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Vacation 1.2.8.0-beta1 is a release that fixes a long standing bug handling
wrapped email headers.  Many thanks to Zdenek Havranek for the fix!

Richard Keech contributed a chkvacation script to enable/disable and check
your vacation status.  He also contributed some SELinux information for
Vacation that you can find in the INSTALL file.

It also has some minor changes to the build system including the ability
to do "make install DESTDIR=/foo/bar" and to also put the German manual
page in the correct location.

Please see the ChangeLog for more information.

Please test and let me know of any bugs you find!

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vacation/files/vacation/1.2.8.0-beta1/

https://sourceforge.net/p/vacation/bugs/

All the best,
Chris
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Hi all,

Vacation 1.2.7.1 is a bug fix only release which now complies with RFC-3834
"Recommendations for Automatic Responses to Electronic Mail". A big shout
of thanks to Dr. Tilman Bubeck, the Fedora packager, for bug fixes and a
German translation of the manual page.

You can download this latest version of Vacation from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vacation/files/vacation/1.2.7.1/

It includes:

- a fix from Dr. Tilmann Bubeck to stop Vacation from munging the GECOS
  information of users and instead pass it quoted to the MTA for it to
  deal with (fixes Fedora bug #553505 and SourceForge issue #2928189).

- Vacation now adds the Auto-Submitted: header as per RFC3834 (fix from
  Dr. Tilman Bubeck).

- Vacation now abides by the RFC 3834 header "Auto-Submitted:" (fixes
  SourceForge issue #3062665).

- Fixes up some Coverity grumbles (a redundant fopen() and others).

- Compiles cleanly with GCC 4.6.2.

- Now includes a vacation.spec file contributed by Magnus Stenman.

- The old HTML version of the manual page was out-of-date and so it has
  been removed (along with html2man) leaving the nroff version the master.

- Added German translation of the nroff manual page (Dr. Tilmann Bubeck).

  Note that the English man page has been renamed to vacation-en.man and
  vacation.man is a symlink to it, so German speakers can just change that
  symlink before installing to pick up the German translation.

- Clean up of some old directories in the source code that have been made
  obsolete by source code control (they contained old, applied, patches).

You can be involved in the development of Vacation by subscribing to
the vacation-announce and vacation-list mailing lists [1] and/or
logging bugs and feature requests on the SourceForge tracker [2].

1 - https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=3852
2 - https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=3852

All the best,
Chris
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Vacation 1.2.7.1 rc1 is the first release candidate for the first bug 
fix only release in the 1.2.7 branch.

This release fixes up a warning for orighdr in GCC 4.6.x. It also 
includes a German translation of the manual page courtesy of Dr.  
Tilmann Bubeck, the Fedora packager, and some cleanup work (removing 
obsolete directories).

Note that the English man page has been renamed to vacation-en.man and 
vacation.man is a symlink to it, so German speakers can just change 
that symlink before installing to pick up the Dr. Bubecks translation.

Please do grab this and test it out!

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vacation/files/vacation/1.2.7.1-rc1/

If I don't hear any problems before next weekend I intend to release
this as the official Vacation 1.2.7.1.

All the best,
Chris
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Hi all,

I've just released Vacation 1.2.7.1 beta2, the second beta for the
first bug fix only release in the 1.2.7 branch.

This release just fixes up some issues that Coverity revealed, none
of which appeared to be harmful.

NB: If you compile with GCC 4.6 and see a complaint about orighdr
being set but never used in rfc822.c don't worry, its already fixed in
git and will be in the first RC (assuming nothing bad is found in this
version).

You can get the code from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vacation/files/vacation/1.2.7.1-beta2/vacation-1.2.7.1-beta2.tar.gz/download

*PLEASE* do test and report back how it works for you, do remember
you can subscribe and post to the vacation-list list at SourceForge
and let me know that it is indeed working for you, or you can reply
privately if you so wish.

I'm presuming from the lack of feedback so far that it's working just
fine for everyone and nobody has found any issues before now that
haven't been reported via the bug tracker.

If there are no issues with this then I'll roll an RC from this plus
the patch to silence the orighdr warning in rfc822.c from current GCC's.

All the best,
Chris
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Hi all,

Vacation 1.2.7.1 beta1 is the first beta of the first bug fix release
in the 1.2.7 branch.  It is also the first release since the migration
from SVN to Git at SourceForge 10 days ago.

It contains only two bug fixes, firstly adding the Auto-Submitted:
header as required by RFC3834 (SF bug #2922049) and secondly stopping
vacation munging the GECOS information of the user and instead just
passing it in a quoted form for the MTA to munge instead (SF bug #2928189).

Both of these patches are from Dr Tilmann Bubeck who is the packager
of Vacation for the Fedora project.  I'm very grateful to him for his
time and patience in submitting these!

You can get the code from:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vacation/files/vacation/1.2.7.1-beta1/vacation-1.2.7.1-beta1.tar.gz/download

All the best!
Chris
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Hi there,

After a long hiatus I've restarted work on Vacation and have
kicked off proceedings by migrating from SVN to Git (which
SourceForge started offering about 18 months ago) [1]. This
means you can now clone the Git repo to do work with and have
the complete history of the project available to you, even if
you're not connected to the Internet at the time.

You can find more information on using Git with SVN here:

 https://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=git&group_id=3852

I've realised from this that a lot of the bug fixes that had
been done on the 1.2.7 branch had not been merged back into
trunk whilst working in SVN, so I've now made those changes
to the 'master' (what Git calls SVN's trunk) and pushed those
back to SourceForge.

I'm hoping to roll a 1.2.7.1 release in the near future
to pick up a few changes on the 1.2.7 branch that should
really be out there.

[1] - I ended up using the svn2git Ruby Gem to do this as
the usual "git svn clone" didn't seem to work that well.

cheers!
Chris
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I’m happy to announce the release of Vacation 1.2.7.0.

This is a complete rebase of the current Vacation code base from the 
closely related version at http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=vacation 
which had been released under the two clause BSD license (no advertising 
clause).

This means Vacation finally links legally with the GPL’d GDBM (something I 
don’t believe people previously realised)! 

New features in this version are:

- Vacation will not reply to emails that have the 
SpamAssassin “X-Spam-Status: Yes” header, thanks to Roberto Piola.

- It uses the OpenBSD secure string handling functions strlcat and strlcpy 
and use of sprintf has been changed to snprintf to enhance resilience.

- Vacation uses Eric Raymonds rfc822.c library from his Unix Cookbook for 
much better parsing RFC2822 email addresses.

- It should (hopefully!) compile on FreeBSD thanks to Marshal Newrock.

- Vacation will silently create its database if it is missing (previously 
it just crashed!).

- Lots of bug fixes!

This version (still) does not implement support for folded headers for 
those headers it worries about (From:, Reply-To:, etc), that requires a 
major reworking of the code that is currently underway in the trunk of the 
Subversion repository.

Thanks to all those who’ve submitted bug fixes, requested enhancements and 
sent patches, especially Roberto Piola, Marshal Newrock and Daniel 
Pittman.

You can download the program from 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3852&package_id=3820&release_id=611078.

All the best,
Chris
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Hi all,

This is the second release candidate that cleans up some cosmetic warnings 
and fixes a trivial memory leak.

If there are no more bug reports (ha!) then this will get released as 
1.2.7.0 in the near future.

As ever you can grab it from here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3852&package_id=3820&release_id=607334

Please test and report any problems!

cheers,
Chris
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Catching up on things, I've released a new stable release and the first 
release candidate for the next stable branch of Vacation. 
  
1.2.6.4 is a minor bugfix release to the stable branch which purely changes 
the default location for manual page installation to be /usr/share/man 
rather than the old /usr/man. 

You can download 1.2.6.4 here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3852&package_id=3820&release_id=599872
  
1.2.7.0-rc1 is the first release candidate for vacation 1.2.7.0 and fixes a 
segmentation fault for a broken Reply-To: header where there is no address 
specified. 
  
I’ve also added a KNOWN_BUGS file which lists the fact that vacation 
currently doesn’t cope with multi-line (wrapped) headers, this is 
scheduled to be fixed in 1.3 and work is in progress in the SVN trunk for 
this. 
  
1.2.7.0-rc1 will become the next stable release unless any other issues 
emerge.

You can download 1.2.7.0-rc1 here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3852&package_id=3820&release_id=599903

All the best!
Chris
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Hi all,

Vacation 1.2.7.0 beta5 is now out.

This release of vacation fixes a brown paper bag bug that broke=20
compilation completely due to a duplicate case statement. Apologies=20
to everyone for not spotting either the bug or the report on the=20
tracker! :-(=20

This release also fixes the case where a user who had configured=20
a .forward file for vacation but had not created the database with=20
the -i option (or had the database removed for some reason) would=20
find that vacation generated an error. Vacation will now silently=20
create the database if it is missing.   Thanks to Jacek Kalinski for=20
this patch!

You can find it here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D3852&package_id=3D=
3820&release_id=3D568474

All the best,
Chris
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Vacation 1.2.7.0-beta4
=2D---------------------

This beta release updates the build process to remove the -m486 flag on=20
non-PPC systems as the distros are already doing this.

* This may break backwards compatibility on AMD64/EM64T based systems,
* the fix is to run vacation -I to reinitialise your database of addresses =
you
* have received email from.

The option '-i' has been added as an alias for '-I' and documented in the=20
manual page.

This release includes the Makefile changes from Marshal Newrock to build=20
(hopefully) on FreeBSD with automatic detection of whether it is necessary.

There have been a few other housekeeping changes.

Please report any problems!

You can find it here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D3852&package_id=3D3=
820&release_id=3D506063

All the best,
Chris
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This is a minor bugfix release to the 1.2.6 series of Vacation inspired by=
=20
looking at the sorts of things Linux distros patch for their own usage.

Vacation no longer builds as -m486 by default, though it will build as 32-b=
it=20
on AMD64/EM64T because GDBM is not 32/64-bit portable and trying to run a=20
64-bit version against a 32-bit created GDBM causes it to fail and syslog a=
=20
success message. This is sub-optimal.

The Makefiles CFLAGS handling has been tidied up a fair bit as a consequenc=
e=20
and will hopefully make life a little easier for distributors and it no=20
longer tries to strip the vaclook Perl script on install, which was very=20
silly.

Vacation also now accepts the -i option as well as -I to initialise its=20
database.

You can find it here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D3852&package_id=3D3=
820&release_id=3D480143

cheers,
Chris
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Another quick release, this time changing the address parsing for From: and=
=20
Reply-To: headers to use Eric Raymonds rfc822.c library from his Unix=20
Cookbook and fetchmail.  You can enable the old behaviour by compiling with=
=20
the -DOLD compiler option.

It also fixes the bug that broke the -r option, there was a stray ":" in th=
e=20
getopt(3) call that meant it expected an (unnecessary) argument.

There's a couple of trivial tweaks too.

Please report successful and unsuccessful uses!

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D3852&package_id=3D3=
820&release_id=3D479920

thanks,
Chris
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Hi all,

This new beta may be more on the alpha side of beta as it includes a=20
substantial number of changes to improve security.  Rather than using the=20
standard strcpy, strcat, etc it now uses the OpenBSD secure string handling=
=20
functions strlcat and strlcpy and use of sprintf has been changed to snprin=
tf=20
to try and avoid possible buffer overruns.  I'm not actually aware of any=20
attacks but this is quite old code so you never know your luck.

I've also changed the implementation of the nsearch() function to use=20
strcasestr() which makes it much simpler.

Please test and comment!

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D3852&package_id=3D3=
820&release_id=3D479684

thanks,
Chris
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Hi all,

This is a complete rebase from the version of Vacation at=20
http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=3Dvacation which had been released un=
der=20
the modified BSD license with no advertising clause.   This actually means=
=20
Vacation finally links legally with GDBM (something I don't believe people=
=20
previously realised)!

This beta also includes a patch graciously supplied by Roberto Piola that=20
makes Vacation ignore emails that have the SpamAssassin "X-Spam-Status: Yes=
"=20
header set, indicating that it believes they are spam.

As a beta release from a new codebase you should keep the usual caveats in=
=20
mind, it may not reply to emails, core dump randomly, blow up, eat your dog=
=20
or even work properly.   We would appreciate reports of all of those=20
instances (well, except maybe for the dog) to the vacation-list kindly host=
ed=20
at SourceForge.

See the mailing list summary for Vacation at:

http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=3D3852

Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda (as they say where I come from). :-)

Chris
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Just a quick note to let you know that we have migrated the Vacation source=
=20
repository from CVS to Subversion at Sourceforge.net.

=46or access information please see:

 http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=3D3852

All the best,
Chris
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Hi there,

I'm happy to announce that Vacation 1.2.6.2 has been released, over 5 years=
=20
since the previous release of 1.2.6.1.

2006/08/25
=2D Vacation now adds the "Precedence: bulk" header to all outgoing emails.
=2D Tagged vacation_1_2_6_2
=2D Almost released as 1.2.6.2
=2D Forgot to update ChangeLog - fixed
=2D Tagged vacation_1_2_6_2_changelog
=2D Forgot to update maintainer information - fixed
=2D Tagger vacation_1_2_6_2_changelog_maintainer
=2D Released as 1.2.6.2

Also I have taken over maintaining the Vacation program, along with Brian M=
ay.

It will take a little time for us to get to grips with what our plans are f=
or=20
the code and whether we continue from the current code base or rebase from=
=20
another, such as the version currently packaged in Debian.

All the best,
Chris
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