Getmail

15 June 2004

-fix default values in three classes' parameters which previously relied
on type conversion. Thanks: Andrew Raines.
-fix default port for POP3-over-SSL and "username" parameter in documentation.
Thanks: Frankye Fattarelli.
-enable delete and read_all in [options] of rc file. Change handling of
verbose.

15 June 2004

-fix typo in processing filters. Thanks: K. Shantanu.
-fix typo in processing non-default parameters. Thanks: Andrew Raines.
-document SSL retrievers
-move retrievers.py configuration functionality into ConfigurableBase class
-convert filters.py to use ConfigurableBase
-convert destinations.py to use ConfigurableBase

14 June 2004

-fix default/'default' in filters module. Thanks: Andrew Raines.
-add the mix-in classes for SSL support with POP3 classes. Meant small
rewrites to the POP3 classes, but the design should be even cleaner now.

14 June 2004

-first alpha release of getmail version 4


Changes since getmail version 3
-------------------------------

-complete rewrite
-switch to Python version 2.3.3:
-increased code readability (augmented assignment, list comprehensions,
string methods, etc)
-eliminate external modules (ConfParser, timeoutsocket)
-use standard library modules which have come up to reasonable levels
of quality and functionality over old custom code (optparse,
ConfigParser)
-no longer require workarounds for older, broken standard library modules/
functions
-modular, object-oriented framework for retrievers, destinations, filters
allows extensibility
-make more platform-agnostic (transparently support system EOL convention,
etc)
-support for multiple retriever/account types:
-POP (single-user, multidrop, SDPS)
-IMAPv4 (single-user, multidrop)
-full native support for POP3-over-SSL and IMAP-over-SSL.
-configuration (rc) file format changes:
-support multiple rc files per invocation
-one mail account per rc file