GNU mailutils NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2007-03-06 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of file for copying conditions. Please send mailutils bug reports to . Version 1.1.90: * `libmailbox' library mu_stream_wait and mu_fd_wait allow to wait for exceptional conditions. maildir and mh repositories are created if MU_STREAM_CREAT flag is supplied. Fix coredump in argcv, which was triggered by input line consisting of a single double-quote character. Fix inconsistency in decoding MIME messages: the CRLF preceding the encapsulation line is conceptually attached to the boundary, as requested by RFC 1521. * The `mail.local' utility The program can be run by a non-privileged user. Thus, it can be used with `fetchmail' and similar utilities. * The `mail' utility: Fix bugs in `pipe' command: the cmd variable setting and single-argument invocation were handled incorrectly Fix coredump in `send' command. ** Empty messages The handling of empty messages by the `mail' utility is controlled by the bollean variable `nullbody'. If it is set (the default), the message is sent and the warning ``Null message body; hope that's ok'' is issued. This is compatible with other mail implementations. The exact message displayed in this case is set by `nullbodymsg' variable. If `nullbody' is unset, the message is silently ignored. This is useful, in particular, in crontab files. * The `readmsg' utility. Improve compatibility with elm's implementation. In particular -w 'From_' will now output `From ' markers. If the underlying mailbox format does not contain those, `readmsg' will try to construct them from the available data. * The `pop3d' utility. New options `--bulletin-db' and `--bulletin-source' implement bulletin facility. * Support for old DBM has been withdrawn. Version 1.1: * mail: Implement ^ and $ commands * Add support for Berkeley DB 3 and 4 * comsat The syntax of echo command changed. Now it is more shell-like: echo echo New mail for \a$u@$h: echo --- echo From: $H{From} echo Subject: $H{Subject} echo $B(,5)--- ** Bug fixes * Fix build without Guile * mail core dumped on tab expansion of `cd x' * Print "-- \n" before ~a expansion in mail * Fix memory problems in mail's `decode' command * Fix endless loop in libsieve that was triggered by using a tag without the arguments it requires. * Fix unfolding Version 1.0: Official release. This is the first stable release since 0.6. For a complete list of changes, please see the entries below. Version 0.6.95: * New functions: ** Two new functions (mu_tcp_stream_create_with_source_ip and mu_tcp_stream_create_with_source_host) allow to create TCP connections from the given source address. * Bugfixes: ** Fix handling of Fcc headers in mailers ** Fix several inconsistencies in `mh/folder' to make it compatible with RAND and nmh implementations. In particular, `folder -all +name' (`folders +name') is now working as expected. ** MH programs create directory hierarchies if requested to. ** `mail' correctly handles empty mailboxes (it used to display garbage in place of the message count). ** Fix RFC 2047 filters: do not stop translating until the buffer is drained. ** Fix option handling in guimb: remove leftover optind usage. Version 0.6.94: * Add support for Berkeley DB 3.x and 4.x See the description of --with-berkeley-db option in the README file. * Add support for Guile 1.8.x * The module mailutils.scm is now defined as (mailutils mailutils). Please change your (use-modules) statements accordingly. * Scheme modules can now be installed in the site-wide Guile directory. See the description of --with-guiledir option in the README file. * Bugfixes: ** Fix handling of file names containing whitespace characters in imap4 server and library. ** frm: Fix coredump on empty From headers. ** folder: If a +folder is given along with the -all switch, folder will, in addition to setting the current folder, list the top-level subfolders for the current folder (with -norecurse) or list all sub-folders under the current folder recursively (with -recurse). This behavior is compatible with nmh and rand implementations. ** rmf: Fix coredump when invoked without arguments. ** send: rename draft file after sending it. ** All mh utilities: create nested directories, if required. ** Correctly handle comma-delimited folder lists in Fcc headers. ** A decoder stream correctly handles unfinished input strings. Version 0.6.93: * The library namespace is optimized. Now all global identifiers begin with mu_. NOTE: This is incompatible change. Programs using old API can still be compiled, using one of the following approaches. If the program includes , define the symbol MU_COMPAT before including it (or invoke cc with -DMU_COMPAT option). Otherwise, include file . * Main library is renamed to libmailutils NOTE: This is incompatible change, unless you use mailutils-config to obtain loader options (which is recommended, anyway). * Use of '~' character (denoting the user home directory) This character is expanded also if it appears after the protocol specification in a mailbox URL. e.g.: maildir:~/Mail/inbox. It is possible to use '~' in mailutils configuration file. * New option --mailbox-type Use this option to specify the default mailbox type. It is supported by all utilities that use "mailbox" command line capability (see the documentation for the list). For example: mail --mailbox-type=mh: --file=~/Mail/inbox will open ~/Mail/inbox directory as an MH folder. This option is especially useful in the mailutils configuration file. For example, adding this line to your mailutils.rc: :mailbox --mailbox-type=mh: will force all mail utilities to use MH by default. * mail: New option --exec (-E) allows to execute arbitrary mail commands before opening the mailbox. Any number of --exec options can be given. ** New variables `recursivealiases' and `inplacealiases' control the way mail aliases are expanded. When `recursivealiases' is set, aliases will be expanded recursively. When `inplacealiases' is set, alias expansion takes place before entering compose mode (by default, it is carried out when exiting compose mode, right before sending the message). The default is `set recursivealiases noinplacealiases'. * imap4d: New option --create-home-dir: If a user logs in and his home directory does not exist, create it. * Changes in MH ** Context file handling Comments and empty lines are allowed in any MH context file (.mh_profile, .mtstailor etc.) Comment is any line whose first non-whitespace character is '#'. Notice that '#' looses its special meaning when used as a part of the keyword or a value. ** send Add support for localname and localdomain mtstailor variables. New mtstailor variable x-mailer controls whether to add the 'X-Mailer' header to the message being sent, if it does not contain one. The value 'yes' means to add the default X-Mailer string, the value 'no' means to ignore it. Any other value is taken as the X-Mailer identifier to be added to the message. ** mhn In compose mode mhn analyzes Subject: line and, if it contains any non-printable characters, encodes it in accordance with RFC 2047. Encoding type and charset are taken from the first message part. They also can be specified in the subject itself using the following syntax: #CONTENT * Bugfixes: ** mail: Fix handling of conditional expressions ** mail: When several recipients were specified, no alias expansion took place. ** movemail: did not preserve input mailbox if an I/O error happened on the output one. Debian Bug#344420. ** Fix handling of Alternate-Mailboxes in MH Version 0.6.91: * libsieve: New action 'vacation' * imap4d: Implemented SASL authentication using LOGIN and PLAIN mechanisms. * Plaintext passwords for SASL authentication types can be kept in SQL database. When used with LOGIN or PLAIN, the passwords may be encrypted using MySQL password() function. New option --sql-password-type specifies what kind of password is returned by --sql-getpass query. Its possible values are: `plain' for plaintext passwords, `scrambled' for passwords hashed using MySQL algorithm and `hash' for MD5 or DES hashed passwords (default). * mail ** Improved output of the commands `headers' and `z' ** Improved POSIX compatibility. In particular, `next' command now works as described by POSIX. Following commands change the status of the message to `read': mbox, pipe, print, top, undelete, visual and decode (a GNU extension). Implemented following variables: flipr, showto, bang. The command `touch' does not alter messages that were deleted or saved to a file. ** The `decode' command uses `mailcap' extension to display parts of MIME multy-part messages. By default the built-in mailcap engine is used. Normally `mail' asks for confirmation before running an interpreter to display a message part, unless the type of the part is listed in `mimenoask' mail variable. If `metamail' variable is set, it specifies the external program to be used instead of the built-in engine. Thus, settting set metamail="metamail -m mail -p" in your ~/.mailrc enables use of the standard `metamail' program by `decode'. Before calling `metamail', the environment variable METAMAIL_PAGER is set to the value of the variable PAGER. If `mimenoask' mail variable is set, its value is passed to `metamail' via MM_NOASK environment variable. Unsetting `metamail' variable turns off special interpretation of MIME parts. * from The `from' utility was rewritten. It is now fully compatible with the BSD version. * frm Implemented -t (--align) command line option. Whenever available, `frm' uses BIDI algorithm for display. This allows for correct display of subject lines written in languages with right to left script orientation (Arabic, Hebrew). * Maildir support Implemented removal of messages. * New SQL driver: odbc * New authentication method: radius * Ukrainian localization * Bugfixes ** Fixed possible mailbox corruption in imap4d ** imap4d subscribe/unsubscribe was not working ** Fixed displaying mail headers in different languages (mail,frm,from) ** SQL authentication: prevent sql injection attacks ** Fixed bug in the default syslog diagnostic printer ** Fixed potential vulnerabilities: IDEF0954, IDEF0955, IDEF0956, IDEF0957 ** `Imap:' mailboxes (remote mailboxes opened via imap interface) honor read-only mode. ** Fixed date support in maildir (header fields Date, Envelope-Date and Delivery-Date). ** Fixed RFC 2047 encoding. ** Fixed folder_list() function. Version 0.6: * New features: ** Both imap4d and pop3d accept new command line option `--tls-required'. The option disables any authentication commands until the client party establishes TLS connection with the server. ** Pop3d server accepts new option `--delete-expired'. This option is to be used together with `--expire'. It enables automatic deletion of expired messages before closing the mailbox. Previous versions of pop3d relied on a cron job that was supposed to purge users' mailboxes, but such usage is extremely ineffective for mail servers with considerable number of users. ** The package can be compiled with support for both MySQL and PostgreSQL simultaneously. Which of the interfaces to use is defined at run time by --sql-interface option. ** Mail.local is able to retrieve mailbox quotas from SQL database. * movemail: Special mode for interfacing with Emacs (--emacs option) * Bug fixes Version 0.5: * New features: ** Autodetection of local folder formats. "Local" is a format of mail folder that uses local disk (possibly via NFS) as its storage medium. Currently mailutils is able to handle three local formats: UNIX mailbox, MH and Maildir. Usually these are specified using a corresponding URL prefix. However, if an absolute path name is given instead of a fully qualified URL, mailutils tries to autodetect the format of the folder in question and handle it appropriately (previous versions of mailutils assumed the folder to be in UNIX mailbox format). ** movemail: new program Moves mail from the user maildrop (remote or local) to the local file. It supports all mailbox formats, supported by mailutils. ** Support for "maildir" format. ** sieve: *** Considerably improved debugging diagnostics. *** New sieve extension tests: spamd - An interface to SpamAssassin daemon list - Test headers, structured as lists of values. timestamp - Compares headers containing dates. ** mail *** Support for -a option (append header) *** New command 'sendheaders' allows to pre-set the headers to be added to the message. *** New commands 'sender' and 'nosender' allow to set up a list of header fields used to determine the sender of the message. *** New variable 'xmailer' controls whether an X-Mailer header should be added to outgoing messages. *** New variables 'datefield' and 'emptystart' for compatibility with nail *** New variable 'decode-fallback' controls how to represent the characters that cannot be rendered using current character set. ** mail.remote *** Support for -t option (read recipients from the message). This fixes the bug reported lately where mail.remote sends mail to all addresses in the message, not just the addresses explicitly listed on the command line. ** pop3d *** New option --login-delay. Support for login-delay *** New option --undelete. Forces pop3d to clear deletion marks from all messages after opening the mailbox. * Bug fixes: ** libmailbox *** Fixed incorrect handling of underscores in Quoted-Printable encoding. *** rfc2047_decode() takes into account input and output character sets. ** mh *** (formataddr): Fixed checking for duplicate addresses. ** pop3d: *** Do not save delete marks when exiting on timeout. ** imap4d *** Fixed bug that prevented SASL from working over a TLS encrypted channel. *** IDLE works on TLS connections. Version 0.4: * Bug fixes: ** Fixed improper use of size_t instead of off_t which caused coredumps on systems where the two types have different sizes. ** iterator_t is rewritten to make list traversal more effective. Traversing the list of n elements takes O(n), instead of O(n*(n+1)/2) time units. ** Fixed memory allocation bug in mailbox/mu_auth.c ** Various fixes and improvements in MH in order to interoperate better with MH-E. ** Correctly handle MIME parts with an empty body. * Major Changes ** The library has been split into the core library (libmailbox), and the protocol implementation libraries, which are named as libmu_$PROTO. For example, the library for MBOX mailbox formats is libmu_mbox.so. ** The support for TLS protocol has been added to libmu_imap.so and libmu_pop.so. This means that you can now use TLS with every Mailutils client program. * New features. ** libmailbox ** See "Major Changes" *** implemented header unfolding *** argcv_get unescapes all unprintable characters, argcv_string escapes them. ** libsieve: Implemented boolean shortcuts for evaluating ALLOF and ANYOF ** pop3d *** more extensive diagnostics for APOP authentications *** Save headers even if the session was aborted. This ensures the persistence of message unique-ids as required by RFC 1939. *** popauth: new option --create. The option allows to convert a plaintext file into DBM database. ** mail *** New configuration file variable `mailx' enables the mailx compatibility mode. This is mainly visible when composing a message. In mailx compatibility mode, mail asks for Cc and Bcc addresses after composing the body. The default behavior is to ask for these values before composing the body. *** New variable `charset' controls the decoding of MIME-encoded headers (rfc2047). *** New commands `unfold' and `nounfold' allow to specify the headers whose values should be unfolded before display. * mh Lots of bugfixes regarding compatibility issues and interoperation with MH-E. This version of MH has been tested with MH-E 7.4.2+cvs. ** New program: ali ** New profile variables: *** Charset Controls the character set in which the components decoded via the `decode' format function should be output. *** Reply-Regex Sets the regular expression used to recognize reply messages. ** New format functions *** reply_regex Sets the regular expression used to recognize reply messages. *** isreply Returns true if its argument is the reply message subject string, i.e. if it matches the "reply subject" regular expression. Version 0.3.1: This version is a maintenance release over the previous one. * Bug fixes: ** A replacement for vsyslog is provided for systems lacking it. ** Fixed incorrect handling of dates. ** Added support for handling Fcc: headers to the mailer code. ** Several minor fixes to allow the package to compile on MacOS. * New features: ** Support for authentication against PostgreSQL databases. * libmailbox: ** First implementation of rfc1524: added a set of functions for handling mail capabilities * mh: All utilities needed by Emacs mh-e.el module are implemented. Version 0.3: * General: ** Added NLS support. Currently Catalan and Spanish translations are available. ** Fixed compilation with the newer versions of Berkeley DB. * libmailbox: ** Functions for generating References: and In-Reply-To: headers as per RFC 2822. ** A set of functions for sequential access to streams. ** The function mu_errstring is renamed to mu_strerror for consistency with the usual practice. ** Added initial implementation of message header encoding and decoding functions (RFC 2047). * libsieve: ** The syntax of multiline strings is extended. It is possible to use arbitrary ending delimiter instead of the default dot, and to strip off the leading tabs, which allows for natural indentation of the multiline strings. ** Added support for relational tests according to RFC 3431. ** Fixed incorrect handling of multiple addresses in `address' tests. * imap4d: ** The untagged output was fixed to conform to the RFC 2060. Specifically, the output of STORE command is corrected in accordance with the rfc2060-errata document; the EXIST and RECENT untagged are always returned by EXAMINE, SELECT, and NOOP. ** Added support for TLS and GSASL. ** Implemented LOGINDISABLED capability. ** Implemented IDLE command (RFC 2177). * pop3d: Added TLS support. * mail: Fixed error diagnostics and removed startup banner. * mh: Initial implementation. The basic MH utilities are implemented that allow to use the package with the GNU Emacs mh-e module. Please refer to the files README and TODO in the mh subdirectory. Version 0.2: * libmailbox: Several bugfixes. The configuration suite allows to disable support for any protocol or mailbox format to reduce the size of the library. * Added new utility mailutils-config. This utility prints gcc command line options needed for compiling and linknig an application against mailutils. * libsieve: New library. Supports Sieve language as described in RFC 3028 and provides a mechanism for dynamic loading of user-defined actions, tests and comparators. * sieve: Completely rewritten using libsieve. * sieve.scm: Added vacation extension action. * mail.local: Allows to apply user-defined sieve filters before delivering messages. * mail utility: Added `editheaders' boolean variable. When set, the user is allowed to edit headers of the message. Message set specification allows negation of search primitives, e.g. `from ! subject:/daily/' outputs all messages whose subject does not contain the word 'daily'. Reply command correctly adds `In-Reply-To' and `References' headers to outgoing messages. When used with a numeric argument '=' command sets the current message to this number. New command `setenv' allows to set and examine environment variables. The semantics of `crt' variable is made compatible with that of other implementations. 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