NEW FEATURES
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-- All nmh programs will now warn about multiple profile entries for
- the same non-null, non-comment component. In previous versions, all
- but the first were silently ignored.
-- mhmail now supports all post(8) options, or optionally can use
- send(1) with all of its options. Its formerly undocumented -resent
- switch has been documented. And it has new -attach, -headerfield,
- and -send/-nosend switches.
-- Default to flock() locking on OpenBSD and Darwin.
-- Added -directives support to mhbuild(1) to control whether or not
- mhbuild will honor MIME directives by default. And added support
- for special #on/#off/#pop directives to control the MIME directive
- processing state.
-- Added -messageid switch to send(1) and post(8). This allows
- selection of the style to use for generated Message-ID and
- Content-ID header fields. The default localname style is
- pid.time@localname, where time is in seconds, and matches previous
- behavior. The random style replaces the localname with some
- (pseudo)random bytes and uses microsecond-resolution time.
-- Added -clobber switch to mhstore(1) to control overwriting of
- existing files.
-- Added -outfile switch to mhstore(1).
-- Added -noall/-all switches to sortm(1). sortm -noall requires
- a messages argument.
-- $PAGER overrides the compiled-in default pager command.
-- Added etc/scan.highlighted format file, as an example of how to
- highlight/colorize the output of scan(1).
-- inc(1) now supports a -port switch to specify the port used by the
- POP server.
-- pick(1) now decodes MIME-encoded header fields before searching.
-- The VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables are now supported as fallbacks
- if the user does not configure an editor entry in their profile.
-- The format engine (mh_format(5)) now properly accounts for multibyte
- characters when accounting for column widths.
-- burst(1) now can burst MIME-formatted digests (messages that contain
- message/rfc822 parts instead of messages formatted with RFC 934).
-- All proc entries (showproc, moreproc, etc) can now accept entries that
- contain spaces and shell metacharacters. If found, such entries will
- either be space-splitted or processed by /bin/sh.
-- A new program, fmttest(1) is included to help debug format files
-- mhshow/mhstore now have support for RFC-2017 (access-type=url) for
- external message bodies.
-- Added -retainsequences switch to refile(1).
-- A new program, mhfixmsg(1), is included to rewrite MIME messages with
- various transformations.
-- Added -[no]rmmproc switches to rmm(1).
-- Added support for Content-Disposition header (RFC 2183) to mhstore(1)
- and mhn(1) when used with -auto.
-- All nmh commands now support transactional locking for sequence files.
-- There is no longer a per-folder maximum number of sequences.
-- For the SMTP MTA TLS can now be negotiated at the beginning of the
- connection with the -initialtls switch.
-- Messages can now be selected using a relative offset from some other
- message, or from the start or end of a sequence. See mh-sequences(5).
-- The -changecur and -nochangecur switches have been added to mhlist(1).
-- mhbuild(1) can now encode 8-bit message headers using RFC-2047 encoding
- rules.
-- The whatnow(1) attach feature will determine the content type of an
- attachment using a program such as file --mime-type, if available at
- configuration time. If not, it will use mhshow-suffix- entries as
- before. The -v switch to attach causes it to display the mhbuild
- directive that send(1) will use.
-- mhbuild(1) now supports the -auto/-noauto flags (to be used by send(1)
- when invoking mhbuild automatically).
-- mhbuild(1) now is automatically run by send, to insure that all outgoing
- messages have proper MIME formatting.
-- A new header, "Attach", is supported by mhbuild; it is used to replace
- previous functionality (which by default used a header named
- Nmh-Attachment).
-- The default Content-Transfer-Encoding for text parts is now 8bit.
-- mhbuild(1) now supports a selectable Content-Transfer-Encoding
-- If nmh was configured with iconv(3) support, mhshow will convert, if
- necessary, the charset of text/plain content to match the user's
- locale setting.
-- Added support for %{charset} display string escape to mhshow(1).
-- The MIME parsing and generating routines now support RFC 2231 extended
- parameter information.
-- mh-mime(7) now provides an introduction to nmh's MIME handling.
-- mhshow(1) will now by default display all text content under one pager,
- and display markers for non-text and non-inline content. The content
- markers are changeable via mh-format(5).
-
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OBSOLETE FEATURES
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-- Changed exit status of each nmh command's -version and -help
- switches from 1 to 0.
-- The following environment variables were deprecated in nmh 1.5
- and removed from this release:
- MHPOPDEBUG (use -snoop command line switch instead)
- MM_NOASK (use -nolist and -nopause command line switches instead)
- NOMHNPROC (use -nocheckmime command line switch instead)
- FACEPROC (undocumented faceproc feature removed)
-- Changed repl and dist default to -noatfile. The default of -atfile
- was deprecated in nmh 1.5. If there are no requests to maintain
- -atfile, it will be removed in the future.
-- The undocumented -queue switch to mhmail has been removed.
-- spost(8) has been merged into post(8). Its functionality is enabled
- by selecting the sendmail/pipe mail transport method, described in
- the mh-tailor(5) man page. The spost -noalias, -backup/-nobackup,
- -push/-nopush, and -remove/-noremove switches are not supported by
- post. Note that spost did not support -whom or Dcc, and neither
- does post when using sendmail/pipe. And spost would expand blind
- aliases and send them in the message; post with sendmail/pipe
- refuses to do that. For backward compatibility, spost has been
- replaced by a simple shell script that exec's post -mts
- sendmail/pipe.
-- Support for the undocumented and deprecated --enable-nmh-debug configure
- flag has been removed.
-- Support for encoding some characters designated as EBCDIC-unsafe
- via the -ebcdicsafe and -noebcdicsafe switches to mhbuild has
- been removed.
-- The configure flag --with-pager has been removed; the default pager
- is now hardcoded as "more". Users are still free to override the
- default using the PAGER environment variable or entries in .mh_profile.
-- The configure flag --with-editor has been removed; the fallback editor
- if none is configured is "vi".
-- The support for the undocumented NOPUBLICSEQ preprocessor definition
- to disable public sequence support has been removed.
-- Support for the -normalize and -nonormalize switches to the ali(1) and
- ap(8) commands has been removed.
-- "make install" no longer strips executables. Use "make install-strip"
- instead.
-- The environment variable MM_CHARSET to indicate the native character
- set is no longer supported. The native character set will be solely
- determined by the locale settings.
-- Temporary files are stored in the first non-null location of
- {MHTMPDIR environment variable, TMPDIR environment variable, MH Path}.
- They are no longer be stored in the location specified by the TMP
- environment variable.
-- Instead of printing PostScript attachments, by default, from mhshow,
- try to find a suitable viewer.
-- Support for parallel display of multipart/parallel content has been
- removed from mhshow; all multipart content will be displayed in
- serial.
-- Support for -pause/-nopause switches on mhshow has been removed.
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DEPRECATED FEATURES
-------------------
-- The undocumented -queue switch to post is deprecated/obsolete
- and will be removed in the next release. It supports the
- SMTP XQUE verb, which is obsolete according to
- http://smtpfilter.sourceforge.net/esmtp.html
-- conflict(8) is deprecated and will be removed from the next release.
-- mhtest(8) is deprecated and will be removed from the next release.
-- msh(1) is deprecated and will be removed from the next release.
-- Support in alias files for the the "*" address-group is obsolescent
- and will be removed in a future release.
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BUG FIXES
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-- Replaced utilities that operate on pbm files with those that operate
- on pnm files in etc/mhn.defaults [Bug #15152].
-- Removed obsolete BUGS section at end of rcvstore(1) man page [Bug #4361].
-- Fixed -nocc me doesn't account for Alternate-Mailboxes [Bug #36635].
-- Propagate Mail-Followup-To [Bug #5571].
-- "mark -sequence cur -delete all" now works for cur as well as any
- other sequence, to allow clearing of the current message indication.
-- The first alias contained in a blind list is now expanded. The
- mh-alias(5) man page was updated to show that blind lists must not
- be terminated with, or contain, a trailing semicolon [Bug #15604].
-- Fixed sendfiles(1) to always provide a From: address. Also, updated
- its switches.
-- Fixed pick(1) to properly unfold multiple-line header fields by
- removing newlines instead of replacing them with spaces [Bug #15215].
-- Removed the artificial limit of 1000 messages at a time for rmmproc.
-- Fixed decoding of header fields when they contain a character that
- can't be converted.
-- post(8) -sasl now honours username in .netrc [Bug #23168]. whom(1),
- send(1), inc(1), and msgchk(1) also benefit from this fix. And, nmh
- now supports specification of any valid filename in place of
- $HOME/.netrc.
-- Added quoting of local part of invalid address in message being
- replied to [Bug #26780].
-- Fix segmentation faults for %(putlit) and %(zputlit) format escapes when
- the "str" register was NULL.
-- Encode and decode text MIME types with canonical line breaks properly.
-- mhstore(1) now obeys its -noverbose switch.
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