Getmail

18 August 2004

-change oldmail file writing to save a few bytes of disk space
-documentation additions.
-Python's standard library email.Message().flatten() could barf on certain
types of badly mis-formatted messages (instead of the during instantiation,
like the /other/ buggy cases). Hope this is fixed in Python 2.4. Developed
a work-around for getmail. Thanks: Jürgen Nagel.
-changes to "normal" output of getmail to make it slightly less verbose.

12 August 2004

-cosmetic fix to output: add whitespace after timestamp when not retrieving
message. Thanks: Matthias Andree.
-include MANIFEST.in in source distribution, to assist users in building
"built distributions" from it.
-change a few output messages' level to make verbose mode slightly less
verbose, and add --debug switch to get "more verbose" behaviour.

9 August 2004

-fix cosmetic error for IMAP mailboxes with 0 messages in them.
-change method of obtaining uidvalidity from IMAP server and remove wrapper.
-previously, connecting to an IMAP-SSL server could fail if a non-SSL
IMAP connection were attempted immediately before. This was due to
the Python bug discussed here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=945642&group_id=5470&atid=305470
Implemented a workaround for getmail. Thanks: Payal Rathod.

6 August 2004

-add an extra error message if you ask getmail to deliver to a maildir,
but getmail can't check the contents of it due to permissions.
Thanks: Clemens Buschmann.
-fix breakage introduced in 4.0.7: getmail would forget a message was "seen"
after a cycle of not retrieving it. Thanks: Payal Rathod.

5 August 2004

-change failure of a message filter to produce at least as many mail headers
as it was provided from a fatal to a non-fatal error. The message will
be skipped. Thanks: Payal Rathod.
-a few non-conformant IMAP4 servers don't implement SEARCH, so getmail
couldn't get a list of UIDs. Changed to use FETCH instead.
Thanks: Matthias Andree.
-prevent traceback if IMAP SSL connection closed during connect().
Thanks: Payal Rathod.
-add warning if unknown parameters are supplied to a retriever, filter,
or destination.
-write subclasses of Python imaplib classes to work around missing
UIDVALIDITY select() response. Add it to the state getmail keeps.
Thanks: Matthias Andree.
-move message state saving to later, so getmail doesn't falsely remember
having handled a message. Thanks: Matthias Andree.
-change location of documentation/man pages to
<prefix>/share/{doc/getmail,man}/ to be more comformant with the FHS.
-documentation updates

4 August 2004

-if the connection failed in a certain way, getmail could forget which
messages it had already retrieved, and therefore retrieve them again when
the next successful connection occurred. Fixed. Thanks: Wim Uyttebroek.
-add win32 executable installer as third download option.