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   1 Things to add to the release notes for the next full release:
   2
   3 ------------
   4 NEW FEATURES
   5 ------------
   6
   7 - All nmh programs will now warn about multiple profile entries for
   8   the same non-null, non-comment component.  In previous versions, all
   9   but the first were silently ignored.
  10 - mhmail now supports all post(8) options, or optionally can use
  11   send(1) with all of its options.  Its formerly undocumented -resent
  12   switch has been documented.  And it has new -attach, -headerfield,
  13   and -send/-nosend switches.
  14 - Default to flock() locking on OpenBSD and Darwin.
  15 - Added -directives support to mhbuild(1) to control whether or not
  16   mhbuild will honor MIME directives by default.  And added support
  17   for special #on/#off/#pop directives to control the MIME directive
  18   processing state.
  19 - Added -messageid switch to send(1) and post(8).  This allows
  20   selection of the style to use for generated Message-ID and
  21   Content-ID header fields.  The default localname style is
  22   pid.time@localname, where time is in seconds, and matches previous
  23   behavior.  The random style replaces the localname with some
  24   (pseudo)random bytes and uses microsecond-resolution time.
  25 - Added -clobber switch to mhstore(1) to control overwriting of
  26   existing files.
  27 - Added -outfile switch to mhstore(1).
  28 - Added -noall/-all switches to sortm(1).  sortm -noall requires
  29   a messages argument.
  30 - $PAGER overrides the compiled-in default pager command.
  31 - Added etc/scan.highlighted format file, as an example of how to
  32   highlight/colorize the output of scan(1).
  33 - inc(1) now supports a -port switch to specify the port used by the
  34   POP server.
  35 - pick(1) now decodes MIME-encoded header fields before searching.
  36 - The VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables are now supported as fallbacks
  37   if the user does not configure an editor entry in their profile.
  38 - The format engine (mh_format(5)) now properly accounts for multibyte
  39   characters when accounting for column widths.
  40 - burst(1) now can burst MIME-formatted digests (messages that contain
  41   message/rfc822 parts instead of messages formatted with RFC 934).
  42 - All proc entries (showproc, moreproc, etc) can now accept entries that
  43   contain spaces and shell metacharacters.  If found, such entries will
  44   either be space-splitted or processed by /bin/sh.
  45 - A new program, fmttest(1) is included to help debug format files
  46 - mhshow/mhstore now have support for RFC-2017 (access-type=url) for
  47   external message bodies.
  48 - Added -retainsequences switch to refile(1).
  49 - A new program, mhfixmsg(1), is included to rewrite MIME messages with
  50   various transformations.
  51 - Added -[no]rmmproc switches to rmm(1).
  52 - Added support for Content-Disposition header (RFC 2183) to mhstore(1)
  53   and mhn(1) when used with -auto.
  54 - All nmh commands now support transactional locking for sequence files.
  55 - There is no longer a per-folder maximum number of sequences.
  56 - For the SMTP MTA TLS can now be negotiated at the beginning of the
  57   connection with the -initialtls switch.
  58 - Messages can now be selected using a relative offset from some other
  59   message, or from the start or end of a sequence.  See mh-sequences(5).
  60 - The -changecur and -nochangecur switches have been added to mhlist(1).
  61 - mhbuild(1) can now encode 8-bit message headers using RFC-2047 encoding
  62   rules.
  63 - The whatnow(1) attach feature will determine the content type of an
  64   attachment using a program such as file --mime-type, if available at
  65   configuration time.  If not, it will use mhshow-suffix- entries as
  66   before.  The -v switch to attach causes it to display the mhbuild
  67   directive that send(1) will use.
  68 - mhbuild(1) now supports the -auto/-noauto flags (to be used by send(1)
  69   when invoking mhbuild automatically).
  70 - mhbuild(1) now is automatically run by send, to insure that all outgoing
  71   messages have proper MIME formatting.
  72 - A new header, "Attach", is supported by mhbuild; it is used to replace
  73   previous functionality (which by default used a header named
  74   Nmh-Attachment).
  75
  76 -----------------
  77 OBSOLETE FEATURES
  78 -----------------
  79 - Changed exit status of each nmh command's -version and -help
  80   switches from 1 to 0.
  81 - The following environment variables were deprecated in nmh 1.5
  82   and removed from this release:
  83     MHPOPDEBUG (use -snoop command line switch instead)
  84     MM_NOASK (use -nolist and -nopause command line switches instead)
  85     NOMHNPROC (use -nocheckmime command line switch instead)
  86     FACEPROC (undocumented faceproc feature removed)
  87 - Changed repl and dist default to -noatfile.  The default of -atfile
  88   was deprecated in nmh 1.5.  If there are no requests to maintain
  89   -atfile, it will be removed in the future.
  90 - The undocumented -queue switch to mhmail has been removed.
  91 - spost(8) has been merged into post(8).  Its functionality is enabled
  92   by selecting the sendmail/pipe mail transport method, described in
  93   the mh-tailor(5) man page.  The spost -noalias, -backup/-nobackup,
  94   -push/-nopush, and -remove/-noremove switches are not supported by
  95   post.  Note that spost did not support -whom or Dcc, and neither
  96   does post when using sendmail/pipe.  And spost would expand blind
  97   aliases and send them in the message; post with sendmail/pipe
  98   refuses to do that.  For backward compatibility, spost has been
  99   replaced by a simple shell script that exec's post -mts
 100   sendmail/pipe.
 101 - Support for the undocumented and deprecated --enable-nmh-debug configure
 102   flag has been removed.
 103 - Support for encoding some characters designated as EBCDIC-unsafe
 104   via the -ebcdicsafe and -noebcdicsafe switches to mhbuild has
 105   been removed.
 106 - The configure flag --with-pager has been removed; the default pager
 107   is now hardcoded as "more".  Users are still free to override the
 108   default using the PAGER environment variable or entries in .mh_profile.
 109 - The configure flag --with-editor has been removed; the fallback editor
 110   if none is configured is "vi".
 111 - The support for the undocumented NOPUBLICSEQ preprocessor definition
 112   to disable public sequence support has been removed.
 113 - Support for the -normalize and -nonormalize switches to the ali(1) and
 114   ap(8) commands has been removed.
 115 - "make install" no longer strips executables.  Use "make install-strip"
 116   instead.
 117 - The environment variable MM_CHARSET to indicate the native character
 118   set is no longer supported.  The native character set will be solely
 119   determined by the locale settings.
 120 - Temporary files are stored in the first non-null location of
 121   {MHTMPDIR environment variable, TMPDIR environment variable, MH Path}.
 122   They are no longer be stored in the location specified by the TMP
 123   environment variable.  As part of this change, suffixes were removed
 124   from filenames of temporary files.  This will break the use of display
 125   applications that rely on the suffix to determine the file type.
 126
 127 -------------------
 128 DEPRECATED FEATURES
 129 -------------------
 130 - The undocumented -queue switch to post is deprecated/obsolete
 131   and will be removed in the next release.  It supports the
 132   SMTP XQUE verb, which is obsolete according to
 133   http://smtpfilter.sourceforge.net/esmtp.html
 134 - conflict(8) is deprecated and will be removed from the next release.
 135 - mhtest(8) is deprecated and will be removed from the next release.
 136 - msh(1) is deprecated and will be removed from the next release.
 137 - Support in alias files for the the "*" address-group is obsolescent
 138   and will be removed in a future release.
 139
 140 ---------
 141 BUG FIXES
 142 ---------
 143
 144 - Replaced utilities that operate on pbm files with those that operate
 145   on pnm files in etc/mhn.defaults [Bug #15152].
 146 - Removed obsolete BUGS section at end of rcvstore(1) man page [Bug #4361].
 147 - Fixed -nocc me doesn't account for Alternate-Mailboxes [Bug #36635].
 148 - Propagate Mail-Followup-To [Bug #5571].
 149 - "mark -sequence cur -delete all" now works for cur as well as any
 150   other sequence, to allow clearing of the current message indication.
 151 - The first alias contained in a blind list is now expanded.  The
 152   mh-alias(5) man page was updated to show that blind lists must not
 153   be terminated with, or contain, a trailing semicolon [Bug #15604].
 154 - Fixed sendfiles(1) to always provide a From: address.  Also, updated
 155   its switches.
 156 - Fixed pick(1) to properly unfold multiple-line header fields by
 157   removing newlines instead of replacing them with spaces [Bug #15215].
 158 - Removed the artificial limit of 1000 messages at a time for rmmproc.
 159 - Fixed decoding of header fields when they contain a character that
 160   can't be converted.
 161 - post(8) -sasl now honours username in .netrc [Bug #23168].  whom(1),
 162   send(1), inc(1), and msgchk(1) also benefit from this fix.  And, nmh
 163   now supports specification of any valid filename in place of
 164   $HOME/.netrc.
 165 - Added quoting of local part of invalid address in message being
 166   replied to [Bug #26780].
 167 - Fix segmentation fauls for %(putlit) and %(zputlit) format escapes when
 168   the "str" register was NULL.