3 Release 0.4.28 - November 7, 2014
4 * Lots of bug fixes and code cleanup.
6 Release 0.4.27 - October 8, 2005
10 Release 0.4.26 - October 10, 2004
11 * Don't crash if no certificate is sent by the remote side
12 and -skip-certificate-check has been given.
13 * Avoid duplicate error messages.
14 * Disable libgcrypt secure memory warning.
15 * security.debian.rb: better when disconnected.
17 Release 0.4.25 - June 23, 2004
18 * Fix a build error in the new gnutls certificate
19 verification code on s390.
21 Release 0.4.24 - June 22, 2004
22 * Use GNUTLS 1.0.4 and GCRYPT 1.1.90, current Debian
23 unstable package libgnutls10-dev.
25 Release 0.4.23 - April 27, 2004
26 * Allow server hostnames in IMAP to be IP addresses
27 (start with a number).
29 Release 0.4.22 - March 27, 2004
30 * Skip examine/search unless requested with msglst option.
31 * Exit if ssh-askpass permissions check fails.
33 Release 0.4.21 - February 21, 2004
34 * Fix a bug where fetch times out to some IMAP servers.
36 Release 0.4.20 - January 1, 2004
37 * Add --disable-crypto for source-based distributions
38 while libgcrypt is unstable.
39 * Sam Izzo's patch for changing the mouse click action
40 depending on whether a box has new mail.
42 Release 0.4.19 - November 8, 2003
43 * Fix test_tlscomm with the right signature for read()
44 * Another bugfix to IMAP msglst when headers are abnormal.
45 * Avoid strcpy for overlapping regions.
47 Release 0.4.18 - November 8, 2003
48 * Update security.debian.rb for ruby 1.8.
49 * Bugfix to avoid infinite loop when reading from IMAP.
50 * Bugfix to msglst to allow capitalized header names.
51 * Add msglst feature to Pop3 mailboxes. (Paolo Gianrossi)
52 * Bugfix to OS X keychain use for panther.
54 Release 0.4.17 - August 31, 2003
55 * On Mac, ask the keychain for passwords if
56 askpass = internal:apple:keychain
57 * Bugfix to an infinite loop found in the
60 Release 0.4.16 - July 7, 2003
61 * Checks TLS certificates. See wmbiffrc(5) for
62 details on the certfile option. Designed to work
64 * Show a busy mouse cursor while talking to remote
65 servers, to show that wmbiff won't be responsive
66 to mouse clicks for a little bit.
67 * New buttontwo (middle click) action to complement
68 action (left mouse click) and fetchcmd (right mouse).
69 * #'s are now only comments in .wmbiffrc at the
70 beginning of lines or following whitespace,
71 allowing #'s in (most) passwords.
72 * AppleScript examples for driving Apple's Mail
73 application in sample.wmbiffrc
74 * Special mailbox action 'msglst' brings up a
75 transient window showing message headers from IMAP
76 and program output for shell methods. This is
77 intended to be faster than starting up a new
78 mail program or re-executing a script.
79 * Avoid repetitive error messages when disconnected.
80 * Use conventional -geometry option handling.
81 * Fix bug in 0.4.15 to re-enable *'s in IMAP passwords.
83 Release 0.4.15 - Mar 30, 2003
84 * Frobnicate internally stored passwords, partially
85 obfuscating them in memory. Not actually more
86 secure, but harder to casually discover a password.
87 * Tighten configuration file lines to more quickly
88 detect misconfiguration. Add the -relax option if
90 * Add support for -bg to round out -hi and -fg color
93 Release 0.4.14 - Jan 24, 2003
94 * Handle building on systems with both posix and gnu
95 regex in different but conflicting files.
96 * Restart wmbiff on SIGUSR1. You may need to use
97 'killall -USR1 wmbiff' if it gets stuck.
98 * Restart wmbiff on ctrl-shift mouse 1.
100 Release 0.4.13 - Jan 20, 2003
101 * Fix a file descriptor leak when using
102 both Shell and IMAP clients.
103 * Portability to Mac OS X, Solaris, and probably BSD
104 restored (thanks sourceforge compile farm!) with a
105 partial rewrite of regular expression handling for
106 IMAP and POP mailboxes.
108 Release 0.4.12 - Jan 3, 2003
109 * Fix a bug introduced in 0.4.9 that interfered with
110 -geometry handling. (Debian #173813)
112 Release 0.4.11 - Dec 28, 2002
113 * security.debian.rb script to check for updates on
114 security.debian.org, installed in $prefix/lib/wmbiff/
115 add: path.x=/usr/lib/wmbiff/security.debian.rb to
116 your .wmbiffrc (and install ruby if you haven't already).
117 * Internal cleanups to allow long askpass commands.
119 Release 0.4.10 - Dec 12, 2002
120 * Peter McAlpine's globalnotify feature - elect to play a
121 sound on new mail in *any* mailbox without a chorus of
122 sounds from every mailbox.
123 * -skip-certificate-check option for when your imaps server
124 is misconfigured and you can't do anything about it.
126 Release 0.4.9 - Dec 1, 2002
127 * GNUTLS v0.5.9 or higher required
128 * Check TLS certificate hostname against the hostname we're
129 connecting to. This raises the bar, but does not make
130 wmbiff's TLS implementation secure against man in the
132 * WMBiff scales to the number of mailboxes you're
133 using. For openbox, this means less wasted space in the
134 slit and the possibility of up to 40 mailboxes. For
135 WindowMaker, this means more pretty chrome and less dark
136 LED if you have only a couple boxes. If you prefer the empty
137 cells at the end, place "path.4=<space><space>" in your
140 Release 0.4.8 - Sept 18, 2002
141 * GNUTLS v0.5.1-0.5.6, gcrypt v1.1.8 required.
142 * Allow spaces in IMAP mailbox paths. The new syntax is:
143 server/"mail box with spaces" where the old is server/mailbox.
144 See wmbiffrc(5) for details.
145 * Avoid filesystem caching for network mounted maildirs.
146 See wmbiffrc(5) for details. (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
148 Release 0.4.7 - August 16, 2002
149 * GNUTLS v0.5.1, gcrypt v1.1.8 required. (no other changes)
151 Release 0.4.6 - July 19, 2002
152 * Ignore sigpipe so that apm suspend works with IMAP/TLS.
153 * Memory handling bugfixes to appease valgrind.
154 * GNUTLS v0.4.3, gcrypt v1.17 expected
156 Release 0.4.4 - June 27, 2002
157 * GNUTLS version 0.4.3 required. The API has changed, and
158 wmbiff is no longer compatible with GNUTLS versions prior
159 to 0.4.3. Certificate checking may be slightly more strict.
160 * GCRYPT version 1.1.7 is expected as well.
161 * Partial rewrite of mailbox-parsing code, splint annotations.
162 * Bugfix in debug messages of ShellClient.
163 * Internal cleanups; migration to autoconf 2.5
165 Release 0.4.3 - June 8, 2002
166 * IPv6 support for real. (missed a detail with autoconf)
167 * Preliminary font support, allowing variable colors. Use
168 wmbiff -fg violet to give it a spin. Note: if the number of
169 old messages is at least 1000, the old number of messages
170 will not be completely erased when new mail arrives.
171 * Mouse handling fix.
172 * Cleanup of internals: handling of default configuration when
173 .wmbiffrc does not exist, vertical position of rows, variable
175 * GNUTLS version 0.3.5 is expected; earlier and later versions
177 * This release is by Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu>.
179 Release 0.4.2 - June 1, 2002
180 * Bugfix: accidentally released a partial feature.
182 Release 0.4.1 - June 1, 2002
184 * This release is by Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu>.
185 * GNUTLS version 0.3.5 is expected; earlier and later versions
187 * IPv6 is now supported, thanks to Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
189 Release 0.4.0 - May 3, 2002
191 * This release is by Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu>.
192 * GNUTLS version 0.3.5 is expected; earlier and later versions
194 * askpass: Passwords can be left empty for IMAP: ssh-askpass
195 will be used to prompt the user. See sample.wmbiffrc
197 * skinfile: Background pixmaps can be specified in .wmbiffrc.
198 This has the effect of "skins." See wmbiffrc(5).
199 Add "skinfile=wmbiff-master-contrast.xpm" to .wmbiffrc
200 for a more readable wmbiff.
201 * finger: Finger client added - finger a user's mailbox to get its
202 status. Requires perl and finger commands. See wmbiffrc(5).
203 Thanks to Andelko Horvat.
204 * shell: Improvements to ShellClient - now allows three character
205 text to be printed as status. If "new" is on the output
206 line, the text will be in yellow. Thanks to Andelko Horvat.
207 * mbox: Paths can be specified including shell expressions
208 in `'s. If requested, this feature can be expanded to other
209 clients. Nested expressions are not supported.
210 * Permissions on .wmbiffrc are checked to protect security.
211 Only a warning is printed now. This will degenerate in
212 later releases for .wmbiffrc's that store passwords.
213 * Migrated to automake / autoconf to detect defaults for
214 ssh-askpass and prepare for future changes.
215 * Bugfix to handle -geometry tags with dimension as generated
216 by fvwmSaveDesk. The size is ignored. (in Debian 0.3.8-3)
218 Release 0.3.8 - Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:17:07 +0100
220 * Added GnomeICU support.
221 * Added an experimental shell command method which reads the output
222 for a given command. See wmbiffrc(5) for details.
223 * Debug support moved to runtime, using the -debug switch.
224 * Fix for the install rule in Makefile.
226 Release 0.3.7 - Sun, 3 Feb 2002 23:46:44 +0100
228 * No, 0.3.6 never happened :)
229 * Removed unneeded auth list fix which broke things.
230 * Makefile cleanup, with better FreeBSD support. You can now easily
231 use the external GNU regex lib.
233 Release 0.3.6 - Sun, 27 Jan 2002 20:49:52 +0100
235 * Added a new syntax for IMAP, which allows using a "@" in
236 the password field. See wmbiffrc(5) for details.
237 * Fix for a correct usage of the auth list in IMAP.
239 Release 0.3.5 - Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:43:23 +0100
241 * Added support for GNUtls 0.3. You can still compile wmbiff using
242 GNUtls 0.2.x by removing the GNUTLS_VER=3 define in the Makefile.
243 * Fixed password quoting in IMAP logins.
245 Release 0.3.4 - Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:56:29 +0100
247 * "imaps" is now prefered to "sslimap" in config files. The old type
248 is still supported for backwards compatibility.
249 * You can now specify what protocol wmbiff should use for a given Pop3
250 or IMAP mailbox. If unspecified, it will try the secure ones first,
251 falling back to unsecure if they fail. See wmbiffrc(5).
252 * Added some debug messages for tls connections.
253 * Pop3 path parsing rewrite.
255 * Compile warning fixes.
257 Release 0.3.3 - Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:55:00 +0100
259 * Sanity check to IMAP code: exit if wmbiff tries to connect to more
261 * Fix a missbehaviour of cram-md5 (broke pop3).
262 * Documentation updates.
264 Release 0.3.2 - Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:30:37 +0200
266 * After some tries (other OpenSSL based patches, independent APOP
267 & CRAM-Md5 patches) we've come up with something based on GNUtls and
268 gcrypt, which are GPL based and have no licensing issues for us.
269 See ChangeLog for details.
270 * WMBiff now supports IMAP-SSL, APOP and CRAM-Md5 authentication. These
271 can be disabled at compile time, commenting out the WITH_TLS and
272 WITH_GCRYPT defines. (Neil Spring, NAKAYAMA Takao and Jay T. Francis).
274 Release 0.3.1 - Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:15:41 +0200
276 * Replaced /var/spool/mail with /var/mail, which is what the FHS mandates.
277 All decent systems should have either the directory or a symlink pointing
278 somewhere else. (Jordi Mallach)
279 * I reformatted ths changelog, again. I hope this is the last time I need
280 to do this. The CVS logs should be used for all changes, and this file
281 should by updated for user-visible changes only, from now on.
282 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
283 * Updated the README to reflect that Gennady Belyakov died right after
284 releasing wmBiff 0.2. May your soul rest in peace, Gennady.
285 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
286 * Fixed the IMAP support, again. (Rob Funk)
289 Release 0.3.0 - Fri, 16 May 2001 12:16:44 +0200
291 * [ReadLine] removed previous trim leading spaces, added TrimFull. Fixes
292 Debian Bug #95849 (Mark Hurley).
293 * There was a bug where if a POP3 or IMAP mailbox read failed and the
294 following reads were successful, but no mail was in the server, the given
295 mailbox would remain reading "XX". Now it updates the counter no matter
296 what the read was (Mark Hurley).
297 * wmBiff would only count as new mails in mbox mailboxes with "N" flags,
298 ignoring those marked "ON" (Rob Funk).
299 * Fixed reading of quoted imap folders, which some IMAPd's do (Rob Funk).
300 * README: updated some very obsolete info. (Jordi Mallach)
303 Release 0.2q1+Debian - Tue, 1 May 2001 10:11:00 +0000
305 * Moved to CVS at SourceForge. (Jordi Mallach)
308 Release 0.2q1 - Fri, 13 Apr 2001 02:47:10 -0400
310 * This release is by Mark Hurley <debian4tux@telocity.com>.
311 * wmbiff/Client.h: move DEBUG_* macros to wmbiff/Makefile
312 * wmbiff/Pop3Client.c:
313 + My password contains an @ character. This causes
314 the pop3 line to be incorrectly parsed by wmbiff.
315 * Drop all of the ":" after the pop3 and delimit all values with
316 spaces. This works well, as passwords/user-id's all agree that
317 the space is a non-legit value.
319 Example: assume my password is: myEmailhasa@init
322 path.3=pop3:debian4tux:myEmailhasa@init@mail.telocity.com
325 path.3=pop3:debian4tux myEmailhasa@init mail.telcoity.com
327 Ahh...before you say it. "Backward compatibility?" You will
328 also find in the patch, a NEW function. So that the OLD and
329 NEW way is easily compatible with all ".wmbiffrc" files.
332 This was not the cleanest way to implement it, but I had to
333 suffice with a clean/quick implementation. I originally wrote
334 one function to handle past and new parsing. However, I
335 thought it would be beneficial to leave them separated, so we
336 could eventually drop the old method?
339 The man page will need to be updated (not provided in patch).
340 We can weed the "old" style out of the example script as well.
341 Still explaining the changes in the man page to leave out
342 confusion in a users mind (as they are likely to find "old"
344 + My mail server at Telocity.com is following the RFC's to
345 a "T". RFC 1725 states that the LAST command be removed.
346 After some searching I have NOT turned up a replacement.
347 Which does make sense, this command is only so useful,
348 and contributes to the popularity of other such remoting
350 * I've set the Unread messages to the TotalMessages,
351 assuming (as suggested by the RFC) no messages have been
352 read. I have also suppressed the error printed to
353 stderr, it is correct to return an error, *now*. ;)
355 The only way to keep track of messages which have been
356 read, is to remember the unique number assigned to them.
357 This is what fetchmail does. However, it does not work
358 correctly if you check and read mail thru other methods
361 - for (index = 0; index < 4; index++)
362 + for (index = 0; index < 5; index++)
364 BUG! Last postion #4 was not correctly being checked.
365 Now correctly checks each position.
368 Release 0.2q - Tue, 20 Mar 2001 05:32:35 +0100
370 * This release is by Jorge García <Jorge.Garcia@uv.es>.
371 * wmbiff/{*.[ch]}: removed unnecesary includes.
372 * wmbiff/wmbiff.c: some cleanups and optimizations.
374 * show error if user config file does not exists
375 * use of userconfig "interval" (wasn't correctly parsed)
376 + {do_biff, displayMsgCounters}: some changes to make Sleep_Interval
378 + parse_cmd: some changes to make uconfig_file local
379 + {BlinkOn, BlinkOff, BlinkToogle}: Removed (merged by do_biff)
380 + {ReadConfigString, ReadConfigInt}: Removed
381 + countmail: removed init in header (wasn't used)
382 + ReadLine: Created (new parsing code, extracts pairs of setting
384 + Read_Config_File: now there is only ONE parse not 36!
385 * wmbiff/{IMap4Client.c, Pop3Client.c}: check for correct format line to
386 avoid "segmentation fault" while parsing.
389 Release 0.2p - Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:00:00 -0600
391 * This release is by Dwayne C. Litzenberger <dlitz@dlitz.net>.
392 * Added maildir support! Yay!
393 * Stole the manpages from Debian.
394 * Massive (lack of) coding style cleanup; Standardized coding style using
396 * Reversed order of ChangeLog as suggested by Jordi.
397 * Cleaned up the v0.2o ChangeLog entry. What a mess! Added missing credits.
398 * Cleaned up and reformatted the rest of the changelog to an almost-Debian
399 format while I'm at it. It's much more readable that way.
400 * Moved definition of WMBIFF_VERSION to the Makefile.
401 * All your base are belong to us.
402 * I'm not maintaining wmBiff; I just submitted a big patch. Send your
403 complaints (or complements) to Yong-iL Joh.
406 Release 0.2o - Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:00:00 +0900
408 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
409 * I don't think the date of this changelog entry is right.
410 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
411 * Jordi Mallach <jordi@sindominio.net>, Debian's wmbiff maintainer, sent
412 me an email a couple of days ago which included a patch with man pages.
413 The patch did the following:
414 + Fixed a major upstream bug that renders this new wmbiff unusable.
415 Thanks to Guillaume Morin, Jérôme Marant and Mark Hurley for their
416 help identifying the bug, and Jorge García <Jorge.Garcia@uv.es> for
417 writing a patch. Basically, the new upstream broke backwards
418 compatibility of wmbiffrc with Gennady's wmbiff, fixed that.
419 This patch also fixes wmbiff not using $MAIL or defaulting to
420 /var/spool/mail/$USER if no ~/.wmbiffrc is found (closes: #87778).
421 + wmbiff/wmbiff.c: updated WMBIFF_VERSION to current.
422 + wmbiff/{socket.c, wmbiff.c}: removed <sys/time.h> includes.
423 + debian/{wmbiff.1, wmbiffrc.5}: updated for IMAP4 and Licq support.
424 + Jorge García removed the segfault in Jordi's wmbiffrc
425 + Vladimir Popov <pva48@mail.ru> fixed a potential buffer overflow
426 in init_biff() (The "/* Make labels look right */" section).
427 + Jorge García <Jorge.Garcia@uv.es> fixed a display bug in the
428 number-of- mails display.
429 * use poll() instead of select()
431 -- Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com> 12-Mar-2001 +0900
434 Release 0.2n - Tue, 20 Feb 2001 0:00:00 +0900
436 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
437 * Nick Clarey <nclarey@3glab.com> sent me a patch.
438 that enhances the following:
439 + UW Imap server 2000.283rh
440 + Config file now supports IMAP mailbox "paths" rather than
441 just the mailbox name (e.g. mail/foo/blah)
444 Release 0.2m - Mon, 5 Feb 2001 00:00:00 +0900
446 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
447 * Imap4Client.c did not close when a connection error occurred. Fixed it.
450 Release 0.2l - Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0900
452 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
453 * Imap4Client.c had a bug when trying to connect to an imap4 server. Fixed
457 Release 0.2j - Mon, 1 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0900
459 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
460 * Because I can't contact the author, I jumped to version 0.2j
461 * Added imap4-based mail server check component.
462 * Divided wmbiff.c to wmbiff.c, LicqClient.c mboxClient.c
465 Release 0.2-licq - Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000
467 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
468 * The actual date of this release is unknown, so I picked New Year's Day,
469 Y2K. (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
470 * I found it from http://www.licq.org/download.html.
473 Release 0.2 - Fri, 26 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
475 * This release is by Gennady Belyakov <gb@ccat.elect.ru>.
476 * We don't actually know the time zone of Gennady's changelog entries
477 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger).
478 * POP3 support added with (auto)fetching
479 * digits blinking on new mail arrival
480 * resource wasting lowered
481 * individual rescan interval for differrent mailboxes
485 Release 0.1a - Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
487 * This release is by Gennady Belyakov <gb@ccat.elect.ru>.
488 * Some fixes with intialization
491 Release 0.1 - Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
493 * Initial release by Gennady Belyakov <gb@ccat.elect.ru>.
496 $Id: NEWS,v 1.61 2005/10/08 18:13:09 bluehal Exp $