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diff --git a/pith/pine.hlp b/pith/pine.hlp index b296f024..6377dabb 100644 --- a/pith/pine.hlp +++ b/pith/pine.hlp @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ with help text for the config screen and the composer that didn't have any reasonable place to be called from. Dummy change to get revision in pine.hlp ============= h_revision ================= -Alpine Commit 61 2014-05-02 18:29:37 +Alpine Commit 62 2014-05-17 16:49:55 ============= h_news ================= <HTML> <HEAD> @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ Version <!--#echo var="ALPINE_VERSION"--> (<!--#echo var="ALPINE_REVISION"-->) <P> Alpine is an "Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet -News and Email" produced until 2008 by the University of Washington. +News and Email" produced until 2009 by the University of Washington. It is intended to be an easy-to-use program for sending, receiving, and filing Internet electronic mail messages and bulletin board (Netnews) messages. Alpine is designed to run on a wide @@ -184,6 +184,11 @@ Additions include: <LI> Upgrade UW-IMAP to Panda IMAP from <A HREF="https://github.com/jonabbey/panda-imap">https://github.com/jonabbey/panda-imap</A>. <LI> S/MIME: Add screen to manage certificates. + <LI> S/MIME: Signatures are validated using the user's certificates instead + of the ones included in the message. Behavior can be disabled by + disabling the option <A href="h_config_smime_use_cert_store"> + <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-use-storey-only"--></A>, which is enabled + by default. <LI> S/MIME: sign messages using intermediate certificates when needed and possible. <LI> S/MIME: validation of certificates for servers that modify signed @@ -192,7 +197,11 @@ Additions include: encrypted second, so that they can be decoded by other clients. <LI> S/MIME: add the sender certificate to the list of certificates in encrypted messages to make it possible for the sender to decrypt - the message they sent. + the message they sent. + <LI> S/MIME: When transferring certificates to a local container, create + container with default names PublicContainer, PrivateContainer and + CAContainer, as appropriate for these files, unless the user has + provided some other names. <LI> Add support to selective expunge through a subcommand of the select-apply commands. Read more in the <A HREF="h_index_cmd_expunge">help</A> for the expunge command. @@ -235,6 +244,8 @@ Additions include: <LI> Pico: Justification works without need of a predefined quote string. This allows justification of blocks of text that are indented with spaces. + <LI> Decode the name of attachment names, so they can be written as part + of the description of the part. <LI> Check bounds and tie strings off to improve security. Contributed by James Jerkins. <LI> Replace tabs by spaces in From and Subject fields to control for @@ -267,10 +278,21 @@ Bugs that have been addressed include: and Stefan Mueller. <LI> S/MIME: Certificates are lost when using a pinerc file outside of the home directory. - <LI> S/MIME: accessing the S/MIME configuration screen would deinitialize + <LI> S/MIME: Accessing the S/MIME configuration screen would deinitialize SMIME making it not possible to sign or encrypt messages. + <LI> S/MIME: Forwarding a signed message might make the body contain mime + information that is not part of the body, and hence making the body + of the message seem wrong. <LI> Crash when tcp connection to NNTP server was lost after connection had been established, but lost immediately afterwards. + <LI> Crash with message "lock when already locked", when painting + an index was based on scores that needed information from a remote + addressbook in the same server as the folder opened. Reported by + Peter Koellner. + <LI> Alpine cannot handle correctly some characters in the Windows-1256 + character set, which might lead to a crash or a corruption in the + screen. Work was done to contain the bug. A more complete fix will + be done in a future release. Reported by Professor Robert Funnell. <LI> WebAlpine: add _GNU_SOURCE to make pubcookie build. <LI> WebAlpine: fail to build with debug disabled. Fix from Sam Hathaway. <LI> Save command did not warn of existence of a message with a deleted @@ -294,7 +316,7 @@ Bugs that have been addressed include: $alpine_TCLINC instead of $alpine_TCLINC/tcl.h. Reported and fixed by Werner Scheinast. <LI> Move SSL configurations from UW-IMAP to configure script, and - update OpenSSL configuration for Mac OSX. + update OpenSSL configuration for Mac OS X. <LI> Remove -lregex from linker flags when building --with-supplied-regex. </UL> <P> @@ -357,7 +379,7 @@ Additions include: <UL> <LI> Quota report for IMAP folders that support it (press the "@" command in the index screen of such folder). <LI> Search a folder for the content of any header with the ";" command. - <LI> Foreign characters are decoded correctly in IMAP folders. + <LI> Foreign characters are decoded correctly in IMAP folder names. <LI> Question about breaking connection to slow servers includes their name. <LI> Internal x-alpine-help: resource locator for sending links to internal help. <LI> OpenSuse: Alpine find location of OpenSSL certificates. @@ -380,7 +402,7 @@ Bugs that have been addressed include: <LI> Not display of login prompt during initial keystrokes. <LI> justification of long urls breaks them. <LI> Incorrect New Mail message when envelope is not available. - <LI> Inorrect display of PREFDATE, PREFDATETIME and PREFTIME tokens. + <LI> Incorrect display of PREFDATE, PREFDATETIME and PREFTIME tokens. <LI> Crash when resizing the screen after display of LDAP search. <LI> Crash when redrawing screen while opening a remote folder collection. <LI> Infinite loop in scrolltool function during notification of new mail. @@ -713,7 +735,7 @@ version <!--#echo var="C_CLIENT_VERSION"-->. Alpine was developed until 2009 by the Office of Computing & Communications at the University of Washington in Seattle. Since then, the effort of developing Alpine has been continued by -a community of volunteers who make a good software even better! +a community of volunteers who make good software even better! <P> Alpine Copyright 2013-2014 Eduardo Chappa, @@ -1535,7 +1557,7 @@ employer, ... ; or </UL> Due to the large number of Alpine installations worldwide, and because we -receive no funding for it, the Alpine development team <B>cannot provide +receive no funding for it, the University of Washington <B>cannot provide individual support services outside the University of Washington</B>. <P> If you have no local computing support to turn to, the worldwide <b>comp.mail.pine</b> @@ -1599,13 +1621,14 @@ select Setup/Config to see many of the options available to you. Also note that all screens have context-sensitive help text available.<P> <!--chtml if pinemode="phone_home"--> SPECIAL REQUEST: -This software is made available as a public service of the -University of Washington in Seattle. We are no longer actively developing -the software, but it is still helpful to us to have an idea of how many -people are using Alpine. Are you willing to be counted as an Alpine user? Pressing +This software was originally created and maintained as a public +service by the University of Washington until 2009; updates are made +available as a public service of the Alpine community. It is always +helpful to have an idea of how many users are using Alpine. Are you +willing to be counted as an Alpine user? Pressing <A HREF="X-Alpine-Phone-Home:">Return</A> will send an anonymous (meaning, your real email address will not be revealed) -message to the Alpine team at the University of Washington for purposes of tallying. +message to the Alpine developers for purposes of tallying. <P> <!--To Exit this screen and continue your Alpine session press "E".--> <!--chtml else--> @@ -1632,13 +1655,14 @@ The Release Notes may be viewed by pressing <P> <!--chtml if pinemode="phone_home"--> SPECIAL REQUEST: -This software is made available as a public service of the -University of Washington in Seattle. We are no longer actively developing -the software, but it is still helpful to us to have an idea of how many -people are using Alpine. Are you willing to be counted as an Alpine user? Pressing +This software was originally created and maintained as a public +service by the University of Washington until 2009; updates are made +available as a public service of the Alpine community. It is always +helpful to have an idea of how many users are using Alpine. Are you +willing to be counted as an Alpine user? Pressing <A HREF="X-Alpine-Phone-Home:">Return</A> will send an anonymous (meaning, your real email address will not be revealed) -message to the Alpine team at the University of Washington for purposes of tallying. +message to the Alpine developers for purposes of tallying. <P> <!--To Exit this screen and continue your Alpine session press "E".--> <!--chtml else--> @@ -1662,14 +1686,15 @@ documented in the Release Notes, which may be viewed by pressing <P> <!--chtml if pinemode="phone_home"--> SPECIAL REQUEST: -This software is made available as a public service of the -University of Washington in Seattle. We are no longer actively developing -the software, but it is still helpful to us to have an idea of how many -people are using Alpine. Are you willing to be counted as an Alpine user? Pressing +This software was originally created and maintained as a public +service by the University of Washington until 2009; updates are made +available as a public service of the Alpine community. It is always +helpful to have an idea of how many users are using Alpine. Are you +willing to be counted as an Alpine user? Pressing <A HREF="X-Alpine-Phone-Home:">Return</A> will send an anonymous (meaning, your real email address will not be revealed) -message to the Alpine team at the University of Washington for purposes of tallying. - +message to the Alpine developers for purposes of tallying. +<P> <!--To Exit this screen and continue your Alpine session press "E".--> <!--chtml else--> To Exit this screen and continue your Alpine session press "Return". @@ -1766,7 +1791,7 @@ The "NextLink" and "PrevLink" commands <H1>Introduction</H1> Alpine is an "Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet -News and Email" produced until 2008 by the University of Washington. +News and Email" produced until 2009 by the University of Washington. It is intended to be an easy-to-use program for sending, receiving, and filing Internet electronic mail messages and bulletin board (Netnews/Usenet) messages. Alpine supports the following @@ -3945,6 +3970,7 @@ There are also additional details on <li><a href="h_config_smime_encrypt_by_default">S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-encrypt-by-default"--></a> <li><a href="h_config_smime_remember_passphrase">S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-remember-passphrase"--></a> <li><a href="h_config_smime_sign_by_default">S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-sign-by-default"--></a> +<li><a href="h_config_smime_use_cert_store">S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-use-store-only"--></a> <li><a href="h_config_smime_pubcerts_in_keychain">S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_publiccerts-in-keychain"--></a> <li><a href="h_config_smime_cacertcon">S/MIME OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-cacert-container"--></a> <li><a href="h_config_smime_cacertdir">S/MIME OPTION: <!--#echo var="VAR_smime-cacert-directory"--></a> @@ -34597,6 +34623,47 @@ certificate). <End of help on this topic> </BODY> </HTML> +========== h_config_smime_use_cert_store ========== +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<TITLE>S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-use-store-only"--></TITLE> +</HEAD> +<BODY> +<H1>S/MIME FEATURE: <!--#echo var="FEAT_smime-use-store-only"--></H1> + +UNIX Alpine only. +<P> +This feature only has an effect if your version of Alpine includes +support for S/MIME. +It affects Alpine's behavior when you validate a message, and should +not be disabled, unless you are performing a test. +<P> +There are two important aspects of validation: validation of the message +(that is, the message was not modified after it was sent) +as well as validation of the identity of the sender. This option has to +do with the latter. +<P> +In order to validate that the message came from the sender in the message +and not an impersonator, Alpine can +either use the certificates that come in the message, or the ones that +you have personally stored. If this feature is enabled (the default) then +Alpine will use certificates that you have already saved in your store +and not those that come in the message to validate the sender of the +message. This behavior helps you prevent against impersonation, because +it is assumed that you trust the certificates that you have saved, and +might not trust those that came with the message that you are validating. +<P> +<UL> +<LI><A HREF="h_mainhelp_smime">General S/MIME help</A> +</UL><P> +<P> + +<UL> +<LI><A HREF="h_finding_help">Finding more information and requesting help</A> +</UL><P> +<End of help on this topic> +</BODY> +</HTML> ========== h_config_smime_pubcerts_in_keychain ========== <HTML> <HEAD> |