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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 - The default Content-Transfer-Encoding for text parts is now 8bit.
  76 - mhbuild(1) now supports a selectable Content-Transfer-Encoding
  77 - If nmh was configured with iconv(3) support, mhshow will convert, if
  78   necessary, the charset of text/plain content to match the user's
  79   locale setting.
  80 - Added support for %{charset} display string escape to mhshow(1).
  81 - The MIME parsing and generating routines now support RFC 2231 extended
  82   parameter information.
  83 - mh-mime(7) now provides an introduction to nmh's MIME handling.
  84 - mhshow(1) will now by default display all text content under one pager,
  85   and display markers for non-text and non-inline content.  The content
  86   markers are changeable via mh-format(5).
  87
  88 -----------------
  89 OBSOLETE FEATURES
  90 -----------------
  91 - Changed exit status of each nmh command's -version and -help
  92   switches from 1 to 0.
  93 - The following environment variables were deprecated in nmh 1.5
  94   and removed from this release:
  95     MHPOPDEBUG (use -snoop command line switch instead)
  96     MM_NOASK (use -nolist and -nopause command line switches instead)
  97     NOMHNPROC (use -nocheckmime command line switch instead)
  98     FACEPROC (undocumented faceproc feature removed)
  99 - Changed repl and dist default to -noatfile.  The default of -atfile
 100   was deprecated in nmh 1.5.  If there are no requests to maintain
 101   -atfile, it will be removed in the future.
 102 - The undocumented -queue switch to mhmail has been removed.
 103 - spost(8) has been merged into post(8).  Its functionality is enabled
 104   by selecting the sendmail/pipe mail transport method, described in
 105   the mh-tailor(5) man page.  The spost -noalias, -backup/-nobackup,
 106   -push/-nopush, and -remove/-noremove switches are not supported by
 107   post.  Note that spost did not support -whom or Dcc, and neither
 108   does post when using sendmail/pipe.  And spost would expand blind
 109   aliases and send them in the message; post with sendmail/pipe
 110   refuses to do that.  For backward compatibility, spost has been
 111   replaced by a simple shell script that exec's post -mts
 112   sendmail/pipe.
 113 - Support for the undocumented and deprecated --enable-nmh-debug configure
 114   flag has been removed.
 115 - Support for encoding some characters designated as EBCDIC-unsafe
 116   via the -ebcdicsafe and -noebcdicsafe switches to mhbuild has
 117   been removed.
 118 - The configure flag --with-pager has been removed; the default pager
 119   is now hardcoded as "more".  Users are still free to override the
 120   default using the PAGER environment variable or entries in .mh_profile.
 121 - The configure flag --with-editor has been removed; the fallback editor
 122   if none is configured is "vi".
 123 - The support for the undocumented NOPUBLICSEQ preprocessor definition
 124   to disable public sequence support has been removed.
 125 - Support for the -normalize and -nonormalize switches to the ali(1) and
 126   ap(8) commands has been removed.
 127 - "make install" no longer strips executables.  Use "make install-strip"
 128   instead.
 129 - The environment variable MM_CHARSET to indicate the native character
 130   set is no longer supported.  The native character set will be solely
 131   determined by the locale settings.
 132 - Temporary files are stored in the first non-null location of
 133   {MHTMPDIR environment variable, TMPDIR environment variable, MH Path}.
 134   They are no longer be stored in the location specified by the TMP
 135   environment variable.
 136 - Instead of printing PostScript attachments, by default, from mhshow,
 137   try to find a suitable viewer.
 138 - Support for parallel display of multipart/parallel content has been
 139   removed from mhshow; all multipart content will be displayed in
 140   serial.
 141 - Support for -pause/-nopause switches on mhshow has been removed.
 142
 143 -------------------
 144 DEPRECATED FEATURES
 145 -------------------
 146 - The undocumented -queue switch to post is deprecated/obsolete
 147   and will be removed in the next release.  It supports the
 148   SMTP XQUE verb, which is obsolete according to
 149   http://smtpfilter.sourceforge.net/esmtp.html
 150 - conflict(8) is deprecated and will be removed from the next release.
 151 - mhtest(8) is deprecated and will be removed from the next release.
 152 - msh(1) is deprecated and will be removed from the next release.
 153 - Support in alias files for the the "*" address-group is obsolescent
 154   and will be removed in a future release.
 155
 156 ---------
 157 BUG FIXES
 158 ---------
 159
 160 - Replaced utilities that operate on pbm files with those that operate
 161   on pnm files in etc/mhn.defaults [Bug #15152].
 162 - Removed obsolete BUGS section at end of rcvstore(1) man page [Bug #4361].
 163 - Fixed -nocc me doesn't account for Alternate-Mailboxes [Bug #36635].
 164 - Propagate Mail-Followup-To [Bug #5571].
 165 - "mark -sequence cur -delete all" now works for cur as well as any
 166   other sequence, to allow clearing of the current message indication.
 167 - The first alias contained in a blind list is now expanded.  The
 168   mh-alias(5) man page was updated to show that blind lists must not
 169   be terminated with, or contain, a trailing semicolon [Bug #15604].
 170 - Fixed sendfiles(1) to always provide a From: address.  Also, updated
 171   its switches.
 172 - Fixed pick(1) to properly unfold multiple-line header fields by
 173   removing newlines instead of replacing them with spaces [Bug #15215].
 174 - Removed the artificial limit of 1000 messages at a time for rmmproc.
 175 - Fixed decoding of header fields when they contain a character that
 176   can't be converted.
 177 - post(8) -sasl now honours username in .netrc [Bug #23168].  whom(1),
 178   send(1), inc(1), and msgchk(1) also benefit from this fix.  And, nmh
 179   now supports specification of any valid filename in place of
 180   $HOME/.netrc.
 181 - Added quoting of local part of invalid address in message being
 182   replied to [Bug #26780].
 183 - Fix segmentation faults for %(putlit) and %(zputlit) format escapes when
 184   the "str" register was NULL.
 185 - Encode and decode text MIME types with canonical line breaks properly.
 186 - mhstore(1) now obeys its -noverbose switch.