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# NEWS - Release notes for nmh 1.7
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are some significant changes to nmh behavior. Otherwise, please see the
README and INSTALL files for help on getting started with nmh.
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+
+---------------
+NOTABLE CHANGES
+---------------
+
+The largest notable changes in the 1.7 release are:
+
+- Complete unification of network security support. All network protocols
+ (currently, POP and SMTP) have been refactored to use a common set of
+ security routines. This means all protocols support all SASL mechanisms
+ (via the Cyrus-SASL library) and TLS. TLS support has been strengthened
+ to perform certificate name validation and to require TLS 1.1 as a
+ minimum protocol. Also, all protocols can make use of the OAuth2/XOAUTH
+ SASL mechanism, which is supported by Gmail.
+- send(1) now supports adding switches to post(8) based on the address or
+ domain of the email address in the From: header; this more easily allows
+ users to support multiple identities.
+- A generic facility for passing arguments to filter programs in repl(1)
+ by use of the -convertargs switch.
+- Native support for the manipulation of iCalendar requests; see mhical(1)
+ for more details.
+
------------
NEW FEATURES
------------
The following are new features for the 1.7 release of nmh:
+- When building from source, configure will derive ${prefix} from an existing
+ nmh installation if it finds one in your $PATH.
+- Added welcome message when nmh detects that its version changed.
+- The default locations for configuration files and support binaries
+ have been changed. Configuration files now install into ${sysconfdir}/nmh,
+ and support binaries are placed in ${libexecdir}/nmh. If you are upgrading
+ an existing installation you should look for old configuration files in
+ ${sysconfdir} and merge any local customizations into the new files in
+ ${sysconfdir}/nmh, then remove the old files. ${libdir} will also contain
+ obsolete support programs that should be removed.
+- All TLS connections now perform certificate validation (including hostname
+ matching) by default; can be disabled on a per-application basis.
- post now defaults to port 587 on 'smtp' message submission.
- A value of 0 for the width switch of scan(1), inc(1), ap(1), dp(1),
fmttest(1), and mhl(1) now means as many characters as the format
- An "rtrim" flag has been added to mhl to remove any trailing
whitespace from filtered text lines. A corresponding "nortrim" flag
has also been added.
-- The default locations for configuration files and support binaries
- have been changed. Configuration files now install into ${sysconfdir}/nmh,
- and support binaries are placed in ${libexecdir}/nmh. If you are upgrading
- an existing installation you should look for old configuration files in
- ${sysconfdir} and merge any local customizations into the new files in
- ${sysconfdir}/nmh, then remove the old files. ${libdir} will also contain
- obsolete support programs that should be removed.
-- When building from source, configure will derive ${prefix} from an existing
- nmh installation if it finds one in your $PATH.
- Added getmymbox and getmyaddr mh-format(5) function escapes.
- New -[no]changecur, -fixtype, -decodetypes, and -[no]crlflinebreaks switches
have been added to mhfixmsg(1).
content.
- Added mhical(1), to display, reply to, and cancel iCalendar (RFC 5545)
event requests.
-- added multiply format function
+- Added multiply mh-format(5) function.
- "mhparam bindir" prints the path to the directory containing the public
executables (${bindir}).
-- new "-prefer" switch for mhshow (and mhlist and mhshow), to allow specifying
+- New "-prefer" switch for mhshow (and mhlist and mhshow), to allow specifying
the preferred content types to show, if present in a multipart alternative.
- mh-format now has %(kilo) and %(kibi) functions, to allow printing
- numbers as, for example, "10K", or "2.3Mi"
+ numbers with SI or IEC quantities, e.g. "10K", "2.3Mi".
- Support for the -sendmail flag to send/post to change the sendmail
binary when using the sendmail/pipe MTS.
- Added support to send(1) to specify switches to post(1) based on address or
- folder(1) -nocreate now prints a warning message for a non-existent folder.
- mhfixmsg(1) now allows -decodetext binary, though 8bit is still the default.
- inc(1) and msgchk(1) now support TLS encryption natively.
-- All TLS connections now perform certificate validation (including hostname
- matching) by default; can be disabled on a per-application basis.
- All network protocols support the XOAUTH authentication mechanism.
- Support for SMTPUTF8 (RFC 6531) has been added. mhshow(1) already supported
RFC 6532, assuming all 8-bit message header field bodies are UTF-8 and use
- If a message body contains 8-bit bytes, post(8) uses SMTP 8BITMIME if the
server supports it. If not, post fails with a message to the user to
encode the message for 7-bit transport.
-- Added welcome message when nmh detects that its version changed.
- Fewer lseek(2)s will be used when reading headers in the common case.
-- Single-character headers can be reliably formatted, etc., instead of
- apparently being missing.
- ./configure's --enable-debug has been removed; it did nothing.
- configure now defaults to enabling each of TLS and Cyrus SASL if the
necessary headers and libraries are found.
- Moved build_nmh to top-level directory.
-- Better error reporting for connections to network services
-
------------------
-OBSOLETE FEATURES
------------------
-
-- The undocumented -queue switch to post was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was
- removed in this release.
-- conflict(8) was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
-- mhtest(8) was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
-- msh(1) was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
-- Support in alias files for the the "*" address-group (everyone) was
- deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
-- Support for multiple hostnames in the "servers" entry of mts.conf has
- been removed.
-- Support in alias files for expanding aliases based on group membership
- (=) and primary group (+) has been removed.
-
--------------------
-DEPRECATED FEATURES
--------------------
-
-- Support for the MHPDEBUG environment variable is deprecated and will be
- removed from a future nmh release. Instead, use the -debug switch to pick.
-- With the move of support binaries from ${libdir} to ${libexecdir}/nmh, the
- mostly undocumented 'libdir' mhparam(1) component has been replaced by a
- new 'libexecdir' component. 'libdir' will be removed in a future release.
+- Better error reporting for connections to network services.
---------
BUG FIXES
scan(1), inc(1), and the other programs that rely on the format scanner.
- The first character of some very short (less than 4 characters) message
bodies is no longer dropped.
+- Single-character headers can be reliably formatted, etc., instead of
+ apparently being missing.
- mhfixmsg now adds a Content-Transfer-Encoding header at the message level,
if needed after decoding text parts.
- mhbuild now checks whether all text parts need a Content-Transfer-Encoding
actually works in the absence of a Fcc header in the replied-to message.
- A Content-ID is generated for message/external-body entities as required
by RFC 2045, even if -nocontentid is supplied to mhbuild.
-- Post will now expand aliases on a "From" line when doing a BCC (bug #51098)
+- post will now expand aliases on a "From" line when doing a BCC [Bug #51098].
+- scan can now handle empty files without violating an assert [Bug #51693].
+- An error when writing an error message, e.g. EPIPE, no longer causes
+ recursion until the stack is exhausted.
+- rcvdist(1) now passes switch arguments to post(8).
+- The uses of %{charset} in mhn.defaults were wrapped with double quotes.
----------------
-NOTABLE CHANGES
----------------
+-------------------
+DEPRECATED FEATURES
+-------------------
-The largest notable changes in the 1.7 release are:
+- Support for the MHPDEBUG environment variable is deprecated and will be
+ removed from a future nmh release. Instead, use the -debug switch to pick.
+- With the move of support binaries from ${libdir} to ${libexecdir}/nmh, the
+ mostly undocumented 'libdir' mhparam(1) component has been replaced by a
+ new 'libexecdir' component. 'libdir' will be removed in a future release.
-- Complete unification of network security support. All network protocols
- (currently, POP and SMTP) have been refactored to use a common set of
- security routines. This means all protocols support all SASL mechanisms
- (via the Cyrus-SASL library) and TLS. TLS support has been strengthened
- to perform certificate name validation and to require TLS 1.1 as a
- minimum protocol. Also, all protocols can make use of the OAuth2/XOAUTH
- SASL mechanism, which is supported by gmail.
-- send(1) now supports adding switches to post(8) based on the address or
- domain of the email address in the From: header; this more easily allows
- users to support multiple identities.
-- A generic facility for passing arguments to filter programs in repl(1)
- by use of the -convertargs switch.
-- Native support for the manipulation of iCalendar requests; see mhical(1)
- for more details.
+-----------------
+OBSOLETE FEATURES
+-----------------
+
+- The undocumented -queue switch to post was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was
+ removed in this release.
+- conflict(8) was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
+- mhtest(8) was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
+- msh(1) was deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
+- Support in alias files for the the "*" address-group (everyone) was
+ deprecated in nmh 1.6, and was removed in this release.
+- Support for multiple hostnames in the "servers" entry of mts.conf has
+ been removed.
+- Support in alias files for expanding aliases based on group membership
+ (=) and primary group (+) has been removed.
As always, feedback is welcome.
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