3 Release 0.4.35 - July 23, 2019
6 Release 0.4.34 - July 23, 2019
11 Release 0.4.33 - March 1, 2019
14 Release 0.4.32 - February 12, 2019
17 Release 0.4.31 - June 23, 2017
20 Release 0.4.30 - November 30, 2016
23 Release 0.4.29 - July 19, 2016
26 Release 0.4.28 - November 7, 2014
27 * Lots of bug fixes and code cleanup.
29 Release 0.4.27 - October 8, 2005
33 Release 0.4.26 - October 10, 2004
34 * Don't crash if no certificate is sent by the remote side
35 and -skip-certificate-check has been given.
36 * Avoid duplicate error messages.
37 * Disable libgcrypt secure memory warning.
38 * security.debian.rb: better when disconnected.
40 Release 0.4.25 - June 23, 2004
41 * Fix a build error in the new gnutls certificate
42 verification code on s390.
44 Release 0.4.24 - June 22, 2004
45 * Use GNUTLS 1.0.4 and GCRYPT 1.1.90, current Debian
46 unstable package libgnutls10-dev.
48 Release 0.4.23 - April 27, 2004
49 * Allow server hostnames in IMAP to be IP addresses
50 (start with a number).
52 Release 0.4.22 - March 27, 2004
53 * Skip examine/search unless requested with msglst option.
54 * Exit if ssh-askpass permissions check fails.
56 Release 0.4.21 - February 21, 2004
57 * Fix a bug where fetch times out to some IMAP servers.
59 Release 0.4.20 - January 1, 2004
60 * Add --disable-crypto for source-based distributions
61 while libgcrypt is unstable.
62 * Sam Izzo's patch for changing the mouse click action
63 depending on whether a box has new mail.
65 Release 0.4.19 - November 8, 2003
66 * Fix test_tlscomm with the right signature for read()
67 * Another bugfix to IMAP msglst when headers are abnormal.
68 * Avoid strcpy for overlapping regions.
70 Release 0.4.18 - November 8, 2003
71 * Update security.debian.rb for ruby 1.8.
72 * Bugfix to avoid infinite loop when reading from IMAP.
73 * Bugfix to msglst to allow capitalized header names.
74 * Add msglst feature to Pop3 mailboxes. (Paolo Gianrossi)
75 * Bugfix to OS X keychain use for panther.
77 Release 0.4.17 - August 31, 2003
78 * On Mac, ask the keychain for passwords if
79 askpass = internal:apple:keychain
80 * Bugfix to an infinite loop found in the
83 Release 0.4.16 - July 7, 2003
84 * Checks TLS certificates. See wmbiffrc(5) for
85 details on the certfile option. Designed to work
87 * Show a busy mouse cursor while talking to remote
88 servers, to show that wmbiff won't be responsive
89 to mouse clicks for a little bit.
90 * New buttontwo (middle click) action to complement
91 action (left mouse click) and fetchcmd (right mouse).
92 * #'s are now only comments in .wmbiffrc at the
93 beginning of lines or following whitespace,
94 allowing #'s in (most) passwords.
95 * AppleScript examples for driving Apple's Mail
96 application in sample.wmbiffrc
97 * Special mailbox action 'msglst' brings up a
98 transient window showing message headers from IMAP
99 and program output for shell methods. This is
100 intended to be faster than starting up a new
101 mail program or re-executing a script.
102 * Avoid repetitive error messages when disconnected.
103 * Use conventional -geometry option handling.
104 * Fix bug in 0.4.15 to re-enable *'s in IMAP passwords.
106 Release 0.4.15 - Mar 30, 2003
107 * Frobnicate internally stored passwords, partially
108 obfuscating them in memory. Not actually more
109 secure, but harder to casually discover a password.
110 * Tighten configuration file lines to more quickly
111 detect misconfiguration. Add the -relax option if
113 * Add support for -bg to round out -hi and -fg color
116 Release 0.4.14 - Jan 24, 2003
117 * Handle building on systems with both posix and gnu
118 regex in different but conflicting files.
119 * Restart wmbiff on SIGUSR1. You may need to use
120 'killall -USR1 wmbiff' if it gets stuck.
121 * Restart wmbiff on ctrl-shift mouse 1.
123 Release 0.4.13 - Jan 20, 2003
124 * Fix a file descriptor leak when using
125 both Shell and IMAP clients.
126 * Portability to Mac OS X, Solaris, and probably BSD
127 restored (thanks sourceforge compile farm!) with a
128 partial rewrite of regular expression handling for
129 IMAP and POP mailboxes.
131 Release 0.4.12 - Jan 3, 2003
132 * Fix a bug introduced in 0.4.9 that interfered with
133 -geometry handling. (Debian #173813)
135 Release 0.4.11 - Dec 28, 2002
136 * security.debian.rb script to check for updates on
137 security.debian.org, installed in $prefix/lib/wmbiff/
138 add: path.x=/usr/lib/wmbiff/security.debian.rb to
139 your .wmbiffrc (and install ruby if you haven't already).
140 * Internal cleanups to allow long askpass commands.
142 Release 0.4.10 - Dec 12, 2002
143 * Peter McAlpine's globalnotify feature - elect to play a
144 sound on new mail in *any* mailbox without a chorus of
145 sounds from every mailbox.
146 * -skip-certificate-check option for when your imaps server
147 is misconfigured and you can't do anything about it.
149 Release 0.4.9 - Dec 1, 2002
150 * GNUTLS v0.5.9 or higher required
151 * Check TLS certificate hostname against the hostname we're
152 connecting to. This raises the bar, but does not make
153 wmbiff's TLS implementation secure against man in the
155 * WMBiff scales to the number of mailboxes you're
156 using. For openbox, this means less wasted space in the
157 slit and the possibility of up to 40 mailboxes. For
158 WindowMaker, this means more pretty chrome and less dark
159 LED if you have only a couple boxes. If you prefer the empty
160 cells at the end, place "path.4=<space><space>" in your
163 Release 0.4.8 - Sept 18, 2002
164 * GNUTLS v0.5.1-0.5.6, gcrypt v1.1.8 required.
165 * Allow spaces in IMAP mailbox paths. The new syntax is:
166 server/"mail box with spaces" where the old is server/mailbox.
167 See wmbiffrc(5) for details.
168 * Avoid filesystem caching for network mounted maildirs.
169 See wmbiffrc(5) for details. (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
171 Release 0.4.7 - August 16, 2002
172 * GNUTLS v0.5.1, gcrypt v1.1.8 required. (no other changes)
174 Release 0.4.6 - July 19, 2002
175 * Ignore sigpipe so that apm suspend works with IMAP/TLS.
176 * Memory handling bugfixes to appease valgrind.
177 * GNUTLS v0.4.3, gcrypt v1.17 expected
179 Release 0.4.4 - June 27, 2002
180 * GNUTLS version 0.4.3 required. The API has changed, and
181 wmbiff is no longer compatible with GNUTLS versions prior
182 to 0.4.3. Certificate checking may be slightly more strict.
183 * GCRYPT version 1.1.7 is expected as well.
184 * Partial rewrite of mailbox-parsing code, splint annotations.
185 * Bugfix in debug messages of ShellClient.
186 * Internal cleanups; migration to autoconf 2.5
188 Release 0.4.3 - June 8, 2002
189 * IPv6 support for real. (missed a detail with autoconf)
190 * Preliminary font support, allowing variable colors. Use
191 wmbiff -fg violet to give it a spin. Note: if the number of
192 old messages is at least 1000, the old number of messages
193 will not be completely erased when new mail arrives.
194 * Mouse handling fix.
195 * Cleanup of internals: handling of default configuration when
196 .wmbiffrc does not exist, vertical position of rows, variable
198 * GNUTLS version 0.3.5 is expected; earlier and later versions
200 * This release is by Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu>.
202 Release 0.4.2 - June 1, 2002
203 * Bugfix: accidentally released a partial feature.
205 Release 0.4.1 - June 1, 2002
207 * This release is by Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu>.
208 * GNUTLS version 0.3.5 is expected; earlier and later versions
210 * IPv6 is now supported, thanks to Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
212 Release 0.4.0 - May 3, 2002
214 * This release is by Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu>.
215 * GNUTLS version 0.3.5 is expected; earlier and later versions
217 * askpass: Passwords can be left empty for IMAP: ssh-askpass
218 will be used to prompt the user. See sample.wmbiffrc
220 * skinfile: Background pixmaps can be specified in .wmbiffrc.
221 This has the effect of "skins." See wmbiffrc(5).
222 Add "skinfile=wmbiff-master-contrast.xpm" to .wmbiffrc
223 for a more readable wmbiff.
224 * finger: Finger client added - finger a user's mailbox to get its
225 status. Requires perl and finger commands. See wmbiffrc(5).
226 Thanks to Andelko Horvat.
227 * shell: Improvements to ShellClient - now allows three character
228 text to be printed as status. If "new" is on the output
229 line, the text will be in yellow. Thanks to Andelko Horvat.
230 * mbox: Paths can be specified including shell expressions
231 in `'s. If requested, this feature can be expanded to other
232 clients. Nested expressions are not supported.
233 * Permissions on .wmbiffrc are checked to protect security.
234 Only a warning is printed now. This will degenerate in
235 later releases for .wmbiffrc's that store passwords.
236 * Migrated to automake / autoconf to detect defaults for
237 ssh-askpass and prepare for future changes.
238 * Bugfix to handle -geometry tags with dimension as generated
239 by fvwmSaveDesk. The size is ignored. (in Debian 0.3.8-3)
241 Release 0.3.8 - Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:17:07 +0100
243 * Added GnomeICU support.
244 * Added an experimental shell command method which reads the output
245 for a given command. See wmbiffrc(5) for details.
246 * Debug support moved to runtime, using the -debug switch.
247 * Fix for the install rule in Makefile.
249 Release 0.3.7 - Sun, 3 Feb 2002 23:46:44 +0100
251 * No, 0.3.6 never happened :)
252 * Removed unneeded auth list fix which broke things.
253 * Makefile cleanup, with better FreeBSD support. You can now easily
254 use the external GNU regex lib.
256 Release 0.3.6 - Sun, 27 Jan 2002 20:49:52 +0100
258 * Added a new syntax for IMAP, which allows using a "@" in
259 the password field. See wmbiffrc(5) for details.
260 * Fix for a correct usage of the auth list in IMAP.
262 Release 0.3.5 - Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:43:23 +0100
264 * Added support for GNUtls 0.3. You can still compile wmbiff using
265 GNUtls 0.2.x by removing the GNUTLS_VER=3 define in the Makefile.
266 * Fixed password quoting in IMAP logins.
268 Release 0.3.4 - Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:56:29 +0100
270 * "imaps" is now prefered to "sslimap" in config files. The old type
271 is still supported for backwards compatibility.
272 * You can now specify what protocol wmbiff should use for a given Pop3
273 or IMAP mailbox. If unspecified, it will try the secure ones first,
274 falling back to unsecure if they fail. See wmbiffrc(5).
275 * Added some debug messages for tls connections.
276 * Pop3 path parsing rewrite.
278 * Compile warning fixes.
280 Release 0.3.3 - Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:55:00 +0100
282 * Sanity check to IMAP code: exit if wmbiff tries to connect to more
284 * Fix a missbehaviour of cram-md5 (broke pop3).
285 * Documentation updates.
287 Release 0.3.2 - Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:30:37 +0200
289 * After some tries (other OpenSSL based patches, independent APOP
290 & CRAM-Md5 patches) we've come up with something based on GNUtls and
291 gcrypt, which are GPL based and have no licensing issues for us.
292 See ChangeLog for details.
293 * WMBiff now supports IMAP-SSL, APOP and CRAM-Md5 authentication. These
294 can be disabled at compile time, commenting out the WITH_TLS and
295 WITH_GCRYPT defines. (Neil Spring, NAKAYAMA Takao and Jay T. Francis).
297 Release 0.3.1 - Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:15:41 +0200
299 * Replaced /var/spool/mail with /var/mail, which is what the FHS mandates.
300 All decent systems should have either the directory or a symlink pointing
301 somewhere else. (Jordi Mallach)
302 * I reformatted ths changelog, again. I hope this is the last time I need
303 to do this. The CVS logs should be used for all changes, and this file
304 should by updated for user-visible changes only, from now on.
305 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
306 * Updated the README to reflect that Gennady Belyakov died right after
307 releasing wmBiff 0.2. May your soul rest in peace, Gennady.
308 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
309 * Fixed the IMAP support, again. (Rob Funk)
312 Release 0.3.0 - Fri, 16 May 2001 12:16:44 +0200
314 * [ReadLine] removed previous trim leading spaces, added TrimFull. Fixes
315 Debian Bug #95849 (Mark Hurley).
316 * There was a bug where if a POP3 or IMAP mailbox read failed and the
317 following reads were successful, but no mail was in the server, the given
318 mailbox would remain reading "XX". Now it updates the counter no matter
319 what the read was (Mark Hurley).
320 * wmBiff would only count as new mails in mbox mailboxes with "N" flags,
321 ignoring those marked "ON" (Rob Funk).
322 * Fixed reading of quoted imap folders, which some IMAPd's do (Rob Funk).
323 * README: updated some very obsolete info. (Jordi Mallach)
326 Release 0.2q1+Debian - Tue, 1 May 2001 10:11:00 +0000
328 * Moved to CVS at SourceForge. (Jordi Mallach)
331 Release 0.2q1 - Fri, 13 Apr 2001 02:47:10 -0400
333 * This release is by Mark Hurley <debian4tux@telocity.com>.
334 * wmbiff/Client.h: move DEBUG_* macros to wmbiff/Makefile
335 * wmbiff/Pop3Client.c:
336 + My password contains an @ character. This causes
337 the pop3 line to be incorrectly parsed by wmbiff.
338 * Drop all of the ":" after the pop3 and delimit all values with
339 spaces. This works well, as passwords/user-id's all agree that
340 the space is a non-legit value.
342 Example: assume my password is: myEmailhasa@init
345 path.3=pop3:debian4tux:myEmailhasa@init@mail.telocity.com
348 path.3=pop3:debian4tux myEmailhasa@init mail.telcoity.com
350 Ahh...before you say it. "Backward compatibility?" You will
351 also find in the patch, a NEW function. So that the OLD and
352 NEW way is easily compatible with all ".wmbiffrc" files.
355 This was not the cleanest way to implement it, but I had to
356 suffice with a clean/quick implementation. I originally wrote
357 one function to handle past and new parsing. However, I
358 thought it would be beneficial to leave them separated, so we
359 could eventually drop the old method?
362 The man page will need to be updated (not provided in patch).
363 We can weed the "old" style out of the example script as well.
364 Still explaining the changes in the man page to leave out
365 confusion in a users mind (as they are likely to find "old"
367 + My mail server at Telocity.com is following the RFC's to
368 a "T". RFC 1725 states that the LAST command be removed.
369 After some searching I have NOT turned up a replacement.
370 Which does make sense, this command is only so useful,
371 and contributes to the popularity of other such remoting
373 * I've set the Unread messages to the TotalMessages,
374 assuming (as suggested by the RFC) no messages have been
375 read. I have also suppressed the error printed to
376 stderr, it is correct to return an error, *now*. ;)
378 The only way to keep track of messages which have been
379 read, is to remember the unique number assigned to them.
380 This is what fetchmail does. However, it does not work
381 correctly if you check and read mail thru other methods
384 - for (index = 0; index < 4; index++)
385 + for (index = 0; index < 5; index++)
387 BUG! Last postion #4 was not correctly being checked.
388 Now correctly checks each position.
391 Release 0.2q - Tue, 20 Mar 2001 05:32:35 +0100
393 * This release is by Jorge García <Jorge.Garcia@uv.es>.
394 * wmbiff/{*.[ch]}: removed unnecesary includes.
395 * wmbiff/wmbiff.c: some cleanups and optimizations.
397 * show error if user config file does not exists
398 * use of userconfig "interval" (wasn't correctly parsed)
399 + {do_biff, displayMsgCounters}: some changes to make Sleep_Interval
401 + parse_cmd: some changes to make uconfig_file local
402 + {BlinkOn, BlinkOff, BlinkToogle}: Removed (merged by do_biff)
403 + {ReadConfigString, ReadConfigInt}: Removed
404 + countmail: removed init in header (wasn't used)
405 + ReadLine: Created (new parsing code, extracts pairs of setting
407 + Read_Config_File: now there is only ONE parse not 36!
408 * wmbiff/{IMap4Client.c, Pop3Client.c}: check for correct format line to
409 avoid "segmentation fault" while parsing.
412 Release 0.2p - Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:00:00 -0600
414 * This release is by Dwayne C. Litzenberger <dlitz@dlitz.net>.
415 * Added maildir support! Yay!
416 * Stole the manpages from Debian.
417 * Massive (lack of) coding style cleanup; Standardized coding style using
419 * Reversed order of ChangeLog as suggested by Jordi.
420 * Cleaned up the v0.2o ChangeLog entry. What a mess! Added missing credits.
421 * Cleaned up and reformatted the rest of the changelog to an almost-Debian
422 format while I'm at it. It's much more readable that way.
423 * Moved definition of WMBIFF_VERSION to the Makefile.
424 * All your base are belong to us.
425 * I'm not maintaining wmBiff; I just submitted a big patch. Send your
426 complaints (or complements) to Yong-iL Joh.
429 Release 0.2o - Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:00:00 +0900
431 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
432 * I don't think the date of this changelog entry is right.
433 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
434 * Jordi Mallach <jordi@sindominio.net>, Debian's wmbiff maintainer, sent
435 me an email a couple of days ago which included a patch with man pages.
436 The patch did the following:
437 + Fixed a major upstream bug that renders this new wmbiff unusable.
438 Thanks to Guillaume Morin, Jérôme Marant and Mark Hurley for their
439 help identifying the bug, and Jorge García <Jorge.Garcia@uv.es> for
440 writing a patch. Basically, the new upstream broke backwards
441 compatibility of wmbiffrc with Gennady's wmbiff, fixed that.
442 This patch also fixes wmbiff not using $MAIL or defaulting to
443 /var/spool/mail/$USER if no ~/.wmbiffrc is found (closes: #87778).
444 + wmbiff/wmbiff.c: updated WMBIFF_VERSION to current.
445 + wmbiff/{socket.c, wmbiff.c}: removed <sys/time.h> includes.
446 + debian/{wmbiff.1, wmbiffrc.5}: updated for IMAP4 and Licq support.
447 + Jorge García removed the segfault in Jordi's wmbiffrc
448 + Vladimir Popov <pva48@mail.ru> fixed a potential buffer overflow
449 in init_biff() (The "/* Make labels look right */" section).
450 + Jorge García <Jorge.Garcia@uv.es> fixed a display bug in the
451 number-of- mails display.
452 * use poll() instead of select()
454 -- Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com> 12-Mar-2001 +0900
457 Release 0.2n - Tue, 20 Feb 2001 0:00:00 +0900
459 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
460 * Nick Clarey <nclarey@3glab.com> sent me a patch.
461 that enhances the following:
462 + UW Imap server 2000.283rh
463 + Config file now supports IMAP mailbox "paths" rather than
464 just the mailbox name (e.g. mail/foo/blah)
467 Release 0.2m - Mon, 5 Feb 2001 00:00:00 +0900
469 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
470 * Imap4Client.c did not close when a connection error occurred. Fixed it.
473 Release 0.2l - Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0900
475 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
476 * Imap4Client.c had a bug when trying to connect to an imap4 server. Fixed
480 Release 0.2j - Mon, 1 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0900
482 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
483 * Because I can't contact the author, I jumped to version 0.2j
484 * Added imap4-based mail server check component.
485 * Divided wmbiff.c to wmbiff.c, LicqClient.c mboxClient.c
488 Release 0.2-licq - Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000
490 * This release is by Yong-iL Joh <tolkien@mizi.com>.
491 * The actual date of this release is unknown, so I picked New Year's Day,
492 Y2K. (Dwayne C. Litzenberger)
493 * I found it from http://www.licq.org/download.html.
496 Release 0.2 - Fri, 26 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
498 * This release is by Gennady Belyakov <gb@ccat.elect.ru>.
499 * We don't actually know the time zone of Gennady's changelog entries
500 (Dwayne C. Litzenberger).
501 * POP3 support added with (auto)fetching
502 * digits blinking on new mail arrival
503 * resource wasting lowered
504 * individual rescan interval for differrent mailboxes
508 Release 0.1a - Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
510 * This release is by Gennady Belyakov <gb@ccat.elect.ru>.
511 * Some fixes with intialization
514 Release 0.1 - Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
516 * Initial release by Gennady Belyakov <gb@ccat.elect.ru>.
519 $Id: NEWS,v 1.61 2005/10/08 18:13:09 bluehal Exp $