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- =head1 CHANGE LOG
-
- =over 4
-
- =item Version 3.01 (2003/04/25)
-
- Eryq has reappeared long enough to graciously hand over the maintaince of the
- module to me. Thanks.
-
- =item Version 3.00 (2003/04/24)
-
- Eryq has disappeared. His web site remains but he doesnt answer emails.
-
- I have taken it onto myself to take over maintenance until he returns to
- reclaim his excellent work.
-
- I don't intend to develop this in an serious way. I'll patch it if people
- have a patch and generally keep it ticking over, but dont expect new features.
-
- This release has code that actually works with MIME::Lite now. As well as a few
- other minor additions (like a test for this functionailty)
-
- For stuff that could be done, a first place would be to rewrite and extend the
- test suite. It should use Test::More or Test::Builder at the very least.
-
- I also might rip out the preformatted doc pages. It makes the distro way fatter
- than it needs to be. I reckon the package contains the POD in at least three forms.
- A wee tad overkill I think. :-)
-
- =item Version 2.117 (2001/08/20)
-
- The terms-of-use have been placed in the distribution file "COPYING".
- Also, small documentation tweaks were made.
-
-
- =item Version 2.116 (2001/08/17)
-
- Added long-overdue patch which makes the instance method form
- of send() do the right thing when given HOW... arguments.
- I<Thanks to Casey West for the patch.>
-
- =item Version 2.114 (2001/08/16)
-
- New special 'AUTO' content type in new()/build() tells MIME::Lite to
- try and guess the type from file extension. To make use of
- this, you'll want to install B<MIME::Types>.
- The "AUTO" setting can be made the default default (instead of "TEXT")
- if you set C<$AUTO_CONTENT_TYPE = 1, $PARANOID = 0>.
- I<Thanks to> Ville SkyttE<#228> I<for these patches.>
-
- File::Basename is used if it is available.
- I<Thanks to> Ville SkyttE<#228> I<for this patch.>
-
- SMTP failures (in send_by_smtp) now add the $smtp-E<gt>message to the
- croak'ed exception, so if things go wrong, you get a better
- idea of what and why.
- I<Thanks to Thomas R. Wyant III for the patch.>
-
- Made a subtle change to C<as_string> which supposedly fixes a
- failed MIME data.t test with Perl 5.004_04 on NT 4 sp6.
- The problem might only exist in this old perl, but as the patch
- author says, not everyone has climbed higher on the Perl ladder.
- I<Thanks to John Gotts for the patch.>
-
- Added C<contrib> directory, with F<MailTool.pm>.
- I<Thanks to Tom Wyant for this contribution.>
-
- Improved HTML documentation (notice the links to
- the individual methods in the top menu).
-
- Corrected some mis-docs.
-
-
- =item Version 2.111 (2001/04/03)
-
- Added long-overdue C<parts()> and C<parts_DFS()> methods.
-
- No instance method
- For accessing the subparts?
- That can't be right. D'OH!
-
- Added long-overdue auto-verify logic to C<print()> method.
-
- Added long-overdue C<preamble()> method for getting/setting
- the preamble text.
- I<Thanks to Jim Daigle for inspiring this.>
-
-
- =item Version 2.108 (2001/03/30)
-
- New C<field_order()> allows you to set the header order, both on a
- per-message basis, and package-wide.
- I<Thanks to Thomas Stromberg for suggesting this.>
-
- Added code to try and divine "sendmail" path more intelligently.
- I<Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the suggestion.>
-
-
- =item Version 2.107 (2001/03/27)
-
- Fixed serious bug where tainted data with quoted-printable encoding
- was causing infinite loops. The "fix" untaints the data in question,
- which is not optimal, but it's probably benign in this case.
- I<Thanks to Stefan Sautter for tracking this nasty little beast down.>
- I<Thanks to Larry Geralds for a related patch.>
-
- "Doctor, O doctor:
- it's painful when I do *this* --"
- "Simple: don't *do* that."
-
- Fixed bugs where a non-local C<$_> was being modified... again!
- Will I never learn?
- I<Thanks to Maarten Koskamp for reporting this.>
-
- Dollar-underscore
- can poison distant waters;
- 'local' must it be.
-
- Fixed buglet in C<add()> where all value references were being treated
- as arrayrefs, instead of as possibly-self-stringifying object refs.
- Now you can send in an object ref as the 2nd argument.
- I<Thanks to dLux for the bug report.>
-
- That ref is a string?
- Operator overload
- has ruined my day.
-
- Added "Approved" as an acceptable header field for C<new()>, as per RFC1036.
- I<Thanks to Thomax for the suggestion regarding MIME-tools.>
-
- Small improvements to docs to make different uses of attach()
- and various arguments clearer.
- I<Thanks to Sven Rassman and Roland Walter for the suggestions.>
-
-
- =item Version 2.106 (2000/11/21)
-
- Added Alpha version of scrub() to make it easy for people to suppress
- the printing of unwanted MIME attributes (like Content-length).
- I<Thanks to the many people who asked for this.>
-
- Headers with empty-strings for their values are no longer
- printed. This seems sensible, and helps us implement scrub().
-
-
- =item Version 2.105 (2000/10/14)
-
- The regression-test failure was identified, and it was my fault.
- Apparently some of the \-quoting in my "autoloaded" code was
- making Perl 5.6 unhappy. For this nesting-related idiocy,
- a nesting kaiku.
- I<Thanks to Scott Schwartz for identifying the problem.>
-
- In a pattern, my
- backslash-s dwells peacefully,
- unambiguous --
-
- but I embed it
- in a double-quoted string
- doubling the backslash --
-
- interpolating
- that same double-quoted string
- in other patterns --
-
- and, worlds within worlds,
- I single-quote the function
- to autoload it --
-
- changing the meaning
- of the backslash and the 's';
- and Five-Point-Six growls.
-
-
- =item Version 2.104 (2000/09/28)
-
- Now attempts to load and use Mail::Address for parsing email
- addresses I<before> falling back to our own method.
- I<Thanks to numerous people for suggesting this.>
-
- Parsing addresses
- is too damn hard. One last hope:
- Let Graham Barr do it!
-
- For the curious, the version of Mail::Address appears
- as the "A" number in the X-Mailer:
-
- X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 2.104 (A1.15; B2.09; Q2.03)
-
- Added B<FromSender> option to send_by_sendmail().
- I<Thanks to Bill Moseley for suggesting this feature.>
-
-
- =item Version 2.101 (2000/06/06)
-
- Major revision to print_body() and body_as_string() so that
- "body" really means "the part after the header", which is what most
- people would want in this context. This is B<not> how it was used
- 1.x, where "body" only meant "the body of a simple singlepart".
- Hopefully, this change will solve many problems and create very few ones.
-
- Added support for attaching a part to a "message/rfc822", treating
- the "message" type as a multipart-like container.
-
- Now takes care not to include "Bcc:" in header when using send_by_smtp,
- as a safety precaution against qmail's behavior.
- I<Thanks to Tatsuhiko Miyagawa for identifying this problem.>
-
- Improved efficiency of many stringifying operations by using
- string-arrays which are joined, instead of doing multiple appends
- to a scalar.
-
- Cleaned up the "examples" directory.
-
-
- =item Version 1.147 (2000/06/02)
-
- Fixed buglet where lack of Cc:/Bcc: was causing extract_addrs
- to emit "undefined variable" warnings. Also, lack of a "To:" field
- now causes a croak.
- I<Thanks to David Mitchell for the bug report and suggested patch.>
-
-
- =item Version 1.146 (2000/05/18)
-
- Fixed bug in parsing of addresses; please read the WARNINGS section
- which describes recommended address formats for "To:", "Cc:", etc.
- Also added automatic inclusion of a UT "Date:" at top level unless
- explicitly told not to.
- I<Thanks to Andy Jacobs for the bug report and the suggestion.>
-
- =item Version 1.145 (2000/05/06)
-
- Fixed bug in encode_7bit(): a lingering C</e> modifier was removed.
- I<Thanks to Michael A. Chase for the patch.>
-
-
- =item Version 1.142 (2000/05/02)
-
- Added new, taint-safe invocation of "sendmail", one which also
- sets up the C<-f> option. Unfortunately, I couldn't make this automatic:
- the change could have broken a lot of code out there which used
- send_by_sendmail() with unusual "sendmail" variants.
- So you'll have to configure "send" to use the new mechanism:
-
- MIME::Lite->send('sendmail'); ### no args!
-
- I<Thanks to Jeremy Howard for suggesting these features.>
-
-
- =item Version 1.140 (2000/04/27)
-
- Fixed bug in support for "To", "Cc", and "Bcc" in send_by_smtp():
- multiple (comma-separated) addresses should now work fine.
- We try real hard to extract addresses from the flat text strings.
- I<Thanks to John Mason for motivating this change.>
-
- Added automatic verification that attached data files exist,
- done immediately before the "send" action is invoked.
- To turn this off, set $MIME::Lite::AUTO_VERIFY to false.
-
- =item Version 1.137 (2000/03/22)
-
- Added support for "Cc" and "Bcc" in send_by_smtp().
- To turn this off, set $MIME::Lite::AUTO_CC to false.
- I<Thanks to Lucas Maneos for the patch, and tons of others for
- the suggestion.>
-
- Chooses a better default content-transfer-encoding if the content-type
- is "image/*", "audio/*", etc.
- To turn this off, set $MIME::Lite::AUTO_ENCODE to false.
- I<Thanks to many folks for the suggestion.>
-
- Fixed bug in QP-encoding where a non-local C<$_> was being modified.
- I<Thanks to Jochen Stenzel for finding this very obscure bug!>
-
- Removed references to C<$`>, C<$'>, and C<$&> (bad variables
- which slow things down).
-
- Added an example of how to send HTML files with enclosed in-line
- images, per popular demand.
-
-
- =item Version 1.133 (1999/04/17)
-
- Fixed bug in "Data" handling: arrayrefs were not being handled
- properly.
-
-
- =item Version 1.130 (1998/12/14)
-
- Added much larger and more-flexible send() facility.
- I<Thanks to Andrew McRae (and Optimation New Zealand Ltd)
- for the Net::SMTP interface. Additional thanks to the many folks
- who requested this feature.>
-
- Added get() method for extracting basic attributes.
-
- New... "t" tests!
-
-
- =item Version 1.124 (1998/11/13)
-
- Folded in filehandle (FH) support in build/attach.
- I<Thanks to Miko O'Sullivan for the code.>
-
-
- =item Version 1.122 (1998/01/19)
-
- MIME::Base64 and MIME::QuotedPrint are used if available.
-
- The 7bit encoding no longer does "escapes"; it merely strips 8-bit characters.
-
-
- =item Version 1.121 (1997/04/08)
-
- Filename attribute is now no longer ignored by build().
- I<Thanks to Ian Smith for finding and patching this bug.>
-
-
- =item Version 1.120 (1997/03/29)
-
- Efficiency hack to speed up MIME::Lite::IO_Scalar.
- I<Thanks to David Aspinwall for the patch.>
-
-
- =item Version 1.116 (1997/03/19)
-
- Small bug in our private copy of encode_base64() was patched.
- I<Thanks to Andreas Koenig for pointing this out.>
-
- New, prettier way of specifying mail message headers in C<build()>.
-
- New quiet method to turn off warnings.
-
- Changed "stringify" methods to more-standard "as_string" methods.
-
-
- =item Version 1.112 (1997/03/06)
-
- Added C<read_now()>, and C<binmode()> method for our non-Unix-using brethren:
- file data is now read using binmode() if appropriate.
- I<Thanks to Xiangzhou Wang for pointing out this bug.>
-
-
- =item Version 1.110 (1997/03/06)
-
- Fixed bug in opening the data filehandle.
-
-
- =item Version 1.102 (1997/03/01)
-
- Initial release.
-
-
- =item Version 1.101 (1997/03/01)
-
- Baseline code.
- Originally created: 11 December 1996. Ho ho ho.
-
- =back
-