* 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* POP2 is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail version.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* RPOP is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail release.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.
* The multidrop To/Cc guessing code along with the fragile duplicate suppressor
* 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.
+* 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
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.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-fetchmail 6.3.15 (not yet released):
+fetchmail-6.3.18 (not yet released):
+
+# 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.
+
+# BUG FIXES
+* Fetchmail would warn 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 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 fails if, for instance, libmd5.so was installed on other operating
+ systems as part of libwww on machines where long isn't 32-bits. Fixes Gentoo
+ Bug #319283, reported - including the hint to libwww - by Karl Hakimian.
+ Side effect: fetchmail will now use -lmd on Solaris rather than -lmd5.
+* 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 now apply timeouts to the authentication stage. This stage
+ encompasses STARTTLS/STLS negotiation in IMAP/POP3.
+ Reported missing by Thomas Jarosch.
+* Fetchmail will not try GSSAPI authentication automatically unless it has GSS
+ credentials. This avoids getting servers such as Exchange 2007 wedged if
+ GSSAPI authentication fails. Reported by Patrick Rynhart, Debian Bug #568455,
+ and Alan Murrell, to the fetchmail-users list.
+ Note that if GSSAPI fails for other reasons, you can use the --auth option to
+ work around that.
+* Fetchmail now parses response to "FETCH n:m RFC822.SIZE" and "FETCH n
+ RFC822.HEADER" in a more flexible manner. (Sunil Shetye)
+* Fetchmail now cancels GSSAPI authentication properly when encountering GSS
+ errors. It now sends an asterisk on a line by its own, as required in SASL.
+ This should fix protocol synchronization issues that cause Authentication
+ failure, particularly with Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 servers, when
+ Kerberos authentication was offered by the server and attempted by fetchmail.
+* 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. BerliOS Bug #17272, change suggested by Björn Voigt.
+* Fetchmail now decodes and reports GSSAPI status codes upon errors.
+
+# 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)
+
+# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS:
+ (this section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the
+ current release information - however, it was stuck with 6.3.8 for a while)
+* 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 sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance,
+ fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running
+* Linux 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.)
+
+
+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
* 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
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 for user convenience.
+* 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
-* [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
-* [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
+# 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):
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
-
-
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