the underlying metaphor refers to an inhumane practice, so using it
casually is rightfully offensive to many people. it isn't even a
particularly apt metaphor, as it suggests a strict hierarchy that is
counter to mbsync's highly symmetrical mode of operation.
the far/near terminology has been chosen as the replacement, as it is a
natural fit for the push/pull terminology. on the downside, due to these
not being nouns, a few uses are a bit awkward, and several others had to
be amended to include 'side'. also, it's conceptually quite close to
remote/local, which matches the typical use case, but is maybe a bit too
suggestive of actually non-existing limitations.
the new f/n suffixes of the -C/-R/-X options clash with pre-existing
options, so direct concatenation of short options is even less practical
than before (some suffixes of -D already clashed), but doing that leads
to unreadable command lines anyway.
as with previous deprecations, all pre-existing command line and config
options keep working, but yield a warning. the state files are silently
upgraded.
this is better than using PassCmd, as it allows the keychain manager to
identify the calling process and therefore use a selective whitelist.
unlike in the now removed example, we use an "internet password" for the
imap protocol, rather than a "generic password" - this seems more
appropriate.
based on a patch by Oliver Runge <oliver.runge@gmail.com>
It was already possible to retrieve passwords from arbitrary commands.
But this goes only half the way to allowing automated derivation of
login credentials, as some environments may also have different user
names based on the system. Therefore, add the UserCmd option to
complement PassCmd.
Based on a patch series by Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
this is actually potentially counterproductive, as people who have set
SSLVersions and fail to adjust it will _lose_ tls 1.3 support. however,
without the option being there, people (incorrectly) believe that tls
1.3 is not supported.
Some distributions (e.g. Fedora) added support for system wide crypto
policies. This is supported in most common crypto libraries including
OpenSSL. Applications can override this policy using their own cipher
string. This commit adds support for specifying the cipher string in
the mbsync configuration.
For example, to exclude Diffie-Hellman, the user can specify
CipherString "DEFAULT:!DH"
in the IMAP Account's configuration.
maildir supports a 'P' flag which denotes the fact that a message has
been 'passed' on (forwarded, bounced). notmuch syncs this to the
'passed' tag.
Per https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5788, IMAP has a user-defined flag
(keyword) '$Forwarded' that is supported by many servers and clients
these days. (Technically, one should check for '$Forwarded' in the
server response.)
Restructure mbsync's flag parser to accept keywords (flags starting with
'$') but still bail out on unknown system flags (flags starting with '\').
Support '$Forwarded' as a first keyword since it maps to maildir's 'P'
and needs to be sorted in between the system flags.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <github@grubix.eu>
the legacy style is a poorly executed attempt at Maildir++, so introduce
the latter for the sake of completeness. but most users will probably
just want to use subfolders without any additional dots.
- the old meaning of -V[V] was moved to -D{n|N}, as these are really
debugging options.
- don't print the info messages by default; this can be re-enabled with
the -V switch, and is implied by most debug options (it was really
kind of stupid that verbose/debug operation disabled these).
- the sync algo/state debugging can be separately enabled with -Ds now.
... for windows fs compatibility.
the maildir-specific InfoDelimiter inherits the global FieldDelimiter
(which affects SyncState), based on the assumption that if the sync
state is on a windows FS, the mailboxes certainly will be as well, while
the inverse is not necessarily true (when running on unix, anyway).
REFMAIL: <CA+m_8J1ynqAjHRJagvKt9sb31yz047Q7NH-ODRmHOKyfru8vtA@mail.gmail.com>
patch initially by Jack Stone <jwjstone@fastmail.fm>,
cleaned up by Jan Synacek <jsynacek@redhat.com>,
... and then almost completely rewritten by me. ^^
RequireCRAM (another fairly stupid "use if available" option) is now
deprecated. instead, the AuthMech option can be used to give a precise
list of acceptable authentication mechanisms (which is currently "a bit"
short). in particular, this allows *not* using CRAM-MD5 even if it's
available.
the combinations of the various options made quite a mess. additionally,
'RequireSSL no' is inherently insecure - "use SSL if available" is plain
stupid.
the old options are still accepted, but will elicit a warning.
as opposed to earlier threats, BerkDB was not entirely dropped; i
suppose the isync 0.7 -> 0.8 change had a reason, so i added an
alternative UID storage scheme.
note that BDB 4.0 is not sufficient, as the db->open function changed in
an incompatible way ...
i updated the debian packaging except for a changelog entry.
note that i removed the upgrade blurb, as upstream now has a smooth
upgrade path down to at least isync 0.4.
the uid for each message in the maildir is now stored in a dbm database
rather than the filename. this change was necessary because isync became
confused if you copied a message to another folder, in which case the uid
was invalid.
as a result of the above change, isync now acquires a mutex on the mailbox
to protect the dbm database from concurrent access.
main() was reworked to continue gracefully when an error is encountered, and
to always call maildir_close() so that the lock can be disabled, and the
database closed.
sync_mailbox() didn't consider MaxSize == 0 to mean "unlimited".
load_config() needs to print a newline in its error messages since
next_arg() kills the newline of the line that was read out of the config
file.
Oswald Buddenhagen
Jaroslav Suchanek
Michael J Gruber
Anton Khirnov
Michael Elkins