- Remove all longjmp(3) calls from signal handlers. Instead, we post
to an internal signal queue and check that periodically. All signal
related code is now in sig.c, except for the SIGCHLD handler which
remains in popen.c as it is intimately tied to routines there.
- Handle SIGPIPE in type1() regardless of mime support, or else the
handler in execute() will prevent our error code from being returned
resulting in 'sawcom' not being set on the first command as it should.
This only affected the initial behavior of the "next" command without
mime support.
- Add the 'T' flag to many commands in cmdtab.c that should not look
like the first command. E.g., start mail on a mailbox with multiple
messages, run "set foo", then "next", and watch the second message get
displayed rather than the first as is the case without the first "set"
command.
- Add file descriptor and file handle leak detection. Enabled by
DEBUG_FILE_LEAK. This will likely disappear in the future.
- Fix a long standing (since import in 1993) longjmp() bug in
edstop(): the jmpbuf was invalid when quit() is called at the end of
main.
- Fix a long standing bug (since import in 1993) in snarf() where it
didn't strip whitespace correctly if the line consisted only of
whitespace.
- Lint cleanup.
- New Feature: "Header" command. This allows miscellaneous header
fields to be added to the header, e.g., "X-Organization:" or
"Reply-To:" fields.
- New Feature: "page-also" variable. This allows the specification of
additional commands to page. It is more flexible than "crt".
- Document the "pager-off" variable: if set, it disables paging
entirely.
1) Add support for message selection based on the message body. The
pattern matching is done on the MIME decoded body as would be seen by
the print command.
2) Don't hook editline when doing headers only: that mode is never
interactive and it messes up piping if output is redirected to a
command that expects tty input, such as 'more'.
1) Statification of modules.
2) Implement the 'detach' and 'Detach' commands for extracting mime
parts from messages.
3) Teach mail to output "In-Reply-To" and "References" header fields
when replying so others can thread us.
4) Implement threading, sorting, and tagging, supported by the
following commands: 'flatten', 'reverse', 'sort', 'thread',
'unthread', 'down', 'tset', 'up', 'expose', 'hide', 'tag',
'untag', 'invtags', 'tagbelow', 'hidetags', 'showtags'.
See the manpage for details (when available - soon).
5) Implement a 'deldups' command to delete duplicate messages based on
their "Message-Id" field, e.g., in replies to a mailing list that
are also CCed to a subscriber. (This can also be accomplished with
the threading and tagging commands.)
6) Implement 'ifdef' and 'ifndef' commands, and make the conditionals
nestable (i.e., implement a conditional stack). The if/else/endif
commands existed before, but they were primitive and undocumented.
The 'if' command currently recognizes the "receiving", "sending",
and "headersonly" mode keywords.
7) Teach the message selecting routine to understand regular
expressions if "regex-search" is defined. Otherwise only case
insensitive substring matches are done (as in the past).
8) Teach the message selection routine to understand boolean
expressions. Improved "colon-modifier" support. See the manpage
for details (when available - soon).
9) Extend paging to all commands (where relevant).
10) Add shell like piping and redirection of (standard) output (if
"enable-piping" is defined). Extend completion to these contexts.
11) The manpage should follow soon!!!!
christos