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4 Twisted Mail 12.1.0 (2012-06-02)
5 ================================
9 - twistd mail --auth, broken in 11.0, now correctly connects
10 authentication to the portal being used (#5219)
17 Twisted Mail 12.0.0 (2012-02-10)
18 ================================
20 No significant changes have been made for this release.
23 Twisted Mail 11.1.0 (2011-11-15)
24 ================================
28 - twisted.mail.smtp.LOGINCredentials now generates challenges with
29 ":" instead of "\0" for interoperability with Microsoft Outlook.
34 - When run from an unpacked source tarball or a VCS checkout,
35 bin/mail/mailmail will now use the version of Twisted it is part
43 Twisted Mail 11.0.0 (2011-04-01)
44 ================================
48 - The `twistd mail` command line now accepts endpoint descriptions
49 for POP3 and SMTP servers. (#4739)
50 - The twistd mail plugin now accepts new authentication options via
51 strcred.AuthOptionMixin. These include --auth, --auth-help, and
52 authentication type-specific help options. (#4740)
56 - twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Server now generates INTERNALDATE strings
57 which do not consider the locale. (#4937)
59 Improved Documentation
60 ----------------------
61 - Added a simple SMTP example, showing how to use sendmail. (#4042)
69 Twisted Mail 10.2.0 (2010-11-29)
70 ================================
72 Improved Documentation
73 ----------------------
74 - The email server example now demonstrates how to set up
75 authentication and authorization using twisted.cred. (#4609)
77 Deprecations and Removals
78 -------------------------
79 - twisted.mail.smtp.sendEmail, deprecated since mid 2003 (before
80 Twisted 2.0), has been removed. (#4529)
87 Twisted Mail 10.1.0 (2010-06-27)
88 ================================
92 - twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Server no longer fails on search queries
93 that contain wildcards. (#2278)
94 - A case which would cause twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Server to loop
95 indefinitely when handling a search command has been fixed. (#4385)
102 Twisted Mail 10.0.0 (2010-03-01)
103 ================================
107 - twisted.mail.smtp.ESMTPClient and
108 twisted.mail.smtp.LOGINAuthenticator now implement the (obsolete)
109 LOGIN SASL mechanism according to the draft specification. (#4031)
111 - twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Client will no longer misparse all html-
112 formatted message bodies received in response to a fetch command.
115 - The regression in IMAP4 search handling of "OR" and "NOT" terms has
120 - #4028, #4170, #4200
123 Twisted Mail 9.0.0 (2009-11-24)
124 ===============================
128 - maildir.StringListMailbox, an in-memory maildir mailbox, now supports
129 deletion, undeletion, and syncing (#3547)
130 - SMTPClient's callbacks are now more completely documented (#684)
134 - Parse UNSEEN response data and include it in the result of
135 IMAP4Client.examine (#3550)
136 - The IMAP4 client now delivers more unsolicited server responses to callbacks
137 rather than ignoring them, and also won't ignore solicited responses that
138 arrive on the same line as an unsolicited one (#1105)
139 - Several bugs in the SMTP client's idle timeout support were fixed (#3641,
141 - A case where the SMTP client could skip some recipients when retrying
142 delivery has been fixed (#3638)
143 - Errors during certain data transfers will no longer be swallowed. They will
144 now bubble up to the higher-level API (such as the sendmail function) (#3642)
145 - Escape sequences inside quoted strings in IMAP4 should now be parsed
146 correctly by the IMAP4 server protocol (#3659)
147 - The "imap4-utf-7" codec that is registered by twisted.mail.imap4 had a number
148 of fixes that allow it to work better with the Python codecs system, and to
149 actually work (#3663)
150 - The Maildir implementation now ensures time-based ordering of filenames so
151 that the lexical sorting of messages matches the order in which they were
153 - SASL PLAIN credentials generated by the IMAP4 protocol implementations
154 (client and server) should now be RFC-compliant (#3939)
155 - Searching for a set of sequences using the IMAP4 "SEARCH" command should
156 now work on the IMAP4 server protocol implementation. This at least improves
157 support for the Pine mail client (#1977)
161 - #2763, #3647, #3750, #3819, #3540, #3846, #2023, #4050
164 Mail 8.2.0 (2008-12-16)
165 =======================
169 - The mailmail tool now provides better error messages for usage errors (#3339)
170 - The SMTP protocol implementation now works on PyPy (#2976)
182 - The deprecated mktap API is no longer used (#3127)
190 - Support CAPABILITY responses that include atoms of the form "FOO" and
191 "FOO=BAR" in IMAP4 (#2695)
192 - Parameterize error handling behavior of imap4.encoder and imap4.decoder.
197 - Handle empty passwords in SMTP auth. (#2521)
198 - Fix IMAP4Client's parsing of literals which are not preceeded by whitespace.
200 - Handle MX lookup suceeding without answers. (#2807)
201 - Fix issues with aliases(5) process support. (#2729)
205 - #2371, #2123, #2378, #739, #2640, #2746, #1917, #2266, #2864, #2832, #2063,
214 - Plaintext POP3 logins are now possible over SSL or TLS (#1809)
218 - ESMTP servers now greet with an "ESMTP" string (#1891)
219 - The POP3 client can now correctly deal with concurrent POP3
220 retrievals (#1988, #1691)
221 - In the IMAP4 server, a bug involving retrieving the first part
222 of a single-part message was fixed. This improves compatibility
224 - A bug in the IMAP4 server which caused corruption under heavy
225 pipelining was fixed (#1992)
226 - More strict support for the AUTH command was added to the SMTP
227 server, to support the AUTH <mechanism>
228 <initial-authentication-data> form of the command (#1552)
229 - An SMTP bug involving the interaction with validateFrom, which
230 caused multiple conflicting SMTP messages to be sent over the wire,
235 - #1648, #1801, #1636, #2003, #1936, #1202, #2051, #2072, #2248, #2250
242 - Support Deferred results from POP3's IMailbox.listMessages (#1701).
246 - Quote usernames and passwords automatically in the IMAP client (#1411).
247 - Improved parsing of literals in IMAP4 client and server (#1417).
248 - Recognize unsolicted FLAGS response in IMAP4 client (#1105).
249 - Parse and respond to requests with multiple BODY arguments in IMAP4
251 - Misc: #1356, #1290, #1602
255 - Now gives application-level code opportunity to set a different
256 Received header for each recipient of a multi-recipient message.
258 - New `startTLS' method to allow explicit negotiation of transport
261 - Support for per-command timeouts
262 - New `startTLS' method, similar to the one added to the IMAP
264 - NOOP, RSET, and STAT support added
266 - Bug handling passwords of "" fixed
270 - Tons of bugfixes in IMAP4, POP3, and SMTP protocols
271 - Maildir append support
272 - Brand new, improved POP3 client (twisted.mail.pop3.AdvancedPOP3Client)
273 - Deprecated the old POP3 client (twisted.mail.pop3.POP3Client)
276 - Allow user to supply SSL context
277 - Improved error handling, via new exception classes and an overridable
278 hook to customize handling.
279 - Order to try the authenication schemes is user-definable.
282 - Properly understand <> sender.
283 - Parameterize remote port
285 - LOGIN authentication compatibility improved
286 - Improved unicode mailbox support
287 - Fix parsing/handling of "FETCH BODY[HEADER]"
288 - Many many quoting fixes
289 - Timeout support on client