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 v14.9.25 ("Lubimy Gorod"), 2024-06-27
10 -------------------------------------
12 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Mingli Yu, Chet Ramey,
13 John Holder, klu, Χάρης Καραχριστιανίδης
14 (Haris Karachristianides), and Bob Beck.
16 We welcome Mingli Yu, John Holder, klu, Χάρης Καραχριστιανίδης,
17 and Bob Beck in THANKS.
18 Also Coverity.com was added to THANKS, it really finds things;
21 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
22 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
24 - Can now deal with new reSSL that drops TLSv1.0 and TLSv1.1.
30 - Properly deals with backward-incompatible OpenSSL 3.0 "lazy"
31 fetching errors, ie, use EVP_CIPHER_fetch() when available,
32 instead of continue to use EVP_get_cipherbyname(), etc.
34 - Fixes for mailcap %{X} expansion. (Χάρης Καραχριστιανίδης)
36 git(1) shortlog (edited)
37 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
39 Steffen Nurpmeso (47):
40 c5544b66c3 su_INLINE: gcc: only GNU specifics after -Og report by Mingli Yu
41 38336506d1 THANKS: Mingli Yu
42 2d7e3c71e1 a_cmisc_read(): FIX previous: just be compatible to read(1) -r!
43 919ea0a759 a_vexpr_numeric(): for /,%, avoid lvh=S64_MIN, rhv=-1 (Chet
45 00c264c02c su_idec(): FIX: signed negative overflow would return S64_MAX
46 d3b4c9076a a_go_evaluate(): (fix): in a whiteout, do not log lonely "}"..
47 74e3b99973 a_mt_classify_round(): (hack) do encode CRLF (John Holder)..
48 1eafba1da7 THANKS: John Holder
49 c255acb6ce a_chead__hprf(): fix cygwin compilation (klu)
50 0179a6259d THANKS: klu
51 1c5bf4d807 TLS: deal with (bwdic!) OpenSSL 3.0 "lazy" fetching mess
52 f4574c5b7d a_colour_mux(): HORRIBLE FIX! Assign correct pointer (Χάρης
54 1fae172c2b THANKS: Χάρης Καραχριστιανίδης
55 1a64c33728 a_mailcap_expand_formats(): FIX %{X}: skip X}! (Χάρης
57 49612b70df FIX *metoo* handling (oooh.. since 2014!)..
58 7f7efb4ad8 reSSL drops TLSv1.0 and TLSv1.1, be compatible (Bob Beck)
59 a76a1c5cb2 THANKS: Bob Beck
60 1a6060990e n_header_add_custom(): fix body NUL termination..
61 2dab8c5afa a_sendout_infix(): *mime-force-sendout*: no infloop on header iconv
63 a1e7d60aa1 a_go_evaluate(): FIX: alias memchunk override for one-letter
65 e02b24a3cb FIX: *customhdr* <-> -S freezing bug..
66 99ac5a54b2 su_avopt_parse(): CID 1549189 (already fixed on [next])
67 a34dedd4ab c_unalias(): CID 1549188 (!)
68 61326ff63e c_addrcodec(): CID 1549184 (not on [next])
69 69965def14 THANKS: Coverity.com (overdue)
71 v14.9.24 ("Black ships ate the sky"), 2022-03-26
72 ------------------------------------------------
74 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Paul Eggert, Madou Mad,
75 Paride Legovini, Jesse Alama.
77 We welcome Madou Mad and Jesse Alama in THANKS.
79 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
80 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
82 - Release tarball might be in --format=pax. (Paul Eggert)
84 - Again honour MTA arguments passed after the "--" command line
85 "option" in non-send-only mode (broken since at least v14.9.12).
87 - Thanks to Madou Mad we should now support Microsoft IMAP
88 servers. The codebase treated untagged and tagged responses
89 alike: this never worked! (Madou Mad)
90 (P.S.: no credits to Steven or Gavin here.)
92 - Fix crash due to crafted emails. (Our RFC 2047 MIME handling
93 is still terrible, but we should not crash no more.)
98 - Fix *expandargv*#419=restrict (broken since v14.9.0).
100 - Fix a bug from nail 10.08 as of 2004-06-28 that leads to
101 crashes when some file cannot be loaded.
102 And while here fix one file-close overshoot of mine in since
103 v14.9.16, that would cause panics in debug-enabled code.
105 - Like anyone else we now deal with argc==0 aka CVE-2021-4034.
107 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (28)
109 v14.9.23 ("Tits look ahead for winter"), 2021-11-11
110 ---------------------------------------------------
112 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Noctambule, Stephen Isard,
113 Andreas Teuber, Simon Gerraty, Geoff Clare, Robert Elz,
114 Harald van Dijk, Bryan Drewery, Andrea Biardi, Jörg Schilling.
116 We welcome Andreas Teuber, Harald van Dijk, Bryan Drewery and
117 Andrea Biardi in THANKS.
119 Good-bye and farewall dear Jörg!
121 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
122 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
124 - VAL_RANDOM=getentropy was broken.
126 - An unset *mta-bcc-ok*#482 could cause partial Bcc: content
127 to be written to Cc: or To:. (If so many addressees where given
128 that multiple lines have to be used, content of all lines but
129 the first would be written.) (Andreas Teuber)
131 - Date offset calculation was wrong for timezones which use
132 a negative adjustment for "is daylight saving time active".
138 - Continue searching MIME handler sources if the first found one
139 is not applicable in current context. (Noctambule)
141 - Fixed `vexpr'#303 shift operators broken for "optimization" :-(.
142 Also fix `date-utc' subcommand which used two "dutc_month"
143 instead of one plus "dutc_day".
145 - Temporarily set an unset $LESS to portable "RI" not "RXi".
147 - A couple of SIGALARM / alarm(2) fixes for the -keepalive-
148 variable series. (Stephen Isard)
150 - We drop inherited effective IDs upon startup. (Harald van Dijk)
152 - `mimeview'#227 now also asks for text/ parts whether an action
153 shall be applied. And if there is no plain part we may
154 use the rich one if possible. (Stephen Isard)
156 - *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#503 now support type-markers. (Noctambule)
158 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (57)
160 v14.9.22 ("Feathery sound of close tit flypast"), 2021-02-24
161 ------------------------------------------------------------
164 Three fixes for thoughtless and also in other ways superficial
165 code changes i have done.
166 Apologises to all, but especially to Mr. Bell.
168 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jens Schleusener,
169 Olav Mørkrid, Russell Bell and Johannes Schöpfer.
171 A special thanks to Olav Mørkrid is overdue.
176 - After "echo foo | s-nail $USER" we no longer leave the terminal
177 in a different state than it should be. Terminal initialization
178 was not rethought from scratch after we focused on the MLE
179 editor only and after we have implemented our own termcap/info
180 layer .. now done, and -A account switch and -X commands now run
181 properly covered already, too. (Olav Mørkrid)
183 - I had implemented a thoughtless use of close_range() aka
184 closefrom() -- this was totally broken (mysteriously not covered
185 by the tests, have to look, will fix for the future, too). We
186 can never do this, and if it is only for `readctl'#254.
187 (Russell Bell, Johannes Schöpfer)
189 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (8)
191 v14.9.21 ("Tit escapes with a peanut"), 2021-01-21
192 --------------------------------------------------
194 I apologise for the inconvenience of yet another bugfix release.
195 It fixes a possible SMTP buffer overflow triggerable by
196 a malicious server as reported by Olav Mørkrid, and a socket code
197 memory access error that can be seen when using IMAP on at least
198 Solaris, which was reported by Jörg Schilling.
200 Yasuhiro Kimura helped to unconfuse problems that i attributed to
201 BSD make, but which were indeed shell errors, most notably mksh.
202 Excuses are due to the forgiving and friendly Simon Gerraty (BSD
203 make) and Paul Smith (GNU make).
204 (In the end test job reaper code has been rewritten completely.)
206 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Simon Gerraty,
207 Yasuhiro Kimura, Matthias Gerstner, Olav Mørkrid, Jörg Schilling,
210 We welcome Simon Gerraty and Matthias Gerstner in THANKS.
212 We are https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail (project 444).
214 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
215 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
217 - The test now can skip individual tests included in $SKIPTEST,
218 for example "# make test SKIPTEST='eval vexpr'.
220 - New option VAL_ERRORS_LIMIT (by default enbaled), and new
221 variable *errors-limit*#415 to configure error ring size.
223 - We become even more portable to SysV/Solaris. (Jörg Schilling)
228 - Without termcap/terminfo support the outermost column was always
229 made accessible (since "not not" defining "am" in *termcap* is
230 not possible, bug since v14.9.12), on the other hand the "ch"
231 builtin implementation never reached out to this last column
234 - Manual: after rewrite and review i think the manual section
235 "Character sets"#15 is of acceptable quality. (Jörg Schilling)
237 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (56)
239 v14.9.20 ("Sombre Tit (Trauermeise)"), 2020-12-12
240 -------------------------------------------------
242 Fixes things like TLS over SOCKS and too many other bugs.
243 We have some new things, too.
245 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Roberto Ricci,
246 Aharon Robbins, Kevin McCarthy, Predrag Punosevac,
247 Paride Legovini, Olav Mørkrid, Ron Varburg, Jürgen Daubert,
248 Russell Bell, and Geoff Clare.
250 It is courtesy to give a special credit to Coverity.com, even
251 though it only found false positives.
252 (https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail, project 444.)
254 We welcome Roberto Ricci, Ron Varburg and Geoff Clare in THANKS.
256 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
257 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
259 + FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, (NetBSD): there are bugs in BSD make and
260 FreeBSD-derived sh(1)ells regarding sh(1) monitor mode that is
261 now used in mx-test.sh ("make test").
262 Please pass in JOBMON=n on make(1) command line, or use
263 a different shell (and make).
265 (You could also pass in a different JOBWAIT= now.)
267 + Binaries are now installed 0755 not 0555. (Jürgen Daubert)
269 + On SunOS/Solaris we now use the normal $CC detection algorithm.
270 (No longer forcefully overwrite, prefer open source compilers.)
272 - TLS connections can now be proxied via *socks-proxy*#569.
274 - `echo'#182 no longer performs "Filename transformations"#27.
275 Introduced in BSD Mail in 1988, but bad.
276 Just use `vexpr'#303 file-expand.
278 - `local'#127 now works like `localopts'#218 when used
279 with `set'#269 and `unset'#270.
280 This is true for built-in variables only, of course, using
281 `local' for those was forbidden in the past, i think.
282 Note that `localopts' will be obsoleted in v14.10, we will only
283 use modifiers in the future.
288 - EXTERNAL authentication over IMAP and POP3 was fixed.
290 - *tls-fingerprint*#596 is now tested case-insensitively.
292 - *quote*#520 gained an "allbodies" keyword.
294 - "The Mailcap files"#37 gained "x-mailx-last-resort" and
295 "x-mailx-ignore" flags. (Latter: Russell Bell)
297 - `history'#213 "delete" can now delete multiple entries per
300 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (110)
302 v14.9.19 ("Tufted titmouse (Indianermeise)"), 2020-04-26
303 --------------------------------------------------------
305 Fixing an unknown-8bit/iconv(1/3) misbehaviour when displaying
306 mails, and making this MUA ready for OpenSSL 3.0.
308 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Anirudh Oppiliappan and
311 We welcome Anirudh Oppiliappan and Claus Assmann in THANKS.
313 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (14)
315 v14.9.18 ("It is spring time, what a bliss"), 2020-04-18
316 --------------------------------------------------------
318 Some bugfixes and tweaks that accumulated over the months.
320 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jens Schleusener,
321 Noctambule, Kyle Evans.
323 It is courtesy to give a special credit to Coverity.com.
324 (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project 444.)
326 We welcome Noctambule and Kyle Evans in THANKS.
328 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
329 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
331 - Warning: we _will_ have v15-compat=yes as a default in v14.10!
333 - Fix for `~f'#328, `~m'#334, `~Q'#336, `~U'#342 and `~u'#343:
334 no longer include all MIME parts (bug since at least v14.9.16).
336 - Fix for handling of "The Mailcap files"#37:
337 a single copiousoutput/x-mailx-tmpfile-fill|nametemplate
338 combination was falsely handled, mostly affecting binary file
339 formats (which got broken by applied character set conversion).
341 - Fix for automatic S/MIME encrypted key / certificate password
342 lookup: used $LOGNAME@[no hostname].smime-cert-key as
343 a fallback, instead of using the value of *from*#432.
346 - `~R'#338 and `~r'#339, as well as all prompts which expect
347 file names and did not yet do so, expect shell-quoted names.
348 (See "Shell-style argument quoting"#24.)
353 - `~Q'#336 now acts as if *quote*#520 is set.
354 Does not really make sense otherwise.
356 - New environment variable $SOCKS5_PROXY#635 is tight together
357 with *socks-proxy*#569: setting the one affects the other.
358 This $SOCKS5_PROXY is introduced by FreeBSD to affect all
359 programs which are capable to proxy via SOCKS5 (it seems).
362 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (26)
364 v14.9.17 ("To bind, or not to bind.."), 2020-02-02
365 --------------------------------------------------
367 A shadowed key bindings report on bash-bugs@ made me aware that
368 our `bind' code has never seen a real review, and not only were we
369 incapable too, but the code was a piece of shit, when i looked at
370 it. So please find here a bugfix release to smoothly end v14.9.
372 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jens Schleusener,
373 Johannes Schöpfer, Russell Bell, and Koichi Murase.
375 It is courtesy to give a special credit to Coverity.com.
376 (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project 444.)
378 We welcome Koichi Murase in THANKS.
380 And now for something completely different.
382 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
383 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
385 - "make test" now works when run by root or on read-only
386 file-systems. (Johannes Schöpfer)
388 - Our `bind'#150 now supports overall key-sequence timeouts,
389 as opposed to inter-byte timeouts. For this i have obsoleted
390 *bind-timeout* in favour of *bind-inter-byte-timeout*#380
391 and *bind-inter-key-timeout*#381 (not set by default).
393 The bind tree code had two bugs, for one the "shortcut"
394 key-bindings would all have been created in the "base" context,
395 not where they really belong ("default" and "compose").
396 And due to false list relinking shadowed key bindings did not
397 work. (Koichi Murase)
399 When used with 3x*verbose*#? (aka -v#86) the bind tree
400 is now dumped when it has been build (once used first, and after
401 modifications. Putting all this together, a resource file
403 cat >/tmp/t.sh <<'__EOT'
405 cat >/tmp/t.rc <<'_EOT'
406 set line-editor-no-defaults
407 bind base $'\n' mle-commit
408 bind base $'\c?' mle-del-bwd
409 bind base $'\cT' echo one
410 bind base $'\cT',$'\cT' echo two
412 bind base ab,c echo 1
413 bind base abc,d echo 2
414 bind base ac,d echo 3
415 bind base a,b,c echo 4
416 bind base a,b,c,d echo 5
417 bind base a,b,cc,d echo 6
419 set bind-inter-key-timeout=2500
420 set bind-inter-byte-timeout=250
421 bind base a,b,c,d # now works, too!
423 MAILRC=/tmp/t.rc $MAILX -R:u -Y 'set verbose=3'
424 rm -f /tmp/t.sh /tmp/t.rc
428 will now do the expected.
430 - `Reply'#257: no longer honours *recipients-in-cc*#528
435 - Manual: after review i think the following sections are of
436 acceptable quality: "On terminal control and line editor"#18,
437 "Coloured display"#19.
439 - *verbose*#607 is no longer a boolean but can be assigned
440 a numeric value. But "set verbose verbose verbose"
443 - New variable *reply-to-swap-in*#536 tries to work around
444 the DKIM/DMARC "HUMAN via LIST <LIST@ADDRESS>" ugliness
445 when `reply'#259ing (or `Reply'#257ing) to such a message.
446 It tries to move the HUMAN into responsibility.
448 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (65)
450 v14.9.16 ("Message of Winter, your hopes shall be crushed"), 2019-12-29
451 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
453 At the end of the v14.9 series we finally deliver the RFC 1524
454 mailcap support, as well as other improvements, and new features.
455 Many bugfixes and tests arrive.
456 A whole bunch of things are backward-incompatible, but i would
457 assume that most use cases are not at all affected.
459 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Brian Evans,
460 Paride Legovini, Yasuhiro KIMURA, John P. Linderman, Leo,
461 Martin Neitzel, Alexander Harm, Ken Hornstein, Martynas Bendorius,
462 Russell Bell, Goesta Smekal, Kevin McCarthy, Ralph Keller,
463 Ralph Corderoy, Viktor Szépe, Jelle van der Waa, Arnout Engelen,
464 Stuart Henderson, elo, and Benjamin A. Wong.
466 We welcome Yasuhiro KIMURA, John P. Linderman, Leo,
467 Martynas Bendorius, Goesta Smekal, Jelle van der Waa,
468 Arnout Engelen, elo, and Benjamin A. Wong in THANKS.
470 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
471 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
473 - Renamed *expandaddr*#417 namehostex to nametoaddr. (Better.)
475 - *tls-features*#595 string now starts and ends with comma.
476 (Just like *features*#420 does.)
478 - -L#72 longname --header-search renamed to --search.
480 - Config option OPT_FORCED_STACKPROT=xy now
481 OPT_AUTOCC_STACKPROT=y, and now auto-enabled for OPT_AUTOCC=y
482 (even though i hate that, protectors in shipout code..).
484 - `account'#141 return value now matters, and can thus be used to
485 abort account switching.
487 - -:#56 has new "x" mode, which executes the directives of the
488 compiled-in resource file. (The template content is now
489 compiled in too, so the real file does not need to be loaded.)
492 - Quote etc. injections (*quote-inject-head*#525) now always
493 happen (if set), regardless of *quote*#520.
495 - We now truly honour POSIX command abbreviations (order).
496 As part of that i finally implemented a simple command lookup
497 speedup, these are now almost alphabetical (unless abbreviations
500 - Added *mta-bcc-ok*#482. Bummer. It seems exim and courier
501 do not remove Bcc: headers as required by standards unless
502 invoked with a special command line argument. So we now
503 do not pass Bcc: headers to file-based MTAs unless this
504 variable is set explicitly. (Kevin McCarthy).
506 - "COMMAND ESCAPES"#29 now have a $ command modifier, which
507 causes a shell-style `eval'#192uation before the command
510 And so `~<'#315, `~R'#338 and `~r'#339 no longer expand $VAR
511 expressions by themselves.
513 And so -a#58, `~@'#318, and "attachment insert" of `~^'#320
514 and `digmsg'#175 only perform ~/-style expansions.
516 - `~^'#320: use shell-style argument expansion.
517 We handled `~^' and `digmsg' differently, but furthermore
518 turned the shell-parsed data of the latter into whitespace
519 separated data, which made it impossible to, for example,
520 use attachments with whitespace in their names.
522 This increases the interaction protocol version number of
523 *on-compose-splice*#492 from "0 0 1" to "0 0 2"!
524 Because, we do also quote the output, since using `read'
525 (or read(1)) causes *ifs*#445 ($IFS) normalization.
526 All that could be done would be (for ourselves):
533 # And now assign the desired real fields
534 set real-var1=$1 real-var2=$2 ...
537 Sick! So instead introduce a `readsh'#252 command which works
538 like `read'#251 but splits fields at shell token boundaries,
539 for example from within *on-compose-splice*#492:
541 echo '~^h s subject'; read stat name; readsh sub; read i
543 There would be better examples. (Ralph Keller)
545 - `~F'#327, `~f'#328, `~M'#333, `~m'#334, `~U'#342 and `~u'#343 now
546 honour *forward-inject-head*#430 and *forward-inject-tail*#431.
548 - New option OPT_MAILCAP, by default enabled.
549 Disable at runtime via *mailcap-disable*#460, all documented
550 in "The Mailcap files"#37.
552 - OpenBSD: really auto-find number of processors in test script.
553 Work around fflush(3) not adapting POSIX behaviour.
555 - Manual: after review i think the following sections are of
556 acceptable quality: "Encrypted network communication"#14,
557 "A starter"#6, "On URL syntax and credential lookup"#13,
558 "The Mailcap files"#37, and
559 "But, how about XOAUTH2 / OAUTHBEARER?"#46.
561 The latter is actually (Stuart Henderson, Benjamin A. Wong),
562 and now provides a copy+paste example of how to keep a
563 OAUTHBEARER token up-to-date with S-nail (with some care).
566 - Default .rc file: keeps Sender: by default (Ken Hornstein),
567 sets *followup-to-honour*#427 and *reply-to-honour*#535,
568 and gives more *history-gabby*#439ness.
573 - Add `Lfollowup'#219. (Russell Bell)
575 - `?'#139: prefix \ (quoted!) to command to avoid
576 `commandalias'#163 matching:
579 S -> spamspam: Teach the spam detector that <msglist> is spam
581 S (Save): Like `save', but derive filename from first sender
583 - `history'#213 has new "delete NUMBER" subcommand.
585 - Add *forward-add-cc*#428 and *quote-add-cc*#521 to Cc: the
586 originator of a forwarded or quoted message, respectively.
589 - *history-gabby*#439 now has a value to allow for more.
590 This changes second argument of *on-history-addition*#494
591 from boolean to context string.
593 - New command `mtaaliases'#236. We no longer automatically
594 update the *mta-aliases*#477 cache. (Maybe much later we will
595 have a path_monitor or something, until then, not.)
597 And `netrc'#237 "load" is now indeed "clear" + "load".
599 `netrc' also gained a "lookup" subcommand. (Ralph Corderoy)
601 - *headline*#435 %L format will announce possibility that
602 a message could be a list.
604 - `chdir'#158, `rename'#256 and `remove'#255 use shell-style
607 - `tls'#289 gained "certchain" and "certificate" subcommands.
609 - `folder'#201 can open RFC 5322 messages via eml:// protocol,
610 as in "folder eml:///tmp/msg.eml". Yet primitive and only
611 read-only. (Viktor Szépe)
613 - `vexpr'#303 gained "date-utc", "date-stamp-utc" and "epoch"
614 subcommands. (Benjamin A. Wong)
616 - *on-main-loop-tick*#495 now also happens for commands passed
619 git(1) shortlog: Yasuhiro KIMURA (1), Steffen Nurpmeso (263)
621 v14.9.15 ("Tit family in the trees"), 2019-08-18
622 ------------------------------------------------
624 Plugging a bug regarding copying data out of invalid MBOX mail
625 databases which is present in all BSD Mails and in Unix V10 mail,
626 and bringing in some tweaks, this update hopefully really marks
627 the end of the v14.9.* series.
629 After more than four and a half years i again have a VM testbed,
630 with an increasing number of VM combinations. (Yet still too few,
631 but nonetheless, a dramatical improvement.) This includes
632 a GSS-API testbed, with an ArchLinux server and Linux and FreeBSD
633 clients (do not ask why no additional FreeBSD server, i want to
634 use binary packages). This brought GSSAPI tweaks.
636 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Ralph Corderoy,
637 Chet Ramey, Robert Elz, Jilles Tjoelker, Steve Izma, Viktor Szépe,
638 and Jean-Marc Pigeon.
640 Very special thanks go to Tarqi Kazan and Ivan Vučica, who tested
641 GSS-API in the past until it worked (again), testing against my
642 blind flight patches! Thank you very much, guys!
644 We welcome Chet Ramey, Jilles Tjoelker and Steve Izma in THANKS.
646 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
647 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
649 - *features*#420 and *tls-features*#595 are now prefixed with
650 a comma ",", not with the number sign "#" (which could
651 increasingly `eval'#192uate to a comment).
653 - We now support parallelized tests. It takes a numeric job
654 number out of $MAKEFLAGS, or tries to fetch the number of
655 processors otherwise (really!). To go singleprocessor
656 "$ make testnj" has to be called explicitly.
657 With or without, we will terminate tests which take too long.
659 This is truly tremendous, on the unstable9s machine of the
660 OpenCSW.org cluster for example we now need 24 seconds instead
661 of by far more than 300. What a release!
663 With help of (Chet Ramey, Robert Elz, Jilles Tjoelker and
666 - EXTERNAL authentication is truly a mess. It has been fixed for
667 POP3, where it was broken on our side. But it seems the
668 internet does not like that, or cannot (pass user credentials
669 from a certificate gracefully to the authenticator).
670 Anyway. I have introduced EXTERNANON in addition for all of
671 IMAP, POP3 and SMTP. This could now result in a usable
672 combination, regardless of what server(s) are contacted.
674 - The hook *on-account-cleanup*#488 will now be called even
675 upon program exit (i.e., implicitly leaving the account).
680 - New *followup-to-add-cc*#426 will place the user in the Cc:
681 list if it will place her in the Mail-Followup-To:.
683 - New hook *on-program-exit*#496.
685 - *pop3-auth*#510=gssapi is now supported.
686 For IMAP, SASL-IR will be used for GSSAPI if possible (saving
687 a packet round-trip).
689 - *expandaddr*#417 has the new keyword "namehostex".
690 If set, plain name addressees, like "To: steffen", will be
691 expanded to NAME@HOSTNAME (where the latter could be
692 *hostname*#443) if NAME is a valid user on the current host.
693 (Viktor Szépe, Jean-Marc Pigeon)
695 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (45)
697 v14.9.14 ("Great tit passed moult"), 2019-07-27
698 -----------------------------------------------
700 This is an unwanted and unplanned but unfortunately necessary
701 bugfix release. I hope it marks the end of the v14.9.* series.
703 I presume you would be surprised if it would not also bring some
704 features, this time mostly support of MTA-style aliases as
705 inquired by Jean-Marc Pigeon, some authentication work (XOAUTH2/
706 OAUTHBEARER support), and as usual development to the last minute.
708 It fixes IMAP GSSAPI authentication, thanks to Ivan Vučica for
709 reporting and testing this issue (Debian #930691; still have no
710 testbed, but will soon!), and imap-delim, which i broke in July
711 2017, thanks to Ralph Keller for repetitive reporting.
713 For OpenBSD and SunOS 5.9 this release fixes long standing (must
714 be) race conditions regarding child processes and their I/O setup.
716 Never seen before, but my new box (i stepped a decade of
717 hardware improvements, finally) rather regulary has shown them
718 when running the test suite. (On the OpenCSW cluster my speed
719 varies, but i had a very good day and seen them there once.)
721 This (finally) caused the complete rewrite of the child process
722 (and termios) handling that i (had to) mention in communication
723 with Gavin Troy already back in, i do not know -- 2013? (Still
724 not event loop based, but near getting good feelings there.)
726 Funnily the problem (child descriptors were closed by the parent
727 before the fork(2)ed childs had the opportunity to dup(2)licate
728 their file descriptors) reminded me of a message of the german
729 computer magazine c't, maybe around 2001/2002, when OpenBSD
730 improved their fork(2) performance in a day or two after having
731 appeared declassified in a comparison with other OSes.
732 (Of course it was nothing but our own fault to not synchronize on
733 the child, but blindly assuming that a fork(2) child gets the
734 opportunity to run immediately.)
736 Dear Predrag: would it now be possible for you to upgrade from
737 v14.8.12? I really would like to know!
739 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Martin Lucina,
740 Viktor Szépe, Alexander Harm, Anders Magnusson, Thomas Haigh,
741 Martin T, Ivan Vučica, Nicholas Marriott, Alexander Harm,
742 Steven Penny, Jean-Marc Pigeon, Martin Neitzel, Paul Vojta,
743 Russell Bell, Paride Legovini and Ralph Keller.
745 A special credit to Coverity.com once again, it found bugs!
746 (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project number 444.)
748 We welcome Martin Lucina, Anders Magnusson, Thomas Haigh,
749 Martin T, Ivan Vučica, Nicholas Marriott, Steven Penny and
750 Ralph Keller in THANKS.
752 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
753 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
755 - The (very backward) Debian mawk is now supported directly.
756 (Martin Lucina, Viktor Szépe)
758 - GCC (8.3.0) -Os inlining bug (wmt) is worked around.
759 And GNU awk 5 warnings have been fixed (before CRUX).
761 - "|PIPE RECEIVER" errors seen on SunOS 5.9 and OpenBSD have first
762 been fixed, and then caused a major rewrite of the child and
763 termios handling for a rather "real" fix.
765 The latter has the side effect that *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#503
766 handlers will now have their standard output go to /dev/null.
768 - IMAP GSSAPI authentication should work again. (Ivan Vučica)
770 - -C#61 testable can be used more than two times.
772 - The "grappa" mode of mk/make-release.sh can now be used
773 "everywhere". See INSTALL on interest. (It now gracefully
774 fails if s-nail is not installed: we need that for hashing.)
776 - New option OPT_MTA, by default enabled.
777 Set *mta-aliases*#477 to a valid path in aliases(5) syntax,
778 and we will expand them. All Postfix directives but :include:
779 are supported. Only clear text files are supported, no DBs.
782 - `~^'#320 will now verify *expandaddr*#417 right away in
783 "~^ head ins to|cc|bcc", as is already done for `~t'#341,
784 `~c'#324 and `~b'#323.
786 - OPT_AGENT and OPT_SPAM_SPAMD are gone; they were obsoleted on
787 2017-07-16, and it is not expected to become noticed.
789 - *sendwait*#544 is now initially set, and it gained an optional
790 value, a comma-separated list of case-insensitive strings naming
791 specific subsystems for which synchronousness shall be ensured
792 (only). Possible values are "mta" for *mta*#476 delivery,
793 and "pcc" for command-pipe receivers.
795 P.S.: you can get a list of all initial values plus via
797 $ s-nail -:/ -v -Xset -Xx
799 - Colours may now happen even in quickrun mode (-e#66,
800 -H#69, -L#72)! I thought it is ok nonetheless, because
801 we i think always documented to enwrap `colour'#161 setting
802 in an according `if'#215, as in
804 \if terminal && [ "$features" =% +colour ]
805 \colo iso view-header fg=red
808 - OPT_SOCKETS has been renamed to OPT_NET.
810 - -Y#88 is now well defined under all conditions, with tests:
812 The commands will be evaluated successively in the given
813 order, and as if given on the program's standard input --
814 before interactive prompting begins in interactive mode,
815 after standard input has been consumed otherwise.
817 - XOAUTH2 / OAUTHBEARER (OAuth 2.0 bearer token, RFC 6750)
818 autentication is now supported for all protocols.
819 New FAQ entry "But, how about XOAUTH2 / OAUTHBEARER?"#46
820 For driving the necessary external update tool a new
821 *on-main-loop-tick*#495 hook has been introduced.
822 (I am thinking about adding support for an optional built-in
825 - Support for the EXTERNAL authentication method has been
826 introduced. This is UNTESTED, though. (I am still in the
827 process of re-setting up my VM test environment.)
828 We do not verify presence of a client certificate etc., but only
829 that a TLS secured channel is active, when using this method.
830 (We now *verbose*#607 log the used TLS version and cipher, too.)
832 - *imap-delim*#669 works again as advertised! This was broken in
833 [1b9897a9] ((BWDIC!) Fix *imap-delim* behaviour.., 2017-07-01),
834 and i think i was pretty much irritated by then. Sorry!!
835 While here, take *imap-delim* into account for `imapcodec'#665.
841 - Manual section "HISTORY"#52 improved a bit. (Thomas Haigh)
843 - New variable *line-editor-cpl-word-breaks*#454 (yet a bit
846 - MLE: add mle-raise-{int,quit,tstp} functions. Ie., raising
847 those signals via ^C and ^Z is no longer hard-wired (in the
848 MLE), but can be reassigned. (Nicholas Marriott)
850 - The makefiles no longer contain any awk code, that all has been
851 separated into files under mk/. (Alexander Harm)
853 - We now have "test" *mta*#476, which dumps to standard output
854 or optionally to a file, and honours *mbox-fcc-and-pcc*#463:
856 $ echo text | s-nail -:/ -Smta=test -s ubject user@exam.ple
857 $ </dev/null s-nail -:/ -Smta=test://./xy -s ub user@exam.ple
859 - -##90 now acts as if variables were set via -S#80, rather than
860 as via `set'#269, meaning that they are "frozen" for a while.
862 - We have a new `colour'#161 mapping, "mle-error".
863 It applies to error note in *prompt*#517, as well as to any
864 other error logged to the terminal. The latter is temporary
865 until we gain a more fine grained logging facility, which then--
866 likely--introduces an entire mapping family.
868 Btw., for messages not explicitly generated (by, eg.,
869 `echoerr'#183), we now also avoid writing adjacent duplicates,
870 but rather do a syslog-like thing. That error generator has
871 been rewritten a bit, now more expensive, but looks right.
872 (Martin Neitzel, Paul Vojta)
874 - The value of $COLUMNS#615 seen in child processes is now the
875 real one, rather than the one we use (not necessarily identical,
876 dependent on termcap/terminfo/terminal support).
878 - There are now three -v#86 / *verbose*#607 levels, not two.
880 - The HTML filter knows more HTML 4.0 entities. (Russell Bell)
882 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (161)
884 v14.9.13 ("Blue tit's spiral marriage swoop"), 2019-03-08
885 ---------------------------------------------------------
887 Not so much happened as i was busy with other things in the second
888 half of 2018, and could not find a grip: at the source level some
889 efforts to turn this to mailx have taken place, including early
890 work on a code abstraction that will be shared with my (g)roff
891 clone: it was tiring to come back to old ideas that i have already
892 implemented multiple times and in different languages. To mention
895 So: this is a bugfix release, in fact it fixes a tremendous amount
896 thereof, [master] was ahead by 62 commits from [v14.9.11] (not all
897 bugs though, hrmhrm), but also with, well, a few new features, and
898 of course, development to the last minute. ^_^
900 v14.9.13 replaces v14.9.12 from yesterday which would pick up an
901 ISO C 2011 statement that is impracticable, thanks to Johannes
902 Schöpfer and Jürgen Daubert for reporting this (i should test
903 without OPT_AUTOCC more often.) I have also fixed -T to match
904 NEWS (manual and code did the opposite).
905 v14.9.12 balls will be removed from the server.
907 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jörg Schilling,
908 Paride Legovini, Olav Mørkrid, Ralph Corderoy, Rich Felker,
909 Predrag Punosevac, Russell Bell, Dirk-Wilhelm Peters,
910 Jean-Marc Pigeon, Warren Toomey, Cág, Martin Neitzel,
911 Dr. Werner Fink, Dr. Matthias St. Pierre, Kurt Roeckx, Mike Sharov,
912 Joan and Johannes Schöpfer.
914 Very special thanks go to Jean-Marc Pigeon of OSUKISS Linux, who
915 provided me access to a VZGOT container on the most "beefy"
916 machine i have ever had access to! It is ever so astonishing to
917 have work done in 90 seconds on this supercomputer which requires
918 an hour or more here. Thank you, Jean-Marc.
920 And thanks to Kimura-san not only my web server became accessible
921 via TLSv1.3 (out-of-line), but we also have landed on FreeBSD!
922 Kimura-san is the one who installed a sympathic cron job that
923 reminds me of cherry petals wafting in a warm spring breeze --
926 We welcome Russell Bell, Jean-Marc Pigeon, Warren Toomey,
927 Dr. Matthias St. Pierre, Kurt Roeckx, Mike Sharov, Joan and
928 Johannes Schöpfer in THANKS.
930 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
931 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
933 - Packagers could follow stable/* via git(1) and the "grappa" mode
934 of the release script (see README); perl(1) is required to be
935 totally en par with an official release. (Paride Legovini)
937 $ git checkout stable/stable
938 $ sh mk/make-release.sh grappa mybranch
940 Program version is [.], packager release addition shall be: xy
941 Is s-nail <v[.]-xy> correct? [y/n] y
942 Switched to branch 'mybranch'
943 $ git commit -S -n -m 'My release [.]-xy'
945 - $MAKEJOBS vanished, just use -j or whatever your make(1) supports.
946 Luckily the tested make(1)s can be persuaded to dig each others
947 .WAIT / .WAIT: / .NOTPARALLEL: targets.. and do the right thing.
949 - $OBJDIR support added, i use it for building / testing on tmpfs.
950 It works in conjunction with make-emerge.sh, too, thus
951 out-of-tree out-of-tree is possible (more or less; see INSTALL).
952 $ make tangerine OBJDIR=/tmp/x/y/z
954 - Option VAL_PRIVSEP_USER has been renamed to VAL_PS_DOTLOCK_USER
955 (to reflect the new "deep tree" directory layout).
957 - Option OPT_QUOTE_FOLD has been renamed to OPT_FILTER_QUOTE_FOLD
958 (to reflect later code changes upwards compatibly).
960 - New options OPT_CMD_VEXPR and OPT_CMD_CSOP, by default enabled.
961 To include the commands `vexpr'#303 and the new `csop'#167,
962 which now provides the byte string functions of the former.
963 (Still available through `vexpr' until v15.)
964 (I hope to be able to later provide a `usop' or `unisop' or so.)
966 - *v15-compat*#606 can now have a value: if it is set, the
967 `wysh'#131 command modifier which chooses shell quoting rules
968 for some commands is implicit.
970 - We have some (more) backward incompatible changes, though it is
971 likely most users will not recognize the differences.
973 o *headline*#435 format %T is obsolete, %L fits better.
975 o `csop'#167 `hash' and `hash32' subcommands (formerly from
976 `vexpr'#303) use a slightly changed hash algorithm.
977 (Which results in an improved distribution for tested sets of
978 words in power-of-two spaced dictionary.)
979 These are affected by the change in the second next item, too.
981 o Changed to use shell quoting rules for arguments:
983 + `mimetype'#225 and `unmimetype'#226.
984 This is affected by the change in the next item, too.
986 + `shortcut'#273 and `unshortcut'#274.
988 + `mlist'#228 and `unmlist'#229 as well as `mlsubscribe'#230
989 and `unmlsubscribe'#231.
993 o Changed (with legacy compat) the "@[i]" modifier prefix to
994 a question-mark ?[case|..] suffix, as is known from URLs.
995 We head towards direction URL syntax, now here too.
997 + `if'#215 and `elif'#187.
998 E.g., 'wysh if "abc" ==?case "ABC"' is true, as well as is
999 'wysh if 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF -eq?saturated 36#1Y2P0IJ32E8E7'.
1000 "==?" and "-eq?" would have been sufficient, here.
1001 (No unsigned mode (yet) for `if'#215.)
1003 Yes, `if'#215 and `elif'#187 now support `wysh'#131, and
1004 see already expanded arguments, then. No more "triggers".
1005 This finally makes it possible to write things like
1006 ? wysh if X;A;wysh elif Y;B;else;C;end
1007 Note 'else;C' not 'else C'.
1009 New operators: '-n "$VAR"' and '-z "$VAR"' work like in the
1010 shell, '-N varname' and '-Z varname' do not test the
1011 expansion but the existence of variables instead.
1012 Two argument forms require `wysh'#131.
1014 + `mimetype'#225 markers have changed likewise; this also
1015 affects *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#503 and *pipe-EXTENSION*#502 (with
1016 legacy compatibility and -v/-d obsoletion warnings)!
1018 ? mimetype ?t text/x-awk awk
1019 ? wysh set pipe-application/pdf='?=&?\
1020 trap "rm -f \"${MAILX_FILENAME_TEMPORARY}\"" EXIT;\
1021 trap "trap \"\" INT QUIT TERM; exit 1" INT QUIT TERM;\
1022 mupdf "${MAILX_FILENAME_TEMPORARY}"'
1024 + `vexpr'#303 (and `csop'#167) modifiers changed likewise.
1025 The case-insensitive subcommands "ifind" and "iregex" have
1026 been obsoleted, just use the ?[case] modifier to the regular
1029 P.S.: Thanks to Rich Felker the `regex' subcommands now
1030 works as desired even with empty intermediate submatches.
1032 o Changed address parse mode for command line arguments plus.
1033 This modifies decade old tradition, but results in a more
1034 predictable behaviour i think. Most people will possibly even
1035 be surprised to see the old behaviour:
1037 $ </dev/null s-nail-old -dsubject ' du , de <p@p> , pp , du '
1038 -> To: du, de <p@p>, pp
1040 $ </dev/null s-nail -dsubject ' du , de <p@p> , pp , du '
1041 -> To: "du , de , pp , du " <p@p>
1043 Of course anything but perfect, our address parser is very
1044 complicated yet far from being acceptable. (Dr. Werner Fink)
1047 + -b#60, -c#62 and To: receivers, as above.
1048 (We also have a new -T#82 receiver multiplexer, which is
1049 configurable in this regard, please see below for more.)
1051 + The -r#79 address.
1052 This saw more changes: the content is no longer evaluated
1053 via shell expression parser (when *v15-compat* is set)..
1054 unless explicitly requested via the *expandaddr*#417
1057 + *sender*#543 variable.
1059 + `addrcodec'#143 command, likewise; old:
1060 ? addrc e du , e <w@d> , d
1064 ? addrc e du , e <w@d> , d
1068 + `digmsg'#175 and `~^'#320 now use this parse mode fix for
1069 headers which need a single receiver, which is backward
1070 compatible but now safer since it can be fooled less easily
1071 (to split into a list what should be a single address, as
1072 shown above for `addrcodec'#143).
1074 They now can also be forced to use that parse mode for To:,
1075 Cc:, Bcc: with a new question mark modifier "?single", here
1076 the word "single" is optional.
1078 ~^ header insert To?single: exa, <m@ple>
1081 - By established rules and popular demand occurrances of '^From_'
1082 (see *mbox-rfc4155*#464) will be MBOXO quoted (prefixed with
1083 greater-than sign '>') instead of causing a non-destructive
1084 encoding like 'quoted-printable' to be chosen, unless context
1085 (e.g., message signing) requires otherwise.
1086 Only with *mime-encoding*#473=8bit.
1088 - We now support long "Options"#5 -- try --long-help.
1090 - Finally, it is possible to force sending out messages with the
1091 new *mime-force-sendout*#474 variable. If this MUA has been
1092 compiled with iconv(3) support it can happen that sending
1093 otherwise valid text messages fails because of invalid bytes
1094 sequences according to the locale; setting this new variable
1095 will avoid this; use *mime-counter-evidence*#472 to view such
1096 messages nonetheless. (Dr. Werner Fink)
1101 - `mimeview'#227 works again with binary formats. (Russell Bell)
1103 - IMAP searches via IMAP without matches no longer report a single
1104 match. (Dirk-Wilhelm Peters)
1106 - New -Y#88 aka --cmd= option to inject commands to be executed
1107 when startup is completed (as opposed to the earlier -X#87 aka
1109 These commands appear as if the user had typed them in.
1111 - A new *on-history-addition*#494 can be used to filter what
1112 enters the `history'#213.
1114 - New "fcc" flag for *expandaddr*#417. (Olav Mørkrid)
1116 And "domaincheck" will cause target domain comparison against
1117 entries in the new *expandaddr-domaincheck*#418. (Olav Mørkrid)
1119 - New *mbox-fcc-and-pcc*#463 will write out file and pipe addresses
1120 as a plain RFC5322 message rather than an MBOX. (Olav Mørkrid)
1122 - The `errors'#191 queue existance and size is announced via
1123 *^ERRQUEUE-EXISTS*#355 and *^ERRQUEUE-COUNT*#354.
1124 (Russell Bell, Martin Neitzel)
1126 - Our MBOX parser is now truly compliant to POSIX.
1129 - We follow symbolic links again when writing files.
1132 - *tls-rand-file*#598 is in fact now necessarily one of the
1133 optional *tls-features*#595. (Mike Sharov)
1135 - New command line option -T#82 aka --target='FIELD: BODY'.
1136 FIELD can be To:, Cc:, Bcc: or Fcc:.
1137 The BODY is parsed as a list (just as if the given FIELD would
1138 be part of a template message fed in via -t#83), but the
1139 "?single" modifier suffix can be used to avoid this.
1142 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (277 + 9)
1144 v14.9.11 ("Tit family enjoying a bath"), 2018-08-08
1145 ---------------------------------------------------
1147 A hot summer bugfix release, but it surely brings in some new
1148 features, like TLS fingerprinting and `digmsg' message access.
1150 An embarassing number of bugfixes have been seen, to fix IMAP UID
1151 handling on 32-bit hosts, UTF-8, `readall' with empty lines, rare
1152 endless iconv(3) loops, false qsort(3)ing of addressee lists,
1153 crashes due to false user shell quoting, acceptance of "0" port
1154 numbers, and more. Most of these cases now have tests.
1156 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Paride Legovini,
1157 Andrew Gee, Olav Mørkrid, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Dressel,
1158 Jürgen Bruckner, Robert Elz, Rudolf Sykora, Doug McIlroy,
1159 Gavin Troy and Jörg Schilling.
1160 A special credit to Coverity.com again, it found a bug!
1161 (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project number 444.)
1163 We welcome Andrew Gee, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Dressel,
1164 Olav Mørkrid and Jürgen Bruckner in THANKS.
1166 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1167 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1169 - I have discovered that GnuPG can --export-secret-subkey so that
1170 the real/full private key is no longer needed to --sign, and the
1171 excerpts of the private one can have a different password, too.
1172 So i have created a new for-signing subkey: EEC8C2FF.
1174 Unfortunately it is not possible to verify new signatures with
1175 the old public key, an update is necessary. For example via
1176 https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/steffen.asc
1177 or just update 1883A0DD via normal gpg(1).
1179 - Maildir support is now optional but default via OPT_MAILDIR.
1182 - I hope for the last time there has been a change to SSL
1183 configuration: i have renamed all ssl* variables to tls*.
1184 The old ssl* ones still exist until v15, though, yet obsoletion
1185 warnings will be produced.
1186 This is so because i expect that in a not too distant future
1187 only the term TLS will be around.
1189 Also the term CipherList was falsely used, it should have been
1192 - Most (if not all) commands which take a message list and a file
1193 target now use shell-style quoting. (Before that say `copy'#166
1194 scanned backwards over "something possibly quoted", took that
1195 off, then treated the rest as a message list. Now shell tokens
1196 are parsed starting at the front, the last is taken off, and
1197 anything before that is the message list.) (Gavin Troy. 2013.)
1199 - `~^#'? "header show" now backward-incompatibly shows the address
1200 type in field 1, but since this _only_ applies to non-network
1201 addresses i made the change.
1203 - We will find ncurses on DragonFly BSD.
1205 - On Solaris tests no longer need GNU cksum(1): the Solaris cksum
1206 is different only for whitespace separators. (Jörg Schilling)
1208 - All generated files reside in .obj/, and the tests run in there,
1209 too. A "rm -f .obj" should suffice to clean anything up.
1214 - `~F'#327, `~f'#328, `~M'#333, `~m'#334, `~U'#342 and `~u'#343
1215 now default to the current message (the "dot"). (Andrew Gee)
1217 - *indentprefix*#450 handling has had its pitfalls when quoting
1218 messages. (Andrew Gee)
1220 - -r#79 will again set *from*#432 even after -S#80 has been used
1221 to set *from*. (Michael Dressel)
1223 - No longer process From: (*from*#432) content via `alternates'#146
1224 when Sender: (*sender*#543) is set. (Michael Dressel)
1226 - Because the priority class of headers was not taken into
1227 account, it could happen that addressees in Cc: would remain but
1228 the same in To: were removed. (Michael Dressel)
1230 - IMAP accounts for RFC 4551 (and 7162) and supports 64-bit
1233 - *spamfilter-rate-scanscore*#580 could crash if specification
1234 did not match program output.
1236 - Shims for TLSv1.3 support, e.g., for *tls-config-pairs*#592.
1238 - Obsoleted *dotlock-ignore-error*, added *dotlock-disable*#410.
1241 - In compose-mode, removing the In-Reply-To: header breaks an old,
1242 and starts a new thread. (Doug McIlroy)
1244 - Added new *forward-inject-tail*#431, *quote-inject-head*#525
1245 and *quote-inject-tail*#526 variables, and extended the meaning
1248 All of *{forward,quote}-inject-{head,tail}* now support
1249 a compose-mode specific set of formats (see
1250 *quote-inject-head*#525), for now a few only.
1251 (This adds meaning onto the content of *forward-inject-head*#430
1252 as introduced in v14.9.0.)
1254 The generated output honours *quote-fold*#524, which now takes
1255 an optional third argument in order to produce better output.
1257 While here, introduce the new command escape `~Q'#336 which
1258 performs full *quote*#520 cycles on the given message list.
1260 - Fcc: headers are now understood in -t#83 templates or when
1261 placed in compose mode (`~v'#344, *editalong*#411 etc.).
1262 Since each such header only takes one addressee, no quoting
1263 issues apply, the entire header body is the value.
1265 - `~|'#319 will pass the entire message including headers when
1266 used as "~||", e.g., prepend a file-carbon-copy message header:
1268 ~|| echo Fcc: /tmp/test; cat
1270 - New `tls'#289 multiplexer command. Yet primitive and only
1271 supports a `fingerprint' subcommand. Supports `vput'#130.
1273 The new *tls-fingerprint*#596 variable chain aids in adding
1274 support for connection verification without an installed CA
1275 certificate pool in conjunction with the new
1276 *tls-fingerprint-digest*#597 chain.
1278 Consequently *smime-sign-message-digest* has been renamed to
1279 *smime-sign-digest*#563 (old version will cease in v15).
1280 The latter now defaults to SHA512 if possible.
1282 - New MLE commands mle-go-screen-bwd and mle-go-screen-fwd to go
1283 backward and forward one screenful.
1284 And a new mle-clear-screen command. (Todd C. Miller)
1286 - New *expandaddr*#417 setting "shquote" will evaluate addresses
1287 as if specified within $'' shell-quotes for -b#60, -c#62,
1288 and all direct command line receivers. This allows for, e.g.,
1290 $ s-nail -Sexpandaddr=shquote '\$contact-mail'
1292 - *quote-as-attachment*#522 no longer needs to be set before
1293 compose mode is entered in order to become honoured.
1295 - Even for -H#69 or -L#72 *folder-hook*#423s will now be called.
1296 Possible sorting is also applied.
1298 - `='#138 now optionally supports message list arguments and the
1299 `vput'#130 modifier in order to store the result list.
1301 The new `digmsg'#175 multiplexer adds some message access, just
1302 like `~^'#320 does in compose mode. In fact the set of commands
1303 is shared, yet only in compose mode `digmsg' can change messages
1304 or access attachments until v15, however. For example,
1306 #?0[steffen@essex nail.git]$ cat > /tmp/z.rc <<'_EOT'
1309 digmsg create $1 - # no `read'/`readall' overlay but stdout
1310 #digmsg $1 header list
1311 digmsg $1 header show subject
1314 \eval xcall one "$@"
1318 local set all # localize ("localopts yes" would do too)
1319 vput = all *; echo all: $all; eval call one $all
1322 #?0[steffen@essex nail.git]$ MAILRC=/tmp/z.rc \
1323 .obj/s-nail -:u -Snoheader -Squiet -Rf /tmp/z
1327 Re: [S-mailx] FYI: after USB stick loss i have rotated keys, plus
1330 Re: Problem with page?
1333 Re: s-nail Source ...
1337 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (203)
1339 v14.9.10 ("(40th Mail anniversary) Blue tit"), 2018-03-25
1340 ---------------------------------------------------------
1342 On this day in 1978 Kurt Shoens placed the following comment in
1343 def.h (now it is in nail.h):
1346 * Mail -- a mail program
1348 * Author: Kurt Shoens (UCB) March 25, 1978
1351 v14.9.10 is mostly a stability and bugfix release.
1352 It has seen a full test series including Coverity.com scans.
1353 It fixes bugs i have introduced (also a double free in IMAP cache
1354 that i introduced for v14.9.* series to address Coverity CID
1357 In the end i am saying thanks to Gunnar Ritter for the IMAP
1358 module, and absolutely especially his really neat idea of an IMAP
1359 cache including offline work queue. (IMAP will nonetheless
1360 temporarily go in v15, but these ideas will come back thereafter.)
1361 I have gray hairs now.
1363 Credits, in order of commit appearance: William Yodlowsky,
1364 Stuart Henderson, Jörg Schilling, Viktor SZÉPE, Rich Felker,
1365 Ralph Corderoy and Philipp Gesang.
1367 A special credit to Coverity.com again. Because:
1368 tcc is 618496 bytes, pcc is 851968+24576 bytes,
1369 but gcc is 73355264 bytes and clang is even
1370 147406848 bytes, i wonder why the latter two never
1371 said a word that would have addressed the pretty
1372 obvious CID 1387053!
1373 [Use of initialized value, the author.]
1375 We welcome Stuart Henderson and Philipp Gesang in THANKS.
1377 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1378 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1380 - The balls are now build with umask 0022 not 0027.
1381 (William Yodlowsky, Stuart Henderson)
1383 - One actual development of this version was the addition of
1384 multiple choice VAL_ues, as documented in make.rc.
1385 For now we have VAL_IDNA (for OPT_IDNA)
1386 VAL_IDNA="idnkit idn2 idn"
1387 and VAL_RANDOM (by itself)
1388 VAL_RANDOM="arc4 ssl libgetrandom sysgetrandom urandom builtin"
1392 The value is interpreted as a whitespace separated list of
1393 strings, like "idn2 idn idnkit", case is ignored, order is
1395 The special strings "all" and "any" as well as the empty value
1396 are wildcard matches; if any entry in the list is a wildcard
1397 match, the rest of the list is ignored.
1399 The special string "error" will abort configuration once its
1400 list position is reached; this is only supported if
1401 documented, and not with an accompanying OPT_ (which then
1402 offers "require", as below).
1404 Since this VAL_RANDOM approach is so much better i have dropped
1405 OPT_SSL_RANDOM and OPT_NOEXTRANDOM that were recently
1406 introduced again. They were c..p.
1408 - Support for idnkit 2.3 has been added.
1409 Support for idnkit 1 (especially as idnkitlite) has been fixed.
1411 - For the first time this codebase should be able to handle
1412 invalid MBOX mailboxes (produced by, e.g., dma(1)) gracefully.
1413 I hope i have found all places (sic) where code has to be fixed.
1414 E.g., "? copy * INVALID-MBOX" now works.
1415 (Smalltalk already knew objects which know what they are doing
1416 are for the better... This is v15, then.)
1418 - P.S.: the two FreeBSD test failures are noted in INSTALL.
1423 - *asksend*#369 will now really allow recomposing.
1425 - `help'#212 now supports recursive `commandalias'#163es, and
1426 command self-recursion detection now works differently, it has
1427 been false for something like
1429 commandalias x q; commandalias q echo au
1431 since q became expanded to `quit'#250 (alias expansion equals
1432 new command word). New behaviour: we allow equals once:
1434 commandalias q q; commandalias x q; x
1438 - *editalong*#411 can have a value, say "set editalong=v" and it
1439 will startup $VISUAL#640 not $EDITOR#617.
1441 - Path separators are now normalized, thus all places, including
1442 MLE tab-expansion ("On terminal control and line editor"#18),
1443 can expand something like "///t*////t*".
1445 - -E#65 flag will not be obsoleted.
1446 -D#63 flag has been reintroduced (sets *disconnected*#666 right
1447 away, was not reinstantiated with the rest of the IMAP support.)
1449 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (71)
1451 v14.9.9 ("Marsh tit savours first spring sun, II") 2018-03-06
1452 -------------------------------------------------------------
1455 I hope with this the fallout of the Christmas 2016 "address the
1456 Dr. Problem workshop" has been fully resolved and thus MIME for
1457 header address fields, even if iconv(3) is involved, been fully
1458 restored! We have even more tests for this now.
1460 The release v14.9.8 was broken on big endian machines.
1461 I will remove the v14.9.8 balls from the server by the weekend.
1462 Sorry for the inconvenience!
1464 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Slavko, Matej Mužila,
1465 Rich Felker, Simon McVittie, Paride Legovini, Cág,
1468 We welcome Slavko, Matej Mužila, Rich Felker and Simon McVittie in
1471 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1472 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1474 - The v14.9.* series called *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#503 handlers in
1475 display or quote mode with CR (carriage-return) bytes stripped
1476 because of a missing output file comparison check, which broke
1477 binary formats etc. (Slavko)
1479 - We now have native support for Libidn2. (Matej Mužila)
1481 - uname(1) is now hookable by setting the shell variable uname
1482 when calling make ("uname=MY-UNAME make config" etc.).
1485 We no longer bake the kernel version into the binary, and
1486 `version'#302 includes uname(2) output.
1487 (Simon McVittie, Paride Legovini)
1489 - We now support a fallback P(seudo)R(andomNumber)G(enerator)
1490 initialization even if getrandom(2)/getrandom(3) has been found
1491 by the configuration, just like we do for "/dev/urandom" usage.
1492 This does not affect systems with arc4random(3) or OpenSSL
1493 random usage. (David Čepelík, Simon McVittie)
1495 A new OPT_SSL_RANDOM make.rc variable, by default initialized to
1496 the value of OPT_SSL.
1501 - `~@'#318 list-edit behaviour in -##90 batch mode was broken.
1503 - Character set names will now undergo generic normalization,
1504 including stripping of iconv(3) //SUFFIXes.
1506 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (33)
1508 v14.9.7 ("Marsh tit patiently scraping bark") 2018-02-16
1509 --------------------------------------------------------
1511 A maintenance release which fixes bugs and brings in features.
1513 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Alexander Harm,
1514 Viktor SZÉPE, Paul Eggert, Joseph Bisch, Paride Legovini,
1515 and Peter J. Holzer.
1516 A special credit to the disappearing mutt(1) bug tracker.
1517 And to Gmane.org for creating gmane.mail.s-mailx.general!
1519 Thanks Paride Legovini for becoming maintainer of the Debian port.
1521 We welcome Joseph Bisch, Paride Legovini, and Peter J. Holzer in
1524 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1525 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1527 - The USB stick loss reported for v14.9.6 was fake news, so to
1528 say, the stick exists and therefore the old key is not
1531 - We are back at Gmane.org!
1532 news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.s-mailx.general
1534 - `history'#213 has learned to be context-sensitive a bit, and
1535 has two new subcommands, `load' and `save'.
1537 This is in parts backward incompatible because it needs a new
1538 *history-file*#438 format; however, the old format can be loaded
1539 yet compose-mode commands will not appear in compose mode no
1540 more. Iirc you can start with an old format then `save' to
1541 the new, then replace the "d" in the first column with "c" for
1542 compose-mode commands which should appear correctly.
1544 - Obsoletion warnings for variables now happen at `set'#269
1545 time instead of when used. Running once via -v#86 may
1548 - The saturation modifier of `vexpr'#303 is henceforth a prefix,
1549 the suffix version is obsolete (but still supported for a while).
1551 - A network address that contains no domain-, but only a valid local
1552 user <name> in angle brackets will be automatically expanded to
1553 a valid address when *hostname*#443 is set to a non-empty value;
1554 setting it to the empty value instructs us that the used *mta*#476
1555 (including builtin SMTP) will perform the necessary expansion.
1558 Note that *hostname*#443 as well as *smtp-hostname*#566
1559 will now undergo IDNA expansion if IDNA is supported.
1561 And *from*#432 and *sender*#543 are now verified at `set'#269
1562 time, not when used. (Viktor SZÉPE)
1564 - The commit message in [d503bd82] is wrong, apologies to
1565 Paride Legovini. The test(1) operator "-n" appeared in Seventh
1566 Edition UNIX, not V8 as falsely claimed.
1571 - Our `addrcodec'#143 parser chokes on lesser constructs.
1573 - Presence of command-line MTA arguments without *expandargv*#419
1574 are now a hard error. It was my fault that this was not the
1575 default from the very start. (Viktor SZÉPE)
1577 - Seen on the mutt bug tracker, we also still have had problems
1578 with time settings that cross 32-bit boundaries. As that is
1579 in parts induced by the C standard, now implement those parts on
1580 our own, and be super careful in general. (Joseph Bisch)
1582 - The `~@'#318 command escape did not shell-unquote the user input
1583 again and was thus a bit broken; message attachments also work
1586 - Support custom headers from the command line via -C#61.
1587 And *customhdr*#404 is verified upon `set'#269 time.
1589 - The simple builtin HTML viewer now supports <blockquote>
1590 elements, which many web mailers, most notably gmail, use for
1591 citation. (Peter J. Holzer)
1593 git(1) shortlog: Paride Legovini (1), Steffen Nurpmeso (66)
1595 v14.9.6 ("Marsh tit abiding a snow storm"), 2017-12-05
1596 ------------------------------------------------------
1598 A bugfix release which fixes four serious and three other bugs.
1599 A few new features came in, too.
1601 Many thanks go to Ralph Corderoy who reported an issue that was
1602 caused by a terrible, terrible word reversal that i managed to
1603 produce in December 2016, and which caused the v14.9.x series to
1604 not MIME encode (non-address) content of address header fields!
1606 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Thomas Dickey,
1607 Andreas Baumann, Erich Eckner, Gaetan Bisson, Solar Designer, Cág,
1608 Ivan Tham, Ralph Corderoy and Doug McIlroy.
1610 We welcome Andreas Baumann, Erich Eckner, Solar Designer and Cág
1613 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1614 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1616 - After USB stick loss the authors OpenPGP key has been switched to
1618 pub 4096R/1883A0DD 2017-11-30 [expires: 2027-11-28]
1620 EE19 E1C1 F2F7 054F 8D39 54D8 3089 64B5 1883 A0DD
1621 uid Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
1623 - $TMPDIR#638 no longer honoured for root runs. (Solar Designer)
1625 - *mime-encoding*#473 defaults to quoted-printable again. (Cág)
1627 - We _can_ MIME encode even header fields which contain addresses.
1628 Thanks to Ralph Corderoy we now also _do_ so again!
1633 - ***#336 now uses *ifs*#445 when splitting.
1635 - Freezing *ttycharset*#602 via -S#80 also survives using or
1636 setting any of $LC_ALL#619, $LC_CTYPE#620 and $LANG#621 during
1639 - New `local'#127 command modifier to localize changes.
1640 Yet supported only for `set'#269, i.e., we have gained
1641 macro-local variables.
1643 - `vexpr'#303 now supports a BASE#number notation for integers,
1644 like 16#AFFE as an alternative to 0xAFFE.
1646 Hint: variable settings can most often use several bases, too,
1647 e.g., i have "set mime-counter-evidence=0b1111".
1649 - Very simple form of *quote-chars*#523 to adjust our knowledge of
1650 what actually is to be treated as a quote character.
1652 - *mime-counter-evidence*#472 deep inspection (bit four) has
1653 been improved for the sole cases of quoting or displaying
1654 a message. So messages with less than 25% of control characters
1655 and such will now be displayed (made printable). This is yet
1656 not configurable nor do we have a way to easily access a message
1657 with more than that. (Doug McIlroy)
1659 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (44)
1661 v14.9.5 ("Marsh tit engaged with a peanut"), 2017-10-21
1662 -------------------------------------------------------
1664 A bugfix release which fixes two bugs which were cast in stone.
1665 A few compatibility improvements (AlpineLinux, Solaris).
1668 Apologies to Jörg Schilling, a git bug i think it was who caused
1669 joining of changesets, losing a credit, and it had been pushed to
1670 [master] before the problem was realized.
1672 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jörg Schilling,
1673 Doug McIlroy, Random832, Nick Stoughton and Ivan Tham.
1675 We welcome Nick Stoughton and Ivan Tham in THANKS.
1677 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1678 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1680 - New OPT_USE_PKGSYS option can be disabled to not automatically
1681 pick known package system paths (pkg(7), OpenCSW, schily).
1687 - The software indeed _never_ dealt with iconv(3) output character
1688 set errors (as opposed to invalid input character set byte
1689 sequences etc.) for the main message body!
1690 And I have missed that when i tweaked our iconv layer a bit!
1692 - Fixed a race condition with sigsuspend(2) that i could only see
1693 on OpenBSD. config.h offers n_SIGSUSPEND_NOT_WAITPID, by the
1694 way, which saves some systemcalls and did not run races, but
1695 noone adjusts this file.
1697 - Message list specifications gained two new colon modifiers, one
1698 can now "search :Ll" to find "Mailing lists"#11.
1699 The *headline*#435 format %T now also uses L and l rather than
1700 S and L accordingly.
1702 New `addrcodec'#143 subcommand `skinlist' acts like `skin'
1703 but stores in *!*#349 *^ERR*#351-EXIST if the address is
1704 one of the known "Mailing lists"#11.
1706 - `echo'#182 family now supports `vput'#130 and *!*#349 error
1707 storage, offering some kind of printf(1) experience, almost.
1709 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (35)
1711 v14.9.4 ("(5th anniversary) Marsh tit"), 2017-09-18
1712 ---------------------------------------------------
1714 This is an update feature release but which also ships a furious
1715 number of bug fixes, about six of which were pretty serious. It
1716 also applies overall trimming, and improves configuration time
1717 compatibility on macOS.
1719 Thanks to Alexander Harm there is now a macOS Homebrew package.
1721 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Paul Vojta, Daniel Lublin,
1722 Alexander Harm, Norman Ramsey, Viktor Szépe, Rich Salz,
1723 David Čepelík, Ralph Corderoy, Stéphane Chazelas, Aharon Robbins,
1726 We welcome Daniel Lublin, Alexander Harm, David Čepelík and
1727 Stéphane Chazelas in THANKS.
1729 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1730 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1732 - Out-of-tree builds have become possible via the new
1733 make-emerge.sh script:
1735 $ cd /tmp && mkdir build && cd build &&
1736 ~/src/nail.git/make-emerge.sh &&
1737 make tangerine DESTDIR=.ddir
1739 We now have a `citron' make target which is like `tangerine' but
1740 does not run the tests.
1742 - Configuration with OPT_AUTOCC honours $CC=cc. (Norman Ramsey)
1744 - SSL/TLS configuration has been revamped (again) in order to
1745 support new possibilities of OpenSSL (and LibreSSL) without
1746 ending up and introducing more and more variables.
1748 Instead we now have *ssl-config-pairs*, a comma-separated
1749 list of all options. With e.g. OpenSSL 1.1.xx this will be
1750 directly passed through to SSL_CONF_cmd(), so there _anything_
1751 can be passed, otherwise we use a builtin parser to map.
1752 The new *ssl-features*#? states what is supported. E.g.:
1754 if [ "$ssl-features" =% +ctx-set-maxmin-proto ]
1755 wysh set ssl-config-pairs='\
1756 CipherList=TLSv1.2:!aNULL:!eNULL:@STRENGTH,\
1757 Curves=P-521:P-384:P-256,\
1758 MinProtocol=TLSv1.1'
1760 wysh set ssl-config-pairs='\
1761 CipherList=TLSv1.2:!aNULL:!eNULL:@STRENGTH,\
1762 Curves=P-521:P-384:P-256,\
1763 Protocol=-ALL\,+TLSv1.1 \, +TLSv1.2'
1766 OpenSSL v1.1.xx also introduces an interesting and neat idea to
1767 centralize SSL/TLS configuration of (all) programs in a single
1768 file. This can be driven via *ssl-config-file* and the new
1769 *ssl-config-module* variables, several entries per program
1770 are allowed, see *ssl-config-module* for an example.
1772 New manual section "Encrypted network communication"#14.
1774 - Variables set or unset via -S#80 are now frozen until program
1775 startup is complete.
1780 - Historical behaviour of *askcc*#367 / *askbcc*#368 has been
1781 reintroduced. (Norman Ramsey)
1783 A new *asksend*#369 variable will show a final header summary
1784 and allows reentering compose mode. Set by default.
1786 POSIX mirrors *ask* onto *asksub*#371, so dropped" the former.
1788 - `~^'#320 no longer normalizes header names to titlecase.
1790 - We no longer generate charset=binary MIME parameters.
1791 This was introduced on 2013-01-02 and was i think owed to
1792 file(1)s -i output as i failed to find any other reference.
1795 - *mime-alternative-favour-rich*#471 now also works for handlers
1796 installed via *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#503. (Viktor Szépe)
1798 - v14.9.* series did not generate In-Reply-To: headers!
1800 - `alias'#144 now supports high-bit bytes and semicolon.
1801 Expect that at some later time the input must be valid according
1802 to the locale, though. (Norman Ramsey)
1804 - Combinations of *record*#529 could crash because of an
1805 unterminated variable function argument list. (Norman Ramsey)
1807 - New command `readall'#253 loads an entire file into a variable.
1809 *signature*#550 has been obsoleted.
1811 - `vexpr'#303 now supports negative arguments for the substring
1812 subcommand and adds trim, trim-front and trim-end subcommands.
1814 - `!'#134 can be used in send mode.
1816 - `~A'#321, `~a'#322, `~I'#331 and `~i'#332 will henceforth expand
1817 \t and \n only if *posix*#515 is set.
1818 Please use `set'#269 instead (with `wysh'#131, until v15).
1820 - New "The mime.types files"#36 type marker: @q ("quiet").
1822 git(1) shortlog (edited): Steffen (Daode) Nurpmeso (90)
1824 v14.9.3 ("Crested tit nibbling sunflower seeds"), 2017-08-03
1825 ------------------------------------------------------------
1827 This is a bugfix release but which ships some improvements, too.
1828 It silently replaces both of v14.9.1 v14.9.2 from earlier this
1829 week, which were broken or not entirely fixed.
1831 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Felix Fontein, Paul Vojta,
1832 Ralph Corderoy, Christos Zoulas, Gavin Troy, Gaetan Bisson.
1833 Thanks, Coverity.com.
1835 We welcome Christos Zoulas in THANKS.
1837 Apologies to Viktor Szépe for the false spelling of his name in
1838 the v14.9.0 announcement.
1839 And to Gaetan Bisson for not giving credit for [14fbce97]!
1841 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1842 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1844 - fakeroot support was blindly taken from Debian and broken.
1845 (Gavin Troy, Gaetan Bisson)
1847 - Base64 output was broken for cases which involved iconv(3).
1848 The data is not lost, you can read it with S-nail v14.9.0 and
1849 above, and save it somewhere. I know of no other base64 decoder
1850 which reads those things correctly, though. We now have tests.
1851 Along this i fixed an iconv(3) error which likely caused
1852 stateful decoding (like, e.g., for ISO-2022-JP) to fail because
1853 of an unnecessary reset of the iconv(3) state machine.
1854 Thanks to Gaetan Bisson for mentioning this issue!
1859 - In compose mode the MLE allows empty lines again.
1861 - We no longer require a writable $HOME#618. Due to false code
1862 flow (but but but: with correct comment) a non-writable $HOME
1863 entry in /etc/password (i.e., from getpwuid(3)) would lead to
1864 a crash. (Felix Fontain; Ralph Corderoy)
1866 - Two faulty string operations slipped into the IMAP code,
1867 resulting in a crash and a "is-same-host" test that would fail
1868 for IMAPS connections like `save'#266 or `copy'#166 because of an
1869 implicit IMAP protocol for the target of those operations (thus
1870 IMAP != IMAPS). (Paul Vojta)
1872 - The MLE tab-expansion will now automatically append a "/" if
1873 there is only one possible expansion and that is a directory,
1874 saving the user one <TAB>. (Christos Zoulas)
1876 The shell expression parser had a bug regarding understood
1877 metacharacters (;|&), which in turn could cause an infinite loop
1878 in the MLE tab-expansion for, e.g., "move &9 +<TAB>", because
1879 the "&" would never have been stepped over.
1881 - New `~I'#331 command escape is like `~i'#332 but does not append
1884 - `localopts'#218 gained an optional second argument.
1885 It is now possible to specify that any macro `call'#152ed
1886 will have localopts enabled, and it is possible to fixate the
1887 setting so that it cannot be reverted.
1889 - *@*#357 should now act completely compatible to the sh(1)ell,
1890 thus obsoleting my hysteric warnings in the v14.9.0 announcement.
1892 - The `Lreply'#220, `reply'#259, `Reply'#257 series as well as
1893 `mail'#222 now manage the error status *!*#349.
1894 I.e., there are now errors like *^ERR*#351-DESTADDRREQ,
1895 ^ERR-NODATA, ^ERR-PERM and similar. It is not perfect yet,
1896 because $DEAD#616 may have been written (with *save*#538) or not,
1899 `Lreply' and `reply' have been rewritten rather completely
1900 indeed. They join Reply-To: and Mail-Followup-To: dependent on
1901 the context (i.e., *reply-to-honour*#535, *followup-to-honour*#427,
1902 see "Mailing lists"#11 for the picture), and if they did, use
1903 this list as the receivers exclusively. It now honours
1904 *recipients-in-cc*#528 even for such addressees. (And now i wonder
1905 whether i should have credited Paul Vojta for that.)
1907 Also `Lreply' would have crashed for mails with Reply-To: but
1908 without *reply-to-honour*#535 set. We now have a test.
1910 Note *replyto* is obsoleted in favour of *reply-to*#534.
1912 v14.9.0 ("Long-tailed tit"), 2017-07-16
1913 ---------------------------------------
1915 This is a major feature release which took about ~22 months (24
1916 less two) of development to complete, and which imposed massive
1917 changes under the hood, but also quite a lot of user visible
1918 changes, including some **backward incompatibilities**.
1919 As usual, "s-nail -d" will show obsoletion warnings.
1921 We gain noticeable improvements regarding scriptability and its
1922 reliability, but also for interactive use cases, especially
1923 notable to users is our completely new M(ailx)L(ine)E(ditor) that
1924 supports rather real tabulator expansion and program-mode-context-
1925 sensitive key bindings.
1927 We now support macros with arguments, which can be `shift'ed,
1928 a `return' status can be used, and a `vexpr' multiplexer offers
1929 some arithmetic and string operations. `commandalias'es are
1930 recursive, further command modifier prefixes, like `ignerr', give
1931 a hand that we otherwise could not offer. In compose-mode the new
1932 `~^' command escape allows some message and attachment access, and
1933 can be used, e.g., to implement things like custom headers, and
1934 has been especially designed for scripted access via the new
1935 *on-compose-splice* and *on-compose-splice-shell* hooks.
1937 S-nail will move (more or less) backward-incompatibly to sh(1)ell
1938 compatible argument quoting (documented in "COMMANDS"), and an
1939 increasing number of commands do support this already: new ones
1940 exclusively, some old ones have either been switched (like
1941 `localopts'), others -- noticeably `set' -- can be switched to the
1942 new syntax with a `wysh' command modifier prefix. E.g.:
1945 # Be careful to choose sh(1)ell-style on _entire_ line!
1946 localopts yes; wysh set verbose; ignerr eval "${@}"; return $?
1948 ? commandalias call echo boo-boo
1949 ? commandalias xv call __xv
1951 ? commandalias xv '\'call __xv
1954 Calling the latter `xv' for `list' will give more detailed command
1955 information, including which kind of argument is used.
1957 I have not managed to implement the three features i have started
1958 this development cycle for, these are thus subject to further
1959 development, just like wysh for message-list argument commands to
1960 support, e.g., negation, wysh for `if' and consorts, the --
1961 terminator to finally overcome the ridiculous requirement to quote
1962 entire shell commands filenames for commands like `pipe.
1965 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Antonio Radici,
1966 Aharon Robbins, Mike Frysinger, Predrag Punosevac, Michael Convey,
1967 Hariskar, Rudolf Sykora, Martin Neitzel, Gavin Troy,
1968 Salvatore Bonaccorso, Todd C. Miller, Sergey Matveev, Robert Elz,
1969 Mantas Mikulėnas, Respiranto, Jens Schleusener, Walter Alejandro
1970 Iglesias, Ralph Corderoy, David Levine, Lyndon Nerenberg,
1971 Thomas Dickey, Afan, Justin Ellingwood, Ingo Schwarze,
1972 Viktor Szépe, Gaetan Bisson, Juan RP, William Yodlowsky,
1973 Hilko Bengen, Matthew Dillon, Colin Watson, Donald Mugnai,
1974 Stephen Isard, Jürgen Daubert, Sven Neuhaus, trondd, Ismael Bouya,
1975 Felipe Gasper, Paul Eggert, Dr. Werner Fink, Ken Hornstein,
1976 Noel Chiappa, Random832, Doug McIlroy, Baptiste Daroussin,
1977 Riccardo Ductor, Pietro Cerutti, Jörg Schilling, rain1, Xin LI.
1979 We welcome Antonio Radici, Mike Frysinger, Predrag Punosevac,
1980 Michael Convey, Rudolf Sykora, Todd C. Miller, Robert Elz,
1981 Jens Schleusener, Walter Alejandro Iglesias, Thomas Dickey, Afan,
1982 Justin Ellingwood, Viktor Szépe, Juan RP, Matthew Dillon,
1983 Colin Watson, Donald Mugnai, Sven Neuhaus, Ismael Bouya,
1984 Felipe Gasper, Paul Eggert, Dr. Werner Fink, Ken Hornstein,
1985 Noel Chiappa, Random832, Doug McIlroy, Baptiste Daroussin,
1986 Riccardo Ductor, Pietro Cerutti, Jörg Schilling, rain1, and
1989 Apologies: Sergey Matveev.
1990 Members of the Roff community which await progress.
1992 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1993 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1995 * This release brings some backward incompatibilities, outlined
1996 in the following. Most users will not be affected, and we have
1997 added a lot of compatibility cruft, but that will vanish in v15.
2000 * The configuration and build system has changed.
2001 Packagers have received updated package files.
2003 o Anything which was WANT_xy before is now OPT_xy, and
2004 compiled-in paths and values, like PREFIX or PAGER, have
2005 gained a VAL_ prefix (thus VAL_PREFIX and VAL_PAGER).
2007 This is _not_ true for non-persistent or environmental values,
2008 e.g., DESTDIR, CC, etc., and also not for the overwritable
2009 program variables during configuration, e.g., $awk.
2011 o SENDMAIL -> VAL_MTA, SENDMAIL_PROGNAME -> VAL_MTA_ARGV0,
2012 MAILSPOOL -> VAL_MAIL.
2013 And NAIL -> VAL_MAILX, though this is still a lie.
2015 o The make system now needs config..build..install or
2016 all..install or tangerine (config..build..test..install).
2017 Some constants which some experts may want to fine-tune have
2018 been moved to config.h. Usual adjustments+doc via make.rc.
2020 o The `build' phase can be parallelized by setting the $MAKEJOBS
2021 environment variable, e.g., "make MAKEJOBS=-j4 build".
2022 Note this variable is not tracked in the configuration.
2025 o Unless DESTDIR is set an uninstallation script will be
2026 installed along with the rest (see INSTALL file for more).
2028 o Set the new OPT_CROSS_BUILD to avoid feature runtime tests,
2029 only compile- and link-availability will be tested. (Juan RP)
2031 o VERBOSE is implemented straight, but must be given at
2032 configuration time in order to become honoured.
2035 o ADDCFLAGS / ADDLDFLAGS -> EXTRA_CFLAGS / EXTRA_LDFLAGS.
2037 o The LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc. building processes will skip any path
2038 which contains the string "fakeroot". (Hilko Bengen)
2040 o We honour a set $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH#636 environment variable to
2041 an extend that allows reproducible tests, which is why the
2042 repository gained a [test-out] branch with some expected plain
2043 text outputs. (reproducible-builds.org; Colin Watson)
2045 The new *log-prefix*#457 variable aids in improving the
2046 reproducibility of error messages.
2048 o These are upward compatible changes.
2050 * "make OPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000 all" should work.
2052 * Internal and environment variables are now explicitly _defined_
2053 and _tracked_ after variable handling has been rewritten
2056 o This means that, e.g., "$ password=NOT_SECRET s-nail" will
2057 **NOT** work no more, since *password*#500 is an internal
2060 o But if you do, e.g., "? set TMPDIR=~/tmp", then this will
2061 also be reflected in the program environment (it is an
2062 environment variable) and thus affect child processes.
2064 o Therefore we no longer have `setenv' and `unsetenv'.
2066 o To integrate any other environment variable transparently
2067 into our variable management, the new command `environ'#190
2068 needs to be used, e.g., "? environ set NEWVAR=value" or
2069 "? environ link EXISTINGVAR".
2071 - -H#69 and -L#72 have been decoupled:
2072 it used to be -e#66 -L#72 instead!
2074 - *NAIL_{HEAD,TAIL}* have been obsoleted in favour of
2075 *message-inject-head*#467 and *message-inject-tail*#468.
2077 *NAIL_HIST{FILE,SIZE}* have been obsoleted in favour of
2078 *history-file*#438 and *history-size*#441.
2080 *NAIL_EXTRA_RC* has been obsoleted in favour of
2081 *mailx-extra-rc*#461.
2083 *batch-exit-on-error* has been obsoleted by *errexit*#414, which
2084 works just like the POSIX sh(1)ell "set -e" construct; the
2085 `ignerr'#126 command modifier (`-' for command escapes in compose
2086 mode, and see below) can be used to ignore command errors even
2087 then. (This will remain even if we at some later time will
2088 support at least some of the sh(1) constructs which "swallow"
2089 failures with set -e.)
2091 *bsdannounce* is obsolete, the feature is integrated in
2092 *header*#434 as this is much more useful. (This is however also
2093 dependent upon the also new but well-known $POSIXLY_CORRECT#633
2094 <> *posix*#515, but that is just how it is; these affect more
2095 behaviour, and increasing.)
2097 - Colour support has been changed backward in- and upward (from
2098 user interface side) compatibly, see the manual section
2099 "Coloured display"#19.
2101 + New commands: `colour'#161 and `uncolour'#162.
2102 You can define context-sensitive, terminal-capability-
2103 sensitive settings, e.g.:
2105 if terminal && [ "$features" =% +colour ]
2106 colour iso view-header ft=bold,fg=magenta,bg=cyan
2107 colour 256 view-header ft=bold,fg=208,bg=230 subject,from
2108 colour mono view-header ft=bold
2109 colour mono view-header ft=bold,ft=reverse subject,from
2112 + The variable *colour-pager*#396 defines whether colour and font
2113 attribute sequences should be generated when viewing something
2116 + Set the variable *colour-disable*#395 to turn colour off
2117 without affecting established settings.
2119 + It is deduced via termcap(5) (see below) whether the terminal
2120 supports colors, e.g., "$ s-nail -Stermcap=Co#256".
2121 This is also true if we don't have termcap support.
2123 + Support for 256-colour terminals. (Gavin Troy)
2125 - `source'#281 series support shell pipes if the last character
2126 of the "filename" ends with a vertical bar |, e.g.,
2128 ? source 'gpg -qd ~/.s-nailrc-private.gpg |'
2130 - Shell pipes are also supported as targets for `move'#233,
2131 `copy'#166 etc., yet unfortunately not with via a sh(1)ell token
2132 parser, so that the target still has to be a single argument.
2134 ? copy . '| cat; echo huhu'
2136 - Support for custom headers via the new `~^'#320 compose-mode
2137 command escape and in addition, or alternatively, with the
2138 internal variable *customhdr*#404, which also can be covered by
2139 `localopts'#218. (Sergey Matveev)
2141 + Support of $ORGANIZATION has been dropped.
2143 + Command escape `~e'#326 supports _any_ header.
2145 + Command escape `~^'#320 supports _any_ header.
2147 - New -:#56 command line option can be used to more easily select
2148 which startup files should be loaded, e.g., -:/ loads none.
2151 - `account'#141s and *folder-hook*#423s now have `localopts'#218
2154 - A first simple form of compose-mode hooks has been implemented:
2155 *on-compose-enter*#490, *on-compose-leave*#491 and
2156 *on-compose-cleanup*#489 can be set to macros which get invoked
2157 at appropriate times.
2158 For the `resend'#262 series there is *on-resend-enter*#498 and
2159 *on-resend-cleanup*#497: this is very likely to change once
2160 true message access is possible even in this mode.
2162 An even more powerful mechanism is available via the also new
2163 *on-compose-splice*#492 and *on-compose-splice-shell*#493 hooks.
2164 These are executed in child processes and communicate with the
2165 parent via their standard input and output, and therefore can
2166 do anything and act as if they were the user.
2168 `localopts'#218 are enabled and cannot be disabled (and extend
2169 until the message is sent).
2170 (Jens Schleusener, Rudolf Sykora)
2172 ? set on-compose-splice=ocs
2175 echo Splice protocol version is $ver
2176 echo '~^header list'
2177 read hl; vput vexpr es substring "${hl}" 0 1
2179 echoerr 'Failed to read header list, bailing out'
2181 elif [ "$hl" @i!% ' cc' ]
2182 echo '~^header insert cc Diet is your <mirr.or>'
2183 read es; vput vexpr es substr "${es}" 0 1
2185 echoerr 'Failed to insert Cc:, bailing out'; echo '~x'
2190 - "The .netrc file"#38
2192 + gained support for comments.
2193 (Walter Alejandro Iglesias, Ralph Corderoy)
2195 + `netrc'#237 now has a "load" subcommand.
2197 + the new *netrc-pipe*#484 obsoletes OPT_AGENT and
2198 *agent-shell-lookup*, and can be used to load an encrypted
2201 ? set netrc-lookup netrc-pipe='gpg -qd ~/.netrc.gpg'
2203 I.e., this is in usual .netrc syntax and thus possibly much
2204 nicer than saying "? source 'gpg -qd ~/.credentials.gpg |'".
2206 - termcap(5) / terminfo(5) support has been changed backward in-
2207 and upward (from user interface side) compatibly, please read
2208 "On terminal control and line editor"#18.
2210 + OPT_TERMCAP is by default enabled.
2211 The new, by default enabled, configuration option
2212 OPT_TERMCAP_VIA_TERMINFO can be used to (try to) use
2213 terminfo(5) instead.
2215 + The variable *termcap*#583 can be used to freely define or
2216 override terminal capabilities, and *termcap-disable*#585 will
2217 disable interaction with the chosen library, leaving only
2218 *termcap* in charge.
2220 To use the so-called ca-mode on supporting terminals,
2221 effectively turning S-nail into a fullscreen application,
2222 *termcap-ca-mode*#584 must be set.
2224 + The built-in line editor has been rather completely rewritten
2225 to be the Mailx-Line-Editor (OPT_MLE, default yes), and
2226 supports wide glyphs (if possible), infinite line lengths
2227 (2 GB) and more. Tabulator expansion is no longer an option
2228 (but needs fnmatch(3)).
2230 + Optionally (OPT_KEY_BINDINGS, default yes) it has become
2231 possible to freely define key bindings for the MLE via the new
2232 `bind'#150 and `unbind'#151 commands. These key bindings can
2233 make use of termcap(5) and/or terminfo(5) names. The MLE will
2234 install a set of default bindings (unless there is a set
2235 *line-editor-no-defaults*#456), more so with OPT_TERMCAP,
2236 i.e., try "? bind*".
2238 Sufficient support provided, one can now, e.g., type "p " and
2239 then collect the message numbers to type, scrolling forward
2240 and backward via key-bindings, without losing the line
2241 content, then commit the final line.
2243 + OPT_EDITLINE and OPT_READLINE support have been dropped.
2244 The new MLE should not miss anything. Does it?
2245 Tip: in an UTF-8 locale try "? !touch /tmp/hall{,öchen}" and
2246 then autocomplete that: once, then ^Q, and again.
2248 - `source'#281 can be used in `call'#152ed macros.
2249 What sounds so innocent replaced an entire machinery and got rid
2250 of a brilliant idea of Kurt Shoens from the 70s, but which never
2251 worked with Nail/Heirloom extensions, namely macros, and in the
2253 Accompanying this -X#87 can (dig multiline arguments and can) be
2254 used to define macros and run them etc. Should work:
2256 $ s-nail -X'define x {' -Xversion -Xx -X'}' -X'call x'
2257 $ s-nail -X'source \' -X'"echo version|"' -Xx
2259 Macros can be `undefine'#172d from within themselves, and re-
2260 `define'#171d. It is still not possible to define macros
2261 from within macros, and/or have inner macros, not to talk
2262 about local scoping or anything more sophisticated such.
2264 - -u#84 / $LOGNAME#624 ($USER) handling has been redefined,
2265 and "-u USER" is now exactly the same as "-f %USER", and
2266 $LOGNAME (and $USER) is actively set to the active user. (Afan)
2268 $LOGNAME#624 is POSIX standardized and henceforth used and
2269 preferred over $USER, which came from BSD. (Todd C. Miller)
2271 - In the future (at least non-message-list) argument handling will
2272 be changed backward-incompatibly to be sh(1)ell compatible (and
2273 thus POSIX standardized), see "Shell-style argument quoting"#24.
2274 New commands use it already today (`bind'#150, `colour'#161,
2275 `headerpick'#209), some others (most importantly, `set'#269) can
2276 be forced to do so via the new `wysh'#131 command prefix, as in:
2278 ? wysh set message-inject-tail=$'\n--steffen'
2279 ? bind base $'\cA,\x61' 'echo control-A and small a'
2281 - We now actively manage *umask*#604: 0077 by default, but an
2282 empty string will use the setting that is active upon startup.
2283 Just like changes to (known) environment variables, this setting
2284 will also be inherited by any child process.
2285 (Walter Alejandro Iglesias)
2287 - Anything SENDMAIL / *sendmail*-ish has been renamed to *mta*#476,
2288 *mta-arguments*#478, *mta-no-default-arguments*#479 and
2291 The reason is that in v15 we won't even have *smtp*: it is just
2292 another form of MTA, and thus obsolete by itself.
2293 Note that *mta-arguments* is now parsed via the shell-token
2294 parser, so the following ends up exactly as desired.
2296 ? set mta-arguments='-t -X "/tmp/my log"'
2298 For now we support a hack that understands a file:// URL in
2299 *mta*, too, but that is also the default if there is no protocol.
2300 E.g.: "? set mta=smtp://a:b@xy.z"
2302 - The "spamd" *spam-interface*#570 is obsolete. I haven't tested
2303 it since my main machine died, it is error prone since it assumes
2304 internals of the spamassassin wire protocol, and there never was
2305 a speed improvement over "spamc". (However it could react upon
2306 the "is-spam" state of a message, which "spamc" doesn't allow.)
2308 - The new *inbox*#449 variable will henceforth be looked up when
2309 searching for a primary system mailbox (as in "? File %"),
2310 followed by the usual $MAIL#625 and compile-time defined local
2311 mailspool search. (Stephen Isard, Jürgen Daubert)
2313 - The semantic of -a#58 and `~@'#318 have been changed, and both
2314 commands now use the same syntax:
2316 -a file[=input-charset[#output-charset]]
2318 - New "failinvaddr" keyword for *expandaddr*#417.
2320 - We finally "can" the so-called (by myself) "Dr. Problem" (a bit):
2323 $ </dev/null s-nail -d:/ -sTrödler 'Dr. D. Iet <z@a.k>' 2>&1 |\
2325 s-nail: >>> To: "Dr. D. Iet" <z@a.k>
2327 This can be done via the new `addrcodec'#143, too, note this
2328 supports multiple modes (and the `vput'#130 command modifier):
2330 $ echo 'addrcodec e Dr. Diet <to@fu.soj> Curd' | s-nail -#:/
2331 "Dr. Diet Curd" <to@fu.soj>
2333 - All commands with the string "codec" in their name use different
2334 argument quoting, namely none at all, please read
2335 "Raw data arguments for codec commands"#26.
2336 This means that `urlcodec'#299 (and `imapcodec'#665) has
2337 slightly changed semantics.
2338 And, while here: there is a new `shcodec'#271, too.
2340 - We gained "Command modifiers"#22: `\'#125 (avoid expansion of
2341 `commandalias'#163es), `vput'#130 (store result in variable),
2342 `ignerr'#126 (ignore an error of the following command, even
2343 if the new *errexit*#414 is set), `wysh'#131 (use shell-style
2346 $ echo 'vput cwd resvar;echo $resvar' | s-nail -#:/
2347 /home/steffen/src/nail.git
2349 And the usual sh(1) stuff: `return'#264, `shift'#275, `eval'#192,
2350 plus a `xcall'#307 stack-avoidance optimization (to be used in
2351 place of a `call'#152 which would be the last called command).
2352 And an "expr(1) like thing", yet simple, `vexpr'#303.
2354 $ echo 'vexpr + 1 2' | s-nail -#:/
2355 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000011
2357 $ echo 'vput vexpr resvar + 1 2;echo $resvar' | s-nail -#:/
2360 We actually start walking (*?*#348, *^*#350).
2362 ? vput vexpr res regex 'bananarama' 'Bana(.+)' '\$1\$0'
2363 ? echo $?/$^ERRNAME :$res:
2365 ? vput vexpr res iregex 'bananarama' '(.+)rama' '\$1\$0'
2366 ? echo $?/$^ERRNAME :$res:
2367 0/NONE :bananabananarama:
2369 The command `vpospar'#304 can be used to manage the stack of
2370 positional parameters, i.e., much like "set --".
2371 It also offers the possibility to save and restore the stack to
2372 and from variables. Etc.
2374 Btw., to contact the maintainer (make.rc variables
2375 VAL_CONTACT_WEB and VAL_CONTACT_MAIL):
2377 ? echo $contact-web; eval mail $contact-mail
2379 - `if'#215 no longer performs automatic number conversion, we
2380 use the explicit -lt, -gt etc. syntax of the sh(1).
2381 Note: `if' will change to be almost identical to sh(1) if(1),
2382 so please ensure proper test bracketing, even if it is less
2385 Moreover, the default string comparison mode has changed to
2386 case-sensitive, just like in the shell. This is because in the
2387 future this crux with trigger characters will vanish and `if'
2388 etc. will simply slurp in already expanded shell tokens, it will
2389 act like the shell in that respect. We have modifiers, though,
2390 yet only "@i" for case-insensitivity, also for regex matches:
2393 i=`LC_ALL=C.utf8 s-nail -:/ -# -X '
2395 \if [ "${ttycharset}" @i=% utf ]
2399 \if [ "${#}" -gt 0 ]
2400 \wysh set LC_ALL=${1}
2402 \eval xcall cset_test "${@}"
2406 \call cset_test C.UTF-8 POSIX.utf8 POSIX.UTF-8 \
2407 en_EN.utf8 en_EN.UTF-8 en_US.utf8 en_US.UTF-8
2409 [ $? -eq 0 ] && UTF8_LOCALE=$i
2411 Please note the `eval' in 'eval xcall cset_test "${@}". This is
2412 a difference of S-nail/mailx and the sh(1)ell that will remain,
2413 as documented in "COMMANDS"#21: whereas the shell implements
2414 a language and performs standardized expansions on the line
2415 until finally the command is called, S-nail will decide the type
2416 of command line parsing dependent on the seen command, and will
2417 then perform a single expansion. Therefore "${@}" will expand
2418 to multiple arguments if $# is greater 0, but it will expand to
2419 the empty string otherwise, which is not furtherly expanded away
2420 since it is meaningless like it is in the shell: therefore $#
2421 will be 1 (the empty string) not 0.
2423 - Using an explicit proto:// prefix should get you the desired
2424 thing apart of *newfolders*#485, e.g.:
2426 ? File maildir:///tmp/x.mdir
2427 ? copy * file:///tmp/x.mbox
2429 - New variable *record-files*#530 can be set to extend the meaning
2430 of *record*#529. *record-resent*#531 was there already.
2432 - New variable *ifs*#445 acts a bit like the sh(1)ell's $IFS for,
2433 e.g., the new `read'#251 command.
2435 There is a `readctl'#254 command which can be used to manage
2436 the active channel used by `read'#251.
2438 - The `~' alias for `call'#152 is gone.
2440 - `mimetype'#225 only allows specification of a single type per
2441 call, on the other hand no need to quote that.
2443 - `mimeview'#227 must now be used explicitly to look at any
2444 non-text MIME part, for normal display etc. purposes we only
2445 support "copiousoutput"#651 MIME handlers.
2447 - New *socks-proxy*#569 can be used to proxy all network traffic
2448 over a SOCKS5 proxy. (Gaetan Bisson)
2453 - The manual has seen another major overhaul, all the variables
2454 are now documented in a single, sorted list, and many
2455 clarifications should have been added. I hope it has become
2457 (Predrag Punosevac, Michael Convey, Hariskar, Rudolf Sykora,
2458 Respiranto, Thomas Dickey, Donald Mugnai)
2460 - To support RFC 1524 a.k.a. .mailcap files (see below) many
2461 "trigger"-characters have been added for *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#503,
2462 which may (rarely) affect existing values.
2463 The .mailcap support itself is not yet implemented.
2465 - *mime-counter-evidence*#472 gained bit 4 (perform proper in-depth
2466 content inspection as necessary; set to 0xE for all bits).
2469 - Maildir paths are now created recursively as necessary.
2472 - -M#73 and -m#74 options have been added to enforce a special
2473 send mode that will flag standard input / the given file with
2474 the specified / detected MIME 'Content-Type:'. This can be used
2475 to directly send, e.g., HTML log output.
2476 (Viktor Szépe, Ralph Corderoy)
2478 - Disallow symlinks on writable files. Note this requires
2479 O_NOFOLLOW support for the operating-system-call open(2), but
2480 which has been standardized a long time ago.
2483 - `retain'#263, `ignore'#216 etc. now differentiate in between
2484 From (the From: header) and From_ (the MBOX ident).
2486 In fact we now have a new `headerpick'#209 command which
2487 is a multiplexer for all retain and ignore lists used, call it
2488 without arguments to see the current setting(s).
2489 In v15 only `headerpick' and the standard-imposed wrappers
2490 `retain' and `ignore' will remain, all other wrappers will
2491 vanish. Regular expressions can now be used if available:
2494 headerpick type retain blahblahblah cc date from \
2495 mail-followup-to message-id openpgp reply-to subject to \
2497 #headerpick type ignore currently covers no fields
2498 #headerpick save retain currently covers no fields
2499 headerpick save ignore '^Original-.*$' '^X-.*$' '^DKIM.*$'
2500 headerpick forward retain cc date from list-id \
2501 mail-followup-to openpgp reply-to subject to
2502 #headerpick forward ignore currently covers no fields
2504 - `top'#291 has been rewritten completely, `Top'#290 is new.
2505 It uses a built-in set of retain/ignore headers, but it is
2506 possible to register a custom set via `headerpick'#209.
2507 Also, *toplines*#600 has been extended a bit and the new
2508 *topsqueeze*#601 variable may pimp your `top' experience.
2510 ? headerpick top retain add subject
2512 [-- Message 1 -- 87 lines, 4791 bytes --]:
2513 Subject: Re: I can't dist to myself
2516 3.22. bounce_delivered
2518 - `features' has been dropped, `version'#302 extended.
2520 - The *prompt*#517 handling has changed: we lost the capability to
2521 expand \?, \@ and \$, instead new "private" variables *?*#348,
2522 *account*#361, *mailbox-resolved*#459 and
2523 *mailbox-display*#458 have been introduced, and the prompt
2524 is completely shell expanded (thus twice with `wysh' or in v15),
2525 as if dollar-single-quote quoted. We do support the reverse-
2526 solidus escaped bracket notation for embedding characters which
2527 should not be counted when calculating the width of the prompt.
2528 The `colour'#161 command has a slot for the prompt colour.
2529 We gained *prompt2*#518 as a second level prompt.
2533 prompt='?\${?}!\${!}[\${account}#\${mailbox-display}]? '
2535 - The filename "-" can be used as a receiver, e.g.,
2537 $ echo Hey,\ you | s-nail -:/ -Sexpandaddr -sUB -
2539 - The -s#81 command line option, the `~s'#340 command escape
2540 as well as the corresponding slots of `~^'#320 will actively
2541 strip [\r\n] from their value (Debian #419840).
2543 - New `read'#251 and `echoerr'#183 commands, mostly for
2544 *on-compose-splice*#492.
2545 But also `echon'#184 and `echoerrn'#185, which do not write
2548 - New variable *r-option-implicit*#527 may be helpful to those
2549 who regulary need the functionality of the -r#79 command
2550 line option. (Felipe Gasper, Martin Neitzel)
2552 - By using new "pseudo-URLs" one can automatize the use of S/MIME
2553 keys / (certificates / intermediate include certificates) with
2554 passwords. E.g., to drive bob@exam.ple, set
2555 *smime-sign-cert-bob@exam.ple* to the private key / certificate
2556 pair as usual, the password lookup will then be performed for
2557 bob@exam.ple.smime-cert-key, bob@exam.ple.smime-cert-cert and
2558 bob@exam.ple.smime-include-certs.
2559 Like this the password can be stored in an encrypted .netrc file
2560 when *netrc-lookup*#483 and *netrc-pipe*#484 are set, or it may
2561 be stored in an encrypted resource file that has been loaded via
2562 `source'#281 as a simple *password*#500 variable.
2564 Note that the prompting that happens as a last resort of
2565 password lookup will still interfere with a possibly running
2566 $PAGER#631 instance, dependent on the setting of *crt*#403, of
2567 course. Proper job control handling and recognizing that we are
2568 running $PAGER when doing that prompt is a TODO for v15. Sorry.
2570 - Some commands, like `set'#269, `help'#212, `list'#217,
2571 `mlist'#228 etc., now react upon the setting of *verbose*#607
2572 and(/or) *debug*#407.
2574 - `write'#306 uses iconv(3) as appropriate.
2576 - *mbox-rfc4155*#464 has first been dropped, and was then
2577 reintroduced with different semantics. Because, it can be
2578 helpful if a messed up MBOX is read, in which case we henceforth
2579 will warn you and point you to this:
2582 \localopts yes; \wysh set mbox-rfc4155;\
2583 \wysh File "${1}"; \eval copy * "${2}"
2585 ? call mboxfix /tmp/bad.mbox /tmp/good.mbox
2587 P.S. Here you see how weird the current thing still is, in v15:
2590 localopts yes; set mbox-rfc4155; File "${1}"; copy * -- "${2}"
2593 And also in v15 we will not apply (proper) so-called MBOXO
2594 quoting, but instead (simply MIME) re-encode mail messages.
2596 - `call_if'#153 is new and, different to "? ignerr call", silent
2597 and not messing with the return status.
2599 - The new *smime-ca-flags*#554 and *ssl-ca-flags*#? can be used
2600 to fine-tune X509_STORE_set_flags(3) a.k.a the X509 CA
2601 certificate verification.
2603 ? set ssl-ca-flags=partial-chain
2604 ? wysh set smime-ca-flags="${ssl-ca-flags}"
2606 Also, *ssl-curves*#? for TLSv1.3.
2608 - Socket connections use TLS S(erver)N(ame)I(ndication) as
2609 appropriate (RFC 7817).
2611 - `alternates'#146 checks arguments and supports `vput'#130.
2612 It by default no longer replaces but appends alternates, unless
2613 *posix*#515 mode is active. There is a new `unalternates'#147
2614 command to remove alternates.
2616 - A new `charsetalias'#156 command. (Pietro Cerutti, mutt#3925)
2618 - New commands `filetype'#196 and `unfiletype'#197: in the future
2619 we will no longer know any builtin filetypes, in fact we already
2620 simulate .gz etc. via the new mechanism as necessary:
2623 bz2 'bzip2 -dc' 'bzip2 -zc' \
2624 gpg 'gpg -d' 'gpg -e' \
2625 gz 'gzip -dc' 'gzip -c' \
2626 xz 'xz -dc' 'xz -zc' \
2627 zst 'zstd -dc' 'zstd -19 -zc' \
2628 zst.pgp 'gpg -d | zstd -dc' 'zstd -19 -zc | gpg -e'
2630 - `~<'#315 now offers a "- [HERE-delimiter]" mode for pasting etc.
2633 - `exit'#193 and `quit'#250 take an optional exit status.
2634 (That is not fixated yet, though.)
2636 - We have a useful -h / --help output. (Doug McIlroy)
2638 - *encoding* obsoleted in favour of new *mime-encoding*#473, which
2639 now defaults to base64.
2641 - *allnet*#363 now works (broken since nail 10.00, 2002-09-29).
2646 The complete changelog of commits in between two versions OLD and
2647 NEW can be inspected by using the git(1) `log' command:
2649 $ git log --reverse --topo-order --abbrev-commit OLD..NEW
2650 # Only topic branch headers (--no-merges for content commits only):
2651 $ git log --oneline --reverse --topo-order --merges OLD..NEW
2652 # Same, but truly accessible:
2653 $ git log --oneline --reverse --topo-order --merges --parents OLD..NEW |
2654 while read c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6; do
2655 printf "%-24s: \$ git log --oneline --no-merges %s ^%s\n" \
2656 "${c6}" "${c1}" "${c2}";
2659 Entries for releases before v14.9.0 have been cut off and can be
2660 found in the git(1) repository:
2662 v14.8.0 - v14.8.16: $ git show v14.8.16:NEWS
2663 v13 - v14.8.5 : $ git show v14.8.5:NEWS
2664 9.0 - 12.5 : $ git show heirloom:ChangeLog
2666 Also accessible via HTTPS?, just replace X.Y.Z accordingly:
2668 \https?://git.sdaoden.eu/browse?p=s-nail.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS;hb=refs/heads/release/vX.Y.Z
2670 For even older releases you need to look into the [timeline]
2671 branch, but no changelog has been administrated for them.