Changes:
# INCOMPATIBLE BUGFIXES AND CHANGES
* Fetchmail no longer drops permanently undelivered messages by default, to
match historic documentation. It does this by adding a new "softbounce"
option, see below.
Fixes Debian Bug#471283, demotes Debian Bug#494418 to wishlist.
* There is a new "softbounce" global option that prevents the deletion of
messages that have not been forwarded. It defaults to "true" for fetchmail
6.3.X in order to match historic documentation. This may change its default
in the next major release.
# BUGFIXES
* Fix misuse of canonical autoconf target as _TARGET when it should have been
_HOST. Report and patch courtesy of Diego E. "Flameeyes" Pettenò.
Details:
http://blog.flameeyes...nonical-target * Do not lose PS_MAXFETCH (13) exit status when hitting maxpoll. Reported by
Michelle Konzack, Debian Bug#508667.
* Do not overlap source and destination fields in snprintf() in interface.c.
Courtesy of Nico Golde, Debian.
* When a pre- or post-connect command fails, now report the exit status or
termination signal properly through sys/wait.h macros.
* When acquiring a body, understand NIL ("no such data item"), as returned by
some MS Exchange versions. Fixes BerliOS Bug #11980 by KB Sriram.
* Make progress tickers (-v/--showdots) consistent, and update documentation
accordingly ("." for each 1024 octets read, "#" for a header written, and "*"
for each body line written.)
The conditions under which these had been printed were inconsistent,
illogical, and documentation hadn't matched real behaviour for long.
* For NTLM authentication, use dynamically allocated buffers.
Fixes Debian Bug#449179, reported by Stepan Golosunov.
* Non-delivery notice ("bounce mail") now mentions the original reason again,
before the address list. This fixes a regression introduced in 6.3.0.
* Several compiler warnings were fixed.
* The minimum recommended SMTP (RFC-5321) timeouts are enforced to leave
sufficient time for the listener to respond. Some synchronous listeners,
particularly when used with spam filtering and other policy enforcement
services, take extended amounts of time to process messages after the sender,
recipient, or data block and EOM line. This can cause fetchmail to not wait
long enough for the "250 Ok" and make fetchmail believe the message wasn't
properly delivered when in fact it was; fetchmail would then retry the
download next time and never make progress.
Fixes Berlios Bug #10972, reported by Viktor Binzberger.
* The ESMTP/LMTP client will now apply an application-specific timeout while
waiting for the EHLO/LHLO response, rather than wait for the server or TCP
connection timeout.
* Treat 530 errors as temporary, so as not to delete messages on configuration
errors. Partially taken from Petr Cerny's patch in Novell Bugzilla #246829.
The 501 part of said patch was not added, as the maintainer is not convinced
501 is a temporary condition, and softbounce takes care of this anyways.
# CHANGES
* Make the comparison of the SSL fingerprints case insensitive, to
ease its use. Suggested by Daniel Richard G.
* Proper precedence ordering for the syslog and logfile options. If the logfile
option is effective (i. e. we're not in daemon mode and nodetach isn't used),
reset the syslog option. If logfile is ineffective (we're not in daemon mode,
or nodetach is set), syslog takes precedence.
* The sleeping at/awakened at messages appear in logfiles and syslog only if
verbose mode is enabled. On the console, they will still appear without
verbose mode. Fixes Debian Bug#282259.
* fetchmail only requests IPv6 addresses via name service if at least one is
configured on the local host, likewise for IPv4. (AI_ADDRCONFIG flag to
getaddrinfo()) Extended version of Redhat's patch.
* UNSUPPORTED/EXPERIMENTAL: If the server name contains "yahoo.com", offers the "ID" capability, and we're
polling via IMAP, send an ID ("guid" "1") transaction first, ignoring its
result. This appears needed to be able to log into Yahoo's Zimbra servers, but
there are open issues (such as being only able to download one message and
server certificate mismatches).
# CHANGES TO CONTRIB
* Fix bashism in contrib/fetchsetup. Fixes Debian Bug#530081.
# DOCUMENTATION
* Some parts of the the manual page were revised for clarity, accuracy, and
updated recommendations (particularly SSL/TLS) and formatting conventions from
man-pages(7).
* The README and README.SSL documents were updated.
* A document, README.SSL-SERVER, was added to describe server-side requirements
for proper SSL and/or TLS service offerings. These are not specific to
fetchmail.
* Documentation on how to make "NOMAIL" (exit code 1) not treated an error has
been added to the EXIT CODES section of the manpage and to the FAQ as item C8.
The suggested solution uses a tiny POSIX shell script fragment.
Fixes Debian Bug #530749, filed by Reuben Thomas.
# TRANSLATION UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (ordered by language name):
* [cs] Czech (Petr Pisar)
* [en_GB] English/British
* [de] German
* [id] Indonesian (Andhika Padmawan)
* [it] Italian (Vincenzo Campanella)
* [ja] Japanese (Takeshi Hamasaki)
* [pl] Polish (Jakub Bogusz)
* [ru] Russian (Pavel Maryanov), fixing Debian Bug #531925
* [es] Spanish/Castilian (Francisco Molinero)
* [zh_CN] Chinese/Simplified (Ji ZhengYu)