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From: Steffen N. <st...@sd...> - 2022-05-16 14:04:55
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(Resending as i do not expect a list moderator to kick in and allow the >100KB original.) --- Forwarded from Steffen Nurpmeso <st...@sd...> --- Date: Sun, 15 May 2022 01:36:15 +0200 Hello. Over four years have passed since i announced S-nail v14.9.10 on this list, and even though i think i promised i will not post again here but for the v15 after the big rewrite that will happen, but has not happened yet after ten years, i thought that after fifty months i may dare to post one more in-between message. I think about doing so for quite some time. The reason is that with v14.10, which will happen by the end of this year, if nothing bad happens, we finally really loose some backward compatibility, in that the "set v15-compat=y" mechanism that accompanies us so long will be the default setting. The obsoletion warnings which are logged once (usually) still happen, but the default behaviour will change quite a bit. So much that configurations could really break. Whereas until now i would say that most configurations will complain but somehow still function out of the box. More or less. (I would not expect tremendously complicated things in resource files of Heirloom mailx. IMAP search expressions require sh(1)ell-style quoting already, for example, but s-nail tries to give a hand ... which a robot does not have, obviously.) Thus. Please find below the announcement of v14.9.24, the latest and now hopefully really, really last release of the v14.9.x series of S-nail, which is a fork of Heirloom mailx that has seen many thousands of matured commits since the fork happened almost ten years ago, and which is used as "mailx" or available as a package on many Linux distributions, and BSDs, and often "current". Thank you for your consideration. --- Forwarded from Steffen Nurpmeso <st...@sd...> --- Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 17:45:29 +0100 Hello list, hereby i announce S-nail v14.9.24 "Black ships ate the sky". It is a bugfix release (Microsoft IMAP servers should now work). Credits, in order of commit appearance: Paul Eggert, Madou Mad, Paride Legovini, Jesse Alama. We welcome Madou Mad and Jesse Alama in THANKS. Number games ^^^^^^^^^^^^ The release commit is [v14.9.24.ar] on [release/v14.9.24], and it has also been stored on the [timeline]. The [master/stable/v14.9] branch was tagged [v14.9.24]. The git(1) release commits and tags, as well as the release balls have been signed with the OpenPGP signing subkey EEC8C2FF of key st...@sd... / 1883A0DD (EE19 E1C1 F2F7 054F 8D39 54D8 3089 64B5 1883 A0DD) Release balls and OpenPGP signatures (.asc) are accessible via \https?://ftp.sdaoden.eu, also the key steffen.asc (+ GnuPG WKD). Inline copies of the signatures are at the end of this message. s-nail-14.9.24.tar.xz: SHA1 11bafd0dbb78b45f36f802693233499a9f307e37 SHA256 2714d6b8fb2af3b363fc7c79b76d058753716345d1b6ebcd8870ecd0e4f7ef8c SHA512 03f6a6f446391b6f91ed3c8875c3e7fdfac9d4e77ea1d52a7e98aa84cfd0edae137d5b9afba3bdc9a31ab67cee5237930b74b42ae3acb54aee4758553a4f1df2 s-nail-14.9.24.tar.gz: SHA1 1f4f607fde829356e9a7dbf6e9638b313b669bb0 SHA256 4e4db869792bcdcc97fae1db1a6641e664a93b2e85f6eac53e7b3ac305e6c586 SHA512 15101019a9c14fef8162fbce1a15133d2c70f27476b08a7f183d195fb52ed2854731984f833236c543fd681e299c3d93ec508154573b5897d707a0ec5c216575 These files and this announcement text are available as "-latest" symbolic links, for example s-nail-latest.txt. Announcement : https?://www.sdaoden.eu/code-nail-ann.html Manual : https?://www.sdaoden.eu/code-nail.html Web : https?://www.sdaoden.eu/code.html#s-mailx git(1) clone : \https?://git.sdaoden.eu/scm/s-nail.git git(1) browse: https?://git.sdaoden.eu/browse/s-nail.git S - n a i l / S - m a i l x N e w s ==================================== mdocmx(7) anchors are denoted by a number-sign #: typing "^A ANCHOR" while reading the man(1)ual in a capable less(1) will scroll to the manual's Point-Of-Interest, and pointing a web browser to the "#ANCHOR" of the online manual works. NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - Release tarball might be in --format=pax. (Paul Eggert) - Again honour MTA arguments passed after the "--" command line "option" in non-send-only mode (broken since at least v14.9.12). - Thanks to Madou Mad we should now support Microsoft IMAP servers. The codebase treated untagged and tagged responses alike: this never worked! (Madou Mad) (P.S.: no credits to Steven or Gavin here.) - Fix crash due to crafted emails. (Our RFC 2047 MIME handling is still terrible, but we should not crash no more.) ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - Fix *expandargv*#419=restrict (broken since v14.9.0). - Fix a bug from nail 10.08 as of 2004-06-28 that leads to crashes when some file cannot be loaded. And while here fix one file-close overshoot of mine in since v14.9.16, that would cause panics in debug-enabled code. - Like anyone else we now deal with argc==0 aka CVE-2021-4034. git(1) shortlog (edited) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Steffen Nurpmeso (28): 096665105b mk/make-release.inc: try to use tar(1) --format=pax (Paul Eggert) b2bfa82a00 Fix expandargv=restrict (since 2017-01-15!).. 7ea98f69b7 FIX MTA args after -- for non-send-only mode!.. b6736900e8 mx-test.sh: change UTF-8 locale order AGAIN! 294ed7f97c imap_response_parse(): stop overbalancing untagged responses (Madou Mad) c4b7512fb6 THANKS: Madou Mad 9352ebfe6e FIX/tweak previous, add a_imap_res__untagged() (Madou Mad) 561e078c1c Reproducibility detection a_main_setup_vars() -> a_main_startup().. 14c4dbf89c mx_fs_open_any(): FIX !fs_file_load() crash (since nail 10.08, 2004-06-28).. 13e06c8fe1 mx_smime_split(): fix *FILE** "return" upon error return.. 3dd2f43372 main(): work nicely with argc==0 (after reading CVE-2021-4034) 0386c021d3 ps-dotlock: call setgid(), too (actually Paride Legovini) 987f73fad5 a_termios_sig_adjust(): fix "unshare -f mailx" ^C<RET>^C crash f336d267fb mime.types: move .xsl from xml to xslt+xml (Jesse Alama) b45c897315 THANKS: Jesse Alama d53396df1e mime_fromhdr(): FIX crash in crafted mail (since ~2013).. aca800c3af mx_mime_display_from_header(): FIX previous 7a7e48cb36 n_iconv_open(): FIX: name normalization can fail! v14.9.23 ("Tits look ahead for winter"), 2021-11-11 --------------------------------------------------- Credits, in order of commit appearance: Noctambule, Stephen Isard, Andreas Teuber, Simon Gerraty, Geoff Clare, Robert Elz, Harald van Dijk, Bryan Drewery, Andrea Biardi, Jörg Schilling. We welcome Andreas Teuber, Harald van Dijk, Bryan Drewery and Andrea Biardi in THANKS. Good-bye and farewall dear Jörg! NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - VAL_RANDOM=getentropy was broken. - An unset *mta-bcc-ok*#482 could cause partial Bcc: content to be written to Cc: or To:. (If so many addressees where given that multiple lines have to be used, content of all lines but the first would be written.) (Andreas Teuber) - Date offset calculation was wrong for timezones which use a negative adjustment for "is daylight saving time active". (Andrea Biardi) ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - Continue searching MIME handler sources if the first found one is not applicable in current context. (Noctambule) - Fixed `vexpr'#303 shift operators broken for "optimization" :-(. Also fix `date-utc' subcommand which used two "dutc_month" instead of one plus "dutc_day". - Temporarily set an unset $LESS to portable "RI" not "RXi". - A couple of SIGALARM / alarm(2) fixes for the -keepalive- variable series. (Stephen Isard) - We drop inherited effective IDs upon startup. (Harald van Dijk) - `mimeview'#227 now also asks for text/ parts whether an action shall be applied. And if there is no plain part we may use the rich one if possible. (Stephen Isard) - *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#503 now support type-markers. (Noctambule) git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (57) v14.9.22 ("Feathery sound of close tit flypast"), 2021-02-24 ------------------------------------------------------------ O tempora! O mores! Three fixes for thoughtless and also in other ways superficial code changes i have done. Apologises to all, but especially to Mr. Bell. Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jens Schleusener, Olav Mørkrid, Russell Bell and Johannes Schöpfer. A special thanks to Olav Mørkrid is overdue. ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - After "echo foo | s-nail $USER" we no longer leave the terminal in a different state than it should be. Terminal initialization was not rethought from scratch after we focused on the MLE editor only and after we have implemented our own termcap/info layer .. now done, and -A account switch and -X commands now run properly covered already, too. (Olav Mørkrid) - I had implemented a thoughtless use of close_range() aka closefrom() -- this was totally broken (mysteriously not covered by the tests, have to look, will fix for the future, too). We can never do this, and if it is only for `readctl'#254. (Russell Bell, Johannes Schöpfer) git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (8) v14.9.21 ("Tit escapes with a peanut"), 2021-01-21 -------------------------------------------------- I apologise for the inconvenience of yet another bugfix release. It fixes a possible SMTP buffer overflow triggerable by a malicious server as reported by Olav Mørkrid, and a socket code memory access error that can be seen when using IMAP on at least Solaris, which was reported by Jörg Schilling. Yasuhiro Kimura helped to unconfuse problems that i attributed to BSD make, but which were indeed shell errors, most notably mksh. Excuses are due to the forgiving and friendly Simon Gerraty (BSD make) and Paul Smith (GNU make). (In the end test job reaper code has been rewritten completely.) Credits, in order of commit appearance: Simon Gerraty, Yasuhiro Kimura, Matthias Gerstner, Olav Mørkrid, Jörg Schilling, and Geoff Clare. We welcome Simon Gerraty and Matthias Gerstner in THANKS. We are https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail (project 444). NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - The test now can skip individual tests included in $SKIPTEST, for example "# make test SKIPTEST='eval vexpr'. - New option VAL_ERRORS_LIMIT (by default enbaled), and new variable *errors-limit*#415 to configure error ring size. - We become even more portable to SysV/Solaris. (Jörg Schilling) ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - Without termcap/terminfo support the outermost column was always made accessible (since "not not" defining "am" in *termcap* is not possible, bug since v14.9.12), on the other hand the "ch" builtin implementation never reached out to this last column (since ever). - Manual: after rewrite and review i think the manual section "Character sets"#15 is of acceptable quality. (Jörg Schilling) git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (56) v14.9.20 ("Sombre Tit (Trauermeise)"), 2020-12-12 ------------------------------------------------- Fixes things like TLS over SOCKS and too many other bugs. We have some new things, too. Credits, in order of commit appearance: Roberto Ricci, Aharon Robbins, Kevin McCarthy, Predrag Punosevac, Paride Legovini, Olav Mørkrid, Ron Varburg, Jürgen Daubert, Russell Bell, and Geoff Clare. It is courtesy to give a special credit to Coverity.com, even though it only found false positives. (https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail, project 444.) We welcome Roberto Ricci, Ron Varburg and Geoff Clare in THANKS. NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, (NetBSD): there are bugs in BSD make and FreeBSD-derived sh(1)ells regarding sh(1) monitor mode that is now used in mx-test.sh ("make test"). Please pass in JOBMON=n on make(1) command line, or use a different shell (and make). (You could also pass in a different JOBWAIT= now.) + Binaries are now installed 0755 not 0555. (Jürgen Daubert) + On SunOS/Solaris we now use the normal $CC detection algorithm. (No longer forcefully overwrite, prefer open source compilers.) - TLS connections can now be proxied via *socks-proxy*#569. - `echo'#182 no longer performs "Filename transformations"#27. Introduced in BSD Mail in 1988, but bad. Just use `vexpr'#303 file-expand. - `local'#127 now works like `localopts'#218 when used with `set'#269 and `unset'#270. This is true for built-in variables only, of course, using `local' for those was forbidden in the past, i think. Note that `localopts' will be obsoleted in v14.10, we will only use modifiers in the future. ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - EXTERNAL authentication over IMAP and POP3 was fixed. - *tls-fingerprint*#596 is now tested case-insensitively. - *quote*#520 gained an "allbodies" keyword. - "The Mailcap files"#37 gained "x-mailx-last-resort" and "x-mailx-ignore" flags. (Latter: Russell Bell) - `history'#213 "delete" can now delete multiple entries per invocation. git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (110) v14.9.19 ("Tufted titmouse (Indianermeise)"), 2020-04-26 -------------------------------------------------------- Fixing an unknown-8bit/iconv(1/3) misbehaviour when displaying mails, and making this MUA ready for OpenSSL 3.0. Credits, in order of commit appearance: Anirudh Oppiliappan and Claus Assmann. We welcome Anirudh Oppiliappan and Claus Assmann in THANKS. git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (14) v14.9.18 ("It is spring time, what a bliss"), 2020-04-18 -------------------------------------------------------- Some bugfixes and tweaks that accumulated over the months. Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jens Schleusener, Noctambule, Kyle Evans. It is courtesy to give a special credit to Coverity.com. (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project 444.) We welcome Noctambule and Kyle Evans in THANKS. NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - Warning: we _will_ have v15-compat=yes as a default in v14.10! - Fix for `~f'#328, `~m'#334, `~Q'#336, `~U'#342 and `~u'#343: no longer include all MIME parts (bug since at least v14.9.16). - Fix for handling of "The Mailcap files"#37: a single copiousoutput/x-mailx-tmpfile-fill|nametemplate combination was falsely handled, mostly affecting binary file formats (which got broken by applied character set conversion). - Fix for automatic S/MIME encrypted key / certificate password lookup: used $LOGNAME@[no hostname].smime-cert-key as a fallback, instead of using the value of *from*#432. (Noctambule) - `~R'#338 and `~r'#339, as well as all prompts which expect file names and did not yet do so, expect shell-quoted names. (See "Shell-style argument quoting"#24.) ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - `~Q'#336 now acts as if *quote*#520 is set. Does not really make sense otherwise. - New environment variable $SOCKS5_PROXY#635 is tight together with *socks-proxy*#569: setting the one affects the other. This $SOCKS5_PROXY is introduced by FreeBSD to affect all programs which are capable to proxy via SOCKS5 (it seems). (Kyle Evans) git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (26) v14.9.17 ("To bind, or not to bind.."), 2020-02-02 -------------------------------------------------- A shadowed key bindings report on bash-bugs@ made me aware that our `bind' code has never seen a real review, and not only were we incapable too, but the code was a piece of shit, when i looked at it. So please find here a bugfix release to smoothly end v14.9. Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jens Schleusener, Johannes Schöpfer, Russell Bell, and Koichi Murase. It is courtesy to give a special credit to Coverity.com. (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project 444.) We welcome Koichi Murase in THANKS. And now for something completely different. NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - "make test" now works when run by root or on read-only file-systems. (Johannes Schöpfer) - Our `bind'#150 now supports overall key-sequence timeouts, as opposed to inter-byte timeouts. For this i have obsoleted *bind-timeout* in favour of *bind-inter-byte-timeout*#380 and *bind-inter-key-timeout*#381 (not set by default). The bind tree code had two bugs, for one the "shortcut" key-bindings would all have been created in the "base" context, not where they really belong ("default" and "compose"). And due to false list relinking shadowed key bindings did not work. (Koichi Murase) When used with 3x*verbose*#? (aka -v#86) the bind tree is now dumped when it has been build (once used first, and after modifications. Putting all this together, a resource file cat >/tmp/t.sh <<'__EOT' MAILX=s-nail cat >/tmp/t.rc <<'_EOT' set line-editor-no-defaults bind base $'\n' mle-commit bind base $'\c?' mle-del-bwd bind base $'\cT' echo one bind base $'\cT',$'\cT' echo two bind base abc echo 0 bind base ab,c echo 1 bind base abc,d echo 2 bind base ac,d echo 3 bind base a,b,c echo 4 bind base a,b,c,d echo 5 bind base a,b,cc,d echo 6 set quiet noheader set bind-inter-key-timeout=2500 set bind-inter-byte-timeout=250 bind base a,b,c,d # now works, too! _EOT MAILRC=/tmp/t.rc $MAILX -R:u -Y 'set verbose=3' rm -f /tmp/t.sh /tmp/t.rc __EOT sh /tmp/t.sh will now do the expected. - `Reply'#257: no longer honours *recipients-in-cc*#528 ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - Manual: after review i think the following sections are of acceptable quality: "On terminal control and line editor"#18, "Coloured display"#19. - *verbose*#607 is no longer a boolean but can be assigned a numeric value. But "set verbose verbose verbose" also still works. - New variable *reply-to-swap-in*#536 tries to work around the DKIM/DMARC "HUMAN via LIST <LIST@ADDRESS>" ugliness when `reply'#259ing (or `Reply'#257ing) to such a message. It tries to move the HUMAN into responsibility. git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (65) v14.9.16 ("Message of Winter, your hopes shall be crushed"), 2019-12-29 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- At the end of the v14.9 series we finally deliver the RFC 1524 mailcap support, as well as other improvements, and new features. Many bugfixes and tests arrive. A whole bunch of things are backward-incompatible, but i would assume that most use cases are not at all affected. Credits, in order of commit appearance: Brian Evans, Paride Legovini, Yasuhiro KIMURA, John P. Linderman, Leo, Martin Neitzel, Alexander Harm, Ken Hornstein, Martynas Bendorius, Russell Bell, Goesta Smekal, Kevin McCarthy, Ralph Keller, Ralph Corderoy, Viktor Szépe, Jelle van der Waa, Arnout Engelen, Stuart Henderson, elo, and Benjamin A. Wong. We welcome Yasuhiro KIMURA, John P. Linderman, Leo, Martynas Bendorius, Goesta Smekal, Jelle van der Waa, Arnout Engelen, elo, and Benjamin A. Wong in THANKS. NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - Renamed *expandaddr*#417 namehostex to nametoaddr. (Better.) - *tls-features*#595 string now starts and ends with comma. (Just like *features*#420 does.) - -L#72 longname --header-search renamed to --search. - Config option OPT_FORCED_STACKPROT=xy now OPT_AUTOCC_STACKPROT=y, and now auto-enabled for OPT_AUTOCC=y (even though i hate that, protectors in shipout code..). - `account'#141 return value now matters, and can thus be used to abort account switching. - -:#56 has new "x" mode, which executes the directives of the compiled-in resource file. (The template content is now compiled in too, so the real file does not need to be loaded.) (Brian Evans) - Quote etc. injections (*quote-inject-head*#525) now always happen (if set), regardless of *quote*#520. - We now truly honour POSIX command abbreviations (order). As part of that i finally implemented a simple command lookup speedup, these are now almost alphabetical (unless abbreviations prevent it). - Added *mta-bcc-ok*#482. Bummer. It seems exim and courier do not remove Bcc: headers as required by standards unless invoked with a special command line argument. So we now do not pass Bcc: headers to file-based MTAs unless this variable is set explicitly. (Kevin McCarthy). - "COMMAND ESCAPES"#29 now have a $ command modifier, which causes a shell-style `eval'#192uation before the command escape is executed. And so `~<'#315, `~R'#338 and `~r'#339 no longer expand $VAR expressions by themselves. And so -a#58, `~@'#318, and "attachment insert" of `~^'#320 and `digmsg'#175 only perform ~/-style expansions. - `~^'#320: use shell-style argument expansion. We handled `~^' and `digmsg' differently, but furthermore turned the shell-parsed data of the latter into whitespace separated data, which made it impossible to, for example, use attachments with whitespace in their names. This increases the interaction protocol version number of *on-compose-splice*#492 from "0 0 1" to "0 0 2"! Because, we do also quote the output, since using `read' (or read(1)) causes *ifs*#445 ($IFS) normalization. All that could be done would be (for ourselves): define x { set ifs= read vany unset ifs vpospar set $vany # And now assign the desired real fields set real-var1=$1 real-var2=$2 ... } Sick! So instead introduce a `readsh'#252 command which works like `read'#251 but splits fields at shell token boundaries, for example from within *on-compose-splice*#492: echo '~^h s subject'; read stat name; readsh sub; read i There would be better examples. (Ralph Keller) - `~F'#327, `~f'#328, `~M'#333, `~m'#334, `~U'#342 and `~u'#343 now honour *forward-inject-head*#430 and *forward-inject-tail*#431. - New option OPT_MAILCAP, by default enabled. Disable at runtime via *mailcap-disable*#460, all documented in "The Mailcap files"#37. - OpenBSD: really auto-find number of processors in test script. Work around fflush(3) not adapting POSIX behaviour. - Manual: after review i think the following sections are of acceptable quality: "Encrypted network communication"#14, "A starter"#6, "On URL syntax and credential lookup"#13, "The Mailcap files"#37, and "But, how about XOAUTH2 / OAUTHBEARER?"#46. The latter is actually (Stuart Henderson, Benjamin A. Wong), and now provides a copy+paste example of how to keep a OAUTHBEARER token up-to-date with S-nail (with some care). Yes, it is terrible. - Default .rc file: keeps Sender: by default (Ken Hornstein), sets *followup-to-honour*#427 and *reply-to-honour*#535, and gives more *history-gabby*#439ness. ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - Add `Lfollowup'#219. (Russell Bell) - `?'#139: prefix \ (quoted!) to command to avoid `commandalias'#163 matching: ? ? S S -> spamspam: Teach the spam detector that <msglist> is spam ? ? \\S S (Save): Like `save', but derive filename from first sender - `history'#213 has new "delete NUMBER" subcommand. - Add *forward-add-cc*#428 and *quote-add-cc*#521 to Cc: the originator of a forwarded or quoted message, respectively. (Goesta Smekal) - *history-gabby*#439 now has a value to allow for more. This changes second argument of *on-history-addition*#494 from boolean to context string. - New command `mtaaliases'#236. We no longer automatically update the *mta-aliases*#477 cache. (Maybe much later we will have a path_monitor or something, until then, not.) And `netrc'#237 "load" is now indeed "clear" + "load". `netrc' also gained a "lookup" subcommand. (Ralph Corderoy) - *headline*#435 %L format will announce possibility that a message could be a list. - `chdir'#158, `rename'#256 and `remove'#255 use shell-style argument quoting. - `tls'#289 gained "certchain" and "certificate" subcommands. - `folder'#201 can open RFC 5322 messages via eml:// protocol, as in "folder eml:///tmp/msg.eml". Yet primitive and only read-only. (Viktor Szépe) - `vexpr'#303 gained "date-utc", "date-stamp-utc" and "epoch" subcommands. (Benjamin A. Wong) - *on-main-loop-tick*#495 now also happens for commands passed via -Y#88. git(1) shortlog: Yasuhiro KIMURA (1), Steffen Nurpmeso (263) v14.9.15 ("Tit family in the trees"), 2019-08-18 ------------------------------------------------ Plugging a bug regarding copying data out of invalid MBOX mail databases which is present in all BSD Mails and in Unix V10 mail, and bringing in some tweaks, this update hopefully really marks the end of the v14.9.* series. After more than four and a half years i again have a VM testbed, with an increasing number of VM combinations. (Yet still too few, but nonetheless, a dramatical improvement.) This includes a GSS-API testbed, with an ArchLinux server and Linux and FreeBSD clients (do not ask why no additional FreeBSD server, i want to use binary packages). This brought GSSAPI tweaks. Credits, in order of commit appearance: Ralph Corderoy, Chet Ramey, Robert Elz, Jilles Tjoelker, Steve Izma, Viktor Szépe, and Jean-Marc Pigeon. Very special thanks go to Tarqi Kazan and Ivan Vučica, who tested GSS-API in the past until it worked (again), testing against my blind flight patches! Thank you very much, guys! We welcome Chet Ramey, Jilles Tjoelker and Steve Izma in THANKS. NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - *features*#420 and *tls-features*#595 are now prefixed with a comma ",", not with the number sign "#" (which could increasingly `eval'#192uate to a comment). - We now support parallelized tests. It takes a numeric job number out of $MAKEFLAGS, or tries to fetch the number of processors otherwise (really!). To go singleprocessor "$ make testnj" has to be called explicitly. With or without, we will terminate tests which take too long. This is truly tremendous, on the unstable9s machine of the OpenCSW.org cluster for example we now need 24 seconds instead of by far more than 300. What a release! With help of (Chet Ramey, Robert Elz, Jilles Tjoelker and Steve Izma) - EXTERNAL authentication is truly a mess. It has been fixed for POP3, where it was broken on our side. But it seems the internet does not like that, or cannot (pass user credentials from a certificate gracefully to the authenticator). Anyway. I have introduced EXTERNANON in addition for all of IMAP, POP3 and SMTP. This could now result in a usable combination, regardless of what server(s) are contacted. - The hook *on-account-cleanup*#488 will now be called even upon program exit (i.e., implicitly leaving the account). ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - New *followup-to-add-cc*#426 will place the user in the Cc: list if it will place her in the Mail-Followup-To:. - New hook *on-program-exit*#496. - *pop3-auth*#510=gssapi is now supported. For IMAP, SASL-IR will be used for GSSAPI if possible (saving a packet round-trip). - *expandaddr*#417 has the new keyword "namehostex". If set, plain name addressees, like "To: steffen", will be expanded to NAME@HOSTNAME (where the latter could be *hostname*#443) if NAME is a valid user on the current host. (Viktor Szépe, Jean-Marc Pigeon) git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (45) v14.9.14 ("Great tit passed moult"), 2019-07-27 ----------------------------------------------- This is an unwanted and unplanned but unfortunately necessary bugfix release. I hope it marks the end of the v14.9.* series. I presume you would be surprised if it would not also bring some features, this time mostly support of MTA-style aliases as inquired by Jean-Marc Pigeon, some authentication work (XOAUTH2/ OAUTHBEARER support), and as usual development to the last minute. It fixes IMAP GSSAPI authentication, thanks to Ivan Vučica for reporting and testing this issue (Debian #930691; still have no testbed, but will soon!), and imap-delim, which i broke in July 2017, thanks to Ralph Keller for repetitive reporting. For OpenBSD and SunOS 5.9 this release fixes long standing (must be) race conditions regarding child processes and their I/O setup. Never seen before, but my new box (i stepped a decade of hardware improvements, finally) rather regulary has shown them when running the test suite. (On the OpenCSW cluster my speed varies, but i had a very good day and seen them there once.) This (finally) caused the complete rewrite of the child process (and termios) handling that i (had to) mention in communication with Gavin Troy already back in, i do not know -- 2013? (Still not event loop based, but near getting good feelings there.) Funnily the problem (child descriptors were closed by the parent before the fork(2)ed childs had the opportunity to dup(2)licate their file descriptors) reminded me of a message of the german computer magazine c't, maybe around 2001/2002, when OpenBSD improved their fork(2) performance in a day or two after having appeared declassified in a comparison with other OSes. (Of course it was nothing but our own fault to not synchronize on the child, but blindly assuming that a fork(2) child gets the opportunity to run immediately.) Dear Predrag: would it now be possible for you to upgrade from v14.8.12? I really would like to know! Credits, in order of commit appearance: Martin Lucina, Viktor Szépe, Alexander Harm, Anders Magnusson, Thomas Haigh, Martin T, Ivan Vučica, Nicholas Marriott, Alexander Harm, Steven Penny, Jean-Marc Pigeon, Martin Neitzel, Paul Vojta, Russell Bell, Paride Legovini and Ralph Keller. A special credit to Coverity.com once again, it found bugs! (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project number 444.) We welcome Martin Lucina, Anders Magnusson, Thomas Haigh, Martin T, Ivan Vučica, Nicholas Marriott, Steven Penny and Ralph Keller in THANKS. NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - The (very backward) Debian mawk is now supported directly. (Martin Lucina, Viktor Szépe) - GCC (8.3.0) -Os inlining bug (wmt) is worked around. And GNU awk 5 warnings have been fixed (before CRUX). - "|PIPE RECEIVER" errors seen on SunOS 5.9 and OpenBSD have first been fixed, and then caused a major rewrite of the child and termios handling for a rather "real" fix. The latter has the side effect that *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#503 handlers will now have their standard output go to /dev/null. - IMAP GSSAPI authentication should work again. (Ivan Vučica) - -C#61 testable can be used more than two times. - The "grappa" mode of mk/make-release.sh can now be used "everywhere". See INSTALL on interest. (It now gracefully fails if s-nail is not installed: we need that for hashing.) - New option OPT_MTA, by default enabled. Set *mta-aliases*#477 to a valid path in aliases(5) syntax, and we will expand them. All Postfix directives but :include: are supported. Only clear text files are supported, no DBs. (Jean-Marc Pigeon) - `~^'#320 will now verify *expandaddr*#417 right away in "~^ head ins to|cc|bcc", as is already done for `~t'#341, `~c'#324 and `~b'#323. - OPT_AGENT and OPT_SPAM_SPAMD are gone; they were obsoleted on 2017-07-16, and it is not expected to become noticed. - *sendwait*#544 is now initially set, and it gained an optional value, a comma-separated list of case-insensitive strings naming specific subsystems for which synchronousness shall be ensured (only). Possible values are "mta" for *mta*#476 delivery, and "pcc" for command-pipe receivers. P.S.: you can get a list of all initial values plus via $ s-nail -:/ -v -Xset -Xx - Colours may now happen even in quickrun mode (-e#66, -H#69, -L#72)! I thought it is ok nonetheless, because we i think always documented to enwrap `colour'#161 setting in an according `if'#215, as in \if terminal && [ "$features" =% +colour ] \colo iso view-header fg=red \end - OPT_SOCKETS has been renamed to OPT_NET. - -Y#88 is now well defined under all conditions, with tests: The commands will be evaluated successively in the given order, and as if given on the program's standard input -- before interactive prompting begins in interactive mode, after standard input has been consumed otherwise. - XOAUTH2 / OAUTHBEARER (OAuth 2.0 bearer token, RFC 6750) autentication is now supported for all protocols. New FAQ entry "But, how about XOAUTH2 / OAUTHBEARER?"#46 For driving the necessary external update tool a new *on-main-loop-tick*#495 hook has been introduced. (I am thinking about adding support for an optional built-in token refresh.) - Support for the EXTERNAL authentication method has been introduced. This is UNTESTED, though. (I am still in the process of re-setting up my VM test environment.) We do not verify presence of a client certificate etc., but only that a TLS secured channel is active, when using this method. (We now *verbose*#607 log the used TLS version and cipher, too.) - *imap-delim*#669 works again as advertised! This was broken in [1b9897a9] ((BWDIC!) Fix *imap-delim* behaviour.., 2017-07-01), and i think i was pretty much irritated by then. Sorry!! While here, take *imap-delim* into account for `imapcodec'#665. (Ralph Keller). ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - Manual section "HISTORY"#52 improved a bit. (Thomas Haigh) - New variable *line-editor-cpl-word-breaks*#454 (yet a bit restricted). - MLE: add mle-raise-{int,quit,tstp} functions. Ie., raising those signals via ^C and ^Z is no longer hard-wired (in the MLE), but can be reassigned. (Nicholas Marriott) - The makefiles no longer contain any awk code, that all has been separated into files under mk/. (Alexander Harm) - We now have "test" *mta*#476, which dumps to standard output or optionally to a file, and honours *mbox-fcc-and-pcc*#463: $ echo text | s-nail -:/ -Smta=test -s ubject us...@ex...e $ </dev/null s-nail -:/ -Smta=test://./xy -s ub us...@ex...e - -##90 now acts as if variables were set via -S#80, rather than as via `set'#269, meaning that they are "frozen" for a while. - We have a new `colour'#161 mapping, "mle-error". It applies to error note in *prompt*#517, as well as to any other error logged to the terminal. The latter is temporary until we gain a more fine grained logging facility, which then-- likely--introduces an entire mapping family. Btw., for messages not explicitly generated (by, eg., `echoerr'#183), we now also avoid writing adjacent duplicates, but rather do a syslog-like thing. That error generator has been rewritten a bit, now more expensive, but looks right. (Martin Neitzel, Paul Vojta) - The value of $COLUMNS#615 seen in child processes is now the real one, rather than the one we use (not necessarily identical, dependent on termcap/terminfo/terminal support). - There are now three -v#86 / *verbose*#607 levels, not two. - The HTML filter knows more HTML 4.0 entities. (Russell Bell) git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (161) v14.9.13 ("Blue tit's spiral marriage swoop"), 2019-03-08 --------------------------------------------------------- Not so much happened as i was busy with other things in the second half of 2018, and could not find a grip: at the source level some efforts to turn this to mailx have taken place, including early work on a code abstraction that will be shared with my (g)roff clone: it was tiring to come back to old ideas that i have already implemented multiple times and in different languages. To mention it for the curious. So: this is a bugfix release, in fact it fixes a tremendous amount thereof, [master] was ahead by 62 commits from [v14.9.11] (not all bugs though, hrmhrm), but also with, well, a few new features, and of course, development to the last minute. ^_^ v14.9.13 replaces v14.9.12 from yesterday which would pick up an ISO C 2011 statement that is impracticable, thanks to Johannes Schöpfer and Jürgen Daubert for reporting this (i should test without OPT_AUTOCC more often.) I have also fixed -T to match NEWS (manual and code did the opposite). v14.9.12 balls will be removed from the server. Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jörg Schilling, Paride Legovini, Olav Mørkrid, Ralph Corderoy, Rich Felker, Predrag Punosevac, Russell Bell, Dirk-Wilhelm Peters, Jean-Marc Pigeon, Warren Toomey, Cág, Martin Neitzel, Dr. Werner Fink, Dr. Matthias St. Pierre, Kurt Roeckx, Mike Sharov, Joan and Johannes Schöpfer. Very special thanks go to Jean-Marc Pigeon of OSUKISS Linux, who provided me access to a VZGOT container on the most "beefy" machine i have ever had access to! It is ever so astonishing to have work done in 90 seconds on this supercomputer which requires an hour or more here. Thank you, Jean-Marc. And thanks to Kimura-san not only my web server became accessible via TLSv1.3 (out-of-line), but we also have landed on FreeBSD! Kimura-san is the one who installed a sympathic cron job that reminds me of cherry petals wafting in a warm spring breeze -- in winter! We welcome Russell Bell, Jean-Marc Pigeon, Warren Toomey, Dr. Matthias St. Pierre, Kurt Roeckx, Mike Sharov, Joan and Johannes Schöpfer in THANKS. NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - Packagers could follow stable/* via git(1) and the "grappa" mode of the release script (see README); perl(1) is required to be totally en par with an official release. (Paride Legovini) $ git checkout stable/stable $ sh mk/make-release.sh grappa mybranch ... Program version is [.], packager release addition shall be: xy Is s-nail <v[.]-xy> correct? [y/n] y Switched to branch 'mybranch' $ git commit -S -n -m 'My release [.]-xy' - $MAKEJOBS vanished, just use -j or whatever your make(1) supports. Luckily the tested make(1)s can be persuaded to dig each others .WAIT / .WAIT: / .NOTPARALLEL: targets.. and do the right thing. - $OBJDIR support added, i use it for building / testing on tmpfs. It works in conjunction with make-emerge.sh, too, thus out-of-tree out-of-tree is possible (more or less; see INSTALL). $ make tangerine OBJDIR=/tmp/x/y/z - Option VAL_PRIVSEP_USER has been renamed to VAL_PS_DOTLOCK_USER (to reflect the new "deep tree" directory layout). - Option OPT_QUOTE_FOLD has been renamed to OPT_FILTER_QUOTE_FOLD (to reflect later code changes upwards compatibly). - New options OPT_CMD_VEXPR and OPT_CMD_CSOP, by default enabled. To include the commands `vexpr'#303 and the new `csop'#167, which now provides the byte string functions of the former. (Still available through `vexpr' until v15.) (I hope to be able to later provide a `usop' or `unisop' or so.) - *v15-compat*#606 can now have a value: if it is set, the `wysh'#131 command modifier which chooses shell quoting rules for some commands is implicit. - We have some (more) backward incompatible changes, though it is likely most users will not recognize the differences. o *headline*#435 format %T is obsolete, %L fits better. o `csop'#167 `hash' and `hash32' subcommands (formerly from `vexpr'#303) use a slightly changed hash algorithm. (Which results in an improved distribution for tested sets of words in power-of-two spaced dictionary.) These are affected by the change in the second next item, too. o Changed to use shell quoting rules for arguments: + `mimetype'#225 and `unmimetype'#226. This is affected by the change in the next item, too. + `shortcut'#273 and `unshortcut'#274. + `mlist'#228 and `unmlist'#229 as well as `mlsubscribe'#230 and `unmlsubscribe'#231. + `alias'#144, too. o Changed (with legacy compat) the "@[i]" modifier prefix to a question-mark ?[case|..] suffix, as is known from URLs. We head towards direction URL syntax, now here too. + `if'#215 and `elif'#187. E.g., 'wysh if "abc" ==?case "ABC"' is true, as well as is 'wysh if 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF -eq?saturated 36#1Y2P0IJ32E8E7'. "==?" and "-eq?" would have been sufficient, here. (No unsigned mode (yet) for `if'#215.) Yes, `if'#215 and `elif'#187 now support `wysh'#131, and see already expanded arguments, then. No more "triggers". This finally makes it possible to write things like ? wysh if X;A;wysh elif Y;B;else;C;end Note 'else;C' not 'else C'. New operators: '-n "$VAR"' and '-z "$VAR"' work like in the shell, '-N varname' and '-Z varname' do not test the expansion but the existence of variables instead. Two argument forms require `wysh'#131. + `mimetype'#225 markers have changed likewise; this also affects *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#503 and *pipe-EXTENSION*#502 (with legacy compatibility and -v/-d obsoletion warnings)! ? mimetype ?t text/x-awk awk ? wysh set pipe-application/pdf='?=&?\ trap "rm -f \"${MAILX_FILENAME_TEMPORARY}\"" EXIT;\ trap "trap \"\" INT QUIT TERM; exit 1" INT QUIT TERM;\ mupdf "${MAILX_FILENAME_TEMPORARY}"' + `vexpr'#303 (and `csop'#167) modifiers changed likewise. The case-insensitive subcommands "ifind" and "iregex" have been obsoleted, just use the ?[case] modifier to the regular function instead. P.S.: Thanks to Rich Felker the `regex' subcommands now works as desired even with empty intermediate submatches. o Changed address parse mode for command line arguments plus. This modifies decade old tradition, but results in a more predictable behaviour i think. Most people will possibly even be surprised to see the old behaviour: $ </dev/null s-nail-old -dsubject ' du , de <p@p> , pp , du ' -> To: du, de <p@p>, pp new: $ </dev/null s-nail -dsubject ' du , de <p@p> , pp , du ' -> To: "du , de , pp , du " <p@p> Of course anything but perfect, our address parser is very complicated yet far from being acceptable. (Dr. Werner Fink) This affects: + -b#60, -c#62 and To: receivers, as above. (We also have a new -T#82 receiver multiplexer, which is configurable in this regard, please see below for more.) + The -r#79 address. This saw more changes: the content is no longer evaluated via shell expression parser (when *v15-compat* is set).. unless explicitly requested via the *expandaddr*#417 flag "shquote". + *sender*#543 variable. + `addrcodec'#143 command, likewise; old: ? addrc e du , e <w@d> , d du , e <w@d> , d #?1!22/INVAL new: ? addrc e du , e <w@d> , d "du , e , d" <w@d> #?0!0/NONE + `digmsg'#175 and `~^'#320 now use this parse mode fix for headers which need a single receiver, which is backward compatible but now safer since it can be fooled less easily (to split into a list what should be a single address, as shown above for `addrcodec'#143). They now can also be forced to use that parse mode for To:, Cc:, Bcc: with a new question mark modifier "?single", here the word "single" is optional. ~^ header insert To?single: exa, <m@ple> ~^ header show to - By established rules and popular demand occurrances of '^From_' (see *mbox-rfc4155*#464) will be MBOXO quoted (prefixed with greater-than sign '>') instead of causing a non-destructive encoding like 'quoted-printable' to be chosen, unless context (e.g., message signing) requires otherwise. Only with *mime-encoding*#473=8bit. - We now support long "Options"#5 -- try --long-help. - Finally, it is possible to force sending out messages with the new *mime-force-sendout*#474 variable. If this MUA has been compiled with iconv(3) support it can happen that sending otherwise valid text messages fails because of invalid bytes sequences according to the locale; setting this new variable will avoid this; use *mime-counter-evidence*#472 to view such messages nonetheless. (Dr. Werner Fink) ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - `mimeview'#227 works again with binary formats. (Russell Bell) - IMAP searches via IMAP without matches no longer report a single match. (Dirk-Wilhelm Peters) - New -Y#88 aka --cmd= option to inject commands to be executed when startup is completed (as opposed to the earlier -X#87 aka --startup-cmd=). These commands appear as if the user had typed them in. - A new *on-history-addition*#494 can be used to filter what enters the `history'#213. - New "fcc" flag for *expandaddr*#417. (Olav Mørkrid) And "domaincheck" will cause target domain comparison against entries in the new *expandaddr-domaincheck*#418. (Olav Mørkrid) - New *mbox-fcc-and-pcc*#463 will write out file and pipe addresses as a plain RFC5322 message rather than an MBOX. (Olav Mørkrid) - The `errors'#191 queue existance and size is announced via *^ERRQUEUE-EXISTS*#355 and *^ERRQUEUE-COUNT*#354. (Russell Bell, Martin Neitzel) - Our MBOX parser is now truly compliant to POSIX. (Dr. Werner Fink) - We follow symbolic links again when writing files. (Russell Bell) - *tls-rand-file*#598 is in fact now necessarily one of the optional *tls-features*#595. (Mike Sharov) - New command line option -T#82 aka --target='FIELD: BODY'. FIELD can be To:, Cc:, Bcc: or Fcc:. The BODY is parsed as a list (just as if the given FIELD would be part of a template message fed in via -t#83), but the "?single" modifier suffix can be used to avoid this. (Dr. Werner Fink) git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (277 + 9) v14.9.11 ("Tit family enjoying a bath"), 2018-08-08 --------------------------------------------------- A hot summer bugfix release, but it surely brings in some new features, like TLS fingerprinting and `digmsg' message access. An embarassing number of bugfixes have been seen, to fix IMAP UID handling on 32-bit hosts, UTF-8, `readall' with empty lines, rare endless iconv(3) loops, false qsort(3)ing of addressee lists, crashes due to false user shell quoting, acceptance of "0" port numbers, and more. Most of these cases now have tests. Credits, in order of commit appearance: Paride Legovini, Andrew Gee, Olav Mørkrid, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Dressel, Jürgen Bruckner, Robert Elz, Rudolf Sykora, Doug McIlroy, Gavin Troy and Jörg Schilling. A special credit to Coverity.com again, it found a bug! (<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/s-nail>, project number 444.) We welcome Andrew Gee, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Dressel, Olav Mørkrid and Jürgen Bruckner in THANKS. NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - I have discovered that GnuPG can --export-secret-subkey so that the real/full private key is no longer needed to --sign, and the excerpts of the private one can have a different password, too. So i have created a new for-signing subkey: EEC8C2FF. Unfortunately it is not possible to verify new signatures with the old public key, an update is necessary. For example via https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/steffen.asc or just update 1883A0DD via normal gpg(1). - Maildir support is now optional but default via OPT_MAILDIR. (Paride Legovini) - I hope for the last time there has been a change to SSL configuration: i have renamed all ssl* variables to tls*. The old ssl* ones still exist until v15, though, yet obsoletion warnings will be produced. This is so because i expect that in a not too distant future only the term TLS will be around. Also the term CipherList was falsely used, it should have been CipherString. - Most (if not all) commands which take a message list and a file target now use shell-style quoting. (Before that say `copy'#166 scanned backwards over "something possibly quoted", took that off, then treated the rest as a message list. Now shell tokens are parsed starting at the front, the last is taken off, and anything before that is the message list.) (Gavin Troy. 2013.) - `~^#'? "header show" now backward-incompatibly shows the address type in field 1, but since this _only_ applies to non-network addresses i made the change. - We will find ncurses on DragonFly BSD. - On Solaris tests no longer need GNU cksum(1): the Solaris cksum is different only for whitespace separators. (Jörg Schilling) - All generated files reside in .obj/, and the tests run in there, too. A "rm -f .obj" should suffice to clean anything up. ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - `~F'#327, `~f'#328, `~M'#333, `~m'#334, `~U'#342 and `~u'#343 now default to the current message (the "dot"). (Andrew Gee) - *indentprefix*#450 handling has had its pitfalls when quoting messages. (Andrew Gee) - -r#79 will again set *from*#432 even after -S#80 has been used to set *from*. (Michael Dressel) - No longer process From: (*from*#432) content via `alternates'#146 when Sender: (*sender*#543) is set. (Michael Dressel) - Because the priority class of headers was not taken into account, it could happen that addressees in Cc: would remain but the same in To: were removed. (Michael Dressel) - IMAP accounts for RFC 4551 (and 7162) and supports 64-bit UIDVALIDITY. - *spamfilter-rate-scanscore*#580 could crash if specification did not match program output. - Shims for TLSv1.3 support, e.g., for *tls-config-pairs*#592. - Obsoleted *dotlock-ignore-error*, added *dotlock-disable*#410. (Paride Legovini) - In compose-mode, removing the In-Reply-To: header breaks an old, and starts a new thread. (Doug McIlroy) - Added new *forward-inject-tail*#431, *quote-inject-head*#525 and *quote-inject-tail*#526 variables, and extended the meaning of *quote*#520. All of *{forward,quote}-inject-{head,tail}* now support a compose-mode specific set of formats (see *quote-inject-head*#525), for now a few only. (This adds meaning onto the content of *forward-inject-head*#430 as introduced in v14.9.0.) The generated output honours *quote-fold*#524, which now takes an optional third argument in order to produce better output. While here, introduce the new command escape `~Q'#336 which performs full *quote*#520 cycles on the given message list. - Fcc: headers are now understood in -t#83 templates or when placed in compose mode (`~v'#344, *editalong*#411 etc.). Since each such header only takes one addressee, no quoting issues apply, the entire header body is the value. - `~|'#319 will pass the entire message including headers when used as "~||", e.g., prepend a file-carbon-copy message header: ~|| echo Fcc: /tmp/test; cat - New `tls'#289 multiplexer command. Yet primitive and only supports a `fingerprint' subcommand. Supports `vput'#130. The new *tls-fingerprint*#596 variable chain aids in adding support for connection verification without an installed CA certificate pool in conjunction with the new *tls-fingerprint-digest*#597 chain. Consequently *smime-sign-message-digest* has been renamed to *smime-sign-digest*#563 (old version will cease in v15). The latter now defaults to SHA512 if possible. - New MLE commands mle-go-screen-bwd and mle-go-screen-fwd to go backward and forward one screenful. And a new mle-clear-screen command. (Todd C. Miller) - New *expandaddr*#417 setting "shquote" will evaluate addresses as if specified within $'' shell-quotes for -b#60, -c#62, and all direct command line receivers. This allows for, e.g., $ s-nail -Sexpandaddr=shquote '\$contact-mail' - *quote-as-attachment*#522 no longer needs to be set before compose mode is entered in order to become honoured. - Even for -H#69 or -L#72 *folder-hook*#423s will now be called. Possible sorting is also applied. - `='#138 now optionally supports message list arguments and the `vput'#130 modifier in order to store the result list. The new `digmsg'#175 multiplexer adds some message access, just like `~^'#320 does in compose mode. In fact the set of commands is shared, yet only in compose mode `digmsg' can change messages or access attachments until v15, however. For example, #?0[steffen@essex nail.git]$ cat > /tmp/z.rc <<'_EOT' define one { if [ "${#}" -gt 0 ] digmsg create $1 - # no `read'/`readall' overlay but stdout #digmsg $1 header list digmsg $1 header show subject digmsg remove $1 shift \eval xcall one "$@" \end } define all { local set all # localize ("localopts yes" would do too) vput = all *; echo all: $all; eval call one $all } _EOT #?0[steffen@essex nail.git]$ MAILRC=/tmp/z.rc \ .obj/s-nail -:u -Snoheader -Squiet -Rf /tmp/z ? call all all: 1 2 3 212 Subject Re: [S-mailx] FYI: after USB stick loss i have rotated keys, plus 212 Subject Re: Problem with page? 212 Subject Re: s-nail Source ... ? x git(1) shortlog: Steffen Nurpmeso (203) [..v14.9.0 .. v14.9.10 removed to avoid ML size limit..] Appendix ^^^^^^^^ The complete changelog of commits in between two versions OLD and NEW can be inspected by using the git(1) `log' command: $ git log --reverse --topo-order --abbrev-commit OLD..NEW # Only topic branch headers (--no-merges for content commits only): $ git log --oneline --reverse --topo-order --merges OLD..NEW # Same, but truly accessible: $ git log --oneline --reverse --topo-order --merges --parents OLD..NEW | while read c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6; do printf "%-24s: \$ git log --oneline --no-merges %s ^%s\n" \ "${c6}" "${c1}" "${c2}"; done Entries for releases before v14.9.0 have been cut off and can be found in the git(1) repository: v14.8.0 - v14.8.16: $ git show v14.8.16:NEWS v13 - v14.8.5 : $ git show v14.8.5:NEWS 9.0 - 12.5 : $ git show heirloom:ChangeLog Also accessible via HTTPS?, just replace X.Y.Z accordingly: \https?://git.sdaoden.eu/browse?p=s-nail.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS;hb=refs/heads/release/vX.Y.Z For even older releases you need to look into the [timeline] branch, but no changelog has been administrated for them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABCgAGBQJiPzRPAAoJEN8IL2ruyML/fxEP/3YeumLoT1/szWF/qYxlhY9F s5tjXJMheqwKn0XCNGeZMo305ob76VVj6ECT6UUZVfjL4qOVxm3Av/yqvnrbDlFX Ekm7ZZ2rx04cYYOvdenEFCoX1SfAqSvSd2mtSbDAgMRkp8Qzt6tJYTmDuJ55GKtC 9xYskO7jprl4qm+gqXa4Z3QHP0rn5a3pNUTQOQuylzeG42MqviJa0jp9CaxRi0qv tkWp5z0nTTmI4StCZiSVNXCt52dKOoM0NbrqRc4LVVZE/em3hR5nhyqj/p/Jg2Xq eO4Xr/JlRD7JEqyVDfeGZZZd7PnjgQmwxMBKFhssuCka1teg+n5nZYGIT98uEBsz M+5PfewpDt4y+zJLiO8GKI1Z2ILYc+LByliMr7ssSxy2dOPC9e22w2NlbZhmWztG T87aBmgORm9HWYwtFrrWLpua91AeLYvxUY5nGLPy/z8OTj1kZUFBbv1pJ6PJs85S AI5lrl3sdAp1a3pLqtNhvg9iZ5oCCb3VfZCrxC4GMWYUT3qxRuDwDLR0MH3aZCfQ zn2ICNDr+TM1uSNIUb4kyqTXfj4T9SHl5esrlSnU5EcB8CrOWEVDe1CIWoYfKnDs zmADD0k7CT8QkEL8D8IrphBfk3Jrc+F6D1qbpA7nzPHcBV7MKggrAyt2txdV9EGt hQm4vgHCDVw9XmH94RPF =muRn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABCgAGBQJiPzRPAAoJEN8IL2ruyML/izgP/ixjF+kxf1s12SgV/M3wcv2S aroY7mOos7yWHoQYkF2K+6WCkLqMHaVSmBSFr6vjDAa+Py0etYXeNndqL1jiGZcb i7HnajdqmryI1XO88DqWg8aQD2Fye04v67vmYivmNJ3YN1EwZQWcm7HAvpQKEKiU o6pddsv3wvls15X6WF+pd38MGAJxjqZc6rN5HOWD8+1rQhoK2yfRuXzL/GQ+uG8a Cp4XthCZmmG9/IXrzHc9JRDISyVCS0FMYpwGo3zyYMwsm9qkaT0nUc+XHrETddFt RuMt3cq9bSnIOUy5yTKe7f5KozkbwWrFdKYMQ2T2G8Dmz6bOylsyv6u3Sst4GiNh aPZCL6w5ObJ1xshAGuq5PTLksT9v5UKdI6darwA3ALD3JgrcAYcQvnTwxsQHEK4R hP9NW7htCKltim9s1s7ceH9yzSxzs53IiC1XLhHH/y+EV/BFwnCavf0RY9kfItEy 6/QB2kvEE0EvmmVGYTfdOkyPCUAqqP/0lqtesDVj4JSPTjVRArrP5LA+XQqrYNrM Qiig9zICcmaRgsLxcvWjudLWth1cSb4C590R7zaZleWJD8Xf9OC+wUNU/R67R1+R 5RdsYBsw4hEQQH6lZnd8AB92z1rPj+FeGdPrUVoT/gNlUQHnyzKAoAHK5qlBHL5E 3qtTS1CcduKYlZCeW/pn =ig7+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- .... -- End forward <20220326164529.hyqPM%st...@sd...> .... -- End forward <20220514233615.OK5GX%st...@sd...> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) |
From: Steffen N. <st...@sd...> - 2018-03-25 01:44:30
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Hello! Today is the 40th birthday of BSD Mail, and therefore i break my promise and forward the announcement of S-nail v14.9.10. It should be hard. Thank you. --- >8 --- Forwarded message --- 8< --- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 01:34:16 +0100 From: Steffen Nurpmeso <st...@sd...> Message-ID: <20180325003416.pI9cL%st...@sd...> OpenPGP: id=EE19E1C1F2F7054F8D3954D8308964B51883A0DD; url=https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/steffen.asc Subject: [S-mailx] [ANN]ounce of S-nail v14.9.10 ("(40th Mail anniversary) Blue tit") Reply-To: s-...@li... Hello list, hereby i announce S-nail v14.9.10, it is indeed the "(40th Mail anniversary) Blue tit"! On this day in 1978 Kurt Shoens placed the following comment in def.h (now it is in nail.h): /* * Mail -- a mail program * * Author: Kurt Shoens (UCB) March 25, 1978 */ v14.9.10 is mostly a stability and bugfix release. It has seen a full test series including Coverity.com scans. It fixes bugs i have introduced (also a double free in IMAP cache that i introduced for v14.9.* series to address Coverity CID 1376978..). In the end i am saying thanks to Gunnar Ritter for the IMAP module, and absolutely especially his really neat idea of an IMAP cache including offline work queue. (IMAP will nonetheless temporarily go in v15, but these ideas will come back thereafter.) I have gray hairs now. Credits, in order of commit appearance: William Yodlowsky, Stuart Henderson, Jörg Schilling, Viktor SZÉPE, Rich Felker, Ralph Corderoy and Philipp Gesang. A special credit to Coverity.com again. Because: tcc is 618496 bytes, pcc is 851968+24576 bytes, but gcc is 73355264 bytes and clang is even 147406848 bytes, i wonder why the latter two never said a word that would have addressed the pretty obvious CID 1387053! [Use of initialized value, the author.] We welcome Stuart Henderson and Philipp Gesang in THANKS. Number games ^^^^^^^^^^^^ The release commit is [v14.9.10.ar] ([release/v14.9.10]:[b8f373c0]), and it has also been stored as [timeline]:[ea408b7b]. The stable branch was tagged [v14.9.10] ([stable/v14.9]:[a43b77ac]). The git(1) release commits and tags, as well as the release balls have been signed with the OpenPGP key st...@sd... / 1883A0DD (EE19 E1C1 F2F7 054F 8D39 54D8 3089 64B5 1883 A0DD) available on OpenPGP key servers, my website and download area. Release balls and OpenPGP signatures (.asc) can be downloaded via HTTPS/HTTP at \https?://ftp.sdaoden.eu. Copies of the signatures can also be found at the end of this message. s-nail-14.9.10.tar.xz: SHA1 3cccb950e6983d1358c2f80e324def7d6c5c7fde SHA256 a60f465a4d55b556ccd3e922b8053f0b05cb5fbf6a7c16a064f51b6c77cce9c2 SHA512 d649f66d6b8543ce626b99b871e1d96ccf8754b55684e9f1b66d6e9cf81f79261f47b9efdadd4a4dbeff9dce19f8bbdee6c8ee503dd6aef8b4c4e1d2221d3ff3 s-nail-14.9.10.tar.gz: SHA1 1c5cd8a0457d2eed1b839ab87972b1bea9e3a177 SHA256 87ade7bbeb110250afce8221b2bb553a3d9661327dfca3f622994fb017c49ccb SHA512 d2c4ce602cd4f05c433d091cdcfe2c6c2319a0226aa1ceab0916e355ea1e1f08cb33fb92dc7fb49a2ddd763a6a47eb504ec8643b3fa5d63b17a785f48aadf52e All files are available as "-latest" symbolic links, too, e.g., s-nail-latest.txt (a copy of this announcement text). Announcement : https?://www.sdaoden.eu/code-nail-ann.html Manual : https?://www.sdaoden.eu/code-nail.html Web : https?://www.sdaoden.eu/code.html#s-mailx git(1) clone : \https?://git.sdaoden.eu/scm/s-nail.git git(1) browse: https?://git.sdaoden.eu/cgit/s-nail.git mdocmx(7) anchors are denoted by a number-sign #: typing "^A ANCHOR" while reading the man(1)ual in a capable less(1) will scroll to the manual's Point-Of-Interest, and pointing a web- browser to the "#ANCHOR" of the online manual works. NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - The balls are now build with umask 0022 not 0027. (William Yodlowsky, Stuart Henderson) - One actual development of this version was the addition of multiple choice VAL_ues, as documented in make.rc. For now we have VAL_IDNA (for OPT_IDNA) VAL_IDNA="idnkit idn2 idn" and VAL_RANDOM (by itself) VAL_RANDOM="arc4 ssl libgetrandom sysgetrandom urandom builtin" (Stuart Henderson) In brief: The value is interpreted as a whitespace separated list of strings, like "idn2 idn idnkit", case is ignored, order is important. The special strings "all" and "any" as well as the empty value are wildcard matches; if any entry in the list is a wildcard match, the rest of the list is ignored. The special string "error" will abort configuration once its list position is reached; this is only supported if documented, and not with an accompanying OPT_ (which then offers "require", as below). Since this VAL_RANDOM approach is so much better i have dropped OPT_SSL_RANDOM and OPT_NOEXTRANDOM that were recently introduced again. They were c..p. - Support for idnkit 2.3 has been added. Support for idnkit 1 (especially as idnkitlite) has been fixed. - For the first time this codebase should be able to handle invalid MBOX mailboxes (produced by, e.g., dma(1)) gracefully. I hope i have found all places (sic) where code has to be fixed. E.g., "? copy * INVALID-MBOX" now works. (Smalltalk already knew objects which know what they are doing are for the better... This is v15, then.) - P.S.: the two FreeBSD test failures are noted in INSTALL. ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - *asksend*#351 will now really allow recomposing. - `help'#198 now supports recursive `commandalias'#151es, and command self-recursion detection now works differently, it has been false for something like commandalias x q; commandalias q echo au since q became expanded to `quit'#233 (alias expansion equals new command word). New behaviour: we allow equals once: commandalias q q; commandalias x q; x -> x -> q -> q -> quit - *editalong*#385 can have a value, say "set editalong=v" and it will startup $VISUAL#597 not $EDITOR#575. - Path separators are now normalized, thus all places, including MLE tab-expansion ("On terminal control and line editor"#17), can expand something like "///t*////t*". - -E#62 flag will not be obsoleted. -D#60 flag has been reintroduced (sets *disconnected*#622 right away, was not reinstantiated with the rest of the IMAP support.) git(1) shortlog (edited) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Steffen Nurpmeso (71): 196eb82d make-release.inc: umask 0022 for balls (William Yodlowsky, Stuart Henderson) 4103ad5a THANKS: Stuart Henderson 9ea3a4f1 make-config.sh: prefer libidn over libidn2 (Stuart Henderson) 47c143fb FIX the FIX: fix real cause, [d2702236] did not! e759a5eb collect(): *asksend*: fix: reallow "recompose" branch.. 8f5af5a0 initbox(): fix: umask(0777) and exit(2) would leak a tmpfile (Jörg Schilling) 21a06a2b Un-obsolete -E flag: it is used (Viktor SZÉPE) f4db93b3 n_folder_mbox_prepare_append(): FIX invalid MBOXes (broken by [90861930]).. ac21a4d4 cc-test.sh: add test for [f4db93b3]; more MBOX mishandling, everwhere.. 8d4e22d9 quit.c:edstop(): one more place (sic) where broken MBOX not handled 5b845cc2 cc-test.sh: t_behave_iconv_mbyte_base64(): do not run without iconv 03572b6a a_go_cleanup(): fix compilation with HAVE_DEVEL but not HAVE_COLOUR ffc3dda8 cache_setptr(): IMAP cache double free introduced with fix for CID 1376978!! cbebf2a8 Introduce multiple choice selection for options (Stuart Henderson) cb2b9fde Support multiple choice via VAL_IDNA (Stuart Henderson) 0558e9ac (BWDIC!) Drop OPT_SSL_RANDOM,OPT_NOEXTRANDOM; add VAL_RANDOM 057eaa62 Add OPT_UISTRINGS, by default enabled (Rich Felker).. 659b205a (Nope,) Let *^ERRDOC* be EQ *^ERRNAME* unless HAVE_DOCSTRINGS (Rich Felker) c7db9ca8 collect(), `~:': un"gabby" this command escape 88297a2f CHARSET_8BIT: this is UTF-8 not LATIN1 if OPT_ALWAYS_UNICODE_LOCALE c02ac55f n_idna_to_ascii(): add support for idnkit 2.3 66991328 n_idna_to_ascii(): fix support for idnkit1 linked as idnkitlite! 195a62b4 a_shexp__glob(): normalize path separators, learn to expand ///t*////t* 6f20c631 Fix: `help': support recursive ghosts; go.c: fix self-recursion detection.. 6257db03 *editalong*: valued; clarify `edit'/`visual', $EDITOR/$IVUSAL (Ralph Corderoy) 02ab1f05 Merge branch 'topic/test-fireworks' 679d0973 If -A fails, exit if not interactive/*errexit*/*posix* 55250154 *headline*: document %U (Philipp Gesang) ae3b4dfe THANKS: Philipp Gesang ab7aab0e Account for drafted 64-bit IMAP UIDs (Philipp Gesang) c5480b61 Readd support for -D (*disonnected* right away) v14.9.9 ("Marsh tit savours first spring sun, II") 2018-03-06 ------------------------------------------------------------- A bugfix release. I hope with this the fallout of the Christmas 2016 "address the Dr. Problem workshop" has been fully resolved and thus MIME for header address fields, even if iconv(3) is involved, been fully restored! We have even more tests for this now. The release v14.9.8 was broken on big endian machines. I will remove the v14.9.8 balls from the server by the weekend. Sorry for the inconvenience! Credits, in order of commit appearance: Slavko, Matej Mužila, Rich Felker, Simon McVittie, Paride Legovini, Cág, Predrag Punosevac. We welcome Slavko, Matej Mužila, Rich Felker and Simon McVittie in THANKS. NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - The v14.9.* series called *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#462 handlers in display or quote mode with CR (carriage-return) bytes stripped because of a missing output file comparison check, which broke binary formats etc. (Slavko) - We now have native support for Libidn2. (Matej Mužila) - uname(1) is now hookable by setting the shell variable uname when calling make ("uname=MY-UNAME make config" etc.). (Simon McVittie) We no longer bake the kernel version into the binary, and `version'#288 includes uname(2) output. (Simon McVittie, Paride Legovini) - We now support a fallback P(seudo)R(andomNumber)G(enerator) initialization even if getrandom(2)/getrandom(3) has been found by the configuration, just like we do for "/dev/urandom" usage. This does not affect systems with arc4random(3) or OpenSSL random usage. (David Čepelík, Simon McVittie) A new OPT_SSL_RANDOM make.rc variable, by default initialized to the value of OPT_SSL. ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - `~@'#304 list-edit behaviour in -##85 batch mode was broken. - Character set names will now undergo generic normalization, including stripping of iconv(3) //SUFFIXes. git(1) shortlog (edited) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Steffen Nurpmeso (33): e9fdc08a a_amv_var_check_vips(): fix comparison (Slavko) dd6e4084 THANKS: Slavko caa5de77 make-config.sh: tweak new iconv(3) replacement warning (Slavko) 9e1c55f6 Fix ~@ list-edit behaviour in -# batch mode; add ~@ test 69225c69 Fix: do not strip CRs when "displaying" through a *pipe-** handler (Slavko) 940d84f2 Add support for Libidn2 (Matej Mužila).. 38f33e37 THANKS: Matej Mužila 1d67806c Our iconv wrapper was completely broken! Now fixed (Rich Felker).. a27d23ef cc-test.sh: fix t_behave_iconv_mbyte_base64 (Rich Felker).. 70a18a40 THANKS: Rich Felker a46c4a0a Do not bake kernel version into binary (Simon McVittie, Paride Legovini).. 7f848761 THANKS: Simon McVittie 19673cbd Make uname(1) hookable (Simon McVittie) 1a488de9 Add OPT_SSL_RANDOM+, "fix" getrandom(2) (David Čepelík, Simon McVittie).. 8a9237c5 Fix n_boolify() with empty argument ac67d755 FIX: again fallout of [0ede309c], not covered by [ffd29558] (Cág).. dd6adbb3 IMAP does not need ICONV if ALWAYS_UNICODE_LOCALE (Predrag Punosevac) c86a5ec6 `version': support vput and include uname(2) output (Simon McVittie) 1b018a36 Add *headline-plain* to force ASCII graphics (Cág) ... 565219b9 cc-test.sh: ARGH! MBOX content statistics not portable! (Gaetan Bisson) e1e62dd1 Fix n_iconv_str() [on big endian machines, the author] v14.9.7 ("Marsh tit patiently scraping bark") 2018-02-16 -------------------------------------------------------- A maintenance release which fixes bugs and brings in features. Credits, in order of commit appearance: Alexander Harm, Viktor SZÉPE, Paul Eggert, Joseph Bisch, Paride Legovini, and Peter J. Holzer. A special credit to the disappearing mutt(1) bug tracker. And to Gmane.org for creating gmane.mail.s-mailx.general! Thanks Paride Legovini for becoming maintainer of the Debian port. We welcome Joseph Bisch, Paride Legovini, and Peter J. Holzer in THANKS. NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - The USB stick loss reported for v14.9.6 was fake news, so to say, the stick exists and therefore the old key is not compromised. - We are back at Gmane.org! news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.s-mailx.general - `history'#199 has learned to be context-sensitive a bit, and has two new subcommands, `load' and `save'. This is in parts backward incompatible because it needs a new *history-file*#407 format; however, the old format can be loaded yet compose-mode commands will not appear in compose mode no more. Iirc you can start with an old format then `save' to the new, then replace the "d" in the first column with "c" for compose-mode commands which should appear correctly. - Obsoletion warnings for variables now happen at `set'#255 time instead of when used. Running once via -v#82 may be beneficial. - The saturation modifier of `vexpr'#289 is henceforth a prefix, the suffix version is obsolete (but still supported for a while). - A network address that contains no domain-, but only a valid local user <name> in angle brackets will be automatically expanded to a valid address when *hostname*#412 is set to a non-empty value; setting it to the empty value instructs us that the used *mta*#441 (including builtin SMTP) will perform the necessary expansion. (Viktor SZÉPE) Note that *hostname*#412 as well as *smtp-hostname*#522 will now undergo IDNA expansion if IDNA is supported. And *from*#401 and *sender*#499 are now verified at `set'#255 time, not when used. (Viktor SZÉPE) - The commit message in [d503bd82] is wrong, apologies to Paride Legovini. The test(1) operator "-n" appeared in Seventh Edition UNIX, not V8 as falsely claimed. ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - Our `addrcodec'#131 parser chokes on lesser constructs. - Presence of command-line MTA arguments without *expandargv*#391 are now a hard error. It was my fault that this was not the default from the very start. (Viktor SZÉPE) - Seen on the mutt bug tracker, we also still have had problems with time settings that cross 32-bit boundaries. As that is in parts induced by the C standard, now implement those parts on our own, and be super careful in general. (Joseph Bisch) - The `~@'#304 command escape did not shell-unquote the user input again and was thus a bit broken; message attachments also work again. - Support custom headers from the command line via -C#58. And *customhdr*#378 is verified upon `set'#255 time. - The simple builtin HTML viewer now supports <blockquote> elements, which many web mailers, most notably gmail, use for citation. (Peter J. Holzer) git(1) shortlog (edited) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Paride Legovini (1): d503bd82 Patch configure script to not override build variables.. Steffen Nurpmeso (66): 437a103d mail1(): tweak "failed encoding" error message (Alexander Harm) 5f951f7b n_utf8_to_utf32(): FIX: implement compliant to Unicode 9.0, 3.9, UTF-8 6ac954a4 mime_fromhdr(): normalize \0 and \n in encoded-words (mailspoof) c59a20ff myaddrs(): Fix: do not return invalid *from* (Viktor SZÉPE).. efc59473 *expandargv*: hard error if unset (Viktor SZÉPE).. ef94b2d6 README: we are back at Gmane.org! a832ef40 Yay! We have submissions:// at port 465 (too)! (RFC 8314) cac4decc config.h: resort; fallback for S_ISDIR() (Paul Eggert) 1e43647b unixtime(): check mktime(3)+localtime(3) returns (Joseph Bisch).. 068fe5d3 fakedate(): implement ourselfs (Joseph Bisch).. f430e3cc THANKS: Joseph Bisch 94ec5975 nail.1: fix spelling errors (Paride Legovini) 3311b6b9 THANKS: Paride Legovini 74d64ec7 cmd-headers.c,cmd-tab.h: fix spelling errors (Paride Legovini) 8477ea6f nail.1: yet another fix (Paride Legovini) efe354ea More ISO C time and date checks etc. (Joseph Bisch) f5409738 a_attachment_is_msg(): fix #NO message attachments (since 2017-01-22)! 65ff0741 a_amv_var_check_num(): fix: variables need 32-bit not 64-bit limit! fd2daba5 n_attachment_list_edit(): FIX: unquote user input again (!!!) 75917c30 ([BWDIC]) `history': support context-sensitive history (a bit).. ff8b2ba1 Add -C (create custom header), change *customhdr* 2e67ac32 `vexpr': obsolete @ as suffix, it must henceforth be prefix.. b882c9b9 `vexpr': numeric ops: support [UuSs] number prefixes 2f356cd2 `vexpr': add `pbase' subcommand 9e652437 HTML filter: support <blockquote> quotes (Peter J. Holzer) 90e708e7 THANKS: Peter J. Holzer 9c7ea9cb Try to avoid tracing and attaching to privsep program a4e21888 -S: as if within $'' if *v15-compat* (Alexander Harm) 333ecee1 *from*, *sender*: verify upon `set' time (Viktor SZÉPE) ccaa7401 Optionally append *hostname* in "valid <user>" address (Viktor SZÉPE) v14.9.6 ("Marsh tit abiding a snow storm"), 2017-12-05 ------------------------------------------------------ A bugfix release which fixes four serious and three other bugs. A few new features came in, too. Many thanks go to Ralph Corderoy who reported an issue that was caused by a terrible, terrible word reversal that i managed to produce in December 2016, and which caused the v14.9.x series to not MIME encode (non-address) content of address header fields! Credits, in order of commit appearance: Thomas Dickey, Andreas Baumann, Erich Eckner, Gaetan Bisson, Solar Designer, Cág, Ivan Tham, Ralph Corderoy and Doug McIlroy. We welcome Andreas Baumann, Erich Eckner, Solar Designer and Cág in THANKS. NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - After USB stick loss the authors OpenPGP key has been switched to pub 4096R/1883A0DD 2017-11-30 [expires: 2027-11-28] Key fingerprint = EE19 E1C1 F2F7 054F 8D39 54D8 3089 64B5 1883 A0DD uid Steffen Nurpmeso <st...@sd...> - $TMPDIR#595 no longer honoured for root runs. (Solar Designer) - *mime-encoding*#439 defaults to quoted-printable again. (Cág) - We _can_ MIME encode even header fields which contain addresses. Thanks to Ralph Corderoy we now also _do_ so again! ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - ***#336 now uses *ifs*#414 when splitting. - Freezing *ttycharset*#561 via -S#77 also survives using or setting any of $LC_ALL#577, $LC_CTYPE#578 and $LANG#579 during program startup. - New `local'#115 command modifier to localize changes. Yet supported only for `set'#255, i.e., we have gained macro-local variables. - `vexpr'#289 now supports a BASE#number notation for integers, like 16#AFFE as an alternative to 0xAFFE. Hint: variable settings can most often use several bases, too, e.g., i have "set mime-counter-evidence=0b1111". - Very simple form of *quote-chars*#482 to adjust our knowledge of what actually is to be treated as a quote character. - *mime-counter-evidence*#438 deep inspection (bit four) has been improved for the sole cases of quoting or displaying a message. So messages with less than 25% of control characters and such will now be displayed (made printable). This is yet not configurable nor do we have a way to easily access a message with more than that. (Doug McIlroy) git(1) shortlog (edited) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Steffen Nurpmeso (44): 9bdfeba2 Introduce *mta-no-receiver-arguments* to bypass OpenSMTPD behaviour.. 4ce4f80d mail1(): fix: unroll compose-mode `localopts' even on compose failure! 3dc1d4ee FIX debug assertion (Thomas Dickey).. b039b309 a_main_startup(): isatty() yay fdopen(,"w") nay (A. B., E. E., G. B.).. e6ec2b06 THANKS: Andreas Baumann 5e808dc1 THANKS: Erich Eckner 7cc7fd0a Invent n_O_NOXY_BITS for more O_NO* etc. (Solar Designer) 409c5df7 THANKS: Solar Designer 62d5947a config.h: no, change [f64eb665], use MIMEE_QP again (Cág) 43449982 THANKS: Cág cd212599 Do not honour $TMPDIR if run by root (Solar Designer) 3e283d18 Fix semantics of $* to go for *ifs* 6d437ab6 FIX i_strdup(), broken since [354fc47e] as of 2017-07-16.. c20b6b7c nail.1: WHEN is a mlist a regex (Ivan Tham) bd72268c nail.1: FAQ: Can S-nail git-send-email? (Cág) ffd29558 FIX [0ede309c] as of 2016-12-26! (Ralph Corderoy).. fce7d5ca FIX: LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG: do not _force_ overwrite of *ttycharset*.. 16fb7bf7 `environ' unset: report errors (remove respective TODO).. 8eb67f95 Add `local' command modifier: alter command to work on block-scope 23327af7 n_idec*(), `vexpr': support BASE#number (2 <= x <= 36) notation 78727768 "[@fields]@" spec.: support regex in fields, empty body: header exists ca35643c Add *quote-chars* (simple) 429a294d Improve *mime-counter-evidence* deep inspection (Doug McIlroy).. c0fcb67c Introduce *version-hexnum* 090819a2 Fix [ab0cd3b8].. 8c72989b cc-test.sh: fix test of [ffd29558].. v14.9.5 ("Marsh tit engaged with a peanut"), 2017-10-21 ------------------------------------------------------- A bugfix release which fixes two bugs which were cast in stone. A few compatibility improvements (AlpineLinux, Solaris). And minor features. Apologies to Jörg Schilling, a git bug i think it was who caused joining of changesets, loosing a credit, and it had been pushed to [master] before the problem was realized. Credits, in order of commit appearance: Jörg Schilling, Doug McIlroy, Random832, Nick Stoughton and Ivan Tham. We welcome Nick Stoughton and Ivan Tham in THANKS. NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - New OPT_USE_PKGSYS option can be disabled to not automatically pick known package system paths (pkg(7), OpenCSW, schily). (Jörg Schilling) ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - The software indeed _never_ dealt with iconv(3) output character set errors (as opposed to invalid input character set byte sequences etc.) for the main message body! And I have missed that when i tweaked our iconv layer a bit! - Fixed a race condition with sigsuspend(2) that i could only see on OpenBSD. config.h offers n_SIGSUSPEND_NOT_WAITPID, by the way, which saves some systemcalls and did not run races, but noone adjusts this file. - Message list specifications gained two new colon modifiers, one can now "search :Ll" to find "Mailing lists"#10. The *headline*#404 format %T now also uses L and l rather than S and L accordingly. New `addrcodec'#131 subcommand `skinlist' acts like `skin' but stores in *!*#333 *^ERR*#335-EXIST if the address is one of the known "Mailing lists"#10. - `echo'#168 family now supports `vput'#118 and *!*#333 error storage, offering some kind of printf(1) experience, almost. git(1) shortlog (edited) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Steffen Nurpmeso (35): d76fd200 Fully support putenv(3) fallback (Jörg Schilling) ab0cd3b8 FIX iconv for main body part (since EVER!) (Doug McIlroy, Random832).. 8d472b37 FIX sigsuspend(2) race condition (since EVER! Only seen on OpenBSD).. ca045d7d Add is_mlist_mp() and :Ll colon modifiers, and use "Ll" for *headline*'s %T 88a69abf Set termsize after SIGCONT; n_signal(): use sigfillset (Nick Stoughton).. f169483d THANKS: Nick Stoughton 2f1e46ee `echo' family: support `vput' and *!* error storage 22ac50c7 make.rc, make-config.sh: add OPT_USE_PKGSYS (Jörg Schilling) 09a8b2ef Even less shell globbing (Ivan Tham) b35ccc6d THANKS: Ivan Tham 820d02b4 obs-imap.c: drop dopr(), pr(1) often not available 2a05fcd9 main.c, make-config.sh: preparate for tcgetwinsize(3) 9feaf8ae `addrcodec': add skinlist subcommand, skin+check whether mlist v14.9.4 ("(5th anniversary) Marsh tit"), 2017-09-18 --------------------------------------------------- This is an update feature release but which also ships a furious number of bug fixes, about six of which were pretty serious. It also applies overall trimming, and improves configuration time compatibility on macOS. Thanks to Alexander Harm there is now a macOS Homebrew package. Credits, in order of commit appearance: Paul Vojta, Daniel Lublin, Alexander Harm, Norman Ramsey, Viktor Szépe, Rich Salz, David Čepelík, Ralph Corderoy, Stéphane Chazelas, Aharon Robbins, Ken Hornstein. We welcome Daniel Lublin, Alexander Harm, David Čepelík and Stéphane Chazelas in THANKS. NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - Out-of-tree builds have become possible via the new make-emerge.sh script: $ cd /tmp && mkdir build && cd build && ~/src/nail.git/make-emerge.sh && make tangerine DESTDIR=.ddir We now have a `citron' make target which is like `tangerine' but does not run the tests. - Configuration with OPT_AUTOCC honours $CC=cc. (Norman Ramsey) - SSL/TLS configuration has been revamped (again) in order to support new possibilities of OpenSSL (and LibreSSL) without ending up and introducing more and more variables. Instead we now have *ssl-config-pairs*#543, a comma-separated list of all options. With e.g. OpenSSL 1.1.xx this will be directly passed through to SSL_CONF_cmd(), so there _anything_ can be passed, otherwise we use a builtin parser to map. The new *ssl-features*#547 states what is supported. E.g.: if [ "$ssl-features" =% +ctx-set-maxmin-proto ] wysh set ssl-config-pairs='\ CipherList=TLSv1.2:!aNULL:!eNULL:@STRENGTH,\ Curves=P-521:P-384:P-256,\ MinProtocol=TLSv1.1' else wysh set ssl-config-pairs='\ CipherList=TLSv1.2:!aNULL:!eNULL:@STRENGTH,\ Curves=P-521:P-384:P-256,\ Protocol=-ALL\,+TLSv1.1 \, +TLSv1.2' endif OpenSSL v1.1.xx also introduces an interesting and neat idea to centralize SSL/TLS configuration of (all) programs in a single file. This can be driven via *ssl-config-file*#541 and the new *ssl-config-module*#542 variables, several entries per program are allowed, see *ssl-config-module*#542 for an example. New manual section "Encrypted network communication"#13. - Variables set or unset via -S#77 are now frozen until program startup is complete. ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - Historical behaviour of *askcc*#349 / *askbcc*#350 has been reintroduced. (Norman Ramsey) A new *asksend*#351 variable will show a final header summary and allows reentering compose mode. Set by default. POSIX mirrors *ask* onto *asksub*#353, so dropped" the former. - `~^'#306 no longer normalizes header names to titlecase. - We no longer generate charset=binary MIME parameters. This was introduced on 2013-01-02 and was i think owed to file(1)s -i output as i failed to find any other reference. (Normal Ramsey) - *mime-alternative-favour-rich*#437 now also works for handlers installed via *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#462. (Viktor Szépe) - v14.9.* series did not generate In-Reply-To: headers! - `alias'#132 now supports high-bit bytes and semicolon. Expect that at some later time the input must be valid according to the locale, though. (Norman Ramsey) - Combinations of *record*#486 could crash because of an unterminated variable function argument list. (Norman Ramsey) - New command `readall'#235 loads an entire file into a variable. *signature*#506 has been obsoleted. - `vexpr'#289 now supports negative arguments for the substring subcommand and adds trim, trim-front and trim-end subcommands. - `!'#122 can be used in send mode. - `~A'#307, `~a'#308, `~I'#317 and `~i'#318 will henceforth expand \t and \n only if *posix*#475 is set. Please use `set'#255 instead (with `wysh'#119, until v15). - New "The mime.types files"#35 type marker: @q ("quiet"). git(1) shortlog (edited) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Steffen (Daode) Nurpmeso (90): 9becdd01 Fix [32e5c7c2] (MLE: KHT: auto-append / for directories at once..) cc54681e $PAGER: always set (non-existent) $LESS=RXi (Paul Vojta).. 49124f13 nail.1: use `~.' in "On sending mail.." (Daniel Lublin) 7cd29917 THANKS: Daniel Lublin 62f5957f nail.h: unconditionally include inttypes.h (Alexander Harm).. c121f519 THANKS: Alexander Harm f0aeef8d Adjust OpenCSW & pkgsrc paths, drop CONFIG=MEDIUM (Alexander Harm).. 19fdc151 INSTALL: tweak INCS and LIBS (Alexander Harm) 24199743 make-config.sh: integrate DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in LD_.. (Alexander Harm) 64026f7b make-config.in: also needs .PHONY for MacOS (Alexander Harm) 52ddd687 make-config.sh: OPT_{NOMEMDBG,ASAN_*}: reduce cc_maxopt=1 (Alexander Harm).. f3087a5c Fix **-honour* <-> *recipients-in-cc* for original To: ones 2205dc27 Fix: ask for `write' targets of message/rfc822 attachments (again) 5cd0f50d Restore historical behaviour of *askb?cc* (Norman Ramsey) 80038311 Fix: do not generate charset=binary parameter (Norman Ramsey).. 05427cea send.c:sendpart(): extend *mime-alternative-favour-rich* support (SZÉPE Viktor).. 226c1f26 FIX In-Reply-To: generation, broken since [c13e1205], 2017-06-04! 135cbebe makefile: add missing reverse solidus (Norman Ramsey) 8a4237d2 `alias': support high-bit bytes and semicolon (Norman Ramsey) 22c48009 a_nag_group_lookup(): FIX used case-i?sensitive hash function! 1bc65e1b a_amv_var_lookup(): error log on empty environment variable (Norman Ramsey) 179b39f3 sendout.c:mightrecord(): FIX: terminate starg list! (Norman Ramsey) c2635714 Add `readall' command 999a9dbf `vexpr': substring: support negative offset / length 58474b55 `vexpr': add trim, trim-front and trim-end subcommands 7ab345ae Allow `!' in send mode?! 08305026 Obsolete *signature* (quite some better and more generic ways now!) cd03ec01 Glue ~A,~a,~I,~i \t and \n expansion to *posix*; while here: resort c5a223d8 Introduce @q MIME type marker 93a4e38a Rework (usage of) *SSL random handling (Rich Salz).. f2cc9b83 Work around possible Linux getrandom() bugs (David Čepelík) 35879445 THANKS: David Čepelík dddff6ef Extend the meanings of *fullnames*.. 884983a3 Diversify n_PSO_STARTED_ states, gain more cmds via -X ba103b71 Reserve command modifier prefixes "local" and "u" 4ff9c046 {make-{config,emerge},cc-test}.sh: no command -v (Norman, Ralph, Stéphane).. 2a2895f1 THANKS: Stéphane Chazelas 24615d82 make-config.sh: accept CC=cc (Norman Ramsey) d6f18b52 Add more support surrounding OpenSSL config stuff++.. 94bafbc6 Temporarily freeze variables set via -S.. bb0d0bf2 Port to SunOS 5.9 (Aharon Robbins) 788faabe Support *pipe-message/external-body* access-type=url handlers (Ken Hornstein) 02407c15 FIX maildir "yet-exists" hashmap!.. v14.9.3 ("Crested tit nibbling sunflower seeds"), 2017-08-03 ------------------------------------------------------------ This is a bugfix release but which ships some improvements, too. It silently replaces both of v14.9.1 v14.9.2 from earlier this week, which were broken or not entirely fixed. Credits, in order of commit appearance: Felix Fontein, Paul Vojta, Ralph Corderoy, Christos Zoulas, Gavin Troy, Gaetan Bisson. Thanks, Coverity.com. We welcome Christos Zoulas in THANKS. Apologies to Viktor Szépe for the false spelling of his name in the v14.9.0 announcement. And to Gaetan Bisson for not giving credit for [14fbce97]! NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - fakeroot support was blindly taken from Debian and broken. (Gavin Troy, Gaetan Bisson) - Base64 output was broken for cases which involved iconv(3). The data is not lost, you can read it with S-nail v14.9.0 and above, and save it somewhere. I know of no other base64 decoder which reads those things correctly, though. We now have tests. Along this i fixed an iconv(3) error which likely caused stateful decoding (like, e.g., for ISO-2022-JP) to fail because of an unnecessary reset of the iconv(3) state machine. Thanks to Gaetan Bisson for mentioning this issue! ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - In compose mode the MLE allows empty lines again. - We no longer require a writable $HOME#576. Due to false code flow (but but but: with correct comment) a non-writable $HOME entry in /etc/password (i.e., from getpwuid(3)) would lead to a crash. (Felix Fontain; Ralph Corderoy) - Two faulty string operations slipped into the IMAP code, resulting in a crash and a "is-same-host" test that would fail for IMAPS connections like `save'#252 or `copy'#154 because of an implicit IMAP protocol for the target of those operations (thus IMAP != IMAPS). (Paul Vojta) - The MLE tab-expansion will now automatically append a "/" if there is only one possible expansion and that is a directory, saving the user one <TAB>. (Christos Zoulas) The shell expression parser had a bug regarding understood metacharacters (;|&), which in turn could cause an infinite loop in the MLE tab-expansion for, e.g., "move &9 +<TAB>", because the "&" would never have been stepped over. - New `~I'#317 command escape is like `~i'#318 but does not append a newline. - `localopts'#204 gained an optional second argument. It is now possible to specify that any macro `call'#140ed will have localopts enabled, and it is possible to fixate the setting so that it cannot be reverted. - *@*#339 should now act completely compatible to the sh(1)ell, thus obsoleting my hysteric warnings in the v14.9.0 announcement. - The `Lreply'#205, `reply'#240, `Reply'#239 series as well as `mail'#207 now manage the error status *!*#333. I.e., there are now errors like *^ERR*#335-DESTADDRREQ, ^ERR-NODATA, ^ERR-PERM and similar. It is not perfect yet, because $DEAD#574 may have been written (with *save*#494) or not, for example. `Lreply' and `reply' have been rewritten rather completely indeed. They join Reply-To: and Mail-Followup-To: dependent on the context (i.e., *reply-to-honour*#492, *followup-to-honour*#398, see "Mailing lists"#10 for the picture), and if they did, use this list as the receivers exclusively. It now honours *recipients-in-cc*#485 even for such addressees. (And now i wonder whether i should have credited Paul Vojta for that.) Also `Lreply' would have crashed for mails with Reply-To: but without *reply-to-honour*#492 set. We now have a test. Note *replyto* is obsoleted in favour of *reply-to*#491. git(1) shortlog (edited) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 670aabb6 a_amv_var_check_vips(): FIX code to match comment (Felix Fontein).. 3dcdaa83 THANKS: Felix Fontein 3745e002 FIX [81d7f4d8] (IMAP: try (hard) to reinstantiate..) (Paul Vojta) 33b2834f FIX [81d7f4d8] (IMAP: try (hard) to reinstantiate..) (Paul Vojta).. 1cc0d3de Allow non-writable $HOME (Felix Fontain, Ralph Corderoy) 32e5c7c2 MLE: KHT: auto-append / for directories at once (Christos Zoulas) e2bb54b7 THANKS: Christos Zoulas f593fc18 make-config.sh: do NOT skip fakeroot paths (Gavin Troy, Gaetan Bisson) 4fe971ea FIX [4047a432] possible bound excess in memset()! 84efbcab FIX shexp parser regarding metachars (and poss. endless <TAB> loop) 14fbce97 FIX: OH! The codebase NEVER supported *mime-encoding*=base64! v14.9.0 ("Long-tailed tit"), 2017-07-16 --------------------------------------- This is a major feature release which took about ~22 months (24 less two) of development to complete, and which imposed massive changes under the hood, but also quite a lot of user visible changes, including some **backward incompatibilities**. As usual, "s-nail -d" will show obsoletion warnings. We gain noticeable improvements regarding scriptability and its reliability, but also for interactive use cases, especially notable to users is our completely new M(ailx)L(ine)E(ditor) that supports rather real tabulator expansion and program-mode-context- sensitive key bindings. We now support macros with arguments, which can be `shift'ed, a `return' status can be used, and a `vexpr' multiplexer offers some arithmetic and string operations. `commandalias'es are recursive, further command modifier prefixes, like `ignerr', give a hand that we otherwise could not offer. In compose-mode the new `~^' command escape allows some message and attachment access, and can be used, e.g., to implement things like custom headers, and has been especially designed for scripted access via the new *on-compose-splice* and *on-compose-splice-shell* hooks. S-nail will move (more or less) backward-incompatibly to sh(1)ell compatible argument quoting (documented in "COMMANDS"), and an increasing number of commands do support this already: new ones exclusively, some old ones have either been switched (like `localopts'), others -- noticeably `set' -- can be switched to the new syntax with a `wysh' command modifier prefix. E.g.: ? define __xv { # Be careful to choose sh(1)ell-style on _entire_ line! localopts yes; wysh set verbose; ignerr eval "${@}"; return $? } ? commandalias call echo boo-boo ? commandalias xv call __xv ? xv list ? commandalias xv '\'call __xv ? xv list Calling the latter `xv' for `list' will give more detailed command information, including which kind of argument is used. I have not managed to implement the three features i have started this development cycle for, these are thus subject to further development, just like wysh for message-list argument commands to support, e.g., negation, wysh for `if' and consorts, the -- terminator to finally overcome the ridiculous requirement to quote entire shell commands filenames for commands like `pipe. And and and. Credits, in order of commit appearance: Antonio Radici, Aharon Robbins, Mike Frysinger, Predrag Punosevac, Michael Convey, Hariskar, Rudolf Sykora, Martin Neitzel, Gavin Troy, Salvatore Bonaccorso, Todd C. Miller, Sergey Matveev, Robert Elz, Mantas Mikulėnas, Respiranto, Jens Schleusener, Walter Alejandro Iglesias, Ralph Corderoy, David Levine, Lyndon Nerenberg, Thomas Dickey, Afan, Justin Ellingwood, Ingo Schwarze, Viktor Szépe, Gaetan Bisson, Juan RP, William Yodlowsky, Hilko Bengen, Matthew Dillon, Colin Watson, Donald Mugnai, Stephen Isard, Jürgen Daubert, Sven Neuhaus, trondd, Ismael Bouya, Felipe Gasper, Paul Eggert, Dr. Werner Fink, Ken Hornstein, Noel Chiappa, Random832, Doug McIlroy, Baptiste Daroussin, Riccardo Ductor, Pietro Cerutti, Jörg Schilling, rain1, Xin LI. We welcome Antonio Radici, Mike Frysinger, Predrag Punosevac, Michael Convey, Rudolf Sykora, Todd C. Miller, Robert Elz, Jens Schleusener, Walter Alejandro Iglesias, Thomas Dickey, Afan, Justin Ellingwood, Viktor Szépe, Juan RP, Matthew Dillon, Colin Watson, Donald Mugnai, Sven Neuhaus, Ismael Bouya, Felipe Gasper, Paul Eggert, Dr. Werner Fink, Ken Hornstein, Noel Chiappa, Random832, Doug McIlroy, Baptiste Daroussin, Riccardo Ductor, Pietro Cerutti, Jörg Schilling, rain1, and Xin LI in THANKS. Apologies: Sergey Matveev. Members of the Roff community which await progress. NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ * This release brings some backward incompatibilities, outlined in the following. Most users will not be affected, and we have added a lot of compatibility cruft, but that will vanish in v15. "$ s-nail -v"! * The configuration and build system has changed. Packagers have received updated package files. o Anything which was WANT_xy before is now OPT_xy, and compiled-in paths and values, like PREFIX or PAGER, have gained a VAL_ prefix (thus VAL_PREFIX and VAL_PAGER). This is _not_ true for non-persistent or environmental values, e.g., DESTDIR, CC, etc., and also not for the overwritable program variables during configuration, e.g., $awk. o SENDMAIL -> VAL_MTA, SENDMAIL_PROGNAME -> VAL_MTA_ARGV0, MAILSPOOL -> VAL_MAIL. And NAIL -> VAL_MAILX, though this is still a lie. o The make system now needs config..build..install or all..install or tangerine (config..build..test..install). Some constants which some experts may want to fine-tune have been moved to config.h. Usual adjustments+doc via make.rc. o The `build' phase can be parallelized by setting the $MAKEJOBS environment variable, e.g., "make MAKEJOBS=-j4 build". Note this variable is not tracked in the configuration. (Gaetan Bisson) o Unless DESTDIR is set an uninstallation script will be installed along with the rest (see INSTALL file for more). o Set the new OPT_CROSS_BUILD to avoid feature runtime tests, only compile- and link-availability will be tested. (Juan RP) o VERBOSE is implemented straight, but must be given at configuration time in order to become honoured. (William Yodlowsky) o ADDCFLAGS / ADDLDFLAGS -> EXTRA_CFLAGS / EXTRA_LDFLAGS. o The LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc. building processes will skip any path which contains the string "fakeroot". (Hilko Bengen) o We honour a set $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH#593 environment variable to an extend that allows reproducible tests, which is why the repository gained a [test-out] branch with some expected plain text outputs. (reproducible-builds.org; Colin Watson) The new *log-prefix*#425 variable aids in improving the reproducibility of error messages. o These are upward compatible changes. * "make OPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000 all" should work. * Internal and environment variables are now explicitly _defined_ and _tracked_ after variable handling has been rewritten completely. Notes: o This means that, e.g., "$ password=NOT_SECRET s-nail" will **NOT** work no more, since *password*#460 is an internal variable! o But if you do, e.g., "? set TMPDIR=~/tmp", then this will also be reflected in the program environment (it is an environment variable) and thus affect child processes. o Therefore we no longer have `setenv' and `unsetenv'. o To integrate any other environment variable transparently into our variable management, the new command `environ'#176 needs to be used, e.g., "? environ set NEWVAR=value" or "? environ link EXISTINGVAR". - -H#66 and -L#69 have been decoupled: it used to be -e#63 -L#69 instead! - *NAIL_{HEAD,TAIL}* have been obsoleted in favour of *message-inject-head*#433 and *message-inject-tail*#434. *NAIL_HIST{FILE,SIZE}* have been obsoleted in favour of *history-file*#407 and *history-size*#410. *NAIL_EXTRA_RC* has been obsoleted in favour of *mailx-extra-rc*#428. *batch-exit-on-error* has been obsoleted by *errexit*#388, which works just like the POSIX sh(1)ell "set -e" construct; the `ignerr'#114 command modifier (`-' for command escapes in compose mode, and see below) can be used to ignore command errors even then. (This will remain even if we at some later time will support at least some of the sh(1) constructs which "swallow" failures with set -e.) *bsdannounce* is obsolete, the feature is integrated in *header*#403 as this is much more useful. (This is however also dependent upon the also new but well-known $POSIXLY_CORRECT#591 <> *posix*#475, but that is just how it is; these affect more behaviour, and increasing.) - Colour support has been changed backward in- and upward (from user interface side) compatibly, see the manual section "Coloured display"#18. + New commands: `colour'#149 and `uncolour'#150. You can define context-sensitive, terminal-capability- sensitive settings, e.g.: if terminal && [ "$features" =% +colour ] colour iso view-header ft=bold,fg=magenta,bg=cyan colour 256 view-header ft=bold,fg=208,bg=230 subject,from colour mono view-header ft=bold colour mono view-header ft=bold,ft=reverse subject,from endif + The variable *colour-pager*#374 defines whether colour and font attribute sequences should be generated when viewing something in $PAGER#589. + Set the variable *colour-disable*#373 to turn colour off without affecting established settings. + It is deduced via termcap(5) (see below) whether the terminal supports colors, e.g., "$ s-nail -Stermcap=Co#256". This is also true if we don't have termcap support. + Support for 256-colour terminals. (Gavin Troy) - `source'#267 series support shell pipes if the last character of the "filename" ends with a vertical bar |, e.g., ? source 'gpg -qd ~/.s-nailrc-private.gpg |' - Shell pipes are also supported as targets for `move'#217, `copy'#154 etc., yet unfortunately not with via a sh(1)ell token parser, so that the target still has to be a single argument. ? copy . '| cat; echo huhu' - Support for custom headers via the new `~^'#306 compose-mode command escape and in addition, or alternatively, with the internal variable *customhdr*#378, which also can be covered by `localopts'#204. (Sergey Matveev) + Support of $ORGANIZATION has been dropped. + Command escape `~e'#312 supports _any_ header. + Command escape `~^'#306 supports _any_ header. - New -:#53 command line option can be used to more easily select which startup files should be loaded, e.g., -:/ loads none. (Robert Elz) - `account'#129s and *folder-hook*#395s now have `localopts'#204 enabled by default. - A first simple form of compose-mode hooks has been implemented: *on-compose-enter*#453, *on-compose-leave*#454 and *on-compose-cleanup*#452 can be set to macros which get invoked at appropriate times. For the `resend'#244 series there is *on-resend-enter*#458 and *on-resend-cleanup*#457: this is very likely to change once true message access is possible even in this mode. An even more powerful mechanism is available via the also new *on-compose-splice*#455 and *on-compose-splice-shell*#456 hooks. These are executed in child processes and communicate with the parent via their standard input and output, and therefore can do anything and act as if they were the user. `localopts'#204 are enabled and cannot be disabled (and extend until the message is sent). (Jens Schleusener, Rudolf Sykora) ? set on-compose-splice=ocs ? define ocs { read ver echo Splice protocol version is $ver echo '~^header list' read hl; vput vexpr es substring "${hl}" 0 1 if [ "$es" != 2 ] echoerr 'Failed to read header list, bailing out' echo '~x' elif [ "$hl" @i!% ' cc' ] echo '~^header insert cc Diet is your <mirr.or>' read es; vput vexpr es substr "${es}" 0 1 if [ "$es" != 2 ] echoerr 'Failed to insert Cc:, bailing out'; echo '~x' end end } - "The .netrc file"#37 + gained support for comments. (Walter Alejandro Iglesias, Ralph Corderoy) + `netrc'#220 now has a "load" subcommand. + the new *netrc-pipe*#447 obsoletes OPT_AGENT and *agent-shell-lookup*, and can be used to load an encrypted .netrc file, e.g.: ? set netrc-lookup netrc-pipe='gpg -qd ~/.netrc.gpg' I.e., this is in usual .netrc syntax and thus possibly much nicer than saying "? source 'gpg -qd ~/.credentials.gpg |'". - termcap(5) / terminfo(5) support has been changed backward in- and upward (from user interface side) compatibly, please read "On terminal control and line editor"#17. + OPT_TERMCAP is by default enabled. The new, by default enabled, configuration option OPT_TERMCAP_VIA_TERMINFO can be used to (try to) use terminfo(5) instead. + The variable *termcap*#556 can be used to freely define or override terminal capabilities, and *termcap-disable*#558 will disable interaction with the chosen library, leaving only *termcap* in charge. To use the so-called ca-mode on supporting terminals, effectively turning S-nail into a fullscreen application, *termcap-ca-mode*#557 must be set. + The built-in line editor has been rather completely rewritten to be the Mailx-Line-Editor (OPT_MLE, default yes), and supports wide glyphs (if possible), infinite line lengths (2 GB) and more. Tabulator expansion is no longer an option (but needs fnmatch(3)). + Optionally (OPT_KEY_BINDINGS, default yes) it has become possible to freely define key bindings for the MLE via the new `bind'#138 and `unbind'#139 commands. These key bindings can make use of termcap(5) and/or terminfo(5) names. The MLE will install a set of default bindings (unless there is a set *line-editor-no-defaults*#424), more so with OPT_TERMCAP, i.e., try "? bind*". Sufficient support provided, one can now, e.g., type "p " and then collect the message numbers to type, scrolling forward and backward via key-bindings, without loosing the line content, then commit the final line. + OPT_EDITLINE and OPT_READLINE support have been dropped. The new MLE should not miss anything. Does it? Tip: in an UTF-8 locale try "? !touch /tmp/hall{,öchen}" and then autocomplete that: once, then ^Q, and again. - `source'#267 can be used in `call'#140ed macros. What sounds so innocent replaced an entire machinery and got rid of a brilliant idea of Kurt Shoens from the 70s, but which never worked with Nail/Heirloom extensions, namely macros, and in the right order. Accompanying this -X#83 can (dig multiline arguments and can) be used to define macros and run them etc. Should work: $ s-nail -X'define x {' -Xversion -Xx -X'}' -X'call x' $ s-nail -X'source \' -X'"echo version|"' -Xx Macros can be `undefine'#159d from within themselves, and re- `define'#158d. It is still not possible to define macros from within macros, and/or have inner macros, not to talk about local scoping or anything more sophisticated such. - -u#80 / $LOGNAME#582 ($USER) handling has been redefined, and "-u USER" is now exactly the same as "-f %USER", and $LOGNAME (and $USER) is actively set to the active user. (Afan) $LOGNAME#582 is POSIX standardized and henceforth used and preferred over $USER, which came from BSD. (Todd C. Miller) - In the future (at least non-message-list) argument handling will be changed backward-incompatibly to be sh(1)ell compatible (and thus POSIX standardized), see "Shell-style argument quoting"#24. New commands use it already today (`bind'#138, `colour'#149, `headerpick'#195), some others (most importantly, `set'#255) can be forced to do so via the new `wysh'#119 command prefix, as in: ? wysh set message-inject-tail=$'\n--steffen' ? bind base $'\cA,\x61' 'echo control-A and small a' - We now actively manage *umask*#563: 0077 by default, but an empty string will use the setting that is active upon startup. Just like changes to (known) environment variables, this setting will also be inherited by any child process. (Walter Alejandro Iglesias) - Anything SENDMAIL / *sendmail*-ish has been renamed to *mta*#441, *mta-arguments*#442, *mta-no-default-arguments*#443 and *mta-argv0*#445. The reason is that in v15 we won't even have *smtp*: it is just another form of MTA, and thus obsolete by itself. Note that *mta-arguments* is now parsed via the shell-token parser, so the following ends up exactly as desired. ? set mta-arguments='-t -X "/tmp/my log"' For now we support a hack that understands a file:// URL in *mta*, too, but that is also the default if there is no protocol. E.g.: "? set mta=smtp://a:b@xy.z" - The "spamd" *spam-interface*#525 is obsolete. I haven't tested it since my main machine died, it is error prone since it assumes internals of the spamassassin wire protocol, and there never was a speed improvement over "spamc". (However it could react upon the "is-spam" state of a message, which "spamc" doesn't allow.) - The new *inbox*#418 variable will henceforth be looked up when searching for a primary system mailbox (as in "? File %"), followed by the usual $MAIL#583 and compile-time defined local mailspool search. (Stephen Isard, Jürgen Daubert) - The semantic of -a#55 and `~@'#304 have been changed, and both commands now use the same syntax: -a file[=input-charset[#output-charset]] - New "failinvaddr" keyword for *expandaddr*#390. - We finally "can" the so-called (by myself) "Dr. Problem" (a bit): (Dr. Werner Fink) $ </dev/null s-nail -d:/ -sTrödler 'Dr. D. Iet <z@a.k>' 2>&1 |\ grep To: s-nail: >>> To: "Dr. D. Iet" <z@a.k> This can be done via the new `addrcodec'#131, too, note this supports multiple modes (and the `vput'#118 command modifier): $ echo 'addrcodec e Dr. Diet <to...@fu...j> Curd' | s-nail -#:/ "Dr. Diet Curd" <to...@fu...j> - All commands with the string "codec" in their name use different argument quoting, namely none at all, please read "Raw data arguments for codec commands"#25. This means that `urlcodec'#284 (and `imapcodec'#621) has slightly changed semantics. And, while here: there is a new `shcodec'#257, too. - We gained "Command modifiers"#21: `\'#113 (avoid expansion of `commandalias'#151es), `vput'#118 (store result in variable), `ignerr'#114 (ignore an error of the following command, even if the new *errexit*#388 is set), `wysh'#119 (use shell-style arguments). $ echo 'vput cwd resvar;echo $resvar' | s-nail -#:/ /home/steffen/src/nail.git And the usual sh(1) stuff: `return'#250, `shift'#261, `eval'#178, plus a `xcall'#293 stack-avoidance optimization (to be used in place of a `call'#140 which would be the last called command). And an "expr(1) like thing", yet simple, `vexpr'#289. $ echo 'vexpr + 1 2' | s-nail -#:/ 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000011 03 | 0x3 | 3 $ echo 'vput vexpr resvar + 1 2;echo $resvar' | s-nail -#:/ 3 We actually start walking (*?*#332, *^*#334). ? vput vexpr res regex 'bananarama' 'Bana(.+)' '\$1\$0' ? echo $?/$^ERRNAME :$res: 1/NODATA :: ? vput vexpr res iregex 'bananarama' '(.+)rama' '\$1\$0' ? echo $?/$^ERRNAME :$res: 0/NONE :bananabananarama: The command `vpospar'#290 can be used to manage the stack of positional parameters, i.e., much like "set --". It also offers the possibility to save and restore the stack to and from variables. Etc. Btw., to contact the maintainer (make.rc variables VAL_CONTACT_WEB and VAL_CONTACT_MAIL): ? echo $contact-web; eval mail $contact-mail - `if'#201 no longer performs automatic number conversion, we use the explicit -lt, -gt etc. syntax of the sh(1). Note: `if' will change to be almost identical to sh(1) if(1), so please ensure proper test bracketing, even if it is less convenient. Moreover, the default string comparison mode has changed to case-sensitive, just like in the shell. This is because in the future this crux with trigger characters will vanish and `if' etc. will simply slurp in already expanded shell tokens, it will act like the shell in that respect. We have modifiers, though, yet only "@i" for case-insensitivity, also for regex matches: LC_ALL=C i=`LC_ALL=C.utf8 s-nail -:/ -# -X ' \define cset_test { \if [ "${ttycharset}" @i=% utf ] \echo $LC_ALL \xit 0 \end \if [ "${#}" -gt 0 ] \wysh set LC_ALL=${1} \shift \eval xcall cset_test "${@}" \end \xit 1 } \call cset_test C.UTF-8 POSIX.utf8 POSIX.UTF-8 \ en_EN.utf8 en_EN.UTF-8 en_US.utf8 en_US.UTF-8 '` [ $? -eq 0 ] && UTF8_LOCALE=$i Please note the `eval' in 'eval xcall cset_test "${@}". This is a difference of S-nail/mailx and the sh(1)ell that will remain, as documented in "COMMANDS"#20: whereas the shell implements a language and performs standardized expansions on the line until finally the command is called, S-nail will decide the type of command line parsing dependent on the seen command, and will then perform a single expansion. Therefore "${@}" will expand to multiple arguments if $# is greater 0, but it will expand to the empty string otherwise, which is not furtherly expanded away since it is meaningless like it is in the shell: therefore $# will be 1 (the empty string) not 0. - Using an explicit proto:// prefix should get you the desired thing apart of *newfolders*#448, e.g.: ? File maildir:///tmp/x.mdir ? copy * file:///tmp/x.mbox - New variable *record-files*#487 can be set to extend the meaning of *record*#486. *record-resent*#488 was there already. - New variable *ifs*#414 acts a bit like the sh(1)ell's $IFS for, e.g., the new `read'#234 command. There is a `readctl'#236 command which can be used to manage the active channel used by `read'#234. - The `~' alias for `call'#140 is gone. - `mimetype'#209 only allows specification of a single type per call, on the other hand no need to quote that. - `mimeview'#213 must now be used explicitly to look at any non-text MIME part, for normal display etc. purposes we only support "copiousoutput"#608 MIME handlers. - New *socks-proxy*#524 can be used to proxy all network traffic over a SOCKS5 proxy. (Gaetan Bisson) ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - The manual has seen another major overhaul, all the variables are now documented in a single, sorted list, and many clarifications should have been added. I hope it has become a better read. (Predrag Punosevac, Michael Convey, Hariskar, Rudolf Sykora, Respiranto, Thomas Dickey, Donald Mugnai) - To support RFC 1524 a.k.a. .mailcap files (see below) many "trigger"-characters have been added for *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#462, which may (rarely) affect existing values. The .mailcap support itself is not yet implemented. - *mime-counter-evidence*#438 gained bit 4 (perform proper in-depth content inspection as necessary; set to 0xE for all bits). (Aharon Robbins) - Maildir paths are now created recursively as necessary. (Justin Ellingwood) - -M#70 and -m#71 options have been added to enforce a special send mode that will flag standard input / the given file with the specified / detected MIME 'Content-Type:'. This can be used to directly send, e.g., HTML log output. (Viktor Szépe, Ralph Corderoy) - Disallow symlinks on writable files. Note this requires O_NOFOLLOW support for the operating-system-call open(2), but which has been standardized a long time ago. (Matthew Dillon) - `retain'#249, `ignore'#202 etc. now differentiate in between From (the From: header) and From_ (the MBOX ident). In fact we now have a new `headerpick'#195 command which is a multiplexer for all retain and ignore lists used, call it without arguments to see the current setting(s). In v15 only `headerpick' and the standard-imposed wrappers `retain' and `ignore' will remain, all other wrappers will vanish. Regular expressions can now be used if available: ? headerpick headerpick type retain blahblahblah cc date from \ mail-followup-to message-id openpgp reply-to subject to \ user-agent #headerpick type ignore currently covers no fields #headerpick save retain currently covers no fields headerpick save ignore '^Original-.*$' '^X-.*$' '^DKIM.*$' headerpick forward retain cc date from list-id \ mail-followup-to openpgp reply-to subject to #headerpick forward ignore currently covers no fields - `top'#276 has been rewritten completely, `Top'#275 is new. It uses a built-in set of retain/ignore headers, but it is possible to register a custom set via `headerpick'#195. Also, *toplines*#559 has been extended a bit and the new *topsqueeze*#560 variable may pimp your `top' experience. ? headerpick top retain add subject ? top [-- Message 1 -- 87 lines, 4791 bytes --]: Subject: Re: I can't dist to myself I wrote: 3.22. bounce_delivered - `features' has been dropped, `version'#288 extended. - The *prompt*#477 handling has changed: we lost the capability to expand \?, \@ and \$, instead new "private" variables *?*#332, *account*#343, *mailbox-resolved*#427 and *mailbox-display*#426 have been introduced, and the prompt is completely shell expanded (thus twice with `wysh' or in v15), as if dollar-single-quote quoted. We do support the reverse- solidus escaped bracket notation for embedding characters which should not be counted when calculating the width of the prompt. The `colour'#149 command has a slot for the prompt colour. 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From: Steffen N. <st...@sd...> - 2017-07-17 19:58:53
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Hello nail-devel list. Even though i said i will not post no more until v15 has been reached (but that will definitely be the last, then S-mailx release that i will announce here), i think the two years of development that just cumulated in v14.9.0 may be of interest. It is a step forward. -- >8 -- >8 -- Forwarded message -- 8< -- 8< -- Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 23:03:29 +0200 From: Steffen Nurpmeso <st...@sd...> Subject: [S-mailx] [ANN]ounce of S-nail v14.9.0 ("Long-tailed tit") List-Id: All around S-mailx <s-mailx.lists.sdaoden.eu> Hello list, This is a major feature release which took about ~22 months (24 less two) of development to complete, and which imposed massive changes under the hood, but also quite a lot of user visible changes, including some **backward incompatibilities**. As usual, "s-nail -d" will show obsoletion warnings. We gain noticeable improvements regarding scriptability and its reliability, but also for interactive use cases, especially notable to users is our completely new M(ailx)L(ine)E(ditor) that supports rather real tabulator expansion and program-mode-context- sensitive key bindings. We now support macros with arguments, which can be `shift'ed, a `return' status can be used, and a `vexpr' multiplexer offers some arithmetic and string operations. `commandalias'es are recursive, further command modifier prefixes, like `ignerr', give a hand that we otherwise could not offer. In compose-mode the new `~^' command escape allows some message and attachment access, and can be used, e.g., to implement things like custom headers, and has been especially designed for scripted access via the new *on-compose-splice* and *on-compose-splice-shell* hooks. S-nail will move (more or less) backward-incompatibly to sh(1)ell compatible argument quoting (documented in "COMMANDS"), and an increasing number of commands do support this already: new ones exclusively, some old ones have either been switched (like `localopts'), others -- noticeably `set' -- can be switched to the new syntax with a `wysh' command modifier prefix. E.g.: ? define __xv { # Be careful to choose sh(1)ell-style on _entire_ line! localopts yes; wysh set verbose; ignerr eval "${@}"; return $? } ? commandalias call echo boo-boo ? commandalias xv call __xv ? xv list ? commandalias xv '\'call __xv ? xv list Calling the latter `xv' for `list' will give more detailed command information, including which kind of argument is used. I have not managed to implement the three features i have started this development cycle for, these are thus subject to further development, just like wysh for message-list argument commands to support, e.g., negation, wysh for `if' and consorts, the -- terminator to finally overcome the ridiculous requirement to quote entire shell commands filenames for commands like `pipe. And and and. Credits, in order of commit appearance: Antonio Radici, Aharon Robbins, Mike Frysinger, Predrag Punosevac, Michael Convey, Hariskar, Rudolf Sykora, Martin Neitzel, Gavin Troy, Salvatore Bonaccorso, Todd C. Miller, Sergey Matveev, Robert Elz, Mantas Mikulėnas, Respiranto, Jens Schleusener, Walter Alejandro Iglesias, Ralph Corderoy, David Levine, Lyndon Nerenberg, Thomas Dickey, Afan, Justin Ellingwood, Ingo Schwarze, Viktor Szépe, Gaetan Bisson, Juan RP, William Yodlowsky, Hilko Bengen, Matthew Dillon, Colin Watson, Donald Mugnai, Stephen Isard, Jürgen Daubert, Sven Neuhaus, trondd, Ismael Bouya, Felipe Gasper, Paul Eggert, Dr. Werner Fink, Ken Hornstein, Noel Chiappa, Random832, Doug McIlroy, Baptiste Daroussin, Riccardo Ductor, Pietro Cerutti, Jörg Schilling, rain1, Xin LI. We welcome Antonio Radici, Mike Frysinger, Predrag Punosevac, Michael Convey, Rudolf Sykora, Todd C. Miller, Robert Elz, Jens Schleusener, Walter Alejandro Iglesias, Thomas Dickey, Afan, Justin Ellingwood, Viktor Szépe, Juan RP, Matthew Dillon, Colin Watson, Donald Mugnai, Sven Neuhaus, Ismael Bouya, Felipe Gasper, Paul Eggert, Dr. Werner Fink, Ken Hornstein, Noel Chiappa, Random832, Doug McIlroy, Baptiste Daroussin, Riccardo Ductor, Pietro Cerutti, Jörg Schilling, rain1, and Xin LI in THANKS. Apologies: Sergey Matveev. Members of the Roff community which await progress. Number games ^^^^^^^^^^^^ The tagged release commits are [stable/v14.9]:[0239e708], and [release/v]:[0d83a744] (actual release content). The release has also been stored as [timeline]:[23ad4d51]. The git(1) release commits and tags, as well as the release balls have been signed with the OpenPGP key st...@sd... / 95F382CE (232C 220B CB56 90A3 7BD2 2FFD EB66 0227 95F3 82CE) available on OpenPGP key servers, my website and download area, and also in the repository (blob tagged steffen-pgp-pub). Release balls and OpenPGP signatures (.asc) can be downloaded via HTTPS/HTTP at \https?://ftp.sdaoden.eu. Copies of the signatures can also be found at the end of this message. s-nail-14.9.0.tar.xz: SHA1 8f57926e219e628af7f1da22786d5d3db2ad9db0 SHA256 8e9b57f92e6ad7003c3ec48a0a985376f6a1c8df258242852cc39e02dfc887b7 SHA512 cd53c79d75afa7acb31a5031dc9aa1189343e717616ea313acd68d74b567a96f100b05ff616aaee4905c85ed69c0cafa80ee9cc2cb81f61c475264903cd5bc36 s-nail-14.9.0.tar.gz: SHA1 3a8646e31acb2e71936c9e4e9216871029b87397 SHA256 0784d7f2d6a81235de6116cfaaa26eae470c8a79966876911ae20d06938b3a41 SHA512 eeaf8775ded7915a884961e810a63714ec733f6f7eac2ecf7c2b554a568bd46379b3dc35d1bd1e92e4065d8080001c602311970def6ef389ada381443a4dd55c All files are available as "-latest" symbolic links, too, e.g., s-nail-latest.txt (a copy of this announcement text). Announcement : https?://www.sdaoden.eu/code-nail-ann.html Manual : https?://www.sdaoden.eu/code-nail.html Web : https?://www.sdaoden.eu/code.html#s-mailx git(1) clone : \https?://git.sdaoden.eu/scm/s-nail.git git(1) browse: https?://git.sdaoden.eu/cgit/s-nail.git In the following mdocmx(7) anchors are denoted by a number-sign #: typing "^A ANCHOR" while reading the man(1)ual in a capable less(1) will scroll to the manual's Point-Of-Interest, and pointing a web- browser to the "#ANCHOR" of the online manual will do so, too. NOTES, ChangeLog (packager-affine) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ * This release brings some backward incompatibilities, outlined in the following. Most users will not be affected, and we have added a lot of compatibility cruft, but that will vanish in v15. "$ s-nail -v"! * The configuration and build system has changed. Packagers have received updated package files. o Anything which was WANT_xy before is now OPT_xy, and compiled-in paths and values, like PREFIX or PAGER, have gained a VAL_ prefix (thus VAL_PREFIX and VAL_PAGER). This is _not_ true for non-persistent or environmental values, e.g., DESTDIR, CC, etc., and also not for the overwritable program variables during configuration, e.g., $awk. o SENDMAIL -> VAL_MTA, SENDMAIL_PROGNAME -> VAL_MTA_ARGV0, MAILSPOOL -> VAL_MAIL. And NAIL -> VAL_MAILX, though this is still a lie. o The make system now needs config..build..install or all..install or tangerine (config..build..test..install). Some constants which some experts may want to fine-tune have been moved to config.h. Usual adjustments+doc via make.rc. o The `build' phase can be parallelized by setting the $MAKEJOBS environment variable, e.g., "make MAKEJOBS=-j4 build". Note this variable is not tracked in the configuration. (Gaetan Bisson) o Unless DESTDIR is set an uninstallation script will be installed along with the rest (see INSTALL file for more). o Set the new OPT_CROSS_BUILD to avoid feature runtime tests, only compile- and link-availability will be tested. (Juan RP) o VERBOSE is implemented straight, but must be given at configuration time in order to become honoured. (William Yodlowsky) o ADDCFLAGS / ADDLDFLAGS -> EXTRA_CFLAGS / EXTRA_LDFLAGS. o The LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc. building processes will skip any path which contains the string "fakeroot". (Hilko Bengen) o We honour a set $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH#577 environment variable to an extend that allows reproducible tests, which is why the repository gained a [test-out] branch with some expected plain text outputs. (reproducible-builds.org; Colin Watson) The new *log-prefix*#416 variable aids in improving the reproducibility of error messages. o These are upward compatible changes. * "make OPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000 all" should work. * Internal and environment variables are now explicitly _defined_ and _tracked_ after variable handling has been rewritten completely. Notes: o This means that, e.g., "$ password=NOT_SECRET s-nail" will **NOT** work no more, since *password*#449 is an internal variable! o But if you do, e.g., "? set TMPDIR=~/tmp", then this will also be reflected in the program environment (it is an environment variable) and thus affect child processes. o Therefore we no longer have `setenv' and `unsetenv'. o To integrate any other environment variable transparently into our variable management, the new command `environ'#169 needs to be used, e.g., "? environ set NEWVAR=value" or "? environ link EXISTINGVAR". - -H#62 and -L#65 have been decoupled: it used to be -e#59 -L#65 instead! - *NAIL_{HEAD,TAIL}* have been obsoleted in favour of *message-inject-head*#424 and *message-inject-tail*#425. *NAIL_HIST{FILE,SIZE}* have been obsoleted in favour of *history-file*#398 and *history-size*#401. *NAIL_EXTRA_RC* has been obsoleted in favour of *mailx-extra-rc*#419. *batch-exit-on-error* has been obsoleted by *errexit*#379, which works just like the POSIX sh(1)ell "set -e" construct; the `ignerr'#110 command modifier (`-' for command escapes in compose mode, and see below) can be used to ignore command errors even then. (This will remain even if we at some later time will support at least some of the sh(1) constructs which "swallow" failures with set -e.) *bsdannounce* is obsolete, the feature is integrated in *header*#395 as this is much more useful. (This is however also dependent upon the also new but well-known $POSIXLY_CORRECT#575 <> *posix*#464, but that is just how it is; these affect more behaviour, and increasing.) - Colour support has been changed backward in- and upward (from user interface side) compatibly, see the manual section "Coloured display"#17. + New commands: `colour'#142 and `uncolour'#143. You can define context-sensitive, terminal-capability- sensitive settings, e.g.: if terminal && [ "$features" =% +colour ] colour iso view-header ft=bold,fg=magenta,bg=cyan colour 256 view-header ft=bold,fg=208,bg=230 subject,from colour mono view-header ft=bold colour mono view-header ft=bold,ft=reverse subject,from endif + The variable *colour-pager*#365 defines whether colour and font attribute sequences should be generated when viewing something in $PAGER#573. + Set the variable *colour-disable*#364 to turn colour off without affecting established settings. + It is deduced via termcap(5) (see below) whether the terminal supports colors, e.g., "$ s-nail -Stermcap=Co#256". This is also true if we don't have termcap support. + Support for 256-colour terminals. (Gavin Troy) - `source'#260 series support shell pipes if the last character of the "filename" ends with a vertical bar |, e.g., ? source 'gpg -qd ~/.s-nailrc-private.gpg |' - Shell pipes are also supported as targets for `move'#209, `copy'#147 etc., yet unfortunately not with via a sh(1)ell token parser, so that the target still has to be a single argument. ? copy . '| cat; echo huhu' - Support for custom headers via the new ~^#322 compose-mode command escape and in addition, or alternatively, with the internal variable *customhdr*#369, which also can be covered by `localopts'#197. (Sergey Matveev) + Support of $ORGANIZATION has been dropped. + Command escape ~e#302 supports _any_ header. + Command escape ~^#322 supports _any_ header. - New -:#51 command line option can be used to more easily select which startup files should be loaded, e.g., -:/ loads none. (Robert Elz) - `account'#122s and *folder-hook*#386s now have `localopts'#197 enabled by default. - A first simple form of compose-mode hooks has been implemented: *on-compose-enter*#442, *on-compose-leave*#443 and *on-compose-cleanup*#441 can be set to macros which get invoked at appropriate times. For the `resend'#236 series there is *on-resend-enter*#447 and *on-resend-cleanup*#446: this is very likely to change once true message access is possible even in this mode. An even more powerful mechanism is available via the also new *on-compose-splice*#444 and *on-compose-splice-shell*#445 hooks. These are executed in child processes and communicate with the parent via their standard input and output, and therefore can do anything and act as if they were the user. `localopts'#?197 are enabled and cannot be disabled (and extend until the message is sent). (Jens Schleusener, Rudolf Sykora) ? set on-compose-splice=ocs ? define ocs { read ver echo Splice protocol version is $ver echo '~^header list' read hl; vput vexpr es substring "${hl}" 0 1 if [ "$es" != 2 ] echoerr 'Failed to read header list, bailing out' echo '~x' elif [ "$hl" @i!% ' cc' ] echo '~^header insert cc Diet is your <mirr.or>' read es; vput vexpr es substr "${es}" 0 1 if [ "$es" != 2 ] echoerr 'Failed to insert Cc:, bailing out'; echo '~x' end end } - "The .netrc file"#36 + gained support for comments. (Walter Alejandro Iglesias, Ralph Corderoy) + `netrc'#213 now has a "load" subcommand. + the new *netrc-pipe*#437 obsoletes OPT_AGENT and *agent-shell-lookup*, and can be used to load an encrypted .netrc file, e.g.: ? set netrc-lookup netrc-pipe='gpg -qd ~/.netrc.gpg' I.e., this is in usual .netrc syntax and thus possibly much nicer than saying "? source 'gpg -qd ~/.credentials.gpg |'". - termcap(5) / terminfo(5) support has been changed backward in- and upward (from user interface side) compatibly, please read "On terminal control and line editor"#16. + OPT_TERMCAP is by default enabled. The new, by default enabled, configuration option OPT_TERMCAP_VIA_TERMINFO can be used to (try to) use terminfo(5) instead. + The variable *termcap*#540 can be used to freely define or override terminal capabilities, and *termcap-disable*#542 will disable interaction with the chosen library, leaving only *termcap* in charge. To use the so-called ca-mode on supporting terminals, effectively turning S-nail into a fullscreen application, *termcap-ca-mode*#541 must be set. + The built-in line editor has been rather completely rewritten to be the Mailx-Line-Editor (OPT_MLE, default yes), and supports wide glyphs (if possible), infinite line lengths (2 GB) and more. Tabulator expansion is no longer an option (but needs fnmatch(3)). + Optionally (OPT_KEY_BINDINGS, default yes) it has become possible to freely define key bindings for the MLE via the new `bind'#131 and `unbind'#132 commands. These key bindings can make use of termcap(5) and/or terminfo(5) names. The MLE will install a set of default bindings (unless there is a set *line-editor-no-defaults*#415), more so with OPT_TERMCAP, i.e., try "? bind*". Sufficient support provided, one can now, e.g., type "p " and then collect the message numbers to type, scrolling forward and backward via key-bindings, without loosing the line content, then commit the final line. + OPT_EDITLINE and OPT_READLINE support have been dropped. The new MLE should not miss anything. Does it? Tip: in an UTF-8 locale try "? !touch /tmp/hall{,öchen}" and then autocomplete that: once, then ^Q, and again. - `source'#259 can be used in `call'#133ed macros. What sounds so innocent replaced an entire machinery and got rid of a brilliant idea of Kurt Shoens from the 70s, but which never worked with Nail/Heirloom extensions, namely macros, and in the right order. Accompanying this -X#79 can (dig multiline arguments and can) be used to define macros and run them etc. Should work: $ s-nail -X'define x {' -Xversion -Xx -X'}' -X'call x' $ s-nail -X'source \' -X'"echo version|"' -Xx Macros can be `undefine'#152d from within themselves, and re- `define'#151d. It is still not possible to define macros from within macros, and/or have inner macros, not to talk about local scoping or anything more sophisticated such. - -u#76 / $LOGNAME#566 ($USER) handling has been redefined, and "-u USER" is now exactly the same as "-f %USER", and $LOGNAME (and $USER) is actively set to the active user. (Afan) $LOGNAME#566 is POSIX standardized and henceforth used and preferred over $USER, which came from BSD. (Todd C. Miller) - In the future (at least non-message-list) argument handling will be changed backward-incompatibly to be sh(1)ell compatible (and thus POSIX standardized), see "Shell-style argument quoting"#23. New commands use it already today (`bind'#131, `colour'#142, `headerpick'#188), some others (most importantly, `set'#247) can be forced to do so via the new `wysh'#112 command prefix, as in: ? wysh set message-inject-tail=$'\n--steffen' ? bind base $'\cA,\x61' 'echo control-A and small a' - We now actively manage *umask*#547: 0077 by default, but an empty string will use the setting that is active upon startup. Just like changes to (known) environment variables, this setting will also be inherited by any child process. (Walter Alejandro Iglesias) - Anything SENDMAIL / *sendmail*-ish has been renamed to *mta*#432, *mta-arguments*#433, *mta-no-default-arguments*#434 and *mta-argv0*#435. The reason is that in v15 we won't even have *smtp*: it is just another form of MTA, and thus obsolete by itself. Note that *mta-arguments* is now parsed via the shell-token parser, so the following ends up exactly as desired. ? set mta-arguments='-t -X "/tmp/my log"' For now we support a hack that understands a file:// URL in *mta*, too, but that is also the default if there is no protocol. E.g.: "? set mta=smtp://a:b@xy.z" - The "spamd" *spam-interface*#513 is obsolete. I haven't tested it since my main machine died, it is error prone since it assumes internals of the spamassassin wire protocol, and there never was a speed improvement over "spamc". (However it could react upon the "is-spam" state of a message, which "spamc" doesn't allow.) - The new *inbox*#409 variable will henceforth be looked up when searching for a primary system mailbox (as in "? File %"), followed by the usual $MAIL#567 and compile-time defined local mailspool search. (Stephen Isard, Jürgen Daubert) - The semantic of -a#53 and `~@'#296 have been changed, and both commands now use the same syntax: -a file[=input-charset[#output-charset]] - New "failinvaddr" keyword for *expandaddr*#381. - We finally "can" the so-called (by myself) "Dr. Problem" (a bit): (Dr. Werner Fink) $ </dev/null s-nail -d:/ -sTrödler 'Dr. D. Iet <z@a.k>' 2>&1 |\ grep To: s-nail: >>> To: "Dr. D. Iet" <z@a.k> This can be done via the new `addrcodec'#124, too, note this supports multiple modes (and the `vput'#111 command modifier): $ echo 'addrcodec e Dr. Diet <to...@fu...j> Curd' | s-nail -#:/ "Dr. Diet Curd" <to...@fu...j> - All commands with the string "codec" in their name use different argument quoting, namely none at all, please read "Raw data arguments for codec commands"#24. This means that `urlcodec'#276 (and `imapcodec'#605) has slightly changed semantics. And, while here: there is a new `shcodec'#249, too. - We gained "Command modifiers"#20: `\'#109 (avoid expansion of `commandalias'#144es), `vput'#111 (store result in variable), `ignerr'#110 (ignore an error of the following command, even if the new *errexit*#379 is set), `wysh'#112 (use shell-style arguments). $ echo 'vput cwd resvar;echo $resvar' | s-nail -#:/ /home/steffen/src/nail.git And the usual sh(1) stuff: `return'#241, `shift'#252, `eval'#170, plus a `xcall'#284 stack-avoidance optimization (to be used in place of a `call'#132 which would be the last called command). And an "expr(1) like thing", yet simple, `vexpr'#280. $ echo 'vexpr + 1 2' | s-nail -#:/ 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000011 03 | 0x3 | 3 $ echo 'vput vexpr resvar + 1 2;echo $resvar' | s-nail -#:/ 3 We actually start walking (*?*#322, *^*#324). ? vput vexpr res regex 'bananarama' 'Bana(.+)' '\$1\$0' ? echo $?/$^ERRNAME :$res: 1/NODATA :: ? vput vexpr res iregex 'bananarama' '(.+)rama' '\$1\$0' ? echo $?/$^ERRNAME :$res: 0/NONE :bananabananarama: The command `vpospar'#281 can be used to manage the stack of positional parameters, i.e., much like "set --". It also offers the possibility to save and restore the stack to and from variables. Etc. Btw., to contact the maintainer (make.rc variables VAL_CONTACT_WEB and VAL_CONTACT_MAIL): ? echo $contact-web; eval mail $contact-mail - `if'#193 no longer performs automatic number conversion, we use the explicit -lt, -gt etc. syntax of the sh(1). Note: `if' will change to be almost identical to sh(1) if(1), so please ensure proper test bracketing, even if it is less convenient. Moreover, the default string comparison mode has changed to case-sensitive, just like in the shell. This is because in the future this crux with trigger characters will vanish and `if' etc. will simply slurp in already expanded shell tokens, it will act like the shell in that respect. We have modifiers, though, yet only "@i" for case-insensitivity, also for regex matches: LC_ALL=C i=`LC_ALL=C.utf8 s-nail -:/ -# -X ' \define cset_test { \if [ "${ttycharset}" @i=% utf ] \echo $LC_ALL \xit 0 \end \if [ "${#}" -gt 0 ] \wysh set LC_ALL=${1} \shift \eval xcall cset_test "${@}" \end \xit 1 } \call cset_test C.UTF-8 POSIX.utf8 POSIX.UTF-8 \ en_EN.utf8 en_EN.UTF-8 en_US.utf8 en_US.UTF-8 '` [ $? -eq 0 ] && UTF8_LOCALE=$i Please note the `eval' in 'eval xcall cset_test "${@}". This is a difference of S-nail/mailx and the sh(1)ell that will remain, as documented in "COMMANDS"#19: whereas the shell implements a language and performs standardized expansions on the line until finally the command is called, S-nail will decide the type of command line parsing dependent on the seen command, and will then perform a single expansion. Therefore "${@}" will expand to multiple arguments if $# is greater 0, but it will expand to the empty string otherwise, which is not furtherly expanded away since it is meaningless like it is in the shell: therefore $# will be 1 (the empty string) not 0. - Using an explicit proto:// prefix should get you the desired thing apart of *newfolders*#437, e.g.: ? File maildir:///tmp/x.mdir ? copy * file:///tmp/x.mbox - New variable *record-files*#474 can be set to extend the meaning of *record*#473. *record-resent*#475 was there already. - New variable *ifs*#404 acts a bit like the sh(1)ell's $IFS for, e.g., the new `read'#226 command. There is a `readctl'#? command which can be used to manage the active channel used by `read'#?. - The `~' alias for `call'#132 is gone. - `mimetype'#201 only allows specification of a single type per call, on the other hand no need to quote that. - `mimeview'#205 must now be used explicitly to look at any non-text MIME part, for normal display etc. purposes we only support "copiousoutput"#592 MIME handlers. - New *socks-proxy*#512 can be used to proxy all network traffic over a SOCKS5 proxy. (Gaetan Bisson) ChangeLog ^^^^^^^^^ - The manual has seen another major overhaul, all the variables are now documented in a single, sorted list, and many clarifications should have been added. I hope it has become a better read. (Predrag Punosevac, Michael Convey, Hariskar, Rudolf Sykora, Respiranto, Thomas Dickey, Donald Mugnai) - To support RFC 1524 a.k.a. .mailcap files (see below) many "trigger"-characters have been added for *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*#450, which may (rarely) affect existing values. The .mailcap support itself is not yet implemented. - *mime-counter-evidence*#428 gained bit 4 (perform proper in-depth content inspection as necessary; set to 0xE for all bits). (Aharon Robbins) - Maildir paths are now created recursively as necessary. (Justin Ellingwood) - -M#66 and -m#67 options have been added to enforce a special send mode that will flag standard input / the given file with the specified / detected MIME 'Content-Type:'. This can be used to directly send, e.g., HTML log output. (Viktro Szépe, Ralph Corderoy) - Disallow symlinks on writable files. Note this requires O_NOFOLLOW support for the operating-system-call open(2), but which has been standardized a long time ago. (Matthew Dillon) - `retain'#240, `ignore'#194 etc. now differentiate in between From (the From: header) and From_ (the MBOX ident). In fact we now have a new `headerpick'#187 command which is a multiplexer for all retain and ignore lists used, call it without arguments to see the current setting(s). In v15 only `headerpick' and the standard-imposed wrappers `retain' and `ignore' will remain, all other wrappers will vanish. Regular expressions can now be used if available: ? headerpick headerpick type retain blahblahblah cc date from \ mail-followup-to message-id openpgp reply-to subject to \ user-agent #headerpick type ignore currently covers no fields #headerpick save retain currently covers no fields headerpick save ignore '^Original-.*$' '^X-.*$' '^DKIM.*$' headerpick forward retain cc date from list-id \ mail-followup-to openpgp reply-to subject to #headerpick forward ignore currently covers no fields - `top'#267 has been rewritten completely, `Top'#266 is new. It uses a built-in set of retain/ignore headers, but it is possible to register a custom set via `headerpick'#187. Also, *toplines*#542 has been extended a bit and the new *topsqueeze*#543 variable may pimp your `top' experience. ? headerpick top retain add subject ? top [-- Message 1 -- 87 lines, 4791 bytes --]: Subject: Re: I can't dist to myself I wrote: 3.22. bounce_delivered - `features' has been dropped, `version'#279 extended. - The *prompt*#465 handling has changed: we lost the capability to expand \?, \@ and \$, instead new "private" variables *?*#322, *account*#333, *mailbox-resolved*#417 and *mailbox-display*#416 have been introduced, and the prompt is completely shell expanded (thus twice with `wysh' or in v15), as if dollar-single-quote quoted. We do support the reverse- solidus escaped bracket notation for embedding characters which should not be counted when calculating the width of the prompt. The `colour'#141 command has a slot for the prompt colour. We gained *prompt2*#466 as a second level prompt. ? var prompt wysh set \ prompt='?\${?}!\${!}[\${account}#\${mailbox-display}]? ' - The filename "-" can be used as a receiver, e.g., $ echo Hey,\ you | s-nail -:/ -Sexpandaddr -sUB - - The -s#74 command line option, the ~s#313 command escape as well as the corresponding slots of ~^#321 will actively strip [\r\n] from their value (Debian #419840). - New `read'#226 and `echoerr'#161 commands, mostly for *on-compose-splice*#443. But also `echon'#162 and `echoerrn'#163, which do not write a trailing newline. - New variable *r-option-implicit*#471 may be helpful to those who regulary need the functionality of the -r#72 command line option. (Felipe Gasper, Martin Neitzel) - By using new "pseudo-URLs" one can automatize the use of S/MIME keys / (certificates / intermediate include certificates) with passwords. E.g., to drive bo...@ex...e, set *smi...@ex...e* to the private key / certificate pair as usual, the password lookup will then be performed for bo...@ex...ime-cert-key, bo...@ex...ime-cert-cert and bo...@ex...ime-include-certs. Like this the password can be stored in an encrypted .netrc file when *netrc-lookup*#435 and *netrc-pipe*#436 are set, or it may be stored in an encrypted resource file that has been loaded via `source'#258 as a simple *password*#448 variable. Note that the prompting that happens as a last resort of password lookup will still interfere with a possibly running $PAGER#572 instance, dependent on the setting of *crt*#367, of course. Proper job control handling and recognizing that we are running $PAGER when doing that prompt is a TODO for v15. Sorry. - Some commands, like `set'#246, `help'#190, `list'#195, `mlist'#203 etc., now react upon the setting of *verbose*#549 and(/or) *debug*#371. - `write'#283 uses iconv(3) as appropriate. - *mbox-rfc4155*#420 has first been dropped, and was then reintroduced with different semantics. Because, it can be helpful if a messed up MBOX is read, in which case we henceforth will warn you and point you to this: ? define mboxfix { \localopts yes; \wysh set mbox-rfc4155;\ \wysh File "${1}"; \eval copy * "${2}" } ? call mboxfix /tmp/bad.mbox /tmp/good.mbox P.S. Here you see how weird the current thing still is, in v15: ? define mboxfix { localopts yes; set mbox-rfc4155; File "${1}"; copy * -- "${2}" } And also in v15 we will not apply (proper) so-called MBOXO quoting, but instead (simply MIME) re-encode mail messages. - `call_if'#133 is new and, different to "? ignerr call", silent and not messing with the return status. - The new *smime-ca-flags*#497 and *ssl-ca-flags*#525 can be used to fine-tune X509_STORE_set_flags(3) a.k.a the X509 CA certificate verification. ? set ssl-ca-flags=partial-chain ? wysh set smime-ca-flags="${ssl-ca-flags}" Also, *ssl-curves*#530 for TLSv1.3. - Socket connections use TLS S(erver)N(ame)I(ndication) as appropriate (RFC 7817). - `alternates'#?127 checks arguments and supports `vput'#111. It by default no longer replaces but appends alternates, unless *posix*#463 mode is active. There is a new `unalternates'#128 command to remove alternates. - A new `charsetalias'#136 command. (Pietro Cerutti, mutt#3925) - New commands `filetype'#174 and `unfiletype'#175: in the future we will no longer know any builtin filetypes, in fact we already simulate .gz etc. via the new mechanism as necessary: ? filetype \ bz2 'bzip2 -dc' 'bzip2 -zc' \ gpg 'gpg -d' 'gpg -e' \ gz 'gzip -dc' 'gzip -c' \ xz 'xz -dc' 'xz -zc' \ zst 'zstd -dc' 'zstd -19 -zc' \ zst.pgp 'gpg -d | zstd -dc' 'zstd -19 -zc | gpg -e' - ~<#293 now offers a "- [HERE-delimiter]" mode for pasting etc. (Ralph Corderoy) - `exit'#171 and `quit'#225 take an optional exit status. (That is not fixated yet, though.) - We have a useful -h / --help output. (Doug McIlroy) - *encoding* obsoleted in favour of new *mime-encoding*#429, which now default to base64. - *allnet*#335 now works (broken since nail 10.00, 2002-09-29). git(1) shortlog (abbreviated) ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' f01291d extract_date_from_from_(): dig more invalid MBOXes (Antonio Radici).. 69bf721 *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*: add "@" triggers and $NAIL_FILENAME_TEMPORARY.. bb5d0e2 *pipe-TYPE/SUBTYPE*: add "!" trigger ("needsterminal") df8768b Add *mime-counter-evidence* bit 4 (Aharon Robbins).. d3fe980 Ftmp(): drop "mode" argument (not wrong: Mike Frysinger).. 86159db nail.1: we support searching, really (Predrag Punosevac) 5b61a08 nail.1: talk about address lists (again) (Michael Convey).. 0eeffc4 nail.1: try improve states / MBOX etc. relation (Michael Convey) 43ea039 nail.1: what is an environment variable (Michael Convey) 13e0804 nail.1: fix typo (Hariskar (archlinux Wiki)) 03d6af5 nail.1: more on sortability (Rudolf Sykora).. 4da9043 Not "binary", but "boolean" variables! (Predrag Punosevac).. 7064ef2 Add *message-inject-{head,tail}*, obsolete *NAIL_{HEAD,TAIL}* 4fde608 Add *history-{file,size}*, obsolete *NAIL_HIST{FILE,SIZE}* 36578d1 Add PS_SETFILE_OPENED (affects hooks), *bsdcompat*<>*emptystart*.. 600d449 Drop the `inc' alias of and for `newmail' 5296040 Decouple -H from -L: it used to be -eL instead! dad4e94 Obsolete *SYSV3* c85f56d Support :d specifier for at least `from' (Martin Neitzel).. 30d0bb7 `netrc': add "load" subcommand to only load, not also "show" b12e1ed Be more friendly when composing mails (Martin Neitzel).. b50eac0 nail.1: use display/show not type/print (Michael Convey).. 6feafaf Add `search' alias for `from' (Predrag Punosevac) a4e2612 Support 256-colour terminals (Gavin Troy) 16b57ab Drop `mono'+, change `colour' and `uncolour' commands.. d535db0 Implement `dotmove': move the "dot" up or down by one c1c1ee5 `source': support shell pipes (if filename ends with "|") 8655aff Error framework: print UAGENT prefix (ident in pipes; Salvatore Bonaccorso) e96baaa Introduce $LOGNAME, the POSIX equivalent of $USER (Todd C. Miller) 0d0c523 Support |PIPE targets for `move', `copy' ++.. 76e6364 Add `customhdr' (Sergey Matveev).. ad58c91 Support *customhdr*, too (Sergey Matveev).. 6322e0a Support _any_ user header via ~e (Sergey Matveev).. 19b3afb Drop support for $ORGANIZATION in favour of `customhdr' 77d4f5c Fix SSL init order, change *ssl-rand-file* behaviour.. 8daeda9 send.c:sendpart(): "support" malformed messages.. eddf684 Drop *print-all-chars* f733f61 Don't set *dot* in -# batch mode 5d52578 Add -: command line option (Robert Elz).. 53b5f07 README: use git(1) --single-branch (Mantas Mikulėnas) 420131f Fix mispelling: can|to be send->sent (Respiranto (archlinux Wiki)) 0dd85b1 n_iconv_open(): use *charset-unknown-8bit* also for "binary".. 3fd94e3 Default `localopts' to YES for `account' and *folder-hook*s! 983d22f `if'+: allow "if ${VARNAME}" in addition to "if $VARNAME".. d6902e1 Add *on-compose-{enter,leave}* hooks (Jens Schleusener, Rudolf Sykora).. abf2e5d .netrc: support comments (Walter Alejandro Iglesias, Ralph Corderoy).. 37e0c26 nail.1: .netrc comma separator was in original Berknet parser! (Ralph Corderoy) 7e85aa9 Drop WANT_EDITLINE support.. 512069b Rewrite for a generic termcap(5) interface.. 40522c3 nail.1: use -v option to cat(1) if available (Thomas Dickey) cf3ccfe Deduce colours via *termcap* instead!; support all/*.. 64eabef Turn NCL into M(ailx) L(ine) E(ditor).. 27f3e9d Add terminfo(5) support (via WANT_TERMCAP_PREFER_TERMINFO).. 1aa64b6 Add WANT_KEY_BINDINGS.. d935e65 (BWDIC!) Allow `source' in `call'ed macros.. c8c1393 n_lex_input(): truly support line continuation via backslash.. 7f52ae7 make.rc+: add WANT_NOMEMDBG to allow valgrind(1)+ with DEBUG/DEVEL 2497240 homedir: if not $HOME, use pw_dir (of $LOGNAME or getpwuid()) 94b3635 (BWDIC!) make.rc: add defaults _here_ (as VAL_xy, e.g., VAL_SENDMAIL!) f0ac705 (BWDIC!) Rewrite variable handling.. 724751e nail.1: drop `(un)?setenv' and *bsdset*; add `environ' f4577e6 FIX (fix?) `localopts'.. d8f7cd7 (BWDIC!) Redefine -u / $LOGNAME / $USER (Afan).. e337e00 Support expansions in $MAIL!; more on `account's (Afan).. d596d74 Compare *newfolders* case-insensitively (Justin Ellingwood).. 57744f9 Redefine *folder* / getfold->folder_query() / *HOME* (Justin Ellingwood).. 3c57c83 n_path_mkdir(): create recursively as necessary (Justin Ellingwood) 66553bc `list': with non-WS argument, don't sort alphabetically b95e6be Introduce `wysh' command prefix to change argument parser.. 08b8f48 Only support sh(1)-style quoting for some new commands.. 67c2acb (BWDIC!) Only use new sh(1)-style quoting for attachments! f4b0153 (BWDIC!) Only use new sh(1)-style quoting for `write' a89e1e3 `remove': use sh(1)ell-style quoting 858374b Drop wordexp(3), instead unroll via fnmatch(3).. 0945726 MLE: change HT expansion.. 0bbe981 nail.1: fix spelling errors as by igor(1) (Ingo Schwarze) f1a775b Add -M and -m options (Viktor Szépe, Ralph Corderoy).. 42b42da `list': include argument-type etc. if *verbose* 79f2053 `if'+: support sh(1)-style comments on the line.. 1bd8e48 Add *umask*, and set actively (Walter Alejandro Iglesias).. 6b1cd93 Now with *umask*, just drop fchmod(2)++ calls (Walter Alejandro Iglesias) 2b45cd0 Add *netrc-pipe*: allows e.g. encrypted .netrc files af8261e Obsolete WANT_AGENT / *agent-shell-lookup* (Sorry!) ba22166 Change make targets; add $MAILJOBS; don't track $DESTDIR (Gaetan Bisson).. cd244b1 Add WANT_CROSS_BUILD make.rc option (Juan RP).. 95141f6 Tweak VERBOSE handling (William Yodlowsky).. 73545ad Rename ADD(C|LD)LAGS to EXTRA_(C|LD)FLAGS.. ca81646 make.rc, mk-conf.sh: allow y/n booleans d74a18a mk-conf.sh:path_check(): skip any "fakeroot" path (Hilko Bengen) 7ce6a17 (BWDIC!) nail.rc: nodot, emptystart, fullnames, m-c-e=0xE; pimp PDF handler 44a3be6 sendout.c:__savemail(): try to file_lock() *record* 5ef5261 cmd2.c:save1(): try to file_lock() target of `save'/`move'/etc. 10990e4 Add n_O_NOFOLLOW, disallow symlinks for writable files (Matthew Dillon).. c83e153 (BWDIC!) Require explicit "from_" to `retain' etc. From_ lines! d7a15e4 page_or_print(): query $PAGER environment, use it 1dc9bb6 (BWDIC!) Make `top' real-life capable! Add `Top', *topsqueeze*.. df4954c Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (reproducible-builds.org; Colin Watson) dc92f2c savedeadletter()->sendout.c; tweak POSIX compliance (Ralph Corderoy) 8a3638c MLE: add `bind' and `unbind' etc... 4c93f66 (BWDIC!) Obsolete *sendmail*++ in favour of *mta*++; obsolete *smtp*.. 284db64 Obsolete *spam-interface*=spamd.. 61aac0f All: OPT_ not WANT_, VAL_XY not XY.. 45d488d README: add The Mail Archive -- Gmane.org reduced to NNTP 48eb7da SEND_TODISP(_ALL)?: append newline if message does have no final one 63bf464 (BWDIC!) Drop readline(3) support.. 863f1e8 tty.c,MLE: gracefully honour *line-editor-disable*++.. 844bedb Support LEXINPUT, thus `bind', contexts.. b9e4e61 Drop `features', change `version', adjust make system.. 20f3cd2 nail.1: more explicit `set' references instead of saying 'Set' (Donald Mugnai).. == Preview 1 == 1b462ed -#: also set *MAIL* to /dev/null 2d53b46 url_parse(): better take better care for path parts (Stephen Isard).. 21f0eaa mk-conf.sh: find terminfo on Sun (Thomas Dickey).. 4496e9a Many: drop support for *mbox-rfc4155* - a no-brainer.. e4ddaa8 Change n_iconv*() protos, add enum n_iconv_flags (Ralph Corderoy).. 83313f1 Allow -X options to take multiline arguments.. a1eee83 Add a RFC 6068 url_mailto_to_address() hack for List-Post: 99e96f3 FIX "," message specification (since [1c4b8c9], v14.8.4).. 1587069 FIX [44cec1f] (Fix "address" message specifications (John Dodson)).. e40e181 nail.1, nail.rc: set *sendwait* by default (Ralph Corderoy) 3051546 Move `help' to lex_input.c, show argument type with *verbose* 0ef4291 `z': add ^: goes to first screen; fix max calc for 0 modulos 7adcf99 `write'++: !interactive: urlxenc() attachment paths (Ralph Corderoy).. b14aae7 `write'++: !interactive:.. But now, really (Lyndon Nerenberg, David Levine).. 20082ee THANKS: David Levine and Lyndon Nerenberg 5270bf1 Simplify *folder* (implicit trail solidus) (Stephen Isard, Ralph Corderoy) f1313c0 Add `urlcodec', obsolete `url{en,de}code' a638bcf Add *typescript-mode*, set it for -# (Ralph Corderoy, Martin Neitzel).. 053e19f Add *inbox* (Stephen Isard, and Jürgen Daubert).. 20e3240 Add OPT_ALWAYS_UNICODE_LOCALE (Predrag Punosevac).. 14b5a3a Make combinetime() overflow safe (Vincent Lefevre).. 2bf0888 getmsglist(): if user gives A-B, try fulfill even in threaded mode == Preview 2 == 3fa035ac mk-conf.sh: fix bmake(1)/portable, it fails to import $CFLAGS/$LDFLAGS 7a657d9c cc-test.sh: add S/MIME disproofs via smime(1) (Sven Neuhaus).. a445996e THANKS: Sven Neuhaus de8f750b n_termcap_suspend(): oops, fix capability reverse ke<>te, te<>ke 9e08fe35 README: go away from Gitlab; hello, unagitated repo.or.cz! ae86c884 cmd1.c:__hprf(): compensate for add. bytes of UTF-8 seq.(s) (Martin Neitzel) 38426102 extract_header(): FIX: multiple In-Reply-To: names are allowed! 0472b0d6 More or less completely rewrite memory.c.. 096e6021 Allow Base64 and QP en- and decoding to fail d91a4bd0 More or less completely rewrite mime_enc.c.. d33285fa `bind': new "default" context and changed "base" semantics.. abf00559 (BWDIC!) Rewrite prompt handling via new n_tty_create_prompt().. 38fd5de7 (BWDIC!) *encoding*: change default to base64, provide documentation.. 83115c3b Allow - as an output filename.. 675d825b nail.rc, nail.1: set *editheaders* by default, and pimp "A starter" 44ff5125 TLS/SSL: make OPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000 clean.. 03309960 The time has come: $POSIXLY_CORRECT, *posix* have arrived 975e6869 (BWDIC!) Only rm sysboxes, unless *posix* (Walter A. Iglesias, trondd).. a3a1d38e Add `headerpick'; Localize stuff, and rename ignoretab.c -> ignore.c.. 81e33751 Throw away file_expand() (Ismael Bouya).. f1fdc933 THANKS: Ismael Bouya 3779baad Obsolete -E and -B (-> STDOUT always LBF, STDIN with -#) 0352f2f6 -s, ~s: normalize NL/CR characters (Debian #419840) 791c5e97 Give error if compose failed (later better; Debian #37104) 5026ea36 MLE: take advantage of new "default" `bind' context 7745ea13 cmd_tab.h: allow `source', `source_if' and `shell' during composing?! c7d42236 Add *on-compose-done-shell* hook e4499f98 Add ~^ plumbing command escape d8737937 Add a `read' command (like read(1), but yet a bit basic) f8e9cc30 Drop `customhdr' again (keep *customhdr*): `~^' is better! 0824682c collect(): fix twice dump of -q file (since [d6902e1], 2016-05-03) 5ae556f8 Add *r-option-implicit* (Felipe Gasper, Martin Neitzel).. 534fd725 THANKS: Felipe Gasper 9fc22b15 Final step to support Base64 with multibyte charsets.. a8897b02 Add an *on-compose-done* macro (running in a subprocess) 645e44ec BWDIC! Add `echoerr'; FIX *bang* (bwdic!); and some cmd*.c ordering 629035e1 Dump to a "-" file recipient even with *debug* enabled! 33709163 nail.1: some more words for *inbox*, and such sort (Stephen Isard) 88c19049 mk-release.inc: place OpenPGP signatures last (learned from Paul Eggert) ebf2a584 THANKS: Paul Eggert 3d7835fc (BWDIC!) Extend semantics of -a and `~@' (bwdic!); attachments for `~^'.. 2b33a8cb Add new "failinvaddr" keyword for *expandaddr* 0ede309c Rudely fix the RFC 5322 dot-atom, the "Dr. Problem" (Dr. Werner Fink) 261f205b THANKS: Dr. Werner Fink e441efb4 Integrate S/MIME passwords into usual credential lookups (a bit).. 1ad6817d nail.1: disable "The Mailcap files" for v14.9.0; sigh and sorry == Preview 3 == f797c27e FIX privsep.c, yes, vulnerability (wapiflapi).. 847a21b5 THANKS: wapiflapi f2699449 FIX privsep.c vulnerability, II (forgot hostname!) (wapiflapi) 303d46cd FIX [3d7835fc] aka `~^' attachments, especially Content-ID: (Ralph Corderoy) 4ce4eb55 privsep.c: and just verify the box is also in CWD (wapiflapi) 88253be0 send.c:sendpart(): iconv(3) when `write'ing to a file! 1b1d7184 *on-compose-leave*: allow *autob?cc* from within 374ccb98 Implement some command modifiers, allow recursive `ghost' expansion.. ef903a66 Sigh. So, reintroduce *mbox-rfc4155*, but slightly different! 0dc7ad9b Disallow turning off `localopts' in compose-mode hooks.. 25d9e6e2 Generate Content-ID: as applic. (Ralph Corderoy, Ken Hornstein, David Levine) 17706f28 THANKS: Ken Hornstein 76583f83 (Heavily) Tweak [8daeda90], "really support" malformed messages.. b8bcff9d Implement `call_if' e6895402 main.c:_setup_vars(): verify $HOME and $TMPDIR 084d7e9e (BWDIC!) NAIL_ -> MAILX_, or even drop!.. 24fe9387 `show': no more colours, they counteract its purpose!?! b034478f INSTALL,makefile: $MAKEJOBS, not $MAILJOBS 8af80164 `call': parameters via *[*@#]*, *[1-9][0-9]**; add *?*, drop *-exit-status* 4c7be869 `file'+: reallow globbing for arguments, fnmatch(3) is save! 8389819e Add *-alternates*, check `alternates' arguments c6e0b04e Implement `shift', to shift macro parameters 6c39d928 Security fix: never fall back to getenv(3).. 65bb8d98 Implement `return', to return from macros and accounts 4eadbd76 Support getrandom(2); revert stupid [5d345bd0]: OpenBSD has arc4random(3)! c11ef2cb The lunatic is on Solaris.. b274e20a Improve *expandaddr*=failinvaddr even interactive, e.g., with ~e.. b421c15b (BWDIC!) Drop usage of strtou?l() in favour of our own n_idec_*().. 682a7595 (BWDIC!) Add n_source_inject_input(), get rid of some hacks.. 57e84415 Implement `vput' modifier: store result in variable.. 197bea7c Implement `addrcodec' 437da9fd (BWDIC!) New `urlcodec' semantics cd0cfc16 Implement `vexpr', something analogues to expr(1) 3e40e899 `call', `~': do not require `wysh' for new quoting rules ce8c357c Implement `eval' 0ff45bde Fix *[*@#]*/*[1-9][0-9]** access corner cases; allow over-`define's.. acc9b2f3 *reply-strings* was falsely documented as *reply_strings*.. 70e9de08 `history': support relative to top access (negative numbers) c8f6c18d `ghost': avoid self-recursion 6409c886 nail.1: clarify/FIX doc. of \cX (Noel Chiappa, Random832).. 90bdf7e4 THANKS: Noel Chiappa e0bf944d THANKS: Random832 5a1c023c nail.1: furtherly clarify doc. of \cX (Doug McIlroy).. fb88d4fb THANKS: Doug McIlroy a396678a Implement `echon' and `echoerrn' ("echo -n" and "echo >&2 -n") c5197719 cmd_tab.h: `wysh' for more commands! d33294c2 mk-release.inc: use %B for $DATE_MAN (Baptiste Daroussin).. ad34b768 THANKS: Baptiste Daroussin f53248dd Support `vput' for `cwd' eafa9411 (BWDIC!) Defaults for *datefield{-markout-older}* (Debian #855582; r.ductor).. 871a1e3f THANKS: Riccardo Ductor a256ebb2 (BWDIC!) sendout.c:__mta_start(): with SMTP *mta*, do not send to aliases! 5ab93627 MLE: set FEXP_NOPROTO for mle-complete expansions (Ralph Corderoy) 78c30e08 `read': work more like shells.. ada72661 ~<: add "- [HERE-delimiter]" for pasting etc. (Ralph Corderoy) 5669e8a2 `vexpr': add "random" subcommand acb887b4 (BWDIC!) *mta-arguments*: parse via shell-style quoting 9cddf95c (BWDIC!) For all shell commands, use shell-style quoting 72faa445 New quoting rules for `unset', `varshow', `varedit' ceaac3b7 `vexpr': add "hash" subcommand 96888b9a Add *{smime,ssl}-ca-flags*.. 3bfd2182 Use TLS S(erver)N(ame)I(ndication) as appropriate (RFC 7817) d4d46c42 Add `charsetalias', and use it (Pietro Cerutti, mutt#3925) c9051911 THANKS: Pietro Cerutti 72b43d61 README: Add "Security record" section f83564ea c_[Ss]croll(): use new shell-style argument quoting 63a167f8 `source', `source_if': use new shell-style argument quoting 5ce2b406 (BWDIC!) FIX false decision: for `if' etc., add -le,-gt.. operators.. f3404bc1 (BWDIC!) Redefine all CODECS, add `shcodec', change `addrcodec'.. 215c5cc2 Our own layer onto errno, yet too high 911bf9d1 Add *^* multiplexer; yet $^ERR{,DOC,NAME}{,-xy}.. 65e2b75f Redefine VIP handling of variables (Ralph Corderoy).. 8235d440 Implement `xcall' stack-avoidance optimization 5e75768e Finally add `sleep' (to be able to test ^C more easily) 6c8b5c77 `headerpick': no more multiplexer, add `unheaderpick' 1c342dd5 C****Y BSD signal handling! Try improve ^C stability.. 90529c5f Add `(un)?commandalias', obsolete `(un)?ghost' 5fd6da65 (BWDIC!) No! Let $! be errno, and $? the sole exit status.. f7f2781b `addrcodec': add `skin' subcommand, add an `encode' mode 59cb4714 Add *log-prefix* (with i3val), for reproduceabilities sake 658567b5 (BWDIC!) make.rc,mk-conf.sh: VAL_NAIL -> VAL_MAILX == Preview 4 == 952a52b7 Improve shell parser sequencing; changes \c@.. 9ab5c1ef CRY OUT LOUD and tweak/explain the latter! [This "latter" not _that_ latter] 8855fdd6 Obsolete *bsdannounce*, cover it via *header* (unless *posix*) eabb7eaf (BWDIC!) Add `(un)?filetype', obsolete *file-hook**, .gz etc. support++.. 41f21c2a `charsetalias', `filetype', `shortcut': show given with one arg c35072cb Add *build-os{,env}* and *version-date* 782e53f4 Support `vput' for `!' af56d082 (BWDIC!) c_varedit(): do not strip ANYTHING from user data! 4676f016 `vexpr': add "makeprint" subcommand 162cafb7 *mime-counter-evidence*, bit 4: allow "soft" controls (Jörg Schilling).. 0ee3f647 THANKS: Jörg Schilling fc1e07dd a_nag_altnames: n_strlist* instead of char**; "alternates -": clear! 9d20238d Extend $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH coverage to randoms+.. 7039d7f4 Outsource some constants to new config.h; use mk-* for mk stuff 6954954d Support protocol:// prefix to fixate++ `file'++ type 90861930 Readd removed fflush()/fseek() in between read and write.. [That should credit Jörg Schilling indeed] aae47707 Tweak previous, and include O_CREAT in "a+" (Jörg Schilling).. c477c146 Add OPT_ASAN_{ADDRESS,MEMORY} options.. c377e332 Ensure *mta* and *mta-argv0* have default values (again) fa874a8e Add VAL_CONTACT_{MAIL,WEB}, and *contact-{mail,web}* 3e4441f8 a_main_usage(): new synopsis (Doug McIlroy) afce84e1 Rework test framework a bit, introduce [test-out] branch 5bfdcde7 (BWDIC!) Add *record-files*; fix *record* for `[Rr]esend' with only files 4898618e Maildir: add test; change to Courier filenames, Torek hash++ 969f7059 `history': show mode: change output, act on *verbose*+ 17b91f60 Do not "imply *dot*" with *ignoreeof* - unless *posix* 7457ac57 MLE: allow hist-{,srch-}fwd to start history lookup 539c510c Add *ifs* (and *ifs-ws*) variables c6a93f72 `read': support and split as indicated by *ifs* fc10001f Drop the `~' `call' "alias", it always has been a bad idea.. 01d99c30 `vpospar': manage positional parameters, à la "set --", but round-trip 0b7f9d38 `read': trim_ifs(), $?/$! semantics rewrite; fix -1 input error case 3659cffa Add VAL_MIME_TYPES_{SYS,USR} to make.rc (from config.h) f99c672b Add *ssl-curves* (for TLSv1.3) 2aab72f6 Add `readctl' command.. 8a8b0478 Obsolete `[Rr]edirect' 8f61025b FIX icase hmaps (`charsetalias', `filetype', `mlist') (rain1) a794370f THANKS: rain1 95c24391 Pass through the real exit status of command from `!' f892438e Fix all `spamXY' cmds and `mbox': do not allow deleted+ msgs 2e6a811d a_termcap_init_var(): numerics not necessarily decimal (Thomas Dickey).. 9d6b190d `~^ header': add `remove-at', test in t_behave_compose_hooks ++.. 9d58267f config.h+: add n_PATH_DEVNULL, use it instead of hardcoding (Xin LI) ae55f33d THANKS: Xin LI a6b934bf (BWDIC!) `mimetype': only support one type per call (no more quotes!) eb237db8 (BWDIC!) `if'+: add operator modifiers; change defaults: case-sensitive! 1acdc481 Command escapes: support $!/$?, and honour *errexit* (somewhat) 2228d220 `shell': support $! and $? 71c647a8 (BWDIC!) Add `partview', change MIME part handler semantics.. f71daf4e Tweak splice hooks, and, eh, pfffh!!, n_child_wait()! dd94be65 ~[Rr]: "- DELIM": may need to quote delim in future bcfeecbf Introduce *on-compose-cleanup* (we don't support roff .env's...) 62358d22 More `alternates' processing: a 2nd "pure", non-extended run e9665a17 `echoerr': use error ring queue if interactive and available 4099f8ae `shift': _allow_ in hook/account if stack created via `vpospar'! e1ed6492 Change *on-compose-{enter,leave}* environment + fixes.. d41fc323 Better hook support: *mailx-{raw,orig}-* a.k.a. Mailx-{Raw,Orig}-From:.. 0869563c Support *on-resend-{enter,cleanup}*.. 077f5299 Add n_locale_init(), track $LC_{ALL,CTYPE} and $LANG (for *ttycharset*) 2f5e3b9e `exit', `quit': support optional exit status argument 0bcd8428 cc-test.sh: use ourselfs when detecting UTF-8 locale.. 4009dc54 `xcall': simply be `call' if used from non-macro context 027513b0 a_folder_info(): print "+[FOLDER]rest" if under folder (as applicable) 3606b399 (BWDIC!) Fix *imap-delim* behaviour.. 711ea310 Actively forbid copy from POP3 to IMAP == RC 1 == 77d5ce64 (BWDIC!) `partview' -> `mimeview' dee808d3 Obsolete *encoding* in favour of *mime-encoding* 9cf6f840 (BWDIC!) Require new *termcap-ca-mode* to enter ca-mode a1652172 (BWDIC!) Add `unalternates', drop *alternates* + "alternates -" idiotism.. 4fa2f33c ~t, ~c, ~b: better (read: now performed) $! / $? handling dfc8d959 Blind fly to address GSSAPI leaks and such b47b321c Support IDNA in URL hostnames. Finally!! 8075cf00 Support *socks-proxy* (SOCKS5) (Gaetan Bisson) f61379cb MLE: fix ^D / *ignoreeof* handling 34b66785 main.c: support $COLUMNS/$LINES in non-interactive batch mode Appendix ^^^^^^^^ The complete changelog of commits in between two versions OLD and NEW can be inspected by using the git(1) `log' command: $ git log --reverse --topo-order --abbrev-commit OLD..NEW # Only topic branch headers (--no-merges for content commits only): $ git log --oneline --reverse --topo-order --merges OLD..NEW # Same, but truly accessible: $ git log --oneline --reverse --topo-order --merges --parents OLD..NEW | while read c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6; do printf "%-24s: \$ git log --oneline --no-merges %s ^%s\n" \ "${c6}" "${c1}" "${c2}"; done The vXX.X.* announcements have been shortened at this point; to see the elder entries please have a look at [1]. 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From: Steffen N. <st...@sd...> - 2016-12-16 15:15:44
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Hallo Martin. I am in the process of improving yesterdays commit after having read your message. Just one clarification.. Martin Neitzel <ne...@ga...> wrote: ... |One needs to be aware about the difference about the "header from address" |and the "envelope from address". | |The former is set by the mailx "from" variable. This is the address |visible to the recipients, in the --no surprise here-- the email's |"From: ...." header line. | |The "envelope from address" is only passed between MTAs and used |as the address to send any errors to to. "-r" tries to set this, |but your MTA may be configured to ignore that flag. (With sendmail(8), |you'd need to be in the "Trusted users" class to have -r any effect.) | | |(The reasoning behind having those two, different becomes a bit |easer to understand if you think of mailing lists: | |Your email to the list is marked "From: fe...@fe..." in |the header, and the envelope sender started out as the same address. |But the mailing list software at sourceforge.net reset the envelope |(= error) address to "the list maintainers" (=software + real people), |because YOU couldn't deal with any problematic recipients but THEY can.) This is not correct to the best of my understanding. The RFC 5321 reverse-path (as in "MAIL FROM:<reverse-path>") will not change but always remain the same until delivery to the destination(s). ... |PS: A note regarding s-nail and "Errors-To:": This was the |technique for the time when envelope senders didn't exist yet. |I'd rather see this header die -- these days, it's just one more |knob to make the world complex. Yes, it seems to come from UUCP. I think i will redo all that and rename that mysterious *r-option-implicit* option to *from-is-reverse-path* or something similar, which might be better and fit better into the big picture. Ciao, and a nice weekend for everyone. --steffen |
From: Martin N. <ne...@ga...> - 2016-12-15 23:57:43
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Hi Felipe, the nail/mailx man page is misleading/wrong, yes. "-r" and "set from ..." are not equivalent. Or rather: may or may not be equivalent. One needs to be aware about the difference about the "header from address" and the "envelope from address". The former is set by the mailx "from" variable. This is the address visible to the recipients, in the --no surprise here-- the email's "From: ...." header line. The "envelope from address" is only passed between MTAs and used as the address to send any errors to to. "-r" tries to set this, but your MTA may be configured to ignore that flag. (With sendmail(8), you'd need to be in the "Trusted users" class to have -r any effect.) (The reasoning behind having those two, different becomes a bit easer to understand if you think of mailing lists: Your email to the list is marked "From: fe...@fe..." in the header, and the envelope sender started out as the same address. But the mailing list software at sourceforge.net reset the envelope (= error) address to "the list maintainers" (=software + real people), because YOU couldn't deal with any problematic recipients but THEY can.) Some people are well aware of this distinction, and those can cope with the nail/mailx manual, i.e. eventually recognize that "-r" and "set from=..." are NOT the same but doing (or trying to do) different things. The problem for the manual writers is and will always be: - MTAs can be configured in different ways, - nail/mailx different methods to talk to MTAs are not fixed, either. Summary: it's difficult to make any definite statement, anyway. Fixing the current man page fault will result in little overall net effect, I'm afraid. Martin PS: A note regarding s-nail and "Errors-To:": This was the technique for the time when envelope senders didn't exist yet. I'd rather see this header die -- these days, it's just one more knob to make the world complex. |
From: Steffen N. <st...@sd...> - 2016-12-15 22:20:04
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Hello Stephen, "Stephen Isard" <n64...@sn...> wrote: |On Thu, 15 Dec 2016, Steffen Nurpmeso steffen-at-sdaoden.eu |nail-devel| \ |wrote: |> Looking at the Postfix manual page, i wonder whether i should add |> support for automatically creating Errors-To: headers according to |> the setting of *from*? On the other hand it is not standardized, |> and see [1] for more on this. (Short: it seems only SMTP layer |> "MAIL FROM:<ADDRESS>" will work right. A.k.a. -f for |> sendmail/postfix, or *from* if the SMTP layer is driven by |> nail/mailx.) |> |> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5303541/set-email-headers-so-boun\ |> ced-emails-go-to-a-specific-address | |I would say that you are ok as it is. Your man page correctly describes |what s-nail does, and the problem that the original poster had was with |the mailx man page, not the actual program. He knows how to get the |errors to the address he wants with -r, he was just misled by the man |page into thinking that setting the "from" variable should have had the |same effect. Ne, i then had the absolute opposite impression in the end, Mr. America (if you don't mind that here and so). That is to say, «Oh. Yes!«, i think you are terribly right, and i really hope this yet-another-variable and the extended manual have improved the situation a little bit. And i truly hope that after the break i will come back with new glancing eyes and the distance necessary to see nerd speech. --steffen |
From: Steffen N. <st...@sd...> - 2016-12-15 22:11:52
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Hello Felipe. First: i am the maintainer of a fork of the software discussed here. Felipe Gasper <fe...@fe...> wrote: |… which sounds a lot like saying that “from“ should be able to take \ |“-r”’s place entirely … ? |So is the documentation just not quite right? I have hopefully improved the manual of my fork even more, and also have added a *r-option-implicit* variable so that the automatic deduction via *from* (or *sender*, if *from* contains multiple addresses) can be achieved without using command line options [1]. I have given you credit for that, of course [2]. The manual now reads If the given from-addr is valid then it specifies the envelope sender address (used to report, e.g., message bounces) to be passed to a file-based mta[378] (Mail-Transfer-Agent) as ‘-f address’ when a message is sent. and Note that S-nail by default, without -r that is, neither passes -f nor -F flags to a file-based MTA by itself. One may also set[190] r_option_implicit[416] to gain the automatic deduction (only) without an explicit -r[64] command line option. and (under *from*) If a file-based MTA is used, then from[346] (or, if that contains multiple addresses, sender[430]) can nonetheless be forced to appear as the envelope sender address at the MTA protocol level, either by specifying an empty -r[64] command line option, or by setting the variable r_option_implicit[416]. and r_option_implicit (Boolean) Setting this option evaluates the contents of from[346] (or, if that contains multiple addresses, sender[430]) and passes the results onto the used (file-based) MTA as described for the -r[64] option (empty argument case). which i hope is an improvement, all in all. (Note these URLs are not stable, it is a development branch.) [1] https://git.sdaoden.eu/cgit/s-nail.git/commit/?h=next&id=43fc1f12cf001837aa216cb3c1215408b062697a [2] https://git.sdaoden.eu/cgit/s-nail.git/commit/?h=next&id=c3cf8cdc632aa02ad22ebf22baf4ae4b1242ccfa Ciao. --steffen |
From: Stephen I. <n64...@sn...> - 2016-12-15 21:47:18
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2016, Steffen Nurpmeso steffen-at-sdaoden.eu |nail-devel| wrote: > Looking at the Postfix manual page, i wonder whether i should add > support for automatically creating Errors-To: headers according to > the setting of *from*? On the other hand it is not standardized, > and see [1] for more on this. (Short: it seems only SMTP layer > "MAIL FROM:<ADDRESS>" will work right. A.k.a. -f for > sendmail/postfix, or *from* if the SMTP layer is driven by > nail/mailx.) > > [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5303541/set-email-headers-so-bounced-emails-go-to-a-specific-address I would say that you are ok as it is. Your man page correctly describes what s-nail does, and the problem that the original poster had was with the mailx man page, not the actual program. He knows how to get the errors to the address he wants with -r, he was just misled by the man page into thinking that setting the "from" variable should have had the same effect. Stephen Isard |
From: Steffen N. <st...@sd...> - 2016-12-15 21:15:22
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"Stephen Isard" <n64...@sn...> wrote: |On Thu, 15 Dec 2016, Felipe Gasper felipe-at-felipegasper.com |nail-devel| \ |wrote: |>> On Dec 15, 2016, at 1:40 PM, jg...@sd... wrote: |>> Felipe Gasper <fe...@fe...> wrote: |>>> mailx sends mail using the ?from? address I specify in |>>> ~/.mailrc, but when the message fails it won?t send the |>>> rejection to that address. It *does* send the rejection |> What you say makes sense, but the man page says: |> -r address |> … which sounds a lot like saying that “from” should be able to take \ |> “-r”’s place entirely … ? |> So is the documentation just not quite right? | |That is probably the correct diagnosis. It looks in the code as if "-r |<address>" gets passed on as an argument to sendmail, and the sendmail |man page says that -r is an obsolete form of -f which "Sets the name of |the ''from'' person (i.e., the envelope sender of the mail)", which is |used for delivery notifications. S-nail (v14.9, unreleased, but shipout series similar) says -r from-addr If from-addr is a valid address then it specifies the envelope sender address to be passed to a file-based mta[378] (Mail- Transfer-Agent) as ‘-f address’ when a message is send. Shall from-addr include a user name, then the address components will be separated and the name part will be passed to file-based mta[378] individually via ‘-F name’. The given from-addr will also be assigned to the from[346] variable (as via ‘-Sfrom=from-addr’), therefore affecting possible SMTP mta[378] data transfer; note this assignment does not cause value fixa‐ tion. If instead an empty string is passed as from-addr then the con‐ tent of the variable from[346] will be evaluated and used for this purpose whenever the mta[378] is contacted. Note that S-nail by default, without -r that is, neither passes -f nor -F flags to a file-based MTA by itself. Looking at the Postfix manual page, i wonder whether i should add support for automatically creating Errors-To: headers according to the setting of *from*? On the other hand it is not standardized, and see [1] for more on this. (Short: it seems only SMTP layer "MAIL FROM:<ADDRESS>" will work right. A.k.a. -f for sendmail/postfix, or *from* if the SMTP layer is driven by nail/mailx.) [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5303541/set-email-headers-so-bounced-emails-go-to-a-specific-address --steffen |
From: Stephen I. <n64...@sn...> - 2016-12-15 19:17:37
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2016, Felipe Gasper felipe-at-felipegasper.com |nail-devel| wrote: > >> On Dec 15, 2016, at 1:40 PM, jg...@sd... wrote: >> >> Felipe Gasper <fe...@fe...> wrote: >>> mailx sends mail using the ?from? address I specify in >>> ~/.mailrc, but when the message fails it won?t send the >>> rejection to that address. It *does* send the rejection >>> as expected when I give an address with -r. Is this by >>> design? It seems like a bug; the docs imply that setting >>> ?from? in ~/.mailrc should be a substitute for the -r flag. >>> -FG >> >> Hi Felipe, >> I don't think this is a bug; the "From " field generally gets set by your >> MTA, ie. Sendmail or Postfix, whereas doing 'set from=fr...@mu...g' in >> either ~/.mailrc or ~/.nailrc sets the "From: " field. In my experience >> undeliverable messages get sent to "From " (usually at the very top of >> the message header) and that's the field that the '-r' option is overriding. >> Some setups - ie. multi-user systems - don't allow overriding "From ", >> but obviously yours does. If this is something you want to do regularly >> you might make a shell alias, ie. 'alias nail=nail -r fr...@mu...g' so >> you don't have to think about it. Or set it in your MTA's configuration. > > Hi Jeff, > > Thanks for replying! > > What you say makes sense, but the man page says: > > ------ > -r address > Sets the From address. Overrides any from variable specified in > environment or startup files. Tilde escapes are disabled. The > -r address options are passed to the mail transfer agent unless > SMTP is used. This option exists for compatibility only; it is > recommended to set the from variable directly instead. > ------ > > … which sounds a lot like saying that “from” should be able to take “-r”’s place entirely … ? > So is the documentation just not quite right? That is probably the correct diagnosis. It looks in the code as if "-r <address>" gets passed on as an argument to sendmail, and the sendmail man page says that -r is an obsolete form of -f which "Sets the name of the ''from'' person (i.e., the envelope sender of the mail)", which is used for delivery notifications. Stephen Isard |
From: <jg...@sd...> - 2016-12-15 19:08:38
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Felipe Gasper <fe...@fe...> wrote: > mailx sends mail using the ?from? address I specify in > ~/.mailrc, but when the message fails it won?t send the > rejection to that address. It *does* send the rejection > as expected when I give an address with -r. Is this by > design? It seems like a bug; the docs imply that setting > ?from? in ~/.mailrc should be a substitute for the -r flag. > -FG Hi Felipe, I don't think this is a bug; the "From " field generally gets set by your MTA, ie. Sendmail or Postfix, whereas doing 'set from=fr...@mu...g' in either ~/.mailrc or ~/.nailrc sets the "From: " field. In my experience undeliverable messages get sent to "From " (usually at the very top of the message header) and that's the field that the '-r' option is overriding. Some setups - ie. multi-user systems - don't allow overriding "From ", but obviously yours does. If this is something you want to do regularly you might make a shell alias, ie. 'alias nail=nail -r fr...@mu...g' so you don't have to think about it. Or set it in your MTA's configuration. Hope this helps, Jeff |
From: Felipe G. <fe...@fe...> - 2016-12-15 18:43:10
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> On Dec 15, 2016, at 1:40 PM, jg...@sd... wrote: > > Felipe Gasper <fe...@fe...> wrote: >> mailx sends mail using the ?from? address I specify in >> ~/.mailrc, but when the message fails it won?t send the >> rejection to that address. It *does* send the rejection >> as expected when I give an address with -r. Is this by >> design? It seems like a bug; the docs imply that setting >> ?from? in ~/.mailrc should be a substitute for the -r flag. >> -FG > > Hi Felipe, > I don't think this is a bug; the "From " field generally gets set by your > MTA, ie. Sendmail or Postfix, whereas doing 'set from=fr...@mu...g' in > either ~/.mailrc or ~/.nailrc sets the "From: " field. In my experience > undeliverable messages get sent to "From " (usually at the very top of > the message header) and that's the field that the '-r' option is overriding. > Some setups - ie. multi-user systems - don't allow overriding "From ", > but obviously yours does. If this is something you want to do regularly > you might make a shell alias, ie. 'alias nail=nail -r fr...@mu...g' so > you don't have to think about it. Or set it in your MTA's configuration. Hi Jeff, Thanks for replying! What you say makes sense, but the man page says: ------ -r address Sets the From address. Overrides any from variable specified in environment or startup files. Tilde escapes are disabled. The -r address options are passed to the mail transfer agent unless SMTP is used. This option exists for compatibility only; it is recommended to set the from variable directly instead. ------ … which sounds a lot like saying that “from” should be able to take “-r”’s place entirely … ? So is the documentation just not quite right? -FG |
From: Felipe G. <fe...@fe...> - 2016-12-15 17:28:05
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Hello, mailx sends mail using the “from” address I specify in ~/.mailrc, but when the message fails it won’t send the rejection to that address. It *does* send the rejection as expected when I give an address with -r. Is this by design? It seems like a bug; the docs imply that setting “from” in ~/.mailrc should be a substitute for the -r flag. -FG |
From: Steffen N. <st...@sd...> - 2016-03-25 13:44:18
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Hello John, jo...@ph... wrote: |It's evening here ;-) Beautiful Australia. So enviable (i shouldn't have looked at the weather info, that just made it worse). And a fantastic Queen they have, too... |Keep up the good work - you are doing a great job! |We'll try not to wear your code out by using it! ;-) The tough lot and hard going of a goalkeeper. But the outfielders already start going easy. And yes, just like the Aborigines say, there is no problem in the world that can't be helped by walking! Ciao! --steffen |
From: <jo...@ph...> - 2016-03-25 11:31:12
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Hi Steffen, It's evening here ;-) Keep up the good work - you are doing a great job! We'll try not to wear your code out by using it! ;-) Cheers johnd Steffen Nurpmeso <st...@sd...> wrote: >Good morning John D.! > >jo...@ph... wrote: > |Steffen Nurpmeso <st...@sd...> wrote: > |So how do we encourage the "system" to now consider s-nail as that wh\ > |ich should > |be distributed a replacement/update to "mailx/nail" ? > >By using it? ;) No, v14.9 will bring many changes and >improvements and then i'll really spend time with my other >projects. So i think that except for bugfixes the v14.9 series >will remain rather unchanged for at least two years, which is >plenty of time to look around and try out. In fact i'm even >a little bit unhappy that v14.8 is already included in Debian >/ Ubuntu with its large user base, and will even be available with >the next LTS version (having no real idea of Ubuntu, though). >Others may wait until v15 is released, or (what i don't hope after >all this work) a new fork is based upon another Mail (likely the >one from OpenBSD) and outperforms my one. Who knows. > >I'm happy and a little bit prowd if i see this thing being used, >but what is the most important to me is that it ends up as usable, >flexible craftsmanship that even an expert can look at without >disgust, better yet, if users and experts find goodies here and >there. > >--steffen |
From: Steffen N. <st...@sd...> - 2016-03-25 10:34:50
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Good morning John D.! jo...@ph... wrote: |Steffen Nurpmeso <st...@sd...> wrote: |So how do we encourage the "system" to now consider s-nail as that wh\ |ich should |be distributed a replacement/update to "mailx/nail" ? By using it? ;) No, v14.9 will bring many changes and improvements and then i'll really spend time with my other projects. So i think that except for bugfixes the v14.9 series will remain rather unchanged for at least two years, which is plenty of time to look around and try out. In fact i'm even a little bit unhappy that v14.8 is already included in Debian / Ubuntu with its large user base, and will even be available with the next LTS version (having no real idea of Ubuntu, though). Others may wait until v15 is released, or (what i don't hope after all this work) a new fork is based upon another Mail (likely the one from OpenBSD) and outperforms my one. Who knows. I'm happy and a little bit prowd if i see this thing being used, but what is the most important to me is that it ends up as usable, flexible craftsmanship that even an expert can look at without disgust, better yet, if users and experts find goodies here and there. --steffen |
From: <jo...@ph...> - 2016-03-24 23:38:15
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Steffen Nurpmeso <st...@sd...> wrote: >Good morning, > ... <Snipped> >The POSIX standard mandates those to be disabled by default[2], >but i set them by in the default system-global rc file of S-nail >(later S-mailx)[1], Heirloom mailx seems to set at least *hold* by >default[3]. I say "seems" because i have forgotten it - it is >2825 commits behind S-nail v14.8.6, 2839 commits behind [master] >and 3016 commits behind my development branch that will improve >things much further and will come with the northern hemisphere >summer. ^_^ >Ciao! So how do we encourage the "system" to now consider s-nail as that which should be distributed a replacement/update to "mailx/nail" ? Cheers johnd |
From: Howard G. <hg...@su...> - 2016-03-24 17:26:43
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Thank you very much Jeff and Steffen. “set hold keepsave” definitely helps with my use case. I also experimented with “set keepsave”, but strangely it does not retain the emails on IMAP server, contradicting to the description of “keepsave” option in the manual page. How is it so? Happy long weekend ahead! Regards, Howard From: jg...@sd... Sent: 24 March 2016 18:10 To: nai...@li... Subject: Re: [nail-devel] How to read a mail without having it saved intombox file? Steffen Nurpmeso <st...@sd...> wrote: > Howard Guo <hg...@su...> wrote: > |I am using heirloom mailx to read emails directly from IMAP server. F\ > |or reason unbeknownst to me mailx always deletes a mail and saves it \ > |to "mbox" file, but I want all emails to stay on IMAP server and none\ > | of them to be stored on my disk. > | > |How to configure mailrc to get the desired behaviour? > > Do "set hold keepsave".. > > hold (Boolean) This option is used to hold messages in the system > mailbox, and it is set by default. > > keepsave (Boolean) When a message is saved it is usually discarded from > the originating folder when S-nail is quit. Setting this > option causes all saved message to be retained. Hey Howard, I use heirloom-mailx with 10+ IMAP accounts and just including a 'set hold' within the account curly braces seems to be enough. You can see an example ~/.nailrc file on SDF.org[1] > .. > I say "seems" because i have forgotten it - it is > 2825 commits behind S-nail.. Seems like a lot of commits for a mature code base. <snip unnecessary plug for another project> Jeff [1] http://sdf.org/tutorials/dotfiles/.nailrc_jgw ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785351&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ nail-devel mailing list nai...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nail-devel |
From: <jg...@sd...> - 2016-03-24 17:10:12
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Steffen Nurpmeso <st...@sd...> wrote: > Howard Guo <hg...@su...> wrote: > |I am using heirloom mailx to read emails directly from IMAP server. F\ > |or reason unbeknownst to me mailx always deletes a mail and saves it \ > |to "mbox" file, but I want all emails to stay on IMAP server and none\ > | of them to be stored on my disk. > | > |How to configure mailrc to get the desired behaviour? > > Do "set hold keepsave".. > > hold (Boolean) This option is used to hold messages in the system > mailbox, and it is set by default. > > keepsave (Boolean) When a message is saved it is usually discarded from > the originating folder when S-nail is quit. Setting this > option causes all saved message to be retained. Hey Howard, I use heirloom-mailx with 10+ IMAP accounts and just including a 'set hold' within the account curly braces seems to be enough. You can see an example ~/.nailrc file on SDF.org[1] > .. > I say "seems" because i have forgotten it - it is > 2825 commits behind S-nail.. Seems like a lot of commits for a mature code base. <snip unnecessary plug for another project> Jeff [1] http://sdf.org/tutorials/dotfiles/.nailrc_jgw |
From: Steffen N. <st...@sd...> - 2016-03-24 10:59:06
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Good morning, Howard Guo <hg...@su...> wrote: |I am using heirloom mailx to read emails directly from IMAP server. F\ Uh! |or reason unbeknownst to me mailx always deletes a mail and saves it \ |to "mbox" file, but I want all emails to stay on IMAP server and none\ | of them to be stored on my disk. | |How to configure mailrc to get the desired behaviour? Do "set hold keepsave" (maybe read [1]). hold (Boolean) This option is used to hold messages in the system mailbox, and it is set by default. keepsave (Boolean) When a message is saved it is usually discarded from the originating folder when S-nail is quit. Setting this option causes all saved message to be retained. The POSIX standard mandates those to be disabled by default[2], but i set them by in the default system-global rc file of S-nail (later S-mailx)[1], Heirloom mailx seems to set at least *hold* by default[3]. I say "seems" because i have forgotten it - it is 2825 commits behind S-nail v14.8.6, 2839 commits behind [master] and 3016 commits behind my development branch that will improve things much further and will come with the northern hemisphere summer. ^_^ Ciao! [1] http/https://www.sdaoden.eu/code-nail.html#17 [2] http/https://www.sdaoden.eu/code-nail.html#29 [3] http/https://git.sdaoden.eu/cgit/s-nail.git/tree/nail.rc?h=heirloom --steffen |
From: Howard G. <hg...@su...> - 2016-03-24 07:48:00
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Hello mail xperts. I am using heirloom mailx to read emails directly from IMAP server. For reason unbeknownst to me mailx always deletes a mail and saves it to "mbox" file, but I want all emails to stay on IMAP server and none of them to be stored on my disk. How to configure mailrc to get the desired behaviour? Many thanks. Regards, Howard |
From: Steffen N. <st...@sd...> - 2016-01-26 21:15:08
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"João M. S. Silva" <joa...@gm...> wrote: |On 01/23/2016 12:09 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> For sendmail it seems you have to set the use_ct_file option and |> create / edit /etc/mail/trusted-users (or whatever you've set |> confCT_FILE to). Or you set confTRUSTED_USERS. |> I've not yet made it to the exim manual. | |Thanks. I think I'm gonna go with postfix instead. If I come back to |sendmail I'll check this configuration you suggest. | |I was "able" to put my sendmail installation not working when I messed |with the configuration. | |On the other hand, I configured postfix in another machine and it seems |easier. | |I remember seeing a comic strip in which they made fun of how hard it |was to configure sendmail. It was like a homeless man with a board |saying "I configure sendmail for food" or something like that. "You are grazy if you try it a second time" or something. My problem was solely the documentation. But i've got something working. The problems that remain i could handle with some nice firewall rules. But especially iptables' conntrack / recent. And such :o) And it seems i'm heading towards exim, i like stuff with a good manual (though FreeBSD ships something that might be complete in /usr/share, some spoken context words i personally appreciate) -- the good thing is that there are options. If you are working with a smart host DMA may be something for you, too. I have no idea how it works regarding -f, though. :-) Ciao! --steffen |
From: João M. S. S. <joa...@gm...> - 2016-01-25 19:16:50
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On 01/23/2016 12:24 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > I don't understand? I thought you want to go over Gmail? I need to go beyond Gmail's spam checks, but not necessarily through Gmail's SMTP servers. It makes more sense to use the SMTP server from our registered domain. I haven't thought of that before. If we didn't have a registered domain I could also go through Vodafone's SMTP. I've checked with them, and the clients are allowed to use it. I've learned a lot with you guys, and now I have more tools to achieve my goal. I'm doing some experiments. Now it all makes more sense in my head. > I guess around these lines is Heirloom > > account gmail { > set smtp-use-starttls > set smtp=smtp://smtp.gmail.com:587 > set smtp-auth=login > set smtp-auth-user='''USER'''@gmail.com > set smtp-auth-password='''PASSWORD''' > set from="Your alias of choice abc" > } > > and for S-nail you can use > > set v15-compat > account gmail { > localopts yes > set from="Your Name <ad...@ex...e>" > set smtp=USER:PA...@sm... smtp-use-starttls > } > > which worked once i've tried it last. Note that USER:PASS have to > be URL-encoded, do the following to convert: > > $ s-nail > ? urlencode USER > output > ? urlencode PASS > ouput > ? x Thanks. João M. S. Silva |
From: João M. S. S. <joa...@gm...> - 2016-01-25 19:11:10
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On 01/23/2016 12:09 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > For sendmail it seems you have to set the use_ct_file option and > create / edit /etc/mail/trusted-users (or whatever you've set > confCT_FILE to). Or you set confTRUSTED_USERS. > I've not yet made it to the exim manual. Thanks. I think I'm gonna go with postfix instead. If I come back to sendmail I'll check this configuration you suggest. I was "able" to put my sendmail installation not working when I messed with the configuration. On the other hand, I configured postfix in another machine and it seems easier. I remember seeing a comic strip in which they made fun of how hard it was to configure sendmail. It was like a homeless man with a board saying "I configure sendmail for food" or something like that. João M. S. Silva |
From: Steffen N. <st...@sd...> - 2016-01-23 12:24:09
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"João M. S. Silva" <joa...@gm...> wrote: |On 01/21/2016 06:38 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> That is to say, i've never tried to circumvent such problems over |> via MTA, but for direct SMTP (which nail/mailx supports) it is So, for sendmail the message i've just send should give the necessary options. |> usually possible to use a *from* setting different from the |> identity of your account. The S-nail manual shows examples[1], |> and the ArchLinux Wiki does, too[2]. Just like my previous |> speaker said, over Gmail it should work. |> |> [1] https://www.sdaoden.eu/code-nail.html#34 |> [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/S-nail |> |> --steffen |> | |Yes... I can possibly use smtp.fidelio.pt, since we have the domain |registered. Would that change anything, since in that case |snaper###fidelio.pt will be legitimate? | |I'm also trying to know if my ISP (Vodafone) provides SMTP service. But |using fidelio.pt would make more sense. I don't understand? I thought you want to go over Gmail? I guess around these lines is Heirloom account gmail { set smtp-use-starttls set smtp=smtp://smtp.gmail.com:587 set smtp-auth=login set smtp-auth-user='''USER'''@gmail.com set smtp-auth-password='''PASSWORD''' set from="Your alias of choice abc" } and for S-nail you can use set v15-compat account gmail { localopts yes set from="Your Name <ad...@ex...e>" set smtp=USER:PA...@sm... smtp-use-starttls } which worked once i've tried it last. Note that USER:PASS have to be URL-encoded, do the following to convert: $ s-nail ? urlencode USER output ? urlencode PASS ouput ? x --steffen |