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@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@ + NEWS + + +3.0: + +Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> hacked extensively on 3.0b6 and took over +the package with the consent of Clark Harris, the original implementor. +Here are my (Eric's) change notes: + +CONFIGURATION AND BUILDING + +* The autoconfigure script incorrectly assumed that all Linuxes use + /usr/bin/deliver. Under Linux it now checks for both /usr/bin/delivermail + and /bin/mail. + +* I added a distribution-maker production to Makefile.in. + +OPTIONS AND COMMAND LINE + +* I have removed the -p command-line option. Given that there's a .poprc + facility there is no excuse for encouraging users to put plaintext passwords + in scripts which might be readable. + +* Calling popclient with no arguments now causes it to query or operate + on every host in the .poprc file. + +* I have made --version more useful by having it dump the computed + connection options for each server specified. + +* The user can now explicitly set an MDA (such as procmail) with the + new option -m or -mda. Various possible MDAs are listed on the man page. + +POPRC FILE SYNTAX + +* The .poprc lexer now supports "-enclosed strings which may contain + whitespace. + +* I added a --yydebug option to enable .poprc parser debugging at runtime + if the parser was generated with --debug. It's not documented. + +* You may now have a `defaults' entry in .poprc which sets overrideable + values for other entries. See the man page for details. + +* It is now possible to set keep, flush and fetchall in your .poprc file. + +* Fixed incorrect numbering of source lines in .poprc parse error messages. + +* The configure.in specification no longer uses the obsolete AC_TRY_COMPILE + macro (it uses AC_TRY_LINK instead). + +MAILBOX LOCKING + +* I have added mandatory locking of mailbox files where supported. + This will cover Linux systems, in particular. + +* The default behavior is now to do lock-protected append on the user's + system mailbox rather than using delivermail or some other MDA. + (This is a performance hack.) + +* The autoconfigure script now looks for standard mail locations. The + default mail delivery agent is used only if it can't find a mail spool + directory in the standard places. + +FUNCTIONAL ENHANCEMENTS + +* When using POP3, message headers are edited so that replies won't foo up. + Anything that looks like a mail ID local to the POP host gets @ and the + pop servername attached to it before being appended to the user's + mailbox or passed to an MDA. + +* I have implemented daemon mode. + +* I have added a lock check to ensure that there is only one popclient + running per user, and a --quit option to kill the currently running + one. + +DOCUMENTATION + +* All changes and feature additions have been tested in actual use and are + documented on the man page. + +* I have turned the comments in the sample.poprc into a new manual + section documenting the .poprc format. + +MISCELLANEOUS BUG FIXES + +* I fixed some de-initialization bugs in pop2.c and pop3.c that led to + fd leaks (these became painfully obvious when I tested daemon mode!). + +* I've fixed the flaky parser error messages. They turned out to be due + to a misdeclaration of yytext. + +There's only one feature I haven't been able to add successfully. I +want a --logfile option that redirects the daemon-mode output to a +given file, but the code (in daemon.c near 200) unaccountably doesn't +work (so I haven't documented it yet). + +These are Carl Harris's change notes from prevuious releases: + +3.0b5 +o "From " header fix in pop2.c and pop3.c +o Surpress "..." output when --stdout option specified in pop3.c + +3.0b4 +o alloca fix. +o various diagnostic/informational message fixes. + +3.0b3 +o Support for retrieving only new messages from maildrop when + using POP3. +o Support for retrieving only the first n lines of each message + when using POP3. +o APOP authentication support. +o Buffered socket input. + +3.0b2 + This is a "new features" release. +o support for .poprc file. +o GNU-style long options. +o fixed passwords appearing in 'ps' output +o support for multiple servers on one command line + +3.0b1 + This is mostly a test of the autoconfigure integration. +Among the functions performed by the new configure script, is +the ability to detect known system types, configures the mail +delivery agent (MDA) correctly. This should permanently solve +the problem of using something other than an MDA for mail +delivery (which continues to plague Linux slackware 1.2.9). +For this beta, please check the values of MDA_PATH and MDA_ARGS +carefully. They should match the values found in your +sendmail.cf file on the line which begins with "Mlocal". + + Other changes from popclient version 2.21: + +o no longer uses getpass() from the C library. The + internal getpassword() function allows the use of long + passwords. + +o integrated GNU getopt() for long options. Long option + names will appear in a future beta. + +o Several compiler warnings fixed. + +o Fixed problems related to missing include files in + Solaris port. |