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authorSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2007-12-19 14:23:07 +0000
committerSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2007-12-19 14:23:07 +0000
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* NEWS: Update.
* configure.ac (MU_LIB_REMOTE): New substitution variable. (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Add libproto/remote/Makefile. * imap4d/copy.c, imap4d/create.c, imap4d/delete.c, imap4d/fetch.c, imap4d/imap4d.c, imap4d/list.c, imap4d/lsub.c, imap4d/rename.c, imap4d/subscribe.c, imap4d/unsubscribe.c, imap4d/util.c: Spelling fixes. * include/mailutils/cfg.h (mu_cfg_error_count): New variable. * include/mailutils/gocs.h (struct mu_gocs_mailbox): New member mailbox_pattern * include/mailutils/libargp.h (mu_rcfile_lint): New variable. * include/mailutils/mailbox.h (mu_set_mailbox_pattern): New function. (mu_mail_directory): Removed. (mu_mailbox_url): New function. * include/mailutils/mutil.h (mu_normalize_mailbox_url): Remove. * include/mailutils/registrar.h (mu_0_6_registrar_lookup): Remove. * libargp/common.c: New options --rcfile-lint and --mailbox-pattern. * libargp/muinit.c: Handle --rcfile-lint. * libcfg/common.c: New statement mailbox-pattern * libmu_scm/mu_mailbox.c (mu-mail-directory): Deprecated. (mu-user-mailbox-url): New function. * libproto/remote: New directory. * libproto/remote/folder.c: New file. * libproto/remote/mbox.c: New file. * libproto/remote/.cvsignore: New file. * libproto/Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Add remote * libproto/mbox/folder.c, libproto/mbox/url.c: Indentation and spelling fixes. * maidag/Makefile.am (maidag_LDADD): Add MU_LIB_REMOTE. * maidag/maidag.c: Register mu_remote_mbox_record. * mailbox/cfg_parser.y (mu_cfg_error_count): New variable. (mu_cfg_format_error,_mu_cfg_vperror): Increment mu_cfg_error_count. * mailbox/debug.c (mu_debug_check_level): Do not mask out inheritance bit. * mailbox/gocs.c (mu_gocs_mailbox_init): Set mailbox pattern. * mailbox/mailbox.c (_create_mailbox): Bugfix. * mailbox/mbx_default.c (mu_set_mailbox_pattern): New finction. (mu_set_mail_directory): Rewrite. (user_mailbox_name): Rewrite. * mailbox/mutil.c (mu_normalize_mailbox_url): Remove. * mailbox/registrar.c (mu_0_6_registrar_lookup): Remove. * guimb/scm/sieve-core.scm (sieve-main): Use mu-user-mailbox-url.
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-GNU mailutils NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2007-12-07
+GNU mailutils NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2007-12-19
Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of file for copying conditions.
@@ -30,10 +30,14 @@ affect the given program.
Maidag is a MAIl Delivery AGent. It is a general-purpose MDA able to
run in both traditional and LMTP mode and to deliver mails to various
-mailbox formats. It is also able to process incoming messages using
-Sieve or Scheme scripts and, based on results of this processing,
-to take a decision on whether to actually deliver and where to
-deliver them.
+mailbox formats. These formats, among others, include remote+smtp and
+remote+sendmail (see `New mailbox types.', below), which are
+equivalent to forwarding a message over SMTP. Thus, maidag supercedes
+both `mail.local' and `mail.remote' (both of which are still included
+for backward compatibility). Maidag is also able to process incoming
+messages using Sieve or Scheme scripts and, based on results of this
+processing, to take a decision on whether to actually deliver and
+where to deliver them.
** New Sieve action `pipe'
@@ -215,6 +219,14 @@ Any mu_url_get_.* accessors return MU_ERR_ENOENT if the corresponding
field is not present in the object. Previous versions in that case
returned 0 and stored empty string in the output buffer.
+** New mailbox types.
+
+Two new mailbox types, "remote+smtp" and "remote+sendmail", are
+supported. These are `append-only' mailboxes, i.e. the only operation
+that can be done over them is mu_mailbox_append_message. E.g.,
+appending to the URL `remote+smtp://127.0.0.1:24' is equivalent to
+sending a message using mailer `smtp://127.0.0.1:24'.
+
** Fixed parsing of URLs similar to file:///a/b.
It is parsed as an absolute file name `/a/b'.
@@ -224,6 +236,10 @@ Previous versions incorrectly understood such an URL as `a/b'
** Remove v0.6 compatibility layer.
+** Function mu_mail_directory is removed.
+
+** New function mu_mailbox_url.
+
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