12 February 2019 -experimental: when SSL SNI support is present in the underlying Python (and OpenSSL), send SNI by default in the SSL setup. This should work around Gmail's brokenness with TLSv.1.3 connections when SNI is not sent.
5.9
-documentation-only update; add note with workaround for Gmail SSL connections with OpenSSL 1.1.1 and later. -update copyright dates.
5.8
9 November 2018 -fix problem handling IMAP errors introduced in 5.7. Thanks: Andreas Reuleaux.
5.7
30 October 2018 -when users specify an SSL version that no longer exists in the Python ssl module, do not result in an unhandled exception. Thanks: "nandre". -catch IMAP UNAVAILABLE temporary error during login. Thanks: Dario Corti.
5.6
02 April 2018 -fix references to version 4 in README. Thanks: Daniel Kahn Gillmor. -add Gmail-specific XOAUTH2 login support for IMAP. Thanks: Stefan Krah.
5.5
18 December 2017 -feature request: added record_mailbox configuration parameter, to allow turning off the header getmail adds with this information. Thanks: Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Osamu Aoki, Josh Triplett.