4 The complete changelog of commits in between two versions can be
5 inspected by using the git(1) `log' command as shown below, where `OLD'
6 and `NEW' are the two versions to be compared, e.g., v14.4.5 and v14.5.2:
9 $ git log --reverse --topo-order OLD..NEW
10 # Only topic branch headers:
11 $ git log --oneline --merges --reverse OLD..NEW
12 # Same, but truly accessible:
13 $ git log --oneline --parents --merges --reverse OLD..NEW |
14 while read c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6; do
15 printf "%-24s: \$ git log --oneline --no-merges ${c1} ^${c2}\n" "${c6}";
18 v14.5.2: fix 4: 2014-02-15 (2014-02-14)
19 ---------------------------------------
21 - s-nail-14_5_2-smime.patch
22 Fix a very stupid off-by-one error that i've introduced
23 in [7bdf330] (OpenBSD 5.3: sigh, address strcpy(),strcat()
25 Until we've changed the used data from string to something
26 line-wise, use strcat(3) again.
28 v14.5.2: fix 3: 2014-02-10
29 --------------------------
31 - s-nail-14_5_2-maildir.patch
32 maildir folders would have caused problems in environments which
33 provide the realpath(3) function: beside a "cannot canonicalize PATH"
34 warning the finally used path would be wrong (`test3' would end up as
35 `test3/test3'), so that any further access would try to use the wrong
36 path. Please read the description of this patch and/or the commit
37 logs of the commits [1c2563b] and [13f325f].
39 v14.5.2: fix 2: 2014-02-05
40 --------------------------
42 - s-nail-14_5_2-mimeheader.patch
45 Subject: ehm, .getElementById("blink") needs <span
46 =?US-ASCII?Q?id=3D"blink">,?= not =?US-ASCII?Q?class=3D"id"?=
48 would yet be displayed without the " not " in between the two encoded
49 words because of faulty "encoded-word-continuation" detection (note
50 the quotation marks). The error path could also have been seen in
51 mail forwarding and in faulty searching etc.
52 This patch is in a row of fixes for my hasty [0f9ad93] from 2013-03-12
53 that already caused the v14.2 minor release (because of [b608c6b] from
54 2013-03-14). Those with mercy may read the commit message of [c81afce].
56 v14.5.2: fix 1: 2014-01-30
57 --------------------------
59 - s-nail-14_5_2-sort.patch
60 Reverses (sort(),thread(): use srelax()!, 2014-01-18, [a9b67e9]),
61 which was a hasty commit of an untested diff that i've added few
64 As a rather careless last-minute change i've added string relaxation
65 to threaded and sorted display, but it's really one more step towards
66 lowering memory pressure -- i couldn't resist [a9b67e9] after seeing
68 An alternative, forward-heading patch that keeps string relaxation has
69 been pushed to [master] as [5e75529] and is also available as
70 s-nail-14_5_2-sort-alt.patch.
75 Thanks to Ypnose, Sunil Nimmagadda and Gavin Troy.
76 Gavin Troy *really* deserves special thanks for facing [next]!
77 And i want to dedicate the new coloured message display functionality
78 to John Dodson and Ypnose. Thank you.
79 (And best wishes to beautiful Australia!)
81 ChangeLog (packager-affine)
82 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
84 - All utilities can now be overwritten during configuration so that
85 their values are fixated in the generated makefile (`mk.mk').
86 I.e., talking about MAKE=, STRIP=, awk=, cat=, chmod=, cp=, cmp=,
87 grep=, mkdir=, mv=, tee=.
88 rm= and sed= have to be overwritten from the command line, they're
89 needed before `conf.rc' is read.
90 [5c03347, 072ec65, 39a00ab, 23a1245, ?]
93 - The release tarball is now also available in a xz(1) version.
95 - New configuration option: WANT_COLOUR, by default enabled.
97 - 'make test' should now really work, even if the running user has
98 a mailbox with content. [f223a91]
100 - WANT_AUTOCC is now by default enabled, so as for normal users which
101 don't have the need to embed into a defined packaging environment.
104 - Installation no longer strip(1)s away debug symbols if WANT_DEBUG was
111 - Fixes to some bugs that are present since the first cvs(1) commit of
112 Heirloom mailx(1); includes that *ssl-key-user@host* should now work.
113 [4405a2cc, 9770c26f, 692976b9]
115 - Some off-by-XY fixes, thanks to the debug memory canaries.
116 [19b2b0d, 202506e, 43df6e4]
118 - Fixes for (other) stupidisms (of mine): [1c2161f]
120 This includes true implementation of in-memory history limit for the
121 NCL, which was the final and real solution to a segmentation fault
122 that Gavin Troy had to deal with on [next]. [1089f2b]
125 - For completeness: new command `var-inspect' shows information about
126 all given options. Mostly ment for implementing future tests.
129 - The `pipe' command no longer embeds message information into the
130 data passed through to the command (when *piperaw* is set).
131 [ef5ecc6 (part of topic/colour)]
133 - Simple coloured message (header) display is now possible. Please
134 read the new manual section "Coloured message display", use
135 *colour-disable* to turn it off. (It is enabled by default if it
136 knows the terminal is capable and, if used, the pager can, too. Note
137 we now set LESS=FRXi when starting PAGER and no LESS= is in the
140 Dedicated to John Dodson and Ypnose.
141 [topic/colour, c6e84c7]
143 - The `if', `else', `endif' syntax has been extended.
144 You can now "if 0" (never), "if 1" (always), "if $OPTION" (boolean
145 check for OPTION) and "if $OPTION == 'VALUE'" as well as "if $OPTION
146 != 'VALUE'". Unfortunately it is still not possible to use
147 conditionals inside conditionals. [0fb2ae7]
149 - -# now also sets MBOX=/dev/null. [4be2f1e]
151 - The NCL command line editor now supports cursor keys when the terminal
152 produces xterm(1)-compatible keycodes ('ESC' + '[' + [DACB] for left,
153 up, right and down, respectively). What a thrill, yay!!! [0cbf672]
155 - New (optional) command: `history': show or clear command line history,
156 or select a specific command line from in there.
157 History works a bit different now, and should no longer include
158 command lines which include specific message numbers; more to come.
159 [59c6195, topic/hist2]
161 I plan to join all the history management and use only the one that is
162 part of NCL now, hooking it into editline(3) and readline(3). That
163 would shrink tty.c a bit and also introduce duplicate elimination for
166 - The new ~u and ~U tilde escapes work like ~f and ~m, respectively, but
167 don't include any header lines. Inspired by a patch from
168 Sunil Nimmagadda on openbsd-tech@. [c37b8b3]
170 - The `|' command should work again -- it has stopped working on
171 2013-09-09 when i've accidentally changed the command name from `|' to
175 - As a rather careless last-minute change i've added string relaxation
176 to threaded and sorted display, but it's really one more step towards
177 lowering memory pressure -- i couldn't resist [a9b67e9] after seeing
178 ?0[ /Users/steffen/src/nail.git/t.mbox]? sst
179 Buffer allocs ever/max simultan. : 14/14
180 Overall alloc count/bytes : 17165/881088
181 Cycle maximums: alloc count/bytes: 16906/876984+0
182 ?0[ /Users/steffen/src/nail.git/t.mbox]? sst
183 Buffer allocs ever/max simultan. : 0/0
184 Overall alloc count/bytes : 16515/841816
185 Cycle maximums: alloc count/bytes: 16256/837712+829560
187 ChangeLog (purely technical)
188 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
190 - We now have debug canaries for all memory sources now that [8419d44]
191 added them to the "string dope".
193 - The most work has been done on our value system, which manages the
194 binary and value options, like *folder* etc.
195 It is now based on enumerations, i.e., constant integers, not on
196 strings. This of course only relates to non-dynamic options.
197 Anyway, this saves us key hashing and allows more compact data
198 representation in general (see the new header `okeys.h' for more).
204 ChangeLog (packager-affine)
205 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
207 - The build system *only* uses the automatically detected $CFLAGS and
208 $LDFLAGS if WANT_AUTOCC=1. I.e., even unset or empty $CFLAGS and
209 $LDFLAGS are not touched until then.
210 (We do however still set $CC if that is unset or empty or set to the
211 plain string "cc".) [856625f6]
216 - Fixed segmentation faults / bus errors when setting *nofolder*
217 / *line-editor-cursor-right* to the null string (only with WANT_NCL),
218 respectively. [d1f1a19b, 21e5c285, 9f6ff25d]
220 - *prompt* handling is now really POSIX compliant (thus no prompting
221 occurs not only for 'set noprompt', but also for setting *prompt* to
224 This was indeed a rather large changeset that also introduced the new
225 *prompt* escape character \&, which expands to `?' by default and to
226 `&' if *bsdcompat* is set.
228 Like that we now can simply assign "\& " to *prompt* at program
229 startup, which (a) allows to do 'set noprompt' without error (once)
230 and (b) allows for POSIX compliance in respect to prompt handling
231 without any complicated conditional code, but (c) gives us the
232 opportunity to continue to support BSD prompts.
235 - For completeness: new command: `features'. (Rather useful for being
236 able to implement more tests in the future, and act according to what
237 is really compiled into the tested binary.
239 - The `-#' command line option now also sets *quiet* by itself.
242 - nail.1: a newly introduced empty line in the manual produced error
243 messages on some systems. Fixed.
245 - The return value of the `mimetypes' command has been reversed and
246 should now be fixed. [acf56ac52]
248 - In threaded display the Subject: followup suppression no longer
249 takes into account invisible messages.
250 Also, rudely hack in a messages-already-written-in-this-round counter,
251 so that the followup suppression knows when "the top of the screen" is
252 reached, which (seems to) help(s) against missing subjects up there as
253 well as after a `newmail'. [topic/subject]
255 - Added a WANT_REGEX=1 toggle in `conf.rc'.
256 When we find regular expressions then a new regex-enabled IMAP-style
257 search is available (see the manual for more) [1ec8fe68]
259 ? f (/or subject ^\[S-nail (subject ^\[nail-devel))
260 ? f (/subject ^\[S-nail) (/subject ^\[nail-devel)
261 ? f (/subject "^\\[(S-nail|nail-devel)")
263 I'm looking forward for being able to add another, simplified, syntax.
265 ChangeLog (purely technical)
266 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
268 - The cc-test.sh has seen some tweaks, for easier future extension, and
269 for adding a test for [d1f1a19]. [several, mentioned: 21e5c285]
271 - On systems without a real wordexp(3) implementations deadlocks could
272 occur because we sometimes hold_all_sigs() to avoid longjmp(3)s away
273 (and will do so for quite some time, still), and that resulted in the
274 SIGCHLD that reported the exit of the started subshell to be blocked,
275 too (e.g., after '? *.h<Tab>': endless hang). Fixed.
280 Many thanks: Gaetan Bisson, William Yodlowsky, Gavin Troy,
281 Thomas (wasd AT gmx DOT net), Ypnose.
282 And Gavin Troy definetely deserves a very special credit.
283 But thank you all, and very much indeed!
285 ChangeLog (packager-affine)
286 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
288 - The `test' make target has been fixed. [f0991e14]
291 - It is possible to gain a different kind of make(1) verbosity by
292 using a VERBOSE=1 command line argument (this knob is not taken into
293 account when deciding wether a rebuild is needed). [498e4ad0]
296 - On Crux 3 Linux and OpenBSD the readline(3) and editline(3),
297 respectively, libraries will now be found when desired. [a7d1aa78]
300 - WANT_LINE_EDITOR has been renamed to WANT_NCL, *plus*.
301 So now there are WANT_READLINE, WANT_EDITLINE and WANT_NLC, each of
302 them can be set individually, and they are tested in the shown order.
303 Also, WANT_TABEXPAND and WANT_HISTORY have been introduced and can be
304 used to fine-tune functionality. [ae4e01e1, b2635feb, 9742bf40]
306 (While here, i've fixed WANT_TABEXPAND code so that it is more
307 sensitive to line excess; on Linux etc., where MAX_INPUT is 255,
308 strange behaviour could be seen because we didn't take into account
309 the length of the prompt at all. The NCL is assumed to have only
310 one remaining, but unfixable problem: backspace often is incapable
311 to cross visual line boundaries; use ^A/^E + ^L, then. [e832c04a]
313 Also, cursor (now ^B and ^F) and history movement (now ^P and ^N) of
314 the NCL have been changed. [d7d928da])
316 - WANT_QUOTE_FOLD is now enabled by default. And WANT_ASSERTS has been
317 renamed to WANT_DEBUG. [1e10da1f]
319 - The build system has seen yet another overhaul in general. CC, CFLAGS
320 and LDFLAGS plus are now tracked and changes will force rebuilds.
321 The new WANT_AUTOCC option can be used to let the build system figure
322 out a compiler and choose known-to-work flags. Use the new ADDCFLAGS=
323 and ADDLDFLAGS= command line arguments to add your specific flags on
324 top of those -- the final CFLAGS etc. are what is change-tracked.
326 This rather massive internal rework revealed that old Bourne shells
327 were yet not supported by the new build system, and so did testing
328 that UnixWare installation was yet impossible due to tool
329 incompatibility. [75c4b74e]
331 - The new WANT_AMALGAMATION option will force compilation of all the
332 sources in a single compilation unit. This requires a rather large
333 amount of memory, but may produce a more compact, maybe more optimized
334 binary. (Implementing this revealed quite some bugs which could
335 therefore be fixed.) [topic/amalgam]
337 - `nail.rc' has been pimped a bit (mostly comments, but
338 *mime-counter-evidence* is now always set). [e3094ba7]
340 That changeset was however buggy. [f3dcb46]
343 - We no longer use install(1) for `install'ation make rules. [80b02cd9]
348 - Even '$ s-nail & fg $!' will now work with the NCL. [2a8b5c55]
350 - Several off-by-one (off-by-two) fixes. [32ce9836, 71e6d013, f139dc36]
353 - Setting *noprompt* now prevents prompting, as per POSIX. [ecefaf63]
355 - *prompt*: new \$ (exit status of last command) and \@ (name of
356 currently active mailbox) escape sequences. [6f652046]
358 - One may now omit the space in '? unc' ('?unc') [05fcb383]
360 - New commands: `ghost' and `unghost' define command aliases (since
361 `alias' is taken for a different purpose) [topic/commands]
366 - There is now a pseudo account `null' (case-insensitive).
367 Also a new `localopts' command exists; when used from within an
368 `account' block, options changed will be reverted back to its former
369 value when the account is left (e.g. by switching to `null'):
372 alternates sdaoden@users.sf.net sdaoden@users.sourceforge.net \
373 sdaoden@googlemail.com sdaoden@gmail.com
374 set Sign="\n--steffen\nForza Figa!" sign="\n--steffen"
375 set smtp=smtp.gmail.com smtp-auth=plain smtp-use-starttls
381 set from="Steffen \"Daode\" Nurpmeso <sdaoden@gmail.com>"
386 set from="Steffen \"Daode\" Nurpmeso <sdaoden@users.sf.net>"
394 neither of *Sign*, *sign*, *smtp** nor *from* should be set.
395 Please see the manual for more.
396 TODO - neither command-ghosts nor alternates etc. are yet tracked
397 TODO - we should have a boolify() so as to say 'localopts yes' etc.
400 - New command: `cwd' (print current working directory).
401 Also fixing the `chdir' return value. [eff4397c]
403 - The *ssl-method* now allows explicit setting of 'tls.1.1' and
404 'tls1.2' values. [c66b4196]
406 - When sending to display, be aware that filenames in MIME parts may of
407 course be MIME-encoded! [1454be03]
409 - *hostname* is now honoured even if *smtp* is not set. (We always
410 supported *from*, so why not *hostname*?)
412 - The `-u user' option now acts identically to setting the $USER
413 environment variable and both now tend to mean something like
414 "impersonate as user in some aspects". Note that we have always used
415 the latter in one or the other way, and `-u user' always ment more
416 than just "open mailbox of user", so i think this change sharpens the
417 edge in the right direction. [09632731]
419 - Filename argument quoting has been tweaked for (some) function(s which
420 take a filename argument last). The following snippet as reported by
421 Gavin Troy should work now: [2bb9b80e]
423 ? mv +inbox.Junk\ Mail
425 - The GNU implementation of wordexp(3) is also (i've added a workaround
426 for the very same bug for Mac OS X in S-nail v14.3 [63273772]) buggy,
427 which causes segmentation faults when expansions failed (`fi &VOID').
431 - The `fi' command no longer uses the (possibly truncated) display
432 version of a filename, but the full path. [5cd85b07]
434 ChangeLog (purely technical)
435 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
437 - Large rework of internal structure: bundle inclusion of most of the
438 external and the content of most of the internal #include files in the
439 new nail.h. If that would have been done very first bugs like the
440 infamous MAXPATHLEN bug as reported by Paul Vojta (see v14.4.2) would
441 never have occurred. [21f3155b]
443 - Support for -fstrict-overflow cc(1) flags. [topic/strict-overflow]
445 - Fixed the quotation filter which yet allocated memory even if not
448 - String relaxation reduces memory pressure rather drastically when
449 working with many (especially MIME) mails at a time, e.g., when
450 writing a modified mailbox. Before all messages of a mailbox had to
451 be worked without releasing any memory in between, now we give back
452 memory (to our pool, not the system) after each and every message.
455 - The other memory source now uses bound canaries, which also found some
458 - We now use the EL_PROMPT_ESC editline(3) mode for prompting, which
459 should offer the possibility to use coloured prompts etc. with
460 (even those) editline(3) (versions which do offer it -- older versions
461 should just do fine by themselves).
462 S-nail uses the special trigger control character \1. [ea30d818]
465 Note however that all tested editline(3) versions are buggy and
466 either don't get it right (`\1COLOR-ON\1stuff\1COLOR-OFF\1') or are
467 incapable of proper repainting (`\1COLOR-ONstuffCOLOR-OFF\1').
469 - We now use the MD5 digest code from the OpenSSL library if that is
475 Many thanks: Gaetan Bisson, Stephen Isard, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas,
476 William Yodlowsky, and Adam Sjøgren from GMANE.org!
478 ChangeLog (packager-affine)
479 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
481 - The packager-install: target has been fixed. [a8c1b0b]
482 (Gaetan Bisson and William Yodlowsky)
484 - As suggested by Gaetan Bisson the several build system tasks are now
485 individually addressable, i.e., 'make [OPTIONS] config', 'make build',
486 'make test', 'make packager-install'); nothing changes unless you want
487 to, in which case: please see INSTALL. [4d3b799]
489 The new target 'test' will call cc-test.sh with its new --check-only
490 option which will only perform the (too few) function tests on the
492 And cc-test.sh will no longer create output files, but simply echoes
493 to STDOUT and STDERR. [629e1ee, 786f219]
496 - The default configuration file now sets *bsdannounce* and *bsdflags*,
497 all in one line, as suggested by William Yodlowsky.
498 (If *header* is disabled, *bsdannounce* is ignored, but *header* must
499 be enabled by default according to POSIX, and *bsdannounce* is just
500 the same as *header*, but for the folder-switched event. Thus setting
501 *bsdannounce* is the more sane default, imho.) [6161f10]
504 - Announcement messages are now tagged '[ANNOUNCE]'. [26e1b35]
505 (Tagging suggested by Stephen Isard and Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas)
507 - The manual NAME now includes the version (but it's somewhat ugly).
513 - When switching folders when in compose mode, message attachments
514 become invalid. For v14.4.5, at least warn when this happens.
517 - When reading multipart/alternative messages which do not contain
518 a text/plain part, the (most likely HTML) part is not displayed (even
519 if S-nail is configured to display HTML). The reason is a bug i've
520 introduced with [0d43a999] (Change "Part X:" display message..,
521 2012-12-20). (Note that the committed fix i've posted to the list was
522 not correct either and has been fixed itself.) [225c02b, ecfa149]
527 Thanked, Gavin Troy, Gaetan Bisson.
529 - Fix output buffer confusion that would have occurred when parts of
530 a multipart mail had a pipe command set. Longer story in [e75d16dd].
533 - The makefile now supports a `packager-install' target that bypasses
534 the reevaluation of the configuration (after checking that there is
535 one) and directly steps ahead to the install process.
538 - Notes in INSTALL that CFLAGS and LDFLAGS need to be overwritten from
539 within (conf.rc or) the command line.
545 I convey special thanks to Karol Błażewicz and Gaetan Bisson.
547 - The new build system didn't allow to overwrite CFLAGS= when used in
548 conjunction with GNU make(1). To make a long story short, removing
549 a `.POSIX:' directive from the makefile fixed the problem. Luckily.
552 - More INSTALL notes for UnixWare 7.1.4, which suffers from the same
553 problem: here the fix is to use the -e option of make(1).
555 - Karol Błażewicz reported a segmentation violation he got when using an
556 Arch Linux S-nail test package, and Gaetan Bisson informed me about
557 that. The problem was that we didn't assign the resulting default
558 address (which gets used when *from* is not set) to the result which
559 gets used, effectively resulting in a NULL dereference. [cfd60479]
564 Many thanks to Paul Vojta.
566 - On GNU/Linux there is no MAXPATHLEN constant defined by default, as
567 this is a non-standard legacy constant. Mozilla ran into this some
568 time ago, though a bit different [1]. It made it easier for S-nail.
570 [1] <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412610>
572 We could include `sys/limits.h' to get at MAXPATHLEN, there it is
573 defined to be PATH_MAX, but let's just include the standard `limits.h'
574 and ensure MAXPATHLEN ends up >= PATH_MAX. With this condition being
575 true even FORTIFYd sources won't bail with reported buffer overflows
576 because realpath(3) expects a buffer of PATH_MAX bytes. [bee5e57c]
579 - With the builtin LINE_EDITOR, ensure proper interaction with GNU
580 rlogind(8), which is alone in its quest to set the ISTRIP termios(4)
583 - Bugfix a codepath that would have prevented compilation when
584 HAVE_ICONV is not set.
585 While there, allow to unselect message attachments when using the `~@'
586 tilde command interactively, which i mysteriously had forgotten when
587 allowing selection of 'em. (oops?) [4f58ffea]
589 - It's now easier for packagers to get at debug-enabled CFLAGS; simply
590 use WANT_ASSERTS=1 (should not be enabled in shipouts, please).
593 - Fixed a terrible bug that i've introduced in november 2012, that would
594 have corrupted MBOX files when using the `resend' command. (The
595 so-called "From_ line" would have been quoted to ">From_ line" instead
596 of simply being stripped.) [19d449e2]
598 - Fixed a SIGSEGV for the builtin LINE_EDITOR, that would have occurred
599 if a history traversal (^B or ^F) would have been continued by
600 a reverse history completion (^R).
601 While there, avoid some multiple-beeps-in-a-row that yet occurred due
602 to code reuse, and document that ^G etc. reset the multibyte state
605 Also, the expand-on-tab code could have excessed line input maximums,
606 e.g., after `? /usr/bin/*<Tab>'. This was of course known, but
607 i wanted to keep it because all tested (modern) terminals "mess up but
608 won't break", and thus made it possible to use the data, even if it's
609 visual representation was messed up. The real solution will be much,
610 *much* more complicated, i.e., show possible *completions*, page-wise,
611 etc., i.e., just like is known by tab *completion*. This will need
612 far more time because it doesn't make sense to embed such complicated
613 code into the current bed.
614 Now i've chosen to simply don't display excess, but replace the
615 content with a message that says that there was excess. It simply
616 looks better. [0320c8ba]
618 - I've changed the use of `[?]' as a replacement sequence for invalid
619 / non-displayable characters to `?' (again). There are still code
620 paths (from the original codebase) which use the real Unicode
621 replacement character instead, so our display is still not unique.
622 On the long term the codepath can anticipate in all levels wether
623 use of Unicode is possible, so that, then, we will be unique again,
624 using either only `?' or the Unicode replacement character. [faf6380]
626 - I've anticipated in v15.0 and implemented *quote-fold* as a stream
627 filter. It is now multibyte safe and takes into account the visual
628 width of characters, i.e., ideographs etc. It is working almost as
629 good as an algorithm can work that looks at data linewise, but is yet
630 experimental and incomplete in that it will break lines even if only
631 whitespace or a backslash escape follows. It is code that is only
632 a few hours old, which is why it is not enabled by default. [
639 - Fix some harmless stylos and typos in the manual and `conf.rc'.
642 - Ensure *complete* proper cleanup on signal-caused configuration run
645 - Bugfix: reenable empty configuration variable overrides, as in
647 $ make install SID= NAIL=mailx ...
650 - Bugfix: rename the `conf.rc' variables SHELL, LISTER and PAGER because
651 they clash with the POSIX standard variables of the same names, which
652 hurts now that the configuration is run through the shell itself.
653 The configuration names are now XSHELL, XLISTER and XPAGER (ouch).
656 - nail.rc: comment out some non-portable S-nail(1) specifics, for those
657 who install this file as mailx.rc or so, somewhere. [3f14b01]
659 - From now on S-nail will use simple version tags, as, e.g., `14.4.1',
660 i.e., no more `s-nail-14.4.1'. [a75437d, 183d59c] (Jürgen Daubert)
662 Also move UAGENT out of `version.h' [f7be5be]
664 Uh! v14.4 must have originated in a bad dream; good it's vanished.
669 Thanks to the entire vivid and virile S-nail(1) user community is
670 proper, especially Stephen Isard, Gavin Troy, Martin Neitzel.
671 Not to forget Ryan Kavanagh and Ayan George.
673 Note this time the changes are in reverse order, i.e., oldest first.
678 15fbe09 ^bf9173f 'topic/varmac-unite'
679 Simplification and unification of variable and macro handling
680 40f6f58 ^15fbe09 'topic/cledit1'
681 Command line editor; new manual section `Line editor'
682 ad28a32 ^40f6f58 'topic/termsize'
683 Honour POSIX mailx(1) and respect $COLUMNS and $LINES on startup
684 dc3cd49 ^a446fd8 'topic/qf'
686 b8738f7 ^0651fd0 'topic/spam1'
687 Interaction with SpamAssassin; new manual section `Handling spam'
688 5419d6f ^b8738f7 'topic/make1'
689 Reworked build system; please read `INSTALL' and `conf.rc'
690 9ab4d6b ^5419d6f 'topic/list1'
691 Slightly tweaked message thread display, fix `:u :r' to mean it
696 - The default PAGER is now more(1). (But read on.)
698 - The `echo' command is now compliant, and fully supports XSI.
700 - The `group' and `ungroup' command aliases have been removed, they are
701 `alias' and `unalias'.
703 - We now have the capability of line editing and history.
704 One may choose from not less than three different implementations:
705 a builtin editor as well as possible linkage against BSD editline(3)
706 and also a GNU readline(3) compatible layer.
707 Please read the new manual section `Line editor'.
709 Input is now compliant in that an interactive line may be continued
710 after escaping the newline character with a backslash.
711 [topic/cledit1] (all of them)
713 The *prompt* variable may now contain shell escapes, just like the
714 `echo' command. [0938d8a]
715 As a special extension the new \? escape, when used within *prompt*,
716 will expand to the exit status of the last command. [41076d2]
718 - The POSIX standard environment variables $COLUMNS and $LINES are now
719 honoured upon startup. [topic/termsize]
721 - The `help' / `?' commands now support abbreviation, i.e.,
722 ``$ ? unc'' should now find `uncollapse'. [7b86195]
724 - The `~' abbreviation that has been introduced as an alias for `call'
725 is now a real command, not a magic shortcut. [9987289]
727 - The new variable *quote-as-attachment* can be used to additionally
728 embed the quoted message as a `message/rfc822' MIME attachment.
731 - The compose-mode command `~@' will now attach messages from the
732 current mailbox if given a filename of the style `#NUMBER'.
733 Please read the corresponding manual section `Tilde escapes', though.
735 - The `WANT_JUNK' and `WANT_SCORE', as well as Gunnar Ritters junk mail
736 management have been removed.
738 Instead S-nail(1) can now support interaction with SpamAssassin, but
739 sofar only via the spamc(1) / spamd(1) client / server pair of
740 programs that ships as part of SpamAssassin. The new configuration
741 directive `WANT_SPAM' controls wether this feature is desired.
743 Please read the new manual section `Handling spam'.
744 [topic/spam1] (Martin Neitzel)
746 (S-nail(1) is now *definitely* floating-point free.)
748 - The configuration and make system have been overhauled / reorganized.
749 The configuration is now in `conf.rc', also contains directives like
750 `PREFIX' etc, and is always read in. However, only those directives
751 which are not yet set (via environment or command line overwrites) are
752 incorporated into the set of configuration options. Therefore
757 will now build S-nail(1) twice, because of the changed configuration.
759 Note that `WANT_GSSAPI' is now by default disabled, which shrunk
760 a freshly started s-nail image by more than 30 percent.
762 We're not finished yet in that there is no dependency graph etc.
763 Please do read `INSTALL' and `conf.rc'.
766 - Message selection has been slightly bugfixed in that `:u :r' really
767 means `:u' AND `:r'. Compared to NetBSD Mail(1) it's still a shame.
769 Threaded message display has been slightly changed in that within
770 a thread identical Subject: lines are not repeated. It may not be
771 perfect yet due to the general list / thread state. [topic/list1]
773 - If, upon startup, the environment variable `NAIL_NO_SYSTEM_RC' is set,
774 then the system wide initialization file isn't read, just as if the
775 `-n' option had been given. [1b31535]
777 - It is now possible to use CTRL-C during connection hangs. (But in
778 general error recovery capabilities of the socket related
779 infrastructure is non-existent, practically speaking.) [45a9f36]
781 - *quote-fold* has been temporarily disabled, as it is not multibyte
784 No review for v14.4. And today is Friday, the 13th. Ouuuh!
789 I should *maybe* should have and want to give prominence to
790 Martin Neitzel for this, i maybe have misunderstood.
792 - Bugfix *synchronous* *pipe-** execution..
794 Well, unfortunately yet another newly introduced bug slept in
795 S-nail v14.3[.1] -- [a8d724b3, Add @ and @& shell command prefixes
796 for pipe-MIMETYPE, 2013-05-03] falsely changed the waiting state
797 for subprocesses, as has shown up by a HTML-only mail on the
799 'Seems i'm collecting one line fixes in this codebase; this needs
800 to change in the future.
805 I want to give prominence to Juergen Daubert (jue AT jue DOT li), who
806 reported that i've broken plain-old unfancy send mode in 14.3.
808 + Ok, i'll hope we're out of new errors for the v14.3 series with that.
810 - New variable: *batch-exit-on-error*.
811 Only works if the new -# command line option has been given, and will
812 check the "current" exit status whenever one operation completes
813 (S-nail returns to the command prompt).
814 If the exit status implies error (e.g., sending the last message
815 failed) then we exit forcefully with that error status. (The normal
816 behaviour is that the status is reset when the command loop ticks.)
819 - While here again, i've added the new -# command line option.
820 This is the first step to implement a reliable batch mode;
821 unfortunately it still selects the users system mailbox on startup,
822 because we simply cannot go to "no" mailbox for quite some time -- at
823 some future time we will be able to go to some VOID thing, and then
824 this will end up as a rather efficient batch mode.
825 For now it sets *dot*, *emptystart*, *noheader* and *sendwait*, and
826 also implies the -~ command line option. [7549569]
829 printf "m ${MBOX}\n~s subject1\nE-Mail Körper 1\n.\n" &&
830 printf "m ${MBOX}\n~s subject2\nEmail body 2\n.\n" &&
832 ) | MAILRC=/dev/null "${NAIL}" -n -#
834 - Also, -N set *header* instead of *noheader*. [7b4a13f6]
837 - Plain old unfancy invocations like
840 $ echo bla|s-nail ./FILE1
842 had been broken (by [522cb3ec]). [260e19d]
848 Thanks to Gavin Troy (gavtroy AT gmail DOT com) who inspired the @ and
849 @& pipe-command prefixes.
854 - S-nail has been registered at Coverity Scan, and the third build
855 (after topic branches *coverity-444* and *coverity-444.2*) produced no
856 more errors. (<http://scan2.coverity.com/projects/444>.)
857 (Then i used POP3 and IMAP and fixed some SIGSEGV. ;) Still didn't
858 look at S/MIME, Maildir, caches etc... o()
860 - S-nail v14.3 doesn't produce any spurious linker warnings on
861 OpenBSD 5.3; all (correct!) use cases of strcpy() and strcat() have
862 been replaced. [7bdf330, 2c8d7cb]
864 - This is the first release with a (though very short) review -- i'm
865 slowly getting comfortable with the code. (But i'm too stupid to
866 perform reviews on patches, 'always did reviews on C++/Perl/xy
867 classes. Aaah, how beautiful ... objects.)
872 - It is now possible to "call" macros without using the `call' command
873 by prefixing them with a tilde, as in
882 - Added the *pop3-bulk-load* option.
883 Yes, there are mailing lists etc. which use plain text email, and,
884 there, headers are often more data than the body, so it doesn't make
885 sense to download the headers twice (unfortunately POP3 doesn't
886 support a BODY command; if only it would support a RETRDELE command..)
889 And yep, from this changeset on i personally use S-nail even over the
890 network, no longer my stale and incomplete S-Postman. And i can tell
891 you, this damn thing is so silent, i always set *verbose* not to go
892 grazy ... but .. i hate to say it .. the healing will take time.
894 - POP3 will now try to use APOP authentication automatically; thus the
895 *use-apop* stuff has been replaced by *pop3-no-apop* options (just in
896 case there are POP3 servers which advertise they support APOP but in
897 fact fail to do so; anyone?) [6c3c5575]
899 - Some IMAP segmentation violations have been fixed:
901 ? fi imaps://user1@localhost
902 Password:Interrupt <- CNTRL-C
903 ? set imap-auth=cram-md5 <- hey, 'forgot to set correct auth
904 ? fi imaps://user1@localhost
905 IMAP write error: error:140D00CF:SSL routines:SSL_write:protocol is shutdown
908 And also, when *folder* was set to an IMAP account but hasn't been
909 opened yet, and no IMAP account ever has been opened, a string
910 comparison against a NULL pointer yet caused a SIGSEGV, too.
913 - `set folder=' now tolerates `%:' and expands PROTOs stuff etc.:
915 ? short xp %:imaps://user1@localhost
918 Pure convenience so that it doesn't need to be typed twice (still no
919 completion in sight...). Note that setting *folder* to a POP3 box
920 will now be actively rejected. [b12b17f5]
922 NOTE: while implementing this i've detected another dead-end
923 miscondition in S-nail -- you really should ensure that your target
924 folder/box is connected before you leave your current POP3/network
925 based folder, if there is data to be moved to the target (i.e.,
926 mbox). This problem will persist for a long time due to the way the
927 entire codebase functions; i hope i can find a short/mid-term
928 solution, but the real healing will take years. The mentioned
929 solution would at least make S-nail interruptable, currently we get
930 stuck and interrupts are blocked...
932 - If you're using S-nail on Mac OS X and have seen some segmentation
933 faults when expanding shell stuff then you may be pleased to hear that
934 S-nail now works around an Apple bug. [63273772]
936 - The builtin mime.types have been corrected and a lot of new ones have
937 been added. New data from
938 <http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tika/trunk/tika-core/src/main/resources/\
939 org/apache/tika/mime/tika-mimetypes.xml>, thanks! [8072fcb6]
941 - BEWARE: handling of command line arguments has changed a bit!
943 1. The -D, -d, -E, -i, -N and -v command line options are now
944 implemented by means of setting the respective option, as via -S.
945 (This means that from now on resource files can only *temporarily*
946 overwrite command line arguments.)
948 2. The -I and -T command line arguments have been dropped.
949 It seems Gunnar Ritter stopped developing nail/Heirloom mailx once he
950 started implementing Newsreader functionality. It'll take a long time
951 until we get there, so for now drop all the Newsreader stuff.
953 3. Handling of -r has been changed. E.g.:
955 s-nail -A test -Snoeditalong -r 'La mort est <fem@me>' -d
956 ? set from=bummer@m1.com
960 Sendmail arguments: "sendmail" "-i" "-r" "fem@me" "t1"
961 ? set from=bummer@m2.com
964 Sendmail arguments: "sendmail" "-i" "-r" "fem@me" "t2"
968 s-nail -A test -Snoeditalong -r '' -d
969 ? set from=bummer@m1.com
973 Sendmail arguments: "sendmail" "-i" "-r" "bummer@m1.com" "t1"
974 ? set from=bummer@m2.com
977 Sendmail arguments: "sendmail" "-i" "-r" "bummer@m2.com" "t2"
979 [*main-fun-cleanup* topic branch]
981 - *smime-sign-include-certs-** stuff works again, oops.. [9a8597c6]
983 - A whole lot of smallest and small fixes due to registration at
984 Coverity Scan, as project 444. Error handling in S-nail is ridiculous.
985 [*coverity-444* and *coverity-444.2* topic branches. The sheer number
986 of fixes was the reason to sit down and go for unplanned S-nail v14.3]
988 - *idna-strict-checks* has been dropped. It's silly to have in a MUA,
989 especially given that GNU LibIDN doesn't ship with a lot of rules.
990 We were able to drop quite some code (and a use-after-free, too :().
993 - The ~p tilde command displays attachments more verbose.
994 Until the big big MIME and send layer rewrite :) this is intermediate
995 since until then we do not really know neither MIME type nor charset
996 of an attachment at the time this is displayed (for sure). Yet
997 i think it's nicer to show what we have than keep it the way it was.
1000 - @ and @& shell command prefixes have been added for the pipe-MIMETYPE
1001 mechanism. The former suppresses filters if multiple messages are
1002 displayed at once, the latter adds asynchronous program execution on
1003 top of that. E.g., to display PDF documents, but only if you
1004 *explicitly* address the message *alone and by itself*, and without
1005 blocking S-nail and the $PAGER, do:
1007 set pipe-application/pdf="@&cat >"${TMPDIR}"/s-nail${$}.pdf;\
1008 mupdf "${TMPDIR}"/s-nail${$}.pdf; rm "${TMPDIR}"/s-nail${$}.pdf"
1010 (Inspired by Gavin Troy.) [a8d724b3]
1012 Note: most of that had been posted to nail-devel@ already, but it was
1013 tweaked ([251b636]) so that you now *really* have to say `p MSGNO' to
1016 - The NETLESS CONFIG= has been removed; it is almost identical to
1017 MINIMAL now (i.e., without WANT_JUNK and WANT_SCORE).
1019 - WANT_JUNK and WANT_SCORE have been disabled by default.
1020 They don't seem to be too useful; i hope i can implement
1021 a SpamAssassin hook for (downloaded) mail messages for v14.4.
1022 If so, expect these two "modules" to become removed completely.
1027 Another unplanned (minor) bugfix release after Gavin Troy (gavtroy AT
1028 gmail DOT com) pointed out that MIME CTE decoding was broken, who
1029 i therefore want to give a lot of prominence right here.
1031 - Fix MIME content decoding which has been broken by [01c0e135].
1038 An unplanned (minor) bugfix release after i've found two bugs today and
1039 heard from Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas (jca+nail AT wxcvbn DOT org) that
1040 there exists a S-nail OpenBSD package.
1042 I want to give prominence to the following people that helped to
1043 improve S-nail(1) during this development cycle, in order of
1044 appearance: Dirk Peters (peters AT schwertfisch DOT de).
1046 Thank you very much, and best from Germany!
1048 - Some warnings of newer clang(1) versions were silenced, including yet
1049 another alloca(3) problem (see *memtracer* topic branch in v14.0
1052 - Tweaking the MIME boundary detection left a little hole that could
1053 cause boundaries not to be detected, as has been shown by a Microsoft
1054 Word generated mail on the ICU list. [11e5fb5b]
1056 - A format string could overflow bounds if unrealistic
1057 (18446744073709551615) line numbers or message sizes would have been
1058 produced. [faa65c40]
1060 - An algorithmic error could cause overlong lines which wrapped around
1061 to the next display line. [ade52660]
1064 v14.2, 2013-03-15 [v14.1, 2013-03-12]
1065 -------------------------------------
1067 I want to give prominence to the following people that helped to
1068 improve S-nail(1) during this development cycle, in order of
1069 appearance: Martin Neitzel, Christos Zoulas, Stephen Isard, jgw@txo.org
1072 Thank you very much, and best from Germany!
1074 + v14.2 differs from v14.1 only by one commit, one that fixes
1075 (mime_fromhdr(): partial rewrite using n_iconv_str(), 2013-03-12),
1076 which i hastily implemented just hours before the release of v14.1,
1077 and simply shouldn't have made it (into there).
1078 The v14.1 tarball has been removed from the server.
1080 - A fix for the quoted-printable codec: "message truncation" occurred
1081 when a mail maliciously used a soft linebreak to escape the linebreak
1082 of a completely empty line.
1083 (That resulted in 0 written and 0 leftover bytes, a condition that was
1084 declared erroneous back in november 2012 when i started handling I/O
1087 - The "folders" command will work again when given an argument.
1088 A fault of mine introduced in (cmd1.c: expand() may fail, 2012-10-23).
1090 - The Base64 codec has been touched again, and we are finally capable to
1091 perform sequential decoding; this was targeted for the MIME/send layer
1092 rewrite, but it actually was possible today.
1093 The result as seen in ps(1), running on the Base64 encoded HTML5
1094 standard (4622545 bytes HTML, with a NUL appended to force Base64
1095 encoding, resulting in a 6244793 bytes email):
1097 7420 s006 S+ 2:22pm 0:10.65 plain-nail -f HTML5
1098 1440 s006 S+ 2:23pm 0:00.36 ./s-nail -f HTML5
1100 (So the only thing that is left for a good throughput is sequential
1101 decoding of quoted-printable encoded parts that maliciously use soft
1102 linebreaks to convert an entire part to a single line. And i've seen
1103 that from Apple Mail.)
1105 - New option: *mime-allow-text-controls* (rather long manual entry).
1107 - *smtp-auth-password-user@host* and *smtp-auth-user-user@host* will
1109 (Reported by jgw@txo.org in November 2011, fixed by Gavin Troy in
1112 - Most *headline* formats now do support the '-' left-alignment flag.
1113 Note that you most likely have to change your *headline* accordingly.
1114 (The still missing %n format is one reason why there will be v14.2.)
1116 - *datefield* and *datefield-markout-older* can now be set to
1117 strftime(3) format strings (except %n).
1118 (From Stephen Isard's wishlist.)
1120 - A possible SEGV has been found and also fixed by Stephen Isard.
1121 (The "legendary" cross-world stereo fix!)
1123 - Wow! S-nail will finally compile on GNU based Linux systems like
1124 Slackware 14 etc. (Found while hunting bug reported by
1127 - New option: *datefield-markout-older* can be used to choose
1128 a different date display for mails that are older than six months,
1129 in equal spirit to what POSIX describes for the -l option of the ls(1)
1130 command (Stephen Isard).
1132 - (Exotic) Years are (would) now (be) interpreted correctly according to
1135 - CRAM-MD5 usage has been fixed.
1137 - *folder* updates are now tracked when set, and we will show the
1138 realpath(3) name of it, showing PREFIX..SUFFIX if that wouldn't fit on
1140 Tracking updates made it also possible to perform other more expensive
1141 tasks when setting *folder*, so that it is now possible to do
1147 et cetera (both ideas by Christos Zoulas).
1149 - Bugfix for the ~@ tilde-escape in non-interactive mode.
1150 (readtty(): quick shot: work in pipelines (on non-TTY).., 2013-01-25)
1151 introduced the possibility to "read data from the terminal" (STDIN
1152 that is) in non-interactive mode.
1153 The manual documents that attachment input must be terminated with an
1154 empty line, but if that had been omitted, as in the example below, we
1155 would have yet entered an endless loop.
1157 $ cat <<_EOT | /s-nail -~ -s boom ./OUT
1163 - Alias expansion will now be performed for members of Reply-To: fields
1166 - Decoding quoted-printable will now be more relaxed.
1167 (Even though the standard says that users should be given a hint when
1168 input is not absolutely clean; a possible warning will be added later,
1169 when we have an error message ring.)
1171 - New option: *mimetypes-load-control* can be used to control which of
1172 the mime.types resources will be loaded.
1174 - The builtin default mime.types have been extended a bit.
1179 I want to give prominence to the following people that helped to
1180 improve S-nail(1) during this development cycle, in order of
1181 appearance: John Dodson, Gianluca Ramunno, and Anon Ymous from the
1187 - Encoding defaults to *quoted-printable* not *8bit*.
1188 This has no technical background except that i think it's the better
1191 - Small progress for the "getting stuck due to the current folder
1192 becomes inaccessible due to whatever reasons" problem.
1193 (schdir(): realpath() local files before leaving CWD.., 2013-01-08)
1195 - The names of temporary files have changed. Whereas not all uses of
1196 temporary files already use really meaningful names, it has yet become
1197 possible to use the pattern "*mail-*"; or, to be compatible with
1198 NetBSD Mail(1) in one go, "*mail*". (E.g., in my ~/.vimrc you'd read:
1199 :au BufRead,BufNewFile *mutt*,*mail* setl fenc= | setf mail
1200 [the *mutt* is a leftover from times when i've used MUAs that suck].)
1205 - The Quoted-Printable MIME handling has been rewritten completely.
1206 We now correctly encode files with the MS-DOS newline sequence (CRLF).
1207 (Part of the *mime-cte* topic branch.)
1209 S-nail(1) continues to be able to handle text messages and text
1210 attachments without a trailing newline, but because these
1211 Content-Transfer-Encoding related things are now handled by the C-T-E
1212 layer instead of by sendout.c a text message body that comes in as
1213 part of a complete message via the -t command line option will loose
1214 the missing final newline (i.e., it'll gain one).
1215 This problem does *not* occur when *only* the message body comes in
1216 via STDIN, as in 'cat FILE | s-nail', but *only* when the -t option is
1218 (sendout.c: does no(t/ longer) know about CTE internals!, 2013-02-09)
1220 - Filename arguments for -a are now processed *after* all the resource
1221 files have been loaded etc., so that the usual "folder" specifics can
1222 be used (provided that proper care for shell quoting was taken).
1223 ((main(): delay -a processing.., 2013-01-10), as a part of the
1224 *mainaflags* topic branch.)
1226 - (d38c5bd, When the write command asks.., 2004-11-23) added support
1227 for pipes when saving attachments during a "write" command.
1228 It however used the wrong SIGPIPE signal handler; e.g.:
1230 Enter filename for part 2 (application/x-gzip): |exit
1233 Of course, it still performs a jump and that most likely leaves memory
1234 chunks behind, thus causing some memory leaks. This will be
1235 a long-term problem (you may want to read [mime.c:fwrite_td(): TODO
1236 notes on unfixable leaks, 2013-01-14] for more).
1237 (send.c:sendpart(): fix longjmp() SIGSEGV.., 2013-01-29)
1239 - Fixed a name quoting regression that i've introduced in
1240 (Rewrite *extract().., 2012-10-20), that would have caused
1241 "x \"y\" z" to become "x"y" z" instead of "x "y" z".
1242 (S-nail still does not really have RFC compliant parsers, just as
1243 NetBSD Mail(1) has, i.e., there are structured and unstructured fields
1244 etc... I hope i can provide them in v15.0.)
1245 (names.c:yankname(): fix quote regression.., 2013-01-29)
1247 - The IDNA conversion now assumes domain names are specified in
1248 *ttycharset*, rather than in the LC_CTYPE locale charset.
1249 I.e., it integrates into the usual character set specifications.
1250 (IDNA: honour *ttycharset* for domain names, 2013-01-18)
1252 - The new *editalong* variable will automatically spawn an editor when
1253 composing a mail in interactive mode, just as if `~e' was given.
1254 (Add new *editalong* variable, 2012-01-07)
1256 - The manual has been converted to mdoc.
1257 (The manual has been converted to mdoc, 2012-12-28)
1259 - The ~@ tilde escape, when given filename arguments, will treat the
1260 arguments as a comma-separated instead of a whitespace-separated list.
1261 (collect: change separator of ~@ tilde escape.., 2012-12-28)
1263 The interactive mode of ~@ has also been changed, rather massively.
1264 Please do reread what the manual says.
1265 ((collect: support multiple attachment charsets.., 2013-01-23), as
1266 part of the *attach* topic branch.)
1268 - Thanks to Gianluca Ramunno (ramunno DOT gianluca AT gmail DOT com)
1269 S-Nail will no longer try to issue a STARTTLS command when it is about
1270 to establish a SMTPS connection, a task that logically fails since the
1271 connection is already secured.
1272 (Interestingly the nail codebase performs the necessary test for IMAP
1274 While here the undocumented nail v11.0 *smtp-use-tls* legacy option
1276 (Fix SMPTS with a set *smtp-use-starttls*.., 2012-12-22)
1278 - The RFC 4155 compliant MBOX quoting is now exclusively used, the
1279 shitty *posix-mbox* variable has been removed again.
1280 (Shitty because i've implemented RFC 4155 compliant MBOX quoting and
1281 tested it, then added *posix-mbox* for those who liked the old
1282 behaviour and did not re-test -- the final code path was buggy.)
1284 In mails newly created and saved by S-nail(1) no From_ quoting at all
1285 will be used no more, but instead the rewritten MIME file classifier
1286 will detect unquoted From_ lines and enforce quoted-printable encoding.
1287 (This is an approach that is S/MIME compatible all through the way as
1288 the file data is not modified at all, but only encoded, so that the
1289 data checksum is not changed.)
1291 In yet existent mails that S-nail copies or moves around without
1292 reclassification an RFC 4155 compliant From_ line detector will apply
1293 MBOXO quoting (prepend a single '>') as necessary.
1294 Different to the old MBOXRD behaviour S-nail will neither quote yet
1295 quoted From_ lines ('>>From xy' -> '>>>From xy') nor will it unquote
1296 one quote level when reading etc. mails ('>> From xy' -> '>From xy').
1297 As a result the code could be simplified.
1299 This changeset also incorporates a fix for NetBSD PR bin/47453, as
1300 reported by Martin Brandenburg. I.e., some mailers, noticeably
1301 UW-imap (with MBX format only?), use non-compliant From_ lines with
1302 RFC 822 date specifications. Be aware of 'em.
1303 (RFC 4155 MBOX, and drop *posix-mbox* and foldergets().., 2013-01-06)
1305 - *rfc822-show-all* has been removed.
1306 It didn't work properly for more complex MIME structures, like
1307 message/rfc822 messages with attachments etc., just as i've seen today
1308 on the file(1) mailing list.
1309 So, instead of hacking it now i've dropped it and will come back with
1310 a better solution when the MIME and send layers have been overhauled.
1311 I.e., the real intent was to be able to specify that an embedded
1312 message/rfc822 is treated as a *unity*, and that's the goal.
1313 (Drop *rfc822-show-all*, 2013-01-23)
1314 [The manual will be adjusted in a different commit.]
1316 - *rfc822-no-body-from_* has been renamed to *rfc822-body-from_*.
1317 It thus must be set explicitly.
1318 On the other hand it now catches all cases...
1319 (*rfc822-no-body-from_* -> *rfc822-body-from_*, 2013-01-23)
1320 [The manual will be adjusted in a different commit.]
1322 - The new *charset-7bit* (defaults to US-ASCII) and *charset-8bit*
1323 (defaults to UTF-8) have been introduced.
1324 These are used if seven bit clean data is to be sent, and no
1325 *sendcharsets* are set or the convertion of all of them failed,
1328 - There is no functional change unless there is iconv(3) support.
1329 - There is no functional change unless you set them.
1330 (Introduce *charset-8bit* and *charset-7bit* variables.., 2013-01-18)
1331 [The manual will be adjusted in a different commit.]
1333 In addition the new *sendcharsets-else-ttycharset* variable can now
1334 be used to automatically use *ttycharset* as a *sendcharset(s)*,
1335 regardless of the new *charset-8bit* variable.
1336 (Add *sendcharsets-else-ttycharset* variable, 2013-01-24)
1337 [The manual will be adjusted in a different commit.]
1339 NOTE: before we apply charset conversion we now perform a string
1340 comparison to see wether character sets are identical. If the strings
1341 match (case-insensitively), then *no* conversion is performed.
1342 This means that code like
1344 $ printf "LATIN1: \0376" | s-nail -Ssendcharsets= -s boom ./out.txt
1346 *succeeds* in an UTF-8 environment now, whereas older versions would
1347 fail with an "illegal byte sequence" error (unless the iconv(3)
1348 library of the system would not perform any conversion that seems
1349 superflous, of course).
1351 I thought about making this optional, but, in fact, if this would be
1352 done in an environment without iconv(3) support then the result would
1353 be equally corrupt. And the way it is now we save the expensive and
1354 superflous conversions. (See TODO for more.)
1356 Please *do* reread the manual section "Character sets".
1357 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1359 - An attempt was made to improve MIME Content-XY: detection.
1360 It should be more RFC compliant, and just overall better :);
1361 a simple one-pass classifier cannot match libmagic(3), of course.
1363 This changeset removes support of the long obsoleted (4fee1ef,
1364 2005-01-06) *charset* variable, as well as for the
1365 *maximum-unencoded-line-length* variable that has been introduced in
1366 (48a652bd, 2005-07-26).
1368 For S-nail v14.0 it'll be no longer necessary to do
1370 $ tr -d '\015' < input | s-nail ...
1372 to transport files which use the $-DOS (terminal) newline (sequence).
1373 We still depend upon *sendcharsets* for a while, though.
1374 (Rewrite file-content classification.., 2013-01-02)
1376 - The new *mime-counter-evidence* variable can be used to force
1377 a classification of non-text MIME parts (attachments) by their
1378 filename, i.e., a "reverse-classification" just as would be performed
1379 if S-nail(1) would itself *send* the file(name). This can help
1380 against some stupid MUAs (Apple Mail?) that send .diff etc. files as
1381 `application/octet-stream' parts etc.
1383 At a later time this may become a valued option, causing a temporary
1384 save of unnamed attachments followed by a MIME classification of the
1385 file contents, followed by forced treatment as plain text if it seems
1386 to be human readable. But not yet. Just to warn you.
1387 (Add *mime-counter-evidence* variable.., 2012-12-29)
1389 - The special "pipe-" command "@" can be used to force treatment of
1390 a MIME message part as plain text (e.g.,
1391 'set pipe-application/pgp-signature=@' will henceforth print those
1392 signatures inline and as plain text).
1393 (Introduce the special "@" "pipe-" command, 2012-12-27)
1395 - The MIME types (as from mime.types(5)) will now be cached. Before
1396 all possible sources would have been opened, read and parsed for each
1397 and every message part that required detection of the MIME
1399 The new "mimetypes" command can be used to show or clear that cache.
1400 (Add mime.types(5) cache.., 2012-12-27)
1402 - A small set of MIME types (template: ./mime.types) will now become
1403 compiled into S-nail(1), and be used as a fallback if there are no
1404 ~/.mime.types and/or no /etc/mime.types, or those didn't contain
1405 a matching type. E.g., NetBSD 6 doesn't ship a default database.
1406 Also, file extensions will be matched case-insensitively (case of
1407 attribute values is not specified afaik?).
1408 (Introduce compiled-in mime.types(5).., 2012-12-21)
1410 - The undocumented *charset7* variable was removed.
1412 - The "Message X:" display leader has been changed and will henceforth
1413 be matchable via "^[-- Message \d+ -- \d+ lines, \d+ bytes --]:$".
1414 These lines can no longer be suppressed by setting the *quiet*
1415 option (which was yet possible for print and top, though undocumented).
1416 (Change "Message X:" display message.., 2012-12-20)
1418 - When displaying multipart messages the "Part X:" introductional string
1419 has been changed; if the Content-type: header is not *retain*ed, then
1420 this string will include the part's type and size. Ditto for
1421 Content-disposition: and a mentioned attachment filename.
1422 This is a first step only, for the final version the MIME and send
1423 layers will have to be adjusted. But the string will be matchable via
1424 a "^[-- #.* --]$" regular expression from now on.
1425 (Change "Part X:" display message.., 2012-12-20)
1427 - MIME boundaries in multipart messages are now handled better in that
1428 no boundary string should get through to the display.
1429 (Tweak MIME boundary detection.., 2012-12-20)
1431 - A couple of long standing, even pre-Heirloom mailx(1) memory leaks and
1432 segmentation violations, most of them related to configurations
1433 without alloca(3) support, as well as one leak that i have introduced
1434 when i implemented RFC 4155 MBOX handling, have been fixed.
1435 But S-nail should now survive non-alloca(3) configurations.
1436 (*memtracer* topic branch.)
1438 - The Base64 MIME handling has been rewritten completely.
1439 This was an urgent topic, because the old implementation (a) read in
1440 all lines of a base64 encoded text part, repeatedly resizing a string
1441 storage and repeatedly decoding that string until all the lines have
1442 been swallowed (i.e., or by accident the last decoded byte was
1443 a newline character, and that in turn may of course have fucked up for
1444 multi-octet encodings, dependent on the actual byte-order), (b) used
1445 function local static data to keep state in between multiple
1446 invocations, which messed up multi-byte/-octet encodings like this
1448 �5��ɽ���Aɥ����́��٥��������[lots of data follows]
1450 and (c) did not perform any error checking at all.
1451 The new one does not run into the problem that (a) tried to circumvent
1452 since leftover decoded data (as opposed to leftover *encoded* data) is
1453 transported along the call-chain for later use. It adds a minimal set
1454 of error handling ('may now see "[Invalid Base64 encoding ignored]"),
1455 with more to become possible in later S-nail versions when the entire
1456 layers are reworked. (Until then DOS newline sequences [CRLF]
1457 embedded into base64 will no longer be decoded to Unix LF newlines.)
1458 Base64 encoded lines will now be 76 characters long, as stated (as
1459 a maximum value) in RFC 2045, not 72 as before.
1461 The Base64 code core has been shamelessly stolen from NetBSD's
1462 Mail(1), and i guess it was the second time that this happened :=).
1463 (*base64-rewrite* topic branch; and reworked later on the *mime-cte*
1466 - The string allocation strategy has been tweaked some more to, i think,
1467 a final version (regarding algorithm).
1468 In normal non-interactive send mode it should now no longer need any
1469 dynamic memory at all (unless some dozen recipients are specified).
1470 (Several other places still use normal dynamic memory, of course.)
1471 (*dope-stringdope-again* topic branch.)
1473 - Support for NSS (Network Security Services) has been removed.
1474 I've never worked with it and are, regarding the complexity of
1475 network security, not willing to spend any time on it.
1476 SSL is installed on all systems i'm using and/or testing on by
1477 default, and so i've choosen to go this way.
1478 (It may be that sometime in the future S-nail will add support for
1479 libcurl(3) connectivity, and then it may happen that not only NSS
1480 support is reintroduced again, but also GNU TLS. All of that applies
1481 to network connectivity only, however, not to S/MIME afaik.)
1482 (*drop-nss-support* topic branch.)
1484 - I finally got a glue and understood that Sourceforge does (a) not
1485 support symbolic links and (b) doesn't like dots as regular parts of
1486 filenames. This means that all this time the promised s-nail.tar.gz
1487 symbolic link did not work, and that s-nailv13.3.tar.gz wasn't
1488 accessible either (via the web interface).
1489 In the future S-nail(1) will not provide any more symbolic links (the
1490 Sourceforge website offers a "download latest" thing which seems to
1491 work), and use underscores in filenames -- s-nailv13.3.tar.gz has been
1492 renamed to s-nailv13_3.tar.gz. The tags continue to use dot notation.
1495 - The *heirloom-plus* support branch has been removed.
1496 The code bases diverged a lot and even more to come.
1497 It doesn't make sense to put any effort in that.
1502 - Configuration on UnixWare 7.1.4 will succeed (shell issue fixed).
1504 - Even on DragonFly BSD the IMAP GSSAPI is now found
1505 (in /usr/pkg/include/krb5/gssapi/gssapi.h).
1507 - Support for pkgsrc(7) systems and automatic integration of
1508 C_INCLUDE_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH path configurations.
1511 - Fixes a mortally embarassing regression that the current maintainer
1512 introduced before i really knew what i was doing, in (If *record* is
1513 set, avoid writing dead content twice.., 2012-09-14).
1514 It hit users that send through a MTA and have *record* set; in this
1515 combination data would not have reached the MTA.
1516 Interested parties may read the comment in savedeadletter() (part of
1517 the changeset) or the (Fix MTA/*record* descriptor clash..,
1518 2012-11-10) commit log.
1520 Deepest apologies to tortured users from the current maintainer!
1522 - RFC 4155 compatible MBOX file handling has been introduced, and so
1523 S-nail is now on par with (at least) NetBSD Mail in respect to this.
1524 It can be turned off with the new *posix-mbox* variable, which you may
1525 need to use since not all MUAs are capable to dig those MBOX files.
1526 E.g., less cutting-edge (.-) MUAs fail for this:
1528 |From - Thu May 10 20:40:54 2012
1529 |Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:48:30 +0100
1530 |To: super@duper.com
1535 |From - Thu May 10 20:40:54 2012
1536 |Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:48:30 +0100
1537 |To: super@duper.com
1540 |>From - Thu May 10 20:40:54 2012
1541 |From - Thu May 10 20:40:54 2012
1543 I'm not completely happy since S-nail *does* still quote those lines,
1544 how rare they may be -- it *does* modify message content. mutt(1)
1545 implements something more clever and that is quoted-printable encoding
1546 of the "F" from "From", when seen at the beginning of a line.
1547 This, when applied to just *any* "^From", will be a non-modifying and
1548 all-compatible solution.
1550 - SEND_MBOX handling has been changed to discard any Content-Length: and
1551 Lines: headers when it rewrites a message by default.
1552 I know that mutt(1) generates them (why, after
1553 http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html?).
1554 Anyway, S-nail does neither use nor manage them, so that any
1555 modification renders those fields invalid, and then it seems best to
1556 discard them anyway.
1557 You may turn the new behaviour off with *keep-content-length*.
1562 The problem was that i really wanted to release on a 25th.
1563 But i have been able to improve S-nail(1) some more, so that this is
1564 possibly the first real release of it. So i'll add only things that
1565 have changed since v13 -- please see below for the complete picture.
1567 - A new CONFIG=CUSTOM make directive was added, and the new user.conf
1568 variables WANT_SCORE and WANT_DOCSTRINGS have been added. It is
1569 possible to create a floating-point free S-nail(1) now.
1572 - If a feature is disabled not even functions stubs should remain now.
1574 - Many places which will work only with local filenames do now actually
1575 check that the target is a local filename.
1577 - Space-separated lists should work again, at a few places at least.
1579 - Tilde commands will be possible, even with -r.
1581 - The *sendmail-progname* has been added after NetBSD 6 dropped the
1582 send-mail entry in mailer.conf(5), which broke S-nail(1). Now users
1585 - When editing messages via ~e or ~v file and pipe addressees will no
1588 - If recipients occur multiple times spread over lists, i.e., To:, Cc:,
1589 Bcc:, then only one occurrence remains, and in the "highest-order"
1592 - The "list" command prints the list alphabetically sorted (somewhat).
1594 - The "help" and "?" commands take an optional argument that shows
1595 a synopsis string for the given command (unless WANT_DOCSTRINGS was
1598 - String allocations are now more efficient. The situation can still be
1599 improved. However, for the first time Berkeley Mail(1) integrates
1600 harmonically into the system allocator, which may madvise(2) unused
1601 memory to the operating system as necessary and/or possible!
1606 Well, a version number 13 is anyway an ugly thing...
1608 commit 4f534bb33b7c911272cc66a0e3a9e47b73ad8deb
1609 Date: 2012-10-25 20:46:07 +0200
1611 FIX MIME quoted-printable encoding (char cast)..
1616 Well, one of the things that have already been started in v13 is
1617 the turn from using "int" when working with 8-bit characters to
1618 "unsigned char" (and as long as we do not support wide
1621 Unfortunately one very important piece of code, that is handling
1622 encoding to quoted-printable, still used integer instead of
1623 unsigned char, which caused an automatic extension cast to take
1624 place, and that resulted in a messed up output.
1630 I want to give prominence to the following people that helped to improve
1631 S-nail(1) during this development cycle, in order of appearance: Martin
1632 Neitzel, Ezequiel Garzón, Björn Persson, Paul Vojta, and, especially,
1633 John Dodson for warm words from beautiful Australia! Many thanks also
1636 After i've officially forked nail(1) aka Heirloom mailx(1) as S-nail(1)
1637 on 2012-09-18 i have been able to work five weeks almost fulltime on
1638 S-nail(1) development. The first three weeks can be characterized as
1639 hectic fireworks here and there, but then it got better and i was able
1640 to work more or less topic-centric. In the meanwhile S-nail(1) is more
1641 than 230 commits away from the Heirloom base--and drifting further apart.
1643 S-nail(1) v13 is the first release of S-nail(1), but it was forked from
1644 Heirloom mailx(1) 12.5 7/5/10 that arose from Berkeley Mail 8. unless
1645 i'm mistaken. What characterizes S-nail(1) v13?
1647 - The build system has been reworked almost completely.
1648 It is possible to fine-tune which features should be present in the
1649 binary and which don't. The name of the binary can be chosen, and
1650 that choice is reflected all through the manual and the template
1651 resource file. The manual is always complete and thus may document
1652 features that are not supported by the actual binary, though.
1653 Please see INSTALL for more.
1655 - Compiler warnings can now be used. Please see the example WARN= flags
1656 in the Makefile, but '-Wall -Wextra -pedantic' should be silent though
1657 certainly insufficient to reflect the complex work of modern compilers.
1659 - The following recipient address list combines some of the major
1660 improvements that have been made:
1662 <addr1@cdröm.de> (bier) , ./file1,
1663 Steffen Smöregäs (Humbabä) <sauer@bäüer.de> (Hummpäa) ,
1664 sabberlot@träbbel.de , (bier2) <a2@bür2.de> ,
1665 a3@b3.de (bier3) , <a4@b4.de> (bier4, und \"bier5\") ,
1666 |cat > pipe1 , (bier 6) <a6@bür6.de> , ./file2 ,
1667 (co\$mm1) abc1@düf.de (cö,bmm,2) (co\"m\"m.3) ,
1668 co\$bmm1 \"c,ömm2\" co\"m\"m.3 <abc2@däf2.de> , |cat > pipe2 ,
1671 That, on a single line, may be given to ":m" or (quoted) on the
1672 command line, or to "~c" or whatever, and it will work as expected
1673 (well, everything else would be a bug..) and result in the following
1674 sendmail(1) invocation:
1677 <-i a2@xn--br2-hoa.de a3@b3.de a4@b4.de a6@xn--br6-hoa.de abc1@xn--df-xka.de abc2@xn--df2-qla.de addr1@xn--cdrm-7qa.de moppel@xn--hppel-jua.org sabberlot@xn--trbbel-cua.de sauer@xn--ber-qla4j.de>
1679 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:12:15 +0200
1681 Cc: Steffen =?utf-8?Q?Sm=C3=B6reg=C3=A4s?=
1682 =?utf-8?Q?_(Humbab=C3=A4)?= <sauer@xn--ber-qla4j.de> (=?utf-8?Q?Hummp=C3=A4a?=),
1683 sabberlot@xn--trbbel-cua.de, moppel@xn--hppel-jua.org,
1684 <addr1@xn--cdrm-7qa.de> (bier),
1685 co$bmm1 =?utf-8?Q?"c,=C3=B6mm2"?= co"m"m.3 <abc2@xn--df2-qla.de>,
1686 (co$mm1) abc1@xn--df-xka.de (=?utf-8?Q?c=C3=B6,bmm,2?=) (co"m"m.3),
1687 (bier 6) <a6@xn--br6-hoa.de>, <a4@b4.de> (bier4, und "bier5"),
1688 a3@b3.de (bier3), (bier2) <a2@xn--br2-hoa.de>
1689 Subject: Re: SubjectTest
1691 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
1692 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
1697 So list parsing has been fixed, IDNA support has been added, and it is
1698 possible to mix pipe and file recipients *and* multiple thereof, and
1699 the result is still correct for *all* of them.
1700 I think this kind of list can be given wherever a user can directly
1701 enter such a list. And i think all that is unique to S-nail(1).
1703 - When writing back edited messages the target MBOX mailbox can no
1704 longer become "corrupted" when the trailing newline was removed during
1705 the edit. Also affected FreeBSD and NetBSD mail(1).
1707 - A security fix for CVE-2011-2895 was applied.
1709 - The generated Message-Id: is now more human-friendly.
1711 - The -h command line option has been dropped. Use "-O -h XY" if your
1712 MTA really supports that.
1714 - The -O and -r command line options no longer enforce a one-shot send
1715 mode, and instead persist for the duration of the entire session.
1717 - Variables set via the -S command line option are now (un)set twice;
1718 immediately and after all the resource files have been loaded.
1720 - Other new or changed options/commands, in order of appearance:
1721 recipients-in-cc, smime-sign-include-certs, quote-fold, stealthmua,
1722 add-file-recipients, write, rfc822-no-body-from_, rfc822-show-all,
1723 mail/Mail, idna-disable, idna-strict-checks, ??
1725 - In the codebase itself an effort to reduce duplicate work and
1726 introduce caching, and to minimize the use of local variables, was
1727 started, but that is long term. A lot of improvements here and there,
1728 too, like using the well MD5 optimization from Wei Dai, Chris Torek's
1729 hash algorithm for hash tables etc.
1731 - Incredibly important: an heraldic animal was found: snailmail.jpg!
1733 The full history can be inspected by issuing the git(1) command
1735 $ git log --reverse s-nail..s-nailv13
1737 A new TODO has been introduced, and it is getting longer and longer.