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