X-Git-Url: http://git.marmaro.de/?p=mmh;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=c15f910790f4e5a130bafeee96914c42c800378e;hp=8d7c45ce845fad774bcb6a4d9553be3f937240ef;hb=985869792a2afcc507d8bbd43f88680e81e3cc20;hpb=898bc853c79a8a8506f39c6f57a7febe98b6afe4 diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 8d7c45c..c15f910 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,84 @@ +Wed Apr 05 21:09:28 2000 Dan Harkless + + * Applied Eric Schnoebelen 's mhshowsbr.c patch + fixing apparent bugs in Dan Winship's new security quoting code: + + Since upgrading, I've been getting the following errors + while attempting to process some MIME messages: + + (1) Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string + exit 2 + + and: + + (2) line 1/10 (END)Segmentation fault (core dumped) + + (2) appears to be due to the testing of an unset pointer in + mhshowsbr.c:show_multi_aux(). (1) appears to be caused by + mis-quoting a filename being handed to the shell in + mhshowsbr.c:show_content_aux(). + + Resolving the pointer reference issue in + mhshowsbr.c:show_multi_aux() turned up a similar mis-quoting + problem in the routine. + +Tue Mar 28 16:17:39 2000 Doug Morris + + * Applied Todd.Miller@courtesan.com's patch to dropsbr.c to + prevent core dumping on packf. Here's the note from his message: + + Since sizeof(buffer) == sizeof(tmpbuffer) packf will dump + core on a file w/o a From line with a line >= BUFSIZ. + I noticed this because I had a junk file in my mail + spool somehow. + +Fri Mar 17 11:59:33 2000 Dan Harkless + + * wesley.craig@umich.edu did not document his previous KPOP patch, + so I did so, and asked him to check what I wrote. Unfortunately + he didn't notice my misunderstanding of his patch. I wrote that + if you #define POPSERVICE "kpop", inc and msgchk will use KPOP + exclusively, but if you leave it as "pop3", you can use Wesley's + new -kpop switch on a given invocation. Instead, however, -kpop + turned out to be necessary on every invocation, and a KPOP user + complained. Applied Wesley's new patch, which makes things work + like I thought his original patch did. After that, did one more + clarifying pass to the documentation in inc.man and msgchk.man. + +Wed Mar 15 18:45:45 2000 Dan Harkless + + * When I fixed the long-standing makedir() bugs in January, I had + the code call strtoul(..., 0), which I believed to be safe as all + modes specified as ASCII constants in the nmh code started with a + leading zero (signifying octal), which I did as it would work if + internal constants were ever changed to hex. Unfortunately I was + unaware of the "Folder-Protect:" .mh_profile entry, which + mh-profile.man documents as an octal-only constant, with no + leading zero required. I've changed the strtoul() call to an + atooi() call and removed the misleading leading zeroes on the + ASCII octal constants in the code and man pages. Also changed the + "Folder-Protect:" example in the man page to something more + interesting than a duplication of the default. + + * When I added my --enable-masquerade option, you'll note that I + didn't make it --enable-nmh-masquerade. I find the --enable-nmh-* + options too wordy and I'm not sure why Richard went that route. + I've renamed them to just --enable-*, but the old versions will + still work as well (they just aren't advertised). + + * Added a line to the "nmh configuration" output saying whether + POP is enabled. + + * Added a new README.developers file. From the file: + + This file is intended to provide a few tips for anyone doing + development on nmh. Developers who learn things "the hard + way" about the nmh codebase (as opposed to local info best + encoded in a comment) are encouraged to share their wisdom + here. + + Currently the topics are "autoconf files" and "directory structure". + Tue Mar 14 12:41:48 2000 Dan Harkless * Applied, after some finessing, @@ -45,12 +126,15 @@ Tue Mar 14 12:41:48 2000 Dan Harkless "19 Jan 00" as the date. The following works around this so that scan, show, sortm, etc work ok. - * Added scan.MMDDYY and scan.YYYYMMDD format files. + I put Simon's patch under the control of a new #define called + FIX_NON_Y2K_COMPLIANT_MUA_DATES. There's some commentary in + acconfig.h about when you might not want to #define it. + + * Created new dtimep.c-lexed with Simon's change using dtimep.lex + lexed on Solaris 2.6. Added missing dependency in + zotnet/tws/Makefile.in for dtimep.c: dtimep.c-lexed. - * Changed strdup() in strdup.c to take a _const_ char*. Don't - know why this didn't hit anyone before, but I wasn't able to - compile on Solaris 2.6 without doing this, due to a "previous - declaration" error. + * Added scan.MMDDYY and scan.YYYYMMDD format files. Mon Mar 13 21:32:00 2000 Dan Harkless @@ -177,13 +261,18 @@ Fri Feb 04 12:29:12 2000 Dan Harkless * Whoever originally added the -help switch to all the commands got too cute and had the option itself print out as "-(help)" in - the -help output. I guess the idea was to make reference to the - fact that clearly you know about the -help option since you're - currently looking at its output. I think it's a bad idea to - overload the meaning of the parentheses, however -- they're + the -help output. One theory is that they were making reference + to the fact that clearly you know about the -help option since + you're currently looking at its output. I think it's a bad idea + to overload the meaning of the parentheses, however -- they're supposed to indicate what abbreviated prefix of the switch you're - allowed to specify. It doesn't make sense to show that you're - allowed to "abbreviate" the switch to its entire length. + allowed to specify. + + The other theory is that because you can say something like + "mhstore -" and get "mhstore: - ambiguous. It matches" followed + by the same list of switches you get with -help, they were saying + you can "sorta" abbreviate "-help" as "-". You don't get the + "Usage:" string, though, so it's not really the same thing. Thu Feb 03 17:52:01 2000 Dan Harkless @@ -194,8 +283,8 @@ Thu Feb 03 17:52:01 2000 Dan Harkless also makes "-kpop" a command line option, for users who would like to use both "kpop" and "pop". - Did no testing of the new features, as I don't have access to a - KPOP server. + Did no testing of the new features, as I don't have access to a + KPOP server. * Modified inc.man and msgchk.man to document Wesley's new -kpop. @@ -212,11 +301,12 @@ Fri Jan 28 17:39:24 2000 Dan Harkless Thu Jan 27 12:22:25 2000 Dan Harkless - * makedir() had multiple bugs dating back to MH. It passed an - octal constant to atoi(), which interpreted it as decimal, - resulting in directories with no user read or execute permissions, - making nested directory creation fail. Also, when creating a - nested directory, correct permissions were only set on the inner one. + * makedir() had multiple bugs dating back to MH. An octal + constant was apparently being interpreted as decimal, resulting in + directories with no user read or execute permissions, making + nested directory creation fail. And there wasn't even an + _attempt_ to set desired permissions (e.g. from "Folder-Protect:" + in .mh_profile) on the outer directories of a nested directory. * A second `make install' would always fail because the check for whether mh_profile.5 existed was written incorrectly.