Add some diagnostics to determine what is going wrong.

[nmh] / docs / pending-release-notes

diff --git a/docs/pending-release-notes b/docs/pending-release-notes
index 9550117a97044779e5b4eeb01b8d5ac6f3dc2166..a6ae19c593f52672c8840ea25e4b122ef13ed48f 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/pending-release-notes
+++ b/docs/pending-release-notes
@@ -24,6 +24,19 @@ NEW FEATURES
   (pseudo)random bytes and uses microsecond-resolution time.
 - Added -clobber switch to mhstore(1) to control overwriting of
   existing files.
   (pseudo)random bytes and uses microsecond-resolution time.
 - Added -clobber switch to mhstore(1) to control overwriting of
   existing files.

+- 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.
+

 
 ----------------------------
 OBSOLETE/DEPRECATED FEATURES
 
 ----------------------------
 OBSOLETE/DEPRECATED FEATURES


@@ -47,14 +60,27 @@ OBSOLETE/DEPRECATED FEATURES
   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.
   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.

 - 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
 - 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.  For backward compatibility,
-  spost has been replaced by a simple shell script that exec's
-  post -mts sendmail/pipe.
+  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".

 
 ---------
 BUG FIXES
 
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 BUG FIXES


@@ -65,3 +91,15 @@ BUG FIXES
 - 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].
 - 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.