CHANGELOG of Mail::Box
All changes were made by Mark Overmeer <mark@overmeer.net>, unless
specified differently.
version 1.316: Sat Jul 14 10:15:01 CEST 2001
* [Tassilo von Parseval] extended scripts/lsmail with new options.
* Modifications to scripts/web/mailbox2html.
version 1.315: Sat Jul 14 01:34:31 CEST 2001
* Synopsis in Mail::Box starts with Mail::Box::Manager now.
* [Tassilo von Parseval]'s messages are not MBs is size, but
only kBs. fixed Mail::Box::Message::sortSize().
* t/19filelck.t on Solaris cannot work, because exclusive
file-rights can only be got for writable files (which is
stupid) Open file 'rw' in that case, or fail when there
are no writing rights. Mail::Box::Mbox.pm.
Reported by [Jost Krieger]
version 1.314: Thu Jul 12 22:41:56 CEST 2001
* Added initial Mail::Message::Body to the distribution.
* Removed `our' from Box/Locker/*.pm, so perl 5.005 should
be supported again. Thanks to [Alex <Bunya@iile.ru>]
* eval catches problems with message-parts. [Tassilo von Parseval]
* Documentation on code arg of threadToString, on request by
[Tassilo von Parseval]
* Include File::Spec in t/17threads.t [Jost Krieger]
* Return of flock in Mail::Box::Locker::File.pm check whether it
ever will return a result. Found by [Jost Krieger]
version 1.313: Sun Jul 8 19:29:34 CEST 2001
* Started a FAQ
* Caught $mgr->open where foldername could not be determined.
* Caught possible recursion in closing folders by the manager.
* Added scripts/lsmail as example.
* Fixed removal of nodes from a thread.
* Fixed update of version-numbers of scripts.
* Changed the name of various descriptive files to start with
README. This should clean-up the directory a little.
* Renamed the existing test-scripts to numbers above 10, so
new parser scripts can take lower number, hence be executed
first.
version 1.312: Fri Jul 6 22:22:32 CEST 2001
* Rather nasty bug, where POSIX::dup() interfered with
MIME::Entity->dup(). Problem reported by [Jens Wiesecke]
* Tried to tighten-up coerce(), but not sure whether it
is perfect yet. Message-parts are not upgraded to a
Mail::Box::Message.
* Generalized Mail::Box::addMessage such that
Mail::Box::{Mbox,MH}::addMessage could be removed.
* Added PLANS for Mail::Box v2.000
version 1.311: Mon Jul 2 22:15:25 CEST 2001
* Fixed halt in some folders by undef message ($_ problem)
* Fixed creating new folder as mh, where Mbox is the
default. Problem reported by [Marcel Grunauer]
* Newly created folders must be written too ;) Added
increment on modifications for a folder when a message
is added after reading the folder.
* Added Mail::Message as reservation for future plans.
version 1.310: Sun Jul 1 00:05:25 CEST 2001
* Mail::Box::Threads::threadToString can be passed a function
to produce a line which should appear in thread-printing.
* When you open an Mail::Box::Mbox with a foldername which
is a directory, it is considered an empty folder with
only sub-folders.
* Opening sub-folders respect the Mail::Box::Manager now.
* Fixed buglet in Mail::Box::Message::label()
* Toegevoegd: Mail::Box::find(), which scans from back
to start of folder, parsing all headers which were not
known yet, in search of a certain messageID.
* Experimental version of scripts/web/mailbox2html
* Tried to catch some of the errors produced by MIME::Parser
a little better, but I got strenghtened in my opinion that
MIME::Parser and friends must be replaced.
Mail::Box version 2.0 will be able to work without it, and
be written in C, so as past as possible.
version 1.300: Tue Jun 26 16:28:06 CEST 2001
* Split Mail::Box::Tie into Mail::Box::Tie::HASH
and Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY, without the users noticing it ;)
**** SERIOUS CHANGES **** (mainly internal)
Re-implementation of thread-detection. It is a pitty, but I
couldn't maintain the old interface and seperate threads from
folders at the same time. However, a transformation can be
done swifty. Read Mail::Box::Threads for details.
version 1.200: Sat Jun 23 23:44:59 CEST 2001
**** SERIOUS CHANGES **** (mainly internal)
* Added `organization' method to folder to see how a folder is
organized. Returns 'FILE' or 'DIRECTORY'
* Fixed reading of indexes in MH-folders.
Re-implementation of Mail::Box::Tie. Really incompatible, but
simple to fix: see the manpage.
* Added "tie to hash" to Mail::Box::Tie. This replaces
functionality offered by the Mail::TieFolder package.
* Fixed many inconsistencies in Mail::Box::Tie description.
Tied as array, it will now keep on showing all messages,
also the deleted, which means that the index of a message
in the tied-array will not change anymore.
Re-implementation of Mail::Box::Locker, which originally was
was a super-class of Mail::Box, into a seperate object which
is instantiated by a folder. This way, you can create own
lockers. The only thing what really has changed is the
result of $folder->isa('Mail::Box::Locker') which may
be a good thing.
* Locking method names now are case insensitive (uppercase
became my favorit). Added some tests for file-based locking,
but I'am not sure it is trustable.
* Preferred name for locking-methods now in capitals, although
lowercase will still work.
* Added `lockMethod' method to folder to see what way a folder
is locked. Returns 'DOTLOCK', 'FILE', 'NFS', or 'NONE'.
* Fixed mbox-locking with file-lock, by [Adam Marks]
* Locking method 'FILE' may work now for Mboxes (added some
tests, but need more). Implementation details for MH
locking based on 'FILE' are not clear yet.
* Locking method 'NFS' may work too.
version 1.114: Fri Jun 22 10:21:01 MEST 2001
* Fixed copying messages file-to-file, which resulted in errors
on delayloading reading parts. Thanks to Jim Tseng for his
detailed description of the circumstances.
version 1.113: Thu Jun 21 11:00:00 MEST 2001
* Patch blessing in $folder->parts. Thanks to [Jens Wiesecke] for
helping me tracking down the problem.
version 1.112: Thu Jun 7 22:45:00 CEST 2001
by [Eric Cholet]
* Changed the detection of "From"-lines again... each Mbox-
type package formats the line differently. I hope they
all share the inclusion of a year, as minimum.
version 1.111: Sat Apr 28 16:15:52 CEST 2001
by [Jochen Lutz]
* readMessage accepts \r at end of `^From' line for the sake
of folders written on Win* in Mail::Box::Mbox
* Fixed folderdir handling in Mail::Box::Manager
by [Lupe Christoph]
* Fixes in transition from Mime::Entity to Mail::Box::Message
related to multi-part messages.
* Solved small portability issue with 5.005, related to $out->print
version 1.110: Mrt 24 2001
* Various small documentation fixes.
* $msg->copyMessage($folder, @messages)
$mgr->copyMessage($msg, folder => ...)
* $msg->moveMessage($folder, @messages)
$mgr->moveMessage($msg, folder => ...)
* $message->copyTo($folder)
* $message->print will not start with a from-line anymore
when the message is in an Mbox folder. Instead, you need
to do
print $message->fromLine;
$message->print;
* MIME::Entity's which are put in Mbox folders get a time
assigned in the From-line.
version 1.100: Mrt 4 2001
* MAJOR CHANGE, which shouldn't effect anyone except people
who extend the module. I renamed the message object (now
the package is still young, before too many people have to
change their code), to be more logical.
Mail::Box::Message::Runtime -> Mail::Box::Message
Mail::Box::Message -> Mail::Box::Message::Parsed
Mail::Box::MH::Runtime -> Mail::Box::MH::Message
Mail::Box::MH::Message -> Mail::Box::MH::Parsed
Mail::Box::MBox::Runtime -> Mail::Box::Mbox::Message
Mail::Box::MBox::Message -> Mail::Box::Mbox::Parsed
* From-lines (in Mboxes) which seperate messages must also
end on a four digit year now, which must be in 19??-20??.
Maybe this reduces the chance that a `From ' line in a
body is mistaken as message-start. By the way: if there
is such line in a a body, it is a mistake of the mail-
client, not of Mail::Box!
version 1.004: Fri Feb 23 19:11:45 CET 2001
With even more help of [David Coppit]
* (hopefully) fixed the last problems with deletion of folders
on NFS systems. May solve the Win32 problems, too, but waiting
for someone to test it.
* Warning if you want to instantiate a Mail::Box (use
Mail::Box::Manager if you need auto-detection)
* A $folder->close actively tries to set $folder to undef to
cause "use of undefined" errors when someone tries to do anything
with the folder after it was closed.
* No interface change.
version 1.003: Thu Feb 22 00:08:47 CET 2001
With help of [David Coppit]
* Optimized folder deletion (a bit). It will only cause
parsing of messages when this is needed for the type of
message.
* Close folder-file access before removing the file is needed
for some OS'es and for NFS.
* No changes to methods needed.
version 1.002: Fri Feb 16 23:50:14 CET 2001
* Better error messages for die and warn during tests. Hope
to figure-out why Windows still gives some problems, but
I do not want to go out and look a machine with it :(
* No changes to methods needed.
version 1.001: Sun Feb 11 17:20:35 CET 2001
* Fixed documention on creation of Mail::Box::Message-s: don't!
You should do $folder->addMessage( <some MIME::Entity> )
* Added $! to some error-messages. I hope it helps in the
compilation reports of perl-testers, so I can see why the
Win* tests do not work.
* No changes to methods needed.
version 1.000: Mon Feb 5 22:36:11 CET 2001
* BETA!!!!
* Using File::Spec everywhere where directories and sub-
directories are involved, so that the package may work
on Win*
* Removed O_NONBLOCK for dotlock-files on Win* Hope it
works. Can anyone improve the port to Windows?
* No changes on method-calls needed.
version 0.94: Sat Feb 3 13:09:00 CET 2001
* Extracted Mail::Box::Mbox::Message* into a seperate file.
* Extracted Mail::Box::MH::Message* into a seperate file.
* Extracted Mail::Box::Tread into a seperate file.
* The objects Mail::Box::{Mbox::MH}::Message::Runtime are renamed
to the slightly briever Mail::Box::{Mbox::MH}::Runtime.
* The objects Mail::Box::{Mbox::MH}::Message::NotParsed are renamed
to the slightly briever Mail::Box::{Mbox::MH}::NotParsed.
* Moved around with the text in manuals *a lot* to make access
easier. Many pod improvements (I hope)
version 0.93: Fri Feb 2 16:16:09 CET 2001
* Doc update only. There where some mistakes against pod.
version 0.92: Tue Jan 30 21:22:57 CET 2001
* Tested (and changed) creation of folders.
* Tested (and changed) deletion of folders.
* Added the `create' flag to open() in Manager.
* Removed synchronize(), because it is covered by write()
* listFolders() can be called as class and as instance method.
Changed files:
Mail/Box/MH.pm
Mail/Box/Mbox.pm
Mail/Box/Manager.pm
Mail/t/2mbox5c.t
Mail/t/3mh5c.t
MH and Mbox implementation seem complete, but there may need
more tests. Try it out! The full package will reach beta soon.
version 0.91: Wed Jan 17 00:39:08 CET 2001
* Tested listFolder and such for MH.
Mail/Box/MH.pm
Mail/t/3mh5c.t
* Removed 5.6 dependencies. Hope it works for 5.005 now...
Tjeeee... pitty that most people still use 5.005.
* Too many fixes, and major rewrite of code related to writing
of messages into folders.
The code seems to stabelise, and I have reports of people using
the code with success.
version 0.9: Sun Jan 14 12:18:38 CET 2001
* More tests on threads, which resulted in quite some fixes.
I am sure that some things may be improved, still.
Mail/Box/Threads.pm
Mail/Box.pm
Mail/Box/Messages.pm
* The .mh_sequences file gave only little fight, so passes
the tests now.
Mail/Box/MH.pm
Mail/Box/Messages.pm
Mail/t/3mh7s.t
* Tested creation, listFolder and such of Mboxes. It will
not work for MH folders yet.
Mail/Box/Mbox.pm
Mail/t/3mbox5c.t
The number of tests grew to 130, so it is starting to look as
if all trics are working.
version 0.8: Sat Jan 13 01:05:49 CET 2001
* Removed in_reply_to() and references() from Mail::Box::Messages,
because they had only use in Mail::Box::Threads.
* Implemented and tested thread detection. See the test-files
on the results.
Mail/Box/Threads.pm
Mail/t/2mbox6t.t
Mail/t/3mh6t.t
version 0.7: Thu Jan 4 22:44:30 CET 2001
* Changed `use v5.6.0' (which is perfect 5.6.0 code) into
`use 5.006' (which is understood by 5.005) in all modules.
* Fixed call to messageID in MH-folder, before the header is read
to trigger the header to be read.
Mail/Box/MH.pm
version 0.6: Thu Jan 4 22:44:30 CET 2001
* Simplified autoloading (a lot) The reference to the object
does not change anymore when a message is converted from an
Mail::Box::Message::NotParsed into a Mail::Box::Message.
* Stricter treatment of coercions with coerce().
* Reimplementation of Threads to be as lazy as possible.
Not Tested Yet!!!
Mail/Box/Treads.pm
* MH folders are even more lazy than they were: by default nothing
at all is read. Only access of any header-line will cause a
read in a file.
* Added `DELAY' option to Mail::Box::new(take_headers)
* Added a message state transition diagram (which is really
complicated for MH folders) and much more other documentation
improvements
* Added large number of tests (about 40), which all succeed ;)
Nearly all files got changed, although I managed to keep the method
interface rather stable: (by the way: this is still an alpha release!)
Mail/Box/Mbox.pm
Mail/Box/MH.pm
Mail/Box/Message.pm
version 0.5: Thu Jan 4 11:14:05 CET 2001
* Installation fixes.
version 0.4: Fri Dec 29 23:19:25 CET 2000
* Tests for appending messages to mboxes and MH(and fixes)
t/2mbox4a.t
t/3mh2a.t
Mail/Box/Mbox.pm
Mail/Box/MH.pm
Mail/Box/Manager.pm
Mail/Box.pm
* Close on folder informs manager
Mail/Box/Manager.pm
Mail/Box.pm
version 0.3:
* Initial coding of
Mail/Box/MH.pm
Mail/Box/Index.pm
* Appending messages and labels
Mail/Box.pm
Mail/Box/Mbox.pm
Mail/Box/MH.pm
version 0.2:
* Improvements on Threads
Mail/Box/Threads.pm
* Mail::Box->new(take_headers => ...)
now documents that you can use regular-expressions and accepts
'ALL' and 'REAL'. New option realhead_type to indicate which
type of header is used by MIME::Entity.
Mail/Box.pm
version 0.1: Sat Dec 9 20:38:40 CET 2000
* Initial coding of
Mail/Box.pm
Mail/Box/Locker.pm
Mail/Box/Manager.pm
Mail/Box/Mbox.pm
Mail/Box/Message.pm
Mail/Box/Threads.pm
Mail/Box/Tie.pm
(including some tests)