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