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# NEWS - Release notes for nmh 1.7
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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
server supports it. If not, post fails with a message to the user to
encode the message for 7-bit transport.
- 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
+- Better error reporting for connections to network services.
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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.
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DEPRECATED FEATURES