GNU mailutils NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2004-06-04 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of file for copying conditions. Please send mailutils bug reports to . Version 0.4.90: * 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 ** 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. ** 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. Fixed several bugs. * libmu_scm: Added support for Guile 1.7.0 Version 0.1: The first release. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright information: Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. Permission is granted to distribute modified versions of this document, or of portions of it, under the above conditions, provided also that they carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. Local variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" end: