3 Release 0.4.30 - November 30, 2016
6 Release 0.4.29 - July 19, 2016
9 Release 0.4.28 - November 7, 2014
10 * Lots of bug fixes and code cleanup.
12 Release 0.4.27 - October 8, 2005
16 Release 0.4.26 - October 10, 2004
17 * Don't crash if no certificate is sent by the remote side
18 and -skip-certificate-check has been given.
19 * Avoid duplicate error messages.
20 * Disable libgcrypt secure memory warning.
21 * security.debian.rb: better when disconnected.
23 Release 0.4.25 - June 23, 2004
24 * Fix a build error in the new gnutls certificate
25 verification code on s390.
27 Release 0.4.24 - June 22, 2004
28 * Use GNUTLS 1.0.4 and GCRYPT 1.1.90, current Debian
29 unstable package libgnutls10-dev.
31 Release 0.4.23 - April 27, 2004
32 * Allow server hostnames in IMAP to be IP addresses
33 (start with a number).
35 Release 0.4.22 - March 27, 2004
36 * Skip examine/search unless requested with msglst option.
37 * Exit if ssh-askpass permissions check fails.
39 Release 0.4.21 - February 21, 2004
40 * Fix a bug where fetch times out to some IMAP servers.
42 Release 0.4.20 - January 1, 2004
43 * Add --disable-crypto for source-based distributions
44 while libgcrypt is unstable.
45 * Sam Izzo's patch for changing the mouse click action
46 depending on whether a box has new mail.
48 Release 0.4.19 - November 8, 2003
49 * Fix test_tlscomm with the right signature for read()
50 * Another bugfix to IMAP msglst when headers are abnormal.
51 * Avoid strcpy for overlapping regions.
53 Release 0.4.18 - November 8, 2003
54 * Update security.debian.rb for ruby 1.8.
55 * Bugfix to avoid infinite loop when reading from IMAP.
56 * Bugfix to msglst to allow capitalized header names.
57 * Add msglst feature to Pop3 mailboxes. (Paolo Gianrossi)
58 * Bugfix to OS X keychain use for panther.
60 Release 0.4.17 - August 31, 2003
61 * On Mac, ask the keychain for passwords if
62 askpass = internal:apple:keychain
63 * Bugfix to an infinite loop found in the
66 Release 0.4.16 - July 7, 2003
67 * Checks TLS certificates. See wmbiffrc(5) for
68 details on the certfile option. Designed to work
70 * Show a busy mouse cursor while talking to remote
71 servers, to show that wmbiff won't be responsive
72 to mouse clicks for a little bit.
73 * New buttontwo (middle click) action to complement
74 action (left mouse click) and fetchcmd (right mouse).
75 * #'s are now only comments in .wmbiffrc at the
76 beginning of lines or following whitespace,
77 allowing #'s in (most) passwords.
78 * AppleScript examples for driving Apple's Mail
79 application in sample.wmbiffrc
80 * Special mailbox action 'msglst' brings up a
81 transient window showing message headers from IMAP
82 and program output for shell methods. This is
83 intended to be faster than starting up a new
84 mail program or re-executing a script.
85 * Avoid repetitive error messages when disconnected.
86 * Use conventional -geometry option handling.
87 * Fix bug in 0.4.15 to re-enable *'s in IMAP passwords.
89 Release 0.4.15 - Mar 30, 2003
90 * Frobnicate internally stored passwords, partially
91 obfuscating them in memory. Not actually more
92 secure, but harder to casually discover a password.
93 * Tighten configuration file lines to more quickly
94 detect misconfiguration. Add the -relax option if
96 * Add support for -bg to round out -hi and -fg color
99 Release 0.4.14 - Jan 24, 2003
100 * Handle building on systems with both posix and gnu
101 regex in different but conflicting files.
102 * Restart wmbiff on SIGUSR1. You may need to use
103 'killall -USR1 wmbiff' if it gets stuck.
104 * Restart wmbiff on ctrl-shift mouse 1.
106 Release 0.4.13 - Jan 20, 2003
107 * Fix a file descriptor leak when using
108 both Shell and IMAP clients.
109 * Portability to Mac OS X, Solaris, and probably BSD
110 restored (thanks sourceforge compile farm!) with a
111 partial rewrite of regular expression handling for
112 IMAP and POP mailboxes.
114 Release 0.4.12 - Jan 3, 2003
115 * Fix a bug introduced in 0.4.9 that interfered with
116 -geometry handling. (Debian #173813)
118 Release 0.4.11 - Dec 28, 2002
119 * security.debian.rb script to check for updates on
120 security.debian.org, installed in $prefix/lib/wmbiff/
121 add: path.x=/usr/lib/wmbiff/security.debian.rb to
122 your .wmbiffrc (and install ruby if you haven't already).
123 * Internal cleanups to allow long askpass commands.
125 Release 0.4.10 - Dec 12, 2002
126 * Peter McAlpine's globalnotify feature - elect to play a
127 sound on new mail in *any* mailbox without a chorus of
128 sounds from every mailbox.
129 * -skip-certificate-check option for when your imaps server
130 is misconfigured and you can't do anything about it.
132 Release 0.4.9 - Dec 1, 2002
133 * GNUTLS v0.5.9 or higher required
134 * Check TLS certificate hostname against the hostname we're
135 connecting to. This raises the bar, but does not make
136 wmbiff's TLS implementation secure against man in the
138 * WMBiff scales to the number of mailboxes you're
139 using. For openbox, this means less wasted space in the
140 slit and the possibility of up to 40 mailboxes. For
141 WindowMaker, this means more pretty chrome and less dark
142 LED if you have only a couple boxes. If you prefer the empty
143 cells at the end, place "path.4=<space><space>" in your
146 Release 0.4.8 - Sept 18, 2002
147 * GNUTLS v0.5.1-0.5.6, gcrypt v1.1.8 required.
148 * Allow spaces in IMAP mailbox paths. The new syntax is:
149 server/"mail box with spaces" where the old is server/mailbox.
150 See wmbiffrc(5) for details.
151 * Avoid filesystem caching for network mounted maildirs.
152 See wmbiffrc(5) for details. (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
154 Release 0.4.7 - August 16, 2002
155 * GNUTLS v0.5.1, gcrypt v1.1.8 required. (no other changes)
157 Release 0.4.6 - July 19, 2002
158 * Ignore sigpipe so that apm suspend works with IMAP/TLS.
159 * Memory handling bugfixes to appease valgrind.
160 * GNUTLS v0.4.3, gcrypt v1.17 expected
162 Release 0.4.4 - June 27, 2002
163 * GNUTLS version 0.4.3 required. The API has changed, and
164 wmbiff is no longer compatible with GNUTLS versions prior
165 to 0.4.3. Certificate checking may be slightly more strict.
166 * GCRYPT version 1.1.7 is expected as well.
167 * Partial rewrite of mailbox-parsing code, splint annotations.
168 * Bugfix in debug messages of ShellClient.
169 * Internal cleanups; migration to autoconf 2.5
171 Release 0.4.3 - June 8, 2002
172 * IPv6 support for real. (missed a detail with autoconf)
173 * Preliminary font support, allowing variable colors. Use
174 wmbiff -fg violet to give it a spin. Note: if the number of
175 old messages is at least 1000, the old number of messages
176 will not be completely erased when new mail arrives.
177 * Mouse handling fix.
178 * Cleanup of internals: handling of default configuration when
179 .wmbiffrc does not exist, vertical position of rows, variable
181 * GNUTLS version 0.3.5 is expected; earlier and later versions
183 * This release is by Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu>.
185 Release 0.4.2 - June 1, 2002
186 * Bugfix: accidentally released a partial feature.
188 Release 0.4.1 - June 1, 2002
190 * This release is by Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu>.
191 * GNUTLS version 0.3.5 is expected; earlier and later versions
193 * IPv6 is now supported, thanks to Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
195 Release 0.4.0 - May 3, 2002
197 * This release is by Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu>.
198 * GNUTLS version 0.3.5 is expected; earlier and later versions
200 * askpass: Passwords can be left empty for IMAP: ssh-askpass
201 will be used to prompt the user. See sample.wmbiffrc
203 * skinfile: Background pixmaps can be specified in .wmbiffrc.
204 This has the effect of "skins." See wmbiffrc(5).
205 Add "skinfile=wmbiff-master-contrast.xpm" to .wmbiffrc
206 for a more readable wmbiff.
207 * finger: Finger client added - finger a user's mailbox to get its
208 status. Requires perl and finger commands. See wmbiffrc(5).
209 Thanks to Andelko Horvat.
210 * shell: Improvements to ShellClient - now allows three character
211 text to be printed as status. If "new" is on the output
212 line, the text will be in yellow. Thanks to Andelko Horvat.
213 * mbox: Paths can be specified including shell expressions
214 in `'s. If requested, this feature can be expanded to other
215 clients. Nested expressions are not supported.
216 * Permissions on .wmbiffrc are checked to protect security.
217 Only a warning is printed now. This will degenerate in
218 later releases for .wmbiffrc's that store passwords.
219 * Migrated to automake / autoconf to detect defaults for
220 ssh-askpass and prepare for future changes.
221 * Bugfix to handle -geometry tags with dimension as generated
222 by fvwmSaveDesk. The size is ignored. (in Debian 0.3.8-3)
224 Release 0.3.8 - Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:17:07 +0100
226 * Added GnomeICU support.
227 * Added an experimental shell command method which reads the output
228 for a given command. See wmbiffrc(5) for details.
229 * Debug support moved to runtime, using the -debug switch.
230 * Fix for the install rule in Makefile.
232 Release 0.3.7 - Sun, 3 Feb 2002 23:46:44 +0100
234 * No, 0.3.6 never happened :)
235 * Removed unneeded auth list fix which broke things.
236 * Makefile cleanup, with better FreeBSD support. You can now easily
237 use the external GNU regex lib.
239 Release 0.3.6 - Sun, 27 Jan 2002 20:49:52 +0100
241 * Added a new syntax for IMAP, which allows using a "@" in
242 the password field. See wmbiffrc(5) for details.
243 * Fix for a correct usage of the auth list in IMAP.
245 Release 0.3.5 - Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:43:23 +0100
247 * Added support for GNUtls 0.3. You can still compile wmbiff using
248 GNUtls 0.2.x by removing the GNUTLS_VER=3 define in the Makefile.
249 * Fixed password quoting in IMAP logins.
251 Release 0.3.4 - Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:56:29 +0100
253 * "imaps" is now prefered to "sslimap" in config files. The old type
254 is still supported for backwards compatibility.
255 * You can now specify what protocol wmbiff should use for a given Pop3
256 or IMAP mailbox. If unspecified, it will try the secure ones first,
257 falling back to unsecure if they fail. See wmbiffrc(5).
258 * Added some debug messages for tls connections.
259 * Pop3 path parsing rewrite.
261 * Compile warning fixes.
263 Release 0.3.3 - Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:55:00 +0100
265 * Sanity check to IMAP code: exit if wmbiff tries to connect to more
267 * Fix a missbehaviour of cram-md5 (broke pop3).
268 * Documentation updates.
270 Release 0.3.2 - Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:30:37 +0200
272 * After some tries (other OpenSSL based patches, independent APOP
273 & CRAM-Md5 patches) we've come up with something based on GNUtls and
274 gcrypt, which are GPL based and have no licensing issues for us.
275 See ChangeLog for details.
276 * WMBiff now supports IMAP-SSL, APOP and CRAM-Md5 authentication. These
277 can be disabled at compile time, commenting out the WITH_TLS and
278 WITH_GCRYPT defines. (Neil Spring, NAKAYAMA Takao and Jay T. Francis).
280 Release 0.3.1 - Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:15:41 +0200
282 * Replaced /var/spool/mail with /var/mail, which is what the FHS mandates.
283 All decent systems should have either the directory or a symlink pointing
284 somewhere else. (Jordi Mallach)
285 * I reformatted ths changelog, again. I hope this is the last time I need
286 to do this. The CVS logs should be used for all changes, and this file
287 should by updated for user-visible changes only, from now on.
288 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
289 * Updated the README to reflect that Gennady Belyakov died right after
290 releasing wmBiff 0.2. May your soul rest in peace, Gennady.
291 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
292 * Fixed the IMAP support, again. (Rob Funk)
295 Release 0.3.0 - Fri, 16 May 2001 12:16:44 +0200
297 * [ReadLine] removed previous trim leading spaces, added TrimFull. Fixes
298 Debian Bug #95849 (Mark Hurley).
299 * There was a bug where if a POP3 or IMAP mailbox read failed and the
300 following reads were successful, but no mail was in the server, the given
301 mailbox would remain reading "XX". Now it updates the counter no matter
302 what the read was (Mark Hurley).
303 * wmBiff would only count as new mails in mbox mailboxes with "N" flags,
304 ignoring those marked "ON" (Rob Funk).
305 * Fixed reading of quoted imap folders, which some IMAPd's do (Rob Funk).
306 * README: updated some very obsolete info. (Jordi Mallach)
309 Release 0.2q1+Debian - Tue, 1 May 2001 10:11:00 +0000
311 * Moved to CVS at SourceForge. (Jordi Mallach)
314 Release 0.2q1 - Fri, 13 Apr 2001 02:47:10 -0400
316 * This release is by Mark Hurley <debian4tux@telocity.com>.
317 * wmbiff/Client.h: move DEBUG_* macros to wmbiff/Makefile
318 * wmbiff/Pop3Client.c:
319 + My password contains an @ character. This causes
320 the pop3 line to be incorrectly parsed by wmbiff.
321 * Drop all of the ":" after the pop3 and delimit all values with
322 spaces. This works well, as passwords/user-id's all agree that
323 the space is a non-legit value.
325 Example: assume my password is: myEmailhasa@init
328 path.3=pop3:debian4tux:myEmailhasa@init@mail.telocity.com
331 path.3=pop3:debian4tux myEmailhasa@init mail.telcoity.com
333 Ahh...before you say it. "Backward compatibility?" You will
334 also find in the patch, a NEW function. So that the OLD and
335 NEW way is easily compatible with all ".wmbiffrc" files.
338 This was not the cleanest way to implement it, but I had to
339 suffice with a clean/quick implementation. I originally wrote
340 one function to handle past and new parsing. However, I
341 thought it would be beneficial to leave them separated, so we
342 could eventually drop the old method?
345 The man page will need to be updated (not provided in patch).
346 We can weed the "old" style out of the example script as well.
347 Still explaining the changes in the man page to leave out
348 confusion in a users mind (as they are likely to find "old"
350 + My mail server at Telocity.com is following the RFC's to
351 a "T". RFC 1725 states that the LAST command be removed.
352 After some searching I have NOT turned up a replacement.
353 Which does make sense, this command is only so useful,
354 and contributes to the popularity of other such remoting
356 * I've set the Unread messages to the TotalMessages,
357 assuming (as suggested by the RFC) no messages have been
358 read. I have also suppressed the error printed to
359 stderr, it is correct to return an error, *now*. ;)
361 The only way to keep track of messages which have been
362 read, is to remember the unique number assigned to them.
363 This is what fetchmail does. However, it does not work
364 correctly if you check and read mail thru other methods
367 - for (index = 0; index < 4; index++)
368 + for (index = 0; index < 5; index++)
370 BUG! Last postion #4 was not correctly being checked.
371 Now correctly checks each position.
374 Release 0.2q - Tue, 20 Mar 2001 05:32:35 +0100
376 * This release is by Jorge García <Jorge.Garcia@uv.es>.
377 * wmbiff/{*.[ch]}: removed unnecesary includes.
378 * wmbiff/wmbiff.c: some cleanups and optimizations.
380 * show error if user config file does not exists
381 * use of userconfig "interval" (wasn't correctly parsed)
382 + {do_biff, displayMsgCounters}: some changes to make Sleep_Interval
384 + parse_cmd: some changes to make uconfig_file local
385 + {BlinkOn, BlinkOff, BlinkToogle}: Removed (merged by do_biff)
386 + {ReadConfigString, ReadConfigInt}: Removed
387 + countmail: removed init in header (wasn't used)
388 + ReadLine: Created (new parsing code, extracts pairs of setting
390 + Read_Config_File: now there is only ONE parse not 36!
391 * wmbiff/{IMap4Client.c, Pop3Client.c}: check for correct format line to
392 avoid "segmentation fault" while parsing.
395 Release 0.2p - Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:00:00 -0600
397 * This release is by Dwayne C. Litzenberger <dlitz@dlitz.net>.
398 * Added maildir support! Yay!
399 * Stole the manpages from Debian.
400 * Massive (lack of) coding style cleanup; Standardized coding style using
402 * Reversed order of ChangeLog as suggested by Jordi.
403 * Cleaned up the v0.2o ChangeLog entry. What a mess! Added missing credits.
404 * Cleaned up and reformatted the rest of the changelog to an almost-Debian
405 format while I'm at it. It's much more readable that way.
406 * Moved definition of WMBIFF_VERSION to the Makefile.
407 * All your base are belong to us.
408 * I'm not maintaining wmBiff; I just submitted a big patch. Send your
409 complaints (or complements) to Yong-iL Joh.
412 Release 0.2o - Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:00:00 +0900
414 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
415 * I don't think the date of this changelog entry is right.
416 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
417 * Jordi Mallach <jordi@sindominio.net>, Debian's wmbiff maintainer, sent
418 me an email a couple of days ago which included a patch with man pages.
419 The patch did the following:
420 + Fixed a major upstream bug that renders this new wmbiff unusable.
421 Thanks to Guillaume Morin, Jérôme Marant and Mark Hurley for their
422 help identifying the bug, and Jorge García <Jorge.Garcia@uv.es> for
423 writing a patch. Basically, the new upstream broke backwards
424 compatibility of wmbiffrc with Gennady's wmbiff, fixed that.
425 This patch also fixes wmbiff not using $MAIL or defaulting to
426 /var/spool/mail/$USER if no ~/.wmbiffrc is found (closes: #87778).
427 + wmbiff/wmbiff.c: updated WMBIFF_VERSION to current.
428 + wmbiff/{socket.c, wmbiff.c}: removed <sys/time.h> includes.
429 + debian/{wmbiff.1, wmbiffrc.5}: updated for IMAP4 and Licq support.
430 + Jorge García removed the segfault in Jordi's wmbiffrc
431 + Vladimir Popov <pva48@mail.ru> fixed a potential buffer overflow
432 in init_biff() (The "/* Make labels look right */" section).
433 + Jorge García <Jorge.Garcia@uv.es> fixed a display bug in the
434 number-of- mails display.
435 * use poll() instead of select()
437 -- Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com> 12-Mar-2001 +0900
440 Release 0.2n - Tue, 20 Feb 2001 0:00:00 +0900
442 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
443 * Nick Clarey <nclarey@3glab.com> sent me a patch.
444 that enhances the following:
445 + UW Imap server 2000.283rh
446 + Config file now supports IMAP mailbox "paths" rather than
447 just the mailbox name (e.g. mail/foo/blah)
450 Release 0.2m - Mon, 5 Feb 2001 00:00:00 +0900
452 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
453 * Imap4Client.c did not close when a connection error occurred. Fixed it.
456 Release 0.2l - Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0900
458 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
459 * Imap4Client.c had a bug when trying to connect to an imap4 server. Fixed
463 Release 0.2j - Mon, 1 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0900
465 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
466 * Because I can't contact the author, I jumped to version 0.2j
467 * Added imap4-based mail server check component.
468 * Divided wmbiff.c to wmbiff.c, LicqClient.c mboxClient.c
471 Release 0.2-licq - Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000
473 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
474 * The actual date of this release is unknown, so I picked New Year's Day,
475 Y2K. (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
476 * I found it from http://www.licq.org/download.html.
479 Release 0.2 - Fri, 26 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
481 * This release is by Gennady Belyakov <gb@ccat.elect.ru>.
482 * We don't actually know the time zone of Gennady's changelog entries
483 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger).
484 * POP3 support added with (auto)fetching
485 * digits blinking on new mail arrival
486 * resource wasting lowered
487 * individual rescan interval for differrent mailboxes
491 Release 0.1a - Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
493 * This release is by Gennady Belyakov <gb@ccat.elect.ru>.
494 * Some fixes with intialization
497 Release 0.1 - Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
499 * Initial release by Gennady Belyakov <gb@ccat.elect.ru>.
502 $Id: NEWS,v 1.61 2005/10/08 18:13:09 bluehal Exp $