1 S - n a i l / S - m a i l x N e w s
2 ====================================
4 mdocmx(7) anchors are denoted by a number-sign #: typing
5 "^A ANCHOR" while reading the man(1)ual in a capable less(1)
6 will scroll to the manual's Point-Of-Interest, and pointing
7 a web browser to the "#ANCHOR" of the online manual works.
9 v14.9.23 ("Tits look ahead for winter"), 2021-11-11
10 ---------------------------------------------------
12 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Noctambule, Stephen Isard,
13 Andreas Teuber, Simon Gerraty, Geoff Clare, Robert Elz,
14 Harald van Dijk, Bryan Drewery, Andrea Biardi, Jörg Schilling.
16 We welcome Andreas Teuber, Harald van Dijk, Bryan Drewery and
17 Andrea Biardi in THANKS.
19 Good-bye and farewall dear Jörg!
21 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
22 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
24 - VAL_RANDOM=getentropy was broken.
26 - An unset *mta-bcc-ok*#482 could cause partial Bcc: content
27 to be written to Cc: or To:. (If so many addressees where given
28 that multiple lines have to be used, content of all lines but
29 the first would be written.) (Andreas Teuber)
31 - Date offset calculation was wrong for timezones which use
32 a negative adjustment for "is daylight saving time active".
38 - Continue searching MIME handler sources if the first found one
39 is not applicable in current context. (Noctambule)
41 - Fixed `vexpr'#303 shift operators broken for "optimization" :-(.
42 Also fix `date-utc' subcommand which used two "dutc_month"
43 instead of one plus "dutc_day".
45 - Temporarily set an unset $LESS to portable "RI" not "RXi".
47 - A couple of SIGALARM / alarm(2) fixes for the -keepalive-
48 variable series. (Stephen Isard)
50 - We drop inherited effective IDs upon startup. (Harald van Dijk)
52 - `mimeview'#227 now also asks for text/ parts whether an action
53 shall be applied. And if there is no plain part we may
54 use the rich one if possible. (Stephen Isard)
56 - *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#503 now support type-markers. (Noctambule)
58 git(1) shortlog (edited)
59 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
61 Steffen Nurpmeso (57):
62 921de6aaaa mx_qp_dec_header(): fix: do not decode an encoded "_" to " "
63 edef6effff mx_mime_type_handler(): fix: if ..check() "fails", continue search
65 af64338852 MLE:a_tty_readline(): FIX possible buffer-overflow with
67 1091b026c9 c_digmsg(): (fix): if `digmsg' input is not fully consumed..
68 7e7ac8acd2 n_header_extract(): fix: reverse order when cat'ing multiple
70 1b23e50938 sendpart(): fix [b735b9b1db6980e040fc97f22fd94ed7ae547615] for
72 d513fa93a2 imap_copy1(): fix an UNANSWERED<>Flagged mismatch
73 f26a16e7b5 `vexpr': FIX (oh mess!): fix <<,>>,>>>
74 67d78f91d3 `vexpr': one more tweak for fix <<,>>,>>>
75 d9df5e6059 `vexpr': "date-utc": fix: it is dutc_day= not a second dutc_month=
76 dbdccea210 a_aux_pager_get(): set an unset $LESS= to the portable RI, not RXi
77 166c1377aa a_mime__convhdra(): FIX missing iconv(3) failure (since EVER: nail
79 b2fedeadc2 nail.1: clarify 501 return code of `digmsg' / `~^'
80 cde5c01e3c mx_fs_tmp_open(): plug FD leak in error path
81 4870e54f9d n_folder_mbox_prepare_append(): fix: first putc(3) iff, then
83 2b6681b904 imap_folders(): fix crash in "Fi @NoSuch;folders @" (ever)
84 0e68bbebab mx_child_wait(): let SIGALARM get through (Stephen Isard)
85 1d9c79a2c0 Impose upper limit on socket failures (Stephen Isard)..
86 69be61071c Clear an installed alarm(2) in fork(2)ed childs (Stephen Isard)
87 ec14b3fe63 a_rand_init(): FIX getentropy(2) usage!
88 c3ef40c2b6 a_sendout_transfer(): FIX *mta-bcc-ok* logic on follow lines!
90 067378472d THANKS: Andreas Teuber
91 60944923a4 mx-test.sh: not stty but test -t 1 (BSD 4.1, Research V7) (Simon
93 7c7a195323 Ensure final fflush(3) reflected by exit status (Geoff Clare,
95 77a598a655 In *posix* mode, generate failure exit if any msg sendout failed
96 ddcad27f55 mx_tty_create_prompt()++: never prepend ERROR# to *prompt* (Stephen
98 068fa36f78 (BWDIC!) *^ERRQUEUE-EXISTS*: boolean -> string
99 1aae726e32 a_main_startup(): drop inherited effective IDs (Harald van Dijk)
100 ab86bef4cb THANKS: Harald van Dijk
101 7f088542c0 ps-dotlock: check for and use procctl(2) PROC_TRACE_CTL (Bryan
103 489c583d1b THANKS: Bryan Drewery
104 ec650e3c52 `mimeview': also ask for text/ parts whether action ok (Stephen
106 9c8c9f3386 send.c:_send_al7ive_have_better(): use rich if there's no plain
108 60ed19eed5 FIX UTC offset "calculation" (Andrea Biardi)..
109 94c92d3e4d THANKS: Andrea Biardi
110 6be6974c0e nail.1: continue on [edef6effffc077b1300db0b7ea8d76517d8198d7]
112 9c11448e7c *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*: support explicit type-markers (Noctambule)
113 7b8ac94bf7 n_folder_mbox_prepare_append(): fix it on SunOS (Jörg Schilling,
116 v14.9.22 ("Feathery sound of close tit flypast"), 2021-02-24
117 ------------------------------------------------------------
120 Three fixes for thoughtless and also in other ways superficial
121 code changes i have done.
122 Apologises to all, but especially to Mr. Bell.
124 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jens Schleusener,
125 Olav Mørkrid, Russell Bell and Johannes Schöpfer.
127 A special thanks to Olav Mørkrid is overdue.
132 - After "echo foo | s-nail $USER" we no longer leave the terminal
133 in a different state than it should be. Terminal initialization
134 was not rethought from scratch after we focused on the MLE
135 editor only and after we have implemented our own termcap/info
136 layer .. now done, and -A account switch and -X commands now run
137 properly covered already, too. (Olav Mørkrid)
139 - I had implemented a thoughtless use of close_range() aka
140 closefrom() -- this was totally broken (mysteriously not covered
141 by the tests, have to look, will fix for the future, too). We
142 can never do this, and if it is only for `readctl'#254.
143 (Russell Bell, Johannes Schöpfer)
145 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (8)
147 v14.9.21 ("Tit escapes with a peanut"), 2021-01-21
148 --------------------------------------------------
150 I apologise for the inconvenience of yet another bugfix release.
151 It fixes a possible SMTP buffer overflow triggerable by
152 a malicious server as reported by Olav Mørkrid, and a socket code
153 memory access error that can be seen when using IMAP on at least
154 Solaris, which was reported by Jörg Schilling.
156 Yasuhiro Kimura helped to unconfuse problems that i attributed to
157 BSD make, but which were indeed shell errors, most notably mksh.
158 Excuses are due to the forgiving and friendly Simon Gerraty (BSD
159 make) and Paul Smith (GNU make).
160 (In the end test job reaper code has been rewritten completely.)
162 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Simon Gerraty,
163 Yasuhiro Kimura, Matthias Gerstner, Olav Mørkrid, Jörg Schilling,
166 We welcome Simon Gerraty and Matthias Gerstner in THANKS.
168 We are https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail (project 444).
170 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
171 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
173 - The test now can skip individual tests included in $SKIPTEST,
174 for example "# make test SKIPTEST='eval vexpr'.
176 - New option VAL_ERRORS_LIMIT (by default enbaled), and new
177 variable *errors-limit*#415 to configure error ring size.
179 - We become even more portable to SysV/Solaris. (Jörg Schilling)
184 - Without termcap/terminfo support the outermost column was always
185 made accessible (since "not not" defining "am" in *termcap* is
186 not possible, bug since v14.9.12), on the other hand the "ch"
187 builtin implementation never reached out to this last column
190 - Manual: after rewrite and review i think the manual section
191 "Character sets"#15 is of acceptable quality. (Jörg Schilling)
193 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (56)
195 v14.9.20 ("Sombre Tit (Trauermeise)"), 2020-12-12
196 -------------------------------------------------
198 Fixes things like TLS over SOCKS and too many other bugs.
199 We have some new things, too.
201 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Roberto Ricci,
202 Aharon Robbins, Kevin McCarthy, Predrag Punosevac,
203 Paride Legovini, Olav Mørkrid, Ron Varburg, Jürgen Daubert,
204 Russell Bell, and Geoff Clare.
206 It is courtesy to give a special credit to Coverity.com, even
207 though it only found false positives.
208 (https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail, project 444.)
210 We welcome Roberto Ricci, Ron Varburg and Geoff Clare in THANKS.
212 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
213 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
215 + FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, (NetBSD): there are bugs in BSD make and
216 FreeBSD-derived sh(1)ells regarding sh(1) monitor mode that is
217 now used in mx-test.sh ("make test").
218 Please pass in JOBMON=n on make(1) command line, or use
219 a different shell (and make).
221 (You could also pass in a different JOBWAIT= now.)
223 + Binaries are now installed 0755 not 0555. (Jürgen Daubert)
225 + On SunOS/Solaris we now use the normal $CC detection algorithm.
226 (No longer forcefully overwrite, prefer open source compilers.)
228 - TLS connections can now be proxied via *socks-proxy*#569.
230 - `echo'#182 no longer performs "Filename transformations"#27.
231 Introduced in BSD Mail in 1988, but bad.
232 Just use `vexpr'#303 file-expand.
234 - `local'#127 now works like `localopts'#218 when used
235 with `set'#269 and `unset'#270.
236 This is true for built-in variables only, of course, using
237 `local' for those was forbidden in the past, i think.
238 Note that `localopts' will be obsoleted in v14.10, we will only
239 use modifiers in the future.
244 - EXTERNAL authentication over IMAP and POP3 was fixed.
246 - *tls-fingerprint*#596 is now tested case-insensitively.
248 - *quote*#520 gained an "allbodies" keyword.
250 - "The Mailcap files"#37 gained "x-mailx-last-resort" and
251 "x-mailx-ignore" flags. (Latter: Russell Bell)
253 - `history'#213 "delete" can now delete multiple entries per
256 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (110)
258 v14.9.19 ("Tufted titmouse (Indianermeise)"), 2020-04-26
259 --------------------------------------------------------
261 Fixing an unknown-8bit/iconv(1/3) misbehaviour when displaying
262 mails, and making this MUA ready for OpenSSL 3.0.
264 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Anirudh Oppiliappan and
267 We welcome Anirudh Oppiliappan and Claus Assmann in THANKS.
269 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (14)
271 v14.9.18 ("It is spring time, what a bliss"), 2020-04-18
272 --------------------------------------------------------
274 Some bugfixes and tweaks that accumulated over the months.
276 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jens Schleusener,
277 Noctambule, Kyle Evans.
279 It is courtesy to give a special credit to Coverity.com.
280 (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project 444.)
282 We welcome Noctambule and Kyle Evans in THANKS.
284 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
285 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
287 - Warning: we _will_ have v15-compat=yes as a default in v14.10!
289 - Fix for `~f'#328, `~m'#334, `~Q'#336, `~U'#342 and `~u'#343:
290 no longer include all MIME parts (bug since at least v14.9.16).
292 - Fix for handling of "The Mailcap files"#37:
293 a single copiousoutput/x-mailx-tmpfile-fill|nametemplate
294 combination was falsely handled, mostly affecting binary file
295 formats (which got broken by applied character set conversion).
297 - Fix for automatic S/MIME encrypted key / certificate password
298 lookup: used $LOGNAME@[no hostname].smime-cert-key as
299 a fallback, instead of using the value of *from*#432.
302 - `~R'#338 and `~r'#339, as well as all prompts which expect
303 file names and did not yet do so, expect shell-quoted names.
304 (See "Shell-style argument quoting"#24.)
309 - `~Q'#336 now acts as if *quote*#520 is set.
310 Does not really make sense otherwise.
312 - New environment variable $SOCKS5_PROXY#635 is tight together
313 with *socks-proxy*#569: setting the one affects the other.
314 This $SOCKS5_PROXY is introduced by FreeBSD to affect all
315 programs which are capable to proxy via SOCKS5 (it seems).
318 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (26)
320 v14.9.17 ("To bind, or not to bind.."), 2020-02-02
321 --------------------------------------------------
323 A shadowed key bindings report on bash-bugs@ made me aware that
324 our `bind' code has never seen a real review, and not only were we
325 incapable too, but the code was a piece of shit, when i looked at
326 it. So please find here a bugfix release to smoothly end v14.9.
328 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jens Schleusener,
329 Johannes Schöpfer, Russell Bell, and Koichi Murase.
331 It is courtesy to give a special credit to Coverity.com.
332 (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project 444.)
334 We welcome Koichi Murase in THANKS.
336 And now for something completely different.
338 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
339 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
341 - "make test" now works when run by root or on read-only
342 file-systems. (Johannes Schöpfer)
344 - Our `bind'#150 now supports overall key-sequence timeouts,
345 as opposed to inter-byte timeouts. For this i have obsoleted
346 *bind-timeout* in favour of *bind-inter-byte-timeout*#380
347 and *bind-inter-key-timeout*#381 (not set by default).
349 The bind tree code had two bugs, for one the "shortcut"
350 key-bindings would all have been created in the "base" context,
351 not where they really belong ("default" and "compose").
352 And due to false list relinking shadowed key bindings did not
353 work. (Koichi Murase)
355 When used with 3x*verbose*#? (aka -v#86) the bind tree
356 is now dumped when it has been build (once used first, and after
357 modifications. Putting all this together, a resource file
359 cat >/tmp/t.sh <<'__EOT'
361 cat >/tmp/t.rc <<'_EOT'
362 set line-editor-no-defaults
363 bind base $'\n' mle-commit
364 bind base $'\c?' mle-del-bwd
365 bind base $'\cT' echo one
366 bind base $'\cT',$'\cT' echo two
368 bind base ab,c echo 1
369 bind base abc,d echo 2
370 bind base ac,d echo 3
371 bind base a,b,c echo 4
372 bind base a,b,c,d echo 5
373 bind base a,b,cc,d echo 6
375 set bind-inter-key-timeout=2500
376 set bind-inter-byte-timeout=250
377 bind base a,b,c,d # now works, too!
379 MAILRC=/tmp/t.rc $MAILX -R:u -Y 'set verbose=3'
380 rm -f /tmp/t.sh /tmp/t.rc
384 will now do the expected.
386 - `Reply'#257: no longer honours *recipients-in-cc*#528
391 - Manual: after review i think the following sections are of
392 acceptable quality: "On terminal control and line editor"#18,
393 "Coloured display"#19.
395 - *verbose*#607 is no longer a boolean but can be assigned
396 a numeric value. But "set verbose verbose verbose"
399 - New variable *reply-to-swap-in*#536 tries to work around
400 the DKIM/DMARC "HUMAN via LIST <LIST@ADDRESS>" ugliness
401 when `reply'#259ing (or `Reply'#257ing) to such a message.
402 It tries to move the HUMAN into responsibility.
404 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (65)
406 v14.9.16 ("Message of Winter, your hopes shall be crushed"), 2019-12-29
407 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
409 At the end of the v14.9 series we finally deliver the RFC 1524
410 mailcap support, as well as other improvements, and new features.
411 Many bugfixes and tests arrive.
412 A whole bunch of things are backward-incompatible, but i would
413 assume that most use cases are not at all affected.
415 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Brian Evans,
416 Paride Legovini, Yasuhiro KIMURA, John P. Linderman, Leo,
417 Martin Neitzel, Alexander Harm, Ken Hornstein, Martynas Bendorius,
418 Russell Bell, Goesta Smekal, Kevin McCarthy, Ralph Keller,
419 Ralph Corderoy, Viktor Szépe, Jelle van der Waa, Arnout Engelen,
420 Stuart Henderson, elo, and Benjamin A. Wong.
422 We welcome Yasuhiro KIMURA, John P. Linderman, Leo,
423 Martynas Bendorius, Goesta Smekal, Jelle van der Waa,
424 Arnout Engelen, elo, and Benjamin A. Wong in THANKS.
426 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
427 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
429 - Renamed *expandaddr*#417 namehostex to nametoaddr. (Better.)
431 - *tls-features*#595 string now starts and ends with comma.
432 (Just like *features*#420 does.)
434 - -L#72 longname --header-search renamed to --search.
436 - Config option OPT_FORCED_STACKPROT=xy now
437 OPT_AUTOCC_STACKPROT=y, and now auto-enabled for OPT_AUTOCC=y
438 (even though i hate that, protectors in shipout code..).
440 - `account'#141 return value now matters, and can thus be used to
441 abort account switching.
443 - -:#56 has new "x" mode, which executes the directives of the
444 compiled-in resource file. (The template content is now
445 compiled in too, so the real file does not need to be loaded.)
448 - Quote etc. injections (*quote-inject-head*#525) now always
449 happen (if set), regardless of *quote*#520.
451 - We now truly honour POSIX command abbreviations (order).
452 As part of that i finally implemented a simple command lookup
453 speedup, these are now almost alphabetical (unless abbreviations
456 - Added *mta-bcc-ok*#482. Bummer. It seems exim and courier
457 do not remove Bcc: headers as required by standards unless
458 invoked with a special command line argument. So we now
459 do not pass Bcc: headers to file-based MTAs unless this
460 variable is set explicitly. (Kevin McCarthy).
462 - "COMMAND ESCAPES"#29 now have a $ command modifier, which
463 causes a shell-style `eval'#192uation before the command
466 And so `~<'#315, `~R'#338 and `~r'#339 no longer expand $VAR
467 expressions by themselves.
469 And so -a#58, `~@'#318, and "attachment insert" of `~^'#320
470 and `digmsg'#175 only perform ~/-style expansions.
472 - `~^'#320: use shell-style argument expansion.
473 We handled `~^' and `digmsg' differently, but furthermore
474 turned the shell-parsed data of the latter into whitespace
475 separated data, which made it impossible to, for example,
476 use attachments with whitespace in their names.
478 This increases the interaction protocol version number of
479 *on-compose-splice*#492 from "0 0 1" to "0 0 2"!
480 Because, we do also quote the output, since using `read'
481 (or read(1)) causes *ifs*#445 ($IFS) normalization.
482 All that could be done would be (for ourselves):
489 # And now assign the desired real fields
490 set real-var1=$1 real-var2=$2 ...
493 Sick! So instead introduce a `readsh'#252 command which works
494 like `read'#251 but splits fields at shell token boundaries,
495 for example from within *on-compose-splice*#492:
497 echo '~^h s subject'; read stat name; readsh sub; read i
499 There would be better examples. (Ralph Keller)
501 - `~F'#327, `~f'#328, `~M'#333, `~m'#334, `~U'#342 and `~u'#343 now
502 honour *forward-inject-head*#430 and *forward-inject-tail*#431.
504 - New option OPT_MAILCAP, by default enabled.
505 Disable at runtime via *mailcap-disable*#460, all documented
506 in "The Mailcap files"#37.
508 - OpenBSD: really auto-find number of processors in test script.
509 Work around fflush(3) not adapting POSIX behaviour.
511 - Manual: after review i think the following sections are of
512 acceptable quality: "Encrypted network communication"#14,
513 "A starter"#6, "On URL syntax and credential lookup"#13,
514 "The Mailcap files"#37, and
515 "But, how about XOAUTH2 / OAUTHBEARER?"#46.
517 The latter is actually (Stuart Henderson, Benjamin A. Wong),
518 and now provides a copy+paste example of how to keep a
519 OAUTHBEARER token up-to-date with S-nail (with some care).
522 - Default .rc file: keeps Sender: by default (Ken Hornstein),
523 sets *followup-to-honour*#427 and *reply-to-honour*#535,
524 and gives more *history-gabby*#439ness.
529 - Add `Lfollowup'#219. (Russell Bell)
531 - `?'#139: prefix \ (quoted!) to command to avoid
532 `commandalias'#163 matching:
535 S -> spamspam: Teach the spam detector that <msglist> is spam
537 S (Save): Like `save', but derive filename from first sender
539 - `history'#213 has new "delete NUMBER" subcommand.
541 - Add *forward-add-cc*#428 and *quote-add-cc*#521 to Cc: the
542 originator of a forwarded or quoted message, respectively.
545 - *history-gabby*#439 now has a value to allow for more.
546 This changes second argument of *on-history-addition*#494
547 from boolean to context string.
549 - New command `mtaaliases'#236. We no longer automatically
550 update the *mta-aliases*#477 cache. (Maybe much later we will
551 have a path_monitor or something, until then, not.)
553 And `netrc'#237 "load" is now indeed "clear" + "load".
555 `netrc' also gained a "lookup" subcommand. (Ralph Corderoy)
557 - *headline*#435 %L format will announce possibility that
558 a message could be a list.
560 - `chdir'#158, `rename'#256 and `remove'#255 use shell-style
563 - `tls'#289 gained "certchain" and "certificate" subcommands.
565 - `folder'#201 can open RFC 5322 messages via eml:// protocol,
566 as in "folder eml:///tmp/msg.eml". Yet primitive and only
567 read-only. (Viktor Szépe)
569 - `vexpr'#303 gained "date-utc", "date-stamp-utc" and "epoch"
570 subcommands. (Benjamin A. Wong)
572 - *on-main-loop-tick*#495 now also happens for commands passed
575 git(1) shortlog: Yasuhiro KIMURA (1), Steffen Nurpmeso (263)
577 v14.9.15 ("Tit family in the trees"), 2019-08-18
578 ------------------------------------------------
580 Plugging a bug regarding copying data out of invalid MBOX mail
581 databases which is present in all BSD Mails and in Unix V10 mail,
582 and bringing in some tweaks, this update hopefully really marks
583 the end of the v14.9.* series.
585 After more than four and a half years i again have a VM testbed,
586 with an increasing number of VM combinations. (Yet still too few,
587 but nonetheless, a dramatical improvement.) This includes
588 a GSS-API testbed, with an ArchLinux server and Linux and FreeBSD
589 clients (do not ask why no additional FreeBSD server, i want to
590 use binary packages). This brought GSSAPI tweaks.
592 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Ralph Corderoy,
593 Chet Ramey, Robert Elz, Jilles Tjoelker, Steve Izma, Viktor Szépe,
594 and Jean-Marc Pigeon.
596 Very special thanks go to Tarqi Kazan and Ivan Vučica, who tested
597 GSS-API in the past until it worked (again), testing against my
598 blind flight patches! Thank you very much, guys!
600 We welcome Chet Ramey, Jilles Tjoelker and Steve Izma in THANKS.
602 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
603 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
605 - *features*#420 and *tls-features*#595 are now prefixed with
606 a comma ",", not with the number sign "#" (which could
607 increasingly `eval'#192uate to a comment).
609 - We now support parallelized tests. It takes a numeric job
610 number out of $MAKEFLAGS, or tries to fetch the number of
611 processors otherwise (really!). To go singleprocessor
612 "$ make testnj" has to be called explicitly.
613 With or without, we will terminate tests which take too long.
615 This is truly tremendous, on the unstable9s machine of the
616 OpenCSW.org cluster for example we now need 24 seconds instead
617 of by far more than 300. What a release!
619 With help of (Chet Ramey, Robert Elz, Jilles Tjoelker and
622 - EXTERNAL authentication is truly a mess. It has been fixed for
623 POP3, where it was broken on our side. But it seems the
624 internet does not like that, or cannot (pass user credentials
625 from a certificate gracefully to the authenticator).
626 Anyway. I have introduced EXTERNANON in addition for all of
627 IMAP, POP3 and SMTP. This could now result in a usable
628 combination, regardless of what server(s) are contacted.
630 - The hook *on-account-cleanup*#488 will now be called even
631 upon program exit (i.e., implicitly leaving the account).
636 - New *followup-to-add-cc*#426 will place the user in the Cc:
637 list if it will place her in the Mail-Followup-To:.
639 - New hook *on-program-exit*#496.
641 - *pop3-auth*#510=gssapi is now supported.
642 For IMAP, SASL-IR will be used for GSSAPI if possible (saving
643 a packet round-trip).
645 - *expandaddr*#417 has the new keyword "namehostex".
646 If set, plain name addressees, like "To: steffen", will be
647 expanded to NAME@HOSTNAME (where the latter could be
648 *hostname*#443) if NAME is a valid user on the current host.
649 (Viktor Szépe, Jean-Marc Pigeon)
651 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (45)
653 v14.9.14 ("Great tit passed moult"), 2019-07-27
654 -----------------------------------------------
656 This is an unwanted and unplanned but unfortunately necessary
657 bugfix release. I hope it marks the end of the v14.9.* series.
659 I presume you would be surprised if it would not also bring some
660 features, this time mostly support of MTA-style aliases as
661 inquired by Jean-Marc Pigeon, some authentication work (XOAUTH2/
662 OAUTHBEARER support), and as usual development to the last minute.
664 It fixes IMAP GSSAPI authentication, thanks to Ivan Vučica for
665 reporting and testing this issue (Debian #930691; still have no
666 testbed, but will soon!), and imap-delim, which i broke in July
667 2017, thanks to Ralph Keller for repetitive reporting.
669 For OpenBSD and SunOS 5.9 this release fixes long standing (must
670 be) race conditions regarding child processes and their I/O setup.
672 Never seen before, but my new box (i stepped a decade of
673 hardware improvements, finally) rather regulary has shown them
674 when running the test suite. (On the OpenCSW cluster my speed
675 varies, but i had a very good day and seen them there once.)
677 This (finally) caused the complete rewrite of the child process
678 (and termios) handling that i (had to) mention in communication
679 with Gavin Troy already back in, i do not know -- 2013? (Still
680 not event loop based, but near getting good feelings there.)
682 Funnily the problem (child descriptors were closed by the parent
683 before the fork(2)ed childs had the opportunity to dup(2)licate
684 their file descriptors) reminded me of a message of the german
685 computer magazine c't, maybe around 2001/2002, when OpenBSD
686 improved their fork(2) performance in a day or two after having
687 appeared declassified in a comparison with other OSes.
688 (Of course it was nothing but our own fault to not synchronize on
689 the child, but blindly assuming that a fork(2) child gets the
690 opportunity to run immediately.)
692 Dear Predrag: would it now be possible for you to upgrade from
693 v14.8.12? I really would like to know!
695 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Martin Lucina,
696 Viktor Szépe, Alexander Harm, Anders Magnusson, Thomas Haigh,
697 Martin T, Ivan Vučica, Nicholas Marriott, Alexander Harm,
698 Steven Penny, Jean-Marc Pigeon, Martin Neitzel, Paul Vojta,
699 Russell Bell, Paride Legovini and Ralph Keller.
701 A special credit to Coverity.com once again, it found bugs!
702 (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project number 444.)
704 We welcome Martin Lucina, Anders Magnusson, Thomas Haigh,
705 Martin T, Ivan Vučica, Nicholas Marriott, Steven Penny and
706 Ralph Keller in THANKS.
708 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
709 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
711 - The (very backward) Debian mawk is now supported directly.
712 (Martin Lucina, Viktor Szépe)
714 - GCC (8.3.0) -Os inlining bug (wmt) is worked around.
715 And GNU awk 5 warnings have been fixed (before CRUX).
717 - "|PIPE RECEIVER" errors seen on SunOS 5.9 and OpenBSD have first
718 been fixed, and then caused a major rewrite of the child and
719 termios handling for a rather "real" fix.
721 The latter has the side effect that *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#503
722 handlers will now have their standard output go to /dev/null.
724 - IMAP GSSAPI authentication should work again. (Ivan Vučica)
726 - -C#61 testable can be used more than two times.
728 - The "grappa" mode of mk/make-release.sh can now be used
729 "everywhere". See INSTALL on interest. (It now gracefully
730 fails if s-nail is not installed: we need that for hashing.)
732 - New option OPT_MTA, by default enabled.
733 Set *mta-aliases*#477 to a valid path in aliases(5) syntax,
734 and we will expand them. All Postfix directives but :include:
735 are supported. Only clear text files are supported, no DBs.
738 - `~^'#320 will now verify *expandaddr*#417 right away in
739 "~^ head ins to|cc|bcc", as is already done for `~t'#341,
740 `~c'#324 and `~b'#323.
742 - OPT_AGENT and OPT_SPAM_SPAMD are gone; they were obsoleted on
743 2017-07-16, and it is not expected to become noticed.
745 - *sendwait*#544 is now initially set, and it gained an optional
746 value, a comma-separated list of case-insensitive strings naming
747 specific subsystems for which synchronousness shall be ensured
748 (only). Possible values are "mta" for *mta*#476 delivery,
749 and "pcc" for command-pipe receivers.
751 P.S.: you can get a list of all initial values plus via
753 $ s-nail -:/ -v -Xset -Xx
755 - Colours may now happen even in quickrun mode (-e#66,
756 -H#69, -L#72)! I thought it is ok nonetheless, because
757 we i think always documented to enwrap `colour'#161 setting
758 in an according `if'#215, as in
760 \if terminal && [ "$features" =% +colour ]
761 \colo iso view-header fg=red
764 - OPT_SOCKETS has been renamed to OPT_NET.
766 - -Y#88 is now well defined under all conditions, with tests:
768 The commands will be evaluated successively in the given
769 order, and as if given on the program's standard input --
770 before interactive prompting begins in interactive mode,
771 after standard input has been consumed otherwise.
773 - XOAUTH2 / OAUTHBEARER (OAuth 2.0 bearer token, RFC 6750)
774 autentication is now supported for all protocols.
775 New FAQ entry "But, how about XOAUTH2 / OAUTHBEARER?"#46
776 For driving the necessary external update tool a new
777 *on-main-loop-tick*#495 hook has been introduced.
778 (I am thinking about adding support for an optional built-in
781 - Support for the EXTERNAL authentication method has been
782 introduced. This is UNTESTED, though. (I am still in the
783 process of re-setting up my VM test environment.)
784 We do not verify presence of a client certificate etc., but only
785 that a TLS secured channel is active, when using this method.
786 (We now *verbose*#607 log the used TLS version and cipher, too.)
788 - *imap-delim*#669 works again as advertised! This was broken in
789 [1b9897a9] ((BWDIC!) Fix *imap-delim* behaviour.., 2017-07-01),
790 and i think i was pretty much irritated by then. Sorry!!
791 While here, take *imap-delim* into account for `imapcodec'#665.
797 - Manual section "HISTORY"#52 improved a bit. (Thomas Haigh)
799 - New variable *line-editor-cpl-word-breaks*#454 (yet a bit
802 - MLE: add mle-raise-{int,quit,tstp} functions. Ie., raising
803 those signals via ^C and ^Z is no longer hard-wired (in the
804 MLE), but can be reassigned. (Nicholas Marriott)
806 - The makefiles no longer contain any awk code, that all has been
807 separated into files under mk/. (Alexander Harm)
809 - We now have "test" *mta*#476, which dumps to standard output
810 or optionally to a file, and honours *mbox-fcc-and-pcc*#463:
812 $ echo text | s-nail -:/ -Smta=test -s ubject user@exam.ple
813 $ </dev/null s-nail -:/ -Smta=test://./xy -s ub user@exam.ple
815 - -##90 now acts as if variables were set via -S#80, rather than
816 as via `set'#269, meaning that they are "frozen" for a while.
818 - We have a new `colour'#161 mapping, "mle-error".
819 It applies to error note in *prompt*#517, as well as to any
820 other error logged to the terminal. The latter is temporary
821 until we gain a more fine grained logging facility, which then--
822 likely--introduces an entire mapping family.
824 Btw., for messages not explicitly generated (by, eg.,
825 `echoerr'#183), we now also avoid writing adjacent duplicates,
826 but rather do a syslog-like thing. That error generator has
827 been rewritten a bit, now more expensive, but looks right.
828 (Martin Neitzel, Paul Vojta)
830 - The value of $COLUMNS#615 seen in child processes is now the
831 real one, rather than the one we use (not necessarily identical,
832 dependent on termcap/terminfo/terminal support).
834 - There are now three -v#86 / *verbose*#607 levels, not two.
836 - The HTML filter knows more HTML 4.0 entities. (Russell Bell)
838 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (161)
840 v14.9.13 ("Blue tit's spiral marriage swoop"), 2019-03-08
841 ---------------------------------------------------------
843 Not so much happened as i was busy with other things in the second
844 half of 2018, and could not find a grip: at the source level some
845 efforts to turn this to mailx have taken place, including early
846 work on a code abstraction that will be shared with my (g)roff
847 clone: it was tiring to come back to old ideas that i have already
848 implemented multiple times and in different languages. To mention
851 So: this is a bugfix release, in fact it fixes a tremendous amount
852 thereof, [master] was ahead by 62 commits from [v14.9.11] (not all
853 bugs though, hrmhrm), but also with, well, a few new features, and
854 of course, development to the last minute. ^_^
856 v14.9.13 replaces v14.9.12 from yesterday which would pick up an
857 ISO C 2011 statement that is impracticable, thanks to Johannes
858 Schöpfer and Jürgen Daubert for reporting this (i should test
859 without OPT_AUTOCC more often.) I have also fixed -T to match
860 NEWS (manual and code did the opposite).
861 v14.9.12 balls will be removed from the server.
863 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jörg Schilling,
864 Paride Legovini, Olav Mørkrid, Ralph Corderoy, Rich Felker,
865 Predrag Punosevac, Russell Bell, Dirk-Wilhelm Peters,
866 Jean-Marc Pigeon, Warren Toomey, Cág, Martin Neitzel,
867 Dr. Werner Fink, Dr. Matthias St. Pierre, Kurt Roeckx, Mike Sharov,
868 Joan and Johannes Schöpfer.
870 Very special thanks go to Jean-Marc Pigeon of OSUKISS Linux, who
871 provided me access to a VZGOT container on the most "beefy"
872 machine i have ever had access to! It is ever so astonishing to
873 have work done in 90 seconds on this supercomputer which requires
874 an hour or more here. Thank you, Jean-Marc.
876 And thanks to Kimura-san not only my web server became accessible
877 via TLSv1.3 (out-of-line), but we also have landed on FreeBSD!
878 Kimura-san is the one who installed a sympathic cron job that
879 reminds me of cherry petals wafting in a warm spring breeze --
882 We welcome Russell Bell, Jean-Marc Pigeon, Warren Toomey,
883 Dr. Matthias St. Pierre, Kurt Roeckx, Mike Sharov, Joan and
884 Johannes Schöpfer in THANKS.
886 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
887 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
889 - Packagers could follow stable/* via git(1) and the "grappa" mode
890 of the release script (see README); perl(1) is required to be
891 totally en par with an official release. (Paride Legovini)
893 $ git checkout stable/stable
894 $ sh mk/make-release.sh grappa mybranch
896 Program version is [.], packager release addition shall be: xy
897 Is s-nail <v[.]-xy> correct? [y/n] y
898 Switched to branch 'mybranch'
899 $ git commit -S -n -m 'My release [.]-xy'
901 - $MAKEJOBS vanished, just use -j or whatever your make(1) supports.
902 Luckily the tested make(1)s can be persuaded to dig each others
903 .WAIT / .WAIT: / .NOTPARALLEL: targets.. and do the right thing.
905 - $OBJDIR support added, i use it for building / testing on tmpfs.
906 It works in conjunction with make-emerge.sh, too, thus
907 out-of-tree out-of-tree is possible (more or less; see INSTALL).
908 $ make tangerine OBJDIR=/tmp/x/y/z
910 - Option VAL_PRIVSEP_USER has been renamed to VAL_PS_DOTLOCK_USER
911 (to reflect the new "deep tree" directory layout).
913 - Option OPT_QUOTE_FOLD has been renamed to OPT_FILTER_QUOTE_FOLD
914 (to reflect later code changes upwards compatibly).
916 - New options OPT_CMD_VEXPR and OPT_CMD_CSOP, by default enabled.
917 To include the commands `vexpr'#303 and the new `csop'#167,
918 which now provides the byte string functions of the former.
919 (Still available through `vexpr' until v15.)
920 (I hope to be able to later provide a `usop' or `unisop' or so.)
922 - *v15-compat*#606 can now have a value: if it is set, the
923 `wysh'#131 command modifier which chooses shell quoting rules
924 for some commands is implicit.
926 - We have some (more) backward incompatible changes, though it is
927 likely most users will not recognize the differences.
929 o *headline*#435 format %T is obsolete, %L fits better.
931 o `csop'#167 `hash' and `hash32' subcommands (formerly from
932 `vexpr'#303) use a slightly changed hash algorithm.
933 (Which results in an improved distribution for tested sets of
934 words in power-of-two spaced dictionary.)
935 These are affected by the change in the second next item, too.
937 o Changed to use shell quoting rules for arguments:
939 + `mimetype'#225 and `unmimetype'#226.
940 This is affected by the change in the next item, too.
942 + `shortcut'#273 and `unshortcut'#274.
944 + `mlist'#228 and `unmlist'#229 as well as `mlsubscribe'#230
945 and `unmlsubscribe'#231.
949 o Changed (with legacy compat) the "@[i]" modifier prefix to
950 a question-mark ?[case|..] suffix, as is known from URLs.
951 We head towards direction URL syntax, now here too.
953 + `if'#215 and `elif'#187.
954 E.g., 'wysh if "abc" ==?case "ABC"' is true, as well as is
955 'wysh if 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF -eq?saturated 36#1Y2P0IJ32E8E7'.
956 "==?" and "-eq?" would have been sufficient, here.
957 (No unsigned mode (yet) for `if'#215.)
959 Yes, `if'#215 and `elif'#187 now support `wysh'#131, and
960 see already expanded arguments, then. No more "triggers".
961 This finally makes it possible to write things like
962 ? wysh if X;A;wysh elif Y;B;else;C;end
963 Note 'else;C' not 'else C'.
965 New operators: '-n "$VAR"' and '-z "$VAR"' work like in the
966 shell, '-N varname' and '-Z varname' do not test the
967 expansion but the existence of variables instead.
968 Two argument forms require `wysh'#131.
970 + `mimetype'#225 markers have changed likewise; this also
971 affects *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#503 and *pipe-EXTENSION*#502 (with
972 legacy compatibility and -v/-d obsoletion warnings)!
974 ? mimetype ?t text/x-awk awk
975 ? wysh set pipe-application/pdf='?=&?\
976 trap "rm -f \"${MAILX_FILENAME_TEMPORARY}\"" EXIT;\
977 trap "trap \"\" INT QUIT TERM; exit 1" INT QUIT TERM;\
978 mupdf "${MAILX_FILENAME_TEMPORARY}"'
980 + `vexpr'#303 (and `csop'#167) modifiers changed likewise.
981 The case-insensitive subcommands "ifind" and "iregex" have
982 been obsoleted, just use the ?[case] modifier to the regular
985 P.S.: Thanks to Rich Felker the `regex' subcommands now
986 works as desired even with empty intermediate submatches.
988 o Changed address parse mode for command line arguments plus.
989 This modifies decade old tradition, but results in a more
990 predictable behaviour i think. Most people will possibly even
991 be surprised to see the old behaviour:
993 $ </dev/null s-nail-old -dsubject ' du , de <p@p> , pp , du '
994 -> To: du, de <p@p>, pp
996 $ </dev/null s-nail -dsubject ' du , de <p@p> , pp , du '
997 -> To: "du , de , pp , du " <p@p>
999 Of course anything but perfect, our address parser is very
1000 complicated yet far from being acceptable. (Dr. Werner Fink)
1003 + -b#60, -c#62 and To: receivers, as above.
1004 (We also have a new -T#82 receiver multiplexer, which is
1005 configurable in this regard, please see below for more.)
1007 + The -r#79 address.
1008 This saw more changes: the content is no longer evaluated
1009 via shell expression parser (when *v15-compat* is set)..
1010 unless explicitly requested via the *expandaddr*#417
1013 + *sender*#543 variable.
1015 + `addrcodec'#143 command, likewise; old:
1016 ? addrc e du , e <w@d> , d
1020 ? addrc e du , e <w@d> , d
1024 + `digmsg'#175 and `~^'#320 now use this parse mode fix for
1025 headers which need a single receiver, which is backward
1026 compatible but now safer since it can be fooled less easily
1027 (to split into a list what should be a single address, as
1028 shown above for `addrcodec'#143).
1030 They now can also be forced to use that parse mode for To:,
1031 Cc:, Bcc: with a new question mark modifier "?single", here
1032 the word "single" is optional.
1034 ~^ header insert To?single: exa, <m@ple>
1037 - By established rules and popular demand occurrances of '^From_'
1038 (see *mbox-rfc4155*#464) will be MBOXO quoted (prefixed with
1039 greater-than sign '>') instead of causing a non-destructive
1040 encoding like 'quoted-printable' to be chosen, unless context
1041 (e.g., message signing) requires otherwise.
1042 Only with *mime-encoding*#473=8bit.
1044 - We now support long "Options"#5 -- try --long-help.
1046 - Finally, it is possible to force sending out messages with the
1047 new *mime-force-sendout*#474 variable. If this MUA has been
1048 compiled with iconv(3) support it can happen that sending
1049 otherwise valid text messages fails because of invalid bytes
1050 sequences according to the locale; setting this new variable
1051 will avoid this; use *mime-counter-evidence*#472 to view such
1052 messages nonetheless. (Dr. Werner Fink)
1057 - `mimeview'#227 works again with binary formats. (Russell Bell)
1059 - IMAP searches via IMAP without matches no longer report a single
1060 match. (Dirk-Wilhelm Peters)
1062 - New -Y#88 aka --cmd= option to inject commands to be executed
1063 when startup is completed (as opposed to the earlier -X#87 aka
1065 These commands appear as if the user had typed them in.
1067 - A new *on-history-addition*#494 can be used to filter what
1068 enters the `history'#213.
1070 - New "fcc" flag for *expandaddr*#417. (Olav Mørkrid)
1072 And "domaincheck" will cause target domain comparison against
1073 entries in the new *expandaddr-domaincheck*#418. (Olav Mørkrid)
1075 - New *mbox-fcc-and-pcc*#463 will write out file and pipe addresses
1076 as a plain RFC5322 message rather than an MBOX. (Olav Mørkrid)
1078 - The `errors'#191 queue existance and size is announced via
1079 *^ERRQUEUE-EXISTS*#355 and *^ERRQUEUE-COUNT*#354.
1080 (Russell Bell, Martin Neitzel)
1082 - Our MBOX parser is now truly compliant to POSIX.
1085 - We follow symbolic links again when writing files.
1088 - *tls-rand-file*#598 is in fact now necessarily one of the
1089 optional *tls-features*#595. (Mike Sharov)
1091 - New command line option -T#82 aka --target='FIELD: BODY'.
1092 FIELD can be To:, Cc:, Bcc: or Fcc:.
1093 The BODY is parsed as a list (just as if the given FIELD would
1094 be part of a template message fed in via -t#83), but the
1095 "?single" modifier suffix can be used to avoid this.
1098 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (277 + 9)
1100 v14.9.11 ("Tit family enjoying a bath"), 2018-08-08
1101 ---------------------------------------------------
1103 A hot summer bugfix release, but it surely brings in some new
1104 features, like TLS fingerprinting and `digmsg' message access.
1106 An embarassing number of bugfixes have been seen, to fix IMAP UID
1107 handling on 32-bit hosts, UTF-8, `readall' with empty lines, rare
1108 endless iconv(3) loops, false qsort(3)ing of addressee lists,
1109 crashes due to false user shell quoting, acceptance of "0" port
1110 numbers, and more. Most of these cases now have tests.
1112 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Paride Legovini,
1113 Andrew Gee, Olav Mørkrid, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Dressel,
1114 Jürgen Bruckner, Robert Elz, Rudolf Sykora, Doug McIlroy,
1115 Gavin Troy and Jörg Schilling.
1116 A special credit to Coverity.com again, it found a bug!
1117 (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project number 444.)
1119 We welcome Andrew Gee, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Dressel,
1120 Olav Mørkrid and Jürgen Bruckner in THANKS.
1122 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1123 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1125 - I have discovered that GnuPG can --export-secret-subkey so that
1126 the real/full private key is no longer needed to --sign, and the
1127 excerpts of the private one can have a different password, too.
1128 So i have created a new for-signing subkey: EEC8C2FF.
1130 Unfortunately it is not possible to verify new signatures with
1131 the old public key, an update is necessary. For example via
1132 https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/steffen.asc
1133 or just update 1883A0DD via normal gpg(1).
1135 - Maildir support is now optional but default via OPT_MAILDIR.
1138 - I hope for the last time there has been a change to SSL
1139 configuration: i have renamed all ssl* variables to tls*.
1140 The old ssl* ones still exist until v15, though, yet obsoletion
1141 warnings will be produced.
1142 This is so because i expect that in a not too distant future
1143 only the term TLS will be around.
1145 Also the term CipherList was falsely used, it should have been
1148 - Most (if not all) commands which take a message list and a file
1149 target now use shell-style quoting. (Before that say `copy'#166
1150 scanned backwards over "something possibly quoted", took that
1151 off, then treated the rest as a message list. Now shell tokens
1152 are parsed starting at the front, the last is taken off, and
1153 anything before that is the message list.) (Gavin Troy. 2013.)
1155 - `~^#'? "header show" now backward-incompatibly shows the address
1156 type in field 1, but since this _only_ applies to non-network
1157 addresses i made the change.
1159 - We will find ncurses on DragonFly BSD.
1161 - On Solaris tests no longer need GNU cksum(1): the Solaris cksum
1162 is different only for whitespace separators. (Jörg Schilling)
1164 - All generated files reside in .obj/, and the tests run in there,
1165 too. A "rm -f .obj" should suffice to clean anything up.
1170 - `~F'#327, `~f'#328, `~M'#333, `~m'#334, `~U'#342 and `~u'#343
1171 now default to the current message (the "dot"). (Andrew Gee)
1173 - *indentprefix*#450 handling has had its pitfalls when quoting
1174 messages. (Andrew Gee)
1176 - -r#79 will again set *from*#432 even after -S#80 has been used
1177 to set *from*. (Michael Dressel)
1179 - No longer process From: (*from*#432) content via `alternates'#146
1180 when Sender: (*sender*#543) is set. (Michael Dressel)
1182 - Because the priority class of headers was not taken into
1183 account, it could happen that addressees in Cc: would remain but
1184 the same in To: were removed. (Michael Dressel)
1186 - IMAP accounts for RFC 4551 (and 7162) and supports 64-bit
1189 - *spamfilter-rate-scanscore*#580 could crash if specification
1190 did not match program output.
1192 - Shims for TLSv1.3 support, e.g., for *tls-config-pairs*#592.
1194 - Obsoleted *dotlock-ignore-error*, added *dotlock-disable*#410.
1197 - In compose-mode, removing the In-Reply-To: header breaks an old,
1198 and starts a new thread. (Doug McIlroy)
1200 - Added new *forward-inject-tail*#431, *quote-inject-head*#525
1201 and *quote-inject-tail*#526 variables, and extended the meaning
1204 All of *{forward,quote}-inject-{head,tail}* now support
1205 a compose-mode specific set of formats (see
1206 *quote-inject-head*#525), for now a few only.
1207 (This adds meaning onto the content of *forward-inject-head*#430
1208 as introduced in v14.9.0.)
1210 The generated output honours *quote-fold*#524, which now takes
1211 an optional third argument in order to produce better output.
1213 While here, introduce the new command escape `~Q'#336 which
1214 performs full *quote*#520 cycles on the given message list.
1216 - Fcc: headers are now understood in -t#83 templates or when
1217 placed in compose mode (`~v'#344, *editalong*#411 etc.).
1218 Since each such header only takes one addressee, no quoting
1219 issues apply, the entire header body is the value.
1221 - `~|'#319 will pass the entire message including headers when
1222 used as "~||", e.g., prepend a file-carbon-copy message header:
1224 ~|| echo Fcc: /tmp/test; cat
1226 - New `tls'#289 multiplexer command. Yet primitive and only
1227 supports a `fingerprint' subcommand. Supports `vput'#130.
1229 The new *tls-fingerprint*#596 variable chain aids in adding
1230 support for connection verification without an installed CA
1231 certificate pool in conjunction with the new
1232 *tls-fingerprint-digest*#597 chain.
1234 Consequently *smime-sign-message-digest* has been renamed to
1235 *smime-sign-digest*#563 (old version will cease in v15).
1236 The latter now defaults to SHA512 if possible.
1238 - New MLE commands mle-go-screen-bwd and mle-go-screen-fwd to go
1239 backward and forward one screenful.
1240 And a new mle-clear-screen command. (Todd C. Miller)
1242 - New *expandaddr*#417 setting "shquote" will evaluate addresses
1243 as if specified within $'' shell-quotes for -b#60, -c#62,
1244 and all direct command line receivers. This allows for, e.g.,
1246 $ s-nail -Sexpandaddr=shquote '\$contact-mail'
1248 - *quote-as-attachment*#522 no longer needs to be set before
1249 compose mode is entered in order to become honoured.
1251 - Even for -H#69 or -L#72 *folder-hook*#423s will now be called.
1252 Possible sorting is also applied.
1254 - `='#138 now optionally supports message list arguments and the
1255 `vput'#130 modifier in order to store the result list.
1257 The new `digmsg'#175 multiplexer adds some message access, just
1258 like `~^'#320 does in compose mode. In fact the set of commands
1259 is shared, yet only in compose mode `digmsg' can change messages
1260 or access attachments until v15, however. For example,
1262 #?0[steffen@essex nail.git]$ cat > /tmp/z.rc <<'_EOT'
1265 digmsg create $1 - # no `read'/`readall' overlay but stdout
1266 #digmsg $1 header list
1267 digmsg $1 header show subject
1270 \eval xcall one "$@"
1274 local set all # localize ("localopts yes" would do too)
1275 vput = all *; echo all: $all; eval call one $all
1278 #?0[steffen@essex nail.git]$ MAILRC=/tmp/z.rc \
1279 .obj/s-nail -:u -Snoheader -Squiet -Rf /tmp/z
1283 Re: [S-mailx] FYI: after USB stick loss i have rotated keys, plus
1286 Re: Problem with page?
1289 Re: s-nail Source ...
1293 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (203)
1295 v14.9.10 ("(40th Mail anniversary) Blue tit"), 2018-03-25
1296 ---------------------------------------------------------
1298 On this day in 1978 Kurt Shoens placed the following comment in
1299 def.h (now it is in nail.h):
1302 * Mail -- a mail program
1304 * Author: Kurt Shoens (UCB) March 25, 1978
1307 v14.9.10 is mostly a stability and bugfix release.
1308 It has seen a full test series including Coverity.com scans.
1309 It fixes bugs i have introduced (also a double free in IMAP cache
1310 that i introduced for v14.9.* series to address Coverity CID
1313 In the end i am saying thanks to Gunnar Ritter for the IMAP
1314 module, and absolutely especially his really neat idea of an IMAP
1315 cache including offline work queue. (IMAP will nonetheless
1316 temporarily go in v15, but these ideas will come back thereafter.)
1317 I have gray hairs now.
1319 Credits, in order of commit appearance: William Yodlowsky,
1320 Stuart Henderson, Jörg Schilling, Viktor SZÉPE, Rich Felker,
1321 Ralph Corderoy and Philipp Gesang.
1323 A special credit to Coverity.com again. Because:
1324 tcc is 618496 bytes, pcc is 851968+24576 bytes,
1325 but gcc is 73355264 bytes and clang is even
1326 147406848 bytes, i wonder why the latter two never
1327 said a word that would have addressed the pretty
1328 obvious CID 1387053!
1329 [Use of initialized value, the author.]
1331 We welcome Stuart Henderson and Philipp Gesang in THANKS.
1333 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1334 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1336 - The balls are now build with umask 0022 not 0027.
1337 (William Yodlowsky, Stuart Henderson)
1339 - One actual development of this version was the addition of
1340 multiple choice VAL_ues, as documented in make.rc.
1341 For now we have VAL_IDNA (for OPT_IDNA)
1342 VAL_IDNA="idnkit idn2 idn"
1343 and VAL_RANDOM (by itself)
1344 VAL_RANDOM="arc4 ssl libgetrandom sysgetrandom urandom builtin"
1348 The value is interpreted as a whitespace separated list of
1349 strings, like "idn2 idn idnkit", case is ignored, order is
1351 The special strings "all" and "any" as well as the empty value
1352 are wildcard matches; if any entry in the list is a wildcard
1353 match, the rest of the list is ignored.
1355 The special string "error" will abort configuration once its
1356 list position is reached; this is only supported if
1357 documented, and not with an accompanying OPT_ (which then
1358 offers "require", as below).
1360 Since this VAL_RANDOM approach is so much better i have dropped
1361 OPT_SSL_RANDOM and OPT_NOEXTRANDOM that were recently
1362 introduced again. They were c..p.
1364 - Support for idnkit 2.3 has been added.
1365 Support for idnkit 1 (especially as idnkitlite) has been fixed.
1367 - For the first time this codebase should be able to handle
1368 invalid MBOX mailboxes (produced by, e.g., dma(1)) gracefully.
1369 I hope i have found all places (sic) where code has to be fixed.
1370 E.g., "? copy * INVALID-MBOX" now works.
1371 (Smalltalk already knew objects which know what they are doing
1372 are for the better... This is v15, then.)
1374 - P.S.: the two FreeBSD test failures are noted in INSTALL.
1379 - *asksend*#369 will now really allow recomposing.
1381 - `help'#212 now supports recursive `commandalias'#163es, and
1382 command self-recursion detection now works differently, it has
1383 been false for something like
1385 commandalias x q; commandalias q echo au
1387 since q became expanded to `quit'#250 (alias expansion equals
1388 new command word). New behaviour: we allow equals once:
1390 commandalias q q; commandalias x q; x
1394 - *editalong*#411 can have a value, say "set editalong=v" and it
1395 will startup $VISUAL#640 not $EDITOR#617.
1397 - Path separators are now normalized, thus all places, including
1398 MLE tab-expansion ("On terminal control and line editor"#18),
1399 can expand something like "///t*////t*".
1401 - -E#65 flag will not be obsoleted.
1402 -D#63 flag has been reintroduced (sets *disconnected*#666 right
1403 away, was not reinstantiated with the rest of the IMAP support.)
1405 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (71)
1407 v14.9.9 ("Marsh tit savours first spring sun, II") 2018-03-06
1408 -------------------------------------------------------------
1411 I hope with this the fallout of the Christmas 2016 "address the
1412 Dr. Problem workshop" has been fully resolved and thus MIME for
1413 header address fields, even if iconv(3) is involved, been fully
1414 restored! We have even more tests for this now.
1416 The release v14.9.8 was broken on big endian machines.
1417 I will remove the v14.9.8 balls from the server by the weekend.
1418 Sorry for the inconvenience!
1420 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Slavko, Matej Mužila,
1421 Rich Felker, Simon McVittie, Paride Legovini, Cág,
1424 We welcome Slavko, Matej Mužila, Rich Felker and Simon McVittie in
1427 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1428 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1430 - The v14.9.* series called *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#503 handlers in
1431 display or quote mode with CR (carriage-return) bytes stripped
1432 because of a missing output file comparison check, which broke
1433 binary formats etc. (Slavko)
1435 - We now have native support for Libidn2. (Matej Mužila)
1437 - uname(1) is now hookable by setting the shell variable uname
1438 when calling make ("uname=MY-UNAME make config" etc.).
1441 We no longer bake the kernel version into the binary, and
1442 `version'#302 includes uname(2) output.
1443 (Simon McVittie, Paride Legovini)
1445 - We now support a fallback P(seudo)R(andomNumber)G(enerator)
1446 initialization even if getrandom(2)/getrandom(3) has been found
1447 by the configuration, just like we do for "/dev/urandom" usage.
1448 This does not affect systems with arc4random(3) or OpenSSL
1449 random usage. (David Čepelík, Simon McVittie)
1451 A new OPT_SSL_RANDOM make.rc variable, by default initialized to
1452 the value of OPT_SSL.
1457 - `~@'#318 list-edit behaviour in -##90 batch mode was broken.
1459 - Character set names will now undergo generic normalization,
1460 including stripping of iconv(3) //SUFFIXes.
1462 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (33)
1464 v14.9.7 ("Marsh tit patiently scraping bark") 2018-02-16
1465 --------------------------------------------------------
1467 A maintenance release which fixes bugs and brings in features.
1469 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Alexander Harm,
1470 Viktor SZÉPE, Paul Eggert, Joseph Bisch, Paride Legovini,
1471 and Peter J. Holzer.
1472 A special credit to the disappearing mutt(1) bug tracker.
1473 And to Gmane.org for creating gmane.mail.s-mailx.general!
1475 Thanks Paride Legovini for becoming maintainer of the Debian port.
1477 We welcome Joseph Bisch, Paride Legovini, and Peter J. Holzer in
1480 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1481 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1483 - The USB stick loss reported for v14.9.6 was fake news, so to
1484 say, the stick exists and therefore the old key is not
1487 - We are back at Gmane.org!
1488 news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.s-mailx.general
1490 - `history'#213 has learned to be context-sensitive a bit, and
1491 has two new subcommands, `load' and `save'.
1493 This is in parts backward incompatible because it needs a new
1494 *history-file*#438 format; however, the old format can be loaded
1495 yet compose-mode commands will not appear in compose mode no
1496 more. Iirc you can start with an old format then `save' to
1497 the new, then replace the "d" in the first column with "c" for
1498 compose-mode commands which should appear correctly.
1500 - Obsoletion warnings for variables now happen at `set'#269
1501 time instead of when used. Running once via -v#86 may
1504 - The saturation modifier of `vexpr'#303 is henceforth a prefix,
1505 the suffix version is obsolete (but still supported for a while).
1507 - A network address that contains no domain-, but only a valid local
1508 user <name> in angle brackets will be automatically expanded to
1509 a valid address when *hostname*#443 is set to a non-empty value;
1510 setting it to the empty value instructs us that the used *mta*#476
1511 (including builtin SMTP) will perform the necessary expansion.
1514 Note that *hostname*#443 as well as *smtp-hostname*#566
1515 will now undergo IDNA expansion if IDNA is supported.
1517 And *from*#432 and *sender*#543 are now verified at `set'#269
1518 time, not when used. (Viktor SZÉPE)
1520 - The commit message in [d503bd82] is wrong, apologies to
1521 Paride Legovini. The test(1) operator "-n" appeared in Seventh
1522 Edition UNIX, not V8 as falsely claimed.
1527 - Our `addrcodec'#143 parser chokes on lesser constructs.
1529 - Presence of command-line MTA arguments without *expandargv*#419
1530 are now a hard error. It was my fault that this was not the
1531 default from the very start. (Viktor SZÉPE)
1533 - Seen on the mutt bug tracker, we also still have had problems
1534 with time settings that cross 32-bit boundaries. As that is
1535 in parts induced by the C standard, now implement those parts on
1536 our own, and be super careful in general. (Joseph Bisch)
1538 - The `~@'#318 command escape did not shell-unquote the user input
1539 again and was thus a bit broken; message attachments also work
1542 - Support custom headers from the command line via -C#61.
1543 And *customhdr*#404 is verified upon `set'#269 time.
1545 - The simple builtin HTML viewer now supports <blockquote>
1546 elements, which many web mailers, most notably gmail, use for
1547 citation. (Peter J. Holzer)
1549 git(1) shortlog: Paride Legovini (1), Steffen Nurpmeso (66)
1551 v14.9.6 ("Marsh tit abiding a snow storm"), 2017-12-05
1552 ------------------------------------------------------
1554 A bugfix release which fixes four serious and three other bugs.
1555 A few new features came in, too.
1557 Many thanks go to Ralph Corderoy who reported an issue that was
1558 caused by a terrible, terrible word reversal that i managed to
1559 produce in December 2016, and which caused the v14.9.x series to
1560 not MIME encode (non-address) content of address header fields!
1562 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Thomas Dickey,
1563 Andreas Baumann, Erich Eckner, Gaetan Bisson, Solar Designer, Cág,
1564 Ivan Tham, Ralph Corderoy and Doug McIlroy.
1566 We welcome Andreas Baumann, Erich Eckner, Solar Designer and Cág
1569 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1570 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1572 - After USB stick loss the authors OpenPGP key has been switched to
1574 pub 4096R/1883A0DD 2017-11-30 [expires: 2027-11-28]
1576 EE19 E1C1 F2F7 054F 8D39 54D8 3089 64B5 1883 A0DD
1577 uid Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
1579 - $TMPDIR#638 no longer honoured for root runs. (Solar Designer)
1581 - *mime-encoding*#473 defaults to quoted-printable again. (Cág)
1583 - We _can_ MIME encode even header fields which contain addresses.
1584 Thanks to Ralph Corderoy we now also _do_ so again!
1589 - ***#336 now uses *ifs*#445 when splitting.
1591 - Freezing *ttycharset*#602 via -S#80 also survives using or
1592 setting any of $LC_ALL#619, $LC_CTYPE#620 and $LANG#621 during
1595 - New `local'#127 command modifier to localize changes.
1596 Yet supported only for `set'#269, i.e., we have gained
1597 macro-local variables.
1599 - `vexpr'#303 now supports a BASE#number notation for integers,
1600 like 16#AFFE as an alternative to 0xAFFE.
1602 Hint: variable settings can most often use several bases, too,
1603 e.g., i have "set mime-counter-evidence=0b1111".
1605 - Very simple form of *quote-chars*#523 to adjust our knowledge of
1606 what actually is to be treated as a quote character.
1608 - *mime-counter-evidence*#472 deep inspection (bit four) has
1609 been improved for the sole cases of quoting or displaying
1610 a message. So messages with less than 25% of control characters
1611 and such will now be displayed (made printable). This is yet
1612 not configurable nor do we have a way to easily access a message
1613 with more than that. (Doug McIlroy)
1615 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (44)
1617 v14.9.5 ("Marsh tit engaged with a peanut"), 2017-10-21
1618 -------------------------------------------------------
1620 A bugfix release which fixes two bugs which were cast in stone.
1621 A few compatibility improvements (AlpineLinux, Solaris).
1624 Apologies to Jörg Schilling, a git bug i think it was who caused
1625 joining of changesets, losing a credit, and it had been pushed to
1626 [master] before the problem was realized.
1628 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jörg Schilling,
1629 Doug McIlroy, Random832, Nick Stoughton and Ivan Tham.
1631 We welcome Nick Stoughton and Ivan Tham in THANKS.
1633 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1634 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1636 - New OPT_USE_PKGSYS option can be disabled to not automatically
1637 pick known package system paths (pkg(7), OpenCSW, schily).
1643 - The software indeed _never_ dealt with iconv(3) output character
1644 set errors (as opposed to invalid input character set byte
1645 sequences etc.) for the main message body!
1646 And I have missed that when i tweaked our iconv layer a bit!
1648 - Fixed a race condition with sigsuspend(2) that i could only see
1649 on OpenBSD. config.h offers n_SIGSUSPEND_NOT_WAITPID, by the
1650 way, which saves some systemcalls and did not run races, but
1651 noone adjusts this file.
1653 - Message list specifications gained two new colon modifiers, one
1654 can now "search :Ll" to find "Mailing lists"#11.
1655 The *headline*#435 format %T now also uses L and l rather than
1656 S and L accordingly.
1658 New `addrcodec'#143 subcommand `skinlist' acts like `skin'
1659 but stores in *!*#349 *^ERR*#351-EXIST if the address is
1660 one of the known "Mailing lists"#11.
1662 - `echo'#182 family now supports `vput'#130 and *!*#349 error
1663 storage, offering some kind of printf(1) experience, almost.
1665 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (35)
1667 v14.9.4 ("(5th anniversary) Marsh tit"), 2017-09-18
1668 ---------------------------------------------------
1670 This is an update feature release but which also ships a furious
1671 number of bug fixes, about six of which were pretty serious. It
1672 also applies overall trimming, and improves configuration time
1673 compatibility on macOS.
1675 Thanks to Alexander Harm there is now a macOS Homebrew package.
1677 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Paul Vojta, Daniel Lublin,
1678 Alexander Harm, Norman Ramsey, Viktor Szépe, Rich Salz,
1679 David Čepelík, Ralph Corderoy, Stéphane Chazelas, Aharon Robbins,
1682 We welcome Daniel Lublin, Alexander Harm, David Čepelík and
1683 Stéphane Chazelas in THANKS.
1685 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1686 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1688 - Out-of-tree builds have become possible via the new
1689 make-emerge.sh script:
1691 $ cd /tmp && mkdir build && cd build &&
1692 ~/src/nail.git/make-emerge.sh &&
1693 make tangerine DESTDIR=.ddir
1695 We now have a `citron' make target which is like `tangerine' but
1696 does not run the tests.
1698 - Configuration with OPT_AUTOCC honours $CC=cc. (Norman Ramsey)
1700 - SSL/TLS configuration has been revamped (again) in order to
1701 support new possibilities of OpenSSL (and LibreSSL) without
1702 ending up and introducing more and more variables.
1704 Instead we now have *ssl-config-pairs*, a comma-separated
1705 list of all options. With e.g. OpenSSL 1.1.xx this will be
1706 directly passed through to SSL_CONF_cmd(), so there _anything_
1707 can be passed, otherwise we use a builtin parser to map.
1708 The new *ssl-features*#? states what is supported. E.g.:
1710 if [ "$ssl-features" =% +ctx-set-maxmin-proto ]
1711 wysh set ssl-config-pairs='\
1712 CipherList=TLSv1.2:!aNULL:!eNULL:@STRENGTH,\
1713 Curves=P-521:P-384:P-256,\
1714 MinProtocol=TLSv1.1'
1716 wysh set ssl-config-pairs='\
1717 CipherList=TLSv1.2:!aNULL:!eNULL:@STRENGTH,\
1718 Curves=P-521:P-384:P-256,\
1719 Protocol=-ALL\,+TLSv1.1 \, +TLSv1.2'
1722 OpenSSL v1.1.xx also introduces an interesting and neat idea to
1723 centralize SSL/TLS configuration of (all) programs in a single
1724 file. This can be driven via *ssl-config-file* and the new
1725 *ssl-config-module* variables, several entries per program
1726 are allowed, see *ssl-config-module* for an example.
1728 New manual section "Encrypted network communication"#14.
1730 - Variables set or unset via -S#80 are now frozen until program
1731 startup is complete.
1736 - Historical behaviour of *askcc*#367 / *askbcc*#368 has been
1737 reintroduced. (Norman Ramsey)
1739 A new *asksend*#369 variable will show a final header summary
1740 and allows reentering compose mode. Set by default.
1742 POSIX mirrors *ask* onto *asksub*#371, so dropped" the former.
1744 - `~^'#320 no longer normalizes header names to titlecase.
1746 - We no longer generate charset=binary MIME parameters.
1747 This was introduced on 2013-01-02 and was i think owed to
1748 file(1)s -i output as i failed to find any other reference.
1751 - *mime-alternative-favour-rich*#471 now also works for handlers
1752 installed via *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#503. (Viktor Szépe)
1754 - v14.9.* series did not generate In-Reply-To: headers!
1756 - `alias'#144 now supports high-bit bytes and semicolon.
1757 Expect that at some later time the input must be valid according
1758 to the locale, though. (Norman Ramsey)
1760 - Combinations of *record*#529 could crash because of an
1761 unterminated variable function argument list. (Norman Ramsey)
1763 - New command `readall'#253 loads an entire file into a variable.
1765 *signature*#550 has been obsoleted.
1767 - `vexpr'#303 now supports negative arguments for the substring
1768 subcommand and adds trim, trim-front and trim-end subcommands.
1770 - `!'#134 can be used in send mode.
1772 - `~A'#321, `~a'#322, `~I'#331 and `~i'#332 will henceforth expand
1773 \t and \n only if *posix*#515 is set.
1774 Please use `set'#269 instead (with `wysh'#131, until v15).
1776 - New "The mime.types files"#36 type marker: @q ("quiet").
1778 git(1) shortlog (edited): Steffen (Daode) Nurpmeso (90)
1780 v14.9.3 ("Crested tit nibbling sunflower seeds"), 2017-08-03
1781 ------------------------------------------------------------
1783 This is a bugfix release but which ships some improvements, too.
1784 It silently replaces both of v14.9.1 v14.9.2 from earlier this
1785 week, which were broken or not entirely fixed.
1787 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Felix Fontein, Paul Vojta,
1788 Ralph Corderoy, Christos Zoulas, Gavin Troy, Gaetan Bisson.
1789 Thanks, Coverity.com.
1791 We welcome Christos Zoulas in THANKS.
1793 Apologies to Viktor Szépe for the false spelling of his name in
1794 the v14.9.0 announcement.
1795 And to Gaetan Bisson for not giving credit for [14fbce97]!
1797 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1798 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1800 - fakeroot support was blindly taken from Debian and broken.
1801 (Gavin Troy, Gaetan Bisson)
1803 - Base64 output was broken for cases which involved iconv(3).
1804 The data is not lost, you can read it with S-nail v14.9.0 and
1805 above, and save it somewhere. I know of no other base64 decoder
1806 which reads those things correctly, though. We now have tests.
1807 Along this i fixed an iconv(3) error which likely caused
1808 stateful decoding (like, e.g., for ISO-2022-JP) to fail because
1809 of an unnecessary reset of the iconv(3) state machine.
1810 Thanks to Gaetan Bisson for mentioning this issue!
1815 - In compose mode the MLE allows empty lines again.
1817 - We no longer require a writable $HOME#618. Due to false code
1818 flow (but but but: with correct comment) a non-writable $HOME
1819 entry in /etc/password (i.e., from getpwuid(3)) would lead to
1820 a crash. (Felix Fontain; Ralph Corderoy)
1822 - Two faulty string operations slipped into the IMAP code,
1823 resulting in a crash and a "is-same-host" test that would fail
1824 for IMAPS connections like `save'#266 or `copy'#166 because of an
1825 implicit IMAP protocol for the target of those operations (thus
1826 IMAP != IMAPS). (Paul Vojta)
1828 - The MLE tab-expansion will now automatically append a "/" if
1829 there is only one possible expansion and that is a directory,
1830 saving the user one <TAB>. (Christos Zoulas)
1832 The shell expression parser had a bug regarding understood
1833 metacharacters (;|&), which in turn could cause an infinite loop
1834 in the MLE tab-expansion for, e.g., "move &9 +<TAB>", because
1835 the "&" would never have been stepped over.
1837 - New `~I'#331 command escape is like `~i'#332 but does not append
1840 - `localopts'#218 gained an optional second argument.
1841 It is now possible to specify that any macro `call'#152ed
1842 will have localopts enabled, and it is possible to fixate the
1843 setting so that it cannot be reverted.
1845 - *@*#357 should now act completely compatible to the sh(1)ell,
1846 thus obsoleting my hysteric warnings in the v14.9.0 announcement.
1848 - The `Lreply'#220, `reply'#259, `Reply'#257 series as well as
1849 `mail'#222 now manage the error status *!*#349.
1850 I.e., there are now errors like *^ERR*#351-DESTADDRREQ,
1851 ^ERR-NODATA, ^ERR-PERM and similar. It is not perfect yet,
1852 because $DEAD#616 may have been written (with *save*#538) or not,
1855 `Lreply' and `reply' have been rewritten rather completely
1856 indeed. They join Reply-To: and Mail-Followup-To: dependent on
1857 the context (i.e., *reply-to-honour*#535, *followup-to-honour*#427,
1858 see "Mailing lists"#11 for the picture), and if they did, use
1859 this list as the receivers exclusively. It now honours
1860 *recipients-in-cc*#528 even for such addressees. (And now i wonder
1861 whether i should have credited Paul Vojta for that.)
1863 Also `Lreply' would have crashed for mails with Reply-To: but
1864 without *reply-to-honour*#535 set. We now have a test.
1866 Note *replyto* is obsoleted in favour of *reply-to*#534.
1868 v14.9.0 ("Long-tailed tit"), 2017-07-16
1869 ---------------------------------------
1871 This is a major feature release which took about ~22 months (24
1872 less two) of development to complete, and which imposed massive
1873 changes under the hood, but also quite a lot of user visible
1874 changes, including some **backward incompatibilities**.
1875 As usual, "s-nail -d" will show obsoletion warnings.
1877 We gain noticeable improvements regarding scriptability and its
1878 reliability, but also for interactive use cases, especially
1879 notable to users is our completely new M(ailx)L(ine)E(ditor) that
1880 supports rather real tabulator expansion and program-mode-context-
1881 sensitive key bindings.
1883 We now support macros with arguments, which can be `shift'ed,
1884 a `return' status can be used, and a `vexpr' multiplexer offers
1885 some arithmetic and string operations. `commandalias'es are
1886 recursive, further command modifier prefixes, like `ignerr', give
1887 a hand that we otherwise could not offer. In compose-mode the new
1888 `~^' command escape allows some message and attachment access, and
1889 can be used, e.g., to implement things like custom headers, and
1890 has been especially designed for scripted access via the new
1891 *on-compose-splice* and *on-compose-splice-shell* hooks.
1893 S-nail will move (more or less) backward-incompatibly to sh(1)ell
1894 compatible argument quoting (documented in "COMMANDS"), and an
1895 increasing number of commands do support this already: new ones
1896 exclusively, some old ones have either been switched (like
1897 `localopts'), others -- noticeably `set' -- can be switched to the
1898 new syntax with a `wysh' command modifier prefix. E.g.:
1901 # Be careful to choose sh(1)ell-style on _entire_ line!
1902 localopts yes; wysh set verbose; ignerr eval "${@}"; return $?
1904 ? commandalias call echo boo-boo
1905 ? commandalias xv call __xv
1907 ? commandalias xv '\'call __xv
1910 Calling the latter `xv' for `list' will give more detailed command
1911 information, including which kind of argument is used.
1913 I have not managed to implement the three features i have started
1914 this development cycle for, these are thus subject to further
1915 development, just like wysh for message-list argument commands to
1916 support, e.g., negation, wysh for `if' and consorts, the --
1917 terminator to finally overcome the ridiculous requirement to quote
1918 entire shell commands filenames for commands like `pipe.
1921 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Antonio Radici,
1922 Aharon Robbins, Mike Frysinger, Predrag Punosevac, Michael Convey,
1923 Hariskar, Rudolf Sykora, Martin Neitzel, Gavin Troy,
1924 Salvatore Bonaccorso, Todd C. Miller, Sergey Matveev, Robert Elz,
1925 Mantas Mikulėnas, Respiranto, Jens Schleusener, Walter Alejandro
1926 Iglesias, Ralph Corderoy, David Levine, Lyndon Nerenberg,
1927 Thomas Dickey, Afan, Justin Ellingwood, Ingo Schwarze,
1928 Viktor Szépe, Gaetan Bisson, Juan RP, William Yodlowsky,
1929 Hilko Bengen, Matthew Dillon, Colin Watson, Donald Mugnai,
1930 Stephen Isard, Jürgen Daubert, Sven Neuhaus, trondd, Ismael Bouya,
1931 Felipe Gasper, Paul Eggert, Dr. Werner Fink, Ken Hornstein,
1932 Noel Chiappa, Random832, Doug McIlroy, Baptiste Daroussin,
1933 Riccardo Ductor, Pietro Cerutti, Jörg Schilling, rain1, Xin LI.
1935 We welcome Antonio Radici, Mike Frysinger, Predrag Punosevac,
1936 Michael Convey, Rudolf Sykora, Todd C. Miller, Robert Elz,
1937 Jens Schleusener, Walter Alejandro Iglesias, Thomas Dickey, Afan,
1938 Justin Ellingwood, Viktor Szépe, Juan RP, Matthew Dillon,
1939 Colin Watson, Donald Mugnai, Sven Neuhaus, Ismael Bouya,
1940 Felipe Gasper, Paul Eggert, Dr. Werner Fink, Ken Hornstein,
1941 Noel Chiappa, Random832, Doug McIlroy, Baptiste Daroussin,
1942 Riccardo Ductor, Pietro Cerutti, Jörg Schilling, rain1, and
1945 Apologies: Sergey Matveev.
1946 Members of the Roff community which await progress.
1948 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1949 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1951 * This release brings some backward incompatibilities, outlined
1952 in the following. Most users will not be affected, and we have
1953 added a lot of compatibility cruft, but that will vanish in v15.
1956 * The configuration and build system has changed.
1957 Packagers have received updated package files.
1959 o Anything which was WANT_xy before is now OPT_xy, and
1960 compiled-in paths and values, like PREFIX or PAGER, have
1961 gained a VAL_ prefix (thus VAL_PREFIX and VAL_PAGER).
1963 This is _not_ true for non-persistent or environmental values,
1964 e.g., DESTDIR, CC, etc., and also not for the overwritable
1965 program variables during configuration, e.g., $awk.
1967 o SENDMAIL -> VAL_MTA, SENDMAIL_PROGNAME -> VAL_MTA_ARGV0,
1968 MAILSPOOL -> VAL_MAIL.
1969 And NAIL -> VAL_MAILX, though this is still a lie.
1971 o The make system now needs config..build..install or
1972 all..install or tangerine (config..build..test..install).
1973 Some constants which some experts may want to fine-tune have
1974 been moved to config.h. Usual adjustments+doc via make.rc.
1976 o The `build' phase can be parallelized by setting the $MAKEJOBS
1977 environment variable, e.g., "make MAKEJOBS=-j4 build".
1978 Note this variable is not tracked in the configuration.
1981 o Unless DESTDIR is set an uninstallation script will be
1982 installed along with the rest (see INSTALL file for more).
1984 o Set the new OPT_CROSS_BUILD to avoid feature runtime tests,
1985 only compile- and link-availability will be tested. (Juan RP)
1987 o VERBOSE is implemented straight, but must be given at
1988 configuration time in order to become honoured.
1991 o ADDCFLAGS / ADDLDFLAGS -> EXTRA_CFLAGS / EXTRA_LDFLAGS.
1993 o The LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc. building processes will skip any path
1994 which contains the string "fakeroot". (Hilko Bengen)
1996 o We honour a set $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH#636 environment variable to
1997 an extend that allows reproducible tests, which is why the
1998 repository gained a [test-out] branch with some expected plain
1999 text outputs. (reproducible-builds.org; Colin Watson)
2001 The new *log-prefix*#457 variable aids in improving the
2002 reproducibility of error messages.
2004 o These are upward compatible changes.
2006 * "make OPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000 all" should work.
2008 * Internal and environment variables are now explicitly _defined_
2009 and _tracked_ after variable handling has been rewritten
2012 o This means that, e.g., "$ password=NOT_SECRET s-nail" will
2013 **NOT** work no more, since *password*#500 is an internal
2016 o But if you do, e.g., "? set TMPDIR=~/tmp", then this will
2017 also be reflected in the program environment (it is an
2018 environment variable) and thus affect child processes.
2020 o Therefore we no longer have `setenv' and `unsetenv'.
2022 o To integrate any other environment variable transparently
2023 into our variable management, the new command `environ'#190
2024 needs to be used, e.g., "? environ set NEWVAR=value" or
2025 "? environ link EXISTINGVAR".
2027 - -H#69 and -L#72 have been decoupled:
2028 it used to be -e#66 -L#72 instead!
2030 - *NAIL_{HEAD,TAIL}* have been obsoleted in favour of
2031 *message-inject-head*#467 and *message-inject-tail*#468.
2033 *NAIL_HIST{FILE,SIZE}* have been obsoleted in favour of
2034 *history-file*#438 and *history-size*#441.
2036 *NAIL_EXTRA_RC* has been obsoleted in favour of
2037 *mailx-extra-rc*#461.
2039 *batch-exit-on-error* has been obsoleted by *errexit*#414, which
2040 works just like the POSIX sh(1)ell "set -e" construct; the
2041 `ignerr'#126 command modifier (`-' for command escapes in compose
2042 mode, and see below) can be used to ignore command errors even
2043 then. (This will remain even if we at some later time will
2044 support at least some of the sh(1) constructs which "swallow"
2045 failures with set -e.)
2047 *bsdannounce* is obsolete, the feature is integrated in
2048 *header*#434 as this is much more useful. (This is however also
2049 dependent upon the also new but well-known $POSIXLY_CORRECT#633
2050 <> *posix*#515, but that is just how it is; these affect more
2051 behaviour, and increasing.)
2053 - Colour support has been changed backward in- and upward (from
2054 user interface side) compatibly, see the manual section
2055 "Coloured display"#19.
2057 + New commands: `colour'#161 and `uncolour'#162.
2058 You can define context-sensitive, terminal-capability-
2059 sensitive settings, e.g.:
2061 if terminal && [ "$features" =% +colour ]
2062 colour iso view-header ft=bold,fg=magenta,bg=cyan
2063 colour 256 view-header ft=bold,fg=208,bg=230 subject,from
2064 colour mono view-header ft=bold
2065 colour mono view-header ft=bold,ft=reverse subject,from
2068 + The variable *colour-pager*#396 defines whether colour and font
2069 attribute sequences should be generated when viewing something
2072 + Set the variable *colour-disable*#395 to turn colour off
2073 without affecting established settings.
2075 + It is deduced via termcap(5) (see below) whether the terminal
2076 supports colors, e.g., "$ s-nail -Stermcap=Co#256".
2077 This is also true if we don't have termcap support.
2079 + Support for 256-colour terminals. (Gavin Troy)
2081 - `source'#281 series support shell pipes if the last character
2082 of the "filename" ends with a vertical bar |, e.g.,
2084 ? source 'gpg -qd ~/.s-nailrc-private.gpg |'
2086 - Shell pipes are also supported as targets for `move'#233,
2087 `copy'#166 etc., yet unfortunately not with via a sh(1)ell token
2088 parser, so that the target still has to be a single argument.
2090 ? copy . '| cat; echo huhu'
2092 - Support for custom headers via the new `~^'#320 compose-mode
2093 command escape and in addition, or alternatively, with the
2094 internal variable *customhdr*#404, which also can be covered by
2095 `localopts'#218. (Sergey Matveev)
2097 + Support of $ORGANIZATION has been dropped.
2099 + Command escape `~e'#326 supports _any_ header.
2101 + Command escape `~^'#320 supports _any_ header.
2103 - New -:#56 command line option can be used to more easily select
2104 which startup files should be loaded, e.g., -:/ loads none.
2107 - `account'#141s and *folder-hook*#423s now have `localopts'#218
2110 - A first simple form of compose-mode hooks has been implemented:
2111 *on-compose-enter*#490, *on-compose-leave*#491 and
2112 *on-compose-cleanup*#489 can be set to macros which get invoked
2113 at appropriate times.
2114 For the `resend'#262 series there is *on-resend-enter*#498 and
2115 *on-resend-cleanup*#497: this is very likely to change once
2116 true message access is possible even in this mode.
2118 An even more powerful mechanism is available via the also new
2119 *on-compose-splice*#492 and *on-compose-splice-shell*#493 hooks.
2120 These are executed in child processes and communicate with the
2121 parent via their standard input and output, and therefore can
2122 do anything and act as if they were the user.
2124 `localopts'#218 are enabled and cannot be disabled (and extend
2125 until the message is sent).
2126 (Jens Schleusener, Rudolf Sykora)
2128 ? set on-compose-splice=ocs
2131 echo Splice protocol version is $ver
2132 echo '~^header list'
2133 read hl; vput vexpr es substring "${hl}" 0 1
2135 echoerr 'Failed to read header list, bailing out'
2137 elif [ "$hl" @i!% ' cc' ]
2138 echo '~^header insert cc Diet is your <mirr.or>'
2139 read es; vput vexpr es substr "${es}" 0 1
2141 echoerr 'Failed to insert Cc:, bailing out'; echo '~x'
2146 - "The .netrc file"#38
2148 + gained support for comments.
2149 (Walter Alejandro Iglesias, Ralph Corderoy)
2151 + `netrc'#237 now has a "load" subcommand.
2153 + the new *netrc-pipe*#484 obsoletes OPT_AGENT and
2154 *agent-shell-lookup*, and can be used to load an encrypted
2157 ? set netrc-lookup netrc-pipe='gpg -qd ~/.netrc.gpg'
2159 I.e., this is in usual .netrc syntax and thus possibly much
2160 nicer than saying "? source 'gpg -qd ~/.credentials.gpg |'".
2162 - termcap(5) / terminfo(5) support has been changed backward in-
2163 and upward (from user interface side) compatibly, please read
2164 "On terminal control and line editor"#18.
2166 + OPT_TERMCAP is by default enabled.
2167 The new, by default enabled, configuration option
2168 OPT_TERMCAP_VIA_TERMINFO can be used to (try to) use
2169 terminfo(5) instead.
2171 + The variable *termcap*#583 can be used to freely define or
2172 override terminal capabilities, and *termcap-disable*#585 will
2173 disable interaction with the chosen library, leaving only
2174 *termcap* in charge.
2176 To use the so-called ca-mode on supporting terminals,
2177 effectively turning S-nail into a fullscreen application,
2178 *termcap-ca-mode*#584 must be set.
2180 + The built-in line editor has been rather completely rewritten
2181 to be the Mailx-Line-Editor (OPT_MLE, default yes), and
2182 supports wide glyphs (if possible), infinite line lengths
2183 (2 GB) and more. Tabulator expansion is no longer an option
2184 (but needs fnmatch(3)).
2186 + Optionally (OPT_KEY_BINDINGS, default yes) it has become
2187 possible to freely define key bindings for the MLE via the new
2188 `bind'#150 and `unbind'#151 commands. These key bindings can
2189 make use of termcap(5) and/or terminfo(5) names. The MLE will
2190 install a set of default bindings (unless there is a set
2191 *line-editor-no-defaults*#456), more so with OPT_TERMCAP,
2192 i.e., try "? bind*".
2194 Sufficient support provided, one can now, e.g., type "p " and
2195 then collect the message numbers to type, scrolling forward
2196 and backward via key-bindings, without losing the line
2197 content, then commit the final line.
2199 + OPT_EDITLINE and OPT_READLINE support have been dropped.
2200 The new MLE should not miss anything. Does it?
2201 Tip: in an UTF-8 locale try "? !touch /tmp/hall{,öchen}" and
2202 then autocomplete that: once, then ^Q, and again.
2204 - `source'#281 can be used in `call'#152ed macros.
2205 What sounds so innocent replaced an entire machinery and got rid
2206 of a brilliant idea of Kurt Shoens from the 70s, but which never
2207 worked with Nail/Heirloom extensions, namely macros, and in the
2209 Accompanying this -X#87 can (dig multiline arguments and can) be
2210 used to define macros and run them etc. Should work:
2212 $ s-nail -X'define x {' -Xversion -Xx -X'}' -X'call x'
2213 $ s-nail -X'source \' -X'"echo version|"' -Xx
2215 Macros can be `undefine'#172d from within themselves, and re-
2216 `define'#171d. It is still not possible to define macros
2217 from within macros, and/or have inner macros, not to talk
2218 about local scoping or anything more sophisticated such.
2220 - -u#84 / $LOGNAME#624 ($USER) handling has been redefined,
2221 and "-u USER" is now exactly the same as "-f %USER", and
2222 $LOGNAME (and $USER) is actively set to the active user. (Afan)
2224 $LOGNAME#624 is POSIX standardized and henceforth used and
2225 preferred over $USER, which came from BSD. (Todd C. Miller)
2227 - In the future (at least non-message-list) argument handling will
2228 be changed backward-incompatibly to be sh(1)ell compatible (and
2229 thus POSIX standardized), see "Shell-style argument quoting"#24.
2230 New commands use it already today (`bind'#150, `colour'#161,
2231 `headerpick'#209), some others (most importantly, `set'#269) can
2232 be forced to do so via the new `wysh'#131 command prefix, as in:
2234 ? wysh set message-inject-tail=$'\n--steffen'
2235 ? bind base $'\cA,\x61' 'echo control-A and small a'
2237 - We now actively manage *umask*#604: 0077 by default, but an
2238 empty string will use the setting that is active upon startup.
2239 Just like changes to (known) environment variables, this setting
2240 will also be inherited by any child process.
2241 (Walter Alejandro Iglesias)
2243 - Anything SENDMAIL / *sendmail*-ish has been renamed to *mta*#476,
2244 *mta-arguments*#478, *mta-no-default-arguments*#479 and
2247 The reason is that in v15 we won't even have *smtp*: it is just
2248 another form of MTA, and thus obsolete by itself.
2249 Note that *mta-arguments* is now parsed via the shell-token
2250 parser, so the following ends up exactly as desired.
2252 ? set mta-arguments='-t -X "/tmp/my log"'
2254 For now we support a hack that understands a file:// URL in
2255 *mta*, too, but that is also the default if there is no protocol.
2256 E.g.: "? set mta=smtp://a:b@xy.z"
2258 - The "spamd" *spam-interface*#570 is obsolete. I haven't tested
2259 it since my main machine died, it is error prone since it assumes
2260 internals of the spamassassin wire protocol, and there never was
2261 a speed improvement over "spamc". (However it could react upon
2262 the "is-spam" state of a message, which "spamc" doesn't allow.)
2264 - The new *inbox*#449 variable will henceforth be looked up when
2265 searching for a primary system mailbox (as in "? File %"),
2266 followed by the usual $MAIL#625 and compile-time defined local
2267 mailspool search. (Stephen Isard, Jürgen Daubert)
2269 - The semantic of -a#58 and `~@'#318 have been changed, and both
2270 commands now use the same syntax:
2272 -a file[=input-charset[#output-charset]]
2274 - New "failinvaddr" keyword for *expandaddr*#417.
2276 - We finally "can" the so-called (by myself) "Dr. Problem" (a bit):
2279 $ </dev/null s-nail -d:/ -sTrödler 'Dr. D. Iet <z@a.k>' 2>&1 |\
2281 s-nail: >>> To: "Dr. D. Iet" <z@a.k>
2283 This can be done via the new `addrcodec'#143, too, note this
2284 supports multiple modes (and the `vput'#130 command modifier):
2286 $ echo 'addrcodec e Dr. Diet <to@fu.soj> Curd' | s-nail -#:/
2287 "Dr. Diet Curd" <to@fu.soj>
2289 - All commands with the string "codec" in their name use different
2290 argument quoting, namely none at all, please read
2291 "Raw data arguments for codec commands"#26.
2292 This means that `urlcodec'#299 (and `imapcodec'#665) has
2293 slightly changed semantics.
2294 And, while here: there is a new `shcodec'#271, too.
2296 - We gained "Command modifiers"#22: `\'#125 (avoid expansion of
2297 `commandalias'#163es), `vput'#130 (store result in variable),
2298 `ignerr'#126 (ignore an error of the following command, even
2299 if the new *errexit*#414 is set), `wysh'#131 (use shell-style
2302 $ echo 'vput cwd resvar;echo $resvar' | s-nail -#:/
2303 /home/steffen/src/nail.git
2305 And the usual sh(1) stuff: `return'#264, `shift'#275, `eval'#192,
2306 plus a `xcall'#307 stack-avoidance optimization (to be used in
2307 place of a `call'#152 which would be the last called command).
2308 And an "expr(1) like thing", yet simple, `vexpr'#303.
2310 $ echo 'vexpr + 1 2' | s-nail -#:/
2311 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000011
2313 $ echo 'vput vexpr resvar + 1 2;echo $resvar' | s-nail -#:/
2316 We actually start walking (*?*#348, *^*#350).
2318 ? vput vexpr res regex 'bananarama' 'Bana(.+)' '\$1\$0'
2319 ? echo $?/$^ERRNAME :$res:
2321 ? vput vexpr res iregex 'bananarama' '(.+)rama' '\$1\$0'
2322 ? echo $?/$^ERRNAME :$res:
2323 0/NONE :bananabananarama:
2325 The command `vpospar'#304 can be used to manage the stack of
2326 positional parameters, i.e., much like "set --".
2327 It also offers the possibility to save and restore the stack to
2328 and from variables. Etc.
2330 Btw., to contact the maintainer (make.rc variables
2331 VAL_CONTACT_WEB and VAL_CONTACT_MAIL):
2333 ? echo $contact-web; eval mail $contact-mail
2335 - `if'#215 no longer performs automatic number conversion, we
2336 use the explicit -lt, -gt etc. syntax of the sh(1).
2337 Note: `if' will change to be almost identical to sh(1) if(1),
2338 so please ensure proper test bracketing, even if it is less
2341 Moreover, the default string comparison mode has changed to
2342 case-sensitive, just like in the shell. This is because in the
2343 future this crux with trigger characters will vanish and `if'
2344 etc. will simply slurp in already expanded shell tokens, it will
2345 act like the shell in that respect. We have modifiers, though,
2346 yet only "@i" for case-insensitivity, also for regex matches:
2349 i=`LC_ALL=C.utf8 s-nail -:/ -# -X '
2351 \if [ "${ttycharset}" @i=% utf ]
2355 \if [ "${#}" -gt 0 ]
2356 \wysh set LC_ALL=${1}
2358 \eval xcall cset_test "${@}"
2362 \call cset_test C.UTF-8 POSIX.utf8 POSIX.UTF-8 \
2363 en_EN.utf8 en_EN.UTF-8 en_US.utf8 en_US.UTF-8
2365 [ $? -eq 0 ] && UTF8_LOCALE=$i
2367 Please note the `eval' in 'eval xcall cset_test "${@}". This is
2368 a difference of S-nail/mailx and the sh(1)ell that will remain,
2369 as documented in "COMMANDS"#21: whereas the shell implements
2370 a language and performs standardized expansions on the line
2371 until finally the command is called, S-nail will decide the type
2372 of command line parsing dependent on the seen command, and will
2373 then perform a single expansion. Therefore "${@}" will expand
2374 to multiple arguments if $# is greater 0, but it will expand to
2375 the empty string otherwise, which is not furtherly expanded away
2376 since it is meaningless like it is in the shell: therefore $#
2377 will be 1 (the empty string) not 0.
2379 - Using an explicit proto:// prefix should get you the desired
2380 thing apart of *newfolders*#485, e.g.:
2382 ? File maildir:///tmp/x.mdir
2383 ? copy * file:///tmp/x.mbox
2385 - New variable *record-files*#530 can be set to extend the meaning
2386 of *record*#529. *record-resent*#531 was there already.
2388 - New variable *ifs*#445 acts a bit like the sh(1)ell's $IFS for,
2389 e.g., the new `read'#251 command.
2391 There is a `readctl'#254 command which can be used to manage
2392 the active channel used by `read'#251.
2394 - The `~' alias for `call'#152 is gone.
2396 - `mimetype'#225 only allows specification of a single type per
2397 call, on the other hand no need to quote that.
2399 - `mimeview'#227 must now be used explicitly to look at any
2400 non-text MIME part, for normal display etc. purposes we only
2401 support "copiousoutput"#651 MIME handlers.
2403 - New *socks-proxy*#569 can be used to proxy all network traffic
2404 over a SOCKS5 proxy. (Gaetan Bisson)
2409 - The manual has seen another major overhaul, all the variables
2410 are now documented in a single, sorted list, and many
2411 clarifications should have been added. I hope it has become
2413 (Predrag Punosevac, Michael Convey, Hariskar, Rudolf Sykora,
2414 Respiranto, Thomas Dickey, Donald Mugnai)
2416 - To support RFC 1524 a.k.a. .mailcap files (see below) many
2417 "trigger"-characters have been added for *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#503,
2418 which may (rarely) affect existing values.
2419 The .mailcap support itself is not yet implemented.
2421 - *mime-counter-evidence*#472 gained bit 4 (perform proper in-depth
2422 content inspection as necessary; set to 0xE for all bits).
2425 - Maildir paths are now created recursively as necessary.
2428 - -M#73 and -m#74 options have been added to enforce a special
2429 send mode that will flag standard input / the given file with
2430 the specified / detected MIME 'Content-Type:'. This can be used
2431 to directly send, e.g., HTML log output.
2432 (Viktor Szépe, Ralph Corderoy)
2434 - Disallow symlinks on writable files. Note this requires
2435 O_NOFOLLOW support for the operating-system-call open(2), but
2436 which has been standardized a long time ago.
2439 - `retain'#263, `ignore'#216 etc. now differentiate in between
2440 From (the From: header) and From_ (the MBOX ident).
2442 In fact we now have a new `headerpick'#209 command which
2443 is a multiplexer for all retain and ignore lists used, call it
2444 without arguments to see the current setting(s).
2445 In v15 only `headerpick' and the standard-imposed wrappers
2446 `retain' and `ignore' will remain, all other wrappers will
2447 vanish. Regular expressions can now be used if available:
2450 headerpick type retain blahblahblah cc date from \
2451 mail-followup-to message-id openpgp reply-to subject to \
2453 #headerpick type ignore currently covers no fields
2454 #headerpick save retain currently covers no fields
2455 headerpick save ignore '^Original-.*$' '^X-.*$' '^DKIM.*$'
2456 headerpick forward retain cc date from list-id \
2457 mail-followup-to openpgp reply-to subject to
2458 #headerpick forward ignore currently covers no fields
2460 - `top'#291 has been rewritten completely, `Top'#290 is new.
2461 It uses a built-in set of retain/ignore headers, but it is
2462 possible to register a custom set via `headerpick'#209.
2463 Also, *toplines*#600 has been extended a bit and the new
2464 *topsqueeze*#601 variable may pimp your `top' experience.
2466 ? headerpick top retain add subject
2468 [-- Message 1 -- 87 lines, 4791 bytes --]:
2469 Subject: Re: I can't dist to myself
2472 3.22. bounce_delivered
2474 - `features' has been dropped, `version'#302 extended.
2476 - The *prompt*#517 handling has changed: we lost the capability to
2477 expand \?, \@ and \$, instead new "private" variables *?*#348,
2478 *account*#361, *mailbox-resolved*#459 and
2479 *mailbox-display*#458 have been introduced, and the prompt
2480 is completely shell expanded (thus twice with `wysh' or in v15),
2481 as if dollar-single-quote quoted. We do support the reverse-
2482 solidus escaped bracket notation for embedding characters which
2483 should not be counted when calculating the width of the prompt.
2484 The `colour'#161 command has a slot for the prompt colour.
2485 We gained *prompt2*#518 as a second level prompt.
2489 prompt='?\${?}!\${!}[\${account}#\${mailbox-display}]? '
2491 - The filename "-" can be used as a receiver, e.g.,
2493 $ echo Hey,\ you | s-nail -:/ -Sexpandaddr -sUB -
2495 - The -s#81 command line option, the `~s'#340 command escape
2496 as well as the corresponding slots of `~^'#320 will actively
2497 strip [\r\n] from their value (Debian #419840).
2499 - New `read'#251 and `echoerr'#183 commands, mostly for
2500 *on-compose-splice*#492.
2501 But also `echon'#184 and `echoerrn'#185, which do not write
2504 - New variable *r-option-implicit*#527 may be helpful to those
2505 who regulary need the functionality of the -r#79 command
2506 line option. (Felipe Gasper, Martin Neitzel)
2508 - By using new "pseudo-URLs" one can automatize the use of S/MIME
2509 keys / (certificates / intermediate include certificates) with
2510 passwords. E.g., to drive bob@exam.ple, set
2511 *smime-sign-cert-bob@exam.ple* to the private key / certificate
2512 pair as usual, the password lookup will then be performed for
2513 bob@exam.ple.smime-cert-key, bob@exam.ple.smime-cert-cert and
2514 bob@exam.ple.smime-include-certs.
2515 Like this the password can be stored in an encrypted .netrc file
2516 when *netrc-lookup*#483 and *netrc-pipe*#484 are set, or it may
2517 be stored in an encrypted resource file that has been loaded via
2518 `source'#281 as a simple *password*#500 variable.
2520 Note that the prompting that happens as a last resort of
2521 password lookup will still interfere with a possibly running
2522 $PAGER#631 instance, dependent on the setting of *crt*#403, of
2523 course. Proper job control handling and recognizing that we are
2524 running $PAGER when doing that prompt is a TODO for v15. Sorry.
2526 - Some commands, like `set'#269, `help'#212, `list'#217,
2527 `mlist'#228 etc., now react upon the setting of *verbose*#607
2528 and(/or) *debug*#407.
2530 - `write'#306 uses iconv(3) as appropriate.
2532 - *mbox-rfc4155*#464 has first been dropped, and was then
2533 reintroduced with different semantics. Because, it can be
2534 helpful if a messed up MBOX is read, in which case we henceforth
2535 will warn you and point you to this:
2538 \localopts yes; \wysh set mbox-rfc4155;\
2539 \wysh File "${1}"; \eval copy * "${2}"
2541 ? call mboxfix /tmp/bad.mbox /tmp/good.mbox
2543 P.S. Here you see how weird the current thing still is, in v15:
2546 localopts yes; set mbox-rfc4155; File "${1}"; copy * -- "${2}"
2549 And also in v15 we will not apply (proper) so-called MBOXO
2550 quoting, but instead (simply MIME) re-encode mail messages.
2552 - `call_if'#153 is new and, different to "? ignerr call", silent
2553 and not messing with the return status.
2555 - The new *smime-ca-flags*#554 and *ssl-ca-flags*#? can be used
2556 to fine-tune X509_STORE_set_flags(3) a.k.a the X509 CA
2557 certificate verification.
2559 ? set ssl-ca-flags=partial-chain
2560 ? wysh set smime-ca-flags="${ssl-ca-flags}"
2562 Also, *ssl-curves*#? for TLSv1.3.
2564 - Socket connections use TLS S(erver)N(ame)I(ndication) as
2565 appropriate (RFC 7817).
2567 - `alternates'#146 checks arguments and supports `vput'#130.
2568 It by default no longer replaces but appends alternates, unless
2569 *posix*#515 mode is active. There is a new `unalternates'#147
2570 command to remove alternates.
2572 - A new `charsetalias'#156 command. (Pietro Cerutti, mutt#3925)
2574 - New commands `filetype'#196 and `unfiletype'#197: in the future
2575 we will no longer know any builtin filetypes, in fact we already
2576 simulate .gz etc. via the new mechanism as necessary:
2579 bz2 'bzip2 -dc' 'bzip2 -zc' \
2580 gpg 'gpg -d' 'gpg -e' \
2581 gz 'gzip -dc' 'gzip -c' \
2582 xz 'xz -dc' 'xz -zc' \
2583 zst 'zstd -dc' 'zstd -19 -zc' \
2584 zst.pgp 'gpg -d | zstd -dc' 'zstd -19 -zc | gpg -e'
2586 - `~<'#315 now offers a "- [HERE-delimiter]" mode for pasting etc.
2589 - `exit'#193 and `quit'#250 take an optional exit status.
2590 (That is not fixated yet, though.)
2592 - We have a useful -h / --help output. (Doug McIlroy)
2594 - *encoding* obsoleted in favour of new *mime-encoding*#473, which
2595 now defaults to base64.
2597 - *allnet*#363 now works (broken since nail 10.00, 2002-09-29).
2602 The complete changelog of commits in between two versions OLD and
2603 NEW can be inspected by using the git(1) `log' command:
2605 $ git log --reverse --topo-order --abbrev-commit OLD..NEW
2606 # Only topic branch headers (--no-merges for content commits only):
2607 $ git log --oneline --reverse --topo-order --merges OLD..NEW
2608 # Same, but truly accessible:
2609 $ git log --oneline --reverse --topo-order --merges --parents OLD..NEW |
2610 while read c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6; do
2611 printf "%-24s: \$ git log --oneline --no-merges %s ^%s\n" \
2612 "${c6}" "${c1}" "${c2}";
2615 Entries for releases before v14.9.0 have been cut off and can be
2616 found in the git(1) repository:
2618 v14.8.0 - v14.8.16: $ git show v14.8.16:NEWS
2619 v13 - v14.8.5 : $ git show v14.8.5:NEWS
2620 9.0 - 12.5 : $ git show heirloom:ChangeLog
2622 Also accessible via HTTPS?, just replace X.Y.Z accordingly:
2624 \https?://git.sdaoden.eu/browse?p=s-nail.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS;hb=refs/heads/release/vX.Y.Z
2626 For even older releases you need to look into the [timeline]
2627 branch, but no changelog has been administrated for them.