mboxgrep/NEWS.md

Changes of mboxgrep

Changes since 0.7.11

• Port to the pcre2 library (pcre1 is no longer supported).
• Check command-line options for conflicting matchers and actions.
• Various minor code cleanups.

Changes since 0.7.10

• GNU Automake is now utilized instead of manually written Makefile.in files.
• Code indentation has been corrected and documented (GNU indent is used for this purpose).

Changes since 0.7.9

• development has been restarted after a longer hiatus
• moved the source tree to git
• fixed compile bug on FreeBSD and other systems
• fixed deleting messages mbox folders compressed with bzip2
• fixed multiple compilation errors and warnings on Linux and FreeBSD
• started implementing a debug mode

Changes since 0.7.8

• implemented support for mbox folders compressed with bzip2 algorithm
• improved detection of PCRE library; this also fixes a compilation bug on recent RedHat Linux systems
• fixed a problem with message deletion, which used to occur if an mbox folder and temporary directory were on different filesystems; thanks to James P. Dugal for providing a patch

Changes since 0.7.7

• fixed crashes on MH folders, as well as a potential problem with mbox and maildir folders with the same cause
• debugging with the dmalloc library
• MH and maildir functions no longer read files which aren't RFC 2822 messages
• mboxgrep can now read gzip compressed mbox folders from standard input (which is a side effect of a code cleanup!)

Changes since 0.7.6a

• mboxgrep can now read mbox folders from standard input

Changes since 0.7.6

• fixed a bug which prevented mboxgrep from being compiled

Changes since 0.7.5

• fixed a bug which caused mboxgrep to coredump on recursive search of maildirs
• code cleanups

Changes since 0.7.4

• recursive search through directories has been reimplemented

Changes since 0.7.3

• mboxgrep can now ignore messages with identical bodies

Changes since 0.7.2

• file locking method can be selected at runtime
• mboxgrep used to coredump on messages with empty headers; the problem is now hopefully fixed
• mboxgrep now compiles on FreeBSD

Changes since 0.7.1

• file locking with flock() instead of fcntl() is now supported
• mboxgrep should now compile on systems which don't have getopt_long()
• other minor bugfixes

Changes since 0.7.0

• bugfixes

Changes since 0.5.3

• NOTE: there was no stable version between 0.5.x and 0.7.x
• mboxgrep is almost completely rewritten
• implemented message deleting feature (--delete)
• implemented piping messages to a command (--pipe) (using this option, each selected message is piped to a separate instance of the specified command)
• added support for compressed mbox folders

Changes since 0.5.2

• implemented ability to write found messages to another folder (instead of standard output)
• started writing a real changelog (while this file has been renamed to "NEWS")
• wrote a manual in Texinfo format

Changes since 0.5.1

• implemented message counting (-c, --count)
• fixed manual page installation target in src/Makefile.in -- manual page is now installed in $(manpath)/man1/ rather than $(prefix)/man/man1/
• added --without-sense-of-humor switch to the configure script, which disables checking whether Garfield still hates Mondays
• short version of --version switch is now -V instead of -v, because -v will be used for inverted matching
• implemented inverted matching (-v, --invert-match)
• implemented recursive search through directories (-r, --recursive)
• config.h[.in] is now wrapped (#ifndef CONFIG_H and stuff)

Changes since 0.5.0

• added support for qmail-style maildir folders

Changes since 0.4.0

• the source of getopt_long() is now included, so long options are also available on platforms that don't use GNU libc
• file locking is now performed on mbox folders only

Changes since 0.2.0

• added support for MH mailboxes
• added scope selection switches -B (or --body) and -H (or --headers)
• getopt() (or getopt_long(), if available) is now used to parse command line arguments, instead of my own lousy routine
• the configure script now looks for PCRE by default, unless --with-pcre=no or --without-pcre is specified
• the feature of reading from standard input is gone
• added -v (or --version) switch

Changes since 0.1.1

• mboxgrep now puts a shared lock on a mailbox before reading it
• various code cleanups

Changes since 0.1.0

• fixed install target in Makefile (install is now used instead of cp)
• added support for mailboxes generated by Gnus