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Fetchmail Release Notes
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(The `lines' figures total .c, .h, .l, and .y files under version control.
Names in parentheses are the maintainers who handled the respective change.
Abbreviations: MA = Matthias Andree, ESR = Eric S. Raymond, RF = Rob Funk)

fetchmail 6.3.0 (not yet released officially):

# SECURITY FIXES IN THIS RELEASE
* CVE-2005-2335: The POP3 UIDL code doesn't sufficiently validate/truncate the input
  length, so a (malicious or compromised) server that sends UIDs longer
  than 128 bytes can corrupt fetchmail's stack and crash fetchmail.
  This vulnerability is remotely exploitable to inject code run in a
  root shell. Edward J. Shornock, Ludwig Nussel. fetchmail-SA-2005-01.txt
* CVE-2005-3088: fetchmailconf now changes the output file to mode 0600 BEFORE
  writing to it, so there is no window where passwords could be read by the
  world. Matthias Andree. fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt

# MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
* Remove support for --netsec/-T options, the required inet6_apps library is no
  longer available.
  http://www.inner.net/pub/ipv6/ states, as of 2005-07-03: "/pub/ipv6
  Our IPv6 software is now long defunct. Please find a more modern source."
  I haven't been able to find a more modern source.  Matthias Andree
* Operating systems that do not conform to the Single Unix Specification v2
  (1997) or v3 (2001, aka IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) are no longer supported. They
  may continue to work and non-intrusive patches to support them may be
  accepted.  Matthias Andree
* The default for --smtphost is now always "localhost" regardless of
  authentication types and protocols, so as to simplify configurations for
  workstations where the SMTP daemon only listens on the loopback interface.
  Sunil Shetye & Matthias Andree

# OBSOLETION WARNINGS
* The MX and host alias lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode are
  obsolete, deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version
  without further notice. Their support for IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4)
  is unspecified. (MA)
* The monitor and interface options may also be removed from a future fetchmail
  version as they are not sufficiently portable. (MA)
* POP2 is obsolete. Support for POP2 may be removed from a future fetchmail
  version without further notice. (MA)

# OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
* Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR)
* PopDel.py removed from contrib at author's request. (ESR)
* Matthias Andree's fix for Sunil Shetye's fetch-split patch. (ESR)
* Include James Stone's moldremover.py script. (ESR)
* Enable .fetchmailrc permissions checking under Cygwin. (ESR)
* Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication. (ESR)
* Revised Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication (the
  original version would go into an infinite loop when CAPA failed;
  found by David Greaves.) (MA)
* HOME_ETC patch for PLD Linux. (ESR)
* Sunil Shetye's fix for SSL configuration. (ESR)
* Simon Josefsson's patch for GSS library support. (ESR)
* Added Andrey Lelikov's recipe for Hotmail and Lycos Webmail. (ESR)
* Remove blank between MAIL FROM: and <, which causes Cyrus to complain.
  Patch by Phil Endecott. (RF)
* Build fixes for HESIOD and resolv.h trouble on FreeBSD. (MA)
* Fabrice Bellet's fix for Red Hat bug #113492, fetchmail hangs in IMAP
  mode after EXPUNGE when the server (Dovecot 0.99.10) doesn't update
  RECENT and EXISTS counts. (MA)
* Holger Mauermann's bounce patch, to use a NULL envelope from, not
  write a Return-Path header (both to meet RFC-2821), changed From,
  added Subject header, rewording the human readable part.  Fixes Debian
  bug #316446. (MA)
* Merge Sunil Shetye's time.h handling fix. (MA)
* Merge Gerd von Egidy's patch to avoid a segfault in multidrop/received
  mode when the Received: headers are malformatted. (MA)
* MIME-encode bodies and Subject headers of warning messages, limiting
  the header to 7 bits. (MA)
* Normalize most locale codesets to IANA codesets, based on
  norm_charmap.c by Markus Kuhn. (MA)
* Remove sleep(3) after POP3 login, patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
* Fix option parsing bug that trashes the showdots setting when more
  than one server is configured. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
* Honor sslcertpath setting even if sslcertck is unset. Patch by Brian
  Candler. (MA)
* SSL certificate checking fixes, don't display same error message twice
  in succession, make sure that Common Name and fingerprint checking are
  only done once. Print all validation warnings/errors even if not in
  verbose mode. Patch by Brian Candler. (MA)
* Import Bjorn Reese and Daniel Stenberg's MIT-licensed Trio 1.10 from
  http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/ for systems that do not support
  snprintf or vsnprintf. (MA)
* Clean up the horrible #ifdef HAVE_[V]SNPRINTF that made the code
  unreadable. Use Trio where [v]snprintf is/are missing. (MA)
* Default to Linux 2.2 /proc/net/dev format, and use uname(2) to determine the
  kernel version instead of calling uname(1). Thanks to Paul Slootman.  (MA)
* Be more careful when swapping UID lists or writing the .fetchids file,
  requested by Manfred Weihs. (MA)
* Print a warning if multidrop configuration is attempted without
  envelope option. (MA)
* Split information on fetchmail versions before 6.0.0 to a separate
  OLDNEWS file. (MA)
* Merge SuSE patches: (sent by Stanislav Brabec, merged by Matthias Andree)
  - fetchmail-6.2.5-declaration.patch (double sigint_handler decl/getpass.c)
  - fetchmail-6.2.5-implicit-declaration.patch (missing #include)
  - fetchmail-6.2.5-random-result.patch (uninitialized variable/opie.c)
* Revised some bogus assertions about POP3 LAST and UIDL use in the
  manual page. UIDL isn't flaky as the man page suggested, but a
  reliability feature. In fact, IMAP4 code is flaky in that it relies on
  the upstream seen flags. (MA)
* Miloslav Trmac's patch for fetchmailconf to support string-type values
  of the "port" variable, avoiding "port None" corruption in .fetchmailrc.
  To fix Redhat Bug #55623 (MA)
* de.po fixes from Nico Golde (MA)
* es.po fixes from Jesus Roncero, Debian bug #286044 (MA)
* sink.c fix from Cesar Eduardo Barros, to avoid double @ in address
  when username contains an @ and the envelope sender is null, Debian
  bug #272289 (MA)
* configure.ac cleanups by Miloslav Trmac (MA)
* Miloslav Trmac's fix to reply_hack() type, for systems where
  sizeof(int) != sizeof(size_t). (MA)
* Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for driver.c to not call the private Kerberos
  krb5_init_ets() function. Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
* Nalin Dahyabhai's fix for sink.c/transact.c to reserve sufficient
  space for \r\n trailers in snprintf calls. Sent by Miloslav Trmac,
  possibly fixing Red Hat bug #114470. (MA).
* Nalin Dahyabhai's patch to use the krb5-config script, if present.
  Sent by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
* Nalin Dahyabhai's fix to make rpa.c compile. Sent by Miloslav Trmac.
  (MA)
* Trivial fetchmailconf.man to redirect to fetchmail.1.
  Reported by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
* Updated and re-enabled Czech translation, by Miloslav Trmac (MA).
* Internationalization (i18n) updates by Miloslav Trmac. (MA)
* Fix "couldn't find canonical DNS name of NN (MM)" for hosts that have
  only IPv6 addresses. Matthias Andree.
* Revised INSTALL after question from Brian Candler, inet6-apps is no
  longer available: remove inet6-apps hints for IPv6, and add some
  apologetic message for IPsec. Note the code may be removed in a future
  version. Matthias Andree.
* Brian Candler's FAQ update about SSL certificate verification. (MA)
* Nico Golde's patch to support "proto RPOP" in the configuration file,
  reported by Dr. Andreas Krüger, Debian bug #242384 (MA)
* Added Russian translation, courtesy of Pavel Maryanov of the
  Russian translation team. (MA)
* Dropped da=Danish, el=Greek, ja=Japanese, sq=Albanian and tr=Turkish
  translations which have more than 10% (61+) untranslated or fuzzy
  messages. Matthias Andree.
* Skip sending POP3 PASS command when USER command failed. Matthias Andree.
* Run fetchmail.man through automatic spell checker. Matthias Andree.
* Major fetchmail(1) manual page overhaul by R. Hannes Beinert, to
  clarify singledrop vs. multidrop operation. (MA)
* Make tracepolls a server option, as documented. Fixes Debian bug
  #156094. Matthias Andree.
* Updated some translations. (MA)
* Fix some minor inaccuracies (RFC-1893 related, grammar/spelling) in
  the manual page.
* Rename ESR's design notes to esrs-design-notes.html and add a new
  design-notes.html document. The NOTES file will contain both of them.
  Matthias Andree.
* Fix Debian bug #301964, fetchmail leaks sockets when SSL negotiation
  fails. Fix suggested Goswin Brederlow. (MA)
* Really fix Debian Bug#207919 (garbage in Received: lines when smtphost set),
  patch by Tobias Diedrich.  The 6.2.5 NEWS claimed Gregan's patch had fixed
  #207919 but it had fixed #212484 instead and #207919 remained unfixed in
  6.2.5. The entry below has been corrected to read #212484 now. (MA)
* When writing the PID file, write a FHS 2.3 compliant PID file.
  Fixes Debian bug #230615. Matthias Andree.
* Make ODMR really silent, suppress "fetchmail: receiving message
  data". Fixes Debian Bug#296163. Matthias Andree.
* Add From: header to warning emails. Debian Bug#244828. Matthias Andree.
* Fix IMAP code to use password of arbitrary length from configuration
  file (although not when read interactively). Debian Bug#276424.
  Matthias Andree
* Document that fetchmail may automatically enable UIDL option.
  Debian Bug#304701. Matthias Andree.
* Put *BOLD* text into the manual page near --mda to state unmistakably that
  the --mda %T and %F substitutions add single quotes, hoping to avoid bogus
  bug reports such as Debian Bug #224564. Matthias Andree
* Rename lock_release to fm_lock_release, to avoid namespace collision on
  Darwin. NetBSD PR#28543 (pkg/28543). Matthias Andree.
* The RFC-822 parser no longer strips the last character of bare addresses.
  Matthias Andree
* The IP address matching code was broken and 
  1. didn't search exhaustively, but matched only the first IP address of the
  server's queryname against the IP addresses of the server name to match.
  2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts.  Matthias Andree
* gettext (intl/) has been removed from the fetchmail package. Install GNU
  gettext 0.14 separately for NLS (i18n).  Matthias Andree
* fetchmailconf is now a shell wrapper that calls the byte-compiled
  fetchmailconf.py script, which is now installed in the regular python
  directory. Matthias Andree.
* The "port" option, while still understood, is being replaced by the "service"
  option, which is now supported even without --enable-inet6. Matthias Andree.
* The default distribution format is now bzip2. Matthias Andree.
* fetchmailconf redirects fetchmail's input from /dev/null so it doesn't
  wait for the user to enter a password when the user doesn't even see
  the prompt. Reported by Michal Marek. Matthias Andree.
* Write RFC-compliant BSMTP envelopes. Reported by Nico Golde. Matthias Andree.
* Fix --with-gssapi compilation problem. Simon Josefsson. (MA)
* Foster protocol-independence to support IPv6 better, for instance, providing
  IPv6 addresses in Received: headers. Matthias Andree.
* The --enable-inet6 configure option was removed. The code is mostly protocol
  agnostic, a fully IPv6 aware OS is expected to provide getaddrinfo(),
  getnameinfo() and the macro AF_INET6.  Matthias Andree.
* Received: headers now enclose the for <...> destination address in angle
  brackets for consistency with Postfix.  Matthias Andree.
* Operating systems that do not support at least one of gethostbyname,
  gethostbyname_r, getipnodebyname are no longer supported.  Matthias Andree.
* Fixes to --with-hesiod option. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
* Delete oversized messages with the new --limitflush option. Debian
  Bug#212240. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
* Fix MacOS X compilation failures in sink.c (ru_*time has incomplete type).
  Berlios Bug #4725. Matthias Andree.
* Fix "auth ntlm" to send AUTH NTLM (rather than AUTH MSN). Add "auth msn"
  officially. Reported by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
* Expunge between IMAP folders when polling multiple folders.
  Sunil Shetye. (MA)
* Fix IMAP expunged message counting. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
* Add full support for --service option. Matthias Andree
* Fix Japanese translation of "no other fetchmail is running". Debian
  Bug#329342, Takeshi Hamasaki. (MA)
* When getaddrinfo() fails resolving a service, log getaddrinfo() error. (MA)
* Fix bogus "cannot resolve service * to port number" error. Simon Barner. (MA)
* Failure to set up SSL connections now results in PS_SOCKET. Suggested by
  Thomas Wolff. Matthias Andree.
* Kerberos IV detection fix for FreeBSD 4. Simon Barner. (MA)
* Fix display and documentation of --envelope option. Matthias Andree
* Make "envelope 'Delivered-To'" work with dropdelivered. Timothy Lee. (MA)
* Add -DBIND_8_COMPAT to Darwin (MacOS X) compiles, to fix build problems on
  newer Darwin versions. Matthias Andree.
* fetchmail should now automatically detect if OpenSSL requires -ldl.
  Matthias Andree.
* Fix Solaris build with --disable-nls (blastwave.org). Matthias Andree.
* Missed --port/--service/--ssl cleanups in the manual. Reminder from Thomas
  Wolff. (MA)
* Complain in POP3 if NTLM/MSN auth is requested but had not been enabled at
  compile time. This configuration mismatch now causes an error message and
  authentication failure. Found by Yves Boisjoly.  Matthias Andree
* fetchmailconf now allows expert users to choose the authorization type and
  also offers MSN and NTLM, suggested by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree
* fetchmailconf now (as of 1.49) writes its version to the comment of the
  saved run control file. Matthias Andree
* Properly shut down SSL connections. Berlios Patch #647 by Arkadiusz
  Miśkiewicz. (MA)
* Global variable cleanup, to fix daemon mode reinitialization problems. Patch
  by Sunil Shetye. (MA)
* fetchmailconf -h documents the fetchmailconf -h option. Matthias Andree
* fetchmailconf -V now prints the fetchmailconf version. Matthias Andree
* Add support for SubjectAltName (RFC-2595 or 2818), to avoid bogus certificate
  mismatch errors. Patch by Roland Stigge, Debian Bug#201113. (MA)
* make fetchmail --silent --quit really silent, Debian Bug #229014 by Dr.
  Andreas Krüger.  Matthias Andree
* cleanup --quit handling again (so that --silent --quit just kills the
  existing daemon, rather than continue running), and document it more clearly.
  Matthias Andree
* Print an error message if multiple "defaults" records are found in the
  configuration file.  Matthias Andree
* Bury on_exit officially - the necessary code had been missing from 6.0.0,
  6.2.0, 6.2.5.  Matthias Andree
* Exit with error if the lock file cannot be read.  Matthias Andree
* Exit with error if the lock file cannot be created exclusively, this got
  broken in a 6.2.6-pre, 6.2.5.2 and older were fine.  Matthias Andree
* Do not break some other process's lockfile in "-q" mode, but wait for the
  other process's exit.  Matthias Andree
* Man page: --sslfingerprint points user to x509(1ssl) and gives an example
  how to use it. Debian Bug#213484, Eduard Bloch. (MA)
* Try to obtain FQDN as our own host by default, rather than using "localhost".
  If hostname cannot be qualified, complain noisily and continue, unless
  Kerberos, ODMR or ETRN are used (these require a FQDN).
  Partial fix of Debian Bug#150137. Fixes Debian Bug#316454.  Matthias Andree
* fetchmailconf now sets the service properly after autoprobe. Fixes Debian
  Bug#320645.  Matthias Andree
* Man page: Fix Debian Bug#241883, making global options more clear. Matt
  Swift, Matthias Andree.
* When eating IMAP message trailer, don't see any line containing "OK" as the
  end of the trailer, but wait for the proper tagged OK line. To work around
  the qmail + Courier-IMAP problem in Debian Bug#338007. Matthias Andree
* Fix Debian Bug#317761: when trying to send a bounce message, don't bail out
  if we cannot qualify our own hostname, so we aren't losing the bounce.
  Instead, pass the buck on to the SMTP server and use our own unqualified
  hostname. Matthias Andree
* Revise some error messages so they are less confusing. Sunil Shetye.
* Man page: update --smtphost documentation. Matthias Andree
* Man page: clarify --loghost works only while detached. Matthias Andree

# INTERNAL CHANGES
* Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
* Got rid of alloca() in fetchmail proper.  Matthias Andree
* Got rid of ipv6-connect, inner_connect and thereabouts.  Matthias Andree

fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:

* Updated Spanish, Turkish, and German translation files.
* Matthew Gregan's patch to handle garbage lengths from dbmail;
  closes Debian bug #212484.
* Fix IMAP query so new-message count doesn't include deleted messages.
* Man page typo fix, closes Debian bug #205892.
* OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl@acm.org.
* Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
  flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
* Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of 
  host/port option.
* Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
* Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
* Sunil Shetye's patches to break up fetching of sizes and UIDLs.

There are 599 people on fetchmail-friends and 748 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.2.4 (Wed Aug 13 04:27:35 EDT 2003), 22625 lines:

* Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
* IDLE is now supported using no-ops even if the server doesn't support
  the IMAP IDLE extension.
* Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
* Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
* Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
* Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
* Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.

There are 585 people on fetchmail-friends and 745 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.2.3 (Thu Jul 17 14:53:00 EDT 2003), 22490 lines:

* French, German, Danish, Spanish, and Turkish translations updated.
* Brian Sammon's patch to deal with malformed message lines containing NULs.
* Fai's patch to ignore all but the first Return-Path (some spams have
  more than one of these).
* Benjamin Drieu's patch to properly byte-stuff when talking to BSMTP.
  Fixes Debian bug #184469.
* Benjamin Drieu's patch to enable auth=cram-md5.
  Fixes Debian bug #185232.
* Sunil Shetye's configure.in patch to avoid spurious search order messages
  from GCC.
* Header-reading code now copes better with lines ending in \n only.
* Elias Israel's patches for POP3 NTLM support and dealing with byte-
  stuffing failures at socket level.

There are 580 people on fetchmail-friends and 750 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:

* Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior on empty messages.
* Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful 
  STARTTLS negotiation.
* Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
* Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security.
* Christophe GIAUME <christophe@giaume.com> finished the implementation
  of RFC2177 IDLE.
* Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
* Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
* Fix for Debian bug #108977, clean up config file evaluation,
  by Benjamin Drieu.

There are 554 people on fetchmail-friends and 727 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.2.1 (Tue Jan 14 08:17:19 EST 2003), 22219 lines:

* Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
* Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
* Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check, 
  we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
* Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.

There are 536 people on fetchmail-friends and 716 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.2.0 (Fri Dec 13 00:10:07 EST 2002), 22235 lines:

* Applied Steffen Esser's fix for a buffer-overflow bug in rfc822.c
* Updated Danish, German, and Turkish translation files.
* Sunil Shetye's SMTP timeout patch.

There are 538 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.1.3 (Thu Nov 28 05:35:15 EST 2002), 22203 lines:

* Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
* Added Slovak support.
* Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas). 
* Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
* Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
* Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
* Sunil's fix for the STARTTLS problem -- repoll if TLS nabdshake
  fails.  The attempt to set up STARTTLS can be suppressed with 'sslproto ""'.

There are 540 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.1.2 (Thu Oct 31 11:41:02 EST 2002), 22135 lines:

* Jan Klaverstijn's verbosity-lowering patch.
* Updated Turkish, German, Catalan, and Danish translation files.
* Fix processing of POP3 messages with missing bodies.
* Minor fixes by Sunil Shetye: fix generation of auth fail note, handle
  unexpected SIGALRM, plug memory leak, handle lines beginning with '\0',
  try to bulletproof error handling against read failures.

There are 535 people on fetchmail-friends and 696 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.1.1 (Fri Oct 18 14:53:51 EDT 2002), 22087 lines:

* OTP fix patches from Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
* fix patch for writing antispam capability correctly in conf.c.
* Fix patches for Debian bugs #162571, #156592.
* Correction to manpage re -b and qmail.
* Patch to disable use of STLS if auth passwd is specified.
* Fix specfile generation to handle SSL correctly.
* New Danish, Turkish, and Catalan translation files.
* Improved ODMR debug messages.
* IMAP efficiency hack; don't fetch sizes unless needed.
* Detect and rewrite invalid return paths beginning with @.
* Fix for subtle freeing bug that suppressed information in some bounce msgs.
* Newline fix patches for internationalization files.
* Fix reversed test guarding authentication-failure warnings.
* Fix POP3 breakage starting at 5.9.14.

There are 529 people on fetchmail-friends and 693 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.1.0 (Sun Sep 22 18:31:23 EDT 2002), 21999 lines:

* Updated French translation.
* Stefan Esser's fix for potential remote vulnerability in multidrop mode.
  This is an important security fix!

There are 519 people on fetchmail-friends and 680 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.0.0 (Tue Sep 17 19:48:25 EDT 2002), 21972 lines:

* Applied Matt Kraai's fix for minor Debian bug #144539.
* Nerijus Baliunas's patch to support STARTTLS over IMAP.
* More cleanups and minor bugfixes from Sunil Shetye.
* Default antispam-response list is now empty.
* Updated de and po translations.

There are 520 people on fetchmail-friends and 683 on fetchmail-announce.

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