# ADVANCE WARNING OF FEATURES TO BE REMOVED OR CHANGED IN FUTURE VERSIONS
(There are no plans to remove features from a 6.3.X release, but they may be
-removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.)
-* The MX and host alias DNS lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode
- are based on assumptions that are rarely met in practice, somewhat defective,
- deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version.
- They have never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4).
- Non-DNS based alias keywords such as "aka" will remain in fetchmail.
+removed from a 7.0.0 or newer release.)
* The monitor and interface options may be removed from a future fetchmail
version as they are not reasonably portable across operating systems.
-* POP2 is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail version.
-* IMAP2 and IMAP4 (not IMAP4r1) are obsolete, support may be removed from a
+* IMAP4 (not IMAP4r1) is obsolete, support may be removed from a
future fetchmail version.
-* RPOP is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail release.
* --sslcertck will become a default setting in a future fetchmail version.
* The multidrop To/Cc guessing code along with the fragile duplicate suppressor
is deprecated and may be removed from a future release.
inconsistent and confusing.
* The "protocol auto" default inside fetchmail may be removed from a future
fetchmail release. Explicit configuration of the protocol is recommended.
-* Kerberos IV support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
* Kerberos 5 support may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
-* The --principal option may be removed from a future fetchmail release.
* SIGHUP wakeup support may be removed from a future fetchmail release and
cause fetchmail to terminate - it was broken for many years.
-* Support for operating systems that are not sufficiently POSIX compliant may be
- removed or operation on such systems may be suboptimal for future releases.
- This means that fetchmail may only continue to work on C99 and POSIX 2001
- based systems.
* The maintainer may migrate fetchmail to C++ with STL or C#, and impose further
requirements (dependencies), such as Boost or other class libraries.
-* The softbounce option default will change to "false" in the next release.
* The --bsmtp - mode of operation may be removed in a future release.
* Given that OpenSSL is severely underdocumented, and needs license exceptions,
fetchmail may switch to a different SSL library.
-* SSLv2 support will be removed from a future fetchmail release. It has been
- obsolete for more than a decade.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+fetchmail-7.0.0 (not yet released):
+
+NOTE THIS IS AN ALPHA RELEASE THAT HAS NOT BEEN THOROUGHLY TESTED!
+
+# MAJOR CHANGES
+* The UIDL handler code is now much faster, especially noticable with lots of
+ mail kept on a POP3 server. Where the 6.3.X code was of O(n^2) complexity,
+ we're down to O(n log n).
+ Contributed by Rainer Weikusat, MAD Partners Ltd./MSS GmbH.
+* The POP3 code now always uses UIDL, except if "fetchall" is in effect.
+ Fixes BerliOS Bug #16172. Fixes Debian Bug#345788.
+* Fetchmail now enables SSL support by default. If this is undesired,
+ ./configure --without-ssl should help.
+* The OpenSSL code now excludes the SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS option.
+ This can cause interoperability problems with certain buggy servers, but is
+ required to defang chosen-plaintext attacks against AES. While probably hard
+ to mount against fetchmail, let's play it safe rather than be sorry later.
+
+# FEATURES ADDED
+* Fetchmail can now retrieve credentials from PWMD. This needs to be enabled at
+ compile-time and requires run-time configuration. See README.PWMD for details.
+ Contributed by Ben Kibbey, author of libpwmd and pwmd.
+* Fetchmail now supports a retrieve-error command line or rcfile option that
+ takes exactly one argument, abort (default), continue or markseen. This
+ specifies the policy used by fetchmail to handle messages whose bodies
+ fail to be retrieved due to server errors. Both the continue and markseen
+ options will skip the message with errors and allow the session to
+ continue so that subsequent messages can be retrieved. The markseen
+ option will also mark the message with errors as seen.
+ The default policy is to abort the session whenever a server error occurs.
+ Contributed by Craig Brown.
+* Fetchmailconf offers cram-md5 and apop authentication.
+
+# REMOVED FEATURES
+* IMAP2 protocol support was removed.
+* POP2 protocol support was removed.
+* RPOP (not actually a protocol, but a variant of POP3) was removed
+* POP3: the uidl option has been removed. It is always on.
+* POP3: LAST is no longer used. It was removed from POP3 in 1994, and it could
+ cause mail loss when the connection was interrupted or if clients besides
+ fetchmail polled the mailbox.
+* Trio was removed, fetchmail expects reasonable stdio.h quality levels.
+* Support for systems that do not conform to C89 and POSIX 2001 was removed,
+ this means that BeOS, EMX, NeXTSTEP quirks are no longer worked around.
+* The MX and host alias DNS lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode
+ have been removed. They were based on the mistaken assumption that the
+ IMAP/POP3 server was also the MX server, which is rarely the case. They have
+ never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4) either.
+ Non-DNS based alias keywords such as "aka" remain.
+* Kerberos IV support was removed.
+* fetchmail no longer supports SSL v2, nor the corresponding SSL2 option to
+ --sslproto. SSLv2 is insecure and had been deprecated 15 years ago. fetchmail
+ will actively forbid SSLv2 negotiation by means of SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2.
+ To fix Debian Bug#622054.
+* A lot of outdated and/or unsafe-to-use material got dropped from contrib/.
+
+# REGRESSION FIXES
+* The mimedecode feature now properly detects multipart/mixed-type matches, so
+ that quoted-printable-encoded multipart messages can get decoded.
+ (Regression in 5.0.0 on 1999-03-27, as a side effect of a PGP-mimedecode fix
+ attributed to Henrik Storner.)
+
+# BUG FIXES
+* The mimedecode feature failed to ship the last line of the body if it was
+ encoded as quoted-printable and had a MIME soft line break in the very last
+ line. Reported by Lars Hecking in June 2011.
+ Bug introduced on 1998-03-20 when the mimedecode support was added by ESR
+ before release 4.4.1 through code contributed by Henrik Storner.
+ Workaround for older releases: do not use mimedecode feature.
+* Fetchmail now detects singly-quoted % expansions in the mda option and refuses
+ to deliver for safety reasons. Fixes Debian Bug#347909.
+* The Server certificate: message in verbose mode now appears on stdout like the
+ remainder of the output. Reported by Henry Jensen, to fix Debian Bug #639807.
+
+# CHANGES
+* A foreground fetchmail can now accept a few more options while another copy is
+ running in the background.
+* APOP is no longer a protocol, but an authentication method. In order to use
+ it, use protocol POP3 auth APOP, or on the commandline, -p pop3 --auth apop.
+ If no authentication method is specified, APOP is automatically tried if
+ offered by the server before we resort to sending the password as clear text.
+
+# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS
+ (This section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the
+ current release information)
+* Fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well
+ (See sourceforge.net bug #780933)
+* BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output.
+* Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in
+ 64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit
+ fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code,
+ so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties.
+* Fetchmail does not track pending deletes across crashes.
+* The command line interface is sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance,
+ fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running.
+* Linux systems may return duplicates of an IP address in some circumstances if
+ no or no global IPv6 addresses are configured.
+ (No workaround. Ubuntu Bug#582585, Novell Bug#606980.)
+* Kerberos 5 may be broken, particularly on Heimdal, and provide bogus error
+ messages. This will not be fixed, because the maintainer has no Kerberos 5
+ server to test against. Use GSSAPI.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reported by J. Porter Clark.
* for CVE-2011-3389:
- SSL/TLS (wrapped and STARTTLS): fetchmail used to disable a countermeasure
- against a certain kind of attack against cipher block chaining initialization
+ SSL/TLS (wrapped and STARTTLS): fetchmail used to disable a countermeasure
+ against a certain kind of attack against cipher block chaining initialization
vectors (SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS).
- Whether this creates an exploitable situation, depends on the server and the
+ Whether this creates an exploitable situation, depends on the server and the
negotiated ciphers.
- As a precaution, fetchmail 6.3.22 enables the countermeasure, by clearing
+ As a precaution, fetchmail 6.3.22 enables the countermeasure, by clearing
SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS.
- NOTE that this can cause connections to certain non-conforming servers to
- fail, in which case you can set the environment variable
+ NOTE that this can cause connections to certain non-conforming servers to
+ fail, in which case you can set the environment variable
FETCHMAIL_DISABLE_CBC_IV_COUNTERMEASURE to any non-empty value when starting
fetchmail to re-instate the compatibility option at the expense of security.
# CHANGES
* On systems where SSLv2_client_method isn't defined in OpenSSL (such as
newer Debian, and Ubuntu starting with 11.10 oneiric ocelot), don't
- reference it (to fix the build) and if configured, print a run-time error
- that the OS does not support SSLv2. Fixes Debian Bug #622054,
+ reference it (to fix the build) and if configured, print a run-time error
+ that the OS does not support SSLv2. Fixes Debian Bug #622054,
but note that that bug report has a more thorough patch that does away with
SSLv2 altogether.
* [vi] Vietnamese, by Trần Ngọc Quân
+
fetchmail-6.3.21 (released 2011-08-21, 26011 LoC):
# CRITICAL BUG FIX
termination signal properly through sys/wait.h macros.
* When acquiring a body, understand NIL ("no such data item"), as returned by
some MS Exchange versions. Fixes BerliOS Bug #11980 by KB Sriram.
-* Make progress tickers (-v/--showdots) consistent, and update documentation
- accordingly ("." for each 1024 octets read, "#" for a header written, and "*"
+* Make progress tickers (-v/--showdots) consistent, and update documentation
+ accordingly ("." for each 1024 octets read, "#" for a header written, and "*"
for each body line written.)
The conditions under which these had been printed were inconsistent,
illogical, and documentation hadn't matched real behaviour for long.
random memory location (it calls va_arg() too often without
resetting it with va_start()). Based on a patch (BerliOS patch #2492)
by Petr Uzel, fixes Novell Bug #354291.
- Note 6.3.9-rc1 did not completely fix this issue, so it was redrawn a few
+ Note 6.3.9-rc1 did not completely fix this issue, so it was redrawn a few
hours after its release.
See also fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt.
* When expunging, mark the right messages as seen to avoid message loss in "keep
# CHANGES:
* autoconf 2.60 is now required to build fetchmail; it uses
AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to replace AC_AIX, AC_MINIX, and the like.
-* Removed dead FETCHMAIL_DEBUG code from fetchmail.h that was disabled by
- default with no switches in configure to enable it. However, the macro would
+* Removed dead FETCHMAIL_DEBUG code from fetchmail.h that was disabled by
+ default with no switches in configure to enable it. However, the macro would
have been prone to a symlink attack. Found by Nico Golde.
* Removed dead FORCE_STUFFING code from socket.c that was disabled by default
with no switches in configure to enable it.
# DOCUMENTATION:
* Add fetchmail-SA-2007-02.txt and fetchmail-SA-2008-01.txt.
-* Re-add two lines to the manual page that had accidentally become comments
- to nroff. One was part of the --sslproto documentation, and one in the
+* Re-add two lines to the manual page that had accidentally become comments
+ to nroff. One was part of the --sslproto documentation, and one in the
"Awakening the background daemon" section.
-* The manual page no longer asserts that .fetchids were for exclusive POP3 use,
+* The manual page no longer asserts that .fetchids were for exclusive POP3 use,
since it is planned to use the file with IMAP4 later.
* Add grammar fixes from Dan Jacobson to fetchmail.man. Debian Bug #461642.
* The manual page now mentions that user descriptions need to come before user
silently accept additional g=x permissions for compatibility with previous
6.2.X and 6.3.X versions.
Inconsistency (program 0710, manpage 0600) reported by Petr Uzel.
-* The --logfile documentation is now clearer about requiring detached daemon
+* The --logfile documentation is now clearer about requiring detached daemon
mode.
# TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
# BUG FIXES:
* Fix pluralization of oversized-message warning mails.
-* Fix manual page: --sslcheck -> --sslcertck, and do not set trailing
+* Fix manual page: --sslcheck -> --sslcertck, and do not set trailing
"recommended:" in bold. Fixes Debian Bug #413059, reported by Rafal Czlonka.
-* Repoll immediately if a protocol error happens during the authentication
+* Repoll immediately if a protocol error happens during the authentication
attempt after a failed opportunistic TLS upgrade.
Fixes comment #9 in Gentoo Bug #163782, reported by Takuto Matsuu.
-* Fix rendering of the "24 - 26, 28, 29" paragraph in the exit codes section.
+* Fix rendering of the "24 - 26, 28, 29" paragraph in the exit codes section.
Reported by Nico Golde.
* If SOCKS support was compiled in, add 'socks' to the feature_options Python
list emitted in --configdump. Reported by Rob MacGregor.
-* Do not crash with a null pointer dereference when opening the BSMTP file
+* Do not crash with a null pointer dereference when opening the BSMTP file
fails. Improve error checking and reporting. Reported by Reto Schüttel,
Debian Bug#416625. Fix based on a patch by Nico Golde.
* Make BSMTP output actually work, it would persistently fail with SOCKET error
Darwin. NetBSD PR#28543 (pkg/28543). Matthias Andree.
* The RFC-822 parser no longer strips the last character of bare addresses.
Matthias Andree
-* The IP address matching code was broken and
+* The IP address matching code was broken and
1. didn't search exhaustively, but matched only the first IP address of the
server's queryname against the IP addresses of the server name to match.
2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts. Matthias Andree
* OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl@acm.org.
* Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
-* Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of
+* Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of
host/port option.
* Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
* Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:
* Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior on empty messages.
-* Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful
+* Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful
STARTTLS negotiation.
* Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
* Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security.
* Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
* Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
-* Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check,
+* Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check,
we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
* Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.
* Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
* Added Slovak support.
-* Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas).
+* Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas).
* Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
* Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
* Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
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