3 Release 0.4.31 - June 23, 2017
6 Release 0.4.30 - November 30, 2016
9 Release 0.4.29 - July 19, 2016
12 Release 0.4.28 - November 7, 2014
13 * Lots of bug fixes and code cleanup.
15 Release 0.4.27 - October 8, 2005
19 Release 0.4.26 - October 10, 2004
20 * Don't crash if no certificate is sent by the remote side
21 and -skip-certificate-check has been given.
22 * Avoid duplicate error messages.
23 * Disable libgcrypt secure memory warning.
24 * security.debian.rb: better when disconnected.
26 Release 0.4.25 - June 23, 2004
27 * Fix a build error in the new gnutls certificate
28 verification code on s390.
30 Release 0.4.24 - June 22, 2004
31 * Use GNUTLS 1.0.4 and GCRYPT 1.1.90, current Debian
32 unstable package libgnutls10-dev.
34 Release 0.4.23 - April 27, 2004
35 * Allow server hostnames in IMAP to be IP addresses
36 (start with a number).
38 Release 0.4.22 - March 27, 2004
39 * Skip examine/search unless requested with msglst option.
40 * Exit if ssh-askpass permissions check fails.
42 Release 0.4.21 - February 21, 2004
43 * Fix a bug where fetch times out to some IMAP servers.
45 Release 0.4.20 - January 1, 2004
46 * Add --disable-crypto for source-based distributions
47 while libgcrypt is unstable.
48 * Sam Izzo's patch for changing the mouse click action
49 depending on whether a box has new mail.
51 Release 0.4.19 - November 8, 2003
52 * Fix test_tlscomm with the right signature for read()
53 * Another bugfix to IMAP msglst when headers are abnormal.
54 * Avoid strcpy for overlapping regions.
56 Release 0.4.18 - November 8, 2003
57 * Update security.debian.rb for ruby 1.8.
58 * Bugfix to avoid infinite loop when reading from IMAP.
59 * Bugfix to msglst to allow capitalized header names.
60 * Add msglst feature to Pop3 mailboxes. (Paolo Gianrossi)
61 * Bugfix to OS X keychain use for panther.
63 Release 0.4.17 - August 31, 2003
64 * On Mac, ask the keychain for passwords if
65 askpass = internal:apple:keychain
66 * Bugfix to an infinite loop found in the
69 Release 0.4.16 - July 7, 2003
70 * Checks TLS certificates. See wmbiffrc(5) for
71 details on the certfile option. Designed to work
73 * Show a busy mouse cursor while talking to remote
74 servers, to show that wmbiff won't be responsive
75 to mouse clicks for a little bit.
76 * New buttontwo (middle click) action to complement
77 action (left mouse click) and fetchcmd (right mouse).
78 * #'s are now only comments in .wmbiffrc at the
79 beginning of lines or following whitespace,
80 allowing #'s in (most) passwords.
81 * AppleScript examples for driving Apple's Mail
82 application in sample.wmbiffrc
83 * Special mailbox action 'msglst' brings up a
84 transient window showing message headers from IMAP
85 and program output for shell methods. This is
86 intended to be faster than starting up a new
87 mail program or re-executing a script.
88 * Avoid repetitive error messages when disconnected.
89 * Use conventional -geometry option handling.
90 * Fix bug in 0.4.15 to re-enable *'s in IMAP passwords.
92 Release 0.4.15 - Mar 30, 2003
93 * Frobnicate internally stored passwords, partially
94 obfuscating them in memory. Not actually more
95 secure, but harder to casually discover a password.
96 * Tighten configuration file lines to more quickly
97 detect misconfiguration. Add the -relax option if
99 * Add support for -bg to round out -hi and -fg color
102 Release 0.4.14 - Jan 24, 2003
103 * Handle building on systems with both posix and gnu
104 regex in different but conflicting files.
105 * Restart wmbiff on SIGUSR1. You may need to use
106 'killall -USR1 wmbiff' if it gets stuck.
107 * Restart wmbiff on ctrl-shift mouse 1.
109 Release 0.4.13 - Jan 20, 2003
110 * Fix a file descriptor leak when using
111 both Shell and IMAP clients.
112 * Portability to Mac OS X, Solaris, and probably BSD
113 restored (thanks sourceforge compile farm!) with a
114 partial rewrite of regular expression handling for
115 IMAP and POP mailboxes.
117 Release 0.4.12 - Jan 3, 2003
118 * Fix a bug introduced in 0.4.9 that interfered with
119 -geometry handling. (Debian #173813)
121 Release 0.4.11 - Dec 28, 2002
122 * security.debian.rb script to check for updates on
123 security.debian.org, installed in $prefix/lib/wmbiff/
124 add: path.x=/usr/lib/wmbiff/security.debian.rb to
125 your .wmbiffrc (and install ruby if you haven't already).
126 * Internal cleanups to allow long askpass commands.
128 Release 0.4.10 - Dec 12, 2002
129 * Peter McAlpine's globalnotify feature - elect to play a
130 sound on new mail in *any* mailbox without a chorus of
131 sounds from every mailbox.
132 * -skip-certificate-check option for when your imaps server
133 is misconfigured and you can't do anything about it.
135 Release 0.4.9 - Dec 1, 2002
136 * GNUTLS v0.5.9 or higher required
137 * Check TLS certificate hostname against the hostname we're
138 connecting to. This raises the bar, but does not make
139 wmbiff's TLS implementation secure against man in the
141 * WMBiff scales to the number of mailboxes you're
142 using. For openbox, this means less wasted space in the
143 slit and the possibility of up to 40 mailboxes. For
144 WindowMaker, this means more pretty chrome and less dark
145 LED if you have only a couple boxes. If you prefer the empty
146 cells at the end, place "path.4=<space><space>" in your
149 Release 0.4.8 - Sept 18, 2002
150 * GNUTLS v0.5.1-0.5.6, gcrypt v1.1.8 required.
151 * Allow spaces in IMAP mailbox paths. The new syntax is:
152 server/"mail box with spaces" where the old is server/mailbox.
153 See wmbiffrc(5) for details.
154 * Avoid filesystem caching for network mounted maildirs.
155 See wmbiffrc(5) for details. (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
157 Release 0.4.7 - August 16, 2002
158 * GNUTLS v0.5.1, gcrypt v1.1.8 required. (no other changes)
160 Release 0.4.6 - July 19, 2002
161 * Ignore sigpipe so that apm suspend works with IMAP/TLS.
162 * Memory handling bugfixes to appease valgrind.
163 * GNUTLS v0.4.3, gcrypt v1.17 expected
165 Release 0.4.4 - June 27, 2002
166 * GNUTLS version 0.4.3 required. The API has changed, and
167 wmbiff is no longer compatible with GNUTLS versions prior
168 to 0.4.3. Certificate checking may be slightly more strict.
169 * GCRYPT version 1.1.7 is expected as well.
170 * Partial rewrite of mailbox-parsing code, splint annotations.
171 * Bugfix in debug messages of ShellClient.
172 * Internal cleanups; migration to autoconf 2.5
174 Release 0.4.3 - June 8, 2002
175 * IPv6 support for real. (missed a detail with autoconf)
176 * Preliminary font support, allowing variable colors. Use
177 wmbiff -fg violet to give it a spin. Note: if the number of
178 old messages is at least 1000, the old number of messages
179 will not be completely erased when new mail arrives.
180 * Mouse handling fix.
181 * Cleanup of internals: handling of default configuration when
182 .wmbiffrc does not exist, vertical position of rows, variable
184 * GNUTLS version 0.3.5 is expected; earlier and later versions
186 * This release is by Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu>.
188 Release 0.4.2 - June 1, 2002
189 * Bugfix: accidentally released a partial feature.
191 Release 0.4.1 - June 1, 2002
193 * This release is by Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu>.
194 * GNUTLS version 0.3.5 is expected; earlier and later versions
196 * IPv6 is now supported, thanks to Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
198 Release 0.4.0 - May 3, 2002
200 * This release is by Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu>.
201 * GNUTLS version 0.3.5 is expected; earlier and later versions
203 * askpass: Passwords can be left empty for IMAP: ssh-askpass
204 will be used to prompt the user. See sample.wmbiffrc
206 * skinfile: Background pixmaps can be specified in .wmbiffrc.
207 This has the effect of "skins." See wmbiffrc(5).
208 Add "skinfile=wmbiff-master-contrast.xpm" to .wmbiffrc
209 for a more readable wmbiff.
210 * finger: Finger client added - finger a user's mailbox to get its
211 status. Requires perl and finger commands. See wmbiffrc(5).
212 Thanks to Andelko Horvat.
213 * shell: Improvements to ShellClient - now allows three character
214 text to be printed as status. If "new" is on the output
215 line, the text will be in yellow. Thanks to Andelko Horvat.
216 * mbox: Paths can be specified including shell expressions
217 in `'s. If requested, this feature can be expanded to other
218 clients. Nested expressions are not supported.
219 * Permissions on .wmbiffrc are checked to protect security.
220 Only a warning is printed now. This will degenerate in
221 later releases for .wmbiffrc's that store passwords.
222 * Migrated to automake / autoconf to detect defaults for
223 ssh-askpass and prepare for future changes.
224 * Bugfix to handle -geometry tags with dimension as generated
225 by fvwmSaveDesk. The size is ignored. (in Debian 0.3.8-3)
227 Release 0.3.8 - Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:17:07 +0100
229 * Added GnomeICU support.
230 * Added an experimental shell command method which reads the output
231 for a given command. See wmbiffrc(5) for details.
232 * Debug support moved to runtime, using the -debug switch.
233 * Fix for the install rule in Makefile.
235 Release 0.3.7 - Sun, 3 Feb 2002 23:46:44 +0100
237 * No, 0.3.6 never happened :)
238 * Removed unneeded auth list fix which broke things.
239 * Makefile cleanup, with better FreeBSD support. You can now easily
240 use the external GNU regex lib.
242 Release 0.3.6 - Sun, 27 Jan 2002 20:49:52 +0100
244 * Added a new syntax for IMAP, which allows using a "@" in
245 the password field. See wmbiffrc(5) for details.
246 * Fix for a correct usage of the auth list in IMAP.
248 Release 0.3.5 - Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:43:23 +0100
250 * Added support for GNUtls 0.3. You can still compile wmbiff using
251 GNUtls 0.2.x by removing the GNUTLS_VER=3 define in the Makefile.
252 * Fixed password quoting in IMAP logins.
254 Release 0.3.4 - Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:56:29 +0100
256 * "imaps" is now prefered to "sslimap" in config files. The old type
257 is still supported for backwards compatibility.
258 * You can now specify what protocol wmbiff should use for a given Pop3
259 or IMAP mailbox. If unspecified, it will try the secure ones first,
260 falling back to unsecure if they fail. See wmbiffrc(5).
261 * Added some debug messages for tls connections.
262 * Pop3 path parsing rewrite.
264 * Compile warning fixes.
266 Release 0.3.3 - Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:55:00 +0100
268 * Sanity check to IMAP code: exit if wmbiff tries to connect to more
270 * Fix a missbehaviour of cram-md5 (broke pop3).
271 * Documentation updates.
273 Release 0.3.2 - Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:30:37 +0200
275 * After some tries (other OpenSSL based patches, independent APOP
276 & CRAM-Md5 patches) we've come up with something based on GNUtls and
277 gcrypt, which are GPL based and have no licensing issues for us.
278 See ChangeLog for details.
279 * WMBiff now supports IMAP-SSL, APOP and CRAM-Md5 authentication. These
280 can be disabled at compile time, commenting out the WITH_TLS and
281 WITH_GCRYPT defines. (Neil Spring, NAKAYAMA Takao and Jay T. Francis).
283 Release 0.3.1 - Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:15:41 +0200
285 * Replaced /var/spool/mail with /var/mail, which is what the FHS mandates.
286 All decent systems should have either the directory or a symlink pointing
287 somewhere else. (Jordi Mallach)
288 * I reformatted ths changelog, again. I hope this is the last time I need
289 to do this. The CVS logs should be used for all changes, and this file
290 should by updated for user-visible changes only, from now on.
291 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
292 * Updated the README to reflect that Gennady Belyakov died right after
293 releasing wmBiff 0.2. May your soul rest in peace, Gennady.
294 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
295 * Fixed the IMAP support, again. (Rob Funk)
298 Release 0.3.0 - Fri, 16 May 2001 12:16:44 +0200
300 * [ReadLine] removed previous trim leading spaces, added TrimFull. Fixes
301 Debian Bug #95849 (Mark Hurley).
302 * There was a bug where if a POP3 or IMAP mailbox read failed and the
303 following reads were successful, but no mail was in the server, the given
304 mailbox would remain reading "XX". Now it updates the counter no matter
305 what the read was (Mark Hurley).
306 * wmBiff would only count as new mails in mbox mailboxes with "N" flags,
307 ignoring those marked "ON" (Rob Funk).
308 * Fixed reading of quoted imap folders, which some IMAPd's do (Rob Funk).
309 * README: updated some very obsolete info. (Jordi Mallach)
312 Release 0.2q1+Debian - Tue, 1 May 2001 10:11:00 +0000
314 * Moved to CVS at SourceForge. (Jordi Mallach)
317 Release 0.2q1 - Fri, 13 Apr 2001 02:47:10 -0400
319 * This release is by Mark Hurley <debian4tux@telocity.com>.
320 * wmbiff/Client.h: move DEBUG_* macros to wmbiff/Makefile
321 * wmbiff/Pop3Client.c:
322 + My password contains an @ character. This causes
323 the pop3 line to be incorrectly parsed by wmbiff.
324 * Drop all of the ":" after the pop3 and delimit all values with
325 spaces. This works well, as passwords/user-id's all agree that
326 the space is a non-legit value.
328 Example: assume my password is: myEmailhasa@init
331 path.3=pop3:debian4tux:myEmailhasa@init@mail.telocity.com
334 path.3=pop3:debian4tux myEmailhasa@init mail.telcoity.com
336 Ahh...before you say it. "Backward compatibility?" You will
337 also find in the patch, a NEW function. So that the OLD and
338 NEW way is easily compatible with all ".wmbiffrc" files.
341 This was not the cleanest way to implement it, but I had to
342 suffice with a clean/quick implementation. I originally wrote
343 one function to handle past and new parsing. However, I
344 thought it would be beneficial to leave them separated, so we
345 could eventually drop the old method?
348 The man page will need to be updated (not provided in patch).
349 We can weed the "old" style out of the example script as well.
350 Still explaining the changes in the man page to leave out
351 confusion in a users mind (as they are likely to find "old"
353 + My mail server at Telocity.com is following the RFC's to
354 a "T". RFC 1725 states that the LAST command be removed.
355 After some searching I have NOT turned up a replacement.
356 Which does make sense, this command is only so useful,
357 and contributes to the popularity of other such remoting
359 * I've set the Unread messages to the TotalMessages,
360 assuming (as suggested by the RFC) no messages have been
361 read. I have also suppressed the error printed to
362 stderr, it is correct to return an error, *now*. ;)
364 The only way to keep track of messages which have been
365 read, is to remember the unique number assigned to them.
366 This is what fetchmail does. However, it does not work
367 correctly if you check and read mail thru other methods
370 - for (index = 0; index < 4; index++)
371 + for (index = 0; index < 5; index++)
373 BUG! Last postion #4 was not correctly being checked.
374 Now correctly checks each position.
377 Release 0.2q - Tue, 20 Mar 2001 05:32:35 +0100
379 * This release is by Jorge García <Jorge.Garcia@uv.es>.
380 * wmbiff/{*.[ch]}: removed unnecesary includes.
381 * wmbiff/wmbiff.c: some cleanups and optimizations.
383 * show error if user config file does not exists
384 * use of userconfig "interval" (wasn't correctly parsed)
385 + {do_biff, displayMsgCounters}: some changes to make Sleep_Interval
387 + parse_cmd: some changes to make uconfig_file local
388 + {BlinkOn, BlinkOff, BlinkToogle}: Removed (merged by do_biff)
389 + {ReadConfigString, ReadConfigInt}: Removed
390 + countmail: removed init in header (wasn't used)
391 + ReadLine: Created (new parsing code, extracts pairs of setting
393 + Read_Config_File: now there is only ONE parse not 36!
394 * wmbiff/{IMap4Client.c, Pop3Client.c}: check for correct format line to
395 avoid "segmentation fault" while parsing.
398 Release 0.2p - Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:00:00 -0600
400 * This release is by Dwayne C. Litzenberger <dlitz@dlitz.net>.
401 * Added maildir support! Yay!
402 * Stole the manpages from Debian.
403 * Massive (lack of) coding style cleanup; Standardized coding style using
405 * Reversed order of ChangeLog as suggested by Jordi.
406 * Cleaned up the v0.2o ChangeLog entry. What a mess! Added missing credits.
407 * Cleaned up and reformatted the rest of the changelog to an almost-Debian
408 format while I'm at it. It's much more readable that way.
409 * Moved definition of WMBIFF_VERSION to the Makefile.
410 * All your base are belong to us.
411 * I'm not maintaining wmBiff; I just submitted a big patch. Send your
412 complaints (or complements) to Yong-iL Joh.
415 Release 0.2o - Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:00:00 +0900
417 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
418 * I don't think the date of this changelog entry is right.
419 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
420 * Jordi Mallach <jordi@sindominio.net>, Debian's wmbiff maintainer, sent
421 me an email a couple of days ago which included a patch with man pages.
422 The patch did the following:
423 + Fixed a major upstream bug that renders this new wmbiff unusable.
424 Thanks to Guillaume Morin, Jérôme Marant and Mark Hurley for their
425 help identifying the bug, and Jorge García <Jorge.Garcia@uv.es> for
426 writing a patch. Basically, the new upstream broke backwards
427 compatibility of wmbiffrc with Gennady's wmbiff, fixed that.
428 This patch also fixes wmbiff not using $MAIL or defaulting to
429 /var/spool/mail/$USER if no ~/.wmbiffrc is found (closes: #87778).
430 + wmbiff/wmbiff.c: updated WMBIFF_VERSION to current.
431 + wmbiff/{socket.c, wmbiff.c}: removed <sys/time.h> includes.
432 + debian/{wmbiff.1, wmbiffrc.5}: updated for IMAP4 and Licq support.
433 + Jorge García removed the segfault in Jordi's wmbiffrc
434 + Vladimir Popov <pva48@mail.ru> fixed a potential buffer overflow
435 in init_biff() (The "/* Make labels look right */" section).
436 + Jorge García <Jorge.Garcia@uv.es> fixed a display bug in the
437 number-of- mails display.
438 * use poll() instead of select()
440 -- Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com> 12-Mar-2001 +0900
443 Release 0.2n - Tue, 20 Feb 2001 0:00:00 +0900
445 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
446 * Nick Clarey <nclarey@3glab.com> sent me a patch.
447 that enhances the following:
448 + UW Imap server 2000.283rh
449 + Config file now supports IMAP mailbox "paths" rather than
450 just the mailbox name (e.g. mail/foo/blah)
453 Release 0.2m - Mon, 5 Feb 2001 00:00:00 +0900
455 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
456 * Imap4Client.c did not close when a connection error occurred. Fixed it.
459 Release 0.2l - Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0900
461 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
462 * Imap4Client.c had a bug when trying to connect to an imap4 server. Fixed
466 Release 0.2j - Mon, 1 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0900
468 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
469 * Because I can't contact the author, I jumped to version 0.2j
470 * Added imap4-based mail server check component.
471 * Divided wmbiff.c to wmbiff.c, LicqClient.c mboxClient.c
474 Release 0.2-licq - Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000
476 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
477 * The actual date of this release is unknown, so I picked New Year's Day,
478 Y2K. (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
479 * I found it from http://www.licq.org/download.html.
482 Release 0.2 - Fri, 26 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
484 * This release is by Gennady Belyakov <gb@ccat.elect.ru>.
485 * We don't actually know the time zone of Gennady's changelog entries
486 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger).
487 * POP3 support added with (auto)fetching
488 * digits blinking on new mail arrival
489 * resource wasting lowered
490 * individual rescan interval for differrent mailboxes
494 Release 0.1a - Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
496 * This release is by Gennady Belyakov <gb@ccat.elect.ru>.
497 * Some fixes with intialization
500 Release 0.1 - Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
502 * Initial release by Gennady Belyakov <gb@ccat.elect.ru>.
505 $Id: NEWS,v 1.61 2005/10/08 18:13:09 bluehal Exp $