X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/blobdiff_plain/3af3288f3acdfe29d3c17aefd9e0453ac3204541..1d5e6d0340ba258b34b85ccdac4c402ccf4fd51e:/docs/pending-release-notes?ds=inline diff --git a/docs/pending-release-notes b/docs/pending-release-notes index 1467018b..23cc77c0 100644 --- a/docs/pending-release-notes +++ b/docs/pending-release-notes @@ -4,89 +4,113 @@ Things to add to the release notes for the next full release: NEW FEATURES ------------ -- 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 -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. +- builds use OpenSSL if available. +- 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 + engine can produce [Bug #15274]. That amount is limited by internal + buffers. +- If a component has trailing whitespace, e.g., body:component="> ", + mhl now trims that whitespace off when filtering blank text lines. +- 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 suppoooort 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 $PATH. +- Added getmymbox and getmyaddr mh-format(5) function escapes. +- New -[no]changecur, -fixtype, -decodetypes, and -[no]crlflinebreaks switches + have been added to mhfixmsg(1). +- mhfixmsg now removes an extraneous trailing semicolon from header + parameter lists. +- Added -convertargs switch to repl(1), to pass arguments to programs + specified in the user's profile or mhn.defaults to convert message + content. +- Added mhical(1), to display, reply to, and cancel iCalendar (RFC 5545) + event requests. +- added multiply format function +- "mhparam bindir" prints the path to the directory containing the public + executables (${bindir}). +- new "-prefer" switch for mhshow (and mhlist and mhshow), to allow specifying + 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" +- 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 + domain name in From: header line in message draft. +- post(8) -snoop now attempts to decode base64-encoded SMTP traffic. +- 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. +- 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 + of a UTF-8 locale. +- mhfixmsg now replaces RFC 2047 encoding with RFC 2231 encoding of name and + filename parameters in Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers, + respectively. +- 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 +----------------- ----------------------------- -OBSOLETE/DEPRECATED 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. -- 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. -- 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. -- 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. +------------------- +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. --------- BUG FIXES --------- -- 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. +- The format scanner no longer subtracts 1 from the width. This has the + effect of no longer counting the trailing newline in the output of + 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. +- 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 + header, not just those with a character set not specified. +- mhbuild no longer parses lines that start with # as directives with + -nodirectives. +- repl now make sure that any Fcc header in a replied-to message is not + copied into the outgoing draft by default, and that the -fcc switch + 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.