README.changelog

CHANGES IN 1.10.2
 * Adding caching of uids and hashes to cut down on SQL queries.

CHANGES IN 1.10.1
 * A search criteria can be specified, allowing you to download only SEEN
   messages, for example (and by default).  This may reduce problems with
   messages being marked as "read" during downloads.

CHANGES IN 1.10
 * Added support for mbox mailboxes (default is still maildir).  You can
   either specify "type: mbox" in the config file or use --type=mbox on the
   command line.
 * There's also another option, --mboxdash, which uses "From -" instead of
   "From blah@blah.com" in the From line of mboxes.  Useful if your mbox
   client freaks out somewhat.
 * simpleimap.py now has more parsing guts for parsing IMAP responses,
   inspired by http://code.google.com/p/webpymail/.  See parseFetch,
   parseInternalDate.
 * The "turbo" handler now uses lambda instead of that abomination I was
   using before.  I knew there was an easier way to do that...
 * A couple fixes for bugs in Python/imaplib SSL support via SimpleImapSSL.
   Had a nice juicy infinite loop thanks to gmail's tendency to drop IMAP
   connections after ~10,000 fetches or so.  (That was not fun to reproduce)
 * Added testsuite.py, which uses unittest to run a couple tests on
   simpleimap's parsers.  This will be used more in the future.

CHANGES IN 1.00
The original version is in git as "0.99-beta".
 * The IMAP message-handling logic has been abstracted out to simpleimap.py.
   This hopes to become its own project to provide an interface to IMAP that
   resembles the "mailbox" module.  Eventually.  Thanks to TJ Fontaine
   for the first bits of this!
 * The original method of iterating through the messages has been replaced.
   The new method appears slower, BUT it is less resource-intensive.
   There's plenty of work for optimization on this, I'm sure.
 * A new column has been added to the seenmessages table, "uid".  This will
   store the uid along with the hash and message key, for faster iterating
   through established backups.  It should "auto-upgrade" itself (I hope).
   This allows for the use of TURBO MODE.
 * range-start and range-end have gone away, and max-messages now defaults
   to 0 (e.g. no limit).  I think we're past the point of large mailboxes
   causing explosions.
 * There is no more high-water-mark logic.  Again, this improves stability
   for the sake of efficiency.  Note that the -m will no longer be quite
   as useful (or necessary) as it was before.
 * There's a workaround for a SSL bug in some older versions of Python
   on Windows.  Thanks to Jeff Dean for this, and many other, bug reports!!

I think this is going to prove a lot more stable, especially for folks who
were running into MemoryError exceptions in imaplib.

Command line/config file option changes:
 Remove --range-start
 Remove --range-end
 Change default --max-messages to 0 (e.g. infinite)
 Replace --force-ssl and --no-ssl with just --ssl