3 Release 0.4.27 - October 8, 2005
7 Release 0.4.26 - October 10, 2004
8 * Don't crash if no certificate is sent by the remote side
9 and -skip-certificate-check has been given.
10 * Avoid duplicate error messages.
11 * Disable libgcrypt secure memory warning.
12 * security.debian.rb: better when disconnected.
14 Release 0.4.25 - June 23, 2004
15 * Fix a build error in the new gnutls certificate
16 verification code on s390.
18 Release 0.4.24 - June 22, 2004
19 * Use GNUTLS 1.0.4 and GCRYPT 1.1.90, current Debian
20 unstable package libgnutls10-dev.
22 Release 0.4.23 - April 27, 2004
23 * Allow server hostnames in IMAP to be IP addresses
24 (start with a number).
26 Release 0.4.22 - March 27, 2004
27 * Skip examine/search unless requested with msglst option.
28 * Exit if ssh-askpass permissions check fails.
30 Release 0.4.21 - February 21, 2004
31 * Fix a bug where fetch times out to some IMAP servers.
33 Release 0.4.20 - January 1, 2004
34 * Add --disable-crypto for source-based distributions
35 while libgcrypt is unstable.
36 * Sam Izzo's patch for changing the mouse click action
37 depending on whether a box has new mail.
39 Release 0.4.19 - November 8, 2003
40 * Fix test_tlscomm with the right signature for read()
41 * Another bugfix to IMAP msglst when headers are abnormal.
42 * Avoid strcpy for overlapping regions.
44 Release 0.4.18 - November 8, 2003
45 * Update security.debian.rb for ruby 1.8.
46 * Bugfix to avoid infinite loop when reading from IMAP.
47 * Bugfix to msglst to allow capitalized header names.
48 * Add msglst feature to Pop3 mailboxes. (Paolo Gianrossi)
49 * Bugfix to OS X keychain use for panther.
51 Release 0.4.17 - August 31, 2003
52 * On Mac, ask the keychain for passwords if
53 askpass = internal:apple:keychain
54 * Bugfix to an infinite loop found in the
57 Release 0.4.16 - July 7, 2003
58 * Checks TLS certificates. See wmbiffrc(5) for
59 details on the certfile option. Designed to work
61 * Show a busy mouse cursor while talking to remote
62 servers, to show that wmbiff won't be responsive
63 to mouse clicks for a little bit.
64 * New buttontwo (middle click) action to complement
65 action (left mouse click) and fetchcmd (right mouse).
66 * #'s are now only comments in .wmbiffrc at the
67 beginning of lines or following whitespace,
68 allowing #'s in (most) passwords.
69 * AppleScript examples for driving Apple's Mail
70 application in sample.wmbiffrc
71 * Special mailbox action 'msglst' brings up a
72 transient window showing message headers from IMAP
73 and program output for shell methods. This is
74 intended to be faster than starting up a new
75 mail program or re-executing a script.
76 * Avoid repetitive error messages when disconnected.
77 * Use conventional -geometry option handling.
78 * Fix bug in 0.4.15 to re-enable *'s in IMAP passwords.
80 Release 0.4.15 - Mar 30, 2003
81 * Frobnicate internally stored passwords, partially
82 obfuscating them in memory. Not actually more
83 secure, but harder to casually discover a password.
84 * Tighten configuration file lines to more quickly
85 detect misconfiguration. Add the -relax option if
87 * Add support for -bg to round out -hi and -fg color
90 Release 0.4.14 - Jan 24, 2003
91 * Handle building on systems with both posix and gnu
92 regex in different but conflicting files.
93 * Restart wmbiff on SIGUSR1. You may need to use
94 'killall -USR1 wmbiff' if it gets stuck.
95 * Restart wmbiff on ctrl-shift mouse 1.
97 Release 0.4.13 - Jan 20, 2003
98 * Fix a file descriptor leak when using
99 both Shell and IMAP clients.
100 * Portability to Mac OS X, Solaris, and probably BSD
101 restored (thanks sourceforge compile farm!) with a
102 partial rewrite of regular expression handling for
103 IMAP and POP mailboxes.
105 Release 0.4.12 - Jan 3, 2003
106 * Fix a bug introduced in 0.4.9 that interfered with
107 -geometry handling. (Debian #173813)
109 Release 0.4.11 - Dec 28, 2002
110 * security.debian.rb script to check for updates on
111 security.debian.org, installed in $prefix/lib/wmbiff/
112 add: path.x=/usr/lib/wmbiff/security.debian.rb to
113 your .wmbiffrc (and install ruby if you haven't already).
114 * Internal cleanups to allow long askpass commands.
116 Release 0.4.10 - Dec 12, 2002
117 * Peter McAlpine's globalnotify feature - elect to play a
118 sound on new mail in *any* mailbox without a chorus of
119 sounds from every mailbox.
120 * -skip-certificate-check option for when your imaps server
121 is misconfigured and you can't do anything about it.
123 Release 0.4.9 - Dec 1, 2002
124 * GNUTLS v0.5.9 or higher required
125 * Check TLS certificate hostname against the hostname we're
126 connecting to. This raises the bar, but does not make
127 wmbiff's TLS implementation secure against man in the
129 * WMBiff scales to the number of mailboxes you're
130 using. For openbox, this means less wasted space in the
131 slit and the possibility of up to 40 mailboxes. For
132 WindowMaker, this means more pretty chrome and less dark
133 LED if you have only a couple boxes. If you prefer the empty
134 cells at the end, place "path.4=<space><space>" in your
137 Release 0.4.8 - Sept 18, 2002
138 * GNUTLS v0.5.1-0.5.6, gcrypt v1.1.8 required.
139 * Allow spaces in IMAP mailbox paths. The new syntax is:
140 server/"mail box with spaces" where the old is server/mailbox.
141 See wmbiffrc(5) for details.
142 * Avoid filesystem caching for network mounted maildirs.
143 See wmbiffrc(5) for details. (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
145 Release 0.4.7 - August 16, 2002
146 * GNUTLS v0.5.1, gcrypt v1.1.8 required. (no other changes)
148 Release 0.4.6 - July 19, 2002
149 * Ignore sigpipe so that apm suspend works with IMAP/TLS.
150 * Memory handling bugfixes to appease valgrind.
151 * GNUTLS v0.4.3, gcrypt v1.17 expected
153 Release 0.4.4 - June 27, 2002
154 * GNUTLS version 0.4.3 required. The API has changed, and
155 wmbiff is no longer compatible with GNUTLS versions prior
156 to 0.4.3. Certificate checking may be slightly more strict.
157 * GCRYPT version 1.1.7 is expected as well.
158 * Partial rewrite of mailbox-parsing code, splint annotations.
159 * Bugfix in debug messages of ShellClient.
160 * Internal cleanups; migration to autoconf 2.5
162 Release 0.4.3 - June 8, 2002
163 * IPv6 support for real. (missed a detail with autoconf)
164 * Preliminary font support, allowing variable colors. Use
165 wmbiff -fg violet to give it a spin. Note: if the number of
166 old messages is at least 1000, the old number of messages
167 will not be completely erased when new mail arrives.
168 * Mouse handling fix.
169 * Cleanup of internals: handling of default configuration when
170 .wmbiffrc does not exist, vertical position of rows, variable
172 * GNUTLS version 0.3.5 is expected; earlier and later versions
174 * This release is by Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu>.
176 Release 0.4.2 - June 1, 2002
177 * Bugfix: accidentally released a partial feature.
179 Release 0.4.1 - June 1, 2002
181 * This release is by Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu>.
182 * GNUTLS version 0.3.5 is expected; earlier and later versions
184 * IPv6 is now supported, thanks to Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
186 Release 0.4.0 - May 3, 2002
188 * This release is by Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu>.
189 * GNUTLS version 0.3.5 is expected; earlier and later versions
191 * askpass: Passwords can be left empty for IMAP: ssh-askpass
192 will be used to prompt the user. See sample.wmbiffrc
194 * skinfile: Background pixmaps can be specified in .wmbiffrc.
195 This has the effect of "skins." See wmbiffrc(5).
196 Add "skinfile=wmbiff-master-contrast.xpm" to .wmbiffrc
197 for a more readable wmbiff.
198 * finger: Finger client added - finger a user's mailbox to get its
199 status. Requires perl and finger commands. See wmbiffrc(5).
200 Thanks to Andelko Horvat.
201 * shell: Improvements to ShellClient - now allows three character
202 text to be printed as status. If "new" is on the output
203 line, the text will be in yellow. Thanks to Andelko Horvat.
204 * mbox: Paths can be specified including shell expressions
205 in `'s. If requested, this feature can be expanded to other
206 clients. Nested expressions are not supported.
207 * Permissions on .wmbiffrc are checked to protect security.
208 Only a warning is printed now. This will degenerate in
209 later releases for .wmbiffrc's that store passwords.
210 * Migrated to automake / autoconf to detect defaults for
211 ssh-askpass and prepare for future changes.
212 * Bugfix to handle -geometry tags with dimension as generated
213 by fvwmSaveDesk. The size is ignored. (in Debian 0.3.8-3)
215 Release 0.3.8 - Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:17:07 +0100
217 * Added GnomeICU support.
218 * Added an experimental shell command method which reads the output
219 for a given command. See wmbiffrc(5) for details.
220 * Debug support moved to runtime, using the -debug switch.
221 * Fix for the install rule in Makefile.
223 Release 0.3.7 - Sun, 3 Feb 2002 23:46:44 +0100
225 * No, 0.3.6 never happened :)
226 * Removed unneeded auth list fix which broke things.
227 * Makefile cleanup, with better FreeBSD support. You can now easily
228 use the external GNU regex lib.
230 Release 0.3.6 - Sun, 27 Jan 2002 20:49:52 +0100
232 * Added a new syntax for IMAP, which allows using a "@" in
233 the password field. See wmbiffrc(5) for details.
234 * Fix for a correct usage of the auth list in IMAP.
236 Release 0.3.5 - Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:43:23 +0100
238 * Added support for GNUtls 0.3. You can still compile wmbiff using
239 GNUtls 0.2.x by removing the GNUTLS_VER=3 define in the Makefile.
240 * Fixed password quoting in IMAP logins.
242 Release 0.3.4 - Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:56:29 +0100
244 * "imaps" is now prefered to "sslimap" in config files. The old type
245 is still supported for backwards compatibility.
246 * You can now specify what protocol wmbiff should use for a given Pop3
247 or IMAP mailbox. If unspecified, it will try the secure ones first,
248 falling back to unsecure if they fail. See wmbiffrc(5).
249 * Added some debug messages for tls connections.
250 * Pop3 path parsing rewrite.
252 * Compile warning fixes.
254 Release 0.3.3 - Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:55:00 +0100
256 * Sanity check to IMAP code: exit if wmbiff tries to connect to more
258 * Fix a missbehaviour of cram-md5 (broke pop3).
259 * Documentation updates.
261 Release 0.3.2 - Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:30:37 +0200
263 * After some tries (other OpenSSL based patches, independent APOP
264 & CRAM-Md5 patches) we've come up with something based on GNUtls and
265 gcrypt, which are GPL based and have no licensing issues for us.
266 See ChangeLog for details.
267 * WMBiff now supports IMAP-SSL, APOP and CRAM-Md5 authentication. These
268 can be disabled at compile time, commenting out the WITH_TLS and
269 WITH_GCRYPT defines. (Neil Spring, NAKAYAMA Takao and Jay T. Francis).
271 Release 0.3.1 - Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:15:41 +0200
273 * Replaced /var/spool/mail with /var/mail, which is what the FHS mandates.
274 All decent systems should have either the directory or a symlink pointing
275 somewhere else. (Jordi Mallach)
276 * I reformatted ths changelog, again. I hope this is the last time I need
277 to do this. The CVS logs should be used for all changes, and this file
278 should by updated for user-visible changes only, from now on.
279 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
280 * Updated the README to reflect that Gennady Belyakov died right after
281 releasing wmBiff 0.2. May your soul rest in peace, Gennady.
282 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
283 * Fixed the IMAP support, again. (Rob Funk)
286 Release 0.3.0 - Fri, 16 May 2001 12:16:44 +0200
288 * [ReadLine] removed previous trim leading spaces, added TrimFull. Fixes
289 Debian Bug #95849 (Mark Hurley).
290 * There was a bug where if a POP3 or IMAP mailbox read failed and the
291 following reads were successful, but no mail was in the server, the given
292 mailbox would remain reading "XX". Now it updates the counter no matter
293 what the read was (Mark Hurley).
294 * wmBiff would only count as new mails in mbox mailboxes with "N" flags,
295 ignoring those marked "ON" (Rob Funk).
296 * Fixed reading of quoted imap folders, which some IMAPd's do (Rob Funk).
297 * README: updated some very obsolete info. (Jordi Mallach)
300 Release 0.2q1+Debian - Tue, 1 May 2001 10:11:00 +0000
302 * Moved to CVS at SourceForge. (Jordi Mallach)
305 Release 0.2q1 - Fri, 13 Apr 2001 02:47:10 -0400
307 * This release is by Mark Hurley <debian4tux@telocity.com>.
308 * wmbiff/Client.h: move DEBUG_* macros to wmbiff/Makefile
309 * wmbiff/Pop3Client.c:
310 + My password contains an @ character. This causes
311 the pop3 line to be incorrectly parsed by wmbiff.
312 * Drop all of the ":" after the pop3 and delimit all values with
313 spaces. This works well, as passwords/user-id's all agree that
314 the space is a non-legit value.
316 Example: assume my password is: myEmailhasa@init
319 path.3=pop3:debian4tux:myEmailhasa@init@mail.telocity.com
322 path.3=pop3:debian4tux myEmailhasa@init mail.telcoity.com
324 Ahh...before you say it. "Backward compatibility?" You will
325 also find in the patch, a NEW function. So that the OLD and
326 NEW way is easily compatible with all ".wmbiffrc" files.
329 This was not the cleanest way to implement it, but I had to
330 suffice with a clean/quick implementation. I originally wrote
331 one function to handle past and new parsing. However, I
332 thought it would be beneficial to leave them separated, so we
333 could eventually drop the old method?
336 The man page will need to be updated (not provided in patch).
337 We can weed the "old" style out of the example script as well.
338 Still explaining the changes in the man page to leave out
339 confusion in a users mind (as they are likely to find "old"
341 + My mail server at Telocity.com is following the RFC's to
342 a "T". RFC 1725 states that the LAST command be removed.
343 After some searching I have NOT turned up a replacement.
344 Which does make sense, this command is only so useful,
345 and contributes to the popularity of other such remoting
347 * I've set the Unread messages to the TotalMessages,
348 assuming (as suggested by the RFC) no messages have been
349 read. I have also suppressed the error printed to
350 stderr, it is correct to return an error, *now*. ;)
352 The only way to keep track of messages which have been
353 read, is to remember the unique number assigned to them.
354 This is what fetchmail does. However, it does not work
355 correctly if you check and read mail thru other methods
358 - for (index = 0; index < 4; index++)
359 + for (index = 0; index < 5; index++)
361 BUG! Last postion #4 was not correctly being checked.
362 Now correctly checks each position.
365 Release 0.2q - Tue, 20 Mar 2001 05:32:35 +0100
367 * This release is by Jorge García <Jorge.Garcia@uv.es>.
368 * wmbiff/{*.[ch]}: removed unnecesary includes.
369 * wmbiff/wmbiff.c: some cleanups and optimizations.
371 * show error if user config file does not exists
372 * use of userconfig "interval" (wasn't correctly parsed)
373 + {do_biff, displayMsgCounters}: some changes to make Sleep_Interval
375 + parse_cmd: some changes to make uconfig_file local
376 + {BlinkOn, BlinkOff, BlinkToogle}: Removed (merged by do_biff)
377 + {ReadConfigString, ReadConfigInt}: Removed
378 + countmail: removed init in header (wasn't used)
379 + ReadLine: Created (new parsing code, extracts pairs of setting
381 + Read_Config_File: now there is only ONE parse not 36!
382 * wmbiff/{IMap4Client.c, Pop3Client.c}: check for correct format line to
383 avoid "segmentation fault" while parsing.
386 Release 0.2p - Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:00:00 -0600
388 * This release is by Dwayne C. Litzenberger <dlitz@dlitz.net>.
389 * Added maildir support! Yay!
390 * Stole the manpages from Debian.
391 * Massive (lack of) coding style cleanup; Standardized coding style using
393 * Reversed order of ChangeLog as suggested by Jordi.
394 * Cleaned up the v0.2o ChangeLog entry. What a mess! Added missing credits.
395 * Cleaned up and reformatted the rest of the changelog to an almost-Debian
396 format while I'm at it. It's much more readable that way.
397 * Moved definition of WMBIFF_VERSION to the Makefile.
398 * All your base are belong to us.
399 * I'm not maintaining wmBiff; I just submitted a big patch. Send your
400 complaints (or complements) to Yong-iL Joh.
403 Release 0.2o - Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:00:00 +0900
405 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
406 * I don't think the date of this changelog entry is right.
407 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
408 * Jordi Mallach <jordi@sindominio.net>, Debian's wmbiff maintainer, sent
409 me an email a couple of days ago which included a patch with man pages.
410 The patch did the following:
411 + Fixed a major upstream bug that renders this new wmbiff unusable.
412 Thanks to Guillaume Morin, Jérôme Marant and Mark Hurley for their
413 help identifying the bug, and Jorge García <Jorge.Garcia@uv.es> for
414 writing a patch. Basically, the new upstream broke backwards
415 compatibility of wmbiffrc with Gennady's wmbiff, fixed that.
416 This patch also fixes wmbiff not using $MAIL or defaulting to
417 /var/spool/mail/$USER if no ~/.wmbiffrc is found (closes: #87778).
418 + wmbiff/wmbiff.c: updated WMBIFF_VERSION to current.
419 + wmbiff/{socket.c, wmbiff.c}: removed <sys/time.h> includes.
420 + debian/{wmbiff.1, wmbiffrc.5}: updated for IMAP4 and Licq support.
421 + Jorge García removed the segfault in Jordi's wmbiffrc
422 + Vladimir Popov <pva48@mail.ru> fixed a potential buffer overflow
423 in init_biff() (The "/* Make labels look right */" section).
424 + Jorge García <Jorge.Garcia@uv.es> fixed a display bug in the
425 number-of- mails display.
426 * use poll() instead of select()
428 -- Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com> 12-Mar-2001 +0900
431 Release 0.2n - Tue, 20 Feb 2001 0:00:00 +0900
433 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
434 * Nick Clarey <nclarey@3glab.com> sent me a patch.
435 that enhances the following:
436 + UW Imap server 2000.283rh
437 + Config file now supports IMAP mailbox "paths" rather than
438 just the mailbox name (e.g. mail/foo/blah)
441 Release 0.2m - Mon, 5 Feb 2001 00:00:00 +0900
443 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
444 * Imap4Client.c did not close when a connection error occurred. Fixed it.
447 Release 0.2l - Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0900
449 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
450 * Imap4Client.c had a bug when trying to connect to an imap4 server. Fixed
454 Release 0.2j - Mon, 1 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0900
456 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
457 * Because I can't contact the author, I jumped to version 0.2j
458 * Added imap4-based mail server check component.
459 * Divided wmbiff.c to wmbiff.c, LicqClient.c mboxClient.c
462 Release 0.2-licq - Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000
464 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
465 * The actual date of this release is unknown, so I picked New Year's Day,
466 Y2K. (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
467 * I found it from http://www.licq.org/download.html.
470 Release 0.2 - Fri, 26 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
472 * This release is by Gennady Belyakov <gb@ccat.elect.ru>.
473 * We don't actually know the time zone of Gennady's changelog entries
474 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger).
475 * POP3 support added with (auto)fetching
476 * digits blinking on new mail arrival
477 * resource wasting lowered
478 * individual rescan interval for differrent mailboxes
482 Release 0.1a - Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
484 * This release is by Gennady Belyakov <gb@ccat.elect.ru>.
485 * Some fixes with intialization
488 Release 0.1 - Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
490 * Initial release by Gennady Belyakov <gb@ccat.elect.ru>.
493 $Id: NEWS,v 1.61 2005/10/08 18:13:09 bluehal Exp $