Alpine 2.20 Released
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This version is released under the Apache License Version 2.0.
Version 2.20 includes several new features and bug fixes.
Additions include:
- Upgrade UW-IMAP to Panda IMAP from
https://github.com/jonabbey/panda-imap.
- S/MIME: Add screen to manage certificates.
- S/MIME: Signatures are validated using the user's certificates instead
of the ones included in the message. Behavior can be disabled by
disabling the option "Validate Using Certificate Store Only"
which is enabled by default.
- S/MIME: sign messages using intermediate certificates when needed and possible.
- S/MIME: validation of certificates for servers that modify signed content.
- S/MIME: signed and encrypted messages will be signed first and
encrypted second, so that they can be decoded by other clients.
- S/MIME: add the sender certificate to the list of certificates in
encrypted messages to make it possible for the sender to decrypt
the message they sent.
- S/MIME: When transferring certificates to a local
container, create container with default names PublicContainer,
PrivateContainer and CAContainer, as appropriate for these files,
unless the user has provided some other names.
- HTML: Style tag in body of html message causes Alpine
to not write its content until a new </style>
- HTML: <BR>, <BR />, and <BR/> are
considered the same inline tag, the same is valid for the
<HR> tag.
- S/MIME: Forwarding a message will include the signed
part as part of the text and not as a multipart message, just as
the reply command does.
- Unix Alpine: If a password file is defined, and S/MIME is enabled,
the key and certificate used to encrypt the password file are saved
in the ~/.alpine-smime/.pwd directory, or in the directory specified
by the -pwdcertdir command line option.
- Add support to selective expunge through a subcommand of the
select-apply commands.
- Pico: New subcommand of the search command, allows to reverse the
direction of search.
- Add /tls1, /tls1_1, /tls1_2 and /dtls1 to the definition of a
server to use different ways to connect using ssl, for
example {server.com/tls1} will attempt to connect to
server.com at the ssl imap port (port 993) and establish a
connection using TLSv1. These flags can be used in
conjunction with the /ssl flag, the ssl flag is redundant.
Conversely, however, the /ssl flag does not imply any of
these flags; the /ssl flag means SSLv3 or, if not available,
SSLv2 in the SSL port.
- Alpine does not attempt to automatically reopen a collection
that was not opened due to cancellation by the user.
Instead, the user must try to open it explicitly.
- Alpine searches for a certificate that matches an email address in
all addresses in a certificate (instead of just the first
one) but when it tries to unlock the certificate, it asks
for the password for the first email address in that
certificate.
- Experimental: Write the content-type of a message in
lowercase, as some non-compliant servers do not understand
uppercase content-type, such as those of GMX.de.
- Experimental: Do not send the RSET command before attempting
to send a message, as this causes a delay in some evily managed
servers.
- Opening a folder updates recent count in maildrops (this
already works for other types of folders)
- Automatically redraw screen after opening an attachment
instead of simply clearing it.
- Pico: Justification works without need of a predefined quote
string. This allows justification of blocks of text that are
indented with spaces.
- Decode the name of attachment names, so they can be written as part
of the description of the part.
- Check bounds and tie strings off to improve security. Contributed
by James Jerkins.
- Replace tabs by spaces in From and Subject fields to control for
size in screen of these fields. Change only in index screen display.
- Aggregate operations allows bouncing a list of messages using a role.
Suggested by Ulf-Dietrich Braumann.
- Disable saving new passwords to the password file. Implemented
by Louis Raphael from dpslabs.com.
- Makefile: Add $(LIBINTL) to the flags to link rpdump, rpload,
alpined and alpineldap because MAC OSX 10.8 x86_64 needs it. Reported by
Charles M. Register.
Bugs that have been addressed include:
- S/MIME: signed messages that contained an attachment would not validate.
- S/MIME: signed and encrypted messages from Thunderbird would not
validate. Thanks to Andreas Schamanek for testing, debugging and
advising during the process of fixing this problem.
- S/MIME: Forwarding messages with multipart content-type failed to be signed
with "Error writing pipe" message. Reported by Andreas Schamanek
and Stefan Mueller.
- S/MIME: Certificates are lost when using a pinerc file outside of the
home directory.
- S/MIME: accessing the S/MIME configuration screen would deinitialize
SMIME making it not possible to sign or encrypt messages.
- S/MIME: Forwarding a signed message might make the body contain mime
information that is not part of the body, and hence making the body
of the message seem wrong.
- S/MIME Alpine would compute incorrectly the signature
of a message that contains 8bit if the option "Enable 8bit ESMTP
Negotiation" is enabled, the message contains 8bit characters and
the smtp server supports 8bit sending.
- When replying to several messages, subject will be decoded first,
and then stripped from re/fwd before they are compared to determine
the subject of the replied message.
- Fix in WebAlpine: do not use deprecated dereference in pointer,
needs to use tcl_getstringresult() instead. Reported by
Ulf-Dietrich Braumann.
- WebAlpine: fail to build with debug disabled. Fix from Sam Hathaway.
- WebAlpine: add _GNU_SOURCE to make pubcookie build.
- Transformation of UTF-8 to MUTF7 was not being done when creating a folder
in an IMAP server.
- Fix _INIT_ token for reply quote string to include support for 8-bit
in personal names. Reported by Lev Gorenstein.
- When writing the .pinerc file, lines were truncated if they were longer
than 10,000 characters. This could cause data corruption, so now lines
are allowed to be of any length.
- In Unix Alpine (but not in MAC OSX) fix a problem that made Alpine
remove attachments before they were open by a mailcap viewer. It
requires that the user has an equivalent to a command such as "ps
auxww" to list the list of processes, and check if there is any
program using the attachment. The default is "/bin/ps auxww", but
it can be changed at compile time with the option --with-ps-cmd.
See the help of the variable mailcap-check-interval for more information.
- Crash when tcp connection to NNTP server was lost after connection
had been established, but lost immediately afterwards.
- Crash with message "lock when already locked", when painting
an index was based on scores that needed information from a remote
addressbook in the same server as the folder opened. Reported by
Peter Koellner.
- Crash in message/rfc822 attachments encoded in base64.
- Postponed messages whose content-type is text/html,
text/enriched and text/richtext are sent with that content-type,
even though, after resuming composition, Alpine had changed its
type to text/plain.
- Alpine cannot handle correctly some characters in the
Windows-1256 character set, which might lead to a crash or a
corruption in the screen. Work was done to contain the bug. A more
complete fix will be done in a future release. Reported by
Professor Robert Funnell.
- WebAlpine: add _GNU_SOURCE to make pubcookie build.
- Save command did not warn of existence of a message with a deleted
attachment in an aggregate save, unless cursor was positioned on a message
with a deleted attachment. Reported by Florian Herzig.
- DATE tokens were not internally transformed to UTF-8, which made their
values not appear complete in the screen. Reported by Werner Scheinast.
- Fixes to configure script so that it will not require PAM for every system.
- Fix to configure script so that it will use CPPFLAGS instead of
CPPCFLAGS, and so the --with-ssl-include-dir option take effect
during the build. Fix by Ulf-Dietrich Braumann.
- Quoted string in URL Viewers configuration variable were not
unquoted before passing to viewer.
- Fix in configure script to detect location of tcl library; add
/usr/local in FreeBSD and fix a bug in configure script that used
$alpine_TCLINC instead of $alpine_TCLINC/tcl.h. Reported and fixed
by Werner Scheinast.
- Move SSL configurations from UW-IMAP to configure script, and
update OpenSSL configuration for Mac OSX.
- Remove -lregex from linker flags when building --with-supplied-regex.
- When the download of an attachment is interrumpted, Alpine stills
caches what was downloaded, making the download incomplete for
subsequent calls of Alpine attempting to open the attachment. In the
future, Alpine will not cache any downloaded part of the attachment
when it is interrupted.
In order to compile this source code you need OpenSSL version 1.0.0c or
later.
In order to decompress use the command
tar -Jxf alpine-2.20.tar.xz
Specials thanks to Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Braumann for
providing the Windows binary, and to Özgur Gökmen for providing
OSX binaries.
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