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 v14.9.21 ("Tit escapes with a peanut"), 2021-01-21
10 --------------------------------------------------
12 I apologise for the inconvenience of yet another bugfix release.
13 It fixes a possible SMTP buffer overflow triggerable by
14 a malicious server as reported by Olav Mørkrid, and a socket code
15 memory access error that can be seen when using IMAP on at least
16 Solaris, which was reported by Jörg Schilling.
18 Yasuhiro Kimura helped to unconfuse problems that i attributed to
19 BSD make, but which were indeed shell errors, most notably mksh.
20 Excuses are due to the forgiving and friendly Simon Gerraty (BSD
21 make) and Paul Smith (GNU make).
22 (In the end test job reaper code has been rewritten completely.)
24 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Simon Gerraty,
25 Yasuhiro Kimura, Matthias Gerstner, Olav Mørkrid, Jörg Schilling,
28 We welcome Simon Gerraty and Matthias Gerstner in THANKS.
30 We are https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail (project 444).
32 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
33 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
35 - The test now can skip individual tests included in $SKIPTEST,
36 for example "# make test SKIPTEST='eval vexpr'.
38 - New option VAL_ERRORS_LIMIT (by default enbaled), and new
39 variable *errors-limit*#415 to configure error ring size.
41 - We become even more portable to SysV/Solaris. (Jörg Schilling)
46 - Without termcap/terminfo support the outermost column was always
47 made accessible (since "not not" defining "am" in *termcap* is
48 not possible, bug since v14.9.12), on the other hand the "ch"
49 builtin implementation never reached out to this last column
52 - Manual: after rewrite and review i think the manual section
53 "Character sets" is of acceptable quality. (Jörg Schilling)
55 git(1) shortlog (edited)
56 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
58 Steffen Nurpmeso (56):
59 ee8ba5ed mx-test.sh: allow skipping tests via $SKIPTEST=".."..
60 e7cd3aca mx-test.sh: disable an unset $JOBMON for bmake(1)! (Simon Gerraty)
61 c1299e6c THANKS: Simon Gerraty
62 8e2fa0b6 mx-test.sh: let the jobreaper exit on SIGINT (Simon Gerraty)
63 e3d92fe4 makefile: set SHELL to detach from user environment (Yasuhiro
65 52287556 mx-test.sh: BSD make not the culprit (Yasuhiro KIMURA)
66 269370b4 makefile: add note for SHELL (Yasuhiro KIMURA)
67 fae211c5 mk/make-config.sh: fix ICONV test to run with OPT_ASAN_ADDRESS=y
68 ededcddf MLE: fix compilation with OPT_KEY_BINDINGS=no
69 9c5f0b96 Test fcntl(2) F_SETFD FD_CLOEXEC return (Matthias Gerstner)
70 fecc0063 THANKS: Matthias Gerstner
71 b578715b mx_termcap_init(): fix: no auto_right_margin except with library
73 028aeb3e mx_termcap_cmd(): "ch" fallback implementation: do full width, not -1
74 b1bff334 Fix OPT_AMALGAMATION=y with OPT_GSSAPI=y
75 c2e54ed7 a_netsmtp_read(): fix overflow for malicious server response (Olav
77 2053bac2 README: changed from cgit to gitweb
78 a1dbde85 mx_socket_reset_read_buf(): rbufptr=NIL to avoid bad copies (Jörg
80 13a1bee3 NEWS: we now use gitweb not cgit
81 71b050c0 mx_child_in_child_setup(): support for close_range(2) / closefrom(2)
82 d5f3d6c5 a_flthtml_add_data(): even more care for broken entities..
83 13c0ffeb nail.1: clarify *mta-bcc-ok* (Geoff Clare)
84 df8fd858 PRNG: VAL_RANDOM: add getentropy(3) support
85 1e4e02d8 make.rc,mk/make-config.sh: add VAL_ICONV selector (Jörg Schilling)
86 7784bb7e Add VAL_ERRORS_LIMIT and *errors-limit*
87 c0f7bd99 mx_locale_init(): log if interactive and $LC_ALL is a no-go (Jörg
89 84908888 mx-test.sh: drop permanent jobreaper, just start a new one, always
90 6950c69b nail.1: Character sets: improve, review (Jörg Schilling)
91 c72f9466 mk/make-config.sh: GNU iconv redirects until forced otherwise (Jörg
93 5ddeb6f9 mk/make-config.sh: fix $CC=cc SunOS shorthand (Jörg Schilling)
95 v14.9.20 ("Sombre Tit (Trauermeise)"), 2020-12-12
96 -------------------------------------------------
98 Fixes things like TLS over SOCKS and too many other bugs.
99 We have some new things, too.
101 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Roberto Ricci,
102 Aharon Robbins, Kevin McCarthy, Predrag Punosevac,
103 Paride Legovini, Olav Mørkrid, Ron Varburg, Jürgen Daubert,
104 Russell Bell, and Geoff Clare.
106 It is courtesy to give a special credit to Coverity.com, even
107 though it only found false positives.
108 (https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail, project 444.)
110 We welcome Roberto Ricci, Ron Varburg and Geoff Clare in THANKS.
112 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
113 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
115 + FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, (NetBSD): there are bugs in BSD make and
116 FreeBSD-derived sh(1)ells regarding sh(1) monitor mode that is
117 now used in mx-test.sh ("make test").
118 Please pass in JOBMON=n on make(1) command line, or use
119 a different shell (and make).
121 (You could also pass in a different JOBWAIT= now.)
123 + Binaries are now installed 0755 not 0555. (Jürgen Daubert)
125 + On SunOS/Solaris we now use the normal $CC detection algorithm.
126 (No longer forcefully overwrite, prefer open source compilers.)
128 - TLS connections can now be proxied via *socks-proxy*#569.
130 - `echo'#182 no longer performs "Filename transformations"#27.
131 Introduced in BSD Mail in 1988, but bad.
132 Just use `vexpr'#303 file-expand.
134 - `local'#127 now works like `localopts'#218 when used
135 with `set'#269 and `unset'#270.
136 This is true for built-in variables only, of course, using
137 `local' for those was forbidden in the past, i think.
138 Note that `localopts' will be obsoleted in v14.10, we will only
139 use modifiers in the future.
144 - EXTERNAL authentication over IMAP and POP3 was fixed.
146 - *tls-fingerprint*#596 is now tested case-insensitively.
148 - *quote*#520 gained an "allbodies" keyword.
150 - "The Mailcap files"#37 gained "x-mailx-last-resort" and
151 "x-mailx-ignore" flags. (Latter: Russell Bell)
153 - `history'#213 "delete" can now delete multiple entries per
156 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (110)
158 v14.9.19 ("Tufted titmouse (Indianermeise)"), 2020-04-26
159 --------------------------------------------------------
161 Fixing an unknown-8bit/iconv(1/3) misbehaviour when displaying
162 mails, and making this MUA ready for OpenSSL 3.0.
164 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Anirudh Oppiliappan and
167 We welcome Anirudh Oppiliappan and Claus Assmann in THANKS.
169 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (14)
171 v14.9.18 ("It is spring time, what a bliss"), 2020-04-18
172 --------------------------------------------------------
174 Some bugfixes and tweaks that accumulated over the months.
176 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jens Schleusener,
177 Noctambule, Kyle Evans.
179 It is courtesy to give a special credit to Coverity.com.
180 (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project 444.)
182 We welcome Noctambule and Kyle Evans in THANKS.
184 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
185 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
187 - Warning: we _will_ have v15-compat=yes as a default in v14.10!
189 - Fix for `~f'#328, `~m'#334, `~Q'#336, `~U'#342 and `~u'#343:
190 no longer include all MIME parts (bug since at least v14.9.16).
192 - Fix for handling of "The Mailcap files"#37:
193 a single copiousoutput/x-mailx-tmpfile-fill|nametemplate
194 combination was falsely handled, mostly affecting binary file
195 formats (which got broken by applied character set conversion).
197 - Fix for automatic S/MIME encrypted key / certificate password
198 lookup: used $LOGNAME@[no hostname].smime-cert-key as
199 a fallback, instead of using the value of *from*#432.
202 - `~R'#338 and `~r'#339, as well as all prompts which expect
203 file names and did not yet do so, expect shell-quoted names.
204 (See "Shell-style argument quoting"#24.)
209 - `~Q'#336 now acts as if *quote*#520 is set.
210 Does not really make sense otherwise.
212 - New environment variable $SOCKS5_PROXY#635 is tight together
213 with *socks-proxy*#569: setting the one affects the other.
214 This $SOCKS5_PROXY is introduced by FreeBSD to affect all
215 programs which are capable to proxy via SOCKS5 (it seems).
218 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (26)
220 v14.9.17 ("To bind, or not to bind.."), 2020-02-02
221 --------------------------------------------------
223 A shadowed key bindings report on bash-bugs@ made me aware that
224 our `bind' code has never seen a real review, and not only were we
225 incapable too, but the code was a piece of shit, when i looked at
226 it. So please find here a bugfix release to smoothly end v14.9.
228 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jens Schleusener,
229 Johannes Schöpfer, Russell Bell, and Koichi Murase.
231 It is courtesy to give a special credit to Coverity.com.
232 (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project 444.)
234 We welcome Koichi Murase in THANKS.
236 And now for something completely different.
238 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
239 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
241 - "make test" now works when run by root or on read-only
242 file-systems. (Johannes Schöpfer)
244 - Our `bind'#150 now supports overall key-sequence timeouts,
245 as opposed to inter-byte timeouts. For this i have obsoleted
246 *bind-timeout* in favour of *bind-inter-byte-timeout*#380
247 and *bind-inter-key-timeout*#381 (not set by default).
249 The bind tree code had two bugs, for one the "shortcut"
250 key-bindings would all have been created in the "base" context,
251 not where they really belong ("default" and "compose").
252 And due to false list relinking shadowed key bindings did not
253 work. (Koichi Murase)
255 When used with 3x*verbose*#? (aka -v#86) the bind tree
256 is now dumped when it has been build (once used first, and after
257 modifications. Putting all this together, a resource file
259 cat >/tmp/t.sh <<'__EOT'
261 cat >/tmp/t.rc <<'_EOT'
262 set line-editor-no-defaults
263 bind base $'\n' mle-commit
264 bind base $'\c?' mle-del-bwd
265 bind base $'\cT' echo one
266 bind base $'\cT',$'\cT' echo two
268 bind base ab,c echo 1
269 bind base abc,d echo 2
270 bind base ac,d echo 3
271 bind base a,b,c echo 4
272 bind base a,b,c,d echo 5
273 bind base a,b,cc,d echo 6
275 set bind-inter-key-timeout=2500
276 set bind-inter-byte-timeout=250
277 bind base a,b,c,d # now works, too!
279 MAILRC=/tmp/t.rc $MAILX -R:u -Y 'set verbose=3'
280 rm -f /tmp/t.sh /tmp/t.rc
284 will now do the expected.
286 - `Reply'#257: no longer honours *recipients-in-cc*#528
291 - Manual: after review i think the following sections are of
292 acceptable quality: "On terminal control and line editor"#18,
293 "Coloured display"#19.
295 - *verbose*#607 is no longer a boolean but can be assigned
296 a numeric value. But "set verbose verbose verbose"
299 - New variable *reply-to-swap-in*#536 tries to work around
300 the DKIM/DMARC "HUMAN via LIST <LIST@ADDRESS>" ugliness
301 when `reply'#259ing (or `Reply'#257ing) to such a message.
302 It tries to move the HUMAN into responsibility.
304 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (65)
306 v14.9.16 ("Message of Winter, your hopes shall be crushed"), 2019-12-29
307 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
309 At the end of the v14.9 series we finally deliver the RFC 1524
310 mailcap support, as well as other improvements, and new features.
311 Many bugfixes and tests arrive.
312 A whole bunch of things are backward-incompatible, but i would
313 assume that most use cases are not at all affected.
315 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Brian Evans,
316 Paride Legovini, Yasuhiro KIMURA, John P. Linderman, Leo,
317 Martin Neitzel, Alexander Harm, Ken Hornstein, Martynas Bendorius,
318 Russell Bell, Goesta Smekal, Kevin McCarthy, Ralph Keller,
319 Ralph Corderoy, Viktor Szépe, Jelle van der Waa, Arnout Engelen,
320 Stuart Henderson, elo, and Benjamin A. Wong.
322 We welcome Yasuhiro KIMURA, John P. Linderman, Leo,
323 Martynas Bendorius, Goesta Smekal, Jelle van der Waa,
324 Arnout Engelen, elo, and Benjamin A. Wong in THANKS.
326 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
327 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
329 - Renamed *expandaddr*#417 namehostex to nametoaddr. (Better.)
331 - *tls-features*#595 string now starts and ends with comma.
332 (Just like *features*#420 does.)
334 - -L#72 longname --header-search renamed to --search.
336 - Config option OPT_FORCED_STACKPROT=xy now
337 OPT_AUTOCC_STACKPROT=y, and now auto-enabled for OPT_AUTOCC=y
338 (even though i hate that, protectors in shipout code..).
340 - `account'#141 return value now matters, and can thus be used to
341 abort account switching.
343 - -:#56 has new "x" mode, which executes the directives of the
344 compiled-in resource file. (The template content is now
345 compiled in too, so the real file does not need to be loaded.)
348 - Quote etc. injections (*quote-inject-head*#525) now always
349 happen (if set), regardless of *quote*#520.
351 - We now truly honour POSIX command abbreviations (order).
352 As part of that i finally implemented a simple command lookup
353 speedup, these are now almost alphabetical (unless abbreviations
356 - Added *mta-bcc-ok*#482. Bummer. It seems exim and courier
357 do not remove Bcc: headers as required by standards unless
358 invoked with a special command line argument. So we now
359 do not pass Bcc: headers to file-based MTAs unless this
360 variable is set explicitly. (Kevin McCarthy).
362 - "COMMAND ESCAPES"#29 now have a $ command modifier, which
363 causes a shell-style `eval'#192uation before the command
366 And so `~<'#315, `~R'#338 and `~r'#339 no longer expand $VAR
367 expressions by themselves.
369 And so -a#58, `~@'#318, and "attachment insert" of `~^'#320
370 and `digmsg'#175 only perform ~/-style expansions.
372 - `~^'#320: use shell-style argument expansion.
373 We handled `~^' and `digmsg' differently, but furthermore
374 turned the shell-parsed data of the latter into whitespace
375 separated data, which made it impossible to, for example,
376 use attachments with whitespace in their names.
378 This increases the interaction protocol version number of
379 *on-compose-splice*#492 from "0 0 1" to "0 0 2"!
380 Because, we do also quote the output, since using `read'
381 (or read(1)) causes *ifs*#445 ($IFS) normalization.
382 All that could be done would be (for ourselves):
389 # And now assign the desired real fields
390 set real-var1=$1 real-var2=$2 ...
393 Sick! So instead introduce a `readsh'#252 command which works
394 like `read'#251 but splits fields at shell token boundaries,
395 for example from within *on-compose-splice*#492:
397 echo '~^h s subject'; read stat name; readsh sub; read i
399 There would be better examples. (Ralph Keller)
401 - `~F'#327, `~f'#328, `~M'#333, `~m'#334, `~U'#342 and `~u'#343 now
402 honour *forward-inject-head*#430 and *forward-inject-tail*#431.
404 - New option OPT_MAILCAP, by default enabled.
405 Disable at runtime via *mailcap-disable*#460, all documented
406 in "The Mailcap files"#37.
408 - OpenBSD: really auto-find number of processors in test script.
409 Work around fflush(3) not adapting POSIX behaviour.
411 - Manual: after review i think the following sections are of
412 acceptable quality: "Encrypted network communication"#14,
413 "A starter"#6, "On URL syntax and credential lookup"#13,
414 "The Mailcap files"#37, and
415 "But, how about XOAUTH2 / OAUTHBEARER?"#46.
417 The latter is actually (Stuart Henderson, Benjamin A. Wong),
418 and now provides a copy+paste example of how to keep a
419 OAUTHBEARER token up-to-date with S-nail (with some care).
422 - Default .rc file: keeps Sender: by default (Ken Hornstein),
423 sets *followup-to-honour*#427 and *reply-to-honour*#535,
424 and gives more *history-gabby*#439ness.
429 - Add `Lfollowup'#219. (Russell Bell)
431 - `?'#139: prefix \ (quoted!) to command to avoid
432 `commandalias'#163 matching:
435 S -> spamspam: Teach the spam detector that <msglist> is spam
437 S (Save): Like `save', but derive filename from first sender
439 - `history'#213 has new "delete NUMBER" subcommand.
441 - Add *forward-add-cc*#428 and *quote-add-cc*#521 to Cc: the
442 originator of a forwarded or quoted message, respectively.
445 - *history-gabby*#439 now has a value to allow for more.
446 This changes second argument of *on-history-addition*#494
447 from boolean to context string.
449 - New command `mtaaliases'#236. We no longer automatically
450 update the *mta-aliases*#477 cache. (Maybe much later we will
451 have a path_monitor or something, until then, not.)
453 And `netrc'#237 "load" is now indeed "clear" + "load".
455 `netrc' also gained a "lookup" subcommand. (Ralph Corderoy)
457 - *headline*#435 %L format will announce possibility that
458 a message could be a list.
460 - `chdir'#158, `rename'#256 and `remove'#255 use shell-style
463 - `tls'#289 gained "certchain" and "certificate" subcommands.
465 - `folder'#201 can open RFC 5322 messages via eml:// protocol,
466 as in "folder eml:///tmp/msg.eml". Yet primitive and only
467 read-only. (Viktor Szépe)
469 - `vexpr'#303 gained "date-utc", "date-stamp-utc" and "epoch"
470 subcommands. (Benjamin A. Wong)
472 - *on-main-loop-tick*#495 now also happens for commands passed
475 git(1) shortlog: Yasuhiro KIMURA (1), Steffen Nurpmeso (263)
477 v14.9.15 ("Tit family in the trees"), 2019-08-18
478 ------------------------------------------------
480 Plugging a bug regarding copying data out of invalid MBOX mail
481 databases which is present in all BSD Mails and in Unix V10 mail,
482 and bringing in some tweaks, this update hopefully really marks
483 the end of the v14.9.* series.
485 After more than four and a half years i again have a VM testbed,
486 with an increasing number of VM combinations. (Yet still too few,
487 but nonetheless, a dramatical improvement.) This includes
488 a GSS-API testbed, with an ArchLinux server and Linux and FreeBSD
489 clients (do not ask why no additional FreeBSD server, i want to
490 use binary packages). This brought GSSAPI tweaks.
492 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Ralph Corderoy,
493 Chet Ramey, Robert Elz, Jilles Tjoelker, Steve Izma, Viktor Szépe,
494 and Jean-Marc Pigeon.
496 Very special thanks go to Tarqi Kazan and Ivan Vučica, who tested
497 GSS-API in the past until it worked (again), testing against my
498 blind flight patches! Thank you very much, guys!
500 We welcome Chet Ramey, Jilles Tjoelker and Steve Izma in THANKS.
502 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
503 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
505 - *features*#420 and *tls-features*#595 are now prefixed with
506 a comma ",", not with the number sign "#" (which could
507 increasingly `eval'#192uate to a comment).
509 - We now support parallelized tests. It takes a numeric job
510 number out of $MAKEFLAGS, or tries to fetch the number of
511 processors otherwise (really!). To go singleprocessor
512 "$ make testnj" has to be called explicitly.
513 With or without, we will terminate tests which take too long.
515 This is truly tremendous, on the unstable9s machine of the
516 OpenCSW.org cluster for example we now need 24 seconds instead
517 of by far more than 300. What a release!
519 With help of (Chet Ramey, Robert Elz, Jilles Tjoelker and
522 - EXTERNAL authentication is truly a mess. It has been fixed for
523 POP3, where it was broken on our side. But it seems the
524 internet does not like that, or cannot (pass user credentials
525 from a certificate gracefully to the authenticator).
526 Anyway. I have introduced EXTERNANON in addition for all of
527 IMAP, POP3 and SMTP. This could now result in a usable
528 combination, regardless of what server(s) are contacted.
530 - The hook *on-account-cleanup*#488 will now be called even
531 upon program exit (i.e., implicitly leaving the account).
536 - New *followup-to-add-cc*#426 will place the user in the Cc:
537 list if it will place her in the Mail-Followup-To:.
539 - New hook *on-program-exit*#496.
541 - *pop3-auth*#510=gssapi is now supported.
542 For IMAP, SASL-IR will be used for GSSAPI if possible (saving
543 a packet round-trip).
545 - *expandaddr*#417 has the new keyword "namehostex".
546 If set, plain name addressees, like "To: steffen", will be
547 expanded to NAME@HOSTNAME (where the latter could be
548 *hostname*#443) if NAME is a valid user on the current host.
549 (Viktor Szépe, Jean-Marc Pigeon)
551 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (45)
553 v14.9.14 ("Great tit passed moult"), 2019-07-27
554 -----------------------------------------------
556 This is an unwanted and unplanned but unfortunately necessary
557 bugfix release. I hope it marks the end of the v14.9.* series.
559 I presume you would be surprised if it would not also bring some
560 features, this time mostly support of MTA-style aliases as
561 inquired by Jean-Marc Pigeon, some authentication work (XOAUTH2/
562 OAUTHBEARER support), and as usual development to the last minute.
564 It fixes IMAP GSSAPI authentication, thanks to Ivan Vučica for
565 reporting and testing this issue (Debian #930691; still have no
566 testbed, but will soon!), and imap-delim, which i broke in July
567 2017, thanks to Ralph Keller for repetitive reporting.
569 For OpenBSD and SunOS 5.9 this release fixes long standing (must
570 be) race conditions regarding child processes and their I/O setup.
572 Never seen before, but my new box (i stepped a decade of
573 hardware improvements, finally) rather regulary has shown them
574 when running the test suite. (On the OpenCSW cluster my speed
575 varies, but i had a very good day and seen them there once.)
577 This (finally) caused the complete rewrite of the child process
578 (and termios) handling that i (had to) mention in communication
579 with Gavin Troy already back in, i do not know -- 2013? (Still
580 not event loop based, but near getting good feelings there.)
582 Funnily the problem (child descriptors were closed by the parent
583 before the fork(2)ed childs had the opportunity to dup(2)licate
584 their file descriptors) reminded me of a message of the german
585 computer magazine c't, maybe around 2001/2002, when OpenBSD
586 improved their fork(2) performance in a day or two after having
587 appeared declassified in a comparison with other OSes.
588 (Of course it was nothing but our own fault to not synchronize on
589 the child, but blindly assuming that a fork(2) child gets the
590 opportunity to run immediately.)
592 Dear Predrag: would it now be possible for you to upgrade from
593 v14.8.12? I really would like to know!
595 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Martin Lucina,
596 Viktor Szépe, Alexander Harm, Anders Magnusson, Thomas Haigh,
597 Martin T, Ivan Vučica, Nicholas Marriott, Alexander Harm,
598 Steven Penny, Jean-Marc Pigeon, Martin Neitzel, Paul Vojta,
599 Russell Bell, Paride Legovini and Ralph Keller.
601 A special credit to Coverity.com once again, it found bugs!
602 (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project number 444.)
604 We welcome Martin Lucina, Anders Magnusson, Thomas Haigh,
605 Martin T, Ivan Vučica, Nicholas Marriott, Steven Penny and
606 Ralph Keller in THANKS.
608 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
609 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
611 - The (very backward) Debian mawk is now supported directly.
612 (Martin Lucina, Viktor Szépe)
614 - GCC (8.3.0) -Os inlining bug (wmt) is worked around.
615 And GNU awk 5 warnings have been fixed (before CRUX).
617 - "|PIPE RECEIVER" errors seen on SunOS 5.9 and OpenBSD have first
618 been fixed, and then caused a major rewrite of the child and
619 termios handling for a rather "real" fix.
621 The latter has the side effect that *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#502
622 handlers will now have their standard output go to /dev/null.
624 - IMAP GSSAPI authentication should work again. (Ivan Vučica)
626 - -C#61 testable can be used more than two times.
628 - The "grappa" mode of mk/make-release.sh can now be used
629 "everywhere". See INSTALL on interest. (It now gracefully
630 fails if s-nail is not installed: we need that for hashing.)
632 - New option OPT_MTA, by default enabled.
633 Set *mta-aliases*#477 to a valid path in aliases(5) syntax,
634 and we will expand them. All Postfix directives but :include:
635 are supported. Only clear text files are supported, no DBs.
638 - `~^'#320 will now verify *expandaddr*#417 right away in
639 "~^ head ins to|cc|bcc", as is already done for `~t'#341,
640 `~c'#324 and `~b'#323.
642 - OPT_AGENT and OPT_SPAM_SPAMD are gone; they were obsoleted on
643 2017-07-16, and it is not expected to become noticed.
645 - *sendwait*#544 is now initially set, and it gained an optional
646 value, a comma-separated list of case-insensitive strings naming
647 specific subsystems for which synchronousness shall be ensured
648 (only). Possible values are "mta" for *mta*#476 delivery,
649 and "pcc" for command-pipe receivers.
651 P.S.: you can get a list of all initial values plus via
653 $ s-nail -:/ -v -Xset -Xx
655 - Colours may now happen even in quickrun mode (-e#66,
656 -H#69, -L#72)! I thought it is ok nonetheless, because
657 we i think always documented to enwrap `colour'#161 setting
658 in an according `if'#215, as in
660 \if terminal && [ "$features" =% +colour ]
661 \colo iso view-header fg=red
664 - OPT_SOCKETS has been renamed to OPT_NET.
666 - -Y#88 is now well defined under all conditions, with tests:
668 The commands will be evaluated successively in the given
669 order, and as if given on the program's standard input --
670 before interactive prompting begins in interactive mode,
671 after standard input has been consumed otherwise.
673 - XOAUTH2 / OAUTHBEARER (OAuth 2.0 bearer token, RFC 6750)
674 autentication is now supported for all protocols.
675 New FAQ entry "But, how about XOAUTH2 / OAUTHBEARER?"#46
676 For driving the necessary external update tool a new
677 *on-main-loop-tick*#495 hook has been introduced.
678 (I am thinking about adding support for an optional built-in
681 - Support for the EXTERNAL authentication method has been
682 introduced. This is UNTESTED, though. (I am still in the
683 process of re-setting up my VM test environment.)
684 We do not verify presence of a client certificate etc., but only
685 that a TLS secured channel is active, when using this method.
686 (We now *verbose*#607 log the used TLS version and cipher, too.)
688 - *imap-delim*#669 works again as advertised! This was broken in
689 [1b9897a9] ((BWDIC!) Fix *imap-delim* behaviour.., 2017-07-01),
690 and i think i was pretty much irritated by then. Sorry!!
691 While here, take *imap-delim* into account for `imapcodec'#665.
697 - Manual section "HISTORY"#52 improved a bit. (Thomas Haigh)
699 - New variable *line-editor-cpl-word-breaks*#454 (yet a bit
702 - MLE: add mle-raise-{int,quit,tstp} functions. Ie., raising
703 those signals via ^C and ^Z is no longer hard-wired (in the
704 MLE), but can be reassigned. (Nicholas Marriott)
706 - The makefiles no longer contain any awk code, that all has been
707 separated into files under mk/. (Alexander Harm)
709 - We now have "test" *mta*#476, which dumps to standard output
710 or optionally to a file, and honours *mbox-fcc-and-pcc*#463:
712 $ echo text | s-nail -:/ -Smta=test -s ubject user@exam.ple
713 $ </dev/null s-nail -:/ -Smta=test://./xy -s ub user@exam.ple
715 - -##90 now acts as if variables were set via -S#80, rather than
716 as via `set'#269, meaning that they are "frozen" for a while.
718 - We have a new `colour'#161 mapping, "mle-error".
719 It applies to error note in *prompt*#517, as well as to any
720 other error logged to the terminal. The latter is temporary
721 until we gain a more fine grained logging facility, which then--
722 likely--introduces an entire mapping family.
724 Btw., for messages not explicitly generated (by, eg.,
725 `echoerr'#183), we now also avoid writing adjacent duplicates,
726 but rather do a syslog-like thing. That error generator has
727 been rewritten a bit, now more expensive, but looks right.
728 (Martin Neitzel, Paul Vojta)
730 - The value of $COLUMNS#615 seen in child processes is now the
731 real one, rather than the one we use (not necessarily identical,
732 dependent on termcap/terminfo/terminal support).
734 - There are now three -v#86 / *verbose*#607 levels, not two.
736 - The HTML filter knows more HTML 4.0 entities. (Russell Bell)
738 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (161)
740 v14.9.13 ("Blue tit's spiral marriage swoop"), 2019-03-08
741 ---------------------------------------------------------
743 Not so much happened as i was busy with other things in the second
744 half of 2018, and could not find a grip: at the source level some
745 efforts to turn this to mailx have taken place, including early
746 work on a code abstraction that will be shared with my (g)roff
747 clone: it was tiring to come back to old ideas that i have already
748 implemented multiple times and in different languages. To mention
751 So: this is a bugfix release, in fact it fixes a tremendous amount
752 thereof, [master] was ahead by 62 commits from [v14.9.11] (not all
753 bugs though, hrmhrm), but also with, well, a few new features, and
754 of course, development to the last minute. ^_^
756 v14.9.13 replaces v14.9.12 from yesterday which would pick up an
757 ISO C 2011 statement that is impracticable, thanks to Johannes
758 Schöpfer and Jürgen Daubert for reporting this (i should test
759 without OPT_AUTOCC more often.) I have also fixed -T to match
760 NEWS (manual and code did the opposite).
761 v14.9.12 balls will be removed from the server.
763 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jörg Schilling,
764 Paride Legovini, Olav Mørkrid, Ralph Corderoy, Rich Felker,
765 Predrag Punosevac, Russell Bell, Dirk-Wilhelm Peters,
766 Jean-Marc Pigeon, Warren Toomey, Cág, Martin Neitzel,
767 Dr. Werner Fink, Dr. Matthias St. Pierre, Kurt Roeckx, Mike Sharov,
768 Joan and Johannes Schöpfer.
770 Very special thanks go to Jean-Marc Pigeon of OSUKISS Linux, who
771 provided me access to a VZGOT container on the most "beefy"
772 machine i have ever had access to! It is ever so astonishing to
773 have work done in 90 seconds on this supercomputer which requires
774 an hour or more here. Thank you, Jean-Marc.
776 And thanks to Kimura-san not only my web server became accessible
777 via TLSv1.3 (out-of-line), but we also have landed on FreeBSD!
778 Kimura-san is the one who installed a sympathic cron job that
779 reminds me of cherry petals wafting in a warm spring breeze --
782 We welcome Russell Bell, Jean-Marc Pigeon, Warren Toomey,
783 Dr. Matthias St. Pierre, Kurt Roeckx, Mike Sharov, Joan and
784 Johannes Schöpfer in THANKS.
786 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
787 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
789 - Packagers could follow stable/* via git(1) and the "grappa" mode
790 of the release script (see README); perl(1) is required to be
791 totally en par with an official release. (Paride Legovini)
793 $ git checkout stable/stable
794 $ sh mk/make-release.sh grappa mybranch
796 Program version is [.], packager release addition shall be: xy
797 Is s-nail <v[.]-xy> correct? [y/n] y
798 Switched to branch 'mybranch'
799 $ git commit -S -n -m 'My release [.]-xy'
801 - $MAKEJOBS vanished, just use -j or whatever your make(1) supports.
802 Luckily the tested make(1)s can be persuaded to dig each others
803 .WAIT / .WAIT: / .NOTPARALLEL: targets.. and do the right thing.
805 - $OBJDIR support added, i use it for building / testing on tmpfs.
806 It works in conjunction with make-emerge.sh, too, thus
807 out-of-tree out-of-tree is possible (more or less; see INSTALL).
808 $ make tangerine OBJDIR=/tmp/x/y/z
810 - Option VAL_PRIVSEP_USER has been renamed to VAL_PS_DOTLOCK_USER
811 (to reflect the new "deep tree" directory layout).
813 - Option OPT_QUOTE_FOLD has been renamed to OPT_FILTER_QUOTE_FOLD
814 (to reflect later code changes upwards compatibly).
816 - New options OPT_CMD_VEXPR and OPT_CMD_CSOP, by default enabled.
817 To include the commands `vexpr'#303 and the new `csop'#167,
818 which now provides the byte string functions of the former.
819 (Still available through `vexpr' until v15.)
820 (I hope to be able to later provide a `usop' or `unisop' or so.)
822 - *v15-compat*#606 can now have a value: if it is set, the
823 `wysh'#131 command modifier which chooses shell quoting rules
824 for some commands is implicit.
826 - We have some (more) backward incompatible changes, though it is
827 likely most users will not recognize the differences.
829 o *headline*#435 format %T is obsolete, %L fits better.
831 o `csop'#167 `hash' and `hash32' subcommands (formerly from
832 `vexpr'#303) use a slightly changed hash algorithm.
833 (Which results in an improved distribution for tested sets of
834 words in power-of-two spaced dictionary.)
835 These are affected by the change in the second next item, too.
837 o Changed to use shell quoting rules for arguments:
839 + `mimetype'#225 and `unmimetype'#226.
840 This is affected by the change in the next item, too.
842 + `shortcut'#273 and `unshortcut'#274.
844 + `mlist'#228 and `unmlist'#229 as well as `mlsubscribe'#230
845 and `unmlsubscribe'#231.
849 o Changed (with legacy compat) the "@[i]" modifier prefix to
850 a question-mark ?[case|..] suffix, as is known from URLs.
851 We head towards direction URL syntax, now here too.
853 + `if'#215 and `elif'#187.
854 E.g., 'wysh if "abc" ==?case "ABC"' is true, as well as is
855 'wysh if 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF -eq?saturated 36#1Y2P0IJ32E8E7'.
856 "==?" and "-eq?" would have been sufficient, here.
857 (No unsigned mode (yet) for `if'#215.)
859 Yes, `if'#215 and `elif'#187 now support `wysh'#131, and
860 see already expanded arguments, then. No more "triggers".
861 This finally makes it possible to write things like
862 ? wysh if X;A;wysh elif Y;B;else;C;end
863 Note 'else;C' not 'else C'.
865 New operators: '-n "$VAR"' and '-z "$VAR"' work like in the
866 shell, '-N varname' and '-Z varname' do not test the
867 expansion but the existence of variables instead.
868 Two argument forms require `wysh'#131.
870 + `mimetype'#225 markers have changed likewise; this also
871 affects *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#502 and *pipe-EXTENSION*#509 (with
872 legacy compatibility and -v/-d obsoletion warnings)!
874 ? mimetype ?t text/x-awk awk
875 ? wysh set pipe-application/pdf='?=&?\
876 trap "rm -f \"${MAILX_FILENAME_TEMPORARY}\"" EXIT;\
877 trap "trap \"\" INT QUIT TERM; exit 1" INT QUIT TERM;\
878 mupdf "${MAILX_FILENAME_TEMPORARY}"'
880 + `vexpr'#303 (and `csop'#167) modifiers changed likewise.
881 The case-insensitive subcommands "ifind" and "iregex" have
882 been obsoleted, just use the ?[case] modifier to the regular
885 P.S.: Thanks to Rich Felker the `regex' subcommands now
886 works as desired even with empty intermediate submatches.
888 o Changed address parse mode for command line arguments plus.
889 This modifies decade old tradition, but results in a more
890 predictable behaviour i think. Most people will possibly even
891 be surprised to see the old behaviour:
893 $ </dev/null s-nail-old -dsubject ' du , de <p@p> , pp , du '
894 -> To: du, de <p@p>, pp
896 $ </dev/null s-nail -dsubject ' du , de <p@p> , pp , du '
897 -> To: "du , de , pp , du " <p@p>
899 Of course anything but perfect, our address parser is very
900 complicated yet far from being acceptable. (Dr. Werner Fink)
903 + -b#60, -c#62 and To: receivers, as above.
904 (We also have a new -T#82 receiver multiplexer, which is
905 configurable in this regard, please see below for more.)
908 This saw more changes: the content is no longer evaluated
909 via shell expression parser (when *v15-compat* is set)..
910 unless explicitly requested via the *expandaddr*#417
913 + *sender*#543 variable.
915 + `addrcodec'#143 command, likewise; old:
916 ? addrc e du , e <w@d> , d
920 ? addrc e du , e <w@d> , d
924 + `digmsg'#175 and `~^'#320 now use this parse mode fix for
925 headers which need a single receiver, which is backward
926 compatible but now safer since it can be fooled less easily
927 (to split into a list what should be a single address, as
928 shown above for `addrcodec'#143).
930 They now can also be forced to use that parse mode for To:,
931 Cc:, Bcc: with a new question mark modifier "?single", here
932 the word "single" is optional.
934 ~^ header insert To?single: exa, <m@ple>
937 - By established rules and popular demand occurrances of '^From_'
938 (see *mbox-rfc4155*#464) will be MBOXO quoted (prefixed with
939 greater-than sign '>') instead of causing a non-destructive
940 encoding like 'quoted-printable' to be chosen, unless context
941 (e.g., message signing) requires otherwise.
942 Only with *mime-encoding*#473=8bit.
944 - We now support long "Options"#5 -- try --long-help.
946 - Finally, it is possible to force sending out messages with the
947 new *mime-force-sendout*#474 variable. If this MUA has been
948 compiled with iconv(3) support it can happen that sending
949 otherwise valid text messages fails because of invalid bytes
950 sequences according to the locale; setting this new variable
951 will avoid this; use *mime-counter-evidence*#472 to view such
952 messages nonetheless. (Dr. Werner Fink)
957 - `mimeview'#227 works again with binary formats. (Russell Bell)
959 - IMAP searches via IMAP without matches no longer report a single
960 match. (Dirk-Wilhelm Peters)
962 - New -Y#88 aka --cmd= option to inject commands to be executed
963 when startup is completed (as opposed to the earlier -X#87 aka
965 These commands appear as if the user had typed them in.
967 - A new *on-history-addition*#494 can be used to filter what
968 enters the `history'#213.
970 - New "fcc" flag for *expandaddr*#417. (Olav Mørkrid)
972 And "domaincheck" will cause target domain comparison against
973 entries in the new *expandaddr-domaincheck*#418. (Olav Mørkrid)
975 - New *mbox-fcc-and-pcc*#463 will write out file and pipe addresses
976 as a plain RFC5322 message rather than an MBOX. (Olav Mørkrid)
978 - The `errors'#191 queue existance and size is announced via
979 *^ERRQUEUE-EXISTS*#355 and *^ERRQUEUE-COUNT*#354.
980 (Russell Bell, Martin Neitzel)
982 - Our MBOX parser is now truly compliant to POSIX.
985 - We follow symbolic links again when writing files.
988 - *tls-rand-file*#598 is in fact now necessarily one of the
989 optional *tls-features*#595. (Mike Sharov)
991 - New command line option -T#82 aka --target='FIELD: BODY'.
992 FIELD can be To:, Cc:, Bcc: or Fcc:.
993 The BODY is parsed as a list (just as if the given FIELD would
994 be part of a template message fed in via -t#83), but the
995 "?single" modifier suffix can be used to avoid this.
998 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (277 + 9)
1000 v14.9.11 ("Tit family enjoying a bath"), 2018-08-08
1001 ---------------------------------------------------
1003 A hot summer bugfix release, but it surely brings in some new
1004 features, like TLS fingerprinting and `digmsg' message access.
1006 An embarassing number of bugfixes have been seen, to fix IMAP UID
1007 handling on 32-bit hosts, UTF-8, `readall' with empty lines, rare
1008 endless iconv(3) loops, false qsort(3)ing of addressee lists,
1009 crashes due to false user shell quoting, acceptance of "0" port
1010 numbers, and more. Most of these cases now have tests.
1012 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Paride Legovini,
1013 Andrew Gee, Olav Mørkrid, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Dressel,
1014 Jürgen Bruckner, Robert Elz, Rudolf Sykora, Doug McIlroy,
1015 Gavin Troy and Jörg Schilling.
1016 A special credit to Coverity.com again, it found a bug!
1017 (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project number 444.)
1019 We welcome Andrew Gee, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Dressel,
1020 Olav Mørkrid and Jürgen Bruckner in THANKS.
1022 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1023 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1025 - I have discovered that GnuPG can --export-secret-subkey so that
1026 the real/full private key is no longer needed to --sign, and the
1027 excerpts of the private one can have a different password, too.
1028 So i have created a new for-signing subkey: EEC8C2FF.
1030 Unfortunately it is not possible to verify new signatures with
1031 the old public key, an update is necessary. For example via
1032 https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/steffen.asc
1033 or just update 1883A0DD via normal gpg(1).
1035 - Maildir support is now optional but default via OPT_MAILDIR.
1038 - I hope for the last time there has been a change to SSL
1039 configuration: i have renamed all ssl* variables to tls*.
1040 The old ssl* ones still exist until v15, though, yet obsoletion
1041 warnings will be produced.
1042 This is so because i expect that in a not too distant future
1043 only the term TLS will be around.
1045 Also the term CipherList was falsely used, it should have been
1048 - Most (if not all) commands which take a message list and a file
1049 target now use shell-style quoting. (Before that say `copy'#166
1050 scanned backwards over "something possibly quoted", took that
1051 off, then treated the rest as a message list. Now shell tokens
1052 are parsed starting at the front, the last is taken off, and
1053 anything before that is the message list.) (Gavin Troy. 2013.)
1055 - `~^#'? "header show" now backward-incompatibly shows the address
1056 type in field 1, but since this _only_ applies to non-network
1057 addresses i made the change.
1059 - We will find ncurses on DragonFly BSD.
1061 - On Solaris tests no longer need GNU cksum(1): the Solaris cksum
1062 is different only for whitespace separators. (Jörg Schilling)
1064 - All generated files reside in .obj/, and the tests run in there,
1065 too. A "rm -f .obj" should suffice to clean anything up.
1070 - `~F'#327, `~f'#328, `~M'#333, `~m'#334, `~U'#342 and `~u'#343
1071 now default to the current message (the "dot"). (Andrew Gee)
1073 - *indentprefix*#450 handling has had its pitfalls when quoting
1074 messages. (Andrew Gee)
1076 - -r#79 will again set *from*#432 even after -S#80 has been used
1077 to set *from*. (Michael Dressel)
1079 - No longer process From: (*from*#432) content via `alternates'#146
1080 when Sender: (*sender*#543) is set. (Michael Dressel)
1082 - Because the priority class of headers was not taken into
1083 account, it could happen that addressees in Cc: would remain but
1084 the same in To: were removed. (Michael Dressel)
1086 - IMAP accounts for RFC 4551 (and 7162) and supports 64-bit
1089 - *spamfilter-rate-scanscore*#580 could crash if specification
1090 did not match program output.
1092 - Shims for TLSv1.3 support, e.g., for *tls-config-pairs*#592.
1094 - Obsoleted *dotlock-ignore-error*, added *dotlock-disable*#410.
1097 - In compose-mode, removing the In-Reply-To: header breaks an old,
1098 and starts a new thread. (Doug McIlroy)
1100 - Added new *forward-inject-tail*#431, *quote-inject-head*#525
1101 and *quote-inject-tail*#526 variables, and extended the meaning
1104 All of *{forward,quote}-inject-{head,tail}* now support
1105 a compose-mode specific set of formats (see
1106 *quote-inject-head*#525), for now a few only.
1107 (This adds meaning onto the content of *forward-inject-head*#430
1108 as introduced in v14.9.0.)
1110 The generated output honours *quote-fold*#524, which now takes
1111 an optional third argument in order to produce better output.
1113 While here, introduce the new command escape `~Q'#336 which
1114 performs full *quote*#520 cycles on the given message list.
1116 - Fcc: headers are now understood in -t#83 templates or when
1117 placed in compose mode (`~v'#344, *editalong*#411 etc.).
1118 Since each such header only takes one addressee, no quoting
1119 issues apply, the entire header body is the value.
1121 - `~|'#319 will pass the entire message including headers when
1122 used as "~||", e.g., prepend a file-carbon-copy message header:
1124 ~|| echo Fcc: /tmp/test; cat
1126 - New `tls'#289 multiplexer command. Yet primitive and only
1127 supports a `fingerprint' subcommand. Supports `vput'#130.
1129 The new *tls-fingerprint*#596 variable chain aids in adding
1130 support for connection verification without an installed CA
1131 certificate pool in conjunction with the new
1132 *tls-fingerprint-digest*#597 chain.
1134 Consequently *smime-sign-message-digest* has been renamed to
1135 *smime-sign-digest*#563 (old version will cease in v15).
1136 The latter now defaults to SHA512 if possible.
1138 - New MLE commands mle-go-screen-bwd and mle-go-screen-fwd to go
1139 backward and forward one screenful.
1140 And a new mle-clear-screen command. (Todd C. Miller)
1142 - New *expandaddr*#417 setting "shquote" will evaluate addresses
1143 as if specified within $'' shell-quotes for -b#60, -c#62,
1144 and all direct command line receivers. This allows for, e.g.,
1146 $ s-nail -Sexpandaddr=shquote '\$contact-mail'
1148 - *quote-as-attachment*#522 no longer needs to be set before
1149 compose mode is entered in order to become honoured.
1151 - Even for -H#69 or -L#72 *folder-hook*#423s will now be called.
1152 Possible sorting is also applied.
1154 - `='#138 now optionally supports message list arguments and the
1155 `vput'#130 modifier in order to store the result list.
1157 The new `digmsg'#175 multiplexer adds some message access, just
1158 like `~^'#320 does in compose mode. In fact the set of commands
1159 is shared, yet only in compose mode `digmsg' can change messages
1160 or access attachments until v15, however. For example,
1162 #?0[steffen@essex nail.git]$ cat > /tmp/z.rc <<'_EOT'
1165 digmsg create $1 - # no `read'/`readall' overlay but stdout
1166 #digmsg $1 header list
1167 digmsg $1 header show subject
1170 \eval xcall one "$@"
1174 local set all # localize ("localopts yes" would do too)
1175 vput = all *; echo all: $all; eval call one $all
1178 #?0[steffen@essex nail.git]$ MAILRC=/tmp/z.rc \
1179 .obj/s-nail -:u -Snoheader -Squiet -Rf /tmp/z
1183 Re: [S-mailx] FYI: after USB stick loss i have rotated keys, plus
1186 Re: Problem with page?
1189 Re: s-nail Source ...
1193 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (203)
1195 v14.9.10 ("(40th Mail anniversary) Blue tit"), 2018-03-25
1196 ---------------------------------------------------------
1198 On this day in 1978 Kurt Shoens placed the following comment in
1199 def.h (now it is in nail.h):
1202 * Mail -- a mail program
1204 * Author: Kurt Shoens (UCB) March 25, 1978
1207 v14.9.10 is mostly a stability and bugfix release.
1208 It has seen a full test series including Coverity.com scans.
1209 It fixes bugs i have introduced (also a double free in IMAP cache
1210 that i introduced for v14.9.* series to address Coverity CID
1213 In the end i am saying thanks to Gunnar Ritter for the IMAP
1214 module, and absolutely especially his really neat idea of an IMAP
1215 cache including offline work queue. (IMAP will nonetheless
1216 temporarily go in v15, but these ideas will come back thereafter.)
1217 I have gray hairs now.
1219 Credits, in order of commit appearance: William Yodlowsky,
1220 Stuart Henderson, Jörg Schilling, Viktor SZÉPE, Rich Felker,
1221 Ralph Corderoy and Philipp Gesang.
1223 A special credit to Coverity.com again. Because:
1224 tcc is 618496 bytes, pcc is 851968+24576 bytes,
1225 but gcc is 73355264 bytes and clang is even
1226 147406848 bytes, i wonder why the latter two never
1227 said a word that would have addressed the pretty
1228 obvious CID 1387053!
1229 [Use of initialized value, the author.]
1231 We welcome Stuart Henderson and Philipp Gesang in THANKS.
1233 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1234 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1236 - The balls are now build with umask 0022 not 0027.
1237 (William Yodlowsky, Stuart Henderson)
1239 - One actual development of this version was the addition of
1240 multiple choice VAL_ues, as documented in make.rc.
1241 For now we have VAL_IDNA (for OPT_IDNA)
1242 VAL_IDNA="idnkit idn2 idn"
1243 and VAL_RANDOM (by itself)
1244 VAL_RANDOM="arc4 ssl libgetrandom sysgetrandom urandom builtin"
1248 The value is interpreted as a whitespace separated list of
1249 strings, like "idn2 idn idnkit", case is ignored, order is
1251 The special strings "all" and "any" as well as the empty value
1252 are wildcard matches; if any entry in the list is a wildcard
1253 match, the rest of the list is ignored.
1255 The special string "error" will abort configuration once its
1256 list position is reached; this is only supported if
1257 documented, and not with an accompanying OPT_ (which then
1258 offers "require", as below).
1260 Since this VAL_RANDOM approach is so much better i have dropped
1261 OPT_SSL_RANDOM and OPT_NOEXTRANDOM that were recently
1262 introduced again. They were c..p.
1264 - Support for idnkit 2.3 has been added.
1265 Support for idnkit 1 (especially as idnkitlite) has been fixed.
1267 - For the first time this codebase should be able to handle
1268 invalid MBOX mailboxes (produced by, e.g., dma(1)) gracefully.
1269 I hope i have found all places (sic) where code has to be fixed.
1270 E.g., "? copy * INVALID-MBOX" now works.
1271 (Smalltalk already knew objects which know what they are doing
1272 are for the better... This is v15, then.)
1274 - P.S.: the two FreeBSD test failures are noted in INSTALL.
1279 - *asksend*#369 will now really allow recomposing.
1281 - `help'#212 now supports recursive `commandalias'#163es, and
1282 command self-recursion detection now works differently, it has
1283 been false for something like
1285 commandalias x q; commandalias q echo au
1287 since q became expanded to `quit'#250 (alias expansion equals
1288 new command word). New behaviour: we allow equals once:
1290 commandalias q q; commandalias x q; x
1294 - *editalong*#411 can have a value, say "set editalong=v" and it
1295 will startup $VISUAL#640 not $EDITOR#617.
1297 - Path separators are now normalized, thus all places, including
1298 MLE tab-expansion ("On terminal control and line editor"#18),
1299 can expand something like "///t*////t*".
1301 - -E#65 flag will not be obsoleted.
1302 -D#63 flag has been reintroduced (sets *disconnected*#666 right
1303 away, was not reinstantiated with the rest of the IMAP support.)
1305 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (71)
1307 v14.9.9 ("Marsh tit savours first spring sun, II") 2018-03-06
1308 -------------------------------------------------------------
1311 I hope with this the fallout of the Christmas 2016 "address the
1312 Dr. Problem workshop" has been fully resolved and thus MIME for
1313 header address fields, even if iconv(3) is involved, been fully
1314 restored! We have even more tests for this now.
1316 The release v14.9.8 was broken on big endian machines.
1317 I will remove the v14.9.8 balls from the server by the weekend.
1318 Sorry for the inconvenience!
1320 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Slavko, Matej Mužila,
1321 Rich Felker, Simon McVittie, Paride Legovini, Cág,
1324 We welcome Slavko, Matej Mužila, Rich Felker and Simon McVittie in
1327 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1328 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1330 - The v14.9.* series called *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#502 handlers in
1331 display or quote mode with CR (carriage-return) bytes stripped
1332 because of a missing output file comparison check, which broke
1333 binary formats etc. (Slavko)
1335 - We now have native support for Libidn2. (Matej Mužila)
1337 - uname(1) is now hookable by setting the shell variable uname
1338 when calling make ("uname=MY-UNAME make config" etc.).
1341 We no longer bake the kernel version into the binary, and
1342 `version'#302 includes uname(2) output.
1343 (Simon McVittie, Paride Legovini)
1345 - We now support a fallback P(seudo)R(andomNumber)G(enerator)
1346 initialization even if getrandom(2)/getrandom(3) has been found
1347 by the configuration, just like we do for "/dev/urandom" usage.
1348 This does not affect systems with arc4random(3) or OpenSSL
1349 random usage. (David Čepelík, Simon McVittie)
1351 A new OPT_SSL_RANDOM make.rc variable, by default initialized to
1352 the value of OPT_SSL.
1357 - `~@'#318 list-edit behaviour in -##90 batch mode was broken.
1359 - Character set names will now undergo generic normalization,
1360 including stripping of iconv(3) //SUFFIXes.
1362 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (33)
1364 v14.9.7 ("Marsh tit patiently scraping bark") 2018-02-16
1365 --------------------------------------------------------
1367 A maintenance release which fixes bugs and brings in features.
1369 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Alexander Harm,
1370 Viktor SZÉPE, Paul Eggert, Joseph Bisch, Paride Legovini,
1371 and Peter J. Holzer.
1372 A special credit to the disappearing mutt(1) bug tracker.
1373 And to Gmane.org for creating gmane.mail.s-mailx.general!
1375 Thanks Paride Legovini for becoming maintainer of the Debian port.
1377 We welcome Joseph Bisch, Paride Legovini, and Peter J. Holzer in
1380 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1381 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1383 - The USB stick loss reported for v14.9.6 was fake news, so to
1384 say, the stick exists and therefore the old key is not
1387 - We are back at Gmane.org!
1388 news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.s-mailx.general
1390 - `history'#213 has learned to be context-sensitive a bit, and
1391 has two new subcommands, `load' and `save'.
1393 This is in parts backward incompatible because it needs a new
1394 *history-file*#438 format; however, the old format can be loaded
1395 yet compose-mode commands will not appear in compose mode no
1396 more. Iirc you can start with an old format then `save' to
1397 the new, then replace the "d" in the first column with "c" for
1398 compose-mode commands which should appear correctly.
1400 - Obsoletion warnings for variables now happen at `set'#269
1401 time instead of when used. Running once via -v#86 may
1404 - The saturation modifier of `vexpr'#303 is henceforth a prefix,
1405 the suffix version is obsolete (but still supported for a while).
1407 - A network address that contains no domain-, but only a valid local
1408 user <name> in angle brackets will be automatically expanded to
1409 a valid address when *hostname*#443 is set to a non-empty value;
1410 setting it to the empty value instructs us that the used *mta*#476
1411 (including builtin SMTP) will perform the necessary expansion.
1414 Note that *hostname*#443 as well as *smtp-hostname*#566
1415 will now undergo IDNA expansion if IDNA is supported.
1417 And *from*#432 and *sender*#543 are now verified at `set'#269
1418 time, not when used. (Viktor SZÉPE)
1420 - The commit message in [d503bd82] is wrong, apologies to
1421 Paride Legovini. The test(1) operator "-n" appeared in Seventh
1422 Edition UNIX, not V8 as falsely claimed.
1427 - Our `addrcodec'#143 parser chokes on lesser constructs.
1429 - Presence of command-line MTA arguments without *expandargv*#419
1430 are now a hard error. It was my fault that this was not the
1431 default from the very start. (Viktor SZÉPE)
1433 - Seen on the mutt bug tracker, we also still have had problems
1434 with time settings that cross 32-bit boundaries. As that is
1435 in parts induced by the C standard, now implement those parts on
1436 our own, and be super careful in general. (Joseph Bisch)
1438 - The `~@'#318 command escape did not shell-unquote the user input
1439 again and was thus a bit broken; message attachments also work
1442 - Support custom headers from the command line via -C#61.
1443 And *customhdr*#404 is verified upon `set'#269 time.
1445 - The simple builtin HTML viewer now supports <blockquote>
1446 elements, which many web mailers, most notably gmail, use for
1447 citation. (Peter J. Holzer)
1449 git(1) shortlog: Paride Legovini (1), Steffen Nurpmeso (66)
1451 v14.9.6 ("Marsh tit abiding a snow storm"), 2017-12-05
1452 ------------------------------------------------------
1454 A bugfix release which fixes four serious and three other bugs.
1455 A few new features came in, too.
1457 Many thanks go to Ralph Corderoy who reported an issue that was
1458 caused by a terrible, terrible word reversal that i managed to
1459 produce in December 2016, and which caused the v14.9.x series to
1460 not MIME encode (non-address) content of address header fields!
1462 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Thomas Dickey,
1463 Andreas Baumann, Erich Eckner, Gaetan Bisson, Solar Designer, Cág,
1464 Ivan Tham, Ralph Corderoy and Doug McIlroy.
1466 We welcome Andreas Baumann, Erich Eckner, Solar Designer and Cág
1469 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1470 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1472 - After USB stick loss the authors OpenPGP key has been switched to
1474 pub 4096R/1883A0DD 2017-11-30 [expires: 2027-11-28]
1476 EE19 E1C1 F2F7 054F 8D39 54D8 3089 64B5 1883 A0DD
1477 uid Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
1479 - $TMPDIR#638 no longer honoured for root runs. (Solar Designer)
1481 - *mime-encoding*#473 defaults to quoted-printable again. (Cág)
1483 - We _can_ MIME encode even header fields which contain addresses.
1484 Thanks to Ralph Corderoy we now also _do_ so again!
1489 - ***#336 now uses *ifs*#445 when splitting.
1491 - Freezing *ttycharset*#602 via -S#80 also survives using or
1492 setting any of $LC_ALL#619, $LC_CTYPE#620 and $LANG#621 during
1495 - New `local'#127 command modifier to localize changes.
1496 Yet supported only for `set'#269, i.e., we have gained
1497 macro-local variables.
1499 - `vexpr'#303 now supports a BASE#number notation for integers,
1500 like 16#AFFE as an alternative to 0xAFFE.
1502 Hint: variable settings can most often use several bases, too,
1503 e.g., i have "set mime-counter-evidence=0b1111".
1505 - Very simple form of *quote-chars*#523 to adjust our knowledge of
1506 what actually is to be treated as a quote character.
1508 - *mime-counter-evidence*#472 deep inspection (bit four) has
1509 been improved for the sole cases of quoting or displaying
1510 a message. So messages with less than 25% of control characters
1511 and such will now be displayed (made printable). This is yet
1512 not configurable nor do we have a way to easily access a message
1513 with more than that. (Doug McIlroy)
1515 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (44)
1517 v14.9.5 ("Marsh tit engaged with a peanut"), 2017-10-21
1518 -------------------------------------------------------
1520 A bugfix release which fixes two bugs which were cast in stone.
1521 A few compatibility improvements (AlpineLinux, Solaris).
1524 Apologies to Jörg Schilling, a git bug i think it was who caused
1525 joining of changesets, losing a credit, and it had been pushed to
1526 [master] before the problem was realized.
1528 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jörg Schilling,
1529 Doug McIlroy, Random832, Nick Stoughton and Ivan Tham.
1531 We welcome Nick Stoughton and Ivan Tham in THANKS.
1533 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1534 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1536 - New OPT_USE_PKGSYS option can be disabled to not automatically
1537 pick known package system paths (pkg(7), OpenCSW, schily).
1543 - The software indeed _never_ dealt with iconv(3) output character
1544 set errors (as opposed to invalid input character set byte
1545 sequences etc.) for the main message body!
1546 And I have missed that when i tweaked our iconv layer a bit!
1548 - Fixed a race condition with sigsuspend(2) that i could only see
1549 on OpenBSD. config.h offers n_SIGSUSPEND_NOT_WAITPID, by the
1550 way, which saves some systemcalls and did not run races, but
1551 noone adjusts this file.
1553 - Message list specifications gained two new colon modifiers, one
1554 can now "search :Ll" to find "Mailing lists"#11.
1555 The *headline*#435 format %T now also uses L and l rather than
1556 S and L accordingly.
1558 New `addrcodec'#143 subcommand `skinlist' acts like `skin'
1559 but stores in *!*#349 *^ERR*#351-EXIST if the address is
1560 one of the known "Mailing lists"#11.
1562 - `echo'#182 family now supports `vput'#130 and *!*#349 error
1563 storage, offering some kind of printf(1) experience, almost.
1565 git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (35)
1567 v14.9.4 ("(5th anniversary) Marsh tit"), 2017-09-18
1568 ---------------------------------------------------
1570 This is an update feature release but which also ships a furious
1571 number of bug fixes, about six of which were pretty serious. It
1572 also applies overall trimming, and improves configuration time
1573 compatibility on macOS.
1575 Thanks to Alexander Harm there is now a macOS Homebrew package.
1577 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Paul Vojta, Daniel Lublin,
1578 Alexander Harm, Norman Ramsey, Viktor Szépe, Rich Salz,
1579 David Čepelík, Ralph Corderoy, Stéphane Chazelas, Aharon Robbins,
1582 We welcome Daniel Lublin, Alexander Harm, David Čepelík and
1583 Stéphane Chazelas in THANKS.
1585 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1586 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1588 - Out-of-tree builds have become possible via the new
1589 make-emerge.sh script:
1591 $ cd /tmp && mkdir build && cd build &&
1592 ~/src/nail.git/make-emerge.sh &&
1593 make tangerine DESTDIR=.ddir
1595 We now have a `citron' make target which is like `tangerine' but
1596 does not run the tests.
1598 - Configuration with OPT_AUTOCC honours $CC=cc. (Norman Ramsey)
1600 - SSL/TLS configuration has been revamped (again) in order to
1601 support new possibilities of OpenSSL (and LibreSSL) without
1602 ending up and introducing more and more variables.
1604 Instead we now have *ssl-config-pairs*, a comma-separated
1605 list of all options. With e.g. OpenSSL 1.1.xx this will be
1606 directly passed through to SSL_CONF_cmd(), so there _anything_
1607 can be passed, otherwise we use a builtin parser to map.
1608 The new *ssl-features*#? states what is supported. E.g.:
1610 if [ "$ssl-features" =% +ctx-set-maxmin-proto ]
1611 wysh set ssl-config-pairs='\
1612 CipherList=TLSv1.2:!aNULL:!eNULL:@STRENGTH,\
1613 Curves=P-521:P-384:P-256,\
1614 MinProtocol=TLSv1.1'
1616 wysh set ssl-config-pairs='\
1617 CipherList=TLSv1.2:!aNULL:!eNULL:@STRENGTH,\
1618 Curves=P-521:P-384:P-256,\
1619 Protocol=-ALL\,+TLSv1.1 \, +TLSv1.2'
1622 OpenSSL v1.1.xx also introduces an interesting and neat idea to
1623 centralize SSL/TLS configuration of (all) programs in a single
1624 file. This can be driven via *ssl-config-file* and the new
1625 *ssl-config-module* variables, several entries per program
1626 are allowed, see *ssl-config-module* for an example.
1628 New manual section "Encrypted network communication"#14.
1630 - Variables set or unset via -S#80 are now frozen until program
1631 startup is complete.
1636 - Historical behaviour of *askcc*#367 / *askbcc*#368 has been
1637 reintroduced. (Norman Ramsey)
1639 A new *asksend*#369 variable will show a final header summary
1640 and allows reentering compose mode. Set by default.
1642 POSIX mirrors *ask* onto *asksub*#371, so dropped" the former.
1644 - `~^'#320 no longer normalizes header names to titlecase.
1646 - We no longer generate charset=binary MIME parameters.
1647 This was introduced on 2013-01-02 and was i think owed to
1648 file(1)s -i output as i failed to find any other reference.
1651 - *mime-alternative-favour-rich*#471 now also works for handlers
1652 installed via *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#502. (Viktor Szépe)
1654 - v14.9.* series did not generate In-Reply-To: headers!
1656 - `alias'#144 now supports high-bit bytes and semicolon.
1657 Expect that at some later time the input must be valid according
1658 to the locale, though. (Norman Ramsey)
1660 - Combinations of *record*#529 could crash because of an
1661 unterminated variable function argument list. (Norman Ramsey)
1663 - New command `readall'#253 loads an entire file into a variable.
1665 *signature*#550 has been obsoleted.
1667 - `vexpr'#303 now supports negative arguments for the substring
1668 subcommand and adds trim, trim-front and trim-end subcommands.
1670 - `!'#134 can be used in send mode.
1672 - `~A'#321, `~a'#322, `~I'#331 and `~i'#332 will henceforth expand
1673 \t and \n only if *posix*#515 is set.
1674 Please use `set'#269 instead (with `wysh'#131, until v15).
1676 - New "The mime.types files"#36 type marker: @q ("quiet").
1678 git(1) shortlog (edited): Steffen (Daode) Nurpmeso (90)
1680 v14.9.3 ("Crested tit nibbling sunflower seeds"), 2017-08-03
1681 ------------------------------------------------------------
1683 This is a bugfix release but which ships some improvements, too.
1684 It silently replaces both of v14.9.1 v14.9.2 from earlier this
1685 week, which were broken or not entirely fixed.
1687 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Felix Fontein, Paul Vojta,
1688 Ralph Corderoy, Christos Zoulas, Gavin Troy, Gaetan Bisson.
1689 Thanks, Coverity.com.
1691 We welcome Christos Zoulas in THANKS.
1693 Apologies to Viktor Szépe for the false spelling of his name in
1694 the v14.9.0 announcement.
1695 And to Gaetan Bisson for not giving credit for [14fbce97]!
1697 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1698 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1700 - fakeroot support was blindly taken from Debian and broken.
1701 (Gavin Troy, Gaetan Bisson)
1703 - Base64 output was broken for cases which involved iconv(3).
1704 The data is not lost, you can read it with S-nail v14.9.0 and
1705 above, and save it somewhere. I know of no other base64 decoder
1706 which reads those things correctly, though. We now have tests.
1707 Along this i fixed an iconv(3) error which likely caused
1708 stateful decoding (like, e.g., for ISO-2022-JP) to fail because
1709 of an unnecessary reset of the iconv(3) state machine.
1710 Thanks to Gaetan Bisson for mentioning this issue!
1715 - In compose mode the MLE allows empty lines again.
1717 - We no longer require a writable $HOME#618. Due to false code
1718 flow (but but but: with correct comment) a non-writable $HOME
1719 entry in /etc/password (i.e., from getpwuid(3)) would lead to
1720 a crash. (Felix Fontain; Ralph Corderoy)
1722 - Two faulty string operations slipped into the IMAP code,
1723 resulting in a crash and a "is-same-host" test that would fail
1724 for IMAPS connections like `save'#266 or `copy'#166 because of an
1725 implicit IMAP protocol for the target of those operations (thus
1726 IMAP != IMAPS). (Paul Vojta)
1728 - The MLE tab-expansion will now automatically append a "/" if
1729 there is only one possible expansion and that is a directory,
1730 saving the user one <TAB>. (Christos Zoulas)
1732 The shell expression parser had a bug regarding understood
1733 metacharacters (;|&), which in turn could cause an infinite loop
1734 in the MLE tab-expansion for, e.g., "move &9 +<TAB>", because
1735 the "&" would never have been stepped over.
1737 - New `~I'#331 command escape is like `~i'#332 but does not append
1740 - `localopts'#218 gained an optional second argument.
1741 It is now possible to specify that any macro `call'#152ed
1742 will have localopts enabled, and it is possible to fixate the
1743 setting so that it cannot be reverted.
1745 - *@*#357 should now act completely compatible to the sh(1)ell,
1746 thus obsoleting my hysteric warnings in the v14.9.0 announcement.
1748 - The `Lreply'#220, `reply'#259, `Reply'#257 series as well as
1749 `mail'#222 now manage the error status *!*#349.
1750 I.e., there are now errors like *^ERR*#351-DESTADDRREQ,
1751 ^ERR-NODATA, ^ERR-PERM and similar. It is not perfect yet,
1752 because $DEAD#616 may have been written (with *save*#538) or not,
1755 `Lreply' and `reply' have been rewritten rather completely
1756 indeed. They join Reply-To: and Mail-Followup-To: dependent on
1757 the context (i.e., *reply-to-honour*#535, *followup-to-honour*#427,
1758 see "Mailing lists"#11 for the picture), and if they did, use
1759 this list as the receivers exclusively. It now honours
1760 *recipients-in-cc*#528 even for such addressees. (And now i wonder
1761 whether i should have credited Paul Vojta for that.)
1763 Also `Lreply' would have crashed for mails with Reply-To: but
1764 without *reply-to-honour*#535 set. We now have a test.
1766 Note *replyto* is obsoleted in favour of *reply-to*#534.
1768 v14.9.0 ("Long-tailed tit"), 2017-07-16
1769 ---------------------------------------
1771 This is a major feature release which took about ~22 months (24
1772 less two) of development to complete, and which imposed massive
1773 changes under the hood, but also quite a lot of user visible
1774 changes, including some **backward incompatibilities**.
1775 As usual, "s-nail -d" will show obsoletion warnings.
1777 We gain noticeable improvements regarding scriptability and its
1778 reliability, but also for interactive use cases, especially
1779 notable to users is our completely new M(ailx)L(ine)E(ditor) that
1780 supports rather real tabulator expansion and program-mode-context-
1781 sensitive key bindings.
1783 We now support macros with arguments, which can be `shift'ed,
1784 a `return' status can be used, and a `vexpr' multiplexer offers
1785 some arithmetic and string operations. `commandalias'es are
1786 recursive, further command modifier prefixes, like `ignerr', give
1787 a hand that we otherwise could not offer. In compose-mode the new
1788 `~^' command escape allows some message and attachment access, and
1789 can be used, e.g., to implement things like custom headers, and
1790 has been especially designed for scripted access via the new
1791 *on-compose-splice* and *on-compose-splice-shell* hooks.
1793 S-nail will move (more or less) backward-incompatibly to sh(1)ell
1794 compatible argument quoting (documented in "COMMANDS"), and an
1795 increasing number of commands do support this already: new ones
1796 exclusively, some old ones have either been switched (like
1797 `localopts'), others -- noticeably `set' -- can be switched to the
1798 new syntax with a `wysh' command modifier prefix. E.g.:
1801 # Be careful to choose sh(1)ell-style on _entire_ line!
1802 localopts yes; wysh set verbose; ignerr eval "${@}"; return $?
1804 ? commandalias call echo boo-boo
1805 ? commandalias xv call __xv
1807 ? commandalias xv '\'call __xv
1810 Calling the latter `xv' for `list' will give more detailed command
1811 information, including which kind of argument is used.
1813 I have not managed to implement the three features i have started
1814 this development cycle for, these are thus subject to further
1815 development, just like wysh for message-list argument commands to
1816 support, e.g., negation, wysh for `if' and consorts, the --
1817 terminator to finally overcome the ridiculous requirement to quote
1818 entire shell commands filenames for commands like `pipe.
1821 Credits, in order of commit appearance: Antonio Radici,
1822 Aharon Robbins, Mike Frysinger, Predrag Punosevac, Michael Convey,
1823 Hariskar, Rudolf Sykora, Martin Neitzel, Gavin Troy,
1824 Salvatore Bonaccorso, Todd C. Miller, Sergey Matveev, Robert Elz,
1825 Mantas Mikulėnas, Respiranto, Jens Schleusener, Walter Alejandro
1826 Iglesias, Ralph Corderoy, David Levine, Lyndon Nerenberg,
1827 Thomas Dickey, Afan, Justin Ellingwood, Ingo Schwarze,
1828 Viktor Szépe, Gaetan Bisson, Juan RP, William Yodlowsky,
1829 Hilko Bengen, Matthew Dillon, Colin Watson, Donald Mugnai,
1830 Stephen Isard, Jürgen Daubert, Sven Neuhaus, trondd, Ismael Bouya,
1831 Felipe Gasper, Paul Eggert, Dr. Werner Fink, Ken Hornstein,
1832 Noel Chiappa, Random832, Doug McIlroy, Baptiste Daroussin,
1833 Riccardo Ductor, Pietro Cerutti, Jörg Schilling, rain1, Xin LI.
1835 We welcome Antonio Radici, Mike Frysinger, Predrag Punosevac,
1836 Michael Convey, Rudolf Sykora, Todd C. Miller, Robert Elz,
1837 Jens Schleusener, Walter Alejandro Iglesias, Thomas Dickey, Afan,
1838 Justin Ellingwood, Viktor Szépe, Juan RP, Matthew Dillon,
1839 Colin Watson, Donald Mugnai, Sven Neuhaus, Ismael Bouya,
1840 Felipe Gasper, Paul Eggert, Dr. Werner Fink, Ken Hornstein,
1841 Noel Chiappa, Random832, Doug McIlroy, Baptiste Daroussin,
1842 Riccardo Ductor, Pietro Cerutti, Jörg Schilling, rain1, and
1845 Apologies: Sergey Matveev.
1846 Members of the Roff community which await progress.
1848 NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine)
1849 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1851 * This release brings some backward incompatibilities, outlined
1852 in the following. Most users will not be affected, and we have
1853 added a lot of compatibility cruft, but that will vanish in v15.
1856 * The configuration and build system has changed.
1857 Packagers have received updated package files.
1859 o Anything which was WANT_xy before is now OPT_xy, and
1860 compiled-in paths and values, like PREFIX or PAGER, have
1861 gained a VAL_ prefix (thus VAL_PREFIX and VAL_PAGER).
1863 This is _not_ true for non-persistent or environmental values,
1864 e.g., DESTDIR, CC, etc., and also not for the overwritable
1865 program variables during configuration, e.g., $awk.
1867 o SENDMAIL -> VAL_MTA, SENDMAIL_PROGNAME -> VAL_MTA_ARGV0,
1868 MAILSPOOL -> VAL_MAIL.
1869 And NAIL -> VAL_MAILX, though this is still a lie.
1871 o The make system now needs config..build..install or
1872 all..install or tangerine (config..build..test..install).
1873 Some constants which some experts may want to fine-tune have
1874 been moved to config.h. Usual adjustments+doc via make.rc.
1876 o The `build' phase can be parallelized by setting the $MAKEJOBS
1877 environment variable, e.g., "make MAKEJOBS=-j4 build".
1878 Note this variable is not tracked in the configuration.
1881 o Unless DESTDIR is set an uninstallation script will be
1882 installed along with the rest (see INSTALL file for more).
1884 o Set the new OPT_CROSS_BUILD to avoid feature runtime tests,
1885 only compile- and link-availability will be tested. (Juan RP)
1887 o VERBOSE is implemented straight, but must be given at
1888 configuration time in order to become honoured.
1891 o ADDCFLAGS / ADDLDFLAGS -> EXTRA_CFLAGS / EXTRA_LDFLAGS.
1893 o The LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc. building processes will skip any path
1894 which contains the string "fakeroot". (Hilko Bengen)
1896 o We honour a set $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH#636 environment variable to
1897 an extend that allows reproducible tests, which is why the
1898 repository gained a [test-out] branch with some expected plain
1899 text outputs. (reproducible-builds.org; Colin Watson)
1901 The new *log-prefix*#457 variable aids in improving the
1902 reproducibility of error messages.
1904 o These are upward compatible changes.
1906 * "make OPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000 all" should work.
1908 * Internal and environment variables are now explicitly _defined_
1909 and _tracked_ after variable handling has been rewritten
1912 o This means that, e.g., "$ password=NOT_SECRET s-nail" will
1913 **NOT** work no more, since *password*#500 is an internal
1916 o But if you do, e.g., "? set TMPDIR=~/tmp", then this will
1917 also be reflected in the program environment (it is an
1918 environment variable) and thus affect child processes.
1920 o Therefore we no longer have `setenv' and `unsetenv'.
1922 o To integrate any other environment variable transparently
1923 into our variable management, the new command `environ'#190
1924 needs to be used, e.g., "? environ set NEWVAR=value" or
1925 "? environ link EXISTINGVAR".
1927 - -H#69 and -L#72 have been decoupled:
1928 it used to be -e#66 -L#72 instead!
1930 - *NAIL_{HEAD,TAIL}* have been obsoleted in favour of
1931 *message-inject-head*#467 and *message-inject-tail*#468.
1933 *NAIL_HIST{FILE,SIZE}* have been obsoleted in favour of
1934 *history-file*#438 and *history-size*#441.
1936 *NAIL_EXTRA_RC* has been obsoleted in favour of
1937 *mailx-extra-rc*#461.
1939 *batch-exit-on-error* has been obsoleted by *errexit*#414, which
1940 works just like the POSIX sh(1)ell "set -e" construct; the
1941 `ignerr'#126 command modifier (`-' for command escapes in compose
1942 mode, and see below) can be used to ignore command errors even
1943 then. (This will remain even if we at some later time will
1944 support at least some of the sh(1) constructs which "swallow"
1945 failures with set -e.)
1947 *bsdannounce* is obsolete, the feature is integrated in
1948 *header*#434 as this is much more useful. (This is however also
1949 dependent upon the also new but well-known $POSIXLY_CORRECT#633
1950 <> *posix*#515, but that is just how it is; these affect more
1951 behaviour, and increasing.)
1953 - Colour support has been changed backward in- and upward (from
1954 user interface side) compatibly, see the manual section
1955 "Coloured display"#19.
1957 + New commands: `colour'#161 and `uncolour'#162.
1958 You can define context-sensitive, terminal-capability-
1959 sensitive settings, e.g.:
1961 if terminal && [ "$features" =% +colour ]
1962 colour iso view-header ft=bold,fg=magenta,bg=cyan
1963 colour 256 view-header ft=bold,fg=208,bg=230 subject,from
1964 colour mono view-header ft=bold
1965 colour mono view-header ft=bold,ft=reverse subject,from
1968 + The variable *colour-pager*#396 defines whether colour and font
1969 attribute sequences should be generated when viewing something
1972 + Set the variable *colour-disable*#395 to turn colour off
1973 without affecting established settings.
1975 + It is deduced via termcap(5) (see below) whether the terminal
1976 supports colors, e.g., "$ s-nail -Stermcap=Co#256".
1977 This is also true if we don't have termcap support.
1979 + Support for 256-colour terminals. (Gavin Troy)
1981 - `source'#281 series support shell pipes if the last character
1982 of the "filename" ends with a vertical bar |, e.g.,
1984 ? source 'gpg -qd ~/.s-nailrc-private.gpg |'
1986 - Shell pipes are also supported as targets for `move'#233,
1987 `copy'#166 etc., yet unfortunately not with via a sh(1)ell token
1988 parser, so that the target still has to be a single argument.
1990 ? copy . '| cat; echo huhu'
1992 - Support for custom headers via the new `~^'#320 compose-mode
1993 command escape and in addition, or alternatively, with the
1994 internal variable *customhdr*#404, which also can be covered by
1995 `localopts'#218. (Sergey Matveev)
1997 + Support of $ORGANIZATION has been dropped.
1999 + Command escape `~e'#326 supports _any_ header.
2001 + Command escape `~^'#320 supports _any_ header.
2003 - New -:#56 command line option can be used to more easily select
2004 which startup files should be loaded, e.g., -:/ loads none.
2007 - `account'#141s and *folder-hook*#423s now have `localopts'#218
2010 - A first simple form of compose-mode hooks has been implemented:
2011 *on-compose-enter*#490, *on-compose-leave*#491 and
2012 *on-compose-cleanup*#489 can be set to macros which get invoked
2013 at appropriate times.
2014 For the `resend'#262 series there is *on-resend-enter*#498 and
2015 *on-resend-cleanup*#497: this is very likely to change once
2016 true message access is possible even in this mode.
2018 An even more powerful mechanism is available via the also new
2019 *on-compose-splice*#492 and *on-compose-splice-shell*#493 hooks.
2020 These are executed in child processes and communicate with the
2021 parent via their standard input and output, and therefore can
2022 do anything and act as if they were the user.
2024 `localopts'#218 are enabled and cannot be disabled (and extend
2025 until the message is sent).
2026 (Jens Schleusener, Rudolf Sykora)
2028 ? set on-compose-splice=ocs
2031 echo Splice protocol version is $ver
2032 echo '~^header list'
2033 read hl; vput vexpr es substring "${hl}" 0 1
2035 echoerr 'Failed to read header list, bailing out'
2037 elif [ "$hl" @i!% ' cc' ]
2038 echo '~^header insert cc Diet is your <mirr.or>'
2039 read es; vput vexpr es substr "${es}" 0 1
2041 echoerr 'Failed to insert Cc:, bailing out'; echo '~x'
2046 - "The .netrc file"#38
2048 + gained support for comments.
2049 (Walter Alejandro Iglesias, Ralph Corderoy)
2051 + `netrc'#237 now has a "load" subcommand.
2053 + the new *netrc-pipe*#484 obsoletes OPT_AGENT and
2054 *agent-shell-lookup*, and can be used to load an encrypted
2057 ? set netrc-lookup netrc-pipe='gpg -qd ~/.netrc.gpg'
2059 I.e., this is in usual .netrc syntax and thus possibly much
2060 nicer than saying "? source 'gpg -qd ~/.credentials.gpg |'".
2062 - termcap(5) / terminfo(5) support has been changed backward in-
2063 and upward (from user interface side) compatibly, please read
2064 "On terminal control and line editor"#18.
2066 + OPT_TERMCAP is by default enabled.
2067 The new, by default enabled, configuration option
2068 OPT_TERMCAP_VIA_TERMINFO can be used to (try to) use
2069 terminfo(5) instead.
2071 + The variable *termcap*#583 can be used to freely define or
2072 override terminal capabilities, and *termcap-disable*#585 will
2073 disable interaction with the chosen library, leaving only
2074 *termcap* in charge.
2076 To use the so-called ca-mode on supporting terminals,
2077 effectively turning S-nail into a fullscreen application,
2078 *termcap-ca-mode*#584 must be set.
2080 + The built-in line editor has been rather completely rewritten
2081 to be the Mailx-Line-Editor (OPT_MLE, default yes), and
2082 supports wide glyphs (if possible), infinite line lengths
2083 (2 GB) and more. Tabulator expansion is no longer an option
2084 (but needs fnmatch(3)).
2086 + Optionally (OPT_KEY_BINDINGS, default yes) it has become
2087 possible to freely define key bindings for the MLE via the new
2088 `bind'#150 and `unbind'#151 commands. These key bindings can
2089 make use of termcap(5) and/or terminfo(5) names. The MLE will
2090 install a set of default bindings (unless there is a set
2091 *line-editor-no-defaults*#456), more so with OPT_TERMCAP,
2092 i.e., try "? bind*".
2094 Sufficient support provided, one can now, e.g., type "p " and
2095 then collect the message numbers to type, scrolling forward
2096 and backward via key-bindings, without losing the line
2097 content, then commit the final line.
2099 + OPT_EDITLINE and OPT_READLINE support have been dropped.
2100 The new MLE should not miss anything. Does it?
2101 Tip: in an UTF-8 locale try "? !touch /tmp/hall{,öchen}" and
2102 then autocomplete that: once, then ^Q, and again.
2104 - `source'#281 can be used in `call'#152ed macros.
2105 What sounds so innocent replaced an entire machinery and got rid
2106 of a brilliant idea of Kurt Shoens from the 70s, but which never
2107 worked with Nail/Heirloom extensions, namely macros, and in the
2109 Accompanying this -X#87 can (dig multiline arguments and can) be
2110 used to define macros and run them etc. Should work:
2112 $ s-nail -X'define x {' -Xversion -Xx -X'}' -X'call x'
2113 $ s-nail -X'source \' -X'"echo version|"' -Xx
2115 Macros can be `undefine'#172d from within themselves, and re-
2116 `define'#171d. It is still not possible to define macros
2117 from within macros, and/or have inner macros, not to talk
2118 about local scoping or anything more sophisticated such.
2120 - -u#84 / $LOGNAME#624 ($USER) handling has been redefined,
2121 and "-u USER" is now exactly the same as "-f %USER", and
2122 $LOGNAME (and $USER) is actively set to the active user. (Afan)
2124 $LOGNAME#624 is POSIX standardized and henceforth used and
2125 preferred over $USER, which came from BSD. (Todd C. Miller)
2127 - In the future (at least non-message-list) argument handling will
2128 be changed backward-incompatibly to be sh(1)ell compatible (and
2129 thus POSIX standardized), see "Shell-style argument quoting"#24.
2130 New commands use it already today (`bind'#150, `colour'#161,
2131 `headerpick'#209), some others (most importantly, `set'#269) can
2132 be forced to do so via the new `wysh'#131 command prefix, as in:
2134 ? wysh set message-inject-tail=$'\n--steffen'
2135 ? bind base $'\cA,\x61' 'echo control-A and small a'
2137 - We now actively manage *umask*#604: 0077 by default, but an
2138 empty string will use the setting that is active upon startup.
2139 Just like changes to (known) environment variables, this setting
2140 will also be inherited by any child process.
2141 (Walter Alejandro Iglesias)
2143 - Anything SENDMAIL / *sendmail*-ish has been renamed to *mta*#476,
2144 *mta-arguments*#478, *mta-no-default-arguments*#479 and
2147 The reason is that in v15 we won't even have *smtp*: it is just
2148 another form of MTA, and thus obsolete by itself.
2149 Note that *mta-arguments* is now parsed via the shell-token
2150 parser, so the following ends up exactly as desired.
2152 ? set mta-arguments='-t -X "/tmp/my log"'
2154 For now we support a hack that understands a file:// URL in
2155 *mta*, too, but that is also the default if there is no protocol.
2156 E.g.: "? set mta=smtp://a:b@xy.z"
2158 - The "spamd" *spam-interface*#570 is obsolete. I haven't tested
2159 it since my main machine died, it is error prone since it assumes
2160 internals of the spamassassin wire protocol, and there never was
2161 a speed improvement over "spamc". (However it could react upon
2162 the "is-spam" state of a message, which "spamc" doesn't allow.)
2164 - The new *inbox*#449 variable will henceforth be looked up when
2165 searching for a primary system mailbox (as in "? File %"),
2166 followed by the usual $MAIL#625 and compile-time defined local
2167 mailspool search. (Stephen Isard, Jürgen Daubert)
2169 - The semantic of -a#58 and `~@'#318 have been changed, and both
2170 commands now use the same syntax:
2172 -a file[=input-charset[#output-charset]]
2174 - New "failinvaddr" keyword for *expandaddr*#417.
2176 - We finally "can" the so-called (by myself) "Dr. Problem" (a bit):
2179 $ </dev/null s-nail -d:/ -sTrödler 'Dr. D. Iet <z@a.k>' 2>&1 |\
2181 s-nail: >>> To: "Dr. D. Iet" <z@a.k>
2183 This can be done via the new `addrcodec'#143, too, note this
2184 supports multiple modes (and the `vput'#130 command modifier):
2186 $ echo 'addrcodec e Dr. Diet <to@fu.soj> Curd' | s-nail -#:/
2187 "Dr. Diet Curd" <to@fu.soj>
2189 - All commands with the string "codec" in their name use different
2190 argument quoting, namely none at all, please read
2191 "Raw data arguments for codec commands"#26.
2192 This means that `urlcodec'#299 (and `imapcodec'#665) has
2193 slightly changed semantics.
2194 And, while here: there is a new `shcodec'#271, too.
2196 - We gained "Command modifiers"#22: `\'#125 (avoid expansion of
2197 `commandalias'#163es), `vput'#130 (store result in variable),
2198 `ignerr'#126 (ignore an error of the following command, even
2199 if the new *errexit*#414 is set), `wysh'#131 (use shell-style
2202 $ echo 'vput cwd resvar;echo $resvar' | s-nail -#:/
2203 /home/steffen/src/nail.git
2205 And the usual sh(1) stuff: `return'#264, `shift'#275, `eval'#192,
2206 plus a `xcall'#307 stack-avoidance optimization (to be used in
2207 place of a `call'#152 which would be the last called command).
2208 And an "expr(1) like thing", yet simple, `vexpr'#303.
2210 $ echo 'vexpr + 1 2' | s-nail -#:/
2211 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000011
2213 $ echo 'vput vexpr resvar + 1 2;echo $resvar' | s-nail -#:/
2216 We actually start walking (*?*#348, *^*#350).
2218 ? vput vexpr res regex 'bananarama' 'Bana(.+)' '\$1\$0'
2219 ? echo $?/$^ERRNAME :$res:
2221 ? vput vexpr res iregex 'bananarama' '(.+)rama' '\$1\$0'
2222 ? echo $?/$^ERRNAME :$res:
2223 0/NONE :bananabananarama:
2225 The command `vpospar'#304 can be used to manage the stack of
2226 positional parameters, i.e., much like "set --".
2227 It also offers the possibility to save and restore the stack to
2228 and from variables. Etc.
2230 Btw., to contact the maintainer (make.rc variables
2231 VAL_CONTACT_WEB and VAL_CONTACT_MAIL):
2233 ? echo $contact-web; eval mail $contact-mail
2235 - `if'#215 no longer performs automatic number conversion, we
2236 use the explicit -lt, -gt etc. syntax of the sh(1).
2237 Note: `if' will change to be almost identical to sh(1) if(1),
2238 so please ensure proper test bracketing, even if it is less
2241 Moreover, the default string comparison mode has changed to
2242 case-sensitive, just like in the shell. This is because in the
2243 future this crux with trigger characters will vanish and `if'
2244 etc. will simply slurp in already expanded shell tokens, it will
2245 act like the shell in that respect. We have modifiers, though,
2246 yet only "@i" for case-insensitivity, also for regex matches:
2249 i=`LC_ALL=C.utf8 s-nail -:/ -# -X '
2251 \if [ "${ttycharset}" @i=% utf ]
2255 \if [ "${#}" -gt 0 ]
2256 \wysh set LC_ALL=${1}
2258 \eval xcall cset_test "${@}"
2262 \call cset_test C.UTF-8 POSIX.utf8 POSIX.UTF-8 \
2263 en_EN.utf8 en_EN.UTF-8 en_US.utf8 en_US.UTF-8
2265 [ $? -eq 0 ] && UTF8_LOCALE=$i
2267 Please note the `eval' in 'eval xcall cset_test "${@}". This is
2268 a difference of S-nail/mailx and the sh(1)ell that will remain,
2269 as documented in "COMMANDS"#21: whereas the shell implements
2270 a language and performs standardized expansions on the line
2271 until finally the command is called, S-nail will decide the type
2272 of command line parsing dependent on the seen command, and will
2273 then perform a single expansion. Therefore "${@}" will expand
2274 to multiple arguments if $# is greater 0, but it will expand to
2275 the empty string otherwise, which is not furtherly expanded away
2276 since it is meaningless like it is in the shell: therefore $#
2277 will be 1 (the empty string) not 0.
2279 - Using an explicit proto:// prefix should get you the desired
2280 thing apart of *newfolders*#485, e.g.:
2282 ? File maildir:///tmp/x.mdir
2283 ? copy * file:///tmp/x.mbox
2285 - New variable *record-files*#530 can be set to extend the meaning
2286 of *record*#529. *record-resent*#531 was there already.
2288 - New variable *ifs*#445 acts a bit like the sh(1)ell's $IFS for,
2289 e.g., the new `read'#251 command.
2291 There is a `readctl'#254 command which can be used to manage
2292 the active channel used by `read'#251.
2294 - The `~' alias for `call'#152 is gone.
2296 - `mimetype'#225 only allows specification of a single type per
2297 call, on the other hand no need to quote that.
2299 - `mimeview'#227 must now be used explicitly to look at any
2300 non-text MIME part, for normal display etc. purposes we only
2301 support "copiousoutput"#651 MIME handlers.
2303 - New *socks-proxy*#569 can be used to proxy all network traffic
2304 over a SOCKS5 proxy. (Gaetan Bisson)
2309 - The manual has seen another major overhaul, all the variables
2310 are now documented in a single, sorted list, and many
2311 clarifications should have been added. I hope it has become
2313 (Predrag Punosevac, Michael Convey, Hariskar, Rudolf Sykora,
2314 Respiranto, Thomas Dickey, Donald Mugnai)
2316 - To support RFC 1524 a.k.a. .mailcap files (see below) many
2317 "trigger"-characters have been added for *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#502,
2318 which may (rarely) affect existing values.
2319 The .mailcap support itself is not yet implemented.
2321 - *mime-counter-evidence*#472 gained bit 4 (perform proper in-depth
2322 content inspection as necessary; set to 0xE for all bits).
2325 - Maildir paths are now created recursively as necessary.
2328 - -M#73 and -m#74 options have been added to enforce a special
2329 send mode that will flag standard input / the given file with
2330 the specified / detected MIME 'Content-Type:'. This can be used
2331 to directly send, e.g., HTML log output.
2332 (Viktor Szépe, Ralph Corderoy)
2334 - Disallow symlinks on writable files. Note this requires
2335 O_NOFOLLOW support for the operating-system-call open(2), but
2336 which has been standardized a long time ago.
2339 - `retain'#263, `ignore'#216 etc. now differentiate in between
2340 From (the From: header) and From_ (the MBOX ident).
2342 In fact we now have a new `headerpick'#209 command which
2343 is a multiplexer for all retain and ignore lists used, call it
2344 without arguments to see the current setting(s).
2345 In v15 only `headerpick' and the standard-imposed wrappers
2346 `retain' and `ignore' will remain, all other wrappers will
2347 vanish. Regular expressions can now be used if available:
2350 headerpick type retain blahblahblah cc date from \
2351 mail-followup-to message-id openpgp reply-to subject to \
2353 #headerpick type ignore currently covers no fields
2354 #headerpick save retain currently covers no fields
2355 headerpick save ignore '^Original-.*$' '^X-.*$' '^DKIM.*$'
2356 headerpick forward retain cc date from list-id \
2357 mail-followup-to openpgp reply-to subject to
2358 #headerpick forward ignore currently covers no fields
2360 - `top'#291 has been rewritten completely, `Top'#290 is new.
2361 It uses a built-in set of retain/ignore headers, but it is
2362 possible to register a custom set via `headerpick'#209.
2363 Also, *toplines*#600 has been extended a bit and the new
2364 *topsqueeze*#601 variable may pimp your `top' experience.
2366 ? headerpick top retain add subject
2368 [-- Message 1 -- 87 lines, 4791 bytes --]:
2369 Subject: Re: I can't dist to myself
2372 3.22. bounce_delivered
2374 - `features' has been dropped, `version'#302 extended.
2376 - The *prompt*#517 handling has changed: we lost the capability to
2377 expand \?, \@ and \$, instead new "private" variables *?*#348,
2378 *account*#361, *mailbox-resolved*#459 and
2379 *mailbox-display*#458 have been introduced, and the prompt
2380 is completely shell expanded (thus twice with `wysh' or in v15),
2381 as if dollar-single-quote quoted. We do support the reverse-
2382 solidus escaped bracket notation for embedding characters which
2383 should not be counted when calculating the width of the prompt.
2384 The `colour'#161 command has a slot for the prompt colour.
2385 We gained *prompt2*#518 as a second level prompt.
2389 prompt='?\${?}!\${!}[\${account}#\${mailbox-display}]? '
2391 - The filename "-" can be used as a receiver, e.g.,
2393 $ echo Hey,\ you | s-nail -:/ -Sexpandaddr -sUB -
2395 - The -s#81 command line option, the `~s'#340 command escape
2396 as well as the corresponding slots of `~^'#320 will actively
2397 strip [\r\n] from their value (Debian #419840).
2399 - New `read'#251 and `echoerr'#183 commands, mostly for
2400 *on-compose-splice*#492.
2401 But also `echon'#184 and `echoerrn'#185, which do not write
2404 - New variable *r-option-implicit*#527 may be helpful to those
2405 who regulary need the functionality of the -r#79 command
2406 line option. (Felipe Gasper, Martin Neitzel)
2408 - By using new "pseudo-URLs" one can automatize the use of S/MIME
2409 keys / (certificates / intermediate include certificates) with
2410 passwords. E.g., to drive bob@exam.ple, set
2411 *smime-sign-cert-bob@exam.ple* to the private key / certificate
2412 pair as usual, the password lookup will then be performed for
2413 bob@exam.ple.smime-cert-key, bob@exam.ple.smime-cert-cert and
2414 bob@exam.ple.smime-include-certs.
2415 Like this the password can be stored in an encrypted .netrc file
2416 when *netrc-lookup*#483 and *netrc-pipe*#484 are set, or it may
2417 be stored in an encrypted resource file that has been loaded via
2418 `source'#281 as a simple *password*#500 variable.
2420 Note that the prompting that happens as a last resort of
2421 password lookup will still interfere with a possibly running
2422 $PAGER#631 instance, dependent on the setting of *crt*#403, of
2423 course. Proper job control handling and recognizing that we are
2424 running $PAGER when doing that prompt is a TODO for v15. Sorry.
2426 - Some commands, like `set'#269, `help'#212, `list'#217,
2427 `mlist'#228 etc., now react upon the setting of *verbose*#607
2428 and(/or) *debug*#407.
2430 - `write'#306 uses iconv(3) as appropriate.
2432 - *mbox-rfc4155*#464 has first been dropped, and was then
2433 reintroduced with different semantics. Because, it can be
2434 helpful if a messed up MBOX is read, in which case we henceforth
2435 will warn you and point you to this:
2438 \localopts yes; \wysh set mbox-rfc4155;\
2439 \wysh File "${1}"; \eval copy * "${2}"
2441 ? call mboxfix /tmp/bad.mbox /tmp/good.mbox
2443 P.S. Here you see how weird the current thing still is, in v15:
2446 localopts yes; set mbox-rfc4155; File "${1}"; copy * -- "${2}"
2449 And also in v15 we will not apply (proper) so-called MBOXO
2450 quoting, but instead (simply MIME) re-encode mail messages.
2452 - `call_if'#153 is new and, different to "? ignerr call", silent
2453 and not messing with the return status.
2455 - The new *smime-ca-flags*#554 and *ssl-ca-flags*#? can be used
2456 to fine-tune X509_STORE_set_flags(3) a.k.a the X509 CA
2457 certificate verification.
2459 ? set ssl-ca-flags=partial-chain
2460 ? wysh set smime-ca-flags="${ssl-ca-flags}"
2462 Also, *ssl-curves*#? for TLSv1.3.
2464 - Socket connections use TLS S(erver)N(ame)I(ndication) as
2465 appropriate (RFC 7817).
2467 - `alternates'#146 checks arguments and supports `vput'#130.
2468 It by default no longer replaces but appends alternates, unless
2469 *posix*#515 mode is active. There is a new `unalternates'#147
2470 command to remove alternates.
2472 - A new `charsetalias'#156 command. (Pietro Cerutti, mutt#3925)
2474 - New commands `filetype'#196 and `unfiletype'#197: in the future
2475 we will no longer know any builtin filetypes, in fact we already
2476 simulate .gz etc. via the new mechanism as necessary:
2479 bz2 'bzip2 -dc' 'bzip2 -zc' \
2480 gpg 'gpg -d' 'gpg -e' \
2481 gz 'gzip -dc' 'gzip -c' \
2482 xz 'xz -dc' 'xz -zc' \
2483 zst 'zstd -dc' 'zstd -19 -zc' \
2484 zst.pgp 'gpg -d | zstd -dc' 'zstd -19 -zc | gpg -e'
2486 - `~<'#315 now offers a "- [HERE-delimiter]" mode for pasting etc.
2489 - `exit'#193 and `quit'#250 take an optional exit status.
2490 (That is not fixated yet, though.)
2492 - We have a useful -h / --help output. (Doug McIlroy)
2494 - *encoding* obsoleted in favour of new *mime-encoding*#473, which
2495 now defaults to base64.
2497 - *allnet*#363 now works (broken since nail 10.00, 2002-09-29).
2502 The complete changelog of commits in between two versions OLD and
2503 NEW can be inspected by using the git(1) `log' command:
2505 $ git log --reverse --topo-order --abbrev-commit OLD..NEW
2506 # Only topic branch headers (--no-merges for content commits only):
2507 $ git log --oneline --reverse --topo-order --merges OLD..NEW
2508 # Same, but truly accessible:
2509 $ git log --oneline --reverse --topo-order --merges --parents OLD..NEW |
2510 while read c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6; do
2511 printf "%-24s: \$ git log --oneline --no-merges %s ^%s\n" \
2512 "${c6}" "${c1}" "${c2}";
2515 Entries for releases before v14.9.0 have been cut off and can be
2516 found in the git(1) repository:
2518 v14.8.0 - v14.8.16: $ git show v14.8.16:NEWS
2519 v13 - v14.8.5 : $ git show v14.8.5:NEWS
2520 9.0 - 12.5 : $ git show heirloom:ChangeLog
2522 Also accessible via HTTPS?, just replace X.Y.Z accordingly:
2524 \https?://git.sdaoden.eu/browse?p=s-nail.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS;hb=refs/heads/release/vX.Y.Z
2526 For even older releases you need to look into the [timeline]
2527 branch, but no changelog has been administrated for them.