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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 - builds use OpenSSL if available.
   8 - post now defaults to port 587 on 'smtp' message submission.
   9 - A value of 0 for the width switch of scan(1), inc(1), ap(1), dp(1),
  10   fmttest(1), and mhl(1) now means as many characters as the format
  11   engine can produce [Bug #15274].  That amount is limited by internal
  12   buffers.
  13 - If a component has trailing whitespace, e.g., body:component="> ",
  14   mhl now trims that whitespace off when filtering blank text lines.
  15 - An "rtrim" flag has been added to mhl to remove any trailing
  16   whitespace from filtered text lines.  A corresponding "nortrim" flag
  17   has also been added.
  18 - The default locations for configuration files and suppoooort binaries
  19   have been changed.  Configuration files now install into ${sysconfdir}/nmh,
  20   and support binaries are placed in ${libexecdir}/nmh.  If you are upgrading
  21   an existing installation you should look for old configuration files in
  22   ${sysconfdir} and merge any local customizations into the new files in
  23   ${sysconfdir}/nmh, then remove the old files.  ${libdir} will also contain
  24   obsolete support programs that should be removed.
  25 - When building from source, configure will derive ${prefix} from an existing
  26   nmh installation if it finds one in your $PATH.
  27 - Added getmymbox and getmyaddr mh-format(5) function escapes.
  28 - New -[no]changecur, -fixtype, -decodetypes, and -[no]crlflinebreaks switches
  29   have been added to mhfixmsg(1).
  30 - mhfixmsg now removes an extraneous trailing semicolon from header
  31   parameter lists.
  32 - Added -convertargs switch to repl(1), to pass arguments to programs
  33   specified in the user's profile or mhn.defaults to convert message
  34   content.
  35 - Added mhical(1), to display, reply to, and cancel iCalendar (RFC 5545)
  36   event requests.
  37 - added multiply format function
  38 - "mhparam bindir" prints the path to the directory containing the public
  39   executables (${bindir}).
  40 - new "-prefer" switch for mhshow (and mhlist and mhshow), to allow specifying
  41   the preferred content types to show, if present in a multipart alternative.
  42 - mh-format now has %(kilo) and %(kibi) functions, to allow printing
  43   numbers as, for example, "10K", or "2.3Mi"
  44 - Support for the -sendmail flag to send/post to change the sendmail
  45   binary when using the sendmail/pipe MTS.
  46 - Added support to send(1) to specify switches to post(1) based on address or
  47   domain name in From: header line in message draft.
  48 - post(8) -snoop now attempts to decode base64-encoded SMTP traffic.
  49 - folder(1) -nocreate now prints a warning message for a non-existent folder.
  50 - mhfixmsg(1) now allows -decodetext binary, though 8bit is still the default.
  51 - inc(1) and msgchk(1) now support TLS encryption natively.
  52 - All TLS connections now perform certificate validation (including hostname
  53   matching) by default; can be disabled on a per-application basis.
  54 - Support for SMTPUTF8 (RFC 6531) has been added.  mhshow(1) already supported
  55   RFC 6532, assuming all 8-bit message header field bodies are UTF-8 and use
  56   of a UTF-8 locale.
  57 - mhfixmsg now replaces RFC 2047 encoding with RFC 2231 encoding of name and
  58   filename parameters in Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers,
  59   respectively.
  60 - If a message body contains 8-bit bytes, post(8) uses SMTP 8BITMIME if the
  61   server supports it.  If not, post fails with a message to the user to
  62   encode the message for 7-bit transport.
  63 - Added welcome message when nmh detects that its version changed.
  64 - Fewer lseek(2)s will be used when reading headers in the common case.
  65 - Single-character headers can be reliably formatted, etc., instead of
  66   apparently being missing.
  67 - ./configure's --enable-debug has been removed;  it did nothing.
  68 - configure now defaults to enabling each of TLS and Cyrus SASL if the
  69   necessary headers and libraries are found.
  70 - Moved build_nmh to top-level directory.
  71 - Better error reporting for connections to network services
  72
  73 -----------------
  74 OBSOLETE FEATURES
  75 -----------------
  76
  77 - The undocumented -queue switch to post was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was
  78   removed in this release.
  79 - conflict(8) was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
  80 - mhtest(8) was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
  81 - msh(1) was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
  82 - Support in alias files for the the "*" address-group (everyone) was
  83   deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
  84 - Support for multiple hostnames in the "servers" entry of mts.conf has
  85   been removed.
  86
  87 -------------------
  88 DEPRECATED FEATURES
  89 -------------------
  90
  91 - Support for the MHPDEBUG environment variable is deprecated and will be
  92   removed from a future nmh release.  Instead, use the -debug switch to pick.
  93 - With the move of support binaries from ${libdir} to ${libexecdir}/nmh, the
  94   mostly undocumented 'libdir' mhparam(1) component has been replaced by a
  95   new 'libexecdir' component.  'libdir' will be removed in a future release.
  96
  97 ---------
  98 BUG FIXES
  99 ---------
 100
 101 - The format scanner no longer subtracts 1 from the width.  This has the
 102   effect of no longer counting the trailing newline in the output of
 103   scan(1), inc(1), and the other programs that rely on the format scanner.
 104 - The first character of some very short (less than 4 characters) message
 105   bodies is no longer dropped.
 106 - mhfixmsg now adds a Content-Transfer-Encoding header at the message level,
 107   if needed after decoding text parts.
 108 - mhbuild now checks whether all text parts need a Content-Transfer-Encoding
 109   header, not just those with a character set not specified.
 110 - mhbuild no longer parses lines that start with # as directives with
 111   -nodirectives.
 112 - repl now make sure that any Fcc header in a replied-to message is not
 113   copied into the outgoing draft by default, and that the -fcc switch
 114   actually works in the absence of a Fcc header in the replied-to message.
 115 - A Content-ID is generated for message/external-body entities as required
 116   by RFC 2045, even if -nocontentid is supplied to mhbuild.