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 # ADVANCE WARNING OF FEATURES TO BE REMOVED OR CHANGED IN FUTURE VERSIONS
12 (There are no plans to remove features from a 6.3.X release, but they may be
13 removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.)
14 * The MX and host alias DNS lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode
15 are based on assumptions that are rarely met in practice, somewhat defective,
16 deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version.
17 They have never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4).
18 Non-DNS based alias keywords such as "aka" will remain in fetchmail.
19 * The monitor and interface options may be removed from a future fetchmail
20 version as they are not reasonably portable across operating systems.
21 * POP2 is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail version.
22 * IMAP2 and IMAP4 (not IMAP4r1) are obsolete, support may be removed from a
23 future fetchmail version.
24 * RPOP is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail release.
25 * --sslcertck will become a default setting in a future fetchmail version.
26 * The multidrop To/Cc guessing code along with the fragile duplicate suppressor
27 is deprecated and may be removed from a future release.
28 * The "envelope Received" option may be removed from a future release, because
29 the Received header was never meant to be machine-readable, the format varies
30 widely, and various other differences in behavior make parsing Received an
31 unreliable undertaking. The envelope option as such will remain though, in
32 order to support Delivered-To, X-Envelope-To, X-Original-To and similar.
33 See also <http://home.pages.de/~mandree/mail/multidrop>.
34 * The --enable-fallback (fall back to MDA if MTA unavailable) will be removed
35 from a future fetchmail release, because it makes fetchmail's behavior
36 inconsistent and confusing.
37 * The "protocol auto" default inside fetchmail may be removed from a future
38 fetchmail release. Explicit configuration of the protocol is recommended.
39 * Kerberos IV support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
40 * Kerberos 5 support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
41 * The --principal option may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
42 * SIGHUP wakeup support may be removed from a future fetchmail release and
43 cause fetchmail to terminate - it was broken for many years.
44 * Support for operating systems that are not sufficiently POSIX compliant may be
45 removed or operation on such systems may be suboptimal for future releases.
46 This means that fetchmail may only continue to work on C99 and POSIX 2001
48 * The maintainer may migrate fetchmail to C++ with STL or C#, and impose further
49 requirements (dependencies), such as Boost or other class libraries.
50 * The softbounce option default will change to "false" in the next release.
51 * The --bsmtp - mode of operation may be removed in a future release.
52 * Given that OpenSSL is severely underdocumented, and needs license exceptions,
53 fetchmail may switch to a different SSL library.
54 * SSLv2 support will be removed from a future fetchmail release. It has been
55 obsolete for more than a decade.
57 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
59 fetchmail-6.3.24 (released 2012-12-23, 26108 LoC):
61 # NOTE THAT THE RELEASE OF FUTURE FETCHMAIL 6.3.X VERSIONS IS UNCLEAR.
62 Should a 7.0 release be made earlier, chances are that the 6.3.X branch
63 is abandoned and its changes be folded into the 7.0 release, with changes
64 after 6.3.24 not available on their own in a newer 6.3.X release.
66 # NOTE THAT FETCHMAIL IS NO LONGER PUBLISHED THROUGH IBIBLIO.
67 They have stopped accepting submissions and consider themselves an archive.
69 # CRITICAL AND REGRESSION FIXES
70 * Plug a memory leak in OpenSSL's certificate verification callback.
71 This would affect fetchmail configurations running with SSL in daemon mode
72 more than one-shot runs.
73 Reported by Erik Thiele, and pinned by Dominik Heeg,
74 fixes Debian Bug #688015.
75 This bug was introduced into fetchmail 6.3.0 (committed 2005-10-29)
76 when support for subjectAltName was added through a patch by Roland
77 Stigge, submitted as Debian Bug#201113.
79 * The --logfile option now works again outside daemon mode, reported by Heinz
80 Diehl. The documentation that I had been reading was inconsistent with the
81 code, and only parts of the manual page claimed that --logfile was only
82 effective in daemon mode.
84 # KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS
85 (This section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the
86 current release information)
87 * Fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
88 (See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
89 * BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output.
90 * Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in
91 64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit
92 fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code,
93 so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties.
94 * Fetchmail does not track pending deletes across crashes.
95 * The command line interface is sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance,
96 fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running.
97 * Linux systems may return duplicates of an IP address in some circumstances if
98 no or no global IPv6 addresses are configured.
99 (No workaround. Ubuntu Bug#582585, Novell Bug#606980.)
100 * Kerberos 5 may be broken, particularly on Heimdal, and provide bogus error
101 messages. This will not be fixed, because the maintainer has no Kerberos 5
102 server to test against. Use GSSAPI.
105 fetchmail-6.3.23 (released 2012-12-10, 26106 LoC):
108 * Fix compilation with OpenSSL implementations before 0.9.8m that lack
109 SSL_CTX_clear_options. Patch by Earl Chew.
110 Note that the use of older OpenSSL versions with fetchmail is unsupported and
114 * Fix combination of --plugin and -f -. Patch by Alexander Zangerl,
115 to fix Debian Bug#671294.
116 * Clean up logfile vs. syslog handling, and in case logfile overrides
117 syslog, send a message to the latter stating where logging goes.
120 * The build process can now be made a bit more silent and concise through
121 ./configure --enable-silent-rules, or by adding "V=0" to the make command.
124 * Make Maillennium POP3 workarounds less specific, to encompass
125 Maillennium POP3/UNIBOX (Maillennium V05.00c++). Reported by Eddie
126 via fetchmail-users mailing list, 2012-10-13.
128 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
129 [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
130 [da] Danish, by Joe Hansen
132 [fr] French, Frédéric Marchal
133 [ja] Japanese, Takeshi Hamasaki
134 [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
135 [sv] Swedish, by Göran Uddeborg
136 [vi] Vietnamese, Trần Ngọc Quân
139 fetchmail-6.3.22 (released 2012-08-29, 26077 LoC):
143 NTLM: fetchmail mistook an error message that the server sent in response to
144 an NTLM request for protocol exchange, tried to decode it, and crashed while
145 reading from a bad memory location.
146 Also, with a carefully crafted NTLM challenge packet sent from the server, it
147 would be possible that fetchmail conveyed confidential data not meant for the
148 server through the NTLM response packet.
149 Fix: Detect base64 decoding errors, validate the NTLM challenge, and abort
150 NTLM authentication in case of error.
151 See fetchmail-SA-2012-02.txt for further details.
152 Reported by J. Porter Clark.
155 SSL/TLS (wrapped and STARTTLS): fetchmail used to disable a countermeasure
156 against a certain kind of attack against cipher block chaining initialization
157 vectors (SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS).
158 Whether this creates an exploitable situation, depends on the server and the
160 As a precaution, fetchmail 6.3.22 enables the countermeasure, by clearing
161 SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS.
163 NOTE that this can cause connections to certain non-conforming servers to
164 fail, in which case you can set the environment variable
165 FETCHMAIL_DISABLE_CBC_IV_COUNTERMEASURE to any non-empty value when starting
166 fetchmail to re-instate the compatibility option at the expense of security.
168 Reported by Apple Product Security.
170 For technical details, refer to <http://www.openssl.org/~bodo/tls-cbc.txt>.
171 See fetchmail-SA-2012-01.txt for further details.
174 * The Server certificate: message in verbose mode now appears on stdout like the
175 remainder of the output. Reported by Henry Jensen, to fix Debian Bug #639807.
177 * The GSSAPI-related autoconf code now matches gssapi.c better, and uses
178 a different check to look for GSS_C_NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE.
179 This fixes the GSSAPI-enabled build on NetBSD 6 Beta.
182 * On systems where SSLv2_client_method isn't defined in OpenSSL (such as
183 newer Debian, and Ubuntu starting with 11.10 oneiric ocelot), don't
184 reference it (to fix the build) and if configured, print a run-time error
185 that the OS does not support SSLv2. Fixes Debian Bug #622054,
186 but note that that bug report has a more thorough patch that does away with
189 * The security and errata notices fetchmail-{EN,SA}-20??-??.txt are now
190 under the more relaxed CC BY-ND 3.0 license (the noncommercial clause
191 was dropped). The Creative Commons address was updated.
193 * The Python-related Makefile.am parts were simplified to avoid an automake
194 1.11.X bug around noinst_PYTHON, Automake Bug #10995.
196 * Configuring fetchmail without SSL now triggers a configure warning,
197 and asks the user to consider running configure --with-ssl.
200 * Some servers, notably Zimbra, return A1234 987 FETCH () in response to
201 a header request, in the face of message corruption. fetchmail now treats
202 these as temporary errors. Report and Patch by Mikulas Patocka, Red Hat.
204 * Some servers, notably Microsoft Exchange, return "A0009 OK FETCH completed."
205 without any header in response to a header request for meeting reminder
206 messages (with a "meeting.ics" attachment). fetchmail now treats these as
207 transient errors. Report by John Connett, Patch by Sunil Shetye.
209 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
210 * [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
212 * [fr] French, by Frédéric Marchal
213 * [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
214 * [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
215 * [sv] Swedish, by Göran Uddeborg --- NEW TRANSLATION - Thank you!
216 * [vi] Vietnamese, by Trần Ngọc Quân
219 fetchmail-6.3.21 (released 2011-08-21, 26011 LoC):
222 * The IMAP client no longer inserts NUL bytes into the last line of a message
223 when it is not closed with a LF or CRLF sequence. Reported by Antoine Levitt.
224 As a side effect of the fix, and in order to avoid a full rewrite, fetchmail
225 will now CRLF-terminate the last line fetched through IMAP, even if it is
226 originally not terminated by LF or CRLF. This bears no relevance if your
227 messages end up in mbox, but adds line termination for storages (like Maildir)
228 that do not require that the last line be LF- or CRLF-terminated.
231 * There is a patch against fetchnews's source, contrib/rawlog.patch, that can
232 log (and hexdump non-printing characters) raw socket data to a file. It proved
233 useful to debug Antoine's bug described above.
236 fetchmail-6.3.20 (released 2011-06-06, 26005 LoC):
240 STARTTLS: Fetchmail runs the IMAP STARTTLS or POP3 STLS negotiation with the
241 set timeout (default five minutes) now. This was reported missing, with
242 observed fetchmail freezes beyond a week, by Thomas Jarosch.
243 SSL-wrapped connections were unaffected by this timeout, so users of older
244 versions can force ssl-wrapped connections -- if supported by the server --
245 with the --ssl command line or ssl rcfile option.
246 See fetchmail-SA-2011-01.txt for further details.
249 * IMAP: Do not search for UNSEEN messages in ranges. Usually, there are very few
250 new messages and most of the range searches result in nothing. Instead, split
251 the long response to make the IMAP driver think that there are multiple lines
252 of response. (Sunil Shetye)
253 * Do not print "skipping message" for old messages even in verbose mode. If
254 there are too many old messages, the logs just get filled without any real
255 activity. (Sunil Shetye) (suggested by Yunfan Jiang)
256 * Build: fetchmail now always uses its own MD5 implementation rather than trying
257 to find a system library with matched header. The library and header variants
258 found on systems are too diverse, and the code size saving is not worth any
259 more wasted user or programmer time.
262 * Call strlen() only once when removing CRLF from a line. (Sunil Shetye)
263 * fetchmail sets Internet domain sockets to "keepalive" mode now. Note that
264 there is no portable way to configure actual timeouts for this mode, and some
265 systems only support a system-wide timeout setting. fetchmail does not
266 attempt to tune the time spans of keepalive mode.
268 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
269 [cs] Chech (Petr Pisar)
270 [nl] Dutch (Erwin Poeze)
271 [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
272 [de] German (Matthias Andree)
273 [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
274 [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
275 [sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka)
278 fetchmail-6.3.19 (released 2010-12-10, 25945 LoC):
280 # ERRATUM NOTICE ISSUED
281 * fetchmail 6.3.18 contains several bug fixes that were considered sufficiently
282 grave to warrant the issue of an erratum notice, fetchmail-EN-2010-03.txt.
285 * When specifying multiple local multidrop lists, do not lose wildcard flag.
286 (Affects "user foo is bar baz * is joe here")
287 * In multidrop configurations, an asterisk can now appear anywhere in the list
288 of local users, not just at the end.
289 * In multidrop mode, header parsing is now more verbose in -vv mode, so that it
290 becomes possible to see which header is used.
291 * Make --antispam work from command line (these used to work in rcfiles).
292 Reported by Kees Bakker, BerliOS Bug #17599. (Sunil Shetye)
293 * Smoke test XHTML 1.1 validation, and if it fails, skip validating HTML
294 documents. Skip validating Mailbox-Names-UTF7.html. Several systems have
295 broken XHTML 1.1 DTD installations that jeopardize the build.
296 Reported by Mihail Nechkin against FreeBSD port.
297 Workaround for 6.3.18: build in a separate directory, i. e:
298 mkdir build && cd build && ../configure --options-go-here
299 * Send a NOOP only after a failed STARTTLS in IMAP. (Sunil Shetye)
300 * Demote GSSAPI verbose/debug syslog to INFO severity. Requested by Carlos E. R.
301 and Derek Simkowiak via the fetchmail-users@ mailing list.
302 * Do STARTTLS/STLS negotiation in IMAP/POP3 if it is mandatory even if the
303 server capabilities do not show support for upgradation to TLS.
304 To use this, configure --sslproto tls1. (Sunil Shetye)
305 * IMAP: Understand empty strings as FETCH response, seen on Yahoo. Reported by
306 Yasin Malli to fetchmail-users@ 2010-12-10.
307 Note that fetchmail continues to expect literals as FETCH response for now.
310 * The manual page now links to IANA for GSSAPI service names.
312 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
313 [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
314 [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
316 [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
317 [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
320 fetchmail-6.3.18 (released 2010-10-09, 25936 LoC):
322 # SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS TO DEFANG X.509 CERTIFICATE ABUSE
323 * Fetchmail now only accepts wildcard certificate common names and subject
324 alternative names if they start with "*.". Previous versions would accept
325 wildcards even if no period followed immediately.
326 * Fetchmail now disallows wildcards in certificates to match domain literals
327 (such as 10.9.8.7), or wildcards in domain literals ("*.168.23.23").
328 The test is overly picky and triggers if the pattern (after skipping the
329 initial wildcard "*") or domain consists solely of digits and dots, and thus
330 matches more than needed.
331 * Fetchmail now disallows wildcarding top-level domains.
333 # CRITICAL BUG FIXES AND REGRESSION FIXES
334 * Fetchmail 6.3.15, 6.3.16, and 6.3.17 would pick up libmd5 to obtain MD5*
335 functions, as an effect of an undocumented Solaris MD5 fix.
336 This caused all MD5-related functions to malfunction if, for instance,
337 libmd5.so was installed on other operating systems as part of libwww on
338 machines where long isn't 32-bits, i. e. usually on 64-bit computers.
339 Fixes Gentoo Bug #319283, reported, including libwww hint, by Karl Hakimian.
340 Side effect: fetchmail will now use -lmd on Solaris rather than -lmd5.
341 * Fetchmail 6.3.17 warned about insecure SSL/TLS connections even if a matching
342 --sslfingerprint was specified. This is an omission from an SSL usability
343 change made in 6.3.17.
344 Fixes Debian Bug#580796 reported by Roland Stigge.
345 * Fetchmail will now apply timeouts to the authentication stage.
346 This stage encompasses STARTTLS/STLS negotiation in IMAP/POP3.
347 Reported missing by Thomas Jarosch.
348 * Fetchmail now cancels GSSAPI authentication properly when encountering GSS
349 errors, such as no or unsuitable credentials.
350 It now sends an asterisk on a line by its own, as required in SASL.
351 This fixes protocol synchronization issues that cause Authentication
352 failures, often observed with kerberized MS Exchange servers.
353 Fixes Debian Bug #568455 reported by Patrick Rynhart, and Alan Murrell, to the
354 fetchmail-users list. Fix verified by Thomas Voigtmann and Patrick Rynhart.
357 * Fetchmail will no longer print connection attempts and errors for one host
358 in "silent" and "normal" logging modes, unless all connections fail. This
359 should reduce irritation around refused-connection logging if services are
360 only on an IPv4 socket if the host also supports IPv6. Often observed as
361 connections refused to ::1/25 when the subsequent connection to 127.0.0.1/25
362 then - silently - succeeds. Fetchmail, unless in verbose mode, will collect
363 all connect errors and only report them if all of them fail.
364 * Fetchmail will not try GSSAPI authentication automatically, unless it has GSS
365 credentials. However, if GSSAPI authentication is requested explicitly,
366 fetchmail will always try it.
367 * Fetchmail now parses response to "FETCH n:m RFC822.SIZE" and "FETCH n
368 RFC822.HEADER" in a more flexible manner. (Sunil Shetye)
369 * The manual page clearly states that --principal is for Kerberos 4 only, not
370 for Kerberos 5 or GSSAPI. Found by Thomas Voigtmann.
373 * When encountering incorrect headers, fetchmail will refer to the bad-header
374 option in the manpage.
375 Fixes BerliOS Bug #17272, change suggested by Björn Voigt.
376 * Fetchmail now decodes and reports GSSAPI status codes upon errors.
377 * Fetchmail now autoprobes NTLM also for POP3.
378 * The Fetchmail FAQ has a new item #R15 on authentication failures.
381 * The common NTLM authentication code was factored out from pop3.c and imap.c.
383 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
384 [zh_CN] Chinese/simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
385 [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
386 [nl] Dutch (Erwin Poeze)
387 [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
389 [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
390 [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
391 [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
392 [sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka)
395 fetchmail-6.3.17 (released 2010-05-06, 25767 LoC):
398 * CVE-2010-1167: Fetchmail before release 6.3.17 did not properly sanitize
399 external input (mail headers and UID). When a multi-character locale (such as
400 UTF-8) was in use, this could cause memory exhaustion and thus a denial of
401 service, because fetchmail's report.c functions assumed that non-success of
402 [v]snprintf was due to insufficient buffer size allocation. It would then
403 repeatedly reallocate a larger buffer and fail formatting again.
404 See fetchmail-SA-2010-02.txt.
407 * Fetchmail now supports a --sslcertfile <file> option to specify a "CA bundle"
408 file (a file that contains trusted CA certificates). Since these bundled CA
409 files do not require c_rehash to be run, they are easier to use and immune to
410 OpenSSL library updates that affect the hash function.
411 * Fetchmail now supports a FETCHMAIL_INCLUDE_DEFAULT_X509_CA_CERTS
412 environment variable to force loading the default SSL CA certificate
413 locations even if --sslcertfile or --sslcertpath is used.
414 If neither option is in effect, fetchmail loads the default locations.
417 * Fix string handling in rcfile scanner, which caused fetchmail to misparse a
418 run control file in certain circumstances. Fixes BerliOS bug #14257.
419 Patch by Michael Banack. This fixes a regression introduced before 6.3.0.
422 * Plug memory leak when using a "defaults" entry in the run control file.
423 * Do not print SSL certificate mismatches unless verbose or --sslcertck is
425 * Do not lose "set invisible" in fetchmailconf. (Michael Barnack)
428 * Usability: SSL certificate chains are fully printed in -v -v mode, and there
429 are now helpful pointers to --sslcertpath and c_rehash for "unable to get
430 local issuer certificate" and self-signed certificates -- these usually hint
431 to missing root signing CAs in the certs directory.
432 * Several fixes for compiler (GCC, Intel C++, CLang) and autotools warnings
433 * Memory allocation failures will now cause abnormal program abort (SIGABRT),
434 no longer an exit with unspecified code.
435 * Print a warning if certificate verification failed and the user did not
439 * Fix table of global option to read "set softbounce" where there used to be a
440 2nd copy of "set spambounce". Patch by Michael Banack, BerliOS Bug #17067.
441 * In the --sslcertpath description, mention that OpenSSL upgrade (and a 0.9.X
442 to 1.0.0 upgrade in particular) may require running c_rehash.
444 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
445 [zh_CN] Chinese/simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
446 [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
447 [nl] Dutch (Erwin Poeze)
448 [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
450 [id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
451 [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
452 [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
453 [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
454 [sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka)
455 [vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
458 fetchmail-6.3.16 (released 2010-04-06, 25574 LoC):
461 * Fix --interface option, broken in 6.3.15. Reported by Vladmimir Stavrinov.
462 Fixes Debian Bug #576717.
465 * Call OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms(). This is needed to support non-mandatory
466 and non-standard algorithms in certificates.
467 Sjoerd Simons, to fix Debian Bug #576430.
468 OpenSSL 0.9.8* does not load - for instance - the SHA256 digest by default.
469 Reported as OpenSSL RT#2224.
472 fetchmail-6.3.15 (released 2010-03-28, 25572 LoC):
475 * Fetchmail now supports a bad-header command line or rcfile option that takes
476 exactly one argument, accept or reject (default). This specifies how messages
477 with bad headers retrieved from the current server are to be treated.
480 * In the rcfile, recognize "local" as abbreviation for "localdomains", as
481 documented. The short form has not ever worked since this feature was added in
482 January 1997. Reported by Frédéric Marchal.
483 * Do not close stdout when using mda and "bsmtp -" at the same time.
484 * Log operating system errors when BSMTP writes fail.
485 * Fix verbose mode progress formatting regression from 6.3.10; SMTP trace lines
486 were no longer on a line of their own. Reported by Melchior Franz.
487 * Check seteuid() return value and abort running MDA if switch fails.
488 * Set global flags in a consistent manner. Make --nosoftbounce and
489 --nobounce work from command line (these used to work in rcfiles).
490 Reported and fix confirmed working by N.J. Mann. (Sunil Shetye)
491 * Properly import h_errno declarations, even on systems where h_errno isn't a
492 macro. (Adds ./configure check, fixes Cygwin dllimport warnings.)
495 * The repository has been converted and moved from the Subversion (SVN) format
496 kindly hosted by Graham Wilson over the past years to Git format hosted on
497 Gitorious.org. My deepest thanks to Graham Wilson for this service that
498 kept us going when BerliOS's Subversion service was faulty in its early days.
499 * This opportunity was used to convert BRANCH_6-2 and BRANCH_1-9-9 to
500 GnuPG-signed tags, as a sign that these are now closed.
501 * The outdated SVN trunk is now called "oldtrunk" in Git just to save the work
502 for future reference. All development in the past few years was on BRANCH_6-3.
503 * master was branched from BRANCH_6-3. BRANCH_6-3 is now obsolete (and in fact
504 was also converted to a tag to record where the conversion from SVN to Git
506 * "make check" now skips HTML validation if xmllint or XHTML DTD are missing.
509 * Web site and documentation were adjusted to reflect the SVN->Git move.
510 * The fetchmail manual page is now much clearer on the user id switching
511 (seteuid) when using --mda while running as the super user.
513 # TRANSLATION UPDATES, by language name
514 * [zh_CN] Chinese (Simplified), by Ji Zheng-Yu
515 * [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
516 * [nl] Dutch, by Erwin Poeze
517 * [fr] French, by Frédéric Marchal
519 * [id] Indonesian, by Andhika Padmawan
520 * [it] Italian, by Vincenzo Campanella
521 * [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
522 * [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
523 * [vi] Vietnamese, by Clytie Siddall
526 fetchmail 6.3.14 (released 2010-02-05, 25487 LoC):
529 * CVE-2010-0562: SSL/TLS certificate information is now also reported properly
530 on computers that consider the "char" type signed. Fixes malloc() buffer
531 overrun. Workaround for older versions: do not use verbose mode.
532 See fetchmail-SA-2010-01.txt for details, including a minimal patch.
535 * The IMAP client no longer skips messages from several IMAP servers including
536 Dovecot if fetchmail's "idle" is in use. Causes were that fetchmail (a)
537 ignored some untagged responses when it should not (b) relied on EXISTS
538 messages in response to EXPUNGE, which aren't mandated by RFC-3501 (the IMAP
539 standard) and aren't sent by Dovecot either.
540 Fix by Sunil Shetye (the fix also consolidates IMAP response handling,
541 improving overall robustness of the IMAP client), bug report and testing by
542 Matt Doran, with further hints from Timo Sirainen.
543 * The SMTP client now recovers from errors (such as servers dropping the
544 connection after errors) when sending an RSET command.
545 Fix by Sunil Shetye. Report by James Moe.
546 * The IMAP client now uses "SEARCH UNSEEN" rather than "SEARCH UNSEEN NOT
547 DELETED" again on IMAP2, to fix a regression in fetchmail 6.2.5 reported by
548 Will Stringer in June 2004. (Sunil Shetye)
549 * The IMAP client now uses "SEARCH UNSEEN UNDELETED" on IMAP4 and IMAP4r1
550 servers (Sunil Shetye).
551 * Workaround: The IMAP client now falls back to "FETCH n:m FLAGS" if the server
552 does not support "SEARCH". (Sunil Shetye)
553 * The IMAP client now requests message numbers in batches of 1,000 to avoid
554 problems if there are more than 1860 unseen messages. (Sunil Shetye)
555 Note that this wasn't security relevant because fetchmail would only read up
556 to the maximum buffer size and leave the remainder of the string unread, going
557 out of synch afterwards.
558 * Stricter validation of IMAP responses containing byte or message counts.
561 * Only include gssapi.h if we're not including gssapi/gssapi.h, to fix a FreeBSD
562 compiler warning about gssapi.h being obsolete.
565 * The README.SSL document was revised for grammar, spelling, and clarity.
566 Courtesy of Robert Mullin.
568 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
569 * [it] Italian, by Vincenzo Campanella
573 fetchmail 6.3.13 (released 2009-10-30, 25333 LoC):
576 * The multiline SMTP error fix in release 6.3.12 caused fetchmail to lose
577 message codes 400..599 and treat all of these as temporary error. This would
578 cause messages to be left on the server even if softbounce was turned off.
579 Reported by Thomas Jarosch.
581 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
582 * [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
583 * [zh_CN] Chinese (simplified), by Ji ZhengYu
584 * [nl] Dutch, by Erwin Poeze
585 * [id] Indonesian, by Andhika Padmawan
586 * [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
587 * [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
588 * [es] Spanish (Castilian), by Franciso Molinero
589 * [vi] Vietnamese, by Clytie Siddall
592 fetchmail 6.3.12 (released 2009-10-05):
595 * The CVE-2009-2666 fix in fetchmail release 6.3.11 caused a free() of
596 unallocated memory on SSL connections, which caused crashes or program aborts
597 on some systems (depending on how initialization and free() of unallocated
598 memory is handled in compiler and libc).
599 Workaround for older versions: run in verbose mode.
600 Patch courtesy of Thomas Heinz, fixes Gentoo Bug #280760.
601 This regression affected only the 6.3.11 release, but not the patch that was
602 part of the security announcement fetchmail-SA-2009-01.
605 * Fix error reporting for GSSAPI on Heimdal (h5l) Kerberos.
606 * Look for MD5_Init in libcrypto rather than libssl, fixes Gentoo Kerberos
607 builds; fixes upstream parts of Gentoo Bugs #231400 and #185652, and fixes
609 * Report multiline SMTP errors properly, reported by Earl Chew; fixes Debian Bug
610 #529899, reported by Akihiro Terasaki.
611 Note: This fix introduced a regression, fixed in 6.3.13.
612 * Replace control characters in SMTP replies by '?'.
613 * Fetchmailconf: Fix descriptions for smtpaddress and smtpname options;
614 smtpaddress is for RCPT TO, not MAIL FROM. Found by Gerard Seibert.
616 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
617 * [ca] Catalan (Ernest Adrogué Calveras)
618 * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
619 * [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
620 * [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
621 * [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
622 * [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
623 * [vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
626 fetchmail 6.3.11 (released 2009-08-06):
629 * CVE-2009-2666: SSL NUL prefix impersonation attack through NULs in a
630 part of a X.509 certificate's CommonName and subjectAltName fields. These
631 fields use opaque strings with a separate length field, so that the NUL
632 character isn't a special character inside the certificate. Fetchmail, being
633 written in the C language, used to treat these strings as C strings
634 nonetheless, so that the domain comparison would end at the first embedded NUL
635 character, rather than at the real end of the string.
636 Fetchmail will now abort certificate verification as failed if NULs are
637 encountered inside either of these fields regardless of their position, and
638 drop the connection even if --sslcertck is not used, because NUL is not a
639 valid character in legitimate DNS names.
640 See fetchmail-SA-2009-01.txt for details, including a minimal patch.
643 * Remove the spurious message "message delimiter found while scanning headers".
644 RFC-5322 syntax states that the delimiter is part of the body, and the body is
646 * Convert all non-printable characters in certificate Subject/Issuer
647 Common Name or Subject Alternative Name fields to ANSI-C hex escapes (\xnn,
648 where nn are hex digits).
649 Note that this change introduces a regression, fixed in 6.3.12.
650 See the 6.3.12 documentation above for details and a workaround.
652 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
653 * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
654 * [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
657 fetchmail 6.3.10 (released 2009-07-02):
659 # INCOMPATIBLE BUGFIXES AND CHANGES
660 * Fetchmail no longer drops permanently undelivered messages by default, to
661 match historic documentation. It does this by adding a new "softbounce"
663 Fixes Debian Bug#471283, demotes Debian Bug#494418 to wishlist.
664 * There is a new "softbounce" global option that prevents the deletion of
665 messages that have not been forwarded. It defaults to "true" for fetchmail
666 6.3.X in order to match historic documentation. This may change its default
667 in the next major release.
670 * Fix misuse of canonical autoconf target as _TARGET when it should have been
671 _HOST. Report and patch courtesy of Diego E. "Flameeyes" Pettenò.
672 Details: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/01/01/the-canonical-target
673 * Do not lose PS_MAXFETCH (13) exit status when hitting maxpoll. Reported by
674 Michelle Konzack, Debian Bug#508667.
675 * Do not overlap source and destination fields in snprintf() in interface.c.
676 Courtesy of Nico Golde, Debian.
677 * When a pre- or post-connect command fails, now report the exit status or
678 termination signal properly through sys/wait.h macros.
679 * When acquiring a body, understand NIL ("no such data item"), as returned by
680 some MS Exchange versions. Fixes BerliOS Bug #11980 by KB Sriram.
681 * Make progress tickers (-v/--showdots) consistent, and update documentation
682 accordingly ("." for each 1024 octets read, "#" for a header written, and "*"
683 for each body line written.)
684 The conditions under which these had been printed were inconsistent,
685 illogical, and documentation hadn't matched real behaviour for long.
686 * For NTLM authentication, use dynamically allocated buffers.
687 Fixes Debian Bug#449179, reported by Stepan Golosunov.
688 * Non-delivery notice ("bounce mail") now mentions the original reason again,
689 before the address list. This fixes a regression introduced in 6.3.0.
690 * Several compiler warnings were fixed.
691 * The minimum recommended SMTP (RFC-5321) timeouts are enforced to leave
692 sufficient time for the listener to respond. Some synchronous listeners,
693 particularly when used with spam filtering and other policy enforcement
694 services, take extended amounts of time to process messages after the sender,
695 recipient, or data block and EOM line. This can cause fetchmail to not wait
696 long enough for the "250 Ok" and make fetchmail believe the message wasn't
697 properly delivered when in fact it was; fetchmail would then retry the
698 download next time and never make progress.
699 Fixes Berlios Bug #10972, reported by Viktor Binzberger.
700 * The ESMTP/LMTP client will now apply an application-specific timeout while
701 waiting for the EHLO/LHLO response, rather than wait for the server or TCP
703 * Treat 530 errors as temporary, so as not to delete messages on configuration
704 errors. Partially taken from Petr Cerny's patch in Novell Bugzilla #246829.
705 The 501 part of said patch was not added, as the maintainer is not convinced
706 501 is a temporary condition, and softbounce takes care of this anyways.
709 * Make the comparison of the SSL fingerprints case insensitive, to
710 ease its use. Suggested by Daniel Richard G.
711 * Proper precedence ordering for the syslog and logfile options. If the logfile
712 option is effective (i. e. we're in daemon mode and nodetach isn't used),
713 reset the syslog option. If logfile is ineffective (we're not in daemon mode,
714 or nodetach is set), syslog takes precedence.
715 * The sleeping at/awakened at messages appear in logfiles and syslog only if
716 verbose mode is enabled. On the console, they will still appear without
717 verbose mode. Fixes Debian Bug#282259.
718 * fetchmail only requests IPv6 addresses via name service if at least one is
719 configured on the local host, likewise for IPv4. (AI_ADDRCONFIG flag to
720 getaddrinfo()) Extended version of Redhat's patch.
721 * If the server name contains "yahoo.com", offers the "ID" capability, and we're
722 polling via IMAP, send an ID ("guid" "1") transaction first, ignoring its
723 result. This appears needed to be able to log into Yahoo's Zimbra servers, but
724 there are open issues (such as being only able to download one message and
725 server certificate mismatches).
728 * Fix bashism in contrib/fetchsetup. Fixes Debian Bug#530081.
731 * Some parts of the the manual page were revised for clarity, accuracy, and
732 updated recommendations (particularly SSL/TLS) and formatting conventions from
734 * The README and README.SSL documents were updated.
735 * A document, README.SSL-SERVER, was added to describe server-side requirements
736 for proper SSL and/or TLS service offerings. These are not specific to
738 * Documentation on how to make "NOMAIL" (exit code 1) not treated an error has
739 been added to the EXIT CODES section of the manpage and to the FAQ as item C8.
740 The suggested solution uses a tiny POSIX shell script fragment.
741 Fixes Debian Bug #530749, filed by Reuben Thomas.
743 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
744 * [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
745 * [en_GB] English/British
747 * [id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
748 * [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
749 * [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
750 * [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
751 * [ru] Russian (Pavel Maryanov), fixing Debian Bug #531925
752 * [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
753 * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
756 fetchmail 6.3.9 (released 2008-11-16):
758 # SECURITY AND CRITICAL BUG FIXES:
759 * CVE-2007-4565: Denial of service: When fetchmail tries to inject a warning
760 message it created itself, and the message is refused by the SMTP listener,
761 fetchmail dereferences a NULL pointer and crashes. Report & fix by Earl Chew.
762 Note while this is theoretically a remote denial of service attack vector,
763 fetchmail by default talks SMTP to the localhost, so the overall risk is
765 This bug was apparently introduced on 1998-11-27 when the bouncemail facility
766 was modularized. The bug then made its appearance in fetchmail release 4.6.8.
767 See also fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt.
768 * CVE-2008-2711: Denial of service: When fetchmail logs data blobs
769 (for instance, a To: header in -v -v verbose mode) in excess of 2048
770 bytes, it will crash, because it hands an uninitialized argument
771 pointer (not the format string though) to vsnprintf and reads a
772 random memory location (it calls va_arg() too often without
773 resetting it with va_start()). Based on a patch (BerliOS patch #2492)
774 by Petr Uzel, fixes Novell Bug #354291.
775 Note 6.3.9-rc1 did not completely fix this issue, so it was redrawn a few
776 hours after its release.
777 See also fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt.
778 * When expunging, mark the right messages as seen to avoid message loss in "keep
779 flush" configurations. Workaround for previous versions: "expunge 0".
780 Report and patch by Alexander Cherepanov - thanks a lot, Berlios Bug #11797,
781 "imap_mark_seen doesn't consider expunged messages".
782 * SSL fix: close memory leak when SSL connection fails; fetchmail used to forget
783 calling SSL_free() on the SSL context, leaking in excess of 500 kB RAM on a
784 x86_64 system per failed SSL connection attempt.
785 Bug reported and patch provided by Seiichi Ikarashi, Fujitsu.
788 * The configure script will additionally check for 'dn_skipname', to fix build
789 failures with µClibc. The new check still recognizes the resolver libraries on
790 Ubuntu 7.04, openSUSE 10.2, Solaris 8, NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 and FreeBSD 6.2.
791 Fixes Gentoo bug #134187.
792 NOTE: this is a bit of a hack, since we twist the HAVE_RES_SEARCH result, but
793 res_search() and dn_skipname() are only used together and scheduled for
794 removal in future versions, so this is probably fine.
795 * No longer complain about invalid sslproto "" when POP3 CAPA probe fails.
796 Fixes Debian Bug#421446 (Holger Leskien), Novell Bug #247233 (Jon Nelson),
798 Thanks to Matthias Strauß for a configuration to reproduce the issue.
799 * Allow .fetchmailrc and .fetchids to be symlinks, as the manpage does not
800 document they aren't allowed - fixes Debian Bug #452907 (Roger Leigh).
801 TOCTOU race persists.
802 * fetchmailconf quotes mailbox (folder) names when writing the configuration.
803 Fixes BerliOS Bug #13207 (reported + fix suggested by Terry Brown).
804 * Only print "Deleting fetchids file" if there actually is one.
805 Fixes Debian Bug#374514, reported by Dan Jacobson.
806 * SSL fix: check and report if SSL_set_fd fails.
809 * autoconf 2.60 is now required to build fetchmail; it uses
810 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to replace AC_AIX, AC_MINIX, and the like.
811 * Removed dead FETCHMAIL_DEBUG code from fetchmail.h that was disabled by
812 default with no switches in configure to enable it. However, the macro would
813 have been prone to a symlink attack. Found by Nico Golde.
814 * Removed dead FORCE_STUFFING code from socket.c that was disabled by default
815 with no switches in configure to enable it.
816 * Include the typedef for int16 in the #ifndef _AIX in smbencrypt.c (Peter
818 * Correct check for u_int32_t in configure.ac (seems to be typedef'ed in
819 namser.h on some platforms.) (Peter O'Gorman)
820 * In configure.ac change all CPFLAGS to CPPFLAGS, CEFLAGS to CFLAGS and LDEFLAGS
821 to LDFLAGS otherwise the results of some tests (additional -L and -I flags) do
822 not get used for later tests causing incorrect configure results. Makefile.am
823 was also changed to reflect this. (Peter O'Gorman)
824 * m4/gethostbyname_r.m4 does AC_TRY_COMPILE, which unfortunately can pass even
825 if there is no gethostbyname_r. Changed to AC_TRY_LINK. (Peter O'Gorman)
826 * Revise getnameinfo check to ensure NULL is defined and the result is properly
827 evaluated, to avoid bogus results on for instance FreeBSD and redefinitions of
828 NI_* at compile time. (Matthias Andree).
829 * __attribute__ ((unused)) is a gccism, removed from libesmtp/gethostbyname.c.
831 * In KAME/getnameinfo.c it's best to use the correct argument to inet_ntoa.
833 * In verbose mode, log if --check mode is enabled.
834 * Add sslcommonname option (rcfile and commandline) as a way to work around
835 misconfigured upstream SSL servers that use the wrong certificate name. It
836 specifies which CommonName fetchmail expects and logs. (Daniel Richard G.)
837 * Changed CRLF to LF line endings in contrib/delete-later (reporter: Petr Uzel)
838 * SSL change: enable all workarounds with SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx,SSL_OP_ALL)
839 * All translations have been re-enabled, in an attempt to rekindle translator or
843 * Add fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt and fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt.
844 * Re-add two lines to the manual page that had accidentally become comments
845 to nroff. One was part of the --sslproto documentation, and one in the
846 "Awakening the background daemon" section.
847 * The manual page no longer asserts that .fetchids were for exclusive POP3 use,
848 since it is planned to use the file with IMAP4 later.
849 * Add grammar fixes from Dan Jacobson to fetchmail.man. Debian Bug #461642.
850 * The manual page now mentions that user descriptions need to come before user
851 options. Reported by Francensco Pontortì, to fix Debian Bug #467010.
852 * The manual page no longer hints that multi-user declarations per server were
853 only useful in daemon mode running as root, to avoid hinting people to doing
855 * Several manual page rcfile examples now include "ssl".
856 * The manual page hints that option arguments beginning with numbers can be
858 * The manual page now mentions that the --logfile must already exist before
860 * The FAQ now recommends (#I9) not to use Google Mail for their disregard to the
861 protocols they claim to support.
862 * Documentation and program output now /consistently/ claim that the rcfile must
863 not have more than 0700 (u=rwx,g=,o=) permissions, but fetchmail will still
864 silently accept additional g=x permissions for compatibility with previous
865 6.2.X and 6.3.X versions.
866 Inconsistency (program 0710, manpage 0600) reported by Petr Uzel.
867 * The --logfile documentation is now clearer about requiring detached daemon
870 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
871 * [sq] Albanian (Besnik Bleta)
872 * [zh_CN] Chinese, simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
873 * [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
874 * [da] Danish (Byrial Ole Jensen) - outdated, but newer than in 6.3.8
875 * [nl] Dutch (Tony Vroon, Benno Schulenberg)
876 * [en_GB] English, British
877 * [fi] Finnish (Lauri Nurmi)
879 * [id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
880 * [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
881 * [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
882 * [ru] Russian (Pavel Maryanov)
883 * [es] Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Matthias Andree)
884 * [tr] Turkish (Engin Gündüz) - outdated, but newer than in 6.3.8
885 * [vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
889 fetchmail 6.3.8 (released 2007-04-06):
891 # SECURITY STRENGTHENING:
892 * Make the APOP challenge parser more distrustful and have it reject challenges
893 that do not conform to RFC-822 msg-id format, in the hope to make mounting
894 man-in-the-middle attacks (MITM) against APOP a bit more difficult.
895 (CVE-2007-1558, reported by Gaëtan Leurent, published 2007-04-02 on Bugtraq)
897 APOP is claimed insecure by Gaëtan Leurent for MITM scenarios for typical
898 setups: based on MD5 collisions, it is purportedly possible to recover the
899 first three characters of the shared secret (password), which would then make
900 recovery of the shared secret a matter of hours or minutes; this would then
901 enable the attacker to impersonate the client vis-à-vis the server.
903 For further details, check
904 * Gaëtan Leurent, "Message Freedom in MD4 and MD5 Collisions: Application
905 to APOP", Fast Software Encryption 2007, Luxembourg. (Proceedings to appear in
906 Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science.)
907 * The mailing list discussion thread at
908 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-devel/2007-March/000887.html>
911 * Fix pluralization of oversized-message warning mails.
912 * Fix manual page: --sslcheck -> --sslcertck, and do not set trailing
913 "recommended:" in bold. Fixes Debian Bug #413059, reported by Rafal Czlonka.
914 * Repoll immediately if a protocol error happens during the authentication
915 attempt after a failed opportunistic TLS upgrade.
916 Fixes comment #9 in Gentoo Bug #163782, reported by Takuto Matsuu.
917 * Fix rendering of the "24 - 26, 28, 29" paragraph in the exit codes section.
918 Reported by Nico Golde.
919 * If SOCKS support was compiled in, add 'socks' to the feature_options Python
920 list emitted in --configdump. Reported by Rob MacGregor.
921 * Do not crash with a null pointer dereference when opening the BSMTP file
922 fails. Improve error checking and reporting. Reported by Reto Schüttel,
923 Debian Bug#416625. Fix based on a patch by Nico Golde.
924 * Make BSMTP output actually work, it would persistently fail with SOCKET error
925 after writing the first header. Bug independently found and reported in
926 excellent detail by Reto Schüttel, Debian Bug#416812.
929 * Add fetchmail-SA-2007-01.txt
930 * Extend --mda documentation, discourage use of qmail-inject.
931 Based on a patch by Rob MacGregor.
932 * Document SOCKS configuration facility (SOCKS_CONF environment variable).
933 Thanks to Jochen Hayek, Michael Shuldman and Rob MacGregor.
934 * Use envelope option in multidrop example. Patch by Rob MacGregor.
935 * Document expected Received: line format when parsing for envelope addressees.
936 * Stripped option documentation from sample.rcfile, since this is bound to go
937 out of synch with the manual page, which is the only reference on options.
938 * Mention that --limit default is 0 bytes, which is special for "no limit".
939 * Corrected Robert M. Funk's name that I misspelled. My sincere apologies
943 * Add delete-later and delete-later.README, a script and documentation for
944 a MySQL/Tcl-based client-side "delete-after" feature.
945 Kindly donated by Yoo GmbH, Großvoigtsberg, Germany (Carsten Ralle).
948 fetchmail 6.3.7 (released 2007-02-18):
950 # FIXES FOR REGRESSIONS IN 6.3.6
951 * Fix KPOP. Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
952 * Fix repoll when server disconnects after opportunistic TLS failed for POP3.
953 Berlios Bug #10133 = Gentoo Bug #163782 reported by Andrej Kacian.
955 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
956 * Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki), Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
959 * Consider getaddrinfo() on Darwin 9 (Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard") thread-safe.
960 Reported by Uli Zappe.
963 fetchmail 6.3.6 (released 2007-01-04):
966 * CVE-2006-5867, fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt:
967 Password disclosure vulnerability fixed. This has several aspects:
969 - Fetchmail now implies sslproto 'tls1' if the sslfingerprint or sslcertck
970 options are used and the ssl option is not used, in order to be sure that
971 fetchmail gets a certificate from the mail server.
973 - Fetchmail breaks the connection if the TLS negotiation (or verification, if
974 requested) fails with sslproto 'tls1', sslfingerprint or sslcheck enabled.
976 - POP3 connections now use STLS reliably. They used to ignore STLS altogether
977 for serveral values of the "auth" option, when fetchmail forget to probe
978 server capabilities - see fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt for details.
980 - POP3 connections will no longer fall back USER/PASS authentication if
981 strong challenge-response authenticators such as CRAM-MD5 are configured
982 but the server does not advertise these in its CAPA response.
984 - POP2 is obsolete and does not support STLS or anything beyond password-based
985 authentication. The attempt to use STLS or strong authenticators now causes
988 Configurations using both ssl and sslcertck however have been semi-safe in
989 that they would send the password in the clear. The USER/PASS fallback
990 problem however applies to these too, so that the password was only safe on
993 * CVE-2006-5974, fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt:
994 Repairs a regression in 6.3.5 that crashes fetchmail when a message with
995 invalid headers is found while fetchmail's mda option is in use. BerliOS bugs
996 #9364, #9412, #9449. Stack backtrace provided by Neil Hoggarth - thanks.
998 # REGRESSION FIXES (recently introduced bugs)
999 * Repair --logfile, broken in 6.3.5. BerliOS Bug #9059,
1000 reported by Brian Harring.
1001 * Repair --user, broken in 6.3.5 (as a side effect of the authenticate external
1002 patch): using SSL certificate/key authentication overrode the --user option.
1003 Now the latter takes precedence, and only defaults to the certificate's common
1004 name. Debian Bug #400950, reported by Jorgen Schaefer <forcer@debian.org>.
1006 # BUG FIXES (long-standing bugs):
1007 * RPOP: used to log the password locally rather than an asterisk as the other
1008 protocols do. The password is now shrouded in the local logs.
1009 * POP3: Probes capabilities now when Kerberos V5 is enabled, so that we can
1010 actually detect if the server supports it.
1011 * Robustness: If a stale lockfile cannot be deleted, truncate it so that
1012 fetchmail doesn't later believe itself to be running if the PID is recycled
1013 by a non-fetchmail process.
1014 * DNS: Detect /etc/resolv.conf changes: On systems that have res_search(),
1015 assume we also have res_init() and call it (suggested by Ulrich Drepper,
1016 glibc bug #3675) in order to make libc or libresolv reread the resolver
1017 configuration at the beginning of a poll cycle. This is important when
1018 fetchmail is in daemon mode and /etc/resolv.conf is changed later by dhcpcd,
1019 dhclient, pppd, openvpn or other ip-up/ipchange scripts. Should fix Debian
1020 Bug#389270, Bug#391698.
1021 * Robustness: Fix crash on systems that do not provide strdup(), the crash
1022 happens only in out-of-memory conditions when fetchmail cannot proceed
1023 anyways. Patch by Andreas Krennmair.
1024 * Robustness: When HOME and FETCHMAILHOME are unset, be sure to copy user
1025 database information, so it is not trashed later. Patch by Jim Correia.
1028 * Workaround: Improve handling of IMAP IDLE, some servers do not reset their
1029 time counters after sending information asynchronously. Patch by Sunil
1030 Shetye, after report from Andrew Baumann.
1031 * Usability: When requesting Kerberos or GSSAPI, complain and exit with syntax
1032 error if any of these requested features has not been compiled in. This is
1033 to fail early and with precise error message. Reported by Isaac Wilcox.
1034 * --version will now add +KRB4 or +KRB5 if Kerberos v4 or v5, respectively, have
1035 been compiled in. Reported missing by Isaac Wilcox.
1038 * New en_GB (British English) translation by David Lodge.
1039 * Update Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki), Polish (Jakub Bogusz), Russian (Pavel
1040 Maryanov) and Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall) translations.
1041 ! Note that not all these translations are complete -- this isn't the
1042 translators' fault though, but due to delays at the BerliOS hosting site and
1043 the translation project handlers. You may see a few untranslated messages.
1046 * Dropped exit status 15 from manual page, it's not used by fetchmail.
1047 Reported by Isaac Wilcox.
1048 * Documented exit codes 24 - 29 as internal.
1050 fetchmail 6.3.5 (released 2006-10-09):
1053 * For protocols such as IMAP that are not delimited by "." lines, truncate the
1054 input buffer when the message has been completely read, to avoid taking
1055 trailing garbage into the message if the terminal CRLF is missing. Fixes
1056 Debian Bug#312415. (Patch suggested by Mike Jones, Manchester Univ.).
1057 * When using NTLM authentication, use regular IMAP response code handler after
1058 completing NTLM handshake, for robustness and consistency.
1059 (Taken from the NetBSD portable packages collection, patch-ac.)
1060 * Support Kerberos installations where krb5.h and perhaps roken.h are in
1061 .../include/krb5. Taken from NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ae.
1062 * On NetBSD, link against -lroken -lcom_err if --with-kerberos is enabled.
1063 * Drop #include <com_err.h> from Kerberos 5 header file, fixes compile error on
1065 * Fix des_pcbc_encrypt compile warnings in kerberos.c line 246.
1066 * If krb5-config provides gssapi library information, use that rather than
1068 * Improve --with-gssapi auto detection for /usr-based GSSAPI installs.
1069 * Fix --with-gssapi builds for NetBSD 3.0.
1070 * Improve KAME/getnameinfo.c portability to Linux libc5 systems.
1071 Based on a patch by Dan Fandrich.
1072 * Provide INET6 to KAME/getnameinfo.c (only useful on IPv6-enabled systems that
1073 lack getnameinfo, and there only visible in some Received: headers).
1074 Found by Dan Fandrich.
1075 * POP3: some UID flags may not be set properly on UIDL lists. (Sunil Shetye)
1076 * Make IMAP4 IDLE work on servers that do not update RECENT counts.
1077 Reported by Lars Tewes.
1078 * IMAP4 patch by Sunil Shetye:
1079 - do not depend on server updating RECENT counts at all
1080 - also enter IDLE loop when messages are present on the server.
1081 * Fix --flush description in the manual page, fetchmail does not mark messages
1082 seen unless it has successfully delivered them. Suggested by Frederic Marchal.
1083 * Fetchmail no longer attempts to stat the "-" file in daemon mode -- this is a
1084 special name to read the RC file from stdin, and cannot always be re-read
1085 anyways. BerliOS bug #7858.
1086 * When looking up ports for a service, the lookup succeeds and the returned
1087 address family isn't IPv4 or IPv6, properly free the allocated memory from the
1088 service lookup. Found by Uli Zappe.
1089 * When looking up ports for a service, only look up TCP ports.
1090 * Avoid compiling empty files, to avoid diagnostics from strict compilers.
1091 * If the lockfile ends before the process ID, treat it as stale and unlink it.
1092 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #376603.
1093 * SIGHUP wake-up behavior was broken since 5.9.13's Cygwin changes, in that for
1094 non-root users, SIGHUP would abort the first poll and subsequently interfere
1095 with new polls, and SIGHUP would be ignored for root users. SIGHUP now matches
1096 documented behavior. SIGUSR1 has always been a wakeup signal for both root
1097 (undocumented) and non-root users. See also the deprecation warning above.
1098 * Track getaddrinfo() results to properly free them after timeouts and make sure
1099 that getaddrinfo() isn't interrupted by a timeout (which breaks on MacOS X),
1100 reported by Uli Zappe. This should fix Debian Bug#294547 and Bug#377135.
1101 * --logfile is now handled more carefully, errors opening the logfile are
1102 now reported to the TTY where fetchmail was started from.
1103 * fetchmail now complains and aborts when it cannot properly daemonize itself.
1104 * fix compilation on systems that don't know struct addrinfo (Solaris 2.6).
1105 * ignore SIGPIPE signals and rely on functions to return EPIPE instead. This is
1106 necessary because the former longjmp() from the signal handler is unsafe and
1107 makes the whole fetchmail behavior undefined after the event.
1108 * Avoid crash in env.c/host_fqdn if we cannot canonicalize our own hostname.
1109 Reported by Alexander Holler.
1110 * SSL fix by Miloslav Trmac (Red Hat): free the SSL contexts after the
1111 connection, to avoid from growing SSL certpaths without bounds, avoid using
1112 SSL contexts for unrelated connections, and to fix Red Hat Bug #206346.
1115 * Rename all fetchmail-internal lock_* functions to fm_lock_*. Obsoletes
1116 NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ah, patch-ai and patch-aj.
1117 * Configure prints a warning (but proceeds) if Kerberos IV support is enabled.
1118 * In verbose mode, log every IP fetchmail tries to connect to, to avoid
1119 misleading the user. Suppress EAFNOSUPPORT errors from socket() call, too.
1120 Fixes Debian Bug #361825, reported by Daniel Baur.
1121 * In idle mode, fetchmail complains about the fetchall option.
1122 * When a connection fails, log not only the IP address, but also host and
1123 service name and the port number. Log the latter when trying to connect in
1125 * Keep syslog output at one line per message (this works if no errors occur).
1126 * Fetchmail in verbose mode now logs if it opportunistically upgrades a POP3
1127 or IMAP connection to TLS security with STLS/STARTTLS.
1128 * fetchmail now supports foo@example.org=bar user mappings for multidrop boxes.
1129 * switch setjmp/longjmp to sigsetjmp/siglongjmp
1130 * IMAP now supports the EXTERNAL authentication method, courtesy of
1131 Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095 with minor changes.
1132 Note that this change causes --sslcert to override --user.
1133 * The sslproto keywords are now case insensitive, courtesy of
1134 Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095.
1135 * When going to sleep, log for how long. Suggested by Claudia Ludwig.
1136 * When the server name cannot be canonicalized, log the gai_strerror value.
1138 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
1139 * Catalan/ca (Ernest Adrogué Calveras), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki) - also
1140 made gettext 0.15 ready, Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Russian/ru (Pavel
1141 Maryanov), Spanish/es (Héctor García Álvarez), Vietnamese/vi (Clytie Siddall)
1143 # CONTRIBUTED SCRIPTS:
1144 * PopDel.py was revised by Joshua Crawford to display the From: address and
1145 list every email, even if it has no Subject: header; and not delete the wrong
1146 message in the presence of mail without Subject: headers.
1148 fetchmail 6.3.4 (released 2006-04-14):
1151 * configure: detect res_* functions properly with newer glibc ABIs.
1152 Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
1153 * tracepolls: add folder information if available. Reported by Terry Brown.
1154 * lexer: add %option noyywrap to avoid link errors about missing yywrap().
1155 * a few more type fixes for report/snprintf, patch by Miloslav Trmac.
1156 * bouncing: fetchmail would still send "General SMTP/ESMTP error." bounces
1157 in spite of "no bouncemail" configuration.
1158 * SSL/TLS: if, for a certain server, an sslfingerprint is specified and
1159 sslcertck is NOT set, suppress printing SSL certificate mismatch errors.
1160 (Reported by Hannes Erven.)
1161 * SSL/TLS: always print if the sslfingerprint mismatches, even in silent
1162 mode. (This is for consistency with certificate verification errors.)
1164 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
1165 * German/de (Matthias Andree), French/fr (Matthias Andree), Spanish/es (Héctor
1166 García), Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki)
1167 * New Vietnamese/vi translation (Clytie Siddall).
1168 * Updated French descriptions for the .spec file (Stéphane Schildknecht,
1169 Luc Pionchon, Matthias Andree).
1172 * pidfile: there is a new command-line (--pidfile PATH) and global option for
1173 the rcfile (set pidfile [=] "/path/to/pidfile") option to allow overriding
1174 the default location of the PID file.
1175 Requested by Héctor García, Debian maintainer.
1176 * specgen.sh: Converted to UTF-8 to support translated texts better.
1178 fetchmail 6.3.3 (released 2006-03-30):
1181 * SEGFAULT: Do not attempt to overwrite the netrc password if none has been
1182 specified. This fixes a segmentation fault bug introduced into 6.3.2.
1183 Fixes BerliOS bug #6234. BerliOS patch #804 by Craig Leres.
1184 The patch, as accepted into fetchmail, was available separately from
1185 <http://download.berlios.de/fetchmail/patch-6.3.2.1-fix-netrc-SIGSEGV.diff>
1186 * SEGFAULT: Work around C libraries that return a NULL in getaddrinfo()'s
1187 ai_canonname record, to avoid a segfault. Affects for instance FreeBSD 4.10,
1188 4.11 and 5.3 when dotted quads are given as server names.
1189 Analysis and fix by Vladimir Olegovich Ravodin (Владимир Олегович Раводин).
1190 * IMAP: fix hangs in NOOP-based IDLE emulation. Reported by Casper Gripenberg
1191 and Brendan Lynch, fix by Sunil Shetye (his patch was merged) and Brendan Lynch.
1192 * IMAP: Handle other clients concurrently accessing IMAP mailboxes better.
1193 Fetchmail quits the poll if the EXPUNGE count does not match expectations, and
1194 servers not updating RECENT counts after EXPUNGE are handled in a better way.
1195 (Patch by Sunil Shetye.)
1196 * IMAP: Stop sending EXPUNGE after NOOP-idling (patch by Sunil Shetye).
1197 * POP3: fetchmail can now use UIDL in fetchall keep mode, to avoid re-fetching
1198 the same messages again when the fetchall keyword is removed. Patch by
1199 Sunil Shetye. For details, please see
1200 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2006-March/000308.html>
1201 * LMTP: fix bug in LMTP port validation (patch by Miloslav Trmac).
1202 * SDPS: fetchmail no longer replaces the local user ID for an empty envelope
1203 sender when using the proprietary SDPS extension for POP3.
1204 Fixes Debian Bug#353575, reported by Roger Lynn.
1205 * SDPS: Warn and disable SDPS if POP3 is disabled to avoid compilation errors.
1206 * fetchmail no longer prints empty lines in verbose mode when using syslog.
1207 * fetchmail no longer prints UID lists in verbose mode when using syslog.
1208 * ./configure --quiet is now quieter (no SSL and fallback-related output).
1209 * Miloslav Trmac's patch (with minor changes) to fix char * sign consistency,
1210 unused arguments and variables.
1211 * More signedness, unused argument/variable and other warning fixes.
1214 * --idle can now be specified on the command line, too.
1215 * --fetchall is now supported on the command-line.
1216 * POP3: Lower default fastuidl span to 4 (i. e. every 4th run fetches the
1217 whole UIDL list), patch by Sunil Shetye.
1220 * "ssl" is a user option rather than a server option. Patch by Nico Golde.
1221 Fixes Debian Bug#354661, reported by Keith Hellman.
1222 * The manual page now suggests "--" before the addresses in the sendmail MDA
1223 example, for safety.
1224 * The FAQ item X9, Domino IMAP omits Content-Transfer-Encoding header, was
1225 added. Information provided by Anthony Kim on the fetchmail-friends list
1227 * Credit Chris Boyle with the NOOP emulation code for IDLE in fetchmail 6.2.4.
1228 Eric forgot to credit Chris, thanks to Sunil Shetye for providing these links:
1229 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007705.html
1230 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007713.html
1231 * Added a section about RETR vs. TOP to the manual page.
1232 * Changed section/subsection levels in some areas.
1234 fetchmail 6.3.2 (released 2006-01-22):
1236 Unless otherwise noted, changes to this release were made by Matthias Andree.
1238 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
1239 * CVE-2006-0321: Fix segfault or bus error after bouncing a message. This bug
1240 was introduced into 6.3.0 when removing alloca(); it caused fetchmail to free
1241 random memory. Reported by Nathaniel W. Turner, Debian Bug#348747.
1242 See fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt
1244 # INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE:
1245 * Automatically disable the POP3 TOP command if the greeting string contains
1246 "Maillennium POP3/PROXY server", which is used by comcast and known to
1247 truncate messages after 80 kByte. Fall back to RETR, and complain if we had
1248 used TOP otherwise (the warning is printed only once per server in daemon
1249 mode). Suggested by Ed Wilts.
1250 *Note* that this means messages are marked read on these servers, which is a
1251 deviation from how 6.3.1 behaved, but we have no alternative, comcast haven't
1252 fixed this bug in years. Preventing the loss of the remainder of the message
1253 justifies this incompatible fix.
1254 * fetchmail, since 6.3.0, requires write permission to the directory holding the
1255 idfile. See the amendment in the 6.3.0 MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES section
1256 below for details. The manual page was updated.
1258 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS:
1259 * The outdated BUGS document was removed from the distribution.
1260 * Added fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt to the distribution.
1263 * SMTP/LMTP cleanup to fix these two bugs:
1264 - switch back to SMTP after having tried LMTP hosts (multiple smtphost hosts)
1265 - switch back to LMTP after sending a bounce.
1266 The patch removes the global state variable that was the root of this problem.
1267 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1268 * Don't complain about fetchall keep in --configdump mode. Bug introduced in
1270 * fetchmailconf.py: Fix novice help for Poll interval and fetchall.
1271 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #344978.
1272 * Some verbose output disappeared in debug mode. Adding further -v options would
1273 alternate between verbose and debug mode. debug mode now comprises all verbose
1274 output, and adding more -v options does not switch back from debug to verbose
1276 * fetchmail.man: Fix accented characters in Héctor García's name. Merged from
1277 downstream debian/patches/01_man_page.dpatch.
1278 * Add missing --help text for "--sslcertck" option.
1279 * fetchmailconf.py: Accept --help and --version.
1280 * fetchmail --version now prints the copyright notice.
1281 * don't complain about READ-ONLY IMAP folders in --fetchall --keep mode.
1282 Reported Alexander Zangerl, Debian Bug#348964.
1283 * the RPM .spec file now generates a -debuginfo package on newer RPM versions.
1285 fetchmail 6.3.1 (released 2005-12-19):
1287 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
1288 * CVE-2005-4348 Fix segmentation fault (null pointer dereference) in
1289 multidrop mode with headerless email. See fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt.
1290 Reported by Daniel Drake, patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1292 # OTHER BUG FIXES, DOCUMENTATION AND TRANSLATION UPDATES
1293 * Fix broken default port in POP2. Patch by Stanislav Brabec, SUSE [CZ]. (MA)
1294 * Fix manual page, some lines starting with ' were escaped by \&.
1295 Reported by Simon Barner. (MA)
1296 * Ship with gettext-0.14.3 again, as 6.2.9-rc10 did. Found by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1297 * Actually set default SSL certificate path if --sslcertpath is unset.
1298 Reported by Heino Tiedemann and Rob MacGregor. (MA)
1299 * Remove bogus Netscape IMAP4rev1 Service >= 3.6 warning about BODY[TEXT]
1300 that we are not using. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1301 * Plug potential memory and socket leak when polling multiple folders or when
1302 the upstream sends bogus message sizes. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1303 * Update Catalan translation, by Ernest Adrogué Calveras. (MA)
1304 * Fix segfault (null pointer dereference) on some operating systems with
1305 fetchmail's obsolete DNS MX/host alias lookups in multidrop mode.
1306 Patch by Dr.-Ing. Andreas Haakh. (MA)
1307 * Close SMTP sockets early, to reduce resource usage, trigger earlier delivery
1308 with some MTAs and avoid SIGPIPE (SIG 13) when the SMTP listener gets bored
1309 and drops the connection after timeout. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1310 * Don't treat hitting a fetch limit as error. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1311 * Fix negative "messages left on server" on idle/repoll with fetchlimit.
1312 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1313 * Properly track logout stage. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1314 * Preserve error conditions across postconnect script. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1315 * Do not trash destination domain if multiple messages are forwarded into the
1316 same SMTP/LMTP connection. Reported by Joachim Feise, Berlios Bug #5849. (MA)
1317 * Manual page: Add "-md5" to "openssl x509" example in --sslfingerprint
1318 documentation, since OpenSSL 0.9.8 changed the default to SHA1.
1319 Suggested by Jason White. (MA)
1320 * Cope with servers that return UID information in response to non-UID
1321 RFC822.{SIZE|HEADER} requests. Reported by Jason White.
1322 Patch suggestion by by Sunil Shetye, simplified by MA.
1324 fetchmail 6.3.0 (released 2005-11-30):
1326 # SECURITY FIXES IN THIS RELEASE
1327 * CVE-2005-2335: The POP3 UIDL code doesn't sufficiently validate/truncate the
1328 input length, so a (malicious or compromised) server that sends UIDs longer
1329 than 128 bytes can corrupt fetchmail's stack and crash fetchmail.
1330 This vulnerability is remotely exploitable to inject code run in a
1331 root shell. Edward J. Shornock, Ludwig Nussel. fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
1332 * CVE-2005-3088: fetchmailconf now changes the output file to mode 0600 BEFORE
1333 writing to it, so there is no window where passwords could be read by the
1334 world. Matthias Andree. fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt
1336 # MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
1337 * Remove support for --netsec/-T options, the required inet6_apps library is no
1339 http://www.inner.net/pub/ipv6/ states, as of 2005-07-03: "/pub/ipv6
1340 Our IPv6 software is now long defunct. Please find a more modern source."
1341 I haven't been able to find a more modern source. Matthias Andree
1342 * Operating systems that do not conform to the Single Unix Specification v2
1343 (1997) or v3 (2001, aka IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) are no longer supported. They
1344 may continue to work and non-intrusive patches to support them may be
1345 accepted. Matthias Andree
1346 * The default for --smtphost is now always "localhost" regardless of
1347 authentication types and protocols, so as to simplify configurations for
1348 workstations where the SMTP daemon only listens on the loopback interface.
1349 Sunil Shetye & Matthias Andree
1350 Amendment, 2006-01-04:
1351 * fetchmail's idfile (.fetchids) is no longer written directly, but the ids are
1352 written to a temporary file which is renamed into place after being written
1353 completely. This is to avoid writing incomplete idfiles when running out of
1354 space, which would cause excessive duplicate refetches of messages, this might
1355 make matters even worse. This means that fetchmail requires write permission
1356 on the directory holding the idfile. This will usually affect system-global
1357 daemons only, for instance, Debian. Found by Dan Jacobson. Matthias Andree.
1358 Escalated to "incompatible", 2006-01-13:
1359 * Try to obtain FQDN as our own host by default, rather than using "localhost".
1360 If hostname cannot be qualified, complain noisily and continue, unless
1361 Kerberos, ODMR or ETRN are used (these have always required an FQDN).
1362 Partial fix of Debian Bug#150137. Fixes Debian Bug#316454. Matthias Andree
1364 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS AND USERS
1365 * fetchmailconf is now a shell wrapper that calls the byte-compiled
1366 fetchmailconf.py script, which is now installed in the regular python
1367 directory. Matthias Andree.
1368 * The --enable-inet6 configure option was removed. The code is mostly protocol
1369 agnostic, a fully IPv6 aware OS is expected to provide getaddrinfo(),
1370 getnameinfo() and the macro AF_INET6. Matthias Andree.
1371 * gettext (intl/) has been removed from the fetchmail package. Install GNU
1372 gettext 0.14 separately for NLS (i18n). Matthias Andree
1373 * Added Russian translation, courtesy of Pavel Maryanov of the
1374 Russian translation team. (MA)
1375 * Updated and re-enabled Czech translation, by Miloslav Trmac (MA).
1376 * Dropped da=Danish, el=Greek and tr=Turkish translations which have more than
1377 10% (61+) untranslated or fuzzy messages. Matthias Andree.
1379 # OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
1380 * Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR)
1381 * PopDel.py removed from contrib at author's request. (ESR)
1382 * Matthias Andree's fix for Sunil Shetye's fetch-split patch. (ESR)
1383 * Include James Stone's moldremover.py script. (ESR)
1384 * Enable .fetchmailrc permissions checking under Cygwin. (ESR)
1385 * Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication. (ESR)
1386 * Revised Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication (the
1387 original version would go into an infinite loop when CAPA failed;
1388 found by David Greaves.) (MA)
1389 * HOME_ETC patch for PLD Linux. (ESR)
1390 * Sunil Shetye's fix for SSL configuration. (ESR)
1391 * Simon Josefsson's patch for GSS library support. (ESR)
1392 * Added Andrey Lelikov's recipe for Hotmail and Lycos Webmail. (ESR)
1393 * Remove blank between MAIL FROM: and <, which causes Cyrus to complain.
1394 Patch by Phil Endecott. (RF)
1395 * Build fixes for HESIOD and resolv.h trouble on FreeBSD. (MA)
1396 * Fabrice Bellet's fix for Red Hat bug #113492, fetchmail hangs in IMAP
1397 mode after EXPUNGE when the server (Dovecot 0.99.10) doesn't update
1398 RECENT and EXISTS counts. (MA)
1399 * Holger Mauermann's bounce patch, to use a NULL envelope from, not
1400 write a Return-Path header (both to meet RFC-2821), changed From,
1401 added Subject header, rewording the human readable part. Fixes Debian
1403 * Merge Sunil Shetye's time.h handling fix. (MA)
1404 * Merge Gerd von Egidy's patch to avoid a segfault in multidrop/received
1405 mode when the Received: headers are malformatted. (MA)
1406 * MIME-encode bodies and Subject headers of warning messages, limiting
1407 the header to 7 bits. (MA)
1408 * Normalize most locale codesets to IANA codesets, based on
1409 norm_charmap.c by Markus Kuhn. (MA)
1410 * Remove sleep(3) after POP3 login, patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
1411 * Fix option parsing bug that trashes the showdots setting when more
1412 than one server is configured. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
1413 * Honor sslcertpath setting even if sslcertck is unset. Patch by Brian
1415 * SSL certificate checking fixes, don't display same error message twice
1416 in succession, make sure that Common Name and fingerprint checking are
1417 only done once. Print all validation warnings/errors even if not in
1418 verbose mode. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
1419 * Import Bjorn Reese and Daniel Stenberg's MIT-licensed Trio 1.10 from
1420 http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/ for systems that do not support
1421 snprintf or vsnprintf. (MA)
1422 * Clean up the horrible #ifdef HAVE_[V]SNPRINTF that made the code
1423 unreadable. Use Trio where [v]snprintf is/are missing. (MA)
1424 * Default to Linux 2.2 /proc/net/dev format, and use uname(2) to determine the
1425 kernel version instead of calling uname(1). Thanks to Paul Slootman. (MA)
1426 * Be more careful when swapping UID lists or writing the .fetchids file,
1427 requested by Manfred Weihs. (MA)
1428 * Print a warning if multidrop configuration is attempted without
1429 envelope option. (MA)
1430 * Split information on fetchmail versions before 6.0.0 to a separate
1432 * Merge SuSE patches: (sent by Stanislav Brabec, merged by Matthias Andree)
1433 - fetchmail-6.2.5-declaration.patch (double sigint_handler decl/getpass.c)
1434 - fetchmail-6.2.5-implicit-declaration.patch (missing #include)
1435 - fetchmail-6.2.5-random-result.patch (uninitialized variable/opie.c)
1436 * Revised some bogus assertions about POP3 LAST and UIDL use in the
1437 manual page. UIDL isn't flaky as the man page suggested, but a
1438 reliability feature. In fact, IMAP4 code is flaky in that it relies on
1439 the upstream seen flags. (MA)
1440 * Miloslav Trmac's patch for fetchmailconf to support string-type values
1441 of the "port" variable, avoiding "port None" corruption in .fetchmailrc.
1442 To fix Redhat Bug #55623 (MA)
1443 * de.po fixes from Nico Golde (MA)
1444 * es.po fixes from Jesus Roncero, Debian bug #286044 (MA)
1445 * sink.c fix from Cesar Eduardo Barros, to avoid double @ in address
1446 when username contains an @ and the envelope sender is null, Debian
1448 * configure.ac cleanups by Miloslav Trmac (MA)
1449 * Miloslav Trmac's fix to reply_hack() type, for systems where
1450 sizeof(int) != sizeof(size_t). (MA)
1451 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for driver.c to not call the private Kerberos
1452 krb5_init_ets() function. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1453 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for sink.c/transact.c to reserve sufficient
1454 space for \r\n trailers in snprintf calls. Sent by Miloslav Trmac,
1455 possibly fixing Red Hat bug #114470. (MA).
1456 * Nalin Dahyabhai's patch to use the krb5-config script, if present.
1457 Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1458 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix to make rpa.c compile. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1459 * Trivial fetchmailconf.man to redirect to fetchmail.1.
1460 Reported by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1461 * Internationalization (i18n) updates by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1462 * Fix "couldn't find canonical DNS name of NN (MM)" for hosts that have
1463 only IPv6 addresses. Matthias Andree.
1464 * Revised INSTALL after question from Brian Candler, inet6-apps is no
1465 longer available: remove inet6-apps hints for IPv6, and add some
1466 apologetic message for IPsec. Note the code may be removed in a future
1467 version. Matthias Andree.
1468 * Brian Candler's FAQ update about SSL certificate verification. (MA)
1469 * Nico Golde's patch to support "proto RPOP" in the configuration file,
1470 reported by Dr. Andreas Krüger, Debian bug #242384 (MA)
1471 * Skip sending POP3 PASS command when USER command failed. Matthias Andree.
1472 * Run fetchmail.man through automatic spell checker. Matthias Andree.
1473 * Major fetchmail(1) manual page overhaul by R. Hannes Beinert, to
1474 clarify singledrop vs. multidrop operation. (MA)
1475 * Make tracepolls a server option, as documented. Fixes Debian bug
1476 #156094. Matthias Andree.
1477 * Fix some minor inaccuracies (RFC-1893 related, grammar/spelling) in
1479 * Rename ESR's design notes to esrs-design-notes.html and add a new
1480 design-notes.html document. The NOTES file will contain both of them.
1482 * Fix Debian bug #301964, fetchmail leaks sockets when SSL negotiation
1483 fails. Fix suggested by Goswin Brederlow. (MA)
1484 * Really fix Debian Bug#207919 (garbage in Received: lines when smtphost set),
1485 patch by Tobias Diedrich. The 6.2.5 NEWS claimed Gregan's patch had fixed
1486 #207919 but it had fixed #212484 instead and #207919 remained unfixed in
1487 6.2.5. The entry below has been corrected to read #212484 now. (MA)
1488 * When writing the PID file, write a FHS 2.3 compliant PID file.
1489 Fixes Debian bug #230615. Matthias Andree.
1490 * Make ODMR really silent, suppress "fetchmail: receiving message
1491 data". Fixes Debian Bug#296163. Matthias Andree.
1492 * Add From: header to warning emails. Debian Bug#244828. Matthias Andree.
1493 * Fix IMAP code to use password of arbitrary length from configuration
1494 file (although not when read interactively). Debian Bug#276424.
1496 * Document that fetchmail may automatically enable UIDL option.
1497 Debian Bug#304701. Matthias Andree.
1498 * Put *BOLD* text into the manual page near --mda to state unmistakably that
1499 the --mda %T and %F substitutions add single quotes, hoping to avoid bogus
1500 bug reports such as Debian Bug #224564. Matthias Andree
1501 * Rename lock_release to fm_lock_release, to avoid namespace collision on
1502 Darwin. NetBSD PR#28543 (pkg/28543). Matthias Andree.
1503 * The RFC-822 parser no longer strips the last character of bare addresses.
1505 * The IP address matching code was broken and
1506 1. didn't search exhaustively, but matched only the first IP address of the
1507 server's queryname against the IP addresses of the server name to match.
1508 2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts. Matthias Andree
1509 * The "port" option, while still understood, is being replaced by the "service"
1510 option, which is now supported even without --enable-inet6. Matthias Andree.
1511 * The default distribution format is now bzip2. Matthias Andree.
1512 * fetchmailconf redirects fetchmail's input from /dev/null so it doesn't
1513 wait for the user to enter a password when the user doesn't even see
1514 the prompt. Reported by Michal Marek. Matthias Andree.
1515 * Write RFC-compliant BSMTP envelopes. Reported by Nico Golde. Matthias Andree.
1516 * Fix --with-gssapi compilation problem. Simon Josefsson. (MA)
1517 * Foster protocol-independence to support IPv6 better, for instance, providing
1518 IPv6 addresses in Received: headers. Matthias Andree.
1519 * Received: headers now enclose the for <...> destination address in angle
1520 brackets for consistency with Postfix. Matthias Andree.
1521 * Operating systems that do not support at least one of gethostbyname,
1522 gethostbyname_r, getipnodebyname are no longer supported. Matthias Andree.
1523 * Fixes to --with-hesiod option. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1524 * Delete oversized messages with the new --limitflush option. Debian
1525 Bug#212240. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1526 * Fix MacOS X compilation failures in sink.c (ru_*time has incomplete type).
1527 Berlios Bug #4725. Matthias Andree.
1528 * Fix "auth ntlm" to send AUTH NTLM (rather than AUTH MSN). Add "auth msn"
1529 officially. Reported by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
1530 * Expunge between IMAP folders when polling multiple folders.
1532 * Fix IMAP expunged message counting. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1533 * Add full support for --service option. Matthias Andree
1534 * When getaddrinfo() fails resolving a service, log getaddrinfo() error. (MA)
1535 * Fix bogus "cannot resolve service * to port number" error. Simon Barner. (MA)
1536 * Failure to set up SSL connections now results in PS_SOCKET. Suggested by
1537 Thomas Wolff. Matthias Andree.
1538 * Kerberos IV detection fix for FreeBSD 4. Simon Barner. (MA)
1539 * Fix display and documentation of --envelope option. Matthias Andree
1540 * Make "envelope 'Delivered-To'" work with dropdelivered. Timothy Lee. (MA)
1541 * Add -DBIND_8_COMPAT to Darwin (MacOS X) compiles, to fix build problems on
1542 newer Darwin versions. Matthias Andree.
1543 * fetchmail should now automatically detect if OpenSSL requires -ldl.
1545 * Fix Solaris build with --disable-nls (blastwave.org). Matthias Andree.
1546 * Missed --port/--service/--ssl cleanups in the manual. Reminder from Thomas
1548 * Complain in POP3 if NTLM/MSN auth is requested but had not been enabled at
1549 compile time. This configuration mismatch now causes an error message and
1550 authentication failure. Found by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
1551 * fetchmailconf now allows expert users to choose the authorization type and
1552 also offers MSN and NTLM, suggested by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
1553 * fetchmailconf now (as of 1.49) writes its version to the comment of the
1554 saved run control file. Matthias Andree
1555 * Properly shut down SSL connections. Berlios Patch #647 by Arkadiusz
1557 * Global variable cleanup, to fix daemon mode reinitialization problems. Patch
1558 by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1559 * fetchmailconf -h documents the fetchmailconf -h option. Matthias Andree
1560 * fetchmailconf -V now prints the fetchmailconf version. Matthias Andree
1561 * Add support for SubjectAltName (RFC-2595 or 2818), to avoid bogus certificate
1562 mismatch errors. Patch by Roland Stigge, Debian Bug#201113. (MA)
1563 * make fetchmail --silent --quit really silent, Debian Bug #229014 by Dr.
1564 Andreas Krüger. Matthias Andree
1565 * cleanup --quit handling again (so that --silent --quit just kills the
1566 existing daemon, rather than continue running), and document it more clearly.
1568 * Print an error message if multiple "defaults" records are found in the
1569 configuration file. Matthias Andree
1570 * Bury on_exit officially - the necessary code had been missing from 6.0.0,
1571 6.2.0, 6.2.5. Matthias Andree
1572 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be read. Matthias Andree
1573 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be created exclusively, this got
1574 broken in a 6.2.6-pre, 6.2.5.2 and older were fine. Matthias Andree
1575 * Do not break some other process's lockfile in "-q" mode, but wait for the
1576 other process's exit. Matthias Andree
1577 * Man page: --sslfingerprint points user to x509(1ssl) and gives an example
1578 how to use it. Debian Bug#213484, Eduard Bloch. (MA)
1579 * fetchmailconf now sets the service properly after autoprobe. Fixes Debian
1580 Bug#320645. Matthias Andree
1581 * Man page: Fix Debian Bug#241883, making global options more clear. Matt
1582 Swift, Matthias Andree.
1583 * When eating IMAP message trailer, don't see any line containing "OK" as the
1584 end of the trailer, but wait for the proper tagged OK line. To work around
1585 the qmail + Courier-IMAP problem in Debian Bug#338007. Matthias Andree
1586 * Fix Debian Bug#317761: when trying to send a bounce message, don't bail out
1587 if we cannot qualify our own hostname, so we aren't losing the bounce.
1588 Instead, pass the buck on to the SMTP server and use our own unqualified
1589 hostname. Matthias Andree
1590 * Revise some error messages so they are less confusing. Sunil Shetye.
1591 * Man page: update --smtphost documentation. Sunil Shetye, Matthias Andree.
1592 * Man page: clarify --loghost works only while detached. Matthias Andree
1593 * Man page: update --smtpaddress documentation. Sunil Shetye.
1594 * Fix several memory leaks and bugs in the SMTP/LMTP retry logic where
1595 fetchmail confused UNIX and Internet domain sockets. Sunil Shetye.
1596 * Man page (BUGS): document that passwords are length limited. Matthias Andree
1597 * Man page: Document that quoted strings that run across line boundaries
1598 contain the control characters (CR or LF). Document explicitly the backslash
1599 escape sequences and their differences from the escape sequences used in the
1600 C programming language. Matthias Andree
1601 * Fix segfault when run control file ends with a backslash inside an
1602 unterminated quoted string. Matthias Andree.
1603 * In quoted strings, support backslash as last character on a line to join the
1604 following line to the current. Matthias Andree.
1605 * Parsing untagged IMAP responses is more robust now. Matthias Andree.
1606 * Man page: Remove some procmail praises in --mda documentation, suggest
1607 maildrop instead, warn of procmail fallthrough behavior. Matthias Andree.
1608 * Man page: Revise AUTHORS and SEE ALSO sections. Matthias Andree.
1609 * Updated translations: Albanian [sq] (Besnik Bleta), Catalan [ca] (Ernest
1610 Adrogué Calveras), Czech [cs] (Miloslav Trmac), German [de] (MA),
1611 Spanish (Castilian) [es] (Javier Kohen), French [fr] (MA),
1612 Polish [pl] (Jakub Bogusz), Russian [ru] (Pavel Maryanov).
1613 * In oversized warning messages, print the account name, too. Fixes Debian
1614 Bug#213299. Sunil Shetye (MA).
1615 * Fix installation without Python. Sunil Shetye, reported by Peter Church. (MA)
1616 * Update Japanese translation. Fixes Debian Bug#329342, Takeshi Hamasaki. (MA)
1617 * Fix imap.c size safeguard that broke on x86_64 architecture. Matthias Andree
1618 * The FAQ is now available for duplex DIN A4 printing in PDF format.
1619 Don't bother to ask for a Letter version, I don't care. Matthias Andree
1620 * Man page: Use \- in the manual page where appropriate so that copy & paste
1621 works. I hope we got them all. Héctor García, Matthias Andree.
1624 * Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
1625 * Got rid of alloca() in fetchmail proper. Matthias Andree
1626 * Got rid of ipv6-connect, inner_connect and thereabouts. Matthias Andree
1628 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1630 fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:
1632 * Updated Spanish, Turkish, and German translation files.
1633 * Matthew Gregan's patch to handle garbage lengths from dbmail;
1634 closes Debian bug #212484.
1635 * Fix IMAP query so new-message count doesn't include deleted messages.
1636 * Man page typo fix, closes Debian bug #205892.
1637 * OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl@acm.org.
1638 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
1639 flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
1640 * Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of
1642 * Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
1643 * Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
1644 * Sunil Shetye's patches to break up fetching of sizes and UIDLs.
1646 There are 599 people on fetchmail-friends and 748 on fetchmail-announce.
1648 fetchmail-6.2.4 (Wed Aug 13 04:27:35 EDT 2003), 22625 lines:
1650 * Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
1651 * IDLE is now supported using NOOP commands even if the server doesn't support
1652 the IMAP IDLE extension. Patch by Chris Boyle.
1653 * Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
1654 * Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
1655 * Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
1656 * Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
1657 * Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.
1659 There are 585 people on fetchmail-friends and 745 on fetchmail-announce.
1661 fetchmail-6.2.3 (Thu Jul 17 14:53:00 EDT 2003), 22490 lines:
1663 * French, German, Danish, Spanish, and Turkish translations updated.
1664 * Brian Sammon's patch to deal with malformed message lines containing NULs.
1665 * Fai's patch to ignore all but the first Return-Path (some spams have
1666 more than one of these).
1667 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to properly byte-stuff when talking to BSMTP.
1668 Fixes Debian bug #184469.
1669 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to enable auth=cram-md5.
1670 Fixes Debian bug #185232.
1671 * Sunil Shetye's configure.in patch to avoid spurious search order messages
1673 * Header-reading code now copes better with lines ending in \n only.
1674 * Elias Israel's patches for POP3 NTLM support and dealing with byte-
1675 stuffing failures at socket level.
1677 There are 580 people on fetchmail-friends and 750 on fetchmail-announce.
1679 fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:
1681 * Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior on empty messages.
1682 * Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful
1683 STARTTLS negotiation.
1684 * Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
1685 * Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security.
1686 * Christophe GIAUME <christophe@giaume.com> finished the implementation
1688 * Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
1689 * Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
1690 * Fix for Debian bug #108977, clean up config file evaluation,
1693 There are 554 people on fetchmail-friends and 727 on fetchmail-announce.
1695 fetchmail-6.2.1 (Tue Jan 14 08:17:19 EST 2003), 22219 lines:
1697 * Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
1698 * Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
1699 * Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check,
1700 we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
1701 * Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.
1703 There are 536 people on fetchmail-friends and 716 on fetchmail-announce.
1705 fetchmail-6.2.0 (Fri Dec 13 00:10:07 EST 2002), 22235 lines:
1707 * Applied Steffen Esser's fix for a buffer-overflow bug in rfc822.c
1708 * Updated Danish, German, and Turkish translation files.
1709 * Sunil Shetye's SMTP timeout patch.
1711 There are 538 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
1713 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1715 fetchmail-6.1.3 (Thu Nov 28 05:35:15 EST 2002), 22203 lines:
1717 * Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
1718 * Added Slovak support.
1719 * Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas).
1720 * Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
1721 * Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
1722 * Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
1723 * Sunil's fix for the STARTTLS problem -- repoll if TLS nabdshake
1724 fails. The attempt to set up STARTTLS can be suppressed with 'sslproto ""'.
1726 There are 540 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
1728 fetchmail-6.1.2 (Thu Oct 31 11:41:02 EST 2002), 22135 lines:
1730 * Jan Klaverstijn's verbosity-lowering patch.
1731 * Updated Turkish, German, Catalan, and Danish translation files.
1732 * Fix processing of POP3 messages with missing bodies.
1733 * Minor fixes by Sunil Shetye: fix generation of auth fail note, handle
1734 unexpected SIGALRM, plug memory leak, handle lines beginning with '\0',
1735 try to bulletproof error handling against read failures.
1737 There are 535 people on fetchmail-friends and 696 on fetchmail-announce.
1739 fetchmail-6.1.1 (Fri Oct 18 14:53:51 EDT 2002), 22087 lines:
1741 * OTP fix patches from Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
1742 * fix patch for writing antispam capability correctly in conf.c.
1743 * Fix patches for Debian bugs #162571, #156592.
1744 * Correction to manpage re -b and qmail.
1745 * Patch to disable use of STLS if auth passwd is specified.
1746 * Fix specfile generation to handle SSL correctly.
1747 * New Danish, Turkish, and Catalan translation files.
1748 * Improved ODMR debug messages.
1749 * IMAP efficiency hack; don't fetch sizes unless needed.
1750 * Detect and rewrite invalid return paths beginning with @.
1751 * Fix for subtle freeing bug that suppressed information in some bounce msgs.
1752 * Newline fix patches for internationalization files.
1753 * Fix reversed test guarding authentication-failure warnings.
1754 * Fix POP3 breakage starting at 5.9.14.
1756 There are 529 people on fetchmail-friends and 693 on fetchmail-announce.
1758 fetchmail-6.1.0 (Sun Sep 22 18:31:23 EDT 2002), 21999 lines:
1760 * Updated French translation.
1761 * Stefan Esser's fix for potential remote vulnerability in multidrop mode.
1762 This is an important security fix!
1764 There are 519 people on fetchmail-friends and 680 on fetchmail-announce.
1766 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1768 fetchmail-6.0.0 (Tue Sep 17 19:48:25 EDT 2002), 21972 lines:
1770 * Applied Matt Kraai's fix for minor Debian bug #144539.
1771 * Nerijus Baliunas's patch to support STARTTLS over IMAP.
1772 * More cleanups and minor bugfixes from Sunil Shetye.
1773 * Default antispam-response list is now empty.
1774 * Updated de and po translations.
1776 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1778 There are 520 people on fetchmail-friends and 683 on fetchmail-announce.
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