MailBox v2.056 [FIXES + dev]

Mark Overmeer <[email protected]> Sat, 31 Jul 2004 15:31:35 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.mail-box
Organization	MARKOV Solutions
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi all,

This release contains a lot of fixes, collected over the recent weeks,
and some more developments.  Kees and Jason: your things have not
improved yet, but may be taken care of in the next release, probably
in two weeks time.

Most visible changes: [full text attached]

Fixes:
 - thread/fork safe creation of messageIds [interface change]
 - use from() not sender() to create reply and forward
 - simple attributes included semi-colon
 - msg->build() now honours Content-Disposition and -Transfer-Encoding

Improvements:
 - lot of improvements on the Field::Full implementation (slow but
   fully RFC compliant head field parsing/creation)  It should be
   usable for all kinds of fields now: reached Beta stage.
 - Mail::Box::IMAP4::Fetch implements server-side FETCH strings.

Please test and report problems asap.
-- 
               MarkOv

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drs Mark A.C.J. Overmeer                                MARKOV Solutions
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http://Mark.Overmeer.net                   http://solutions.overmeer.net

Changelog-2.056 (text/plain, 3.3 KB)

version 2.056: Sat Jul 31 13:28:29 CEST 2004

	Interface change:

	- [Wiggins d Anconia] explained that combining MailBox with forks
	  may cause non-unique message-ids to be created.  To solve this,
	  the $head->messageIdPrefix() had to be rewritten.  MessageIDs will
	  look differently now.  [No problems expected for existing programs]

	Fixes:

	- [Jeff Squyres] silenced warnings by guessTimestamp() and
	  recvstamp() when no Date nor Received fields are present.

	- [August] Mail::Box->new(lock_wait) option not correctly passed
	  to Locker object.

	- [Mime Mimic] noticed that a message reply used "sender", not
          "From" addresses when no "Reply-To" field is present. This is
          not according RFC2822.  Sender should never be used.

	- [Jason Woodward] found a $_ localization error in POP3, which
	  could result in "Can't call method "xxx" without a package or
	  object reference" errors.

	- [Carlos Perez] SpamAssasin's message wrapper method get_header()
	  should return all field bodies with a certain name in list context.

	- [Jason Woodward] $msg->shortString was broken.

	- [Todd Richmond] discovered that un-quoted attribute values
	  consumed the semi-colon separator in Mail::Message::Field.

	- Content-Transfer-Encoding and Content-Disposition fields were
	  ignored when specified with Mail::Message->build().  Now they
	  will be applied to the create body AFTER the body is constructed
	  based on default rules.

	- [Todd Richmond] discovered that Base64 decoding should not be
	  done on per line basis, because some lines may not have mod4
	  number of characters (especially in virusses).  The RFC is not
	  clear about it, so... Mail::Message::TransferEnc::Base64 is
	  changed (again)

	Improvements:

	- [Rich Caller] suggested to change blanks in ill-formated
	  message-ids into blanks.  Apparently, some applications are
	  doing that.

	- Mail::Message::Field::Unstructured now supportss character-set
	  encodings, by request of [Mike Mimic]

	- [Mike Mimic] made an unexpected abuse of $head->build().  It is
	  now supported that ready field objects can be passed.  A warning
	  is produced when you accidentally pass  field_name => $field_object
	  (which should be: field_name => field_content  or simply
	  $field_object.

	- [Mike Mimic] Some link errors in the front HTML documentation page.

	- Added $head->printSelected(FILE, patterns) as simple way to
	  produce field subsets.

	- Added support for label 'passed', which means that the message
	  was used for forward/bounce/resend.

	- Added Maildir message flag P='passed' (uncommon)

	- Changed flag handling implementation in Mail::Transport::IMAP4.
	  Tests are in tests/44imap/30flags.t

	- $body->dispositionFilename can be used without directory name.

	- Attachments auto-discompose as 'inline' for texts and `attachement'
	  for binaries.

	- Added Mail::Box::IMAP4::Fetch with tests in tests/44imap/40fetch.t
	  which provides body/bodystructure/envelope syntax conversions.

	- New $field->attributes (to list fields of all attributes) for
	  Mail::Message::Field.

	- Added description of differences between MIME::Entity::build()
	  and Mail::Message::build().

	- Mail::Message::Field::Structured can now be used for general
	  structured fields with attributes, like Content-Type and
	  Content-Description.