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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-existant 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 - Support for SMTPUTF8 (RFC 6531) has been added.  mhshow(1) already supported
  53   RFC 6532, assuming all 8-bit message header field bodies are UTF-8 and use
  54   of a UTF-8 locale.
  55 - Added welcome message when nmh detects that its version changed.
  56
  57 -----------------
  58 OBSOLETE FEATURES
  59 -----------------
  60
  61 - The undocumented -queue switch to post was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was
  62   removed in this release.
  63 - conflict(8) was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
  64 - mhtest(8) was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
  65 - msh(1) was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
  66 - Support in alias files for the the "*" address-group (everyone) was
  67   deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
  68
  69 -------------------
  70 DEPRECATED FEATURES
  71 -------------------
  72
  73 - Support for the MHPDEBUG environment variable is deprecated and will be
  74   removed from a future nmh release.  Instead, use the -debug switch to pick.
  75 - With the move of support binaries from ${libdir} to ${libexecdir}/nmh, the
  76   mostly undocumented 'libdir' mhparam(1) component has been replaced by a
  77   new 'libexecdir' component.  'libdir' will be removed in a future release.
  78
  79 ---------
  80 BUG FIXES
  81 ---------
  82
  83 - The format scanner no longer subtracts 1 from the width.  This has the
  84   effect of no longer counting the trailing newline in the output of
  85   scan(1), inc(1), and the other programs that rely on the format scanner.
  86 - The first character of some very short (less than 4 characters) message
  87   bodies is no longer dropped.