings for multidrop boxes.
+* switch setjmp/longjmp to sigsetjmp/siglongjmp
+* IMAP now supports the EXTERNAL authentication method, courtesy of
+ Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095 with minor changes.
+* The sslproto keywords are now case insensitive, courtesy of
+ Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095.
+* When going to sleep, log for how long. Suggested by Claudia Ludwig.
+* When the server name cannot be canonicalized, log the gai_strerror value.
+
+# TRANSLATION UPDATES:
+* Catalan/ca (Ernest Adrogué Calveras), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki) - also
+ made gettext 0.15 ready, Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Russian/ru (Pavel
+ Maryanov), Spanish/es (Héctor García Álvarez), Vietnamese/vi (Clytie Siddall)
+
+# CONTRIBUTED SCRIPTS:
+* PopDel.py was revised by Joshua Crawford to display the From: address and
+ list every email, even if it has no Subject: header; and not delete the wrong
+ message in the presence of mail without Subject: headers.
+
+fetchmail 6.3.4 (released 2006-04-14):
+
+# BUG FIXES:
+* configure: detect res_* functions properly with newer glibc ABIs.
+ Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
+* tracepolls: add folder information if available. Reported by Terry Brown.
+* lexer: add %option noyywrap to avoid link errors about missing yywrap().
+* a few more type fixes for report/snprintf, patch by Miloslav Trmac.
+* bouncing: fetchmail would still send "General SMTP/ESMTP error." bounces
+ in spite of "no bouncemail" configuration.
+* SSL/TLS: if, for a certain server, an sslfingerprint is specified and
+ sslcertck is NOT set, suppress printing SSL certificate mismatch errors.
+ (Reported by Hannes Erven.)
+* SSL/TLS: always print if the sslfingerprint mismatches, even in silent
+ mode. (This is for consistency with certificate verification errors.)
+
+# TRANSLATION UPDATES:
+* German/de (Matthias Andree), French/fr (Matthias Andree), Spanish/es (Héctor
+ García), Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki)
+* New Vietnamese/vi translation (Clytie Siddall).
+* Updated French descriptions for the .spec file (Stéphane Schildknecht,
+ Luc Pionchon, Matthias Andree).
+
+# CHANGES:
+* pidfile: there is a new command-line (--pidfile PATH) and global option for
+ the rcfile (set pidfile [=] "/path/to/pidfile") option to allow overriding
+ the default location of the PID file.
+ Requested by Héctor García, Debian maintainer.
+* specgen.sh: Converted to UTF-8 to support translated texts better.
+
+fetchmail 6.3.3 (released 2006-03-30):
# BUG FIXES:
* SEGFAULT: Do not attempt to overwrite the netrc password if none has been
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