You can find more information about each bug number by visiting the Bug Parade in the Java Developer Connection(SM) and looking up each bug you're interested in. Check it out at: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/index.html CHANGES IN THE 1.3 FCS RELEASE ------------------------------ The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.3 release. 4112002 IMAP provider hangs if APPEND is prohibited 4201203 I18N: Incorrectly encoded MIME header can't be decoded (set the *System* property "mail.mime.decodetext.strict" to "false") 4413498 InternetHeaders should add Received headers in front 4416417 IMAP alerts and notifications are not sent in all cases 4483125 Multi-line mail header processing is slow 4483158 null pointer exception for MessageContext.getMessage() 4483206 Please add a public POP3 TOP method in the next release of the POP3 api 4484098 IMAP PREAUTH does not work 4516973 doPrivileged blocks needed for javamail 4517683 new Flags("FOO").contains("FOO") fails 4517686 want JavaMail-specific debug output stream 4638743 JavaMail does not properly parse dates containing folding white space 4638741 JavaMail does not handle in-spec Internet group addresses properly 4650940 InternetAddress parsing should be more tolerant of bad addresses 4650949 wrong encoding chosen for non-text data in rare cases 4650952 should be able to extract group address members 4672308 InternetAddress.toString () throws a NullPointerException after creation 4679516 "NO" Response from IMAP server causes NPE from getSubject() 4684040 Calling Folder.fetch twice may cause to header duplication make uudecoder more tolerant of incorrect input improve performance of SMTP for small messages handle connection failure during open of POP3 folder ensure ASCII, not EBCDIC output for POP3 protocol on IBM mainframes add POP3Message.invalidate method to invalidate cached message data fix thread safety bug in date formatting when appending to IMAP folders fix parsing bug in QUOTA support add mail.imap.allowreadonlyselect property to support shared mailboxes use thread's context class loader for loading classes add IMAPFolder.FetchProfileItem.HEADER and SIZE don't try to logout store connection twice IMAPFolder.close(false) read-only folder doesn't need to EXAMINE first add support for group addresses to SMTP transport use builtin defaults to allow JavaMail to work in netscape 4 tolerate trailing semicolon in Content-Type header (requires JAF 1.0.2) add x-uue as another synonym for uuencode Content-Transfer-Encoding set default charset for text parts properly escape CRLF in MimeUtility.quote fix NPE in MessagingException.getMessage CHANGES IN THE 1.2 FCS RELEASE ------------------------------ The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.2 release. 4107752 need MimeMessage(MimeMessage msg) constructor to allow copying message 4112065 Need API to list and set/remove ACLs on folders (IMAP-specific) 4119681 MimeMessage should allow creation of light-weight messages 4124022 Two connections required to IMAP server to open a folder 4124840 A mechanism to get the raw (unencoded) data from a MimePart is needed 4126013 javax.mail.search terms should be serializable 4129743 MimeMessage.parse() and MimeMessage.modified should be protected 4132029 SMTP Submit is limited to 7bit; does not use ESMTP/8BITMIME 4140579 MimeUtility.encode() does not allow for filename when using UUEncode 4163360 Need a suitable MessagingException subclass to indicate read-only folder 4181144 InternetAddress should be Cloneable 4230553 AuthenticationFailedException should include error message from server 4259211 exception constructors inconsistent 4266390 MailDateFormat class should be part of the public API 4281729 AddressStringTerm.match bug 4319895 POP3 provider doesn't enforce read-only mode 4319957 Ambiguous documentation in Javamail 1.1.3 early access edition 4328824 string based methods to add recipients 4328826 getDefaultInstance method with no Authenticator 4330580 MimeMultipart.getBodyPart(String CID) throws exception 4333694 NullPointerException in version 1.1.1 of the POP3 Provider 4336435 quoted right angle bracket not handled in InternetAddress 4339203 writeTo should automatically call saveChanges 4340648 MimeUtility.getEncoding(DataHandler) method should be public 4364827 Support IMAP NAMESPACE extension 4366373 ContentDisposition class should be public 4371862 improve performance of MimeMessage 4372700 ParameterList.toString method should allow for returning folded results most control characters must be encoded, not sent as "7bit" appending very large message to IMAP folder uses too much memory changed multipart boundary generation to not include email address support IMAP LITERAL+ extension (RFC 2088) allow SMTP multiline reponses with no text (e.g., "250-") fix many potential locking bugs in IMAP provider add mail.smtp.sendpartial property to send msg with some bad addresses add mail.pop3.rsetbeforequit property (see NOTEST.txt) throw IllegalStateException instead of MessagingException when folder is not open (or closed, as appropriate) added support for IMAP QUOTA extension added support for IMAP PREAUTH greeting response added DataContentHandler for text/xml data added SMTPMessage class to specify SMTP options on a per-message basis added javadocs for Sun protocol providers mail.pop3.message.class property allows POP3Message class to be replaced mail.{smtp,imap,pop3}.connectiontimeout property for connection timeouts CHANGES IN THE 1.1.3 FCS RELEASE -------------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.1.3 release. 4248755 Problem loading a custom provider 4249046 don't put space after SMTP FROM: and TO: 4249058 IMAP appendMessages() should include the message Flags as well. 4263185 JavaMail and JAF can't find properties when used as std ext 4271714 DEBUG message always printed when providers loaded from /lib 4276080 getEncoding method doesn't parse MIME header 4279603 RFC822 and MIME specials does not include period "." 4292793 using Message.reply(true) twice on the same IMAP message causes NPE 4293605 javax.mail.MimeMultipart boundary string contains invalid characters 4296711 JavaMail IMAP provider doesn't set SEEN on messages with 0 length body 4305687 JavaMail speaking SMTP fails to quote dots in some cases add support for SMTP Authentication, see NOTES.txt add support for SMTP Delivery Status Notification, see NOTES.txt SMTP return address is now set in mail.smtp.from fix bug in InternetAddress when parsing `` (Mr. X)'' improve javadocs in many places based on questions to javamail@sun.com avoid JDK 1.2 bug 4208960 in SimpleTimeZone.getOffset canonicalize the URLName before fetching saved PasswordAuthentication convert SimpleClient to swing 1.1 package names (javax.swing.*) folder.getURLName() should return native separator, not /, per RFC 2192 use JDK 1.2 ClassLoader.getResources() method (if available) to find all META-INF/javamail.providers and META-INF/javamail.address.map files in the CLASSPATH, to better support protocol provider jar files encode/decode username and password fields of URLName to allow (e.g.) usernames with "@" added DataContentHandler for text/html, to simplify creation of HTML messages and body parts remove escapes from personal name when parsing in InternetAddress cache results of IMAP STATUS command for 1 second, to improve performance of back-to-back calls to getMessageCount, getNewMessageCount, getUnreadMessageCount fix InternetHeaders Enumeration to work even if hasMoreElements isn't called support mail.smtp.timeout property CHANGES IN THE 1.1.2 FCS RELEASE -------------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.1.2 release. Fixed bug where IMAP server connection hangs around even though the connect() method failed. 4199595 force quoted-printable encoding of long text lines fix bug in SMTP output that sometimes duplicated "." close SMTP transport on I/O error 4230541 don't send SMTP NOOP unnecessarily 4216666 IMAP provider INTERNALDATE formatter error, causing problems during appendMessages() 4227888 IMAP provider does not honor the UID item in its FetchProfile CHANGES IN THE 1.1.1 FCS RELEASE -------------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.1.1 release. 4181143 personal can't be null in constructor 4134273 more careful & picky address parsing in InternetAddress parser 4183700 SMTPTransport fails to close socket under certain situations. IMAP provider retains appended message's internal date during Folder.appendMessages(Message[] m); More efficient server-side search for MessageIDTerm in the IMAP provider Fix RFC2047 decoding bug in InternetAddress.getPersonal() Be more tolerant of illegally formatted dates in date parsing. ignore empty lines in loadMappings forgot to use javaCharset() in MimeUtility.decodeWord() Allow addresses without hostnames in InternetAddress parser unrecognized charsets can cause IllegalArgument runtime exception when invoking getContent(). Authentication failure when connecting to Sun IMAP server. Reset SMTP connection after invalid address to allow future sends to succeed Any response to an SMTP NOOP command means we're still connected