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@@ -1,50 +1,34 @@ -Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:11:10 +0100 -Subject: archivemail 0.7 released with security fixes +Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:12:26 +0100 +Subject: archivemail 0.7.1 released Hi folks, -archivemail 0.7.0 is ready for download. This release comes with many and -important fixes, some of which address security issues; I strongly recommend to -upgrade. - -Despite the major version change, this is mostly a maintenance release, with -notable fixes in the IMAP code. There's actually just one new feature (size -stats, see below) if you don't count what in theory was already there, but just -didn't work. :-) - -Okay, here are my pet items from the changelog, roughly ordered by priority: - -* Fixed unsafe creation of temporary files in the test suite. - This addresses Debian bug #385253, and reading the BTS log, it seems this - issue was assigned CVE-2006-4245, although I cannot find any further - reference to that CVE. Note that the bug was initially reported to affect - archivemail itself, too. This is not correct. -* Fixed dotlocking race condition. -* IMAP was broken in v0.6.2 and is now working again. -* New feature: stats now report the total size of a mailbox and of the archived - messages therefrom. -* archivemail now writes valid mbox(5) archives and by default mangles From_ - lines; the latter can be disabled with the new option --dont-mangle (see the - man page for the details; see also Debian bugs #250410 and #250402) -* archivemail finally converts on-the-wire CRLF to native EOL when saving - messages from an IMAP folder. -* Fixed IMAP --delete which never worked at all. -* Fixed IMAP --dry-run so it doesn't download all messages that would be - archived. -* Fixed IMAP --size which never worked at all. -* archivemail now requires Python version >= 2.3. -* Fixed unittest failures. -* Distributing man page with the tarball again and fixed distutils setup. - - -The changes in this release probably better had went into several minor -releases, when we would have something like v0.6.6 now, but I was carried away -with bugfixing... - -In other news, archivemail has new maintainers, namely Peter Poeml and Nikolaus -Schulz (that's me, hi!). The former maintainer Brandon Knitter is currently not -active on the project. +archivemail 0.7.1 was released today. This is a maintenance release with +numerous fixes. Most notably, archivemail should now work flawlessly with +python 2.5; this was long overdue. Again, there are quite important fixes in +the IMAP code. And like with 0.7.0, there's one new feature (the new --copy +option, see below). + +Here are the main items from the changelog, roughly ordered by priority: + + * Fixed incompatibility with Python 2.5 which broke Maildir handling. + * Fixed IMAP message flag conversion which was completely broken. + * Username and password in IMAP URLs can now be double-quoted, so it should be + no longer a problem if they contain delimiters like the '@' character. + * New option --copy: archive mail, but don't delete it from the mailbox. + This is mainly useful for testing purposes, and complements --delete. + * IMAP: if selecting the mailbox fails, archivemail detects the server's + mailbox hierarchy delimiter, replaces slashes in the mailbox name with the + delimiter and tries again. + * When converting from other formats to mbox, archivemail used to preserve + existing 'Status' and 'X-Status' mbox headers; these are now silently + overwritten to ensure they have correct values. + * Invalid messages/files in Maildirs caused archivemail to silently stop + processing mails and claim it's all done. Now skip these and go ahead. + * The automatic seteuid feature of archivemail is insecure and thus + deprecated; it will be removed from later versions. + * archivemail now accepts --days=0 Cheers, Nikolaus |