1 S - n a i l / S - m a i l x N e w s
2 ====================================
4 mdocmx(7) anchors are denoted by a number-sign #: typing
5 "^A ANCHOR" while reading the man(1)ual in a capable less(1)
6 will scroll to the manual's Point-Of-Interest, and pointing
7 a web browser to the "#ANCHOR" of the online manual works.
9 v14.9.19 ("Tufted titmouse (Indianermeise)"), 2020-04-26
10 --------------------------------------------------------
12 Fixing an unknown-8bit/iconv(1/3) misbehaviour when displaying
13 mails, and making this MUA ready for OpenSSL 3.0.
15 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Anirudh Oppiliappan and
18 We welcome Anirudh Oppiliappan and Claus Assmann in THANKS.
20 git(1) shortlog (edited)
21 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
23 Steffen Nurpmeso (14):
24 623b64e6 Fix: ensure `environ'ment vars are sh(1) compatible! (Anirudh
26 f5e202a5 THANKS: Anirudh Oppiliappan
27 6fa32bdc Fix: a_crese_make_ref_and_cs(): *reply-in-same-charset*: "handle
29 a9ec20d6 Fix: "revert" [ab0cd3b8] from 2017-10-20.. (Claus Assmann)..
30 eb2db180 THANKS: Claus Assmann
31 b0d0920a mime.types: add audio/{aac,opus}, adjust audio/mp4
32 bc89c8ff Adjustments for OpenSSL 3.0 (and cpp namespace cleanup)
34 v14.9.18 ("It is spring time, what a bliss"), 2020-04-18
35 --------------------------------------------------------
37 Some bugfixes and tweaks that accumulated over the months.
39 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jens Schleusener,
40 Noctambule, Kyle Evans.
42 It is courtesy to give a special credit to Coverity.com.
43 (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project 444.)
45 We welcome Noctambule and Kyle Evans in THANKS.
47 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
48 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
50 - Warning: we _will_ have v15-compat=yes as a default in v14.10!
52 - Fix for `~f'#327, `~m'#333, `~Q'#335, `~U'#341 and `~u'#342:
53 no longer include all MIME parts (bug since at least v14.9.16).
55 - Fix for handling of "The Mailcap files"#36:
56 a single copiousoutput/x-mailx-tmpfile-fill|nametemplate
57 combination was falsely handled, mostly affecting binary file
58 formats (which got broken by applied character set conversion).
60 - Fix for automatic S/MIME encrypted key / certificate password
61 lookup: used $LOGNAME@[no hostname].smime-cert-key as
62 a fallback, instead of using the value of *from*#430.
65 - `~R'#337 and `~r'#338, as well as all prompts which expect
66 file names and did not yet do so, expect shell-quoted names.
67 (See "Shell-style argument quoting"#23.)
72 - `~Q'#335 now acts as if *quote*#518 is set.
73 Does not really make sense otherwise.
75 - New environment variable $SOCKS5_PROXY#633 is tight together
76 with *socks-proxy*#567: setting the one affects the other.
77 This $SOCKS5_PROXY is introduced by FreeBSD to affect all
78 programs which are capable to proxy via SOCKS5 (it seems).
81 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (26)
83 v14.9.17 ("To bind, or not to bind.."), 2020-02-02
84 --------------------------------------------------
86 A shadowed key bindings report on bash-bugs@ made me aware that
87 our `bind' code has never seen a real review, and not only were we
88 incapable too, but the code was a piece of shit, when i looked at
89 it. So please find here a bugfix release to smoothly end v14.9.
91 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jens Schleusener,
92 Johannes Schöpfer, Russell Bell, and Koichi Murase.
94 It is courtesy to give a special credit to Coverity.com.
95 (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project 444.)
97 We welcome Koichi Murase in THANKS.
99 And now for something completely different.
101 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
102 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
104 - "make test" now works when run by root or on read-only
105 file-systems. (Johannes Schöpfer)
107 - Our `bind'#149 now supports overall key-sequence timeouts,
108 as opposed to inter-byte timeouts. For this i have obsoleted
109 *bind-timeout* in favour of *bind-inter-byte-timeout*#379
110 and *bind-inter-key-timeout*#380 (not set by default).
112 The bind tree code had two bugs, for one the "shortcut"
113 key-bindings would all have been created in the "base" context,
114 not where they really belong ("default" and "compose").
115 And due to false list relinking shadowed key bindings did not
116 work. (Koichi Murase)
118 When used with 3x*verbose*#? (aka -v#85) the bind tree
119 is now dumped when it has been build (once used first, and after
120 modifications. Putting all this together, a resource file
122 cat >/tmp/t.sh <<'__EOT'
124 cat >/tmp/t.rc <<'_EOT'
125 set line-editor-no-defaults
126 bind base $'\n' mle-commit
127 bind base $'\c?' mle-del-bwd
128 bind base $'\cT' echo one
129 bind base $'\cT',$'\cT' echo two
131 bind base ab,c echo 1
132 bind base abc,d echo 2
133 bind base ac,d echo 3
134 bind base a,b,c echo 4
135 bind base a,b,c,d echo 5
136 bind base a,b,cc,d echo 6
138 set bind-inter-key-timeout=2500
139 set bind-inter-byte-timeout=250
140 bind base a,b,c,d # now works, too!
142 MAILRC=/tmp/t.rc $MAILX -R:u -Y 'set verbose=3'
143 rm -f /tmp/t.sh /tmp/t.rc
147 will now do the expected.
149 - `Reply'#256: no longer honours *recipients-in-cc*#526
154 - Manual: after review i think the following sections are of
155 acceptable quality: "On terminal control and line editor"#17,
156 "Coloured display"#18.
158 - *verbose*#605 is no longer a boolean but can be assigned
159 a numeric value. But "set verbose verbose verbose"
162 - New variable *reply-to-swap-in*#534 tries to work around
163 the DKIM/DMARC "HUMAN via LIST <LIST@ADDRESS>" ugliness
164 when `reply'#258ing (or `Reply'#256ing) to such a message.
165 It tries to move the HUMAN into responsibility.
167 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (65)
169 v14.9.16 ("Message of Winter, your hopes shall be crushed"), 2019-12-29
170 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
172 At the end of the v14.9 series we finally deliver the RFC 1524
173 mailcap support, as well as other improvements, and new features.
174 Many bugfixes and tests arrive.
175 A whole bunch of things are backward-incompatible, but i would
176 assume that most use cases are not at all affected.
178 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Brian Evans,
179 Paride Legovini, Yasuhiro KIMURA, John P. Linderman, Leo,
180 Martin Neitzel, Alexander Harm, Ken Hornstein, Martynas Bendorius,
181 Russell Bell, Goesta Smekal, Kevin McCarthy, Ralph Keller,
182 Ralph Corderoy, Viktor Szépe, Jelle van der Waa, Arnout Engelen,
183 Stuart Henderson, elo, and Benjamin A. Wong.
185 We welcome Yasuhiro KIMURA, John P. Linderman, Leo,
186 Martynas Bendorius, Goesta Smekal, Jelle van der Waa,
187 Arnout Engelen, elo, and Benjamin A. Wong in THANKS.
189 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
190 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
192 - Renamed *expandaddr*#415 namehostex to nametoaddr. (Better.)
194 - *tls-features*#593 string now starts and ends with comma.
195 (Just like *features*#418 does.)
197 - -L#71 longname --header-search renamed to --search.
199 - Config option OPT_FORCED_STACKPROT=xy now
200 OPT_AUTOCC_STACKPROT=y, and now auto-enabled for OPT_AUTOCC=y
201 (even though i hate that, protectors in shipout code..).
203 - `account'#140 return value now matters, and can thus be used to
204 abort account switching.
206 - -:#55 has new "x" mode, which executes the directives of the
207 compiled-in resource file. (The template content is now
208 compiled in too, so the real file does not need to be loaded.)
211 - Quote etc. injections (*quote-inject-head*#523) now always
212 happen (if set), regardless of *quote*#518.
214 - We now truly honour POSIX command abbreviations (order).
215 As part of that i finally implemented a simple command lookup
216 speedup, these are now almost alphabetical (unless abbreviations
219 - Added *mta-bcc-ok*#480. Bummer. It seems exim and courier
220 do not remove Bcc: headers as required by standards unless
221 invoked with a special command line argument. So we now
222 do not pass Bcc: headers to file-based MTAs unless this
223 variable is set explicitly. (Kevin McCarthy).
225 - "COMMAND ESCAPES"#28 now have a $ command modifier, which
226 causes a shell-style `eval'#191uation before the command
229 And so `~<'#314, `~R'#337 and `~r'#338 no longer expand $VAR
230 expressions by themselves.
232 And so -a#57, `~@'#317, and "attachment insert" of `~^'#319
233 and `digmsg'#174 only perform ~/-style expansions.
235 - `~^'#319: use shell-style argument expansion.
236 We handled `~^' and `digmsg' differently, but furthermore
237 turned the shell-parsed data of the latter into whitespace
238 separated data, which made it impossible to, for example,
239 use attachments with whitespace in their names.
241 This increases the interaction protocol version number of
242 *on-compose-splice*#490 from "0 0 1" to "0 0 2"!
243 Because, we do also quote the output, since using `read'
244 (or read(1)) causes *ifs*#443 ($IFS) normalization.
245 All that could be done would be (for ourselves):
252 # And now assign the desired real fields
253 set real-var1=$1 real-var2=$2 ...
256 Sick! So instead introduce a `readsh'#251 command which works
257 like `read'#250 but splits fields at shell token boundaries,
258 for example from within *on-compose-splice*#490:
260 echo '~^h s subject'; read stat name; readsh sub; read i
262 There would be better examples. (Ralph Keller)
264 - `~F'#326, `~f'#327, `~M'#332, `~m'#333, `~U'#341 and `~u'#342 now
265 honour *forward-inject-head*#428 and *forward-inject-tail*#429.
267 - New option OPT_MAILCAP, by default enabled.
268 Disable at runtime via *mailcap-disable*#458, all documented
269 in "The Mailcap files"#36.
271 - OpenBSD: really auto-find number of processors in test script.
272 Work around fflush(3) not adapting POSIX behaviour.
274 - Manual: after review i think the following sections are of
275 acceptable quality: "Encrypted network communication"#13,
276 "A starter"#6, "On URL syntax and credential lookup"#12,
277 "The Mailcap files"#36, and
278 "But, how about XOAUTH2 / OAUTHBEARER?"#45.
280 The latter is actually (Stuart Henderson, Benjamin A. Wong),
281 and now provides a copy+paste example of how to keep a
282 OAUTHBEARER token up-to-date with S-nail (with some care).
285 - Default .rc file: keeps Sender: by default (Ken Hornstein),
286 sets *followup-to-honour*#425 and *reply-to-honour*#533,
287 and gives more *history-gabby*#437ness.
292 - Add `Lfollowup'#218. (Russell Bell)
294 - `?'#138: prefix \ (quoted!) to command to avoid
295 `commandalias'#162 matching:
298 S -> spamspam: Teach the spam detector that <msglist> is spam
300 S (Save): Like `save', but derive filename from first sender
302 - `history'#212 has new "delete NUMBER" subcommand.
304 - Add *forward-add-cc*#426 and *quote-add-cc*#519 to Cc: the
305 originator of a forwarded or quoted message, respectively.
308 - *history-gabby*#437 now has a value to allow for more.
309 This changes second argument of *on-history-addition*#492
310 from boolean to context string.
312 - New command `mtaaliases'#235. We no longer automatically
313 update the *mta-aliases*#475 cache. (Maybe much later we will
314 have a path_monitor or something, until then, not.)
316 And `netrc'#236 "load" is now indeed "clear" + "load".
318 `netrc' also gained a "lookup" subcommand. (Ralph Corderoy)
320 - *headline*#433 %L format will announce possibility that
321 a message could be a list.
323 - `chdir'#157, `rename'#255 and `remove'#254 use shell-style
326 - `tls'#288 gained "certchain" and "certificate" subcommands.
328 - `folder'#200 can open RFC 5322 messages via eml:// protocol,
329 as in "folder eml:///tmp/msg.eml". Yet primitive and only
330 read-only. (Viktor Szépe)
332 - `vexpr'#302 gained "date-utc", "date-stamp-utc" and "epoch"
333 subcommands. (Benjamin A. Wong)
335 - *on-main-loop-tick*#493 now also happens for commands passed
338 git(1) shortlog: Yasuhiro KIMURA (1), Steffen Nurpmeso (263)
340 v14.9.15 ("Tit family in the trees"), 2019-08-18
341 ------------------------------------------------
343 Plugging a bug regarding copying data out of invalid MBOX mail
344 databases which is present in all BSD Mails and in Unix V10 mail,
345 and bringing in some tweaks, this update hopefully really marks
346 the end of the v14.9.* series.
348 After more than four and a half years i again have a VM testbed,
349 with an increasing number of VM combinations. (Yet still too few,
350 but nonetheless, a dramatical improvement.) This includes
351 a GSS-API testbed, with an ArchLinux server and Linux and FreeBSD
352 clients (do not ask why no additional FreeBSD server, i want to
353 use binary packages). This brought GSSAPI tweaks.
355 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Ralph Corderoy,
356 Chet Ramey, Robert Elz, Jilles Tjoelker, Steve Izma, Viktor Szépe,
357 and Jean-Marc Pigeon.
359 Very special thanks go to Tarqi Kazan and Ivan Vučica, who tested
360 GSS-API in the past until it worked (again), testing against my
361 blind flight patches! Thank you very much, guys!
363 We welcome Chet Ramey, Jilles Tjoelker and Steve Izma in THANKS.
365 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
366 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
368 - *features*#418 and *tls-features*#593 are now prefixed with
369 a comma ",", not with the number sign "#" (which could
370 increasingly `eval'#191uate to a comment).
372 - We now support parallelized tests. It takes a numeric job
373 number out of $MAKEFLAGS, or tries to fetch the number of
374 processors otherwise (really!). To go singleprocessor
375 "$ make testnj" has to be called explicitly.
376 With or without, we will terminate tests which take too long.
378 This is truly tremendous, on the unstable9s machine of the
379 OpenCSW.org cluster for example we now need 24 seconds instead
380 of by far more than 300. What a release!
382 With help of (Chet Ramey, Robert Elz, Jilles Tjoelker and
385 - EXTERNAL authentication is truly a mess. It has been fixed for
386 POP3, where it was broken on our side. But it seems the
387 internet does not like that, or cannot (pass user credentials
388 from a certificate gracefully to the authenticator).
389 Anyway. I have introduced EXTERNANON in addition for all of
390 IMAP, POP3 and SMTP. This could now result in a usable
391 combination, regardless of what server(s) are contacted.
393 - The hook *on-account-cleanup*#486 will now be called even
394 upon program exit (i.e., implicitly leaving the account).
399 - New *followup-to-add-cc*#424 will place the user in the Cc:
400 list if it will place her in the Mail-Followup-To:.
402 - New hook *on-program-exit*#494.
404 - *pop3-auth*#508=gssapi is now supported.
405 For IMAP, SASL-IR will be used for GSSAPI if possible (saving
406 a packet round-trip).
408 - *expandaddr*#415 has the new keyword "namehostex".
409 If set, plain name addressees, like "To: steffen", will be
410 expanded to NAME@HOSTNAME (where the latter could be
411 *hostname*#441) if NAME is a valid user on the current host.
412 (Viktor Szépe, Jean-Marc Pigeon)
414 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (45)
416 v14.9.14 ("Great tit passed moult"), 2019-07-27
417 -----------------------------------------------
419 This is an unwanted and unplanned but unfortunately necessary
420 bugfix release. I hope it marks the end of the v14.9.* series.
422 I presume you would be surprised if it would not also bring some
423 features, this time mostly support of MTA-style aliases as
424 inquired by Jean-Marc Pigeon, some authentication work (XOAUTH2/
425 OAUTHBEARER support), and as usual development to the last minute.
427 It fixes IMAP GSSAPI authentication, thanks to Ivan Vučica for
428 reporting and testing this issue (Debian #930691; still have no
429 testbed, but will soon!), and imap-delim, which i broke in July
430 2017, thanks to Ralph Keller for repetitive reporting.
432 For OpenBSD and SunOS 5.9 this release fixes long standing (must
433 be) race conditions regarding child processes and their I/O setup.
435 Never seen before, but my new box (i stepped a decade of
436 hardware improvements, finally) rather regulary has shown them
437 when running the test suite. (On the OpenCSW cluster my speed
438 varies, but i had a very good day and seen them there once.)
440 This (finally) caused the complete rewrite of the child process
441 (and termios) handling that i (had to) mention in communication
442 with Gavin Troy already back in, i do not know -- 2013? (Still
443 not event loop based, but near getting good feelings there.)
445 Funnily the problem (child descriptors were closed by the parent
446 before the fork(2)ed childs had the opportunity to dup(2)licate
447 their file descriptors) reminded me of a message of the german
448 computer magazine c't, maybe around 2001/2002, when OpenBSD
449 improved their fork(2) performance in a day or two after having
450 appeared declassified in a comparison with other OSes.
451 (Of course it was nothing but our own fault to not synchronize on
452 the child, but blindly assuming that a fork(2) child gets the
453 opportunity to run immediately.)
455 Dear Predrag: would it now be possible for you to upgrade from
456 v14.8.12? I really would like to know!
458 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Martin Lucina,
459 Viktor Szépe, Alexander Harm, Anders Magnusson, Thomas Haigh,
460 Martin T, Ivan Vučica, Nicholas Marriott, Alexander Harm,
461 Steven Penny, Jean-Marc Pigeon, Martin Neitzel, Paul Vojta,
462 Russell Bell, Paride Legovini and Ralph Keller.
464 A special credit to Coverity.com once again, it found bugs!
465 (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project number 444.)
467 We welcome Martin Lucina, Anders Magnusson, Thomas Haigh,
468 Martin T, Ivan Vučica, Nicholas Marriott, Steven Penny and
469 Ralph Keller in THANKS.
471 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
472 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
474 - The (very backward) Debian mawk is now supported directly.
475 (Martin Lucina, Viktor Szépe)
477 - GCC (8.3.0) -Os inlining bug (wmt) is worked around.
478 And GNU awk 5 warnings have been fixed (before CRUX).
480 - "|PIPE RECEIVER" errors seen on SunOS 5.9 and OpenBSD have first
481 been fixed, and then caused a major rewrite of the child and
482 termios handling for a rather "real" fix.
484 The latter has the side effect that *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#500
485 handlers will now have their standard output go to /dev/null.
487 - IMAP GSSAPI authentication should work again. (Ivan Vučica)
489 - -C#60 testable can be used more than two times.
491 - The "grappa" mode of mk/make-release.sh can now be used
492 "everywhere". See INSTALL on interest. (It now gracefully
493 fails if s-nail is not installed: we need that for hashing.)
495 - New option OPT_MTA, by default enabled.
496 Set *mta-aliases*#475 to a valid path in aliases(5) syntax,
497 and we will expand them. All Postfix directives but :include:
498 are supported. Only clear text files are supported, no DBs.
501 - `~^'#319 will now verify *expandaddr*#415 right away in
502 "~^ head ins to|cc|bcc", as is already done for `~t'#340,
503 `~c'#323 and `~b'#322.
505 - OPT_AGENT and OPT_SPAM_SPAMD are gone; they were obsoleted on
506 2017-07-16, and it is not expected to become noticed.
508 - *sendwait*#542 is now initially set, and it gained an optional
509 value, a comma-separated list of case-insensitive strings naming
510 specific subsystems for which synchronousness shall be ensured
511 (only). Possible values are "mta" for *mta*#474 delivery,
512 and "pcc" for command-pipe receivers.
514 P.S.: you can get a list of all initial values plus via
516 $ s-nail -:/ -v -Xset -Xx
518 - Colours may now happen even in quickrun mode (-e#65,
519 -H#68, -L#71)! I thought it is ok nonetheless, because
520 we i think always documented to enwrap `colour'#160 setting
521 in an according `if'#214, as in
523 \if terminal && [ "$features" =% +colour ]
524 \colo iso view-header fg=red
527 - OPT_SOCKETS has been renamed to OPT_NET.
529 - -Y#87 is now well defined under all conditions, with tests:
531 The commands will be evaluated successively in the given
532 order, and as if given on the program's standard input --
533 before interactive prompting begins in interactive mode,
534 after standard input has been consumed otherwise.
536 - XOAUTH2 / OAUTHBEARER (OAuth 2.0 bearer token, RFC 6750)
537 autentication is now supported for all protocols.
538 New FAQ entry "But, how about XOAUTH2 / OAUTHBEARER?"#45
539 For driving the necessary external update tool a new
540 *on-main-loop-tick*#493 hook has been introduced.
541 (I am thinking about adding support for an optional built-in
544 - Support for the EXTERNAL authentication method has been
545 introduced. This is UNTESTED, though. (I am still in the
546 process of re-setting up my VM test environment.)
547 We do not verify presence of a client certificate etc., but only
548 that a TLS secured channel is active, when using this method.
549 (We now *verbose*#605 log the used TLS version and cipher, too.)
551 - *imap-delim*#665 works again as advertised! This was broken in
552 [1b9897a9] ((BWDIC!) Fix *imap-delim* behaviour.., 2017-07-01),
553 and i think i was pretty much irritated by then. Sorry!!
554 While here, take *imap-delim* into account for `imapcodec'#661.
560 - Manual section "HISTORY"#51 improved a bit. (Thomas Haigh)
562 - New variable *line-editor-cpl-word-breaks*#452 (yet a bit
565 - MLE: add mle-raise-{int,quit,tstp} functions. Ie., raising
566 those signals via ^C and ^Z is no longer hard-wired (in the
567 MLE), but can be reassigned. (Nicholas Marriott)
569 - The makefiles no longer contain any awk code, that all has been
570 separated into files under mk/. (Alexander Harm)
572 - We now have "test" *mta*#474, which dumps to standard output
573 or optionally to a file, and honours *mbox-fcc-and-pcc*#461:
575 $ echo text | s-nail -:/ -Smta=test -s ubject user@exam.ple
576 $ </dev/null s-nail -:/ -Smta=test://./xy -s ub user@exam.ple
578 - -##89 now acts as if variables were set via -S#79, rather than
579 as via `set'#268, meaning that they are "frozen" for a while.
581 - We have a new `colour'#160 mapping, "mle-error".
582 It applies to error note in *prompt*#515, as well as to any
583 other error logged to the terminal. The latter is temporary
584 until we gain a more fine grained logging facility, which then--
585 likely--introduces an entire mapping family.
587 Btw., for messages not explicitly generated (by, eg.,
588 `echoerr'#182), we now also avoid writing adjacent duplicates,
589 but rather do a syslog-like thing. That error generator has
590 been rewritten a bit, now more expensive, but looks right.
591 (Martin Neitzel, Paul Vojta)
593 - The value of $COLUMNS#613 seen in child processes is now the
594 real one, rather than the one we use (not necessarily identical,
595 dependent on termcap/terminfo/terminal support).
597 - There are now three -v#85 / *verbose*#605 levels, not two.
599 - The HTML filter knows more HTML 4.0 entities. (Russell Bell)
601 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (161)
603 v14.9.13 ("Blue tit's spiral marriage swoop"), 2019-03-08
604 ---------------------------------------------------------
606 Not so much happened as i was busy with other things in the second
607 half of 2018, and could not find a grip: at the source level some
608 efforts to turn this to mailx have taken place, including early
609 work on a code abstraction that will be shared with my (g)roff
610 clone: it was tiring to come back to old ideas that i have already
611 implemented multiple times and in different languages. To mention
614 So: this is a bugfix release, in fact it fixes a tremendous amount
615 thereof, [master] was ahead by 62 commits from [v14.9.11] (not all
616 bugs though, hrmhrm), but also with, well, a few new features, and
617 of course, development to the last minute. ^_^
619 v14.9.13 replaces v14.9.12 from yesterday which would pick up an
620 ISO C 2011 statement that is impracticable, thanks to Johannes
621 Schöpfer and Jürgen Daubert for reporting this (i should test
622 without OPT_AUTOCC more often.) I have also fixed -T to match
623 NEWS (manual and code did the opposite).
624 v14.9.12 balls will be removed from the server.
626 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jörg Schilling,
627 Paride Legovini, Olav Mørkrid, Ralph Corderoy, Rich Felker,
628 Predrag Punosevac, Russell Bell, Dirk-Wilhelm Peters,
629 Jean-Marc Pigeon, Warren Toomey, Cág, Martin Neitzel,
630 Dr. Werner Fink, Dr. Matthias St. Pierre, Kurt Roeckx, Mike Sharov,
631 Joan and Johannes Schöpfer.
633 Very special thanks go to Jean-Marc Pigeon of OSUKISS Linux, who
634 provided me access to a VZGOT container on the most "beefy"
635 machine i have ever had access to! It is ever so astonishing to
636 have work done in 90 seconds on this supercomputer which requires
637 an hour or more here. Thank you, Jean-Marc.
639 And thanks to Kimura-san not only my web server became accessible
640 via TLSv1.3 (out-of-line), but we also have landed on FreeBSD!
641 Kimura-san is the one who installed a sympathic cron job that
642 reminds me of cherry petals wafting in a warm spring breeze --
645 We welcome Russell Bell, Jean-Marc Pigeon, Warren Toomey,
646 Dr. Matthias St. Pierre, Kurt Roeckx, Mike Sharov, Joan and
647 Johannes Schöpfer in THANKS.
649 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
650 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
652 - Packagers could follow stable/* via git(1) and the "grappa" mode
653 of the release script (see README); perl(1) is required to be
654 totally en par with an official release. (Paride Legovini)
656 $ git checkout stable/stable
657 $ sh mk/make-release.sh grappa mybranch
659 Program version is [.], packager release addition shall be: xy
660 Is s-nail <v[.]-xy> correct? [y/n] y
661 Switched to branch 'mybranch'
662 $ git commit -S -n -m 'My release [.]-xy'
664 - $MAKEJOBS vanished, just use -j or whatever your make(1) supports.
665 Luckily the tested make(1)s can be persuaded to dig each others
666 .WAIT / .WAIT: / .NOTPARALLEL: targets.. and do the right thing.
668 - $OBJDIR support added, i use it for building / testing on tmpfs.
669 It works in conjunction with make-emerge.sh, too, thus
670 out-of-tree out-of-tree is possible (more or less; see INSTALL).
671 $ make tangerine OBJDIR=/tmp/x/y/z
673 - Option VAL_PRIVSEP_USER has been renamed to VAL_PS_DOTLOCK_USER
674 (to reflect the new "deep tree" directory layout).
676 - Option OPT_QUOTE_FOLD has been renamed to OPT_FILTER_QUOTE_FOLD
677 (to reflect later code changes upwards compatibly).
679 - New options OPT_CMD_VEXPR and OPT_CMD_CSOP, by default enabled.
680 To include the commands `vexpr'#302 and the new `csop'#166,
681 which now provides the byte string functions of the former.
682 (Still available through `vexpr' until v15.)
683 (I hope to be able to later provide a `usop' or `unisop' or so.)
685 - *v15-compat*#604 can now have a value: if it is set, the
686 `wysh'#130 command modifier which chooses shell quoting rules
687 for some commands is implicit.
689 - We have some (more) backward incompatible changes, though it is
690 likely most users will not recognize the differences.
692 o *headline*#433 format %T is obsolete, %L fits better.
694 o `csop'#166 `hash' and `hash32' subcommands (formerly from
695 `vexpr'#302) use a slightly changed hash algorithm.
696 (Which results in an improved distribution for tested sets of
697 words in power-of-two spaced dictionary.)
698 These are affected by the change in the second next item, too.
700 o Changed to use shell quoting rules for arguments:
702 + `mimetype'#224 and `unmimetype'#225.
703 This is affected by the change in the next item, too.
705 + `shortcut'#272 and `unshortcut'#273.
707 + `mlist'#227 and `unmlist'#228 as well as `mlsubscribe'#229
708 and `unmlsubscribe'#230.
712 o Changed (with legacy compat) the "@[i]" modifier prefix to
713 a question-mark ?[case|..] suffix, as is known from URLs.
714 We head towards direction URL syntax, now here too.
716 + `if'#214 and `elif'#186.
717 E.g., 'wysh if "abc" ==?case "ABC"' is true, as well as is
718 'wysh if 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF -eq?saturated 36#1Y2P0IJ32E8E7'.
719 "==?" and "-eq?" would have been sufficient, here.
720 (No unsigned mode (yet) for `if'#214.)
722 Yes, `if'#214 and `elif'#186 now support `wysh'#130, and
723 see already expanded arguments, then. No more "triggers".
724 This finally makes it possible to write things like
725 ? wysh if X;A;wysh elif Y;B;else;C;end
726 Note 'else;C' not 'else C'.
728 New operators: '-n "$VAR"' and '-z "$VAR"' work like in the
729 shell, '-N varname' and '-Z varname' do not test the
730 expansion but the existence of variables instead.
731 Two argument forms require `wysh'#130.
733 + `mimetype'#224 markers have changed likewise; this also
734 affects *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#500 and *pipe-EXTENSION*#507 (with
735 legacy compatibility and -v/-d obsoletion warnings)!
737 ? mimetype ?t text/x-awk awk
738 ? wysh set pipe-application/pdf='?=&?\
739 trap "rm -f \"${MAILX_FILENAME_TEMPORARY}\"" EXIT;\
740 trap "trap \"\" INT QUIT TERM; exit 1" INT QUIT TERM;\
741 mupdf "${MAILX_FILENAME_TEMPORARY}"'
743 + `vexpr'#302 (and `csop'#166) modifiers changed likewise.
744 The case-insensitive subcommands "ifind" and "iregex" have
745 been obsoleted, just use the ?[case] modifier to the regular
748 P.S.: Thanks to Rich Felker the `regex' subcommands now
749 works as desired even with empty intermediate submatches.
751 o Changed address parse mode for command line arguments plus.
752 This modifies decade old tradition, but results in a more
753 predictable behaviour i think. Most people will possibly even
754 be surprised to see the old behaviour:
756 $ </dev/null s-nail-old -dsubject ' du , de <p@p> , pp , du '
757 -> To: du, de <p@p>, pp
759 $ </dev/null s-nail -dsubject ' du , de <p@p> , pp , du '
760 -> To: "du , de , pp , du " <p@p>
762 Of course anything but perfect, our address parser is very
763 complicated yet far from being acceptable. (Dr. Werner Fink)
766 + -b#59, -c#61 and To: receivers, as above.
767 (We also have a new -T#81 receiver multiplexer, which is
768 configurable in this regard, please see below for more.)
771 This saw more changes: the content is no longer evaluated
772 via shell expression parser (when *v15-compat* is set)..
773 unless explicitly requested via the *expandaddr*#415
776 + *sender*#541 variable.
778 + `addrcodec'#142 command, likewise; old:
779 ? addrc e du , e <w@d> , d
783 ? addrc e du , e <w@d> , d
787 + `digmsg'#174 and `~^'#319 now use this parse mode fix for
788 headers which need a single receiver, which is backward
789 compatible but now safer since it can be fooled less easily
790 (to split into a list what should be a single address, as
791 shown above for `addrcodec'#142).
793 They now can also be forced to use that parse mode for To:,
794 Cc:, Bcc: with a new question mark modifier "?single", here
795 the word "single" is optional.
797 ~^ header insert To?single: exa, <m@ple>
800 - By established rules and popular demand occurrances of '^From_'
801 (see *mbox-rfc4155*#462) will be MBOXO quoted (prefixed with
802 greater-than sign '>') instead of causing a non-destructive
803 encoding like 'quoted-printable' to be chosen, unless context
804 (e.g., message signing) requires otherwise.
805 Only with *mime-encoding*#471=8bit.
807 - We now support long "Options"#5 -- try --long-help.
809 - Finally, it is possible to force sending out messages with the
810 new *mime-force-sendout*#472 variable. If this MUA has been
811 compiled with iconv(3) support it can happen that sending
812 otherwise valid text messages fails because of invalid bytes
813 sequences according to the locale; setting this new variable
814 will avoid this; use *mime-counter-evidence*#470 to view such
815 messages nonetheless. (Dr. Werner Fink)
820 - `mimeview'#226 works again with binary formats. (Russell Bell)
822 - IMAP searches via IMAP without matches no longer report a single
823 match. (Dirk-Wilhelm Peters)
825 - New -Y#87 aka --cmd= option to inject commands to be executed
826 when startup is completed (as opposed to the earlier -X#86 aka
828 These commands appear as if the user had typed them in.
830 - A new *on-history-addition*#492 can be used to filter what
831 enters the `history'#212.
833 - New "fcc" flag for *expandaddr*#415. (Olav Mørkrid)
835 And "domaincheck" will cause target domain comparison against
836 entries in the new *expandaddr-domaincheck*#416. (Olav Mørkrid)
838 - New *mbox-fcc-and-pcc*#461 will write out file and pipe addresses
839 as a plain RFC5322 message rather than an MBOX. (Olav Mørkrid)
841 - The `errors'#190 queue existance and size is announced via
842 *^ERRQUEUE-EXISTS*#354 and *^ERRQUEUE-COUNT*#353.
843 (Russell Bell, Martin Neitzel)
845 - Our MBOX parser is now truly compliant to POSIX.
848 - We follow symbolic links again when writing files.
851 - *tls-rand-file*#596 is in fact now necessarily one of the
852 optional *tls-features*#593. (Mike Sharov)
854 - New command line option -T#81 aka --target='FIELD: BODY'.
855 FIELD can be To:, Cc:, Bcc: or Fcc:.
856 The BODY is parsed as a list (just as if the given FIELD would
857 be part of a template message fed in via -t#82), but the
858 "?single" modifier suffix can be used to avoid this.
861 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (277 + 9)
863 v14.9.11 ("Tit family enjoying a bath"), 2018-08-08
864 ---------------------------------------------------
866 A hot summer bugfix release, but it surely brings in some new
867 features, like TLS fingerprinting and `digmsg' message access.
869 An embarassing number of bugfixes have been seen, to fix IMAP UID
870 handling on 32-bit hosts, UTF-8, `readall' with empty lines, rare
871 endless iconv(3) loops, false qsort(3)ing of addressee lists,
872 crashes due to false user shell quoting, acceptance of "0" port
873 numbers, and more. Most of these cases now have tests.
875 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Paride Legovini,
876 Andrew Gee, Olav Mørkrid, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Dressel,
877 Jürgen Bruckner, Robert Elz, Rudolf Sykora, Doug McIlroy,
878 Gavin Troy and Jörg Schilling.
879 A special credit to Coverity.com again, it found a bug!
880 (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project number 444.)
882 We welcome Andrew Gee, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Dressel,
883 Olav Mørkrid and Jürgen Bruckner in THANKS.
885 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
886 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
888 - I have discovered that GnuPG can --export-secret-subkey so that
889 the real/full private key is no longer needed to --sign, and the
890 excerpts of the private one can have a different password, too.
891 So i have created a new for-signing subkey: EEC8C2FF.
893 Unfortunately it is not possible to verify new signatures with
894 the old public key, an update is necessary. For example via
895 https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/steffen.asc
896 or just update 1883A0DD via normal gpg(1).
898 - Maildir support is now optional but default via OPT_MAILDIR.
901 - I hope for the last time there has been a change to SSL
902 configuration: i have renamed all ssl* variables to tls*.
903 The old ssl* ones still exist until v15, though, yet obsoletion
904 warnings will be produced.
905 This is so because i expect that in a not too distant future
906 only the term TLS will be around.
908 Also the term CipherList was falsely used, it should have been
911 - Most (if not all) commands which take a message list and a file
912 target now use shell-style quoting. (Before that say `copy'#165
913 scanned backwards over "something possibly quoted", took that
914 off, then treated the rest as a message list. Now shell tokens
915 are parsed starting at the front, the last is taken off, and
916 anything before that is the message list.) (Gavin Troy. 2013.)
918 - `~^#'? "header show" now backward-incompatibly shows the address
919 type in field 1, but since this _only_ applies to non-network
920 addresses i made the change.
922 - We will find ncurses on DragonFly BSD.
924 - On Solaris tests no longer need GNU cksum(1): the Solaris cksum
925 is different only for whitespace separators. (Jörg Schilling)
927 - All generated files reside in .obj/, and the tests run in there,
928 too. A "rm -f .obj" should suffice to clean anything up.
933 - `~F'#326, `~f'#327, `~M'#332, `~m'#333, `~U'#341 and `~u'#342
934 now default to the current message (the "dot"). (Andrew Gee)
936 - *indentprefix*#448 handling has had its pitfalls when quoting
937 messages. (Andrew Gee)
939 - -r#78 will again set *from*#430 even after -S#79 has been used
940 to set *from*. (Michael Dressel)
942 - No longer process From: (*from*#430) content via `alternates'#145
943 when Sender: (*sender*#541) is set. (Michael Dressel)
945 - Because the priority class of headers was not taken into
946 account, it could happen that addressees in Cc: would remain but
947 the same in To: were removed. (Michael Dressel)
949 - IMAP accounts for RFC 4551 (and 7162) and supports 64-bit
952 - *spamfilter-rate-scanscore*#578 could crash if specification
953 did not match program output.
955 - Shims for TLSv1.3 support, e.g., for *tls-config-pairs*#590.
957 - Obsoleted *dotlock-ignore-error*, added *dotlock-disable*#409.
960 - In compose-mode, removing the In-Reply-To: header breaks an old,
961 and starts a new thread. (Doug McIlroy)
963 - Added new *forward-inject-tail*#429, *quote-inject-head*#523
964 and *quote-inject-tail*#524 variables, and extended the meaning
967 All of *{forward,quote}-inject-{head,tail}* now support
968 a compose-mode specific set of formats (see
969 *quote-inject-head*#523), for now a few only.
970 (This adds meaning onto the content of *forward-inject-head*#428
971 as introduced in v14.9.0.)
973 The generated output honours *quote-fold*#522, which now takes
974 an optional third argument in order to produce better output.
976 While here, introduce the new command escape `~Q'#335 which
977 performs full *quote*#518 cycles on the given message list.
979 - Fcc: headers are now understood in -t#82 templates or when
980 placed in compose mode (`~v'#343, *editalong*#410 etc.).
981 Since each such header only takes one addressee, no quoting
982 issues apply, the entire header body is the value.
984 - `~|'#318 will pass the entire message including headers when
985 used as "~||", e.g., prepend a file-carbon-copy message header:
987 ~|| echo Fcc: /tmp/test; cat
989 - New `tls'#288 multiplexer command. Yet primitive and only
990 supports a `fingerprint' subcommand. Supports `vput'#129.
992 The new *tls-fingerprint*#594 variable chain aids in adding
993 support for connection verification without an installed CA
994 certificate pool in conjunction with the new
995 *tls-fingerprint-digest*#595 chain.
997 Consequently *smime-sign-message-digest* has been renamed to
998 *smime-sign-digest*#561 (old version will cease in v15).
999 The latter now defaults to SHA512 if possible.
1001 - New MLE commands mle-go-screen-bwd and mle-go-screen-fwd to go
1002 backward and forward one screenful.
1003 And a new mle-clear-screen command. (Todd C. Miller)
1005 - New *expandaddr*#415 setting "shquote" will evaluate addresses
1006 as if specified within $'' shell-quotes for -b#59, -c#61,
1007 and all direct command line receivers. This allows for, e.g.,
1009 $ s-nail -Sexpandaddr=shquote '\$contact-mail'
1011 - *quote-as-attachment*#520 no longer needs to be set before
1012 compose mode is entered in order to become honoured.
1014 - Even for -H#68 or -L#71 *folder-hook*#421s will now be called.
1015 Possible sorting is also applied.
1017 - `='#137 now optionally supports message list arguments and the
1018 `vput'#129 modifier in order to store the result list.
1020 The new `digmsg'#174 multiplexer adds some message access, just
1021 like `~^'#319 does in compose mode. In fact the set of commands
1022 is shared, yet only in compose mode `digmsg' can change messages
1023 or access attachments until v15, however. For example,
1025 #?0[steffen@essex nail.git]$ cat > /tmp/z.rc <<'_EOT'
1028 digmsg create $1 - # no `read'/`readall' overlay but stdout
1029 #digmsg $1 header list
1030 digmsg $1 header show subject
1033 \eval xcall one "$@"
1037 local set all # localize ("localopts yes" would do too)
1038 vput = all *; echo all: $all; eval call one $all
1041 #?0[steffen@essex nail.git]$ MAILRC=/tmp/z.rc \
1042 .obj/s-nail -:u -Snoheader -Squiet -Rf /tmp/z
1046 Re: [S-mailx] FYI: after USB stick loss i have rotated keys, plus
1049 Re: Problem with page?
1052 Re: s-nail Source ...
1056 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (203)
1058 v14.9.10 ("(40th Mail anniversary) Blue tit"), 2018-03-25
1059 ---------------------------------------------------------
1061 On this day in 1978 Kurt Shoens placed the following comment in
1062 def.h (now it is in nail.h):
1065 * Mail -- a mail program
1067 * Author: Kurt Shoens (UCB) March 25, 1978
1070 v14.9.10 is mostly a stability and bugfix release.
1071 It has seen a full test series including Coverity.com scans.
1072 It fixes bugs i have introduced (also a double free in IMAP cache
1073 that i introduced for v14.9.* series to address Coverity CID
1076 In the end i am saying thanks to Gunnar Ritter for the IMAP
1077 module, and absolutely especially his really neat idea of an IMAP
1078 cache including offline work queue. (IMAP will nonetheless
1079 temporarily go in v15, but these ideas will come back thereafter.)
1080 I have gray hairs now.
1082 Credits, in order of commit appearance: William Yodlowsky,
1083 Stuart Henderson, Jörg Schilling, Viktor SZÉPE, Rich Felker,
1084 Ralph Corderoy and Philipp Gesang.
1086 A special credit to Coverity.com again. Because:
1087 tcc is 618496 bytes, pcc is 851968+24576 bytes,
1088 but gcc is 73355264 bytes and clang is even
1089 147406848 bytes, i wonder why the latter two never
1090 said a word that would have addressed the pretty
1091 obvious CID 1387053!
1092 [Use of initialized value, the author.]
1094 We welcome Stuart Henderson and Philipp Gesang in THANKS.
1096 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1097 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1099 - The balls are now build with umask 0022 not 0027.
1100 (William Yodlowsky, Stuart Henderson)
1102 - One actual development of this version was the addition of
1103 multiple choice VAL_ues, as documented in make.rc.
1104 For now we have VAL_IDNA (for OPT_IDNA)
1105 VAL_IDNA="idnkit idn2 idn"
1106 and VAL_RANDOM (by itself)
1107 VAL_RANDOM="arc4 ssl libgetrandom sysgetrandom urandom builtin"
1111 The value is interpreted as a whitespace separated list of
1112 strings, like "idn2 idn idnkit", case is ignored, order is
1114 The special strings "all" and "any" as well as the empty value
1115 are wildcard matches; if any entry in the list is a wildcard
1116 match, the rest of the list is ignored.
1118 The special string "error" will abort configuration once its
1119 list position is reached; this is only supported if
1120 documented, and not with an accompanying OPT_ (which then
1121 offers "require", as below).
1123 Since this VAL_RANDOM approach is so much better i have dropped
1124 OPT_SSL_RANDOM and OPT_NOEXTRANDOM that were recently
1125 introduced again. They were c..p.
1127 - Support for idnkit 2.3 has been added.
1128 Support for idnkit 1 (especially as idnkitlite) has been fixed.
1130 - For the first time this codebase should be able to handle
1131 invalid MBOX mailboxes (produced by, e.g., dma(1)) gracefully.
1132 I hope i have found all places (sic) where code has to be fixed.
1133 E.g., "? copy * INVALID-MBOX" now works.
1134 (Smalltalk already knew objects which know what they are doing
1135 are for the better... This is v15, then.)
1137 - P.S.: the two FreeBSD test failures are noted in INSTALL.
1142 - *asksend*#368 will now really allow recomposing.
1144 - `help'#211 now supports recursive `commandalias'#162es, and
1145 command self-recursion detection now works differently, it has
1146 been false for something like
1148 commandalias x q; commandalias q echo au
1150 since q became expanded to `quit'#249 (alias expansion equals
1151 new command word). New behaviour: we allow equals once:
1153 commandalias q q; commandalias x q; x
1157 - *editalong*#410 can have a value, say "set editalong=v" and it
1158 will startup $VISUAL#638 not $EDITOR#615.
1160 - Path separators are now normalized, thus all places, including
1161 MLE tab-expansion ("On terminal control and line editor"#17),
1162 can expand something like "///t*////t*".
1164 - -E#64 flag will not be obsoleted.
1165 -D#62 flag has been reintroduced (sets *disconnected*#662 right
1166 away, was not reinstantiated with the rest of the IMAP support.)
1168 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (71)
1170 v14.9.9 ("Marsh tit savours first spring sun, II") 2018-03-06
1171 -------------------------------------------------------------
1174 I hope with this the fallout of the Christmas 2016 "address the
1175 Dr. Problem workshop" has been fully resolved and thus MIME for
1176 header address fields, even if iconv(3) is involved, been fully
1177 restored! We have even more tests for this now.
1179 The release v14.9.8 was broken on big endian machines.
1180 I will remove the v14.9.8 balls from the server by the weekend.
1181 Sorry for the inconvenience!
1183 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Slavko, Matej Mužila,
1184 Rich Felker, Simon McVittie, Paride Legovini, Cág,
1187 We welcome Slavko, Matej Mužila, Rich Felker and Simon McVittie in
1190 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1191 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1193 - The v14.9.* series called *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#500 handlers in
1194 display or quote mode with CR (carriage-return) bytes stripped
1195 because of a missing output file comparison check, which broke
1196 binary formats etc. (Slavko)
1198 - We now have native support for Libidn2. (Matej Mužila)
1200 - uname(1) is now hookable by setting the shell variable uname
1201 when calling make ("uname=MY-UNAME make config" etc.).
1204 We no longer bake the kernel version into the binary, and
1205 `version'#301 includes uname(2) output.
1206 (Simon McVittie, Paride Legovini)
1208 - We now support a fallback P(seudo)R(andomNumber)G(enerator)
1209 initialization even if getrandom(2)/getrandom(3) has been found
1210 by the configuration, just like we do for "/dev/urandom" usage.
1211 This does not affect systems with arc4random(3) or OpenSSL
1212 random usage. (David Čepelík, Simon McVittie)
1214 A new OPT_SSL_RANDOM make.rc variable, by default initialized to
1215 the value of OPT_SSL.
1220 - `~@'#317 list-edit behaviour in -##89 batch mode was broken.
1222 - Character set names will now undergo generic normalization,
1223 including stripping of iconv(3) //SUFFIXes.
1225 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (33)
1227 v14.9.7 ("Marsh tit patiently scraping bark") 2018-02-16
1228 --------------------------------------------------------
1230 A maintenance release which fixes bugs and brings in features.
1232 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Alexander Harm,
1233 Viktor SZÉPE, Paul Eggert, Joseph Bisch, Paride Legovini,
1234 and Peter J. Holzer.
1235 A special credit to the disappearing mutt(1) bug tracker.
1236 And to Gmane.org for creating gmane.mail.s-mailx.general!
1238 Thanks Paride Legovini for becoming maintainer of the Debian port.
1240 We welcome Joseph Bisch, Paride Legovini, and Peter J. Holzer in
1243 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1244 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1246 - The USB stick loss reported for v14.9.6 was fake news, so to
1247 say, the stick exists and therefore the old key is not
1250 - We are back at Gmane.org!
1251 news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.s-mailx.general
1253 - `history'#212 has learned to be context-sensitive a bit, and
1254 has two new subcommands, `load' and `save'.
1256 This is in parts backward incompatible because it needs a new
1257 *history-file*#436 format; however, the old format can be loaded
1258 yet compose-mode commands will not appear in compose mode no
1259 more. Iirc you can start with an old format then `save' to
1260 the new, then replace the "d" in the first column with "c" for
1261 compose-mode commands which should appear correctly.
1263 - Obsoletion warnings for variables now happen at `set'#268
1264 time instead of when used. Running once via -v#85 may
1267 - The saturation modifier of `vexpr'#302 is henceforth a prefix,
1268 the suffix version is obsolete (but still supported for a while).
1270 - A network address that contains no domain-, but only a valid local
1271 user <name> in angle brackets will be automatically expanded to
1272 a valid address when *hostname*#441 is set to a non-empty value;
1273 setting it to the empty value instructs us that the used *mta*#474
1274 (including builtin SMTP) will perform the necessary expansion.
1277 Note that *hostname*#441 as well as *smtp-hostname*#564
1278 will now undergo IDNA expansion if IDNA is supported.
1280 And *from*#430 and *sender*#541 are now verified at `set'#268
1281 time, not when used. (Viktor SZÉPE)
1283 - The commit message in [d503bd82] is wrong, apologies to
1284 Paride Legovini. The test(1) operator "-n" appeared in Seventh
1285 Edition UNIX, not V8 as falsely claimed.
1290 - Our `addrcodec'#142 parser chokes on lesser constructs.
1292 - Presence of command-line MTA arguments without *expandargv*#417
1293 are now a hard error. It was my fault that this was not the
1294 default from the very start. (Viktor SZÉPE)
1296 - Seen on the mutt bug tracker, we also still have had problems
1297 with time settings that cross 32-bit boundaries. As that is
1298 in parts induced by the C standard, now implement those parts on
1299 our own, and be super careful in general. (Joseph Bisch)
1301 - The `~@'#317 command escape did not shell-unquote the user input
1302 again and was thus a bit broken; message attachments also work
1305 - Support custom headers from the command line via -C#60.
1306 And *customhdr*#403 is verified upon `set'#268 time.
1308 - The simple builtin HTML viewer now supports <blockquote>
1309 elements, which many web mailers, most notably gmail, use for
1310 citation. (Peter J. Holzer)
1312 git(1) shortlog: Paride Legovini (1), Steffen Nurpmeso (66)
1314 v14.9.6 ("Marsh tit abiding a snow storm"), 2017-12-05
1315 ------------------------------------------------------
1317 A bugfix release which fixes four serious and three other bugs.
1318 A few new features came in, too.
1320 Many thanks go to Ralph Corderoy who reported an issue that was
1321 caused by a terrible, terrible word reversal that i managed to
1322 produce in December 2016, and which caused the v14.9.x series to
1323 not MIME encode (non-address) content of address header fields!
1325 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Thomas Dickey,
1326 Andreas Baumann, Erich Eckner, Gaetan Bisson, Solar Designer, Cág,
1327 Ivan Tham, Ralph Corderoy and Doug McIlroy.
1329 We welcome Andreas Baumann, Erich Eckner, Solar Designer and Cág
1332 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1333 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1335 - After USB stick loss the authors OpenPGP key has been switched to
1337 pub 4096R/1883A0DD 2017-11-30 [expires: 2027-11-28]
1339 EE19 E1C1 F2F7 054F 8D39 54D8 3089 64B5 1883 A0DD
1340 uid Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
1342 - $TMPDIR#636 no longer honoured for root runs. (Solar Designer)
1344 - *mime-encoding*#471 defaults to quoted-printable again. (Cág)
1346 - We _can_ MIME encode even header fields which contain addresses.
1347 Thanks to Ralph Corderoy we now also _do_ so again!
1352 - ***#336 now uses *ifs*#443 when splitting.
1354 - Freezing *ttycharset*#600 via -S#79 also survives using or
1355 setting any of $LC_ALL#617, $LC_CTYPE#618 and $LANG#619 during
1358 - New `local'#126 command modifier to localize changes.
1359 Yet supported only for `set'#268, i.e., we have gained
1360 macro-local variables.
1362 - `vexpr'#302 now supports a BASE#number notation for integers,
1363 like 16#AFFE as an alternative to 0xAFFE.
1365 Hint: variable settings can most often use several bases, too,
1366 e.g., i have "set mime-counter-evidence=0b1111".
1368 - Very simple form of *quote-chars*#521 to adjust our knowledge of
1369 what actually is to be treated as a quote character.
1371 - *mime-counter-evidence*#470 deep inspection (bit four) has
1372 been improved for the sole cases of quoting or displaying
1373 a message. So messages with less than 25% of control characters
1374 and such will now be displayed (made printable). This is yet
1375 not configurable nor do we have a way to easily access a message
1376 with more than that. (Doug McIlroy)
1378 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (44)
1380 v14.9.5 ("Marsh tit engaged with a peanut"), 2017-10-21
1381 -------------------------------------------------------
1383 A bugfix release which fixes two bugs which were cast in stone.
1384 A few compatibility improvements (AlpineLinux, Solaris).
1387 Apologies to Jörg Schilling, a git bug i think it was who caused
1388 joining of changesets, losing a credit, and it had been pushed to
1389 [master] before the problem was realized.
1391 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jörg Schilling,
1392 Doug McIlroy, Random832, Nick Stoughton and Ivan Tham.
1394 We welcome Nick Stoughton and Ivan Tham in THANKS.
1396 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1397 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1399 - New OPT_USE_PKGSYS option can be disabled to not automatically
1400 pick known package system paths (pkg(7), OpenCSW, schily).
1406 - The software indeed _never_ dealt with iconv(3) output character
1407 set errors (as opposed to invalid input character set byte
1408 sequences etc.) for the main message body!
1409 And I have missed that when i tweaked our iconv layer a bit!
1411 - Fixed a race condition with sigsuspend(2) that i could only see
1412 on OpenBSD. config.h offers n_SIGSUSPEND_NOT_WAITPID, by the
1413 way, which saves some systemcalls and did not run races, but
1414 noone adjusts this file.
1416 - Message list specifications gained two new colon modifiers, one
1417 can now "search :Ll" to find "Mailing lists"#10.
1418 The *headline*#433 format %T now also uses L and l rather than
1419 S and L accordingly.
1421 New `addrcodec'#142 subcommand `skinlist' acts like `skin'
1422 but stores in *!*#348 *^ERR*#350-EXIST if the address is
1423 one of the known "Mailing lists"#10.
1425 - `echo'#181 family now supports `vput'#129 and *!*#348 error
1426 storage, offering some kind of printf(1) experience, almost.
1428 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (35)
1430 v14.9.4 ("(5th anniversary) Marsh tit"), 2017-09-18
1431 ---------------------------------------------------
1433 This is an update feature release but which also ships a furious
1434 number of bug fixes, about six of which were pretty serious. It
1435 also applies overall trimming, and improves configuration time
1436 compatibility on macOS.
1438 Thanks to Alexander Harm there is now a macOS Homebrew package.
1440 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Paul Vojta, Daniel Lublin,
1441 Alexander Harm, Norman Ramsey, Viktor Szépe, Rich Salz,
1442 David Čepelík, Ralph Corderoy, Stéphane Chazelas, Aharon Robbins,
1445 We welcome Daniel Lublin, Alexander Harm, David Čepelík and
1446 Stéphane Chazelas in THANKS.
1448 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1449 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1451 - Out-of-tree builds have become possible via the new
1452 make-emerge.sh script:
1454 $ cd /tmp && mkdir build && cd build &&
1455 ~/src/nail.git/make-emerge.sh &&
1456 make tangerine DESTDIR=.ddir
1458 We now have a `citron' make target which is like `tangerine' but
1459 does not run the tests.
1461 - Configuration with OPT_AUTOCC honours $CC=cc. (Norman Ramsey)
1463 - SSL/TLS configuration has been revamped (again) in order to
1464 support new possibilities of OpenSSL (and LibreSSL) without
1465 ending up and introducing more and more variables.
1467 Instead we now have *ssl-config-pairs*, a comma-separated
1468 list of all options. With e.g. OpenSSL 1.1.xx this will be
1469 directly passed through to SSL_CONF_cmd(), so there _anything_
1470 can be passed, otherwise we use a builtin parser to map.
1471 The new *ssl-features*#? states what is supported. E.g.:
1473 if [ "$ssl-features" =% +ctx-set-maxmin-proto ]
1474 wysh set ssl-config-pairs='\
1475 CipherList=TLSv1.2:!aNULL:!eNULL:@STRENGTH,\
1476 Curves=P-521:P-384:P-256,\
1477 MinProtocol=TLSv1.1'
1479 wysh set ssl-config-pairs='\
1480 CipherList=TLSv1.2:!aNULL:!eNULL:@STRENGTH,\
1481 Curves=P-521:P-384:P-256,\
1482 Protocol=-ALL\,+TLSv1.1 \, +TLSv1.2'
1485 OpenSSL v1.1.xx also introduces an interesting and neat idea to
1486 centralize SSL/TLS configuration of (all) programs in a single
1487 file. This can be driven via *ssl-config-file* and the new
1488 *ssl-config-module* variables, several entries per program
1489 are allowed, see *ssl-config-module* for an example.
1491 New manual section "Encrypted network communication"#13.
1493 - Variables set or unset via -S#79 are now frozen until program
1494 startup is complete.
1499 - Historical behaviour of *askcc*#366 / *askbcc*#367 has been
1500 reintroduced. (Norman Ramsey)
1502 A new *asksend*#368 variable will show a final header summary
1503 and allows reentering compose mode. Set by default.
1505 POSIX mirrors *ask* onto *asksub*#370, so dropped" the former.
1507 - `~^'#319 no longer normalizes header names to titlecase.
1509 - We no longer generate charset=binary MIME parameters.
1510 This was introduced on 2013-01-02 and was i think owed to
1511 file(1)s -i output as i failed to find any other reference.
1514 - *mime-alternative-favour-rich*#469 now also works for handlers
1515 installed via *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#500. (Viktor Szépe)
1517 - v14.9.* series did not generate In-Reply-To: headers!
1519 - `alias'#143 now supports high-bit bytes and semicolon.
1520 Expect that at some later time the input must be valid according
1521 to the locale, though. (Norman Ramsey)
1523 - Combinations of *record*#527 could crash because of an
1524 unterminated variable function argument list. (Norman Ramsey)
1526 - New command `readall'#252 loads an entire file into a variable.
1528 *signature*#548 has been obsoleted.
1530 - `vexpr'#302 now supports negative arguments for the substring
1531 subcommand and adds trim, trim-front and trim-end subcommands.
1533 - `!'#133 can be used in send mode.
1535 - `~A'#320, `~a'#321, `~I'#330 and `~i'#331 will henceforth expand
1536 \t and \n only if *posix*#513 is set.
1537 Please use `set'#268 instead (with `wysh'#130, until v15).
1539 - New "The mime.types files"#35 type marker: @q ("quiet").
1541 git(1) shortlog (edited): Steffen (Daode) Nurpmeso (90)
1543 v14.9.3 ("Crested tit nibbling sunflower seeds"), 2017-08-03
1544 ------------------------------------------------------------
1546 This is a bugfix release but which ships some improvements, too.
1547 It silently replaces both of v14.9.1 v14.9.2 from earlier this
1548 week, which were broken or not entirely fixed.
1550 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Felix Fontein, Paul Vojta,
1551 Ralph Corderoy, Christos Zoulas, Gavin Troy, Gaetan Bisson.
1552 Thanks, Coverity.com.
1554 We welcome Christos Zoulas in THANKS.
1556 Apologies to Viktor Szépe for the false spelling of his name in
1557 the v14.9.0 announcement.
1558 And to Gaetan Bisson for not giving credit for [14fbce97]!
1560 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1561 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1563 - fakeroot support was blindly taken from Debian and broken.
1564 (Gavin Troy, Gaetan Bisson)
1566 - Base64 output was broken for cases which involved iconv(3).
1567 The data is not lost, you can read it with S-nail v14.9.0 and
1568 above, and save it somewhere. I know of no other base64 decoder
1569 which reads those things correctly, though. We now have tests.
1570 Along this i fixed an iconv(3) error which likely caused
1571 stateful decoding (like, e.g., for ISO-2022-JP) to fail because
1572 of an unnecessary reset of the iconv(3) state machine.
1573 Thanks to Gaetan Bisson for mentioning this issue!
1578 - In compose mode the MLE allows empty lines again.
1580 - We no longer require a writable $HOME#616. Due to false code
1581 flow (but but but: with correct comment) a non-writable $HOME
1582 entry in /etc/password (i.e., from getpwuid(3)) would lead to
1583 a crash. (Felix Fontain; Ralph Corderoy)
1585 - Two faulty string operations slipped into the IMAP code,
1586 resulting in a crash and a "is-same-host" test that would fail
1587 for IMAPS connections like `save'#265 or `copy'#165 because of an
1588 implicit IMAP protocol for the target of those operations (thus
1589 IMAP != IMAPS). (Paul Vojta)
1591 - The MLE tab-expansion will now automatically append a "/" if
1592 there is only one possible expansion and that is a directory,
1593 saving the user one <TAB>. (Christos Zoulas)
1595 The shell expression parser had a bug regarding understood
1596 metacharacters (;|&), which in turn could cause an infinite loop
1597 in the MLE tab-expansion for, e.g., "move &9 +<TAB>", because
1598 the "&" would never have been stepped over.
1600 - New `~I'#330 command escape is like `~i'#331 but does not append
1603 - `localopts'#217 gained an optional second argument.
1604 It is now possible to specify that any macro `call'#151ed
1605 will have localopts enabled, and it is possible to fixate the
1606 setting so that it cannot be reverted.
1608 - *@*#356 should now act completely compatible to the sh(1)ell,
1609 thus obsoleting my hysteric warnings in the v14.9.0 announcement.
1611 - The `Lreply'#219, `reply'#258, `Reply'#256 series as well as
1612 `mail'#221 now manage the error status *!*#348.
1613 I.e., there are now errors like *^ERR*#350-DESTADDRREQ,
1614 ^ERR-NODATA, ^ERR-PERM and similar. It is not perfect yet,
1615 because $DEAD#614 may have been written (with *save*#536) or not,
1618 `Lreply' and `reply' have been rewritten rather completely
1619 indeed. They join Reply-To: and Mail-Followup-To: dependent on
1620 the context (i.e., *reply-to-honour*#533, *followup-to-honour*#425,
1621 see "Mailing lists"#10 for the picture), and if they did, use
1622 this list as the receivers exclusively. It now honours
1623 *recipients-in-cc*#526 even for such addressees. (And now i wonder
1624 whether i should have credited Paul Vojta for that.)
1626 Also `Lreply' would have crashed for mails with Reply-To: but
1627 without *reply-to-honour*#533 set. We now have a test.
1629 Note *replyto* is obsoleted in favour of *reply-to*#532.
1631 v14.9.0 ("Long-tailed tit"), 2017-07-16
1632 ---------------------------------------
1634 This is a major feature release which took about ~22 months (24
1635 less two) of development to complete, and which imposed massive
1636 changes under the hood, but also quite a lot of user visible
1637 changes, including some **backward incompatibilities**.
1638 As usual, "s-nail -d" will show obsoletion warnings.
1640 We gain noticeable improvements regarding scriptability and its
1641 reliability, but also for interactive use cases, especially
1642 notable to users is our completely new M(ailx)L(ine)E(ditor) that
1643 supports rather real tabulator expansion and program-mode-context-
1644 sensitive key bindings.
1646 We now support macros with arguments, which can be `shift'ed,
1647 a `return' status can be used, and a `vexpr' multiplexer offers
1648 some arithmetic and string operations. `commandalias'es are
1649 recursive, further command modifier prefixes, like `ignerr', give
1650 a hand that we otherwise could not offer. In compose-mode the new
1651 `~^' command escape allows some message and attachment access, and
1652 can be used, e.g., to implement things like custom headers, and
1653 has been especially designed for scripted access via the new
1654 *on-compose-splice* and *on-compose-splice-shell* hooks.
1656 S-nail will move (more or less) backward-incompatibly to sh(1)ell
1657 compatible argument quoting (documented in "COMMANDS"), and an
1658 increasing number of commands do support this already: new ones
1659 exclusively, some old ones have either been switched (like
1660 `localopts'), others -- noticeably `set' -- can be switched to the
1661 new syntax with a `wysh' command modifier prefix. E.g.:
1664 # Be careful to choose sh(1)ell-style on _entire_ line!
1665 localopts yes; wysh set verbose; ignerr eval "${@}"; return $?
1667 ? commandalias call echo boo-boo
1668 ? commandalias xv call __xv
1670 ? commandalias xv '\'call __xv
1673 Calling the latter `xv' for `list' will give more detailed command
1674 information, including which kind of argument is used.
1676 I have not managed to implement the three features i have started
1677 this development cycle for, these are thus subject to further
1678 development, just like wysh for message-list argument commands to
1679 support, e.g., negation, wysh for `if' and consorts, the --
1680 terminator to finally overcome the ridiculous requirement to quote
1681 entire shell commands filenames for commands like `pipe.
1684 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Antonio Radici,
1685 Aharon Robbins, Mike Frysinger, Predrag Punosevac, Michael Convey,
1686 Hariskar, Rudolf Sykora, Martin Neitzel, Gavin Troy,
1687 Salvatore Bonaccorso, Todd C. Miller, Sergey Matveev, Robert Elz,
1688 Mantas Mikulėnas, Respiranto, Jens Schleusener, Walter Alejandro
1689 Iglesias, Ralph Corderoy, David Levine, Lyndon Nerenberg,
1690 Thomas Dickey, Afan, Justin Ellingwood, Ingo Schwarze,
1691 Viktor Szépe, Gaetan Bisson, Juan RP, William Yodlowsky,
1692 Hilko Bengen, Matthew Dillon, Colin Watson, Donald Mugnai,
1693 Stephen Isard, Jürgen Daubert, Sven Neuhaus, trondd, Ismael Bouya,
1694 Felipe Gasper, Paul Eggert, Dr. Werner Fink, Ken Hornstein,
1695 Noel Chiappa, Random832, Doug McIlroy, Baptiste Daroussin,
1696 Riccardo Ductor, Pietro Cerutti, Jörg Schilling, rain1, Xin LI.
1698 We welcome Antonio Radici, Mike Frysinger, Predrag Punosevac,
1699 Michael Convey, Rudolf Sykora, Todd C. Miller, Robert Elz,
1700 Jens Schleusener, Walter Alejandro Iglesias, Thomas Dickey, Afan,
1701 Justin Ellingwood, Viktor Szépe, Juan RP, Matthew Dillon,
1702 Colin Watson, Donald Mugnai, Sven Neuhaus, Ismael Bouya,
1703 Felipe Gasper, Paul Eggert, Dr. Werner Fink, Ken Hornstein,
1704 Noel Chiappa, Random832, Doug McIlroy, Baptiste Daroussin,
1705 Riccardo Ductor, Pietro Cerutti, Jörg Schilling, rain1, and
1708 Apologies: Sergey Matveev.
1709 Members of the Roff community which await progress.
1711 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1712 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1714 * This release brings some backward incompatibilities, outlined
1715 in the following. Most users will not be affected, and we have
1716 added a lot of compatibility cruft, but that will vanish in v15.
1719 * The configuration and build system has changed.
1720 Packagers have received updated package files.
1722 o Anything which was WANT_xy before is now OPT_xy, and
1723 compiled-in paths and values, like PREFIX or PAGER, have
1724 gained a VAL_ prefix (thus VAL_PREFIX and VAL_PAGER).
1726 This is _not_ true for non-persistent or environmental values,
1727 e.g., DESTDIR, CC, etc., and also not for the overwritable
1728 program variables during configuration, e.g., $awk.
1730 o SENDMAIL -> VAL_MTA, SENDMAIL_PROGNAME -> VAL_MTA_ARGV0,
1731 MAILSPOOL -> VAL_MAIL.
1732 And NAIL -> VAL_MAILX, though this is still a lie.
1734 o The make system now needs config..build..install or
1735 all..install or tangerine (config..build..test..install).
1736 Some constants which some experts may want to fine-tune have
1737 been moved to config.h. Usual adjustments+doc via make.rc.
1739 o The `build' phase can be parallelized by setting the $MAKEJOBS
1740 environment variable, e.g., "make MAKEJOBS=-j4 build".
1741 Note this variable is not tracked in the configuration.
1744 o Unless DESTDIR is set an uninstallation script will be
1745 installed along with the rest (see INSTALL file for more).
1747 o Set the new OPT_CROSS_BUILD to avoid feature runtime tests,
1748 only compile- and link-availability will be tested. (Juan RP)
1750 o VERBOSE is implemented straight, but must be given at
1751 configuration time in order to become honoured.
1754 o ADDCFLAGS / ADDLDFLAGS -> EXTRA_CFLAGS / EXTRA_LDFLAGS.
1756 o The LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc. building processes will skip any path
1757 which contains the string "fakeroot". (Hilko Bengen)
1759 o We honour a set $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH#634 environment variable to
1760 an extend that allows reproducible tests, which is why the
1761 repository gained a [test-out] branch with some expected plain
1762 text outputs. (reproducible-builds.org; Colin Watson)
1764 The new *log-prefix*#455 variable aids in improving the
1765 reproducibility of error messages.
1767 o These are upward compatible changes.
1769 * "make OPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000 all" should work.
1771 * Internal and environment variables are now explicitly _defined_
1772 and _tracked_ after variable handling has been rewritten
1775 o This means that, e.g., "$ password=NOT_SECRET s-nail" will
1776 **NOT** work no more, since *password*#498 is an internal
1779 o But if you do, e.g., "? set TMPDIR=~/tmp", then this will
1780 also be reflected in the program environment (it is an
1781 environment variable) and thus affect child processes.
1783 o Therefore we no longer have `setenv' and `unsetenv'.
1785 o To integrate any other environment variable transparently
1786 into our variable management, the new command `environ'#189
1787 needs to be used, e.g., "? environ set NEWVAR=value" or
1788 "? environ link EXISTINGVAR".
1790 - -H#68 and -L#71 have been decoupled:
1791 it used to be -e#65 -L#71 instead!
1793 - *NAIL_{HEAD,TAIL}* have been obsoleted in favour of
1794 *message-inject-head*#465 and *message-inject-tail*#466.
1796 *NAIL_HIST{FILE,SIZE}* have been obsoleted in favour of
1797 *history-file*#436 and *history-size*#439.
1799 *NAIL_EXTRA_RC* has been obsoleted in favour of
1800 *mailx-extra-rc*#459.
1802 *batch-exit-on-error* has been obsoleted by *errexit*#413, which
1803 works just like the POSIX sh(1)ell "set -e" construct; the
1804 `ignerr'#125 command modifier (`-' for command escapes in compose
1805 mode, and see below) can be used to ignore command errors even
1806 then. (This will remain even if we at some later time will
1807 support at least some of the sh(1) constructs which "swallow"
1808 failures with set -e.)
1810 *bsdannounce* is obsolete, the feature is integrated in
1811 *header*#432 as this is much more useful. (This is however also
1812 dependent upon the also new but well-known $POSIXLY_CORRECT#631
1813 <> *posix*#513, but that is just how it is; these affect more
1814 behaviour, and increasing.)
1816 - Colour support has been changed backward in- and upward (from
1817 user interface side) compatibly, see the manual section
1818 "Coloured display"#18.
1820 + New commands: `colour'#160 and `uncolour'#161.
1821 You can define context-sensitive, terminal-capability-
1822 sensitive settings, e.g.:
1824 if terminal && [ "$features" =% +colour ]
1825 colour iso view-header ft=bold,fg=magenta,bg=cyan
1826 colour 256 view-header ft=bold,fg=208,bg=230 subject,from
1827 colour mono view-header ft=bold
1828 colour mono view-header ft=bold,ft=reverse subject,from
1831 + The variable *colour-pager*#395 defines whether colour and font
1832 attribute sequences should be generated when viewing something
1835 + Set the variable *colour-disable*#394 to turn colour off
1836 without affecting established settings.
1838 + It is deduced via termcap(5) (see below) whether the terminal
1839 supports colors, e.g., "$ s-nail -Stermcap=Co#256".
1840 This is also true if we don't have termcap support.
1842 + Support for 256-colour terminals. (Gavin Troy)
1844 - `source'#280 series support shell pipes if the last character
1845 of the "filename" ends with a vertical bar |, e.g.,
1847 ? source 'gpg -qd ~/.s-nailrc-private.gpg |'
1849 - Shell pipes are also supported as targets for `move'#232,
1850 `copy'#165 etc., yet unfortunately not with via a sh(1)ell token
1851 parser, so that the target still has to be a single argument.
1853 ? copy . '| cat; echo huhu'
1855 - Support for custom headers via the new `~^'#319 compose-mode
1856 command escape and in addition, or alternatively, with the
1857 internal variable *customhdr*#403, which also can be covered by
1858 `localopts'#217. (Sergey Matveev)
1860 + Support of $ORGANIZATION has been dropped.
1862 + Command escape `~e'#325 supports _any_ header.
1864 + Command escape `~^'#319 supports _any_ header.
1866 - New -:#55 command line option can be used to more easily select
1867 which startup files should be loaded, e.g., -:/ loads none.
1870 - `account'#140s and *folder-hook*#421s now have `localopts'#217
1873 - A first simple form of compose-mode hooks has been implemented:
1874 *on-compose-enter*#488, *on-compose-leave*#489 and
1875 *on-compose-cleanup*#487 can be set to macros which get invoked
1876 at appropriate times.
1877 For the `resend'#261 series there is *on-resend-enter*#496 and
1878 *on-resend-cleanup*#495: this is very likely to change once
1879 true message access is possible even in this mode.
1881 An even more powerful mechanism is available via the also new
1882 *on-compose-splice*#490 and *on-compose-splice-shell*#491 hooks.
1883 These are executed in child processes and communicate with the
1884 parent via their standard input and output, and therefore can
1885 do anything and act as if they were the user.
1887 `localopts'#217 are enabled and cannot be disabled (and extend
1888 until the message is sent).
1889 (Jens Schleusener, Rudolf Sykora)
1891 ? set on-compose-splice=ocs
1894 echo Splice protocol version is $ver
1895 echo '~^header list'
1896 read hl; vput vexpr es substring "${hl}" 0 1
1898 echoerr 'Failed to read header list, bailing out'
1900 elif [ "$hl" @i!% ' cc' ]
1901 echo '~^header insert cc Diet is your <mirr.or>'
1902 read es; vput vexpr es substr "${es}" 0 1
1904 echoerr 'Failed to insert Cc:, bailing out'; echo '~x'
1909 - "The .netrc file"#37
1911 + gained support for comments.
1912 (Walter Alejandro Iglesias, Ralph Corderoy)
1914 + `netrc'#236 now has a "load" subcommand.
1916 + the new *netrc-pipe*#482 obsoletes OPT_AGENT and
1917 *agent-shell-lookup*, and can be used to load an encrypted
1920 ? set netrc-lookup netrc-pipe='gpg -qd ~/.netrc.gpg'
1922 I.e., this is in usual .netrc syntax and thus possibly much
1923 nicer than saying "? source 'gpg -qd ~/.credentials.gpg |'".
1925 - termcap(5) / terminfo(5) support has been changed backward in-
1926 and upward (from user interface side) compatibly, please read
1927 "On terminal control and line editor"#17.
1929 + OPT_TERMCAP is by default enabled.
1930 The new, by default enabled, configuration option
1931 OPT_TERMCAP_VIA_TERMINFO can be used to (try to) use
1932 terminfo(5) instead.
1934 + The variable *termcap*#581 can be used to freely define or
1935 override terminal capabilities, and *termcap-disable*#583 will
1936 disable interaction with the chosen library, leaving only
1937 *termcap* in charge.
1939 To use the so-called ca-mode on supporting terminals,
1940 effectively turning S-nail into a fullscreen application,
1941 *termcap-ca-mode*#582 must be set.
1943 + The built-in line editor has been rather completely rewritten
1944 to be the Mailx-Line-Editor (OPT_MLE, default yes), and
1945 supports wide glyphs (if possible), infinite line lengths
1946 (2 GB) and more. Tabulator expansion is no longer an option
1947 (but needs fnmatch(3)).
1949 + Optionally (OPT_KEY_BINDINGS, default yes) it has become
1950 possible to freely define key bindings for the MLE via the new
1951 `bind'#149 and `unbind'#150 commands. These key bindings can
1952 make use of termcap(5) and/or terminfo(5) names. The MLE will
1953 install a set of default bindings (unless there is a set
1954 *line-editor-no-defaults*#454), more so with OPT_TERMCAP,
1955 i.e., try "? bind*".
1957 Sufficient support provided, one can now, e.g., type "p " and
1958 then collect the message numbers to type, scrolling forward
1959 and backward via key-bindings, without losing the line
1960 content, then commit the final line.
1962 + OPT_EDITLINE and OPT_READLINE support have been dropped.
1963 The new MLE should not miss anything. Does it?
1964 Tip: in an UTF-8 locale try "? !touch /tmp/hall{,öchen}" and
1965 then autocomplete that: once, then ^Q, and again.
1967 - `source'#280 can be used in `call'#151ed macros.
1968 What sounds so innocent replaced an entire machinery and got rid
1969 of a brilliant idea of Kurt Shoens from the 70s, but which never
1970 worked with Nail/Heirloom extensions, namely macros, and in the
1972 Accompanying this -X#86 can (dig multiline arguments and can) be
1973 used to define macros and run them etc. Should work:
1975 $ s-nail -X'define x {' -Xversion -Xx -X'}' -X'call x'
1976 $ s-nail -X'source \' -X'"echo version|"' -Xx
1978 Macros can be `undefine'#171d from within themselves, and re-
1979 `define'#170d. It is still not possible to define macros
1980 from within macros, and/or have inner macros, not to talk
1981 about local scoping or anything more sophisticated such.
1983 - -u#83 / $LOGNAME#622 ($USER) handling has been redefined,
1984 and "-u USER" is now exactly the same as "-f %USER", and
1985 $LOGNAME (and $USER) is actively set to the active user. (Afan)
1987 $LOGNAME#622 is POSIX standardized and henceforth used and
1988 preferred over $USER, which came from BSD. (Todd C. Miller)
1990 - In the future (at least non-message-list) argument handling will
1991 be changed backward-incompatibly to be sh(1)ell compatible (and
1992 thus POSIX standardized), see "Shell-style argument quoting"#23.
1993 New commands use it already today (`bind'#149, `colour'#160,
1994 `headerpick'#208), some others (most importantly, `set'#268) can
1995 be forced to do so via the new `wysh'#130 command prefix, as in:
1997 ? wysh set message-inject-tail=$'\n--steffen'
1998 ? bind base $'\cA,\x61' 'echo control-A and small a'
2000 - We now actively manage *umask*#602: 0077 by default, but an
2001 empty string will use the setting that is active upon startup.
2002 Just like changes to (known) environment variables, this setting
2003 will also be inherited by any child process.
2004 (Walter Alejandro Iglesias)
2006 - Anything SENDMAIL / *sendmail*-ish has been renamed to *mta*#474,
2007 *mta-arguments*#476, *mta-no-default-arguments*#477 and
2010 The reason is that in v15 we won't even have *smtp*: it is just
2011 another form of MTA, and thus obsolete by itself.
2012 Note that *mta-arguments* is now parsed via the shell-token
2013 parser, so the following ends up exactly as desired.
2015 ? set mta-arguments='-t -X "/tmp/my log"'
2017 For now we support a hack that understands a file:// URL in
2018 *mta*, too, but that is also the default if there is no protocol.
2019 E.g.: "? set mta=smtp://a:b@xy.z"
2021 - The "spamd" *spam-interface*#568 is obsolete. I haven't tested
2022 it since my main machine died, it is error prone since it assumes
2023 internals of the spamassassin wire protocol, and there never was
2024 a speed improvement over "spamc". (However it could react upon
2025 the "is-spam" state of a message, which "spamc" doesn't allow.)
2027 - The new *inbox*#447 variable will henceforth be looked up when
2028 searching for a primary system mailbox (as in "? File %"),
2029 followed by the usual $MAIL#623 and compile-time defined local
2030 mailspool search. (Stephen Isard, Jürgen Daubert)
2032 - The semantic of -a#57 and `~@'#317 have been changed, and both
2033 commands now use the same syntax:
2035 -a file[=input-charset[#output-charset]]
2037 - New "failinvaddr" keyword for *expandaddr*#415.
2039 - We finally "can" the so-called (by myself) "Dr. Problem" (a bit):
2042 $ </dev/null s-nail -d:/ -sTrödler 'Dr. D. Iet <z@a.k>' 2>&1 |\
2044 s-nail: >>> To: "Dr. D. Iet" <z@a.k>
2046 This can be done via the new `addrcodec'#142, too, note this
2047 supports multiple modes (and the `vput'#129 command modifier):
2049 $ echo 'addrcodec e Dr. Diet <to@fu.soj> Curd' | s-nail -#:/
2050 "Dr. Diet Curd" <to@fu.soj>
2052 - All commands with the string "codec" in their name use different
2053 argument quoting, namely none at all, please read
2054 "Raw data arguments for codec commands"#25.
2055 This means that `urlcodec'#298 (and `imapcodec'#661) has
2056 slightly changed semantics.
2057 And, while here: there is a new `shcodec'#270, too.
2059 - We gained "Command modifiers"#21: `\'#124 (avoid expansion of
2060 `commandalias'#162es), `vput'#129 (store result in variable),
2061 `ignerr'#125 (ignore an error of the following command, even
2062 if the new *errexit*#413 is set), `wysh'#130 (use shell-style
2065 $ echo 'vput cwd resvar;echo $resvar' | s-nail -#:/
2066 /home/steffen/src/nail.git
2068 And the usual sh(1) stuff: `return'#263, `shift'#274, `eval'#191,
2069 plus a `xcall'#306 stack-avoidance optimization (to be used in
2070 place of a `call'#151 which would be the last called command).
2071 And an "expr(1) like thing", yet simple, `vexpr'#302.
2073 $ echo 'vexpr + 1 2' | s-nail -#:/
2074 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000011
2076 $ echo 'vput vexpr resvar + 1 2;echo $resvar' | s-nail -#:/
2079 We actually start walking (*?*#347, *^*#349).
2081 ? vput vexpr res regex 'bananarama' 'Bana(.+)' '\$1\$0'
2082 ? echo $?/$^ERRNAME :$res:
2084 ? vput vexpr res iregex 'bananarama' '(.+)rama' '\$1\$0'
2085 ? echo $?/$^ERRNAME :$res:
2086 0/NONE :bananabananarama:
2088 The command `vpospar'#303 can be used to manage the stack of
2089 positional parameters, i.e., much like "set --".
2090 It also offers the possibility to save and restore the stack to
2091 and from variables. Etc.
2093 Btw., to contact the maintainer (make.rc variables
2094 VAL_CONTACT_WEB and VAL_CONTACT_MAIL):
2096 ? echo $contact-web; eval mail $contact-mail
2098 - `if'#214 no longer performs automatic number conversion, we
2099 use the explicit -lt, -gt etc. syntax of the sh(1).
2100 Note: `if' will change to be almost identical to sh(1) if(1),
2101 so please ensure proper test bracketing, even if it is less
2104 Moreover, the default string comparison mode has changed to
2105 case-sensitive, just like in the shell. This is because in the
2106 future this crux with trigger characters will vanish and `if'
2107 etc. will simply slurp in already expanded shell tokens, it will
2108 act like the shell in that respect. We have modifiers, though,
2109 yet only "@i" for case-insensitivity, also for regex matches:
2112 i=`LC_ALL=C.utf8 s-nail -:/ -# -X '
2114 \if [ "${ttycharset}" @i=% utf ]
2118 \if [ "${#}" -gt 0 ]
2119 \wysh set LC_ALL=${1}
2121 \eval xcall cset_test "${@}"
2125 \call cset_test C.UTF-8 POSIX.utf8 POSIX.UTF-8 \
2126 en_EN.utf8 en_EN.UTF-8 en_US.utf8 en_US.UTF-8
2128 [ $? -eq 0 ] && UTF8_LOCALE=$i
2130 Please note the `eval' in 'eval xcall cset_test "${@}". This is
2131 a difference of S-nail/mailx and the sh(1)ell that will remain,
2132 as documented in "COMMANDS"#20: whereas the shell implements
2133 a language and performs standardized expansions on the line
2134 until finally the command is called, S-nail will decide the type
2135 of command line parsing dependent on the seen command, and will
2136 then perform a single expansion. Therefore "${@}" will expand
2137 to multiple arguments if $# is greater 0, but it will expand to
2138 the empty string otherwise, which is not furtherly expanded away
2139 since it is meaningless like it is in the shell: therefore $#
2140 will be 1 (the empty string) not 0.
2142 - Using an explicit proto:// prefix should get you the desired
2143 thing apart of *newfolders*#483, e.g.:
2145 ? File maildir:///tmp/x.mdir
2146 ? copy * file:///tmp/x.mbox
2148 - New variable *record-files*#528 can be set to extend the meaning
2149 of *record*#527. *record-resent*#529 was there already.
2151 - New variable *ifs*#443 acts a bit like the sh(1)ell's $IFS for,
2152 e.g., the new `read'#250 command.
2154 There is a `readctl'#253 command which can be used to manage
2155 the active channel used by `read'#250.
2157 - The `~' alias for `call'#151 is gone.
2159 - `mimetype'#224 only allows specification of a single type per
2160 call, on the other hand no need to quote that.
2162 - `mimeview'#226 must now be used explicitly to look at any
2163 non-text MIME part, for normal display etc. purposes we only
2164 support "copiousoutput"#649 MIME handlers.
2166 - New *socks-proxy*#567 can be used to proxy all network traffic
2167 over a SOCKS5 proxy. (Gaetan Bisson)
2172 - The manual has seen another major overhaul, all the variables
2173 are now documented in a single, sorted list, and many
2174 clarifications should have been added. I hope it has become
2176 (Predrag Punosevac, Michael Convey, Hariskar, Rudolf Sykora,
2177 Respiranto, Thomas Dickey, Donald Mugnai)
2179 - To support RFC 1524 a.k.a. .mailcap files (see below) many
2180 "trigger"-characters have been added for *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#500,
2181 which may (rarely) affect existing values.
2182 The .mailcap support itself is not yet implemented.
2184 - *mime-counter-evidence*#470 gained bit 4 (perform proper in-depth
2185 content inspection as necessary; set to 0xE for all bits).
2188 - Maildir paths are now created recursively as necessary.
2191 - -M#72 and -m#73 options have been added to enforce a special
2192 send mode that will flag standard input / the given file with
2193 the specified / detected MIME 'Content-Type:'. This can be used
2194 to directly send, e.g., HTML log output.
2195 (Viktor Szépe, Ralph Corderoy)
2197 - Disallow symlinks on writable files. Note this requires
2198 O_NOFOLLOW support for the operating-system-call open(2), but
2199 which has been standardized a long time ago.
2202 - `retain'#262, `ignore'#215 etc. now differentiate in between
2203 From (the From: header) and From_ (the MBOX ident).
2205 In fact we now have a new `headerpick'#208 command which
2206 is a multiplexer for all retain and ignore lists used, call it
2207 without arguments to see the current setting(s).
2208 In v15 only `headerpick' and the standard-imposed wrappers
2209 `retain' and `ignore' will remain, all other wrappers will
2210 vanish. Regular expressions can now be used if available:
2213 headerpick type retain blahblahblah cc date from \
2214 mail-followup-to message-id openpgp reply-to subject to \
2216 #headerpick type ignore currently covers no fields
2217 #headerpick save retain currently covers no fields
2218 headerpick save ignore '^Original-.*$' '^X-.*$' '^DKIM.*$'
2219 headerpick forward retain cc date from list-id \
2220 mail-followup-to openpgp reply-to subject to
2221 #headerpick forward ignore currently covers no fields
2223 - `top'#290 has been rewritten completely, `Top'#289 is new.
2224 It uses a built-in set of retain/ignore headers, but it is
2225 possible to register a custom set via `headerpick'#208.
2226 Also, *toplines*#598 has been extended a bit and the new
2227 *topsqueeze*#599 variable may pimp your `top' experience.
2229 ? headerpick top retain add subject
2231 [-- Message 1 -- 87 lines, 4791 bytes --]:
2232 Subject: Re: I can't dist to myself
2235 3.22. bounce_delivered
2237 - `features' has been dropped, `version'#301 extended.
2239 - The *prompt*#515 handling has changed: we lost the capability to
2240 expand \?, \@ and \$, instead new "private" variables *?*#347,
2241 *account*#360, *mailbox-resolved*#457 and
2242 *mailbox-display*#456 have been introduced, and the prompt
2243 is completely shell expanded (thus twice with `wysh' or in v15),
2244 as if dollar-single-quote quoted. We do support the reverse-
2245 solidus escaped bracket notation for embedding characters which
2246 should not be counted when calculating the width of the prompt.
2247 The `colour'#160 command has a slot for the prompt colour.
2248 We gained *prompt2*#516 as a second level prompt.
2252 prompt='?\${?}!\${!}[\${account}#\${mailbox-display}]? '
2254 - The filename "-" can be used as a receiver, e.g.,
2256 $ echo Hey,\ you | s-nail -:/ -Sexpandaddr -sUB -
2258 - The -s#80 command line option, the `~s'#339 command escape
2259 as well as the corresponding slots of `~^'#319 will actively
2260 strip [\r\n] from their value (Debian #419840).
2262 - New `read'#250 and `echoerr'#182 commands, mostly for
2263 *on-compose-splice*#490.
2264 But also `echon'#183 and `echoerrn'#184, which do not write
2267 - New variable *r-option-implicit*#525 may be helpful to those
2268 who regulary need the functionality of the -r#78 command
2269 line option. (Felipe Gasper, Martin Neitzel)
2271 - By using new "pseudo-URLs" one can automatize the use of S/MIME
2272 keys / (certificates / intermediate include certificates) with
2273 passwords. E.g., to drive bob@exam.ple, set
2274 *smime-sign-cert-bob@exam.ple* to the private key / certificate
2275 pair as usual, the password lookup will then be performed for
2276 bob@exam.ple.smime-cert-key, bob@exam.ple.smime-cert-cert and
2277 bob@exam.ple.smime-include-certs.
2278 Like this the password can be stored in an encrypted .netrc file
2279 when *netrc-lookup*#481 and *netrc-pipe*#482 are set, or it may
2280 be stored in an encrypted resource file that has been loaded via
2281 `source'#280 as a simple *password*#498 variable.
2283 Note that the prompting that happens as a last resort of
2284 password lookup will still interfere with a possibly running
2285 $PAGER#629 instance, dependent on the setting of *crt*#402, of
2286 course. Proper job control handling and recognizing that we are
2287 running $PAGER when doing that prompt is a TODO for v15. Sorry.
2289 - Some commands, like `set'#268, `help'#211, `list'#216,
2290 `mlist'#227 etc., now react upon the setting of *verbose*#605
2291 and(/or) *debug*#406.
2293 - `write'#305 uses iconv(3) as appropriate.
2295 - *mbox-rfc4155*#462 has first been dropped, and was then
2296 reintroduced with different semantics. Because, it can be
2297 helpful if a messed up MBOX is read, in which case we henceforth
2298 will warn you and point you to this:
2301 \localopts yes; \wysh set mbox-rfc4155;\
2302 \wysh File "${1}"; \eval copy * "${2}"
2304 ? call mboxfix /tmp/bad.mbox /tmp/good.mbox
2306 P.S. Here you see how weird the current thing still is, in v15:
2309 localopts yes; set mbox-rfc4155; File "${1}"; copy * -- "${2}"
2312 And also in v15 we will not apply (proper) so-called MBOXO
2313 quoting, but instead (simply MIME) re-encode mail messages.
2315 - `call_if'#152 is new and, different to "? ignerr call", silent
2316 and not messing with the return status.
2318 - The new *smime-ca-flags*#552 and *ssl-ca-flags*#? can be used
2319 to fine-tune X509_STORE_set_flags(3) a.k.a the X509 CA
2320 certificate verification.
2322 ? set ssl-ca-flags=partial-chain
2323 ? wysh set smime-ca-flags="${ssl-ca-flags}"
2325 Also, *ssl-curves*#? for TLSv1.3.
2327 - Socket connections use TLS S(erver)N(ame)I(ndication) as
2328 appropriate (RFC 7817).
2330 - `alternates'#145 checks arguments and supports `vput'#129.
2331 It by default no longer replaces but appends alternates, unless
2332 *posix*#513 mode is active. There is a new `unalternates'#146
2333 command to remove alternates.
2335 - A new `charsetalias'#155 command. (Pietro Cerutti, mutt#3925)
2337 - New commands `filetype'#195 and `unfiletype'#196: in the future
2338 we will no longer know any builtin filetypes, in fact we already
2339 simulate .gz etc. via the new mechanism as necessary:
2342 bz2 'bzip2 -dc' 'bzip2 -zc' \
2343 gpg 'gpg -d' 'gpg -e' \
2344 gz 'gzip -dc' 'gzip -c' \
2345 xz 'xz -dc' 'xz -zc' \
2346 zst 'zstd -dc' 'zstd -19 -zc' \
2347 zst.pgp 'gpg -d | zstd -dc' 'zstd -19 -zc | gpg -e'
2349 - `~<'#314 now offers a "- [HERE-delimiter]" mode for pasting etc.
2352 - `exit'#192 and `quit'#249 take an optional exit status.
2353 (That is not fixated yet, though.)
2355 - We have a useful -h / --help output. (Doug McIlroy)
2357 - *encoding* obsoleted in favour of new *mime-encoding*#471, which
2358 now defaults to base64.
2360 - *allnet*#362 now works (broken since nail 10.00, 2002-09-29).
2365 The complete changelog of commits in between two versions OLD and
2366 NEW can be inspected by using the git(1) `log' command:
2368 $ git log --reverse --topo-order --abbrev-commit OLD..NEW
2369 # Only topic branch headers (--no-merges for content commits only):
2370 $ git log --oneline --reverse --topo-order --merges OLD..NEW
2371 # Same, but truly accessible:
2372 $ git log --oneline --reverse --topo-order --merges --parents OLD..NEW |
2373 while read c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6; do
2374 printf "%-24s: \$ git log --oneline --no-merges %s ^%s\n" \
2375 "${c6}" "${c1}" "${c2}";
2378 Entries for releases before v14.9.0 have been cut off and can be
2379 found in the git(1) repository:
2381 v14.8.0 - v14.8.16: $ git show v14.8.16:NEWS
2382 v13 - v14.8.5 : $ git show v14.8.5:NEWS
2383 9.0 - 12.5 : $ git show heirloom:ChangeLog
2385 Also accessible via HTTPS?, just replace X.Y.Z accordingly:
2387 \https?://git.sdaoden.eu/cgit/s-nail.git/tree/NEWS?h=vX.Y.Y
2389 For even older releases you need to look into the [timeline]
2390 branch, but no changelog has been administrated for them.