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6 Version 3.033
7 No changes since previous version, just made non-trial.
8 Version 3.032
10 Fix an error in printing to Net::SMTP (thanks, Peter Heirich)
11 Add "use warnings" and require v5.6
13 Version 3.031
15 Add an SSL option to connect to the SMTP relay via SSL on port 465.
16 (thanks, Max Maischein)
17 Document some tips on using non-ASCII content with MIME::Lite
19 (thanks, traveljury.com and Tom Hukins)
20 Version 3.030
22 Make send_by_sendmail set sender like documentation says it does
23 (thanks, Michael Schout!)
24 Version 3.029
26 Allow the MIME-Version header to be replaced (thanks, Florian!)
27 Version 3.028
29 Various documentation fixes
30 Version 3.027
32 Add send_to_testfile method (Thanks, AlexanderBecker)
33 Version 3.026
35 Fix tests to pass with MIME::Types 1.28
36 Version 3.025
38 Added back support for providing a non-default SMTP port (#21156,
39 #48783, thanks John Bokma!).
40 Version 3.024
42 add git repo link to metadata
43 Version 3.023
45 Correct erroneous changelog entry
46 Fix typo in perldoc: utf-8, not utf8
48 Version 3.022
50 Behave on Cygwin as on Win32 with regard to defaulting to SMTP
51 sending.
52 Respect crazy people who put multiple Cc or Bcc headers in message
54 (#30574, thanks Pavel V. Rochnyack!)
55 We no longer rewrite array and hash refs in the send_by_sendmail
57 args so aggressively.
58 Cope with missing local sendmail (thanks to Debian for patching for
60 this, and for putting up with me (rjbs) being an insufferable
61 jerk!)
62 Fix weird unicode-in-$1 bug (thanks SREZIC!)
64 Other minor bug fixes.
66 Version 3.021
68 Replace Email::Date with Email::Date::Format to limit prereqs
69 (Email::Date::Format produced just for this!)
70 Begin the process of removing use of ExtUtils::TBone for testing
72 Version 3.020
74 Optimized code for speedup of creation of two-part messages. The
75 internal structure of the object has changes, but that won't matter
76 if you were using the published interface. (Sam Tregar)
77 Removed the "advanced features", ie auto-fallback delivery, from
79 send_by_smtp. They didn't belong there in the first place.
80 Version 3.01_06 (2007/07/29)
82 First release from Perl Email Project. Updated packaging.
83 Version 3.01_04 (2004/05/05)
85 Reworked the new send_by_smtp stuff. Documentation modifications.
86 Version 3.01_02 (2003/08/28)
88 Well, it seems 3.01_01 failed tests on Win32 due to me accidentally
89 changing the line ending format to DOSish. Also the way that email
90 extraction for SMTP with or without Mail::Address was different
91 (from 2.117 even). So ive fixed that.
92 Anybody depending on the undocumented extract_addrs() is in for a
94 suprise. I suggest you look at using Mail::Address.
95 Version 3.01_01 (2003/04/25 - 2003/08/21)
97 (This version is a test release, if its ok then I'll re-release it
98 as 3.02)
99 Patched the pod to use correct entities Thanks to Ed Avis for the
101 patch. Added better support for funky names in the from field when
102 sending via SMTP, thanks to prodding by Darren Hemphill and Ollie
103 Gallardo. (Actually I kind of messed this up orginally and no doubt
104 Darren wasn't impressed. I ended up using something pretty close to
105 his solution. My bad for not paying more attention. Sorry mate.)
106 08/21: Apparently I never uploaded my changes for this version to
108 CPAN. Sigh.
109 *** Win32 CHANGES ***
111 Up until this release the default send() method for all OS'es has
113 been to invoke sendmail and pipe the mail to it. This behaviour has
114 now changed on Win32 to default to using SMTP. This means that if
115 your /site/lib/Net/libnet.cfg file is properly configured then you
116 can use SMTP without specifying a send method explicitly. This
117 seemed a rational decision as most Win32 users who send mails are
118 using an SMTP server and not a tool like sendmail.
119 *** SMTP CHANGES ***
121 Jonathan Eunice <jeunice at illuminata dot com> pointed out an
123 interesting bug in the interaction between MIME::Lite and
124 Net::SMTP/Net::CMD. This was that sending a mail ending in "\n\n"
125 without additional encoding would cause Net::CMD to send an
126 incorrect end of mail signal to the SMTP server which would result
127 in A) The mail failing to be sent due to a timeout, and B)
128 MIME::Lite to report that all was well.
129 This has been fixed by checking to make sure that if the last
131 character sent was \n, but the last two chars were not \r\n then
132 the \n is turned into an \r, which Net::CMD then adds an \n to and
133 then sends the normal ".\r\n" to terminate the message. Weird
134 error, that im not entirely sure has been resolved properly. Please
135 inform me if this screws anything up that it shouldn't.
136 As stated earlier send_by_smtp wasnt extracting the _real_ email
138 address from the overall fancy once specified in the From: field.
139 This is resolved now, fancy display names are now possible while
140 using SMTP.
141 *** Content-Id ***
143 It was pointed out by alex via CPAN RT that Content-Id needs to
145 have angle brackets around it or HTML mails dont show up properly
146 in many mail clients, furthermore the RFC mandates it (to be honest
147 im taking his word on this, please feel free to yell at me if this
148 causes trouble), so as he suggested I am automatically adding them
149 in they arent provided.
150 *** sendmail path ***
152 Dom pointed out via CPAN RT that despite some effort going in to
154 trying to discover the correct location of sendmail, that it was
155 still using a bad default. Fixed.
156 *** Date Stamping ***
158 Kurt reported via RT that datestamps were not being correctly
160 formatted. His patch has been incorporated with only one change, a
161 comment where Perl was spelled PERL :-)
162 *** Quoted printable fix ***
164 Klaus Rusch noted a bug in how quoted-printable handled weird \r\n
166 combinations. Fixed now.
167 Version 3.01 (2003/04/25)
169 Eryq has reappeared long enough to graciously hand over the
170 maintaince of the module to me. Thanks.
171 Version 3.00 (2003/04/24)
173 Eryq has disappeared. His web site remains but he doesnt answer
174 emails.
175 I have taken it onto myself to take over maintenance until he
177 returns to reclaim his excellent work.
178 I don't intend to develop this in an serious way. I'll patch it if
180 people have a patch and generally keep it ticking over, but dont
181 expect new features.
182 This release has code that actually works with MIME::Lite now. As
184 well as a few other minor additions (like a test for this
185 functionailty)
186 For stuff that could be done, a first place would be to rewrite and
188 extend the test suite. It should use Test::More or Test::Builder at
189 the very least.
190 I also might rip out the preformatted doc pages. It makes the
192 distro way fatter than it needs to be. I reckon the package
193 contains the POD in at least three forms. A wee tad overkill I
194 think. :-)
195 Version 2.117 (2001/08/20)
197 The terms-of-use have been placed in the distribution file
198 "COPYING". Also, small documentation tweaks were made.
199 Version 2.116 (2001/08/17)
201 Added long-overdue patch which makes the instance method form of
202 send() do the right thing when given HOW... arguments. Thanks to
203 Casey West for the patch.
204 Version 2.114 (2001/08/16)
206 New special 'AUTO' content type in new()/build() tells MIME::Lite
207 to try and guess the type from file extension. To make use of
208 this, you'll want to install MIME::Types. The "AUTO" setting can
209 be made the default default (instead of "TEXT") if you set
210 "$AUTO_CONTENT_TYPE = 1, $PARANOID = 0". Thanks to Ville Skyttä
211 for these patches.
212 File::Basename is used if it is available. Thanks to Ville Skyttä
214 for this patch.
215 SMTP failures (in send_by_smtp) now add the $smtp->message to the
217 croak'ed exception, so if things go wrong, you get a better idea of
218 what and why. Thanks to Thomas R. Wyant III for the patch.
219 Made a subtle change to "as_string" which supposedly fixes a failed
221 MIME data.t test with Perl 5.004_04 on NT 4 sp6. The problem might
222 only exist in this old perl, but as the patch author says, not
223 everyone has climbed higher on the Perl ladder. Thanks to John
224 Gotts for the patch.
225 Added "contrib" directory, with MailTool.pm. Thanks to Tom Wyant
227 for this contribution.
228 Improved HTML documentation (notice the links to the individual
230 methods in the top menu).
231 Corrected some mis-docs.
233 Version 2.111 (2001/04/03)
235 Added long-overdue parts() and parts_DFS() methods.
236 No instance method
238 For accessing the subparts?
239 That can't be right. D'OH!
240 Added long-overdue auto-verify logic to print() method.
242 Added long-overdue preamble() method for getting/setting the
244 preamble text. Thanks to Jim Daigle for inspiring this.
245 Version 2.108 (2001/03/30)
247 New field_order() allows you to set the header order, both on a
248 per-message basis, and package-wide. Thanks to Thomas Stromberg
249 for suggesting this.
250 Added code to try and divine "sendmail" path more intelligently.
252 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the suggestion.
253 Version 2.107 (2001/03/27)
255 Fixed serious bug where tainted data with quoted-printable encoding
256 was causing infinite loops. The "fix" untaints the data in
257 question, which is not optimal, but it's probably benign in this
258 case. Thanks to Stefan Sautter for tracking this nasty little
259 beast down. Thanks to Larry Geralds for a related patch.
260 "Doctor, O doctor:
262 it's painful when I do *this* --"
263 "Simple: don't *do* that."
264 Fixed bugs where a non-local $_ was being modified... again! Will
266 I never learn? Thanks to Maarten Koskamp for reporting this.
267 Dollar-underscore
269 can poison distant waters;
270 'local' must it be.
271 Fixed buglet in add() where all value references were being treated
273 as arrayrefs, instead of as possibly-self-stringifying object refs.
274 Now you can send in an object ref as the 2nd argument. Thanks to
275 dLux for the bug report.
276 That ref is a string?
278 Operator overload
279 has ruined my day.
280 Added "Approved" as an acceptable header field for new(), as per
282 RFC1036. Thanks to Thomax for the suggestion regarding MIME-tools.
283 Small improvements to docs to make different uses of attach() and
285 various arguments clearer. Thanks to Sven Rassman and Roland
286 Walter for the suggestions.
287 Version 2.106 (2000/11/21)
289 Added Alpha version of scrub() to make it easy for people to
290 suppress the printing of unwanted MIME attributes (like Content-
291 length). Thanks to the many people who asked for this.
292 Headers with empty-strings for their values are no longer printed.
294 This seems sensible, and helps us implement scrub().
295 Version 2.105 (2000/10/14)
297 The regression-test failure was identified, and it was my fault.
298 Apparently some of the \-quoting in my "autoloaded" code was making
299 Perl 5.6 unhappy. For this nesting-related idiocy, a nesting
300 kaiku. Thanks to Scott Schwartz for identifying the problem.
301 In a pattern, my
303 backslash-s dwells peacefully,
304 unambiguous --
305 but I embed it
307 in a double-quoted string
308 doubling the backslash --
309 interpolating
311 that same double-quoted string
312 in other patterns --
313 and, worlds within worlds,
315 I single-quote the function
316 to autoload it --
317 changing the meaning
319 of the backslash and the 's';
320 and Five-Point-Six growls.
321 Version 2.104 (2000/09/28)
323 Now attempts to load and use Mail::Address for parsing email
324 addresses before falling back to our own method. Thanks to
325 numerous people for suggesting this.
326 Parsing addresses
328 is too damn hard. One last hope:
329 Let Graham Barr do it!
330 For the curious, the version of Mail::Address appears as the "A"
332 number in the X-Mailer:
333 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 2.104 (A1.15; B2.09; Q2.03)
335 Added FromSender option to send_by_sendmail(). Thanks to Bill
337 Moseley for suggesting this feature.
338 Version 2.101 (2000/06/06)
340 Major revision to print_body() and body_as_string() so that "body"
341 really means "the part after the header", which is what most people
342 would want in this context. This is not how it was used 1.x, where
343 "body" only meant "the body of a simple singlepart". Hopefully,
344 this change will solve many problems and create very few ones.
345 Added support for attaching a part to a "message/rfc822", treating
347 the "message" type as a multipart-like container.
348 Now takes care not to include "Bcc:" in header when using
350 send_by_smtp, as a safety precaution against qmail's behavior.
351 Thanks to Tatsuhiko Miyagawa for identifying this problem.
352 Improved efficiency of many stringifying operations by using
354 string-arrays which are joined, instead of doing multiple appends
355 to a scalar.
356 Cleaned up the "examples" directory.
358 Version 1.147 (2000/06/02)
360 Fixed buglet where lack of Cc:/Bcc: was causing extract_addrs to
361 emit "undefined variable" warnings. Also, lack of a "To:" field
362 now causes a croak. Thanks to David Mitchell for the bug report
363 and suggested patch.
364 Version 1.146 (2000/05/18)
366 Fixed bug in parsing of addresses; please read the WARNINGS section
367 which describes recommended address formats for "To:", "Cc:", etc.
368 Also added automatic inclusion of a UT "Date:" at top level unless
369 explicitly told not to. Thanks to Andy Jacobs for the bug report
370 and the suggestion.
371 Version 1.145 (2000/05/06)
373 Fixed bug in encode_7bit(): a lingering "/e" modifier was removed.
374 Thanks to Michael A. Chase for the patch.
375 Version 1.142 (2000/05/02)
377 Added new, taint-safe invocation of "sendmail", one which also sets
378 up the "-f" option. Unfortunately, I couldn't make this automatic:
379 the change could have broken a lot of code out there which used
380 send_by_sendmail() with unusual "sendmail" variants. So you'll
381 have to configure "send" to use the new mechanism:
382 MIME::Lite->send('sendmail'); ### no args!
384 Thanks to Jeremy Howard for suggesting these features.
386 Version 1.140 (2000/04/27)
388 Fixed bug in support for "To", "Cc", and "Bcc" in send_by_smtp():
389 multiple (comma-separated) addresses should now work fine. We try
390 real hard to extract addresses from the flat text strings. Thanks
391 to John Mason for motivating this change.
392 Added automatic verification that attached data files exist, done
394 immediately before the "send" action is invoked. To turn this off,
395 set $MIME::Lite::AUTO_VERIFY to false.
396 Version 1.137 (2000/03/22)
398 Added support for "Cc" and "Bcc" in send_by_smtp(). To turn this
399 off, set $MIME::Lite::AUTO_CC to false. Thanks to Lucas Maneos for
400 the patch, and tons of others for the suggestion.
401 Chooses a better default content-transfer-encoding if the content-
403 type is "image/*", "audio/*", etc. To turn this off, set
404 $MIME::Lite::AUTO_ENCODE to false. Thanks to many folks for the
405 suggestion.
406 Fixed bug in QP-encoding where a non-local $_ was being modified.
408 Thanks to Jochen Stenzel for finding this very obscure bug!
409 Removed references to "$`", "$'", and $& (bad variables which slow
411 things down).
412 Added an example of how to send HTML files with enclosed in-line
414 images, per popular demand.
415 Version 1.133 (1999/04/17)
417 Fixed bug in "Data" handling: arrayrefs were not being handled
418 properly.
419 Version 1.130 (1998/12/14)
421 Added much larger and more-flexible send() facility. Thanks to
422 Andrew McRae (and Optimation New Zealand Ltd) for the Net::SMTP
423 interface. Additional thanks to the many folks who requested this
424 feature.
425 Added get() method for extracting basic attributes.
427 New... "t" tests!
429 Version 1.124 (1998/11/13)
431 Folded in filehandle (FH) support in build/attach. Thanks to Miko
432 O'Sullivan for the code.
433 Version 1.122 (1998/01/19)
435 MIME::Base64 and MIME::QuotedPrint are used if available.
436 The 7bit encoding no longer does "escapes"; it merely strips 8-bit
438 characters.
439 Version 1.121 (1997/04/08)
441 Filename attribute is now no longer ignored by build(). Thanks to
442 Ian Smith for finding and patching this bug.
443 Version 1.120 (1997/03/29)
445 Efficiency hack to speed up MIME::Lite::IO_Scalar. Thanks to David
446 Aspinwall for the patch.
447 Version 1.116 (1997/03/19)
449 Small bug in our private copy of encode_base64() was patched.
450 Thanks to Andreas Koenig for pointing this out.
451 New, prettier way of specifying mail message headers in build().
453 New quiet method to turn off warnings.
455 Changed "stringify" methods to more-standard "as_string" methods.
457 Version 1.112 (1997/03/06)
459 Added read_now(), and binmode() method for our non-Unix-using
460 brethren: file data is now read using binmode() if appropriate.
461 Thanks to Xiangzhou Wang for pointing out this bug.
462 Version 1.110 (1997/03/06)
464 Fixed bug in opening the data filehandle.
465 Version 1.102 (1997/03/01)
467 Initial release.
468 Version 1.101 (1997/03/01)
470 Baseline code. Originally created: 11 December 1996. Ho ho ho.
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