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21 * POP2 is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail version.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24 * RPOP is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail release.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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
60 * The Server certificate: message in verbose mode now appears on stdout like the
61 remainder of the output. Reported by Henry Jensen, to fix Debian Bug #639807.
64 fetchmail-6.3.21 (released 2011-08-21, 26011 LoC):
67 * The IMAP client no longer inserts NUL bytes into the last line of a message
68 when it is not closed with a LF or CRLF sequence. Reported by Antoine Levitt.
69 As a side effect of the fix, and in order to avoid a full rewrite, fetchmail
70 will now CRLF-terminate the last line fetched through IMAP, even if it is
71 originally not terminated by LF or CRLF. This bears no relevance if your
72 messages end up in mbox, but adds line termination for storages (like Maildir)
73 that do not require that the last line be LF- or CRLF-terminated.
76 * There is a patch against fetchnews's source, contrib/rawlog.patch, that can
77 log (and hexdump non-printing characters) raw socket data to a file. It proved
78 useful to debug Antoine's bug described above.
81 fetchmail-6.3.20 (released 2011-06-06, 26005 LoC):
85 STARTTLS: Fetchmail runs the IMAP STARTTLS or POP3 STLS negotiation with the
86 set timeout (default five minutes) now. This was reported missing, with
87 observed fetchmail freezes beyond a week, by Thomas Jarosch.
88 SSL-wrapped connections were unaffected by this timeout, so users of older
89 versions can force ssl-wrapped connections -- if supported by the server --
90 with the --ssl command line or ssl rcfile option.
91 See fetchmail-SA-2011-01.txt for further details.
94 * IMAP: Do not search for UNSEEN messages in ranges. Usually, there are very few
95 new messages and most of the range searches result in nothing. Instead, split
96 the long response to make the IMAP driver think that there are multiple lines
97 of response. (Sunil Shetye)
98 * Do not print "skipping message" for old messages even in verbose mode. If
99 there are too many old messages, the logs just get filled without any real
100 activity. (Sunil Shetye) (suggested by Yunfan Jiang)
101 * Build: fetchmail now always uses its own MD5 implementation rather than trying
102 to find a system library with matched header. The library and header variants
103 found on systems are too diverse, and the code size saving is not worth any
104 more wasted user or programmer time.
107 * Call strlen() only once when removing CRLF from a line. (Sunil Shetye)
108 * fetchmail sets Internet domain sockets to "keepalive" mode now. Note that
109 there is no portable way to configure actual timeouts for this mode, and some
110 systems only support a system-wide timeout setting. fetchmail does not
111 attempt to tune the time spans of keepalive mode.
113 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
114 [cs] Chech (Petr Pisar)
115 [nl] Dutch (Erwin Poeze)
116 [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
117 [de] German (Matthias Andree)
118 [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
119 [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
120 [sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka)
122 # KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS
123 (this section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the
124 current release information - however, it was stuck with 6.3.8 for a while)
125 * fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
126 (See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
127 * BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output.
128 * Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in
129 64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit
130 fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code,
131 so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties.
132 * fetchmail does not track pending deletes over crashes.
133 * the command line interface is sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance,
134 fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running.
135 * Linux systems may return duplicates of an IP address in some circumstances if
136 no or no global IPv6 addresses are configured.
137 (No workaround. Ubuntu Bug#582585, Novell Bug#606980.)
138 * Kerberos 5 may be broken, particularly on Heimdal, and provide bogus error
139 messages. This will not be fixed, because the maintainer has no Kerberos 5
140 server to test against. Use GSSAPI.
143 fetchmail-6.3.19 (released 2010-12-10, 25945 LoC):
145 # ERRATUM NOTICE ISSUED
146 * fetchmail 6.3.18 contains several bug fixes that were considered sufficiently
147 grave to warrant the issue of an erratum notice, fetchmail-EN-2010-03.txt.
150 * When specifying multiple local multidrop lists, do not lose wildcard flag.
151 (Affects "user foo is bar baz * is joe here")
152 * In multidrop configurations, an asterisk can now appear anywhere in the list
153 of local users, not just at the end.
154 * In multidrop mode, header parsing is now more verbose in -vv mode, so that it
155 becomes possible to see which header is used.
156 * Make --antispam work from command line (these used to work in rcfiles).
157 Reported by Kees Bakker, BerliOS Bug #17599. (Sunil Shetye)
158 * Smoke test XHTML 1.1 validation, and if it fails, skip validating HTML
159 documents. Skip validating Mailbox-Names-UTF7.html. Several systems have
160 broken XHTML 1.1 DTD installations that jeopardize the build.
161 Reported by Mihail Nechkin against FreeBSD port.
162 Workaround for 6.3.18: build in a separate directory, i. e:
163 mkdir build && cd build && ../configure --options-go-here
164 * Send a NOOP only after a failed STARTTLS in IMAP. (Sunil Shetye)
165 * Demote GSSAPI verbose/debug syslog to INFO severity. Requested by Carlos E. R.
166 and Derek Simkowiak via the fetchmail-users@ mailing list.
167 * Do STARTTLS/STLS negotiation in IMAP/POP3 if it is mandatory even if the
168 server capabilities do not show support for upgradation to TLS.
169 To use this, configure --sslproto tls1. (Sunil Shetye)
170 * IMAP: Understand empty strings as FETCH response, seen on Yahoo. Reported by
171 Yasin Malli to fetchmail-users@ 2010-12-10.
172 Note that fetchmail continues to expect literals as FETCH response for now.
175 * The manual page now links to IANA for GSSAPI service names.
177 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
178 [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
179 [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
181 [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
182 [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
185 fetchmail-6.3.18 (released 2010-10-09, 25936 LoC):
187 # SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS TO DEFANG X.509 CERTIFICATE ABUSE
188 * Fetchmail now only accepts wildcard certificate common names and subject
189 alternative names if they start with "*.". Previous versions would accept
190 wildcards even if no period followed immediately.
191 * Fetchmail now disallows wildcards in certificates to match domain literals
192 (such as 10.9.8.7), or wildcards in domain literals ("*.168.23.23").
193 The test is overly picky and triggers if the pattern (after skipping the
194 initial wildcard "*") or domain consists solely of digits and dots, and thus
195 matches more than needed.
196 * Fetchmail now disallows wildcarding top-level domains.
198 # CRITICAL BUG FIXES AND REGRESSION FIXES
199 * Fetchmail 6.3.15, 6.3.16, and 6.3.17 would pick up libmd5 to obtain MD5*
200 functions, as an effect of an undocumented Solaris MD5 fix.
201 This caused all MD5-related functions to malfunction if, for instance,
202 libmd5.so was installed on other operating systems as part of libwww on
203 machines where long isn't 32-bits, i. e. usually on 64-bit computers.
204 Fixes Gentoo Bug #319283, reported, including libwww hint, by Karl Hakimian.
205 Side effect: fetchmail will now use -lmd on Solaris rather than -lmd5.
206 * Fetchmail 6.3.17 warned about insecure SSL/TLS connections even if a matching
207 --sslfingerprint was specified. This is an omission from an SSL usability
208 change made in 6.3.17.
209 Fixes Debian Bug#580796 reported by Roland Stigge.
210 * Fetchmail will now apply timeouts to the authentication stage.
211 This stage encompasses STARTTLS/STLS negotiation in IMAP/POP3.
212 Reported missing by Thomas Jarosch.
213 * Fetchmail now cancels GSSAPI authentication properly when encountering GSS
214 errors, such as no or unsuitable credentials.
215 It now sends an asterisk on a line by its own, as required in SASL.
216 This fixes protocol synchronization issues that cause Authentication
217 failures, often observed with kerberized MS Exchange servers.
218 Fixes Debian Bug #568455 reported by Patrick Rynhart, and Alan Murrell, to the
219 fetchmail-users list. Fix verified by Thomas Voigtmann and Patrick Rynhart.
222 * Fetchmail will no longer print connection attempts and errors for one host
223 in "silent" and "normal" logging modes, unless all connections fail. This
224 should reduce irritation around refused-connection logging if services are
225 only on an IPv4 socket if the host also supports IPv6. Often observed as
226 connections refused to ::1/25 when the subsequent connection to 127.0.0.1/25
227 then - silently - succeeds. Fetchmail, unless in verbose mode, will collect
228 all connect errors and only report them if all of them fail.
229 * Fetchmail will not try GSSAPI authentication automatically, unless it has GSS
230 credentials. However, if GSSAPI authentication is requested explicitly,
231 fetchmail will always try it.
232 * Fetchmail now parses response to "FETCH n:m RFC822.SIZE" and "FETCH n
233 RFC822.HEADER" in a more flexible manner. (Sunil Shetye)
234 * The manual page clearly states that --principal is for Kerberos 4 only, not
235 for Kerberos 5 or GSSAPI. Found by Thomas Voigtmann.
238 * When encountering incorrect headers, fetchmail will refer to the bad-header
239 option in the manpage.
240 Fixes BerliOS Bug #17272, change suggested by Björn Voigt.
241 * Fetchmail now decodes and reports GSSAPI status codes upon errors.
242 * Fetchmail now autoprobes NTLM also for POP3.
243 * The Fetchmail FAQ has a new item #R15 on authentication failures.
246 * The common NTLM authentication code was factored out from pop3.c and imap.c.
248 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
249 [zh_CN] Chinese/simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
250 [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
251 [nl] Dutch (Erwin Poeze)
252 [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
254 [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
255 [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
256 [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
257 [sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka)
260 fetchmail-6.3.17 (released 2010-05-06, 25767 LoC):
263 * CVE-2010-1167: Fetchmail before release 6.3.17 did not properly sanitize
264 external input (mail headers and UID). When a multi-character locale (such as
265 UTF-8) was in use, this could cause memory exhaustion and thus a denial of
266 service, because fetchmail's report.c functions assumed that non-success of
267 [v]snprintf was due to insufficient buffer size allocation. It would then
268 repeatedly reallocate a larger buffer and fail formatting again.
269 See fetchmail-SA-2010-02.txt.
272 * Fetchmail now supports a --sslcertfile <file> option to specify a "CA bundle"
273 file (a file that contains trusted CA certificates). Since these bundled CA
274 files do not require c_rehash to be run, they are easier to use and immune to
275 OpenSSL library updates that affect the hash function.
276 * Fetchmail now supports a FETCHMAIL_INCLUDE_DEFAULT_X509_CA_CERTS
277 environment variable to force loading the default SSL CA certificate
278 locations even if --sslcertfile or --sslcertpath is used.
279 If neither option is in effect, fetchmail loads the default locations.
282 * Fix string handling in rcfile scanner, which caused fetchmail to misparse a
283 run control file in certain circumstances. Fixes BerliOS bug #14257.
284 Patch by Michael Banack. This fixes a regression introduced before 6.3.0.
287 * Plug memory leak when using a "defaults" entry in the run control file.
288 * Do not print SSL certificate mismatches unless verbose or --sslcertck is
290 * Do not lose "set invisible" in fetchmailconf. (Michael Barnack)
293 * Usability: SSL certificate chains are fully printed in -v -v mode, and there
294 are now helpful pointers to --sslcertpath and c_rehash for "unable to get
295 local issuer certificate" and self-signed certificates -- these usually hint
296 to missing root signing CAs in the certs directory.
297 * Several fixes for compiler (GCC, Intel C++, CLang) and autotools warnings
298 * Memory allocation failures will now cause abnormal program abort (SIGABRT),
299 no longer an exit with unspecified code.
300 * Print a warning if certificate verification failed and the user did not
304 * Fix table of global option to read "set softbounce" where there used to be a
305 2nd copy of "set spambounce". Patch by Michael Banack, BerliOS Bug #17067.
306 * In the --sslcertpath description, mention that OpenSSL upgrade (and a 0.9.X
307 to 1.0.0 upgrade in particular) may require running c_rehash.
309 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
310 [zh_CN] Chinese/simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
311 [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
312 [nl] Dutch (Erwin Poeze)
313 [fr] French (Frédéric Marchal)
315 [id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
316 [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
317 [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
318 [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
319 [sk] Slovak (Marcel Telka)
320 [vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
323 fetchmail-6.3.16 (released 2010-04-06, 25574 LoC):
326 * Fix --interface option, broken in 6.3.15. Reported by Vladmimir Stavrinov.
327 Fixes Debian Bug #576717.
330 * Call OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms(). This is needed to support non-mandatory
331 and non-standard algorithms in certificates.
332 Sjoerd Simons, to fix Debian Bug #576430.
333 OpenSSL 0.9.8* does not load - for instance - the SHA256 digest by default.
334 Reported as OpenSSL RT#2224.
337 fetchmail-6.3.15 (released 2010-03-28, 25572 LoC):
340 * Fetchmail now supports a bad-header command line or rcfile option that takes
341 exactly one argument, accept or reject (default). This specifies how messages
342 with bad headers retrieved from the current server are to be treated.
345 * In the rcfile, recognize "local" as abbreviation for "localdomains", as
346 documented. The short form has not ever worked since this feature was added in
347 January 1997. Reported by Frédéric Marchal.
348 * Do not close stdout when using mda and "bsmtp -" at the same time.
349 * Log operating system errors when BSMTP writes fail.
350 * Fix verbose mode progress formatting regression from 6.3.10; SMTP trace lines
351 were no longer on a line of their own. Reported by Melchior Franz.
352 * Check seteuid() return value and abort running MDA if switch fails.
353 * Set global flags in a consistent manner. Make --nosoftbounce and
354 --nobounce work from command line (these used to work in rcfiles).
355 Reported and fix confirmed working by N.J. Mann. (Sunil Shetye)
356 * Properly import h_errno declarations, even on systems where h_errno isn't a
357 macro. (Adds ./configure check, fixes Cygwin dllimport warnings.)
360 * The repository has been converted and moved from the Subversion (SVN) format
361 kindly hosted by Graham Wilson over the past years to Git format hosted on
362 Gitorious.org. My deepest thanks to Graham Wilson for this service that
363 kept us going when BerliOS's Subversion service was faulty in its early days.
364 * This opportunity was used to convert BRANCH_6-2 and BRANCH_1-9-9 to
365 GnuPG-signed tags, as a sign that these are now closed.
366 * The outdated SVN trunk is now called "oldtrunk" in Git just to save the work
367 for future reference. All development in the past few years was on BRANCH_6-3.
368 * master was branched from BRANCH_6-3. BRANCH_6-3 is now obsolete (and in fact
369 was also converted to a tag to record where the conversion from SVN to Git
371 * "make check" now skips HTML validation if xmllint or XHTML DTD are missing.
374 * Web site and documentation were adjusted to reflect the SVN->Git move.
375 * The fetchmail manual page is now much clearer on the user id switching
376 (seteuid) when using --mda while running as the super user.
378 # TRANSLATION UPDATES, by language name
379 * [zh_CN] Chinese (Simplified), by Ji Zheng-Yu
380 * [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
381 * [nl] Dutch, by Erwin Poeze
382 * [fr] French, by Frédéric Marchal
384 * [id] Indonesian, by Andhika Padmawan
385 * [it] Italian, by Vincenzo Campanella
386 * [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
387 * [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
388 * [vi] Vietnamese, by Clytie Siddall
391 fetchmail 6.3.14 (released 2010-02-05, 25487 LoC):
394 * CVE-2010-0562: SSL/TLS certificate information is now also reported properly
395 on computers that consider the "char" type signed. Fixes malloc() buffer
396 overrun. Workaround for older versions: do not use verbose mode.
397 See fetchmail-SA-2010-01.txt for details, including a minimal patch.
400 * The IMAP client no longer skips messages from several IMAP servers including
401 Dovecot if fetchmail's "idle" is in use. Causes were that fetchmail (a)
402 ignored some untagged responses when it should not (b) relied on EXISTS
403 messages in response to EXPUNGE, which aren't mandated by RFC-3501 (the IMAP
404 standard) and aren't sent by Dovecot either.
405 Fix by Sunil Shetye (the fix also consolidates IMAP response handling,
406 improving overall robustness of the IMAP client), bug report and testing by
407 Matt Doran, with further hints from Timo Sirainen.
408 * The SMTP client now recovers from errors (such as servers dropping the
409 connection after errors) when sending an RSET command.
410 Fix by Sunil Shetye. Report by James Moe.
411 * The IMAP client now uses "SEARCH UNSEEN" rather than "SEARCH UNSEEN NOT
412 DELETED" again on IMAP2, to fix a regression in fetchmail 6.2.5 reported by
413 Will Stringer in June 2004. (Sunil Shetye)
414 * The IMAP client now uses "SEARCH UNSEEN UNDELETED" on IMAP4 and IMAP4r1
415 servers (Sunil Shetye).
416 * Workaround: The IMAP client now falls back to "FETCH n:m FLAGS" if the server
417 does not support "SEARCH". (Sunil Shetye)
418 * The IMAP client now requests message numbers in batches of 1,000 to avoid
419 problems if there are more than 1860 unseen messages. (Sunil Shetye)
420 Note that this wasn't security relevant because fetchmail would only read up
421 to the maximum buffer size and leave the remainder of the string unread, going
422 out of synch afterwards.
423 * Stricter validation of IMAP responses containing byte or message counts.
426 * Only include gssapi.h if we're not including gssapi/gssapi.h, to fix a FreeBSD
427 compiler warning about gssapi.h being obsolete.
430 * The README.SSL document was revised for grammar, spelling, and clarity.
431 Courtesy of Robert Mullin.
433 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
434 * [it] Italian, by Vincenzo Campanella
438 fetchmail 6.3.13 (released 2009-10-30, 25333 LoC):
441 * The multiline SMTP error fix in release 6.3.12 caused fetchmail to lose
442 message codes 400..599 and treat all of these as temporary error. This would
443 cause messages to be left on the server even if softbounce was turned off.
444 Reported by Thomas Jarosch.
446 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
447 * [cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
448 * [zh_CN] Chinese (simplified), by Ji ZhengYu
449 * [nl] Dutch, by Erwin Poeze
450 * [id] Indonesian, by Andhika Padmawan
451 * [ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
452 * [pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
453 * [es] Spanish (Castilian), by Franciso Molinero
454 * [vi] Vietnamese, by Clytie Siddall
457 fetchmail 6.3.12 (released 2009-10-05):
460 * The CVE-2009-2666 fix in fetchmail release 6.3.11 caused a free() of
461 unallocated memory on SSL connections, which caused crashes or program aborts
462 on some systems (depending on how initialization and free() of unallocated
463 memory is handled in compiler and libc).
464 Workaround for older versions: run in verbose mode.
465 Patch courtesy of Thomas Heinz, fixes Gentoo Bug #280760.
466 This regression affected only the 6.3.11 release, but not the patch that was
467 part of the security announcement fetchmail-SA-2009-01.
470 * Fix error reporting for GSSAPI on Heimdal (h5l) Kerberos.
471 * Look for MD5_Init in libcrypto rather than libssl, fixes Gentoo Kerberos
472 builds; fixes upstream parts of Gentoo Bugs #231400 and #185652, and fixes
474 * Report multiline SMTP errors properly, reported by Earl Chew; fixes Debian Bug
475 #529899, reported by Akihiro Terasaki.
476 Note: This fix introduced a regression, fixed in 6.3.13.
477 * Replace control characters in SMTP replies by '?'.
478 * Fetchmailconf: Fix descriptions for smtpaddress and smtpname options;
479 smtpaddress is for RCPT TO, not MAIL FROM. Found by Gerard Seibert.
481 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
482 * [ca] Catalan (Ernest Adrogué Calveras)
483 * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
484 * [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
485 * [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
486 * [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
487 * [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
488 * [vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
491 fetchmail 6.3.11 (released 2009-08-06):
494 * CVE-2009-2666: SSL NUL prefix impersonation attack through NULs in a
495 part of a X.509 certificate's CommonName and subjectAltName fields. These
496 fields use opaque strings with a separate length field, so that the NUL
497 character isn't a special character inside the certificate. Fetchmail, being
498 written in the C language, used to treat these strings as C strings
499 nonetheless, so that the domain comparison would end at the first embedded NUL
500 character, rather than at the real end of the string.
501 Fetchmail will now abort certificate verification as failed if NULs are
502 encountered inside either of these fields regardless of their position, and
503 drop the connection even if --sslcertck is not used, because NUL is not a
504 valid character in legitimate DNS names.
505 See fetchmail-SA-2009-01.txt for details, including a minimal patch.
508 * Remove the spurious message "message delimiter found while scanning headers".
509 RFC-5322 syntax states that the delimiter is part of the body, and the body is
511 * Convert all non-printable characters in certificate Subject/Issuer
512 Common Name or Subject Alternative Name fields to ANSI-C hex escapes (\xnn,
513 where nn are hex digits).
514 Note that this change introduces a regression, fixed in 6.3.12.
515 See the 6.3.12 documentation above for details and a workaround.
517 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
518 * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
519 * [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
522 fetchmail 6.3.10 (released 2009-07-02):
524 # INCOMPATIBLE BUGFIXES AND CHANGES
525 * Fetchmail no longer drops permanently undelivered messages by default, to
526 match historic documentation. It does this by adding a new "softbounce"
528 Fixes Debian Bug#471283, demotes Debian Bug#494418 to wishlist.
529 * There is a new "softbounce" global option that prevents the deletion of
530 messages that have not been forwarded. It defaults to "true" for fetchmail
531 6.3.X in order to match historic documentation. This may change its default
532 in the next major release.
535 * Fix misuse of canonical autoconf target as _TARGET when it should have been
536 _HOST. Report and patch courtesy of Diego E. "Flameeyes" Pettenò.
537 Details: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/01/01/the-canonical-target
538 * Do not lose PS_MAXFETCH (13) exit status when hitting maxpoll. Reported by
539 Michelle Konzack, Debian Bug#508667.
540 * Do not overlap source and destination fields in snprintf() in interface.c.
541 Courtesy of Nico Golde, Debian.
542 * When a pre- or post-connect command fails, now report the exit status or
543 termination signal properly through sys/wait.h macros.
544 * When acquiring a body, understand NIL ("no such data item"), as returned by
545 some MS Exchange versions. Fixes BerliOS Bug #11980 by KB Sriram.
546 * Make progress tickers (-v/--showdots) consistent, and update documentation
547 accordingly ("." for each 1024 octets read, "#" for a header written, and "*"
548 for each body line written.)
549 The conditions under which these had been printed were inconsistent,
550 illogical, and documentation hadn't matched real behaviour for long.
551 * For NTLM authentication, use dynamically allocated buffers.
552 Fixes Debian Bug#449179, reported by Stepan Golosunov.
553 * Non-delivery notice ("bounce mail") now mentions the original reason again,
554 before the address list. This fixes a regression introduced in 6.3.0.
555 * Several compiler warnings were fixed.
556 * The minimum recommended SMTP (RFC-5321) timeouts are enforced to leave
557 sufficient time for the listener to respond. Some synchronous listeners,
558 particularly when used with spam filtering and other policy enforcement
559 services, take extended amounts of time to process messages after the sender,
560 recipient, or data block and EOM line. This can cause fetchmail to not wait
561 long enough for the "250 Ok" and make fetchmail believe the message wasn't
562 properly delivered when in fact it was; fetchmail would then retry the
563 download next time and never make progress.
564 Fixes Berlios Bug #10972, reported by Viktor Binzberger.
565 * The ESMTP/LMTP client will now apply an application-specific timeout while
566 waiting for the EHLO/LHLO response, rather than wait for the server or TCP
568 * Treat 530 errors as temporary, so as not to delete messages on configuration
569 errors. Partially taken from Petr Cerny's patch in Novell Bugzilla #246829.
570 The 501 part of said patch was not added, as the maintainer is not convinced
571 501 is a temporary condition, and softbounce takes care of this anyways.
574 * Make the comparison of the SSL fingerprints case insensitive, to
575 ease its use. Suggested by Daniel Richard G.
576 * Proper precedence ordering for the syslog and logfile options. If the logfile
577 option is effective (i. e. we're in daemon mode and nodetach isn't used),
578 reset the syslog option. If logfile is ineffective (we're not in daemon mode,
579 or nodetach is set), syslog takes precedence.
580 * The sleeping at/awakened at messages appear in logfiles and syslog only if
581 verbose mode is enabled. On the console, they will still appear without
582 verbose mode. Fixes Debian Bug#282259.
583 * fetchmail only requests IPv6 addresses via name service if at least one is
584 configured on the local host, likewise for IPv4. (AI_ADDRCONFIG flag to
585 getaddrinfo()) Extended version of Redhat's patch.
586 * If the server name contains "yahoo.com", offers the "ID" capability, and we're
587 polling via IMAP, send an ID ("guid" "1") transaction first, ignoring its
588 result. This appears needed to be able to log into Yahoo's Zimbra servers, but
589 there are open issues (such as being only able to download one message and
590 server certificate mismatches).
593 * Fix bashism in contrib/fetchsetup. Fixes Debian Bug#530081.
596 * Some parts of the the manual page were revised for clarity, accuracy, and
597 updated recommendations (particularly SSL/TLS) and formatting conventions from
599 * The README and README.SSL documents were updated.
600 * A document, README.SSL-SERVER, was added to describe server-side requirements
601 for proper SSL and/or TLS service offerings. These are not specific to
603 * Documentation on how to make "NOMAIL" (exit code 1) not treated an error has
604 been added to the EXIT CODES section of the manpage and to the FAQ as item C8.
605 The suggested solution uses a tiny POSIX shell script fragment.
606 Fixes Debian Bug #530749, filed by Reuben Thomas.
608 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
609 * [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
610 * [en_GB] English/British
612 * [id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
613 * [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
614 * [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
615 * [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
616 * [ru] Russian (Pavel Maryanov), fixing Debian Bug #531925
617 * [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
618 * [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)
621 fetchmail 6.3.9 (released 2008-11-16):
623 # SECURITY AND CRITICAL BUG FIXES:
624 * CVE-2007-4565: Denial of service: When fetchmail tries to inject a warning
625 message it created itself, and the message is refused by the SMTP listener,
626 fetchmail dereferences a NULL pointer and crashes. Report & fix by Earl Chew.
627 Note while this is theoretically a remote denial of service attack vector,
628 fetchmail by default talks SMTP to the localhost, so the overall risk is
630 This bug was apparently introduced on 1998-11-27 when the bouncemail facility
631 was modularized. The bug then made its appearance in fetchmail release 4.6.8.
632 See also fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt.
633 * CVE-2008-2711: Denial of service: When fetchmail logs data blobs
634 (for instance, a To: header in -v -v verbose mode) in excess of 2048
635 bytes, it will crash, because it hands an uninitialized argument
636 pointer (not the format string though) to vsnprintf and reads a
637 random memory location (it calls va_arg() too often without
638 resetting it with va_start()). Based on a patch (BerliOS patch #2492)
639 by Petr Uzel, fixes Novell Bug #354291.
640 Note 6.3.9-rc1 did not completely fix this issue, so it was redrawn a few
641 hours after its release.
642 See also fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt.
643 * When expunging, mark the right messages as seen to avoid message loss in "keep
644 flush" configurations. Workaround for previous versions: "expunge 0".
645 Report and patch by Alexander Cherepanov - thanks a lot, Berlios Bug #11797,
646 "imap_mark_seen doesn't consider expunged messages".
647 * SSL fix: close memory leak when SSL connection fails; fetchmail used to forget
648 calling SSL_free() on the SSL context, leaking in excess of 500 kB RAM on a
649 x86_64 system per failed SSL connection attempt.
650 Bug reported and patch provided by Seiichi Ikarashi, Fujitsu.
653 * The configure script will additionally check for 'dn_skipname', to fix build
654 failures with µClibc. The new check still recognizes the resolver libraries on
655 Ubuntu 7.04, openSUSE 10.2, Solaris 8, NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 and FreeBSD 6.2.
656 Fixes Gentoo bug #134187.
657 NOTE: this is a bit of a hack, since we twist the HAVE_RES_SEARCH result, but
658 res_search() and dn_skipname() are only used together and scheduled for
659 removal in future versions, so this is probably fine.
660 * No longer complain about invalid sslproto "" when POP3 CAPA probe fails.
661 Fixes Debian Bug#421446 (Holger Leskien), Novell Bug #247233 (Jon Nelson),
663 Thanks to Matthias Strauß for a configuration to reproduce the issue.
664 * Allow .fetchmailrc and .fetchids to be symlinks, as the manpage does not
665 document they aren't allowed - fixes Debian Bug #452907 (Roger Leigh).
666 TOCTOU race persists.
667 * fetchmailconf quotes mailbox (folder) names when writing the configuration.
668 Fixes BerliOS Bug #13207 (reported + fix suggested by Terry Brown).
669 * Only print "Deleting fetchids file" if there actually is one.
670 Fixes Debian Bug#374514, reported by Dan Jacobson.
671 * SSL fix: check and report if SSL_set_fd fails.
674 * autoconf 2.60 is now required to build fetchmail; it uses
675 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to replace AC_AIX, AC_MINIX, and the like.
676 * Removed dead FETCHMAIL_DEBUG code from fetchmail.h that was disabled by
677 default with no switches in configure to enable it. However, the macro would
678 have been prone to a symlink attack. Found by Nico Golde.
679 * Removed dead FORCE_STUFFING code from socket.c that was disabled by default
680 with no switches in configure to enable it.
681 * Include the typedef for int16 in the #ifndef _AIX in smbencrypt.c (Peter
683 * Correct check for u_int32_t in configure.ac (seems to be typedef'ed in
684 namser.h on some platforms.) (Peter O'Gorman)
685 * In configure.ac change all CPFLAGS to CPPFLAGS, CEFLAGS to CFLAGS and LDEFLAGS
686 to LDFLAGS otherwise the results of some tests (additional -L and -I flags) do
687 not get used for later tests causing incorrect configure results. Makefile.am
688 was also changed to reflect this. (Peter O'Gorman)
689 * m4/gethostbyname_r.m4 does AC_TRY_COMPILE, which unfortunately can pass even
690 if there is no gethostbyname_r. Changed to AC_TRY_LINK. (Peter O'Gorman)
691 * Revise getnameinfo check to ensure NULL is defined and the result is properly
692 evaluated, to avoid bogus results on for instance FreeBSD and redefinitions of
693 NI_* at compile time. (Matthias Andree).
694 * __attribute__ ((unused)) is a gccism, removed from libesmtp/gethostbyname.c.
696 * In KAME/getnameinfo.c it's best to use the correct argument to inet_ntoa.
698 * In verbose mode, log if --check mode is enabled.
699 * Add sslcommonname option (rcfile and commandline) as a way to work around
700 misconfigured upstream SSL servers that use the wrong certificate name. It
701 specifies which CommonName fetchmail expects and logs. (Daniel Richard G.)
702 * Changed CRLF to LF line endings in contrib/delete-later (reporter: Petr Uzel)
703 * SSL change: enable all workarounds with SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx,SSL_OP_ALL)
704 * All translations have been re-enabled, in an attempt to rekindle translator or
708 * Add fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt and fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt.
709 * Re-add two lines to the manual page that had accidentally become comments
710 to nroff. One was part of the --sslproto documentation, and one in the
711 "Awakening the background daemon" section.
712 * The manual page no longer asserts that .fetchids were for exclusive POP3 use,
713 since it is planned to use the file with IMAP4 later.
714 * Add grammar fixes from Dan Jacobson to fetchmail.man. Debian Bug #461642.
715 * The manual page now mentions that user descriptions need to come before user
716 options. Reported by Francensco Pontortì, to fix Debian Bug #467010.
717 * The manual page no longer hints that multi-user declarations per server were
718 only useful in daemon mode running as root, to avoid hinting people to doing
720 * Several manual page rcfile examples now include "ssl".
721 * The manual page hints that option arguments beginning with numbers can be
723 * The manual page now mentions that the --logfile must already exist before
725 * The FAQ now recommends (#I9) not to use Google Mail for their disregard to the
726 protocols they claim to support.
727 * Documentation and program output now /consistently/ claim that the rcfile must
728 not have more than 0700 (u=rwx,g=,o=) permissions, but fetchmail will still
729 silently accept additional g=x permissions for compatibility with previous
730 6.2.X and 6.3.X versions.
731 Inconsistency (program 0710, manpage 0600) reported by Petr Uzel.
732 * The --logfile documentation is now clearer about requiring detached daemon
735 # TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
736 * [sq] Albanian (Besnik Bleta)
737 * [zh_CN] Chinese, simplified (Ji Zheng-Yu)
738 * [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
739 * [da] Danish (Byrial Ole Jensen) - outdated, but newer than in 6.3.8
740 * [nl] Dutch (Tony Vroon, Benno Schulenberg)
741 * [en_GB] English, British
742 * [fi] Finnish (Lauri Nurmi)
744 * [id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
745 * [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
746 * [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
747 * [ru] Russian (Pavel Maryanov)
748 * [es] Spanish (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Matthias Andree)
749 * [tr] Turkish (Engin Gündüz) - outdated, but newer than in 6.3.8
750 * [vi] Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
754 fetchmail 6.3.8 (released 2007-04-06):
756 # SECURITY STRENGTHENING:
757 * Make the APOP challenge parser more distrustful and have it reject challenges
758 that do not conform to RFC-822 msg-id format, in the hope to make mounting
759 man-in-the-middle attacks (MITM) against APOP a bit more difficult.
760 (CVE-2007-1558, reported by Gaëtan Leurent, published 2007-04-02 on Bugtraq)
762 APOP is claimed insecure by Gaëtan Leurent for MITM scenarios for typical
763 setups: based on MD5 collisions, it is purportedly possible to recover the
764 first three characters of the shared secret (password), which would then make
765 recovery of the shared secret a matter of hours or minutes; this would then
766 enable the attacker to impersonate the client vis-à-vis the server.
768 For further details, check
769 * Gaëtan Leurent, "Message Freedom in MD4 and MD5 Collisions: Application
770 to APOP", Fast Software Encryption 2007, Luxembourg. (Proceedings to appear in
771 Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science.)
772 * The mailing list discussion thread at
773 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-devel/2007-March/000887.html>
776 * Fix pluralization of oversized-message warning mails.
777 * Fix manual page: --sslcheck -> --sslcertck, and do not set trailing
778 "recommended:" in bold. Fixes Debian Bug #413059, reported by Rafal Czlonka.
779 * Repoll immediately if a protocol error happens during the authentication
780 attempt after a failed opportunistic TLS upgrade.
781 Fixes comment #9 in Gentoo Bug #163782, reported by Takuto Matsuu.
782 * Fix rendering of the "24 - 26, 28, 29" paragraph in the exit codes section.
783 Reported by Nico Golde.
784 * If SOCKS support was compiled in, add 'socks' to the feature_options Python
785 list emitted in --configdump. Reported by Rob MacGregor.
786 * Do not crash with a null pointer dereference when opening the BSMTP file
787 fails. Improve error checking and reporting. Reported by Reto Schüttel,
788 Debian Bug#416625. Fix based on a patch by Nico Golde.
789 * Make BSMTP output actually work, it would persistently fail with SOCKET error
790 after writing the first header. Bug independently found and reported in
791 excellent detail by Reto Schüttel, Debian Bug#416812.
794 * Add fetchmail-SA-2007-01.txt
795 * Extend --mda documentation, discourage use of qmail-inject.
796 Based on a patch by Rob MacGregor.
797 * Document SOCKS configuration facility (SOCKS_CONF environment variable).
798 Thanks to Jochen Hayek, Michael Shuldman and Rob MacGregor.
799 * Use envelope option in multidrop example. Patch by Rob MacGregor.
800 * Document expected Received: line format when parsing for envelope addressees.
801 * Stripped option documentation from sample.rcfile, since this is bound to go
802 out of synch with the manual page, which is the only reference on options.
803 * Mention that --limit default is 0 bytes, which is special for "no limit".
804 * Corrected Robert M. Funk's name that I misspelled. My sincere apologies
808 * Add delete-later and delete-later.README, a script and documentation for
809 a MySQL/Tcl-based client-side "delete-after" feature.
810 Kindly donated by Yoo GmbH, Großvoigtsberg, Germany (Carsten Ralle).
813 fetchmail 6.3.7 (released 2007-02-18):
815 # FIXES FOR REGRESSIONS IN 6.3.6
816 * Fix KPOP. Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
817 * Fix repoll when server disconnects after opportunistic TLS failed for POP3.
818 Berlios Bug #10133 = Gentoo Bug #163782 reported by Andrej Kacian.
820 # TRANSLATION UPDATES
821 * Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki), Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
824 * Consider getaddrinfo() on Darwin 9 (Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard") thread-safe.
825 Reported by Uli Zappe.
828 fetchmail 6.3.6 (released 2007-01-04):
831 * CVE-2006-5867, fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt:
832 Password disclosure vulnerability fixed. This has several aspects:
834 - Fetchmail now implies sslproto 'tls1' if the sslfingerprint or sslcertck
835 options are used and the ssl option is not used, in order to be sure that
836 fetchmail gets a certificate from the mail server.
838 - Fetchmail breaks the connection if the TLS negotiation (or verification, if
839 requested) fails with sslproto 'tls1', sslfingerprint or sslcheck enabled.
841 - POP3 connections now use STLS reliably. They used to ignore STLS altogether
842 for serveral values of the "auth" option, when fetchmail forget to probe
843 server capabilities - see fetchmail-SA-2006-02.txt for details.
845 - POP3 connections will no longer fall back USER/PASS authentication if
846 strong challenge-response authenticators such as CRAM-MD5 are configured
847 but the server does not advertise these in its CAPA response.
849 - POP2 is obsolete and does not support STLS or anything beyond password-based
850 authentication. The attempt to use STLS or strong authenticators now causes
853 Configurations using both ssl and sslcertck however have been semi-safe in
854 that they would send the password in the clear. The USER/PASS fallback
855 problem however applies to these too, so that the password was only safe on
858 * CVE-2006-5974, fetchmail-SA-2006-03.txt:
859 Repairs a regression in 6.3.5 that crashes fetchmail when a message with
860 invalid headers is found while fetchmail's mda option is in use. BerliOS bugs
861 #9364, #9412, #9449. Stack backtrace provided by Neil Hoggarth - thanks.
863 # REGRESSION FIXES (recently introduced bugs)
864 * Repair --logfile, broken in 6.3.5. BerliOS Bug #9059,
865 reported by Brian Harring.
866 * Repair --user, broken in 6.3.5 (as a side effect of the authenticate external
867 patch): using SSL certificate/key authentication overrode the --user option.
868 Now the latter takes precedence, and only defaults to the certificate's common
869 name. Debian Bug #400950, reported by Jorgen Schaefer <forcer@debian.org>.
871 # BUG FIXES (long-standing bugs):
872 * RPOP: used to log the password locally rather than an asterisk as the other
873 protocols do. The password is now shrouded in the local logs.
874 * POP3: Probes capabilities now when Kerberos V5 is enabled, so that we can
875 actually detect if the server supports it.
876 * Robustness: If a stale lockfile cannot be deleted, truncate it so that
877 fetchmail doesn't later believe itself to be running if the PID is recycled
878 by a non-fetchmail process.
879 * DNS: Detect /etc/resolv.conf changes: On systems that have res_search(),
880 assume we also have res_init() and call it (suggested by Ulrich Drepper,
881 glibc bug #3675) in order to make libc or libresolv reread the resolver
882 configuration at the beginning of a poll cycle. This is important when
883 fetchmail is in daemon mode and /etc/resolv.conf is changed later by dhcpcd,
884 dhclient, pppd, openvpn or other ip-up/ipchange scripts. Should fix Debian
885 Bug#389270, Bug#391698.
886 * Robustness: Fix crash on systems that do not provide strdup(), the crash
887 happens only in out-of-memory conditions when fetchmail cannot proceed
888 anyways. Patch by Andreas Krennmair.
889 * Robustness: When HOME and FETCHMAILHOME are unset, be sure to copy user
890 database information, so it is not trashed later. Patch by Jim Correia.
893 * Workaround: Improve handling of IMAP IDLE, some servers do not reset their
894 time counters after sending information asynchronously. Patch by Sunil
895 Shetye, after report from Andrew Baumann.
896 * Usability: When requesting Kerberos or GSSAPI, complain and exit with syntax
897 error if any of these requested features has not been compiled in. This is
898 to fail early and with precise error message. Reported by Isaac Wilcox.
899 * --version will now add +KRB4 or +KRB5 if Kerberos v4 or v5, respectively, have
900 been compiled in. Reported missing by Isaac Wilcox.
903 * New en_GB (British English) translation by David Lodge.
904 * Update Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki), Polish (Jakub Bogusz), Russian (Pavel
905 Maryanov) and Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall) translations.
906 ! Note that not all these translations are complete -- this isn't the
907 translators' fault though, but due to delays at the BerliOS hosting site and
908 the translation project handlers. You may see a few untranslated messages.
911 * Dropped exit status 15 from manual page, it's not used by fetchmail.
912 Reported by Isaac Wilcox.
913 * Documented exit codes 24 - 29 as internal.
915 fetchmail 6.3.5 (released 2006-10-09):
918 * For protocols such as IMAP that are not delimited by "." lines, truncate the
919 input buffer when the message has been completely read, to avoid taking
920 trailing garbage into the message if the terminal CRLF is missing. Fixes
921 Debian Bug#312415. (Patch suggested by Mike Jones, Manchester Univ.).
922 * When using NTLM authentication, use regular IMAP response code handler after
923 completing NTLM handshake, for robustness and consistency.
924 (Taken from the NetBSD portable packages collection, patch-ac.)
925 * Support Kerberos installations where krb5.h and perhaps roken.h are in
926 .../include/krb5. Taken from NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ae.
927 * On NetBSD, link against -lroken -lcom_err if --with-kerberos is enabled.
928 * Drop #include <com_err.h> from Kerberos 5 header file, fixes compile error on
930 * Fix des_pcbc_encrypt compile warnings in kerberos.c line 246.
931 * If krb5-config provides gssapi library information, use that rather than
933 * Improve --with-gssapi auto detection for /usr-based GSSAPI installs.
934 * Fix --with-gssapi builds for NetBSD 3.0.
935 * Improve KAME/getnameinfo.c portability to Linux libc5 systems.
936 Based on a patch by Dan Fandrich.
937 * Provide INET6 to KAME/getnameinfo.c (only useful on IPv6-enabled systems that
938 lack getnameinfo, and there only visible in some Received: headers).
939 Found by Dan Fandrich.
940 * POP3: some UID flags may not be set properly on UIDL lists. (Sunil Shetye)
941 * Make IMAP4 IDLE work on servers that do not update RECENT counts.
942 Reported by Lars Tewes.
943 * IMAP4 patch by Sunil Shetye:
944 - do not depend on server updating RECENT counts at all
945 - also enter IDLE loop when messages are present on the server.
946 * Fix --flush description in the manual page, fetchmail does not mark messages
947 seen unless it has successfully delivered them. Suggested by Frederic Marchal.
948 * Fetchmail no longer attempts to stat the "-" file in daemon mode -- this is a
949 special name to read the RC file from stdin, and cannot always be re-read
950 anyways. BerliOS bug #7858.
951 * When looking up ports for a service, the lookup succeeds and the returned
952 address family isn't IPv4 or IPv6, properly free the allocated memory from the
953 service lookup. Found by Uli Zappe.
954 * When looking up ports for a service, only look up TCP ports.
955 * Avoid compiling empty files, to avoid diagnostics from strict compilers.
956 * If the lockfile ends before the process ID, treat it as stale and unlink it.
957 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #376603.
958 * SIGHUP wake-up behavior was broken since 5.9.13's Cygwin changes, in that for
959 non-root users, SIGHUP would abort the first poll and subsequently interfere
960 with new polls, and SIGHUP would be ignored for root users. SIGHUP now matches
961 documented behavior. SIGUSR1 has always been a wakeup signal for both root
962 (undocumented) and non-root users. See also the deprecation warning above.
963 * Track getaddrinfo() results to properly free them after timeouts and make sure
964 that getaddrinfo() isn't interrupted by a timeout (which breaks on MacOS X),
965 reported by Uli Zappe. This should fix Debian Bug#294547 and Bug#377135.
966 * --logfile is now handled more carefully, errors opening the logfile are
967 now reported to the TTY where fetchmail was started from.
968 * fetchmail now complains and aborts when it cannot properly daemonize itself.
969 * fix compilation on systems that don't know struct addrinfo (Solaris 2.6).
970 * ignore SIGPIPE signals and rely on functions to return EPIPE instead. This is
971 necessary because the former longjmp() from the signal handler is unsafe and
972 makes the whole fetchmail behavior undefined after the event.
973 * Avoid crash in env.c/host_fqdn if we cannot canonicalize our own hostname.
974 Reported by Alexander Holler.
975 * SSL fix by Miloslav Trmac (Red Hat): free the SSL contexts after the
976 connection, to avoid from growing SSL certpaths without bounds, avoid using
977 SSL contexts for unrelated connections, and to fix Red Hat Bug #206346.
980 * Rename all fetchmail-internal lock_* functions to fm_lock_*. Obsoletes
981 NetBSD portable packages collection patch-ah, patch-ai and patch-aj.
982 * Configure prints a warning (but proceeds) if Kerberos IV support is enabled.
983 * In verbose mode, log every IP fetchmail tries to connect to, to avoid
984 misleading the user. Suppress EAFNOSUPPORT errors from socket() call, too.
985 Fixes Debian Bug #361825, reported by Daniel Baur.
986 * In idle mode, fetchmail complains about the fetchall option.
987 * When a connection fails, log not only the IP address, but also host and
988 service name and the port number. Log the latter when trying to connect in
990 * Keep syslog output at one line per message (this works if no errors occur).
991 * Fetchmail in verbose mode now logs if it opportunistically upgrades a POP3
992 or IMAP connection to TLS security with STLS/STARTTLS.
993 * fetchmail now supports foo@example.org=bar user mappings for multidrop boxes.
994 * switch setjmp/longjmp to sigsetjmp/siglongjmp
995 * IMAP now supports the EXTERNAL authentication method, courtesy of
996 Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095 with minor changes.
997 Note that this change causes --sslcert to override --user.
998 * The sslproto keywords are now case insensitive, courtesy of
999 Götz 'nimrill' Babin-Ebell, BerliOS patch #1095.
1000 * When going to sleep, log for how long. Suggested by Claudia Ludwig.
1001 * When the server name cannot be canonicalized, log the gai_strerror value.
1003 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
1004 * Catalan/ca (Ernest Adrogué Calveras), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki) - also
1005 made gettext 0.15 ready, Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Russian/ru (Pavel
1006 Maryanov), Spanish/es (Héctor García Álvarez), Vietnamese/vi (Clytie Siddall)
1008 # CONTRIBUTED SCRIPTS:
1009 * PopDel.py was revised by Joshua Crawford to display the From: address and
1010 list every email, even if it has no Subject: header; and not delete the wrong
1011 message in the presence of mail without Subject: headers.
1013 fetchmail 6.3.4 (released 2006-04-14):
1016 * configure: detect res_* functions properly with newer glibc ABIs.
1017 Patch by Miloslav Trmac.
1018 * tracepolls: add folder information if available. Reported by Terry Brown.
1019 * lexer: add %option noyywrap to avoid link errors about missing yywrap().
1020 * a few more type fixes for report/snprintf, patch by Miloslav Trmac.
1021 * bouncing: fetchmail would still send "General SMTP/ESMTP error." bounces
1022 in spite of "no bouncemail" configuration.
1023 * SSL/TLS: if, for a certain server, an sslfingerprint is specified and
1024 sslcertck is NOT set, suppress printing SSL certificate mismatch errors.
1025 (Reported by Hannes Erven.)
1026 * SSL/TLS: always print if the sslfingerprint mismatches, even in silent
1027 mode. (This is for consistency with certificate verification errors.)
1029 # TRANSLATION UPDATES:
1030 * German/de (Matthias Andree), French/fr (Matthias Andree), Spanish/es (Héctor
1031 García), Polish/pl (Jakub Bogusz), Japanese/ja (Takeshi Hamasaki)
1032 * New Vietnamese/vi translation (Clytie Siddall).
1033 * Updated French descriptions for the .spec file (Stéphane Schildknecht,
1034 Luc Pionchon, Matthias Andree).
1037 * pidfile: there is a new command-line (--pidfile PATH) and global option for
1038 the rcfile (set pidfile [=] "/path/to/pidfile") option to allow overriding
1039 the default location of the PID file.
1040 Requested by Héctor García, Debian maintainer.
1041 * specgen.sh: Converted to UTF-8 to support translated texts better.
1043 fetchmail 6.3.3 (released 2006-03-30):
1046 * SEGFAULT: Do not attempt to overwrite the netrc password if none has been
1047 specified. This fixes a segmentation fault bug introduced into 6.3.2.
1048 Fixes BerliOS bug #6234. BerliOS patch #804 by Craig Leres.
1049 The patch, as accepted into fetchmail, was available separately from
1050 <http://download.berlios.de/fetchmail/patch-6.3.2.1-fix-netrc-SIGSEGV.diff>
1051 * SEGFAULT: Work around C libraries that return a NULL in getaddrinfo()'s
1052 ai_canonname record, to avoid a segfault. Affects for instance FreeBSD 4.10,
1053 4.11 and 5.3 when dotted quads are given as server names.
1054 Analysis and fix by Vladimir Olegovich Ravodin (Владимир Олегович Раводин).
1055 * IMAP: fix hangs in NOOP-based IDLE emulation. Reported by Casper Gripenberg
1056 and Brendan Lynch, fix by Sunil Shetye (his patch was merged) and Brendan Lynch.
1057 * IMAP: Handle other clients concurrently accessing IMAP mailboxes better.
1058 Fetchmail quits the poll if the EXPUNGE count does not match expectations, and
1059 servers not updating RECENT counts after EXPUNGE are handled in a better way.
1060 (Patch by Sunil Shetye.)
1061 * IMAP: Stop sending EXPUNGE after NOOP-idling (patch by Sunil Shetye).
1062 * POP3: fetchmail can now use UIDL in fetchall keep mode, to avoid re-fetching
1063 the same messages again when the fetchall keyword is removed. Patch by
1064 Sunil Shetye. For details, please see
1065 <http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2006-March/000308.html>
1066 * LMTP: fix bug in LMTP port validation (patch by Miloslav Trmac).
1067 * SDPS: fetchmail no longer replaces the local user ID for an empty envelope
1068 sender when using the proprietary SDPS extension for POP3.
1069 Fixes Debian Bug#353575, reported by Roger Lynn.
1070 * SDPS: Warn and disable SDPS if POP3 is disabled to avoid compilation errors.
1071 * fetchmail no longer prints empty lines in verbose mode when using syslog.
1072 * fetchmail no longer prints UID lists in verbose mode when using syslog.
1073 * ./configure --quiet is now quieter (no SSL and fallback-related output).
1074 * Miloslav Trmac's patch (with minor changes) to fix char * sign consistency,
1075 unused arguments and variables.
1076 * More signedness, unused argument/variable and other warning fixes.
1079 * --idle can now be specified on the command line, too.
1080 * --fetchall is now supported on the command-line.
1081 * POP3: Lower default fastuidl span to 4 (i. e. every 4th run fetches the
1082 whole UIDL list), patch by Sunil Shetye.
1085 * "ssl" is a user option rather than a server option. Patch by Nico Golde.
1086 Fixes Debian Bug#354661, reported by Keith Hellman.
1087 * The manual page now suggests "--" before the addresses in the sendmail MDA
1088 example, for safety.
1089 * The FAQ item X9, Domino IMAP omits Content-Transfer-Encoding header, was
1090 added. Information provided by Anthony Kim on the fetchmail-friends list
1092 * Credit Chris Boyle with the NOOP emulation code for IDLE in fetchmail 6.2.4.
1093 Eric forgot to credit Chris, thanks to Sunil Shetye for providing these links:
1094 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007705.html
1095 http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007713.html
1096 * Added a section about RETR vs. TOP to the manual page.
1097 * Changed section/subsection levels in some areas.
1099 fetchmail 6.3.2 (released 2006-01-22):
1101 Unless otherwise noted, changes to this release were made by Matthias Andree.
1103 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
1104 * CVE-2006-0321: Fix segfault or bus error after bouncing a message. This bug
1105 was introduced into 6.3.0 when removing alloca(); it caused fetchmail to free
1106 random memory. Reported by Nathaniel W. Turner, Debian Bug#348747.
1107 See fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt
1109 # INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE:
1110 * Automatically disable the POP3 TOP command if the greeting string contains
1111 "Maillennium POP3/PROXY server", which is used by comcast and known to
1112 truncate messages after 80 kByte. Fall back to RETR, and complain if we had
1113 used TOP otherwise (the warning is printed only once per server in daemon
1114 mode). Suggested by Ed Wilts.
1115 *Note* that this means messages are marked read on these servers, which is a
1116 deviation from how 6.3.1 behaved, but we have no alternative, comcast haven't
1117 fixed this bug in years. Preventing the loss of the remainder of the message
1118 justifies this incompatible fix.
1119 * fetchmail, since 6.3.0, requires write permission to the directory holding the
1120 idfile. See the amendment in the 6.3.0 MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES section
1121 below for details. The manual page was updated.
1123 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS:
1124 * The outdated BUGS document was removed from the distribution.
1125 * Added fetchmail-SA-2006-01.txt to the distribution.
1128 * SMTP/LMTP cleanup to fix these two bugs:
1129 - switch back to SMTP after having tried LMTP hosts (multiple smtphost hosts)
1130 - switch back to LMTP after sending a bounce.
1131 The patch removes the global state variable that was the root of this problem.
1132 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1133 * Don't complain about fetchall keep in --configdump mode. Bug introduced in
1135 * fetchmailconf.py: Fix novice help for Poll interval and fetchall.
1136 Reported by Justin Pryzby, Debian Bug #344978.
1137 * Some verbose output disappeared in debug mode. Adding further -v options would
1138 alternate between verbose and debug mode. debug mode now comprises all verbose
1139 output, and adding more -v options does not switch back from debug to verbose
1141 * fetchmail.man: Fix accented characters in Héctor García's name. Merged from
1142 downstream debian/patches/01_man_page.dpatch.
1143 * Add missing --help text for "--sslcertck" option.
1144 * fetchmailconf.py: Accept --help and --version.
1145 * fetchmail --version now prints the copyright notice.
1146 * don't complain about READ-ONLY IMAP folders in --fetchall --keep mode.
1147 Reported Alexander Zangerl, Debian Bug#348964.
1148 * the RPM .spec file now generates a -debuginfo package on newer RPM versions.
1150 fetchmail 6.3.1 (released 2005-12-19):
1152 # SECURITY FIX IN THIS RELEASE
1153 * CVE-2005-4348 Fix segmentation fault (null pointer dereference) in
1154 multidrop mode with headerless email. See fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt.
1155 Reported by Daniel Drake, patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1157 # OTHER BUG FIXES, DOCUMENTATION AND TRANSLATION UPDATES
1158 * Fix broken default port in POP2. Patch by Stanislav Brabec, SUSE [CZ]. (MA)
1159 * Fix manual page, some lines starting with ' were escaped by \&.
1160 Reported by Simon Barner. (MA)
1161 * Ship with gettext-0.14.3 again, as 6.2.9-rc10 did. Found by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1162 * Actually set default SSL certificate path if --sslcertpath is unset.
1163 Reported by Heino Tiedemann and Rob MacGregor. (MA)
1164 * Remove bogus Netscape IMAP4rev1 Service >= 3.6 warning about BODY[TEXT]
1165 that we are not using. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1166 * Plug potential memory and socket leak when polling multiple folders or when
1167 the upstream sends bogus message sizes. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1168 * Update Catalan translation, by Ernest Adrogué Calveras. (MA)
1169 * Fix segfault (null pointer dereference) on some operating systems with
1170 fetchmail's obsolete DNS MX/host alias lookups in multidrop mode.
1171 Patch by Dr.-Ing. Andreas Haakh. (MA)
1172 * Close SMTP sockets early, to reduce resource usage, trigger earlier delivery
1173 with some MTAs and avoid SIGPIPE (SIG 13) when the SMTP listener gets bored
1174 and drops the connection after timeout. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1175 * Don't treat hitting a fetch limit as error. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1176 * Fix negative "messages left on server" on idle/repoll with fetchlimit.
1177 Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1178 * Properly track logout stage. Patch by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1179 * Preserve error conditions across postconnect script. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1180 * Do not trash destination domain if multiple messages are forwarded into the
1181 same SMTP/LMTP connection. Reported by Joachim Feise, Berlios Bug #5849. (MA)
1182 * Manual page: Add "-md5" to "openssl x509" example in --sslfingerprint
1183 documentation, since OpenSSL 0.9.8 changed the default to SHA1.
1184 Suggested by Jason White. (MA)
1185 * Cope with servers that return UID information in response to non-UID
1186 RFC822.{SIZE|HEADER} requests. Reported by Jason White.
1187 Patch suggestion by by Sunil Shetye, simplified by MA.
1189 fetchmail 6.3.0 (released 2005-11-30):
1191 # SECURITY FIXES IN THIS RELEASE
1192 * CVE-2005-2335: The POP3 UIDL code doesn't sufficiently validate/truncate the
1193 input length, so a (malicious or compromised) server that sends UIDs longer
1194 than 128 bytes can corrupt fetchmail's stack and crash fetchmail.
1195 This vulnerability is remotely exploitable to inject code run in a
1196 root shell. Edward J. Shornock, Ludwig Nussel. fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
1197 * CVE-2005-3088: fetchmailconf now changes the output file to mode 0600 BEFORE
1198 writing to it, so there is no window where passwords could be read by the
1199 world. Matthias Andree. fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt
1201 # MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
1202 * Remove support for --netsec/-T options, the required inet6_apps library is no
1204 http://www.inner.net/pub/ipv6/ states, as of 2005-07-03: "/pub/ipv6
1205 Our IPv6 software is now long defunct. Please find a more modern source."
1206 I haven't been able to find a more modern source. Matthias Andree
1207 * Operating systems that do not conform to the Single Unix Specification v2
1208 (1997) or v3 (2001, aka IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) are no longer supported. They
1209 may continue to work and non-intrusive patches to support them may be
1210 accepted. Matthias Andree
1211 * The default for --smtphost is now always "localhost" regardless of
1212 authentication types and protocols, so as to simplify configurations for
1213 workstations where the SMTP daemon only listens on the loopback interface.
1214 Sunil Shetye & Matthias Andree
1215 Amendment, 2006-01-04:
1216 * fetchmail's idfile (.fetchids) is no longer written directly, but the ids are
1217 written to a temporary file which is renamed into place after being written
1218 completely. This is to avoid writing incomplete idfiles when running out of
1219 space, which would cause excessive duplicate refetches of messages, this might
1220 make matters even worse. This means that fetchmail requires write permission
1221 on the directory holding the idfile. This will usually affect system-global
1222 daemons only, for instance, Debian. Found by Dan Jacobson. Matthias Andree.
1223 Escalated to "incompatible", 2006-01-13:
1224 * Try to obtain FQDN as our own host by default, rather than using "localhost".
1225 If hostname cannot be qualified, complain noisily and continue, unless
1226 Kerberos, ODMR or ETRN are used (these have always required an FQDN).
1227 Partial fix of Debian Bug#150137. Fixes Debian Bug#316454. Matthias Andree
1229 # CHANGES RELEVANT TO PACKAGERS AND USERS
1230 * fetchmailconf is now a shell wrapper that calls the byte-compiled
1231 fetchmailconf.py script, which is now installed in the regular python
1232 directory. Matthias Andree.
1233 * The --enable-inet6 configure option was removed. The code is mostly protocol
1234 agnostic, a fully IPv6 aware OS is expected to provide getaddrinfo(),
1235 getnameinfo() and the macro AF_INET6. Matthias Andree.
1236 * gettext (intl/) has been removed from the fetchmail package. Install GNU
1237 gettext 0.14 separately for NLS (i18n). Matthias Andree
1238 * Added Russian translation, courtesy of Pavel Maryanov of the
1239 Russian translation team. (MA)
1240 * Updated and re-enabled Czech translation, by Miloslav Trmac (MA).
1241 * Dropped da=Danish, el=Greek and tr=Turkish translations which have more than
1242 10% (61+) untranslated or fuzzy messages. Matthias Andree.
1244 # OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
1245 * Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR)
1246 * PopDel.py removed from contrib at author's request. (ESR)
1247 * Matthias Andree's fix for Sunil Shetye's fetch-split patch. (ESR)
1248 * Include James Stone's moldremover.py script. (ESR)
1249 * Enable .fetchmailrc permissions checking under Cygwin. (ESR)
1250 * Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication. (ESR)
1251 * Revised Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication (the
1252 original version would go into an infinite loop when CAPA failed;
1253 found by David Greaves.) (MA)
1254 * HOME_ETC patch for PLD Linux. (ESR)
1255 * Sunil Shetye's fix for SSL configuration. (ESR)
1256 * Simon Josefsson's patch for GSS library support. (ESR)
1257 * Added Andrey Lelikov's recipe for Hotmail and Lycos Webmail. (ESR)
1258 * Remove blank between MAIL FROM: and <, which causes Cyrus to complain.
1259 Patch by Phil Endecott. (RF)
1260 * Build fixes for HESIOD and resolv.h trouble on FreeBSD. (MA)
1261 * Fabrice Bellet's fix for Red Hat bug #113492, fetchmail hangs in IMAP
1262 mode after EXPUNGE when the server (Dovecot 0.99.10) doesn't update
1263 RECENT and EXISTS counts. (MA)
1264 * Holger Mauermann's bounce patch, to use a NULL envelope from, not
1265 write a Return-Path header (both to meet RFC-2821), changed From,
1266 added Subject header, rewording the human readable part. Fixes Debian
1268 * Merge Sunil Shetye's time.h handling fix. (MA)
1269 * Merge Gerd von Egidy's patch to avoid a segfault in multidrop/received
1270 mode when the Received: headers are malformatted. (MA)
1271 * MIME-encode bodies and Subject headers of warning messages, limiting
1272 the header to 7 bits. (MA)
1273 * Normalize most locale codesets to IANA codesets, based on
1274 norm_charmap.c by Markus Kuhn. (MA)
1275 * Remove sleep(3) after POP3 login, patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
1276 * Fix option parsing bug that trashes the showdots setting when more
1277 than one server is configured. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
1278 * Honor sslcertpath setting even if sslcertck is unset. Patch by Brian
1280 * SSL certificate checking fixes, don't display same error message twice
1281 in succession, make sure that Common Name and fingerprint checking are
1282 only done once. Print all validation warnings/errors even if not in
1283 verbose mode. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
1284 * Import Bjorn Reese and Daniel Stenberg's MIT-licensed Trio 1.10 from
1285 http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/ for systems that do not support
1286 snprintf or vsnprintf. (MA)
1287 * Clean up the horrible #ifdef HAVE_[V]SNPRINTF that made the code
1288 unreadable. Use Trio where [v]snprintf is/are missing. (MA)
1289 * Default to Linux 2.2 /proc/net/dev format, and use uname(2) to determine the
1290 kernel version instead of calling uname(1). Thanks to Paul Slootman. (MA)
1291 * Be more careful when swapping UID lists or writing the .fetchids file,
1292 requested by Manfred Weihs. (MA)
1293 * Print a warning if multidrop configuration is attempted without
1294 envelope option. (MA)
1295 * Split information on fetchmail versions before 6.0.0 to a separate
1297 * Merge SuSE patches: (sent by Stanislav Brabec, merged by Matthias Andree)
1298 - fetchmail-6.2.5-declaration.patch (double sigint_handler decl/getpass.c)
1299 - fetchmail-6.2.5-implicit-declaration.patch (missing #include)
1300 - fetchmail-6.2.5-random-result.patch (uninitialized variable/opie.c)
1301 * Revised some bogus assertions about POP3 LAST and UIDL use in the
1302 manual page. UIDL isn't flaky as the man page suggested, but a
1303 reliability feature. In fact, IMAP4 code is flaky in that it relies on
1304 the upstream seen flags. (MA)
1305 * Miloslav Trmac's patch for fetchmailconf to support string-type values
1306 of the "port" variable, avoiding "port None" corruption in .fetchmailrc.
1307 To fix Redhat Bug #55623 (MA)
1308 * de.po fixes from Nico Golde (MA)
1309 * es.po fixes from Jesus Roncero, Debian bug #286044 (MA)
1310 * sink.c fix from Cesar Eduardo Barros, to avoid double @ in address
1311 when username contains an @ and the envelope sender is null, Debian
1313 * configure.ac cleanups by Miloslav Trmac (MA)
1314 * Miloslav Trmac's fix to reply_hack() type, for systems where
1315 sizeof(int) != sizeof(size_t). (MA)
1316 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for driver.c to not call the private Kerberos
1317 krb5_init_ets() function. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1318 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for sink.c/transact.c to reserve sufficient
1319 space for \r\n trailers in snprintf calls. Sent by Miloslav Trmac,
1320 possibly fixing Red Hat bug #114470. (MA).
1321 * Nalin Dahyabhai's patch to use the krb5-config script, if present.
1322 Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1323 * Nalin Dahyabhai's fix to make rpa.c compile. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1324 * Trivial fetchmailconf.man to redirect to fetchmail.1.
1325 Reported by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1326 * Internationalization (i18n) updates by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
1327 * Fix "couldn't find canonical DNS name of NN (MM)" for hosts that have
1328 only IPv6 addresses. Matthias Andree.
1329 * Revised INSTALL after question from Brian Candler, inet6-apps is no
1330 longer available: remove inet6-apps hints for IPv6, and add some
1331 apologetic message for IPsec. Note the code may be removed in a future
1332 version. Matthias Andree.
1333 * Brian Candler's FAQ update about SSL certificate verification. (MA)
1334 * Nico Golde's patch to support "proto RPOP" in the configuration file,
1335 reported by Dr. Andreas Krüger, Debian bug #242384 (MA)
1336 * Skip sending POP3 PASS command when USER command failed. Matthias Andree.
1337 * Run fetchmail.man through automatic spell checker. Matthias Andree.
1338 * Major fetchmail(1) manual page overhaul by R. Hannes Beinert, to
1339 clarify singledrop vs. multidrop operation. (MA)
1340 * Make tracepolls a server option, as documented. Fixes Debian bug
1341 #156094. Matthias Andree.
1342 * Fix some minor inaccuracies (RFC-1893 related, grammar/spelling) in
1344 * Rename ESR's design notes to esrs-design-notes.html and add a new
1345 design-notes.html document. The NOTES file will contain both of them.
1347 * Fix Debian bug #301964, fetchmail leaks sockets when SSL negotiation
1348 fails. Fix suggested by Goswin Brederlow. (MA)
1349 * Really fix Debian Bug#207919 (garbage in Received: lines when smtphost set),
1350 patch by Tobias Diedrich. The 6.2.5 NEWS claimed Gregan's patch had fixed
1351 #207919 but it had fixed #212484 instead and #207919 remained unfixed in
1352 6.2.5. The entry below has been corrected to read #212484 now. (MA)
1353 * When writing the PID file, write a FHS 2.3 compliant PID file.
1354 Fixes Debian bug #230615. Matthias Andree.
1355 * Make ODMR really silent, suppress "fetchmail: receiving message
1356 data". Fixes Debian Bug#296163. Matthias Andree.
1357 * Add From: header to warning emails. Debian Bug#244828. Matthias Andree.
1358 * Fix IMAP code to use password of arbitrary length from configuration
1359 file (although not when read interactively). Debian Bug#276424.
1361 * Document that fetchmail may automatically enable UIDL option.
1362 Debian Bug#304701. Matthias Andree.
1363 * Put *BOLD* text into the manual page near --mda to state unmistakably that
1364 the --mda %T and %F substitutions add single quotes, hoping to avoid bogus
1365 bug reports such as Debian Bug #224564. Matthias Andree
1366 * Rename lock_release to fm_lock_release, to avoid namespace collision on
1367 Darwin. NetBSD PR#28543 (pkg/28543). Matthias Andree.
1368 * The RFC-822 parser no longer strips the last character of bare addresses.
1370 * The IP address matching code was broken and
1371 1. didn't search exhaustively, but matched only the first IP address of the
1372 server's queryname against the IP addresses of the server name to match.
1373 2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts. Matthias Andree
1374 * The "port" option, while still understood, is being replaced by the "service"
1375 option, which is now supported even without --enable-inet6. Matthias Andree.
1376 * The default distribution format is now bzip2. Matthias Andree.
1377 * fetchmailconf redirects fetchmail's input from /dev/null so it doesn't
1378 wait for the user to enter a password when the user doesn't even see
1379 the prompt. Reported by Michal Marek. Matthias Andree.
1380 * Write RFC-compliant BSMTP envelopes. Reported by Nico Golde. Matthias Andree.
1381 * Fix --with-gssapi compilation problem. Simon Josefsson. (MA)
1382 * Foster protocol-independence to support IPv6 better, for instance, providing
1383 IPv6 addresses in Received: headers. Matthias Andree.
1384 * Received: headers now enclose the for <...> destination address in angle
1385 brackets for consistency with Postfix. Matthias Andree.
1386 * Operating systems that do not support at least one of gethostbyname,
1387 gethostbyname_r, getipnodebyname are no longer supported. Matthias Andree.
1388 * Fixes to --with-hesiod option. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1389 * Delete oversized messages with the new --limitflush option. Debian
1390 Bug#212240. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1391 * Fix MacOS X compilation failures in sink.c (ru_*time has incomplete type).
1392 Berlios Bug #4725. Matthias Andree.
1393 * Fix "auth ntlm" to send AUTH NTLM (rather than AUTH MSN). Add "auth msn"
1394 officially. Reported by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
1395 * Expunge between IMAP folders when polling multiple folders.
1397 * Fix IMAP expunged message counting. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1398 * Add full support for --service option. Matthias Andree
1399 * When getaddrinfo() fails resolving a service, log getaddrinfo() error. (MA)
1400 * Fix bogus "cannot resolve service * to port number" error. Simon Barner. (MA)
1401 * Failure to set up SSL connections now results in PS_SOCKET. Suggested by
1402 Thomas Wolff. Matthias Andree.
1403 * Kerberos IV detection fix for FreeBSD 4. Simon Barner. (MA)
1404 * Fix display and documentation of --envelope option. Matthias Andree
1405 * Make "envelope 'Delivered-To'" work with dropdelivered. Timothy Lee. (MA)
1406 * Add -DBIND_8_COMPAT to Darwin (MacOS X) compiles, to fix build problems on
1407 newer Darwin versions. Matthias Andree.
1408 * fetchmail should now automatically detect if OpenSSL requires -ldl.
1410 * Fix Solaris build with --disable-nls (blastwave.org). Matthias Andree.
1411 * Missed --port/--service/--ssl cleanups in the manual. Reminder from Thomas
1413 * Complain in POP3 if NTLM/MSN auth is requested but had not been enabled at
1414 compile time. This configuration mismatch now causes an error message and
1415 authentication failure. Found by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
1416 * fetchmailconf now allows expert users to choose the authorization type and
1417 also offers MSN and NTLM, suggested by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
1418 * fetchmailconf now (as of 1.49) writes its version to the comment of the
1419 saved run control file. Matthias Andree
1420 * Properly shut down SSL connections. Berlios Patch #647 by Arkadiusz
1422 * Global variable cleanup, to fix daemon mode reinitialization problems. Patch
1423 by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
1424 * fetchmailconf -h documents the fetchmailconf -h option. Matthias Andree
1425 * fetchmailconf -V now prints the fetchmailconf version. Matthias Andree
1426 * Add support for SubjectAltName (RFC-2595 or 2818), to avoid bogus certificate
1427 mismatch errors. Patch by Roland Stigge, Debian Bug#201113. (MA)
1428 * make fetchmail --silent --quit really silent, Debian Bug #229014 by Dr.
1429 Andreas Krüger. Matthias Andree
1430 * cleanup --quit handling again (so that --silent --quit just kills the
1431 existing daemon, rather than continue running), and document it more clearly.
1433 * Print an error message if multiple "defaults" records are found in the
1434 configuration file. Matthias Andree
1435 * Bury on_exit officially - the necessary code had been missing from 6.0.0,
1436 6.2.0, 6.2.5. Matthias Andree
1437 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be read. Matthias Andree
1438 * Exit with error if the lock file cannot be created exclusively, this got
1439 broken in a 6.2.6-pre, 6.2.5.2 and older were fine. Matthias Andree
1440 * Do not break some other process's lockfile in "-q" mode, but wait for the
1441 other process's exit. Matthias Andree
1442 * Man page: --sslfingerprint points user to x509(1ssl) and gives an example
1443 how to use it. Debian Bug#213484, Eduard Bloch. (MA)
1444 * fetchmailconf now sets the service properly after autoprobe. Fixes Debian
1445 Bug#320645. Matthias Andree
1446 * Man page: Fix Debian Bug#241883, making global options more clear. Matt
1447 Swift, Matthias Andree.
1448 * When eating IMAP message trailer, don't see any line containing "OK" as the
1449 end of the trailer, but wait for the proper tagged OK line. To work around
1450 the qmail + Courier-IMAP problem in Debian Bug#338007. Matthias Andree
1451 * Fix Debian Bug#317761: when trying to send a bounce message, don't bail out
1452 if we cannot qualify our own hostname, so we aren't losing the bounce.
1453 Instead, pass the buck on to the SMTP server and use our own unqualified
1454 hostname. Matthias Andree
1455 * Revise some error messages so they are less confusing. Sunil Shetye.
1456 * Man page: update --smtphost documentation. Sunil Shetye, Matthias Andree.
1457 * Man page: clarify --loghost works only while detached. Matthias Andree
1458 * Man page: update --smtpaddress documentation. Sunil Shetye.
1459 * Fix several memory leaks and bugs in the SMTP/LMTP retry logic where
1460 fetchmail confused UNIX and Internet domain sockets. Sunil Shetye.
1461 * Man page (BUGS): document that passwords are length limited. Matthias Andree
1462 * Man page: Document that quoted strings that run across line boundaries
1463 contain the control characters (CR or LF). Document explicitly the backslash
1464 escape sequences and their differences from the escape sequences used in the
1465 C programming language. Matthias Andree
1466 * Fix segfault when run control file ends with a backslash inside an
1467 unterminated quoted string. Matthias Andree.
1468 * In quoted strings, support backslash as last character on a line to join the
1469 following line to the current. Matthias Andree.
1470 * Parsing untagged IMAP responses is more robust now. Matthias Andree.
1471 * Man page: Remove some procmail praises in --mda documentation, suggest
1472 maildrop instead, warn of procmail fallthrough behavior. Matthias Andree.
1473 * Man page: Revise AUTHORS and SEE ALSO sections. Matthias Andree.
1474 * Updated translations: Albanian [sq] (Besnik Bleta), Catalan [ca] (Ernest
1475 Adrogué Calveras), Czech [cs] (Miloslav Trmac), German [de] (MA),
1476 Spanish (Castilian) [es] (Javier Kohen), French [fr] (MA),
1477 Polish [pl] (Jakub Bogusz), Russian [ru] (Pavel Maryanov).
1478 * In oversized warning messages, print the account name, too. Fixes Debian
1479 Bug#213299. Sunil Shetye (MA).
1480 * Fix installation without Python. Sunil Shetye, reported by Peter Church. (MA)
1481 * Update Japanese translation. Fixes Debian Bug#329342, Takeshi Hamasaki. (MA)
1482 * Fix imap.c size safeguard that broke on x86_64 architecture. Matthias Andree
1483 * The FAQ is now available for duplex DIN A4 printing in PDF format.
1484 Don't bother to ask for a Letter version, I don't care. Matthias Andree
1485 * Man page: Use \- in the manual page where appropriate so that copy & paste
1486 works. I hope we got them all. Héctor García, Matthias Andree.
1489 * Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
1490 * Got rid of alloca() in fetchmail proper. Matthias Andree
1491 * Got rid of ipv6-connect, inner_connect and thereabouts. Matthias Andree
1493 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1495 fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:
1497 * Updated Spanish, Turkish, and German translation files.
1498 * Matthew Gregan's patch to handle garbage lengths from dbmail;
1499 closes Debian bug #212484.
1500 * Fix IMAP query so new-message count doesn't include deleted messages.
1501 * Man page typo fix, closes Debian bug #205892.
1502 * OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl@acm.org.
1503 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
1504 flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
1505 * Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of
1507 * Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
1508 * Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
1509 * Sunil Shetye's patches to break up fetching of sizes and UIDLs.
1511 There are 599 people on fetchmail-friends and 748 on fetchmail-announce.
1513 fetchmail-6.2.4 (Wed Aug 13 04:27:35 EDT 2003), 22625 lines:
1515 * Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
1516 * IDLE is now supported using NOOP commands even if the server doesn't support
1517 the IMAP IDLE extension. Patch by Chris Boyle.
1518 * Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
1519 * Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
1520 * Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
1521 * Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
1522 * Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.
1524 There are 585 people on fetchmail-friends and 745 on fetchmail-announce.
1526 fetchmail-6.2.3 (Thu Jul 17 14:53:00 EDT 2003), 22490 lines:
1528 * French, German, Danish, Spanish, and Turkish translations updated.
1529 * Brian Sammon's patch to deal with malformed message lines containing NULs.
1530 * Fai's patch to ignore all but the first Return-Path (some spams have
1531 more than one of these).
1532 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to properly byte-stuff when talking to BSMTP.
1533 Fixes Debian bug #184469.
1534 * Benjamin Drieu's patch to enable auth=cram-md5.
1535 Fixes Debian bug #185232.
1536 * Sunil Shetye's configure.in patch to avoid spurious search order messages
1538 * Header-reading code now copes better with lines ending in \n only.
1539 * Elias Israel's patches for POP3 NTLM support and dealing with byte-
1540 stuffing failures at socket level.
1542 There are 580 people on fetchmail-friends and 750 on fetchmail-announce.
1544 fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:
1546 * Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior on empty messages.
1547 * Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful
1548 STARTTLS negotiation.
1549 * Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
1550 * Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security.
1551 * Christophe GIAUME <christophe@giaume.com> finished the implementation
1553 * Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
1554 * Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
1555 * Fix for Debian bug #108977, clean up config file evaluation,
1558 There are 554 people on fetchmail-friends and 727 on fetchmail-announce.
1560 fetchmail-6.2.1 (Tue Jan 14 08:17:19 EST 2003), 22219 lines:
1562 * Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
1563 * Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
1564 * Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check,
1565 we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
1566 * Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.
1568 There are 536 people on fetchmail-friends and 716 on fetchmail-announce.
1570 fetchmail-6.2.0 (Fri Dec 13 00:10:07 EST 2002), 22235 lines:
1572 * Applied Steffen Esser's fix for a buffer-overflow bug in rfc822.c
1573 * Updated Danish, German, and Turkish translation files.
1574 * Sunil Shetye's SMTP timeout patch.
1576 There are 538 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
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1580 fetchmail-6.1.3 (Thu Nov 28 05:35:15 EST 2002), 22203 lines:
1582 * Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
1583 * Added Slovak support.
1584 * Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas).
1585 * Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
1586 * Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
1587 * Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
1588 * Sunil's fix for the STARTTLS problem -- repoll if TLS nabdshake
1589 fails. The attempt to set up STARTTLS can be suppressed with 'sslproto ""'.
1591 There are 540 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.
1593 fetchmail-6.1.2 (Thu Oct 31 11:41:02 EST 2002), 22135 lines:
1595 * Jan Klaverstijn's verbosity-lowering patch.
1596 * Updated Turkish, German, Catalan, and Danish translation files.
1597 * Fix processing of POP3 messages with missing bodies.
1598 * Minor fixes by Sunil Shetye: fix generation of auth fail note, handle
1599 unexpected SIGALRM, plug memory leak, handle lines beginning with '\0',
1600 try to bulletproof error handling against read failures.
1602 There are 535 people on fetchmail-friends and 696 on fetchmail-announce.
1604 fetchmail-6.1.1 (Fri Oct 18 14:53:51 EDT 2002), 22087 lines:
1606 * OTP fix patches from Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
1607 * fix patch for writing antispam capability correctly in conf.c.
1608 * Fix patches for Debian bugs #162571, #156592.
1609 * Correction to manpage re -b and qmail.
1610 * Patch to disable use of STLS if auth passwd is specified.
1611 * Fix specfile generation to handle SSL correctly.
1612 * New Danish, Turkish, and Catalan translation files.
1613 * Improved ODMR debug messages.
1614 * IMAP efficiency hack; don't fetch sizes unless needed.
1615 * Detect and rewrite invalid return paths beginning with @.
1616 * Fix for subtle freeing bug that suppressed information in some bounce msgs.
1617 * Newline fix patches for internationalization files.
1618 * Fix reversed test guarding authentication-failure warnings.
1619 * Fix POP3 breakage starting at 5.9.14.
1621 There are 529 people on fetchmail-friends and 693 on fetchmail-announce.
1623 fetchmail-6.1.0 (Sun Sep 22 18:31:23 EDT 2002), 21999 lines:
1625 * Updated French translation.
1626 * Stefan Esser's fix for potential remote vulnerability in multidrop mode.
1627 This is an important security fix!
1629 There are 519 people on fetchmail-friends and 680 on fetchmail-announce.
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1633 fetchmail-6.0.0 (Tue Sep 17 19:48:25 EDT 2002), 21972 lines:
1635 * Applied Matt Kraai's fix for minor Debian bug #144539.
1636 * Nerijus Baliunas's patch to support STARTTLS over IMAP.
1637 * More cleanups and minor bugfixes from Sunil Shetye.
1638 * Default antispam-response list is now empty.
1639 * Updated de and po translations.
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1643 There are 520 people on fetchmail-friends and 683 on fetchmail-announce.
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