4 In the following numbers in [] reference either the commit SHA1 hash or
5 the name of a topic branch which relate to the NEWS entry;
6 Likewise, numbers after an at-sign @ are mdocmx(7) manual anchor
7 references which allow directly jumping to the given anchor.
8 Likewise, but numbers after a number sign # refer to the web manual
9 (courtesy of grohtml the manuals diverged in the meanwhile).
10 Commits can be browsed by appending the commit hash to
11 https://git.sdaoden.eu/cgit/s-nail.git/commit/?id=
13 The complete changelog of commits in between two versions can be
14 inspected by using the git(1) `log' command as shown below, where "OLD"
15 and "NEW" are the two versions to be compared.
18 $ git log --reverse --topo-order --abbrev-commit OLD..NEW
19 # Only topic branch headers (--no-merges for content commits only):
20 $ git log --oneline --reverse --topo-order --merges OLD..NEW
21 # Same, but truly accessible:
22 $ git log --oneline --reverse --topo-order --merges --parents OLD..NEW |
23 while read c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6; do
24 printf "%-24s: \$ git log --oneline --no-merges ${c1} ^${c2}\n" "${c6}";
27 v14.8.13 ("Cyrustrupidae"), 2016-10-19
28 --------------------------------------
30 We are happy to present you an Entomologic sensation, which
31 counteracts the decline of life that can be seen all around us.
32 Inspection of environments that mankind hasn't seen since ancient
33 times reveiled a sofar undiscovered species of dung beetle: the
36 Thanks to Stephen Isard, Ralph Corderoy, Jürgen (Juergen) Daubert,
37 Lyndon Nerenberg and David Levine
38 We welcome Lyndon Nerenberg and David Levine in THANKS.
40 Apologies to Jürgen Daubert (false spelling of name in commit message).
42 S-nail will become S-mailx after v14.9, and all project resources
43 will move to www.sdaoden.eu with v14.9; only the ML remains hosted
44 at Sourceforge.net as of this writing.
45 We thank Sourceforge.net for hosting this project so many years!
47 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
48 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
50 - We now support IMAP internationalized names, to be "simulated" via the
51 new user command `imapcodec'@135|#_135:
53 ?0[tmail ]? imapc enc Trübe/Wölkchen
54 in: Trübe/Wölkchen (16 bytes)
55 out: Tr&APw-be/W&APY-lkchen (22 bytes)
56 ?0[tmail ]? imapcodec decode Tr&APw-be/W&APY-lkchen
57 in: Tr&APw-be/W&APY-lkchen (22 bytes)
58 out: Trübe/Wölkchen (16 bytes)
59 ?0[tmail ]? copy 1 +Trübe/Wölkchen
60 "imap://user1@localhost/Trübe/Wölkchen" [New file] 6850 bytes
62 Those who were used to get around the missing support by using
63 readily-encoded names have to update their resources because passing
64 in such a name will result in re-encoding. [Quite a lot, see below]
66 - The special handling of *folder*@382|#376 for IMAP boxes has been
67 deprecated after introduction of the new *inbox*@396|#_396 variable,
68 which will henceforth be regulary used for expansions of "%"
69 filenames. If it is set to the empty string then _only_ that
70 special-casing of *folder* is bypassed, and the usual $MAIL /
71 compile-time mailspool search is applied. [c220e90,a324bf3]
72 (Stephen Isard, Jürgen Daubert)
74 - Cyrus IMAP servers with their dot hierarchy delimiter should now be
75 supported. The variable *imap-delim*@393|#_393 (and [-USER]@HOST
76 variants) will be used to normalize if set, otherwise the first seen
77 possible delimiter is used. [a65afca,9e23878,21568f8]
78 (Stephen Isard, Jürgen Daubert)
80 ?0[tmail ]? Fi+Trübe.............Wölkchen
81 IMAP error: Mailbox doesn't exist: Trübe.Wölkchen (0.000 + 0.000 secs).
82 #ERR#?1[tmail +Trübe.Wölkchen]? set imap-delim-user1@localhost=/.
83 Oh. Mailbox changed. Not before v15, sorry.
84 ?0[tmail +Trübe.Wölkchen]? Fi+Trübe.............Wölkchen
85 "+Trübe/Wölkchen": 1 message [Read only]
86 ?0[tmail +Trübe.Wölkchen]? unset imap-delim-user1@localhost
87 ?0[tmail +Trübe.Wölkchen]? Fi+Trübe/.............Wölkchen
88 "+Trübe/Wölkchen": 1 message [Read only]
90 git(1) shortlog (edited)
91 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
93 44087f3 `z': add ^: goes to first screen; fix max calc for 0 modulos
94 1657626 Simplify *folder* (implicit trail solidus) (Stephen Isard, Ralph
96 7a09af6 `write'++: !interactive: urlxenc() attachment paths (Ralph Corderoy)..
98 If non-interactive batch mode would be commonly in use i would claim
99 this to be a security fix, but not yet.. If messages are `write'n out
100 in non-interactive mode then it is now ensured that attachments end in
101 the current directory, that they don't overwrite yet existing files, and
102 that shell pipes won't be executed (after the now applied name
103 conversion the pipe command ends up as a normal filename).
105 c220e90 Add *inbox* (Stephen Isard, and Jürgen Daubert)..
106 a65afca Add *imap-delim{,-{{,USER@}HOST}}* (Stephen Isard, Jürgen Daubert)
107 8f0f225 IMAP: [a65afca] (Add *imap-delim{,-{{,USER@}HOST}}*) for real now
111 ba4f26f n_utf32_to_utf8(): fix upper limit (should be 0x10FFFF)
112 dfea333 page_or_print(): never use $PAGER unless startup complete
113 49fb63f `write'++: !interactive:.. But now, really (Lyndon Nerenberg, David
118 fcd376f THANKS: David Levine and Lyndon Nerenberg
119 57c4ee3 cmd_tab.h: allow history for `unset', `unsetenv' (i.e.: tweak
121 9e23878 *imap-delim* if not set, use first delim user gave
122 a324bf3 *inbox*: if empty, only bypass *folder* to $MAIL or builtin default
123 202b1a6 Add `urlcodec', obsolete `url{en,de}code'
124 21568f8 *imap-delim*: aeh, just fix this even for mailbox==NULL
125 830f948 IMAP: add support for international mailbox names..
126 d015c46 IMAP: fix and tweak previous [830f948]
127 583a5bd IMAP cache: tweak previous two, i have forgotten an imap_path_decode()
129 2feab02 imap_path_decode(): better approach for [6121ff9]
130 36f06cc imap_path_decode(): fix corner case; `imapcodec': makeprint() when
132 b3803d5 `urlcodec': makeprint() when decoding
133 35506b0 imap_path_encode(): sigh. Finally: do not simply include & in shifted
135 f146b54 imap_path_{en,de}code(): fix iconv_open() to/from charset order
137 v14.8.12 ("Bubas"), 2016-10-05 (v14.8.11 as of 2016-10-03 broken)
138 ------------------------------------------------------------------
140 A cumulated bugfix release.
141 It also brings in some corrections to no-brainers of the past.
143 Thanks to Antonio Radici, Stephen Isard and Predrag Punosevac.
144 We welcome Antonio Radici and Predrag Punosevac in THANKS.
146 Apologies to Stephen Isard, and John Dodson.
148 S-nail will become S-mailx after v14.9, and all project resources
149 will move to www.sdaoden.eu with v14.9; only the ML remains hosted
150 at Sourceforge.net as of this writing.
151 We thank Sourceforge.net for hosting this project so many years!
153 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
154 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
156 - The repository layout has been changed / extended!
157 Please see README on interest.
159 git(1) shortlog (edited)
160 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
162 f01291d extract_date_from_from_(): dig more invalid MBOXes (Antonio Radici)..
163 98050a7 THANKS: Antonio Radici
165 freedesktop.org obfuscates MBOX From_ lines, and S-nail was much too
166 strict for quite some time. This strict behaviour was introduced as
167 part of the fixes which finally allowed roundtripping messages in
168 between different mailbox types, but it didn't really work out.
170 In the future we only warn if we see invalid MBOX files, and will print
171 the invalid lines with *debug* or *verbose* set, but anyway accept what
174 096809e popen.c:_file_save(): FIX false cherry-pick [41250b1] for IMAP..
176 v14.8.10 couldn't do "copy * IMAP-SPEC" due to this.
178 788aad0 url_parse(): better take better care for path parts (Stephen Isard)..
179 fb32f8f IMAP: honour readonly via -R, not only via `File' (Stephen Isard)
183 bd6090d sendout.c: fix HAVE_DEBUG From_ quoting..
184 e716a9c Many: drop support for *mbox-rfc4155* - a no-brainer..
186 More on MBOX, as above.
188 603a3dd sendmp(), setfile(): FIX: ensure time_current is actualized
190 Oh! Yes, there were actually two code paths which suffered a lot from
191 the "optimize date and time systemcalls" from years ago! Now fixed. ._.
193 63e7ade is_head(): change compat argument to check_rfc4155..
195 More on MBOX, as above.
197 c5b40e4 okeys.h: regenerate (Apologies: Stephen Isard)
201 3838ffd setptr(): tweak [63e7ade], log more invalid From_'s if verbose
203 More on MBOX, as above.
205 2eb6ca1 mime_types.c:_mt_by_filename(): basename() path (fix/tweak relative
207 b9599b0 make.rc, mk-conf.sh: WANT_DEVEL includes WANT_DEBUG, but not vice
209 ec81a41 cmd_tab.h: allow history for `set', `setenv', `varshow'
211 Much better to see them in the `history'.
213 a715162 Add a RFC 6068 url_mailto_to_address() hack for List-Post:
215 We will now strip off any hfield additions after a "?", and we will
216 perform URL percent decoding before using the value given.
217 (Is only used for "automatic mailing-list detection".)
219 e774dfb imap.c: do not hard error out if FEDIT_SYSBOX|FEDIT_NEWMAIL
220 39a7571 FIX "," message specification (since [1c4b8c9], v14.8.4)..
222 Yes, you can say "f," again, and it should find the parent message.
224 171f111 FIX [44cec1f] (Fix "address" message specifications (John Dodson))..
226 Sorry, Mr. John Dodson of Australia. They now really work as
227 standardized with our extensions, and there is nothing anyone can do
230 256da01 *folder*: IMAP: add /INBOX when there is a trailing slash (Stephen
232 2afd5c8 Previous, IMAP now for much better (Stephen Isard)
233 e5eb5fe Fix + expansion for IMAP, broken since [edb2dcd], 2013-06!!
234 ce40a87 imap.c: do not print update message on readonly boxes
235 52fcb7e Oops, restore proper *folder* behaviour for non-IMAP
236 111f80a FixFix IMAP "+" expansion and more (Predrag Punosevac)
238 More IMAP fixes. Should really work now as good as never before.
240 v14.8.10 ("Anachalcos"), 2016-08-20
241 -----------------------------------
243 A cumulated bugfix release.
244 And because v14.9 still takes time.
248 Apologies to Sergey and those members of the Roff community which would
249 like to see progress!
251 S-nail will become S-mailx after v14.9, and all project resources
252 will move to www.sdaoden.eu with v14.9; only the ML remains hosted
253 at Sourceforge.net as of this writing.
254 We thank Sourceforge.net for hosting this project so many years!
259 Yes, "quick and dirty" only for Anachalcos.
261 7f7bae1 Fix `z' (Tim)
263 Fixes page-wise movement if the argument is greater than 9.
265 43ad441 THANKS: update mail address of Tim (trondd)
266 8b85b96 Fix compiler warning of [7f7bae1] (Fix `z' (Tim))
267 6afff81 FIX possible intwrap caused delays (for mailboxes with size == 1)
268 530e81f FIX n_utf8_to_utf32() sequence length checks (since [558d8b8],
270 78083c0 HTML filter: filter out some characters
271 407a705 Actively filter out U+00AD characters (Vincent Lefevre)..
272 e5591f2 THANKS: Vincent Lefevre
273 5c458cc FIX MBOX append (since ever (nail 11.16, 2004-11-18])!)..
275 This only fixes invalid non-empty MBOX mailboxes, so "FIX" is possibly
278 75982b9 bidi_info_needed(): no variation selectors etc. -- CText, where are
280 e65db06 FIX n_verr(): cannot reuse va_list..
282 Only for error messages > ~2 KB, which we usually don't produce.
284 23e8697 Fix *quote-fold* (on GNU/Linux iswspace() does not return boolean!)
285 98cf903 FIX: really_rewind() for pre POSIX Issue 7
287 Hardly affects anyone, i had to look into old v5 FreeBSD: maybe.
289 41250b1 FIX: no O_APPEND for .bz2/.xz/*file-hook-load*! Use lseek(2)!!..
291 This is the reason for this release, and applies to all C libraries
292 which optimize fseek(3) and do not adjust the file descriptor via
293 lseek(2) if the resulting offset is in the I/O buffer.
294 It seems to enable me to say
296 set file-hook-load-xz_pgp='gpg -d | xz -dc' \
297 file-hook-save-xz_pgp='xz -zc | gpg -e'
299 on a GNU/Linux system without ending up with corrupted boxes,
300 i.e., a complaining gpg(1) that says that says so.
302 224d858 popen.c:_file_save(): adjust partial [41250b1] cherry-pick
303 87c902a sendmp(): fix possible false insertion of colour reset seq.
305 v14.8.9 ("Dung Beetle"), 2016-06-21
306 -----------------------------------
308 A cumulated bugfix release.
310 Credits Ralph Corderoy.
311 Apologies, Dirk-Wilhelm Peters.
313 S-nail will become S-mailx after v14.9, and all project resources
314 will move to www.sdaoden.eu with v14.9; only the ML remains hosted
315 at Sourceforge.net as of this writing.
316 We thank Sourceforge.net for hosting this project so many years!
321 - *signature* and tail injections now work correctly even in combination
322 with -t. [d4237ac] (Dirk-Wilhelm Peters)
324 - Fix faulty (by-one) buffer overflow calculation in the NCL line editor
325 that could sometimes be seen when using ^W for backward deleting
326 a word when using this at a freshly created rightmost columns.
327 Bug was introduced in [d33bd89] (tty.c, NCL: reduce realloc counts,
328 2013-08-23). (Ralph Corderoy)
333 b0b974e mk-conf.sh: disable -b for tcc(1) [mob]
334 a415c58 makefile:_update-release: symlinks do not work with lighttpd, use hard
336 2fefb1f collect(): fit ~? output in 25 lines (fixes [5dea8a4,4e61d5c] ;)
337 7c7c888 mime.types: oops, fix x-xz tbz->txz extension!
338 c40c206 collect(): hint for `~.' if *ignoreeof* is set, not ".": needs *dot*
339 d4237ac Fix *signature* / tail injection in conjunction with -t..
340 ef6a9c2 mk-conf.sh: pcc(1) as of CVS works without stack protectors!
341 d5cec10 FIX HTML filter: swallow lone ampersands in parameters (SIGH!)..
342 08eb902 FIX: avoid duplicate output for HTML filter..
343 524adf4 makeprint(): filter some iswprint()==true, but which really aren't..
344 552b2b8 `set': fix quoting when printing all variables
345 aa8df72 mk-conf.sh: fix DEVEL<->DEBUG interdependency; terminate printf(1)
347 f84b0cd mk-conf.sh: check for the needed environ(3)
348 b5af710 mk-conf.sh: fix [f84b0cd]: NULL needs stdio.h
349 fdcbf59 Again "improve" ~? listing
350 ba29651 FIX: cntrlchar() was broken since [4e49924] from 2012-10-15!!
351 08ab13f tty.c, NCL fix possible off-by-one (Ralph Corderoy)
352 815e99f makefile:_update-release: rm TODO in [timeline] _shipout release_ ball
354 v14.8.8 ("The Vulture 38"), 2016-03-26 (v14.8.7 as of 2016-03-25 broken)
355 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
357 A cumulated bugfix release.
359 Credits Gaetan Bisson, Sergey Matveev, Dirk-Wilhelm Peters, Allan McRae
361 All the mentioned persons deserve special thanks indeed.
363 We welcome Sergey Matveev, Allan McRae and Ralph Corderoy in THANKS.
365 S-nail will become S-mailx after v14.9, and all project resources
366 will move to www.sdaoden.eu with v14.9; only the ML remains hosted
367 at Sourceforge.net as of this writing.
368 We thank Sourceforge.net for hosting this project so many years!
370 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
371 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
373 - Thanks to Sergey Matveev the Maildir code is now compatible to *BSD.
374 Interested persons may read the commit log. [0c30b14] (Sergey Matveev)
376 - The (much to restricted) test target should now work if $SHELL is set
377 to something "nologin". [7876f3a] (Gaetan Bisson)
379 - If *sendmail-no-default-arguments* is set we will NOT (!) terminate
380 MTA options with "--", assuming the user does. This allows, e.g.,
381 very sick things like (ouch) [8b0bdbe]
383 set sendmail="/bin/ssh" \
384 sendmail-arguments="steffen@sdaoden.eu /usr/sbin/sendmail -t" \
385 sendmail-no-default-arguments \
386 sendmail-progname="ssh"
391 - The primitive builtin HTML filter should now correctly parse HTML
392 parameters. It seems to become necessary ;) [e227a78,65df701]
394 - *signature* will now undergo MIME encoding. [fe209f7]
395 (Dirk-Wilhelm Peters)
397 - Operating systems without getaddrinfo(3) but only with gethostname(3)
398 should be able to resolve DNS (port numbers) correctly again.
399 [7dd3a71] (Allan McRae)
401 - The builtin NCL no longer counts gabby history limits against the
402 given maximum persistent history size unless gabbiness is desired.
405 - The builtin NCL couldn't paste more than one line since October 2015.
406 [ff5d914] (Ralph Corderoy)
408 ChangeLog (purely technical)
409 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
411 - WANT_READLINE environments should possibly have a better experience
412 hen interactively editing the attachment list. [ede2800]
413 (In general interactive situation has to improve a lot.)
415 - Fix a bit of weird buffer handling. [536d3a7,0f2cc31,e9a5c22]
418 - Fix the fixed buffer handling which broke v14.8.7. [3e4831a]
421 v14.8.6 ("Hen Harrier II"), 2015-12-28
422 --------------------------------------
424 A cumulated bugfix release.
426 Credits Hilko Bengen, Salvatore Bonaccorso, Martin Sebor,
427 Aharon Robbins and Philip Guenther.
429 We welcome all credited persons in THANKS.
431 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
432 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
434 - WANT_AMALGAMATION dependency tracking has been fixed.
437 - "INSTALL": clarification: "make" OR "make install", NOT "[make &&]
438 make install". More to come in v14.9. Also INSTALL now says that the
439 default configuration includes all non-experimental features, whereas
440 the otherwise identical CONFIG=MAXIMAL does include them.
443 - SENDMAIL will now fallback to /usr/sbin/sendmail if we don't find any
444 executable sendmail(1). We had some similar issue on ArchLinux, but
445 i failed to deal with the no-sendmail-available case. sendmail(1) is
446 expected in /usr/sbin on *BSD and according to Debian Policy 11.6.
447 [0e09d5e] (Salvatore Bonaccorso)
449 - SYSCONFRC no longer includes SYSCONFDIR. I.e., S-nail now does
450 load(SYSCONFDIR "/" SYSCONFRC);
453 It seems only CRUX-Linux is affected, and i've sent a patch. [807f64e]
455 - We now support the TinyCCompiler. [topic/tcc]
457 - And -- ouch! -- fix S-nail on Solaris, again. It was broken since
458 [3e863c6] (2015-06-23) since necessary linker flags had been
459 overwritten. [fd40d5a,6fe5448]
460 (We also deal with NAME_MAX being the minimum possible now, see below.)
465 - When `Lreply'ing to multiple messages and using the `~:' tilde command
466 the argument list of the `Lreply' itself would have been overwritten,
467 resulting in crashs. [9f5c403 (+ 1162af5,5f08362)]
469 - Temporarily forbid `mbox' but in a system mailbox. I hope v14.9 can
470 perform the action gracefully. [781ee34]
472 - On systems with "unsigned char" "char"s S-nail was broken for about
473 two and a half year since an E(nd)O(f)F(ile) condition would never
474 have been satisfied, resulting endless loops. Detected by the Debian
475 package build bot who hung endlessly when running "$ make test".
478 - Fixes to false signal handler restoration, partially false forever.
481 - Fix crashes in the error path of Zopen(). If a de-/compressor fails
482 Heirloom mailx would crash, and S-nail would have crashed in the debug
483 path and print "Alert: Invalid file pointer" in optimized code. Since
484 S-nail allows *file-hook-{load,save}-EXTENSION* the situation is much
485 worse, however. [8e7f0f4]
487 - Don't crash in `varedit' when $EDITOR doesn't start up. [5a5350b]
489 - The build system now sorts source files in order to honour
490 <https://reproducible-builds.org/>. [a939517]
492 - The build script has seen improvements. The (mysterious) hangs in VMs
493 are gone now that i have switched configuration evaluation to awk(1)
494 thanks to a suggestion by Aharon Robbins. In fact doing "$ make
495 CC=tcc devel" now takes the same time all-in-all that the mentioned
496 evalution took alone. [fa2e248] (Aharon Robbins)
498 This is true even if we know do a lot more of run tests instead of
499 plain link tests for native environment detection since the GNU
500 C library monster uses empty ENOSYS stubs for system calls it doesn't
501 provide. This is the reason why the Debian kFreeBSD S-nail package
502 doesn't work out by now. We are not aware of booting different
503 kernels with different feature sets than what we detected upon compile
504 time, though. I don't think we ever will. [3ee2d4c]
506 ChangeLog (purely technical)
507 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
509 - Dotlock file locking now ignores lock file creation failures on
510 readonly filesystems. Since the mailbox will be degraded to read-only
511 no dotlock file is needed. [40785bc]
513 And that really hurts: [3517800]! On Solaris NAME_MAX is set to the
514 minimum that POSIX allows (14), and we were not really prepared for
515 that. I.e., the lock for /var/mail/sdaoden would be
516 /var/mail/sdaoden.lock, we require at least one more byte for safe
517 lock file creation and yet included the terminating NUL in the
518 calculation, and whoops, dotlocking failed because of ENAMETOOLONG!
519 So do use pathconf(2) _exclusively_ if that succeeds to give an
520 answer. And we still have room for improvements that i as a C++
521 programmer with speedy dynamic Str objects would never thought i have
524 - Fix pathconf(2) usage. [31ce3e1] (Not wrong: Martin Sebor)
526 - First step to use the new *at() series of system-calls if available,
527 inspired by (Philip Guenther). [topic/time]
529 v14.8.5 ("Hen Harrier"), 2015-09-05
530 -----------------------------------
532 Credits John Dodson, Claudio Cappelli.
534 We welcome Claudio Cappelli in THANKS.
536 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
537 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
539 - I've forgotten to add obsoletion warning messages in v14.8.4, so
540 running with enabled -d/*debug* -vv/2x*verbose* may be useful.
543 - A series of bug FIXes (which caused the "Hen Harrier" in the end):
545 . v14.8.4 bug: macro content will be added to the history. [28672e5]
547 . Fallout of massive not-yet-dead style and control flow change series
548 in February 2014, I.: the close-on-exec bit of temporary file
549 descriptors wasn't set. [8f58404]
551 . Fallout of massive not-yet-dead style and control flow change series
552 in February 2014, II.: temporary files were always created in the
553 current directory. Aloha, heh. [edc12c8]
555 . v14.8.4 bug: when `resend'ing messages a crash would happen when
556 generating the Message-Id: (control flow messed up when hastily
557 implementing extended -t parsing). [9e63ae6]
558 (Hello, Bob Tennent: i finally have added at least a simple `resend'
559 test. Don't your worry.)
561 . v14.8.4 bug: plugged a file descriptor leak in the dotlock code (one
562 side of the control pipe was leaked upon success; there you see how
563 large ulimit(3) limits are by default today). [ed5c8cf]
565 - When using -t and a template message recipients given on the command
566 line will now be joined into the message instead of being discarded.
572 - The `set' command will now mark out assembled variables if *debug* or
573 2x*verbose* is set. [2b6e64a]
575 - Added *smime-cipher* @433 option (i.e., generic variant of
576 *smime-cipher-USER@HOST*). [58804ea]
578 - Messages will now _only_ be saved in *DEAD* if *save* is set (POSIX).
581 - The (pretty useless for now) `pipe' command will now also print the
582 overall message info (it printed MIME part infos already). [e0a8196]
584 - NAIL_FILENAME_GENERATED is now nothing but a random string. [36097df]
586 - *debug* now implies no*record* and no*save*. [ca9f512]
588 - After almost three years i've finally heard what John Dodson said and
589 changed/restored behaviour of plain "address" message specifications
590 to reflect the original intent (and a bit POSIX) so we now have
591 A case-insensitive “any substring matches” search against the
592 ‘From:’ header, which will match addresses (too) even if
593 showname[339] is set [things are different if *allnet* is set]
594 [44cec1f] (John Dodson)
596 - ..and therefore we need the possibility to somehow perform "exact
597 boundary" matches: for this i've extended the "@" message
598 specification with a header-name "~" prefix and header abbreviations:
599 ‘f’, ‘t’, ‘c’, ‘b’ and ‘s’ will match ‘From’, ‘To’, ‘Cc’, ‘Bcc’ and
600 ‘Subject’, respectively and case-insensitively.
602 This message specification performs full text comparison, but even
603 with regular expression support it is almost impossible to write a
604 search expression that savely matches only a specific address
605 domain. To request that the content of the header is treated as a
606 list of addresses, and to strip those down to the plain email
607 address which the search expression is to be matched against, pre‐
608 fix the header name (abbreviation) with a tilde ‘~’:
609 '@~f@@a\.safe\.domain\.match$'
612 - New option: *sendmail-no-default-arguments* @426 [d983036]
615 - Do no longer make a difference in "no mail for user" and "missing
616 system mailbox". The latter caused yet an annoying error message even
617 with *emptystart*. [7abff87]
619 - New command `source_if' @187 is like `source' but don't fails if the
620 file cannot be loaded. That is to say, we do not yet support
621 "-f FILE@ tests nor `test -f FILE` shell commands for `if', sigh.
624 ChangeLog (purely technical)
625 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
627 - Unless Gunnar Ritter is directly affected the fourth clause of the BSD
628 copyright has been dropped, as has been done for NetBSD Mail.
631 - Quoted-printable encoding will avoid printing a soft newline if only
632 a single character is about to follow. [6b31542]
634 - The configuration script now shows what it is doing at the beginning,
635 to overcome those hangs that can be seen especially in VMs. [4c29cea]
637 - The configuration will do an automatic "make clean" when the
638 configuration had been updated. [9706734]
640 - We no longer generate a MIME message unless that is necessary. I.e.,
641 a plain 7-bit (US-ASCII) message without attachments send from
642 a system daemon is a plain RFC 822/2822/5322 message and doesn't
643 require any MIME header. [824257a]
645 - To avoid that DNS resolver becomes unusable due to ^C interruption.
646 Also fixes a possible leak in non-getaddrinfo(3) codepath (old boxes).
649 v14.8.4 ("Nameless bird (shot by Hemingway)", 2015-08-04
650 --------------------------------------------------------
652 Thanks for Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas for beating me to it.
654 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
655 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
657 - Added support for the (BSD-licensed) idnkit[1] IDNA library which is
658 now in the base system of DragonFly BSD. We still only support
659 encoding, though. (And assume the hostname is in locale encoding.)
662 [1] <https://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/idn/idnkit/download/>
664 - I have rewritten the privilege-separated dotlock helper program,
665 because among others a SETGID one is of no use in todays world.
666 So it is now SETUID to the new PRIVSEP_USER.
668 . WANT_PRIVSEP and PRIVSEP_GROUP have been dropped.
670 . New option: WANT_DOTLOCK, by default enabled.
671 It is henceforth possible to strip any dotlock code off S-nail.
672 So either S-nail has complete dotlock support, including the
673 privilege-separated dotlock helper, or none at all.
675 . New variable: PRIVSEP_USER, by default "root".
676 It must be a privileged user that can be used to implement the new
677 strategy: we create the dotlock file and then fchown(2) it to the
678 UID and GID of the mailbox that we created it for. Like this the
679 owner of the mailbox (remember %USER, $USER, -u USER ..) will be
680 capable to remove the lock file herself. Or himself.
682 . No dotlocking was performed for reading, only for writing. I've
683 changed this. We also didn't perform any (file) locking at all when
684 updating non system-mailboxes, which i have changed, too.
686 . Fixed horrific bug: on systems without realpath(3), e.g., Solaris 9,
687 S-nail would not resolve symbolic links on the mailbox to lock,
688 potentially creating the lock file in the wrong directory.
690 . We now compare the inode/device/etc. of the mailbox file with the
691 information we collected a lot earlier from the open mailbox file
692 descriptor, and bail if they are not identical, to reduce attach
695 . The privsep helper now re-checks that it is capable to read (or
696 read/write) the mailbox it is creating a dotlock for, to reduce the
697 chance of being misused (by itself). I.e., it does so before
698 raising its privileges, say.
702 - The predefined CONFIG=urations have been changed a bit and now
703 "require" more options than they did before.
705 - Renamed WANT_ALL_SSL_ALGORITHMS to WANT_SSL_ALL_ALGORITHMS.
706 That was a no-brainer, default of "yes" remains, but it now can also
707 be "require"d. [910849e]
709 - The GitLab project repository URL has been changed and now is
710 <https://gitlab.com/sdaoden/s-nail.git> (leave off ".git" for browsing
716 - It has become possible to fixate the input character set of
717 attachments from the command line (without going over ~@):
718 when the -a @39 option cannot access(2) the file to be attached it
719 searches the filename for an equals-sign "=" and splits into filename
720 and character set shall it find one. A character set defined like
721 this is "fixated" and therefore no character set conversion occurs.
724 ./s-nail -d -s subject du@auch \
725 -aversion.h -aversion.h=KoI8-r -aversion.h=LaTin1 -aversion.h
727 >>> Content-Type: text/x-chdr; charset=US-ASCII
728 >>> Content-Type: text/x-chdr; charset=KoI8-r
729 >>> Content-Type: text/x-chdr; charset=LaTin1
730 >>> Content-Type: text/x-chdr; charset=US-ASCII
734 - In *debug* mode the content of the message that would have been sent
735 is printed on standard error not only in *smtp*, but also MTA mode.
736 E.g., as in the example above. [c106f35]
738 - S/MIME oops: S-nail yet didn't test for the "application/pkcs7-mime"
739 MIME type at all, but only for "/x-pkcs7-mime" (pre-standardized
740 variant), so that S/MIME messages generated by more modern MUAs (e.g.
741 Alpine) wouldn't have been understood!
742 And we do now use that MIME type ourself, as standardized by RFC
743 5751. However, we are still stupid and don't handle a signed message
744 inside a multipart/mixed message, neither do we support fully
745 encrypted messages (nothing but rfc822 member) etc. [10c2b16]
747 - *smime-cipher-USER@HOST* @431 values changed to versions without
748 hyphen, as that is what OpenSSL uses: e.g., AES256 not AES-256; the
749 latter versions are no longer documented and will be dropped with
752 - New variable *smime-sign-message-digest* [-USER@HOST] @437 can be used
753 to define the message digest for S/MIME signing. RFC 5751 mandates
754 a default of SHA1, by default available are also SHA256, SHA512,
755 SHA384 and SHA224, MD5 may be available, dependent on OpenSSL.
756 With WANT_SSL_ALL_ALGORITHMS more digests may be available. [2f6dac3]
758 - Using NAIL_FILENAME_GENERATED was prevented since some time since it
759 ended up longer than NAME_MAX (ENAMETOOLONG). [3bcbbfc,f632b5b]
761 - Heavily rewritten manual section "Signed and encrypted messages with
762 S/MIME" @35, giving a ready-to-go example for CAcert.org.
764 - Nicer output for `help' @126 / `?' @74 when given an argument:
765 if that is a command ghost we search for the expansion and do print
766 the (further expansion and) help for that if possible [cea8c20]:
769 save: Append <message-list> to <file>
771 s (save): Append <message-list> to <file>
774 s -> s (save): Append <message-list> to <file>
776 - No longer allowing recursive commands in macros to avoid that the
777 following can crash us (check can be bypassed):
786 This is a pity because "? call ouch" does no longer cause a reply,
787 but the real healing will take time.
788 Also the `source' command is now actively disabled during macro
789 evaluation -- this only works(/ed) by accidence and anyway non-
790 synchronously (the `source'd file will be loaded after the macro
791 evaluation has finished). The real healing for this is heavy stuff
792 and will remove a smart and fantastic idea from before 1979, but it
793 won't work out with macro support (see commit message for more upon
796 - And `source' will be actively forbidden in compose mode, too. It
797 never worked the way it should. [abd388c]
799 - Did -t @60 ever work for real? Now it does.
800 Even better it now "supports" some more header fields (References:,
801 In-Reply-To:, Message-ID:, and Mail-Followup-To:, but the latter will
802 be subject of a nice followup content massage) -- S-nail can
803 henceforth be used for git(1)s send-email command.
804 We also improved the interdependency of -t (with[out] From:, Sender:),
805 -r, *from* and *sender*, but i don't say it is perfect yet.
806 [6842f12,631d402,a86ca2d]
808 - Completely reworked *expandaddr* @373 handling, and you can now define
809 *exactly* what you want, e.g., "fail,-all,+addr,+file" will only allow
810 mail address or file recipients and hard error out otherwise.
811 Note that in order to make that work "restrict" has been changed to be
812 effectively "restrict,-all,+name,+addr", which matters in, e.g.,
813 "fail,-all,+file,restrict" which therefore truly is "restrict,fail"!
815 Even in conjunction with -t you should now see proper (-d / *debug*,
816 -v / *verbose*) messages for *expandaddr* caused address stripping,
817 or, with "fail", hard errors. [8668be3]
819 ChangeLog (purely technical)
820 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
822 - We again allow Message-Id:s to start with a leading slash, as in
823 "/p/forge/site-support/10.../...". [143372a]
825 - We now support multiline values in make.rc: to do so, escape the
826 newlines with a backslash "\", e.g. [621cbed,9cf4e7b]
829 if [ -d /var/spool/mail ]; then \
830 echo /var/spool/mail;\
835 - Lowered the memory pressure caused by malicious spam messages that
836 place hundreds of references into the References: header body.
837 And we don't use alloca(3) no more for such things, in order to lower
838 stack usage. [1c4b8c9,47a1a5c]
840 v14.8.3 ("Startled chicken"), 2015-07-05
841 ----------------------------------------
843 Credits go to Martin Neitzel!
845 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
846 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
848 - Prefilling INCS and LIBS is finally honoured by the build system, just
849 as documented. [9a34822]
851 - In place of "packager-install" "doinstall" will also do.
853 - New `make.rc' option: WANT_ERRORS, by default enabled.
854 Will enable the new command `errors' @105 (#_105) and an error message
855 queue ring: error messages will no longer get lost but duplicated into
856 the queue, to be displayed in interactive mode via `errors'. This is
857 a finite ring which rotates oldest messages if it full.
860 - S-nail no longer offers hooks for group identity switching: it no
861 longer makes sense to install it SETGID to a mail group (shall anyone
862 has done so). [ac42d24]
864 - New `make.rc' option: WANT_PRIVSEP, by default enabled.
865 The dotlock'ing has been completely rewritten (see `make.rc' for
866 a longer explanation of traditional Unix mailspool locking, please).
868 In order to be able to create lock files in *any* SETGID mailspool
869 directory in which user system mailboxes may reside S-nail now ships
870 with a privilege-separated mini dotlock program (source in
871 `privsep.c'), which will be installed in the new also LIBEXECDIR (as
872 YOUR_MUA_NAME-privsep) SETGID to the group given by the also new
873 PRIVSEP_GROUP (default "mail").
875 This dotlock program will be used whenever a mailbox has to be
876 dotlocked which is owned by group that is not the group of the user
877 who is running S-nail, assuming that the file in question resides in
878 a SETGID mailspool directory.
880 The new variable *dotlock-ignore-error* @294 (#_294) now controls
881 wether it is a failure if creation of a dotlock file is not possible.
882 This variable is by default enabled if WANT_PRIVSEP is false.
888 - Fix file locking, which was broken since v14.8. [7f8ebc0]
891 - -e now works with given boxes; -e is mutual exclusive with -H and -L;
892 and then any of -e, -H and -L causes the mailbox opened in readonly
893 mode. [3bb05a2, 2cf15c1]
895 - In *debug* mode no process will be started for a set *smtp*, but
896 instead the message will be directly generated (on the error channel).
897 Also GSS-API authentication will no longer be performed even with
898 enabled debug, oops. [3333d71]
900 ChangeLog (purely technical)
901 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
903 - A readonly IMAP box is opened via EXAMINE not SELECT. [2d5259c]
905 - snprintf(3) and vsnprintf(3) are now required preconditions. [c58c7e9]
907 v14.8.2 ("Wandering albatross"), 2015-06-17
908 -------------------------------------------
910 Many thanks Bob Tennent, for reporting and testing!
912 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
913 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
915 - Configuration will now find clock_gettime(2) in -lrt and
916 gettimeofday(2) as such on Linux. [47c9ea7,5e248d2,df7d77f]
919 - MANDIR now defaults to ${PREFIX}/share/man (not ${PREFIX}/man)
925 - Added missing condition clause in `if' expression parsing
928 ?0[ +mbox]? if $du @@ hey
931 ?0[ +mbox]? if $du @@ hey
932 `if' conditional: unrecognized condition -- near "du"
933 Expression: $du @@ hey
934 Left to parse: $du @@ hey
937 - Ooops, fix pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE @403 with value "@" (a.k.a. treat as
938 plain text and display "as is"): i've broken that once i've introduced
939 the extended type markers for the `mimetype' command. Must have been
940 a Freudian error, sorry! [ea655de]
942 - Fix a bug introduced in nail 9.29, 2001-12-10: a temporary buffer is
943 closed with fclose() even though it is a registered file that instead
944 needs to be closed via Fclose(). This effectively results in
945 a double-fclose(3) of the underlaying file descriptor once the
946 registered files are cleaned up next, which happens either after
947 signal interruption and, since [65e0510] as of 2015-05-21, whenever
948 the command loop ticks. [97fcb97] (Bob Tennent)
950 v14.8.1 ("Tristan albatross"), 2015-06-11
951 -----------------------------------------
954 Ypnose, Tarqi Kazan, Dagobert Michelsen and OpenCSW.org, Gianluca
955 Ramunno, Bob Tennent.
957 We welcome Dagobert Michelsen in THANKS.
959 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
960 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
962 $ In all the following noticable changes to the release candidate are
963 $ marked with a $ in the first column
965 - We have been ported to Sun Solaris!
966 Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen for giving me an account on OpenCSW.org!
968 - The build system will now really find strip(1). [54e91c4]
970 - WANT_TERMCAP fix: we simply passed tputs(3) a pointer to putchar(3)
971 though that may be a macro etc. [cc65bc3]
973 - The following variables can be used to overwrite utilities needed
974 during configuration and build:
976 MAKE=, STRIP=, awk=, cat=, chmod=, cp=, cmp=, cksum=, grep=, mkdir=,
977 mv=, tee=, rm=, sed=, tr=
979 Note that rm(1), sed(1) and tr(1) are needed before `make.rc' is read.
980 Fix: these will now also affect "make test".
982 - WANT_AUTOCC now no longer sets compiler flags as of experience, but
983 compiles a test program to actually detect wether the compiler will
984 swallow the flag. This increases configuration time quite a bit.
985 Users who really did use "make devel" possibly want to use "make
986 CONFIG=DEVEL" followed by "make build" now.
987 Note we now also test for -fPIE as well as relro,now,noexecstack.
989 - WANT_SPAM_SPAMD is now decoupled from WANT_SOCKETS. [d247d86]
991 - The configuration now also detects any changes on PATH, C_INCLUDE_PATH
992 and LD_LIBRARY. [1038028]
997 - Fixed importing of SHELL/LISTER/PAGER variables from the program
998 environment. [940c7f1] (Ypnose)
1000 - Moved -X @64 command line option handling before attachment
1001 evaluation, so that, e.g., `mimetype's registered via it will already
1002 be seen when classifying attachments. [5d9742f]
1004 - Honour *asksign* @274 again, even if *askatend* @270 or *bsdcompat* @281
1005 are not set. This also changes *askattach* @271 as we'll only ask for
1006 addition of attachments if there are none yet. [e054d6a] (Tarqi Kazan)
1008 - Support OpenSSL 1.1.0 and above: it obsoletes the more-than-a-decade
1009 old SSLv23_client_method() in favour of a new TLS_client_method()
1010 (instead of using some "magical" constant like, say, "SSL_METHOD_ANY",
1011 but who am i). [c35b567]
1013 - Generic file (mailbox) load and save hooks have been introduced:
1014 *file-hook-(load|save)-EXTENSION* @374,@375, e.g.:
1016 set file-hook-load-xy='echo >&2 XY-LOAD; gzip -cd' \
1017 file-hook-save-xy='echo >&2 XY-SAVE; gzip -c' \
1018 record=+null-sent.xy
1020 One could think about using all-encrypted mailboxes, or the like.
1021 Note that before v15.0 these variables may not be changed while
1022 a mailbox handled by these hooks is open. [b4c2c37] (Tarqi Kazan)
1024 - When DNS resolving fails we now print error messages.
1025 And then, if it fails because of an unknown service (protocol), we
1026 check for the protocol and retry shall we have a well-known port
1027 number builtin (smtp, submission, smtps, pop3, pop3s, imap, imaps).
1028 [5f52370, (3f189f9)] It is not wrong to credit (Gianluca Ramunno)
1030 - One may now force treatment of addresses as files with the new "./"
1031 or "/" prefixes -- until now it wasn't possible to address files if
1032 the addressee includes an at sign, now "./me@here.com" will do, just
1033 as will "/me@here.com". [2cf5890,0da473f] (Bob Tennent)
1035 - Fix *record-resent* @329, which never made it to *record* @414 since
1036 [a11935b], but instead save the message in a file named after the
1037 addressee! [a82af9f] (Bob Tennent)
1039 - Fixed signal handler uninstallation in sopen() (DNS lookup and socket
1040 creation): v14.8.0 could be forced in endless loop after failed DNS
1041 lookups due to this. [3cca23b]
1043 - Fixed possible double-free (causing a crash) after failed SSL
1044 certificate verification (*ssl-verify*=strict etc.) with OpenSSL
1045 versions that support SSL_CONF_CTX (1.0.2+). [c691726]
1049 . The builtin HTML filter will now silently discard carriage-return
1050 characters (looks better in e.g. less(1)). [cf4d800]
1051 . When reopening the same box we now recognize if changes had been
1052 written, forcing a reread of the box in order to display the actual
1053 real content. [7dfbd38,0835212,a15dfed]
1054 . `netrc' output changed, so that the output could (in theory) be fed
1055 back into S-nail again in order to gain the same settings. [a9a2722]
1056 . *pop3-keepalive* @410 gained (@USER)?-HOST forms [69cae68]
1057 . *imap-keepalive* @387 gained (@USER)?-HOST forms [9a8c929]
1058 . Do not use the builtin random generator if we find a suitable one in
1059 the host environment. [0e01aeb,6bcb430,fc846c6] (Bob Tennent)
1060 . The builtin HTML filter will now also expand entities in parameter
1062 $ . *crt* will now only be checked when attached to a terminal device;
1063 $ and no*crt* will now be honoured. [2508c32]
1065 ChangeLog (purely technical)
1066 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1068 - Solaris port resulted in a lot of changesets for the build system.
1069 - I didn't use git(1) rebasing and the [crawl] branch but only [master].
1070 And see where that ended: S-nail would have 10000 fossil commits!
1071 - Plugged some memory leaks.
1073 v14.8.0 ("Albatros"), 2015-04-30
1074 --------------------------------
1077 I'm glad and happy to announce "Albatros" after about seven months of
1078 development. Development that brought many new features, bugfixes,
1079 technical overhauling and behaviour tweaking. Shall you ever have been
1080 interested in BSD Mail or its deriviatives you might want to give it
1083 "Albatros" is indeed the first version of the codebase as such that
1084 should allow IMAP->Maildir->MBOX->Maildir->IMAP message roundtripping
1085 without causing possible message splitting due to faulty From_
1086 detection / encoding. It also generates compliant MIME parameters.
1088 Note there are incompatible changes, documented below. And it is also
1089 advisable to try out existing configurations with enabled *debug* and/or
1090 *verbose* (-d, -vv) in order to check for "obsoletion" warnings.
1091 (Here "obsolete" would refer to v15, of course.)
1093 Credits and Thanks go to Ypnose, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas, Josef Jurek,
1094 Gavin Troy, Rich Salz, Martin Brandenburg, Bob Tennent, Dominic Meskys
1097 We welcome Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas, Josef Jurek, Rich Salz,
1098 Dominic Meskys, Peter Bray, Dirk-Wilhelm Peters and Martin Brandenburg
1100 Apologies to Dirk-Wilhelm Peters and Martin Brandenburg whom i had
1101 forgotten to add to THANKS at first glance once i've added this file; it
1102 was nothing but an oversight.
1104 I also say «Thank you» to GitLab.com – i've mirrored the S-nail git(1)
1105 repository (alongside others) to this free service.
1107 Credits finally also have to go to Coverity.com [1] which helped to find
1108 some bugs; the claim of a 0.00 defect density after a Friday 13th test
1109 must have been an error from their side, though, as well as that the
1110 page [1] still remains at a test with a defect density of 0.01, since
1111 i've posted yet another run that must have ended with 0.00. (Note the
1112 codebase was tested without IMAP code, i.e. my _next_ developer branch.)
1114 [1] https://scan.coverity.com/projects/444
1116 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1117 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1119 $ In all the following noticable changes to the release candidate are
1120 $ marked with a $ in the first column
1122 + Crawling along the path of CVE [topic/cve-2014-7844.2]: to enable MTA
1123 arguments after -- the new *expandargv* @372 must be set. More below.
1125 + Even more crawling along the path of the CVE i decided to replace the
1126 wordexp(3) based shell word expansion mechanism with an entirely new,
1127 internally implemented restricted one, but complete mitigation will
1128 take time. This has consequences in respect to backslash escaping in
1129 file names (shall you ever have used such a filename with S-nail and
1130 its predecessors, of course, and only ...).
1131 Please see [topic/fexpand.2] below.
1133 + A new member for the *attrlist* @351 variable (for unsure spam status).
1134 Since a user setting with a false length will be ignored yet causes an
1135 error message this is a backward incompatible change. [topic/spam.2]
1137 - New make.rc option: WANT_ALL_SSL_ALGORITHMS (enabled).
1138 See make.rc and *smime-cipher-USER@host* @427 below. [topic/ssl.1]
1140 - The make.rc option WANT_IPV6 is gone; we use the respective standard
1141 library facilities automatically whenever possible. [999e79a]
1143 - New make.rc option: WANT_TERMCAP (disabled).
1144 See *term-ca-mode* @345 below. [topic/termcap]
1146 - The make.rc option WANT_SPAM has been dropped. Instead we have (see
1147 [topic/spam.2] below for more):
1149 . WANT_SPAM_SPAMC (default off):
1150 Rather identical to the former WANT_SPAM (interaction with spamc(1)
1151 from spamassassin(1)), but internally improved.
1152 . WANT_SPAM_SPAMD (default off):
1153 Direct interaction with spamd(1) from spamassassin(1) via a local
1154 unix(4) domain socket.
1155 . WANT_SPAM_FILTER (default on):
1156 Freely configurable hook programs, e.g., bogofilter(1).
1158 - It turned out that the manual wasn't mandb(1) compatible. [f5ab838]
1160 - New make.rc option: WANT_FILTER_HTML_TAGSOUP (enabled).
1161 S-nail now ships with a very primitive HTML-to-text converter.
1162 It'll be used for HTML parts automatically if no pipe handler is
1163 installed (and the builtin mime.types haven't been changed).
1164 This works because of the new TYPEMARKER extension to mime.types(5) as
1165 documented for [topic/mime.types.2] below.
1166 (It is quite experimental but i think it rocks except it can be fooled
1167 since it doesn't know about double quoted strings, e.g., <a href=""
1168 onmouseover='javascript:alert("> This is plain text you see, oops");'>.
1169 $ Yet it is ment for displaying HTML mails, and it works really well.
1170 $ It doesn't support non-standard type="quote" attributes nor even-more
1171 $ non-standard CSS classes "gmail_quote" or whatever it's name was --
1172 $ these are used in the wild to generate automatic mail quoting, which
1173 $ has resulted in an immense amount of top-posting; but maybe there will
1174 $ be a S-nail v14.8.1 which will implement those, to ease the pain.
1175 [topic/html-tagsoup]
1177 $- List output of `alias' @78, `ghost' @123 and `shortcut' @181
1178 $ uses a new syntax that should (in theory) make it possible to feed
1179 $ the output back into S-nail. [2913df3]
1180 $ Ditto `set' @178 unless *bsdcompat* or *bsdset* are set. [373cc8a]
1182 $- *keep* @308 will also affect secondary mailboxes (because *emptybox*
1183 $ has been obsoleted, see below). [5fa5f8b]
1185 $- New make.rc option: WANT_FORCED_STACKPROT (enabled with WANT_DEVEL or
1187 $ In conjunction with WANT_AUTOCC this will trigger stack protectors
1188 $ if the detected compiler does support them. (Before they were only
1189 $ enabled if WANT_DEBUG was set, automatically.)
1191 + v14.8 is the last release with IMAP support, which has been removed
1192 from the developer's [crawl] branch for quite some time already.
1193 He really hopes he can affort to readd support sometime after v15.0.
1198 - S-nail now knows about named booleans (e.g., `localopts' @133 or
1199 interactive approval prompts can now be given any of 1/yes/true/on or
1200 0/no/false/off, case-insensitively; note this is true for the make.rc
1201 $ system, too) and so-called "quad" options (either normal boolean or
1202 $ "ask-BOOLEAN", which, in interactive context, will be prompted with
1203 $ default values; the default value is chosen in non-interactive mode).
1204 $ (on/off support not in the RC.)
1207 - The `if' @128 combo:
1209 . gained <, >, <= and >= tests;
1210 ==, !=, <, <=, >=, > will try to convert their arguments to numbers
1211 and perform their test numerically, if possible, [143d409]
1212 . `if' supports boolean (as above) arguments, [topic/ifpimp]
1213 . `if 1'+ return value fixed, [topic/ifpimp]
1214 . `if'+: on syntax error, NOOP anything 'till `endif', [topic/ifpimp]
1215 . `if'+ now support bracket groups, AND-OR lists and unary ! (not),
1216 note that the separating spaces are required: [topic/ifpimp]
1218 if [ [ true ] && [ [ $debug ] || [ $verbose ] ] ]
1221 if true && $debug || $verbose
1222 echo Left associativity, as is known from the shell
1224 if ! ! true && ! [ ! $debug && ! $verbose ]
1225 echo Unary operator support
1228 . `if'+ now support new case-insensitive (ASCII) substring operators
1229 =@ and !@: [topic/ifpimp]
1231 if $features =@ "regex"
1232 if $TERM =~ "^xterm.*"
1233 echo ..in an X terminal
1237 $ . `if'+: the three argument forms can now be given variables also on
1238 $ the right hand side: [topic/ifpimp]
1240 $ set xtest='^xterm.*'
1241 $ if $TERM =~ $xtest
1242 $ echo Variables as right hand value
1245 - `unalias' @198 learned that * means "all aliases".
1246 Fixed: faulty list-head relinking caused "dead" aliases (since ever)
1249 - `unshortcut' @219 learned that * means "all shortcuts".
1250 `shortcut' @181 in turn can now define multiple shortcuts in one go
1253 ?0[ /var/mail/steffen]? sho you 'any one' me 'no "one"'
1254 ?0[ /var/mail/steffen]? sho
1255 shortcut me "no \"one\""
1256 shortcut you "any one"
1257 ?0[ /var/mail/steffen]? unsho*
1258 ?0[ /var/mail/steffen]? sho
1259 ?0[ /var/mail/steffen]?
1261 - S-nail learned how to deal with mailing-lists in respect to
1262 Mail-Followup-To headers etc. (manual: "Mailing lists" @21):
1264 . new commands `(un)?ml(list|subscribe)' to let S-nail decide which
1265 addresses are mailing-lists, [topic/names]
1266 . *headline* learned %T format to display message recipient flags:
1267 "L" for a mailing-list, "S" for a subscribed one, [topic/names]
1268 . new variable *followup-to-honour*, [topic/mft]
1269 . new variable *reply-to-honour*, [topic/mft]
1270 . new command `Lreply', forcing a list-only `reply' if possible.
1271 When `Lreply'ing to messages which seem to originate from
1272 mailing-lists (contain a "List-Post:" header), then S-nail will
1273 treat the list address as a known mailing list (as via `mlist').
1275 (It is advisable to try out several different combinations of non-/
1276 subscribed mailing-lists in conjunction with `reply', `Reply' and
1277 `Lreply' with *debug* set in order to get used to how S-nail will
1278 modify the address lists; the results should be quite logical
1279 though.) [topic/mft]
1280 . For convenience `reply' and `Lreply' can now be used to reply to
1281 multiple messages in one go (each message will still be handled by
1282 itself, we simply start over internally). [topic/mft]
1284 - `unset' @217 no longer "fails" for unset variables, but only prints
1285 a message in *debug* or *verbose* mode. This changes traditional,
1286 decade-old behaviour, but shells don't even say something in (*debug*
1287 or) *verbose* mode, and it really simplifies things. [topic/okeys-attr]
1289 - SSL/TLS changes: [topic/ssl.1]
1291 . new variables: *ssl-cert-HOST* @451, *ssl-key-HOST* @456,
1292 *ssl-method-HOST* @457, *ssl-verify-HOST* @461,
1293 . *ssl-v2-allow* has been dropped,
1294 . *ssl-verify* @461 and *smime-cipher-USER@HOST* @427 use
1295 case-insensitive matching for value checks,
1296 . new variable-chain: *ssl-protocol* @458 (the introduction of which
1297 obsoletes *ssl-method* @457, see below),
1298 . new variants of *ssl-cipher-list* @452: *ssl-cipher-list-USER@HOST*,
1299 *ssl-cipher-list-HOST*,
1300 . new variable: *ssl-config-file* @453,
1301 . *smime-cipher-USER@HOST* @427 dropped builtin support for the
1302 obsolete RC2-40 and RC2-64 ciphers -- use the make.rc option
1303 WANT_ALL_SSL_ALGORITHMS to readd support,
1304 . with SSL_CONF_CTX support (OpenSSL v1.0.2+) the values of the
1305 following variables (and variants) will be parsed by OpenSSL instead
1306 of S-nail, offering more user and packager flexibility:
1307 *ssl-cert* @451, *ssl-cipher-list* @452, *ssl-key* @456,
1308 *ssl-protocol* @458.
1310 E.g., shall a new OpenSSL ship with TLS v1.3 S-nail doesn't need to
1311 be adjusted in order to support TLS v1.3, all there is to do is that
1312 the user has to adjust her *ssl-protocol* setting.
1313 This is at least the theory. :)
1314 And maybe OpenSSL (will) offer(s) symbolic constants like "NEWEST"
1317 - Folder hooks have been extended:
1319 . if there was no *folder-hook-FULLNAME* @376 we'll try
1320 *folder-hook-+NAME* if the mailbox NAME resides in *folder*, e.g.,
1321 the author has "folder-hook-+sent=MACRO" and all his *record*
1322 variables are "record=+sent", therefore MACRO can be shared in
1323 between all accounts with a single hook definition. [a5a4d89]
1324 . `localopts' @133 can now be used in folder hooks: the covered
1325 settings will be reverted once the folder is left again.
1326 $ (I know for sure someone asked for this long ago, directly after
1327 $ `localopts' came up first, but i couldn't find the corresponding
1328 $ message. Sorry!) [2c67091]
1330 - More security control à la CVE 2014-7844, possibly for the first time
1331 enabling safe usage of S-nail via CGI: [topic/cve-2014-7844.2]
1333 . fixed *sendmail-arguments* @420 parsing:
1334 *sendmail-arguments*='-F "Dubi Da"' will now result in <"-F" "Dubi
1335 Da"> not <"-F" ""Dubi Da"">,
1336 . new command line argument "-." @67 forcefully terminates options
1337 and enters send mode. I.e., using this option avoids possible
1338 misinterpretation of the following arguments.
1340 This operation is usually reserved for --, but since S-nail passes
1341 anything after -- to the MTA (but read on) i had to invent something
1342 $ else. Also, -. forcefully enters send mode, which -- couldn't have
1343 $ been overloaded to do.
1344 . New variable: *expandargv* @372: in equal spirit to *expandaddr* @371
1345 this one is required in order to pass arguments after -- to the MTA.
1346 If set to "fail" existence of such arguments is a hard error,
1347 "restrict" likewise except in interactive mode or in conjunction
1348 with the -~ or -# options.
1349 . *expandaddr* @371: new special value "fail" causes presence of
1350 extended recipient addresses to be treated as a hard error.
1351 $ In fact this is now interpreted as a comma separated list and may
1352 $ also include the string "noalias", disallowing non-network-addresses
1353 $ in the remaining (non-"extended") recipient addresses -- note this
1354 $ applies to system global aliases only, not to those of `alias'
1355 $ (except for their content, of course); "noalias" is a hard error in
1356 $ combination with "fail".
1358 - `unaccount' @197 and `undefine' @201 learned that * means "all
1359 accounts" and "all macros", respectively. [4c09114]
1361 - Spam handling has been rewritten completely, revealing a very old
1362 misbehaviour in nail's subprocess handling (malloc in signal handler).
1363 Please reread the manual section "Handling spam" @37 for more.
1364 The motivation was also that bogofilter(1), sylfilter(1) etc. can
1365 export their databases, so should the author ever find time to
1366 implement spam handling in C like his predecessor it will be possible
1367 to continue to use those databases: [topic/spam.2]
1369 . *headline* @380 format %$ has been fixed,
1370 . when working on multiple messages the operation is cancelled if an
1372 . new variables: *spam-interface* @436 chooses the, well, ...
1373 This one has extensive documentation. Plus the interface dependent
1374 *spamc-command* @438, *spamc-arguments* @439, *spamc-user* @440,
1375 *spamd-socket* @441, *spamd-user* @442,
1376 *spamfilter-ham* @443, *spamfilter-noham* @444,
1377 *spamfilter-nospam* @445, *spamfilter-rate* @446,
1378 *spamfilter-spam* @447 and *spamfilter-rate-spamscore* @448.
1379 . The *attrlist* @351 variable gained a new slot for an unsure-spam
1380 status (default character is ~).
1381 Messages with that flag can be specified via the :S colon modifier.
1383 - Fix: even though -# @66 implies *sendwait* @335 a user should have the
1384 option to turn *sendwait* off again. [4274bed]
1386 - Completely reworked mime.types(5) handling, note the backward
1387 incompatible drop of `mimetypes': [topic/mime.types.2]
1389 . dropped the `mimetypes' command,
1390 . new commands: `mimetype' @138 and `unmimetype' @209,
1391 . *encoding* @369 is now parsed case-insensitively,
1392 . *mime-counter-evidence* @390 gained new bit 3 to indicate the desire
1393 to forcefully overwrite MIME types if we think we know it better,
1394 . *mimetypes-load-control* @391 gained an extension that can be used to
1395 load more and specific files, which in addition may make use of
1396 a new non-portable S-nail-specific TYPEMARKER extension. The manual
1397 section "The mime.types files" @32 has been rewritten accordingly.
1398 (In short: mime.types(5) lines can be prefixed by @, @h@ or @H@, for
1399 plain text, builtin HTML filter (plain text fallback), ditto
1400 (without fallback).)
1401 $ . The builtin MIME types now make a lot of use of the @ and @h@
1402 $ TYPEMARKER extensions, so that you possibly can get rid of a lot of
1403 $ pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE=@ plain-text type hooks, shall you have used them.
1405 - Support for RFC 2231 has been added. This means that S-nail generates
1406 truly MIME compliant messages and no longer requires help from other
1407 MUAs! In fact MIME parameter handling has been rewritten completely.
1410 - On the long run shell word expansion (via wordexp(3)) will be replaced
1411 by a new, restricted (and thus (hopefully) safer), internally
1412 implemented path expansion mechanism that only supports ~/ -> HOMEDIR
1413 and $SHELLVAR / ${SHELLVAR}.
1414 Since the original expansion is *so* hardwired that'll take time, for
1415 now it is used for attachments only, but here all through the way.
1417 But where it is used already it has consequences regarding backslash
1418 escaping; to improve user experience a bit `~@' @239 will display the
1419 escaped filename so that users only have to hit ENTER to accept paths:
1420 e.g., "diet\ is \curd.txt" will show up as "diet\\ is \\curd.txt".
1421 And, e.g., the test script does the following for RFC 2231 (excerpt):
1423 MAILRC=/dev/null "${SNAIL}" ${ARGS} -Snodot \
1424 -a "ma'ger.txt" -a "mä'ger.txt" \
1425 -a 'diet\\\ is\ \\curd.txt' -a diet \"is\" curd.txt \
1426 ^ ^ NOTE: 0x00A0, NBSP
1427 -a ✆✆✆✆✆✆✆✆✆✆✆✆✆✆✆✆✆✆✆✆✆✆✆✆.txt
1429 The introduction of the manual section "COMMANDS" @5 has been updated
1430 accordingly. Also see -a @39. [topic/fexpand.2]
1434 . Multiple crash-causing bugs regarding `source' @185, also if used
1435 via `~:source', have been fixed. [aafb688,6979c73,4c6dfc2]
1436 . The NAILRC environment variable is no longer supported. [104c254]
1437 . The *Replyall* variable has been dropped as it was only an alias
1438 for the POSIX standard *flipr* @296 variable. [topic/mft]
1439 . New variables: *version*, *version-(major|minor|update)*,
1440 *features*. [topic/okeys-attr]
1441 . `varedit' @224 can be used to create variables. [topic/okeys-attr]
1442 . New variable: *charset-unknown-8bit* @357. [9b672f6]
1443 . *smtp-auth* @434 now defaults to "plain" (if *v15-compat* is set).
1444 (Josef Jurek, Gavin Troy) [dcbb31a]
1445 . All obsoleted: *autothread*, `thread' and `unthread'.
1446 Use *autosort*=thread, `sort thread' etc. instead. [ef16f43]
1447 . *showlast* @336 should have gained meaning. [4213d52] (Gavin Troy)
1448 . If the -r @57 option is given a full name specification (rather
1449 than only an address), pass the MTA the respective address parts
1450 via -F and -f. [dd90c14]
1451 $ Also try to pass -F _and_ -f if an empty argument was given to -r
1452 $ but *from* @378 (or, say, "From:") includes a full name. [5f68921]
1453 . New variable: *term-ca-mode* @345 (for WANT_TERMCAP). In
1454 interactive mode S-nail can now be forced to use ti and te termcap
1455 entries; in conjunction with a PAGER that does too ... [topic/termcap]
1456 . `ghost' @123 gained a new mode and tweaks (see manual). [8a49b12]
1457 . -r @57 option: fixed -h output and manual. [9a1a303]
1458 (Martin Brandenburg)
1459 . With *debug* or 2x *verbose* command lines (including those read
1460 from files) are now traced. [06042c4] (Bob Tennent)
1461 . NAIL_TMPDIR (new) and TMPDIR environment variables are now
1462 (guaranteed to be) set in pipe hooks. [a1cfb02]
1463 . "Subject:" Re: trimming: MIME decoding is now performed. [ede7c7d]
1464 . New variants of *pop3-bulk-load* @320: *-[USER@]HOST*. [5f5ae10]
1465 . *crt*=0 @366 now really works. [22f1477]
1466 . Maildir code now uses string relaxation which drastically reduced
1467 memory usage for large mailboxes. [d1c945f]
1468 And for the first time it performs real memory cleanup. [e549110]
1469 . Improved error message on MTA exec failure. (Dominic Meskys)
1470 . Fix: "setenv noVAR" would have set noVAR. [3c1f886]
1471 . When `setenv' is used to set any of HOME, USER, TMPDIR it'll be
1472 reflected by our internal variables. (Still hacky as special code
1473 is needed to do so; also "set HOME=x" shadows HOME for "varshow
1474 HOME" instead of being rejected. Future cleanup work.) [3f03b80]
1475 . Colon modifiers can now be joined, as in "f :uas". [8b6c259]
1476 $ . Maildir code did faulty From_ line detection, resulting in any
1477 $ non-quoted "From " line to start a new message (e.g., when doing
1478 $ things like "copy * MAILDIR" we could have f...ed up completely).
1479 $ Seems to have been added with Heirloom mailx 11.6 ([faf4b65],
1480 $ 2004-09-07). Neither goes credit to Jacob Gelbman nor to Robin
1481 $ Stjerndorff for messages to nail-devel@ on 2015-01-21 and
1482 $ 2015-02-20, respectively. :-)) [ae539c9]
1483 $ . *emptybox* has been obsoleted. *keep* @308 will also affect
1484 $ secondary mailboxes, and then both only deal with local regular
1485 $ MBOXes anyway, not to e.g., maildir files nor IMAP boxes. [d747c0a]
1486 $ . `unghost' @207 learned that * has to drop all ghosts. [34a92a5]
1487 $ . NAIL_TMPDIR (new) and TMPDIR environment variables are now
1488 $ (guaranteed to be) set for *agent-shell-lookup* @350. [5c3d7b5]
1489 $ . Things like "copy * MAILDIR" from within an IMAP (or POP3?) mailbox
1490 $ to a Maildir mailbox should now work again. [d747c0a]
1491 $ . IMAP code did faulty From_ line detection, resulting in some
1492 $ non-quoted "From " line to start a new message (e.g., when doing
1493 $ things like "copy * MAILDIR" we could have f...ed up completely).
1494 $ Present in Heirloom mailx since ever ([^b4ad9f2]). [66e3c93]
1495 $ . New variable: *mbox-rfc4155* @312: because of all the bugs in From_
1496 $ quoting etc., err, no. "Albatros" will last. I've just touched
1497 $ a lot of stuff regarding MBOX writing: From_ quoting (which may
1498 $ happen whenever we save already existent data in a MBOX, shall
1499 $ the original generator not have taken appropriate steps to ensure
1500 $ "false" From_ lines can't happen (S-nail does)) is now definitely
1501 $ POSIX compliant, meaning that we may quote much too much lines.
1502 $ So set *mbox-rfc4155* and we generate RFC 4155 compliant MBOX files,
1503 $ possibly leaving behind backward POSIX-only software. [70ba3ef]
1504 $ . New command line option: "-X cmd" @64 will execute "cmd" right
1505 $ before normal operation starts. The only option to execute commands
1506 $ in non-interactive mode when reading of resource files has been
1507 $ actively suppressed. This is an experimental feature. [d202869]
1509 ChangeLog (purely technical)
1510 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1512 . Improved output flushing, avoidance of printing of useless
1513 output (especially smoothens *editalong*). [topic/stdout-fflush]
1514 . String relaxation is now everywhere (but IMAP), the builtin buffer
1515 sizes were reduced to 1/3.
1516 . Again a manual review. The manual now supports mdocmx(7).
1517 . Using builtin ARC4 pseudo-random for random generation.
1518 . Better signal handling here and there.
1519 . Fixed most "unpluggable memory leaks" by plugging them via chains of
1520 signal handlers and longjmps. Terrible. But no more leaks.
1521 . A lot of this and that. (Really.)
1522 $. Slightly more tolerance for faulty Base64 encoding in message text
1523 $ parts. No real healing possible today, but requires v15.0 environment.
1524 $ This, however, only affects invalid data that, e.g., OpenSSL doesn't
1525 $ even give any output for! [54137fd,4d59cca]
1527 I didn't make it to improved message selection.
1528 And i also can't seem to find the necessary peace of mind to do a real
1529 review with this codebase, it's always that i start off doing something
1530 non-reviewish; but i'll see the day (what i hope).
1532 NEWS entries for the S-nail releases before v14.8.0 have been cut off
1533 before release v14.8.5 and can be found in the git(1) repository:
1535 v14.8.0 - v14.8.12: $ git show v14.8.12:NEWS
1536 v13 - v14.8.5 : $ git show v14.8.5:NEWS
1537 9.0 - 12.5 : $ git show heirloom:ChangeLog
1539 Also accessible via the following URL, just replace X.Y.Z accordingly:
1540 https://git.sdaoden.eu/cgit/s-nail.git/tree/NEWS?h=vX.Y.Y
1541 For even older releases you need to look into the [timeline] branch, but
1542 no changelog has been administrated for them.