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6 Version 3.030
7 Make send_by_sendmail set sender like documentation says it does
8 (thanks, Michael Schout!)
9 Version 3.029
11 Allow the MIME-Version header to be replaced (thanks, Florian!)
12 Version 3.028
14 Various documentation fixes
15 Version 3.027
17 Add send_to_testfile method (Thanks, AlexanderBecker)
18 Version 3.026
20 Fix tests to pass with MIME::Types 1.28
21 Version 3.025
23 Added back support for providing a non-default SMTP port (#21156,
24 #48783, thanks John Bokma!).
25 Version 3.024
27 add git repo link to metadata
28 Version 3.023
30 Correct erroneous changelog entry
31 Fix typo in perldoc: utf-8, not utf8
33 Version 3.022
35 Behave on Cygwin as on Win32 with regard to defaulting to SMTP
36 sending.
37 Respect crazy people who put multiple Cc or Bcc headers in message
39 (#30574, thanks Pavel V. Rochnyack!)
40 We no longer rewrite array and hash refs in the send_by_sendmail
42 args so aggressively.
43 Cope with missing local sendmail (thanks to Debian for patching for
45 this, and for putting up with me (rjbs) being an insufferable
46 jerk!)
47 Fix weird unicode-in-$1 bug (thanks SREZIC!)
49 Other minor bug fixes.
51 Version 3.021
53 Replace Email::Date with Email::Date::Format to limit prereqs
54 (Email::Date::Format produced just for this!)
55 Begin the process of removing use of ExtUtils::TBone for testing
57 Version 3.020
59 Optimized code for speedup of creation of two-part messages. The
60 internal structure of the object has changes, but that won't matter
61 if you were using the published interface. (Sam Tregar)
62 Removed the "advanced features", ie auto-fallback delivery, from
64 send_by_smtp. They didn't belong there in the first place.
65 Version 3.01_06 (2007/07/29)
67 First release from Perl Email Project. Updated packaging.
68 Version 3.01_04 (2004/05/05)
70 Reworked the new send_by_smtp stuff. Documentation modifications.
71 Version 3.01_02 (2003/08/28)
73 Well, it seems 3.01_01 failed tests on Win32 due to me accidentally
74 changing the line ending format to DOSish. Also the way that email
75 extraction for SMTP with or without Mail::Address was different
76 (from 2.117 even). So ive fixed that.
77 Anybody depending on the undocumented extract_addrs() is in for a
79 suprise. I suggest you look at using Mail::Address.
80 Version 3.01_01 (2003/04/25 - 2003/08/21)
82 (This version is a test release, if its ok then I'll re-release it
83 as 3.02)
84 Patched the pod to use correct entities Thanks to Ed Avis for the
86 patch. Added better support for funky names in the from field when
87 sending via SMTP, thanks to prodding by Darren Hemphill and Ollie
88 Gallardo. (Actually I kind of messed this up orginally and no doubt
89 Darren wasn't impressed. I ended up using something pretty close to
90 his solution. My bad for not paying more attention. Sorry mate.)
91 08/21: Apparently I never uploaded my changes for this version to
93 CPAN. Sigh.
94 *** Win32 CHANGES ***
96 Up until this release the default send() method for all OS'es has
98 been to invoke sendmail and pipe the mail to it. This behaviour has
99 now changed on Win32 to default to using SMTP. This means that if
100 your /site/lib/Net/libnet.cfg file is properly configured then you
101 can use SMTP without specifying a send method explicitly. This
102 seemed a rational decision as most Win32 users who send mails are
103 using an SMTP server and not a tool like sendmail.
104 *** SMTP CHANGES ***
106 Jonathan Eunice <jeunice at illuminata dot com> pointed out an
108 interesting bug in the interaction between MIME::Lite and
109 Net::SMTP/Net::CMD. This was that sending a mail ending in "\n\n"
110 without additional encoding would cause Net::CMD to send an
111 incorrect end of mail signal to the SMTP server which would result
112 in A) The mail failing to be sent due to a timeout, and B)
113 MIME::Lite to report that all was well.
114 This has been fixed by checking to make sure that if the last
116 character sent was \n, but the last two chars were not \r\n then
117 the \n is turned into an \r, which Net::CMD then adds an \n to and
118 then sends the normal ".\r\n" to terminate the message. Weird
119 error, that im not entirely sure has been resolved properly. Please
120 inform me if this screws anything up that it shouldn't.
121 As stated earlier send_by_smtp wasnt extracting the _real_ email
123 address from the overall fancy once specified in the From: field.
124 This is resolved now, fancy display names are now possible while
125 using SMTP.
126 *** Content-Id ***
128 It was pointed out by alex via CPAN RT that Content-Id needs to
130 have angle brackets around it or HTML mails dont show up properly
131 in many mail clients, furthermore the RFC mandates it (to be honest
132 im taking his word on this, please feel free to yell at me if this
133 causes trouble), so as he suggested I am automatically adding them
134 in they arent provided.
135 *** sendmail path ***
137 Dom pointed out via CPAN RT that despite some effort going in to
139 trying to discover the correct location of sendmail, that it was
140 still using a bad default. Fixed.
141 *** Date Stamping ***
143 Kurt reported via RT that datestamps were not being correctly
145 formatted. His patch has been incorporated with only one change, a
146 comment where Perl was spelled PERL :-)
147 *** Quoted printable fix ***
149 Klaus Rusch noted a bug in how quoted-printable handled weird \r\n
151 combinations. Fixed now.
152 Version 3.01 (2003/04/25)
154 Eryq has reappeared long enough to graciously hand over the
155 maintaince of the module to me. Thanks.
156 Version 3.00 (2003/04/24)
158 Eryq has disappeared. His web site remains but he doesnt answer
159 emails.
160 I have taken it onto myself to take over maintenance until he
162 returns to reclaim his excellent work.
163 I don't intend to develop this in an serious way. I'll patch it if
165 people have a patch and generally keep it ticking over, but dont
166 expect new features.
167 This release has code that actually works with MIME::Lite now. As
169 well as a few other minor additions (like a test for this
170 functionailty)
171 For stuff that could be done, a first place would be to rewrite and
173 extend the test suite. It should use Test::More or Test::Builder at
174 the very least.
175 I also might rip out the preformatted doc pages. It makes the
177 distro way fatter than it needs to be. I reckon the package
178 contains the POD in at least three forms. A wee tad overkill I
179 think. :-)
180 Version 2.117 (2001/08/20)
182 The terms-of-use have been placed in the distribution file
183 "COPYING". Also, small documentation tweaks were made.
184 Version 2.116 (2001/08/17)
186 Added long-overdue patch which makes the instance method form of
187 send() do the right thing when given HOW... arguments. Thanks to
188 Casey West for the patch.
189 Version 2.114 (2001/08/16)
191 New special 'AUTO' content type in new()/build() tells MIME::Lite
192 to try and guess the type from file extension. To make use of
193 this, you'll want to install MIME::Types. The "AUTO" setting can
194 be made the default default (instead of "TEXT") if you set
195 "$AUTO_CONTENT_TYPE = 1, $PARANOID = 0". Thanks to Ville Skyttä
196 for these patches.
197 File::Basename is used if it is available. Thanks to Ville Skyttä
199 for this patch.
200 SMTP failures (in send_by_smtp) now add the $smtp->message to the
202 croak'ed exception, so if things go wrong, you get a better idea of
203 what and why. Thanks to Thomas R. Wyant III for the patch.
204 Made a subtle change to "as_string" which supposedly fixes a failed
206 MIME data.t test with Perl 5.004_04 on NT 4 sp6. The problem might
207 only exist in this old perl, but as the patch author says, not
208 everyone has climbed higher on the Perl ladder. Thanks to John
209 Gotts for the patch.
210 Added "contrib" directory, with MailTool.pm. Thanks to Tom Wyant
212 for this contribution.
213 Improved HTML documentation (notice the links to the individual
215 methods in the top menu).
216 Corrected some mis-docs.
218 Version 2.111 (2001/04/03)
220 Added long-overdue "parts()" and "parts_DFS()" methods.
221 No instance method
223 For accessing the subparts?
224 That can't be right. D'OH!
225 Added long-overdue auto-verify logic to "print()" method.
227 Added long-overdue "preamble()" method for getting/setting the
229 preamble text. Thanks to Jim Daigle for inspiring this.
230 Version 2.108 (2001/03/30)
232 New "field_order()" allows you to set the header order, both on a
233 per-message basis, and package-wide. Thanks to Thomas Stromberg
234 for suggesting this.
235 Added code to try and divine "sendmail" path more intelligently.
237 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the suggestion.
238 Version 2.107 (2001/03/27)
240 Fixed serious bug where tainted data with quoted-printable encoding
241 was causing infinite loops. The "fix" untaints the data in
242 question, which is not optimal, but it's probably benign in this
243 case. Thanks to Stefan Sautter for tracking this nasty little
244 beast down. Thanks to Larry Geralds for a related patch.
245 "Doctor, O doctor:
247 it's painful when I do *this* --"
248 "Simple: don't *do* that."
249 Fixed bugs where a non-local $_ was being modified... again! Will
251 I never learn? Thanks to Maarten Koskamp for reporting this.
252 Dollar-underscore
254 can poison distant waters;
255 'local' must it be.
256 Fixed buglet in "add()" where all value references were being
258 treated as arrayrefs, instead of as possibly-self-stringifying
259 object refs. Now you can send in an object ref as the 2nd
260 argument. Thanks to dLux for the bug report.
261 That ref is a string?
263 Operator overload
264 has ruined my day.
265 Added "Approved" as an acceptable header field for "new()", as per
267 RFC1036. Thanks to Thomax for the suggestion regarding MIME-tools.
268 Small improvements to docs to make different uses of attach() and
270 various arguments clearer. Thanks to Sven Rassman and Roland
271 Walter for the suggestions.
272 Version 2.106 (2000/11/21)
274 Added Alpha version of scrub() to make it easy for people to
275 suppress the printing of unwanted MIME attributes (like Content-
276 length). Thanks to the many people who asked for this.
277 Headers with empty-strings for their values are no longer printed.
279 This seems sensible, and helps us implement scrub().
280 Version 2.105 (2000/10/14)
282 The regression-test failure was identified, and it was my fault.
283 Apparently some of the \-quoting in my "autoloaded" code was making
284 Perl 5.6 unhappy. For this nesting-related idiocy, a nesting
285 kaiku. Thanks to Scott Schwartz for identifying the problem.
286 In a pattern, my
288 backslash-s dwells peacefully,
289 unambiguous --
290 but I embed it
292 in a double-quoted string
293 doubling the backslash --
294 interpolating
296 that same double-quoted string
297 in other patterns --
298 and, worlds within worlds,
300 I single-quote the function
301 to autoload it --
302 changing the meaning
304 of the backslash and the 's';
305 and Five-Point-Six growls.
306 Version 2.104 (2000/09/28)
308 Now attempts to load and use Mail::Address for parsing email
309 addresses before falling back to our own method. Thanks to
310 numerous people for suggesting this.
311 Parsing addresses
313 is too damn hard. One last hope:
314 Let Graham Barr do it!
315 For the curious, the version of Mail::Address appears as the "A"
317 number in the X-Mailer:
318 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 2.104 (A1.15; B2.09; Q2.03)
320 Added FromSender option to send_by_sendmail(). Thanks to Bill
322 Moseley for suggesting this feature.
323 Version 2.101 (2000/06/06)
325 Major revision to print_body() and body_as_string() so that "body"
326 really means "the part after the header", which is what most people
327 would want in this context. This is not how it was used 1.x, where
328 "body" only meant "the body of a simple singlepart". Hopefully,
329 this change will solve many problems and create very few ones.
330 Added support for attaching a part to a "message/rfc822", treating
332 the "message" type as a multipart-like container.
333 Now takes care not to include "Bcc:" in header when using
335 send_by_smtp, as a safety precaution against qmail's behavior.
336 Thanks to Tatsuhiko Miyagawa for identifying this problem.
337 Improved efficiency of many stringifying operations by using
339 string-arrays which are joined, instead of doing multiple appends
340 to a scalar.
341 Cleaned up the "examples" directory.
343 Version 1.147 (2000/06/02)
345 Fixed buglet where lack of Cc:/Bcc: was causing extract_addrs to
346 emit "undefined variable" warnings. Also, lack of a "To:" field
347 now causes a croak. Thanks to David Mitchell for the bug report
348 and suggested patch.
349 Version 1.146 (2000/05/18)
351 Fixed bug in parsing of addresses; please read the WARNINGS section
352 which describes recommended address formats for "To:", "Cc:", etc.
353 Also added automatic inclusion of a UT "Date:" at top level unless
354 explicitly told not to. Thanks to Andy Jacobs for the bug report
355 and the suggestion.
356 Version 1.145 (2000/05/06)
358 Fixed bug in encode_7bit(): a lingering "/e" modifier was removed.
359 Thanks to Michael A. Chase for the patch.
360 Version 1.142 (2000/05/02)
362 Added new, taint-safe invocation of "sendmail", one which also sets
363 up the "-f" option. Unfortunately, I couldn't make this automatic:
364 the change could have broken a lot of code out there which used
365 send_by_sendmail() with unusual "sendmail" variants. So you'll
366 have to configure "send" to use the new mechanism:
367 MIME::Lite->send('sendmail'); ### no args!
369 Thanks to Jeremy Howard for suggesting these features.
371 Version 1.140 (2000/04/27)
373 Fixed bug in support for "To", "Cc", and "Bcc" in send_by_smtp():
374 multiple (comma-separated) addresses should now work fine. We try
375 real hard to extract addresses from the flat text strings. Thanks
376 to John Mason for motivating this change.
377 Added automatic verification that attached data files exist, done
379 immediately before the "send" action is invoked. To turn this off,
380 set $MIME::Lite::AUTO_VERIFY to false.
381 Version 1.137 (2000/03/22)
383 Added support for "Cc" and "Bcc" in send_by_smtp(). To turn this
384 off, set $MIME::Lite::AUTO_CC to false. Thanks to Lucas Maneos for
385 the patch, and tons of others for the suggestion.
386 Chooses a better default content-transfer-encoding if the content-
388 type is "image/*", "audio/*", etc. To turn this off, set
389 $MIME::Lite::AUTO_ENCODE to false. Thanks to many folks for the
390 suggestion.
391 Fixed bug in QP-encoding where a non-local $_ was being modified.
393 Thanks to Jochen Stenzel for finding this very obscure bug!
394 Removed references to "$`", "$'", and $& (bad variables which slow
396 things down).
397 Added an example of how to send HTML files with enclosed in-line
399 images, per popular demand.
400 Version 1.133 (1999/04/17)
402 Fixed bug in "Data" handling: arrayrefs were not being handled
403 properly.
404 Version 1.130 (1998/12/14)
406 Added much larger and more-flexible send() facility. Thanks to
407 Andrew McRae (and Optimation New Zealand Ltd) for the Net::SMTP
408 interface. Additional thanks to the many folks who requested this
409 feature.
410 Added get() method for extracting basic attributes.
412 New... "t" tests!
414 Version 1.124 (1998/11/13)
416 Folded in filehandle (FH) support in build/attach. Thanks to Miko
417 O'Sullivan for the code.
418 Version 1.122 (1998/01/19)
420 MIME::Base64 and MIME::QuotedPrint are used if available.
421 The 7bit encoding no longer does "escapes"; it merely strips 8-bit
423 characters.
424 Version 1.121 (1997/04/08)
426 Filename attribute is now no longer ignored by build(). Thanks to
427 Ian Smith for finding and patching this bug.
428 Version 1.120 (1997/03/29)
430 Efficiency hack to speed up MIME::Lite::IO_Scalar. Thanks to David
431 Aspinwall for the patch.
432 Version 1.116 (1997/03/19)
434 Small bug in our private copy of encode_base64() was patched.
435 Thanks to Andreas Koenig for pointing this out.
436 New, prettier way of specifying mail message headers in "build()".
438 New quiet method to turn off warnings.
440 Changed "stringify" methods to more-standard "as_string" methods.
442 Version 1.112 (1997/03/06)
444 Added "read_now()", and "binmode()" method for our non-Unix-using
445 brethren: file data is now read using binmode() if appropriate.
446 Thanks to Xiangzhou Wang for pointing out this bug.
447 Version 1.110 (1997/03/06)
449 Fixed bug in opening the data filehandle.
450 Version 1.102 (1997/03/01)
452 Initial release.
453 Version 1.101 (1997/03/01)
455 Baseline code. Originally created: 11 December 1996. Ho ho ho.
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