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authorNikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de>2010-08-09 13:14:23 +0200
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+Notable changes in archivemail 0.8.0:
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+ * Removed the feature to setuid to the mailbox owners when run as root.
+ This was a bad idea; it's really hard to do safely, if at all possible.
+ Obsoletes: patch #2783134.
+ * New option --archive-name, or short -a, to hard-code an archive filename.
+ Like the --suffix and --prefix options, it is expanded with strftime().
+ This option conflicts with archiving multiple mailboxes. Closes: feature
+ request #1306538.
+ * New option --prefix, or short -p, to specify an archive name prefix. Like
+ a suffix specified with the --suffix option, the prefix is expanded with
+ strftime(). Specifying this option disables the default archive name
+ suffix. Obsoletes: feature request #604281. (Thanks Serafeim Zanikolas
+ for an initial patch)
+ * New option --all to archive all messages in a mailbox. Closes: #1764846.
+ * archivemail now expands wildcards in IMAP mailbox names. For example, the
+ url imaps://user@server/foo/* will expand to all subfolders of foo.
+ Closes: feature request #1978540. Obsoletes: patch #1918937.
+ * To determine the delivery date of a message, archivemail now looks for the
+ timestamp of the latest 'Received' header before resorting to
+ 'Resent-Date' or 'Date'. This should give much better results when there
+ is no 'Delivery-date' header, which is still checked first.
+ (Thanks Andrew Ferrier & Christian Brabandt)
+ Closes: #1481316, #1764855, Debian bug #272666.
+ * We now omit the dotlock if we don't have sufficient permissions to create
+ it in the mbox directory. (The file is still locked with lockf.)
+ Together with more changes under the hood (see below) this means
+ archivemail can now operate on mbox files in the system mail spool.
+ Closes: #855269.
+ * Replaced some simple minded file operation security checks with more
+ decent ones. This means we can safely operate in /tmp, for example. The
+ price is that we no longer accept symlinked files. Obsoletes: patch
+ #1874868.
+ * The archive now also gets locked while archivemail updates it.
+ * mbox locking got completely rewritten. Switched from flock to lockf
+ locking, which is NFS-safe and portable, and we now lock with lockf first,
+ then with a dotlock, instead of the other way around. (This is makes
+ archivemail compatible with Debian systems. ;)
+