You can find more information about each bug number by visiting the Issue Tracker and looking up each bug you're interested in. Bug IDs that start with "GH" can be found in the GitHub Issue Tracker (after removing the "GH"): https://github.com/javaee/javamail/issues/ Bug IDs that start with "G" can be found in the GlassFish Issue Tracker (after removing the "G"): https://github.com/javaee/glassfish/issues/ Seven digit bug numbers are from the old Sun bug database, which is no longer available. CHANGES IN THE 1.6.2 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.6.2 release. GH 306 Infinite loop parsing invalid ID response GH 307 StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when *.proxy.host contains a colon GH 309 Multipart Content-Transfer-Encoding trailing space GH 310 Android app fails to build with JavaMail 1.6.1 GH 314 InternetAddress fails to detect illegal square brackets in local part GH 315 empty Content-Transfer-Encoding header causes IOException GH 316 starttls.enable documentation should reference starttls.required prop GH 317 use System.lineSeparator() instead of System.getProperty(...) GH 321 URLName.getURL() returns incorrect url. GH 322 Dots in local part of emails not handled properly GH 323 Support loading protocol providers using ServiceLoader GH 326 Apply relaxed Content-Disposition parsing to Content-Disposition params GH 330 Attachment filename is ignored GH 332 http proxy support should support authenticating to the proxy server GH 333 search with Unicode char throws BadCommandException with UTF8=ALLOW GH 334 gimap set labels error with some non english characters CHANGES IN THE 1.6.1 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.6.1 release. GH 262 Some IMAP servers send EXPUNGE responses for unknown messages GH 278 BODYSTRUCTURE Parser fails on specific IMAP Server response GH 283 clean up connections when closing IMAPStore GH 287 Allow relaxed Content-Disposition parsing GH 289 use a different IMAP tag prefix for each connection GH 291 define JDK 9 module name for JavaMail GH 296 HTTP proxy support needs to use HTTP/1.1 CHANGES IN THE 1.6.0 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.6.0 release. GH 75 MimeMultipart should throw ParseException for parsing errors GH 77 MimeMessage.updateHeaders should set the Date header if not already set GH 93 Support addressing i18n via RFC 6530/6531/6532 GH 104 The UIDFolder interface should have a getter for UIDNEXT GH 135 MailHandler should choose a better default subject formatter. GH 159 Store, Transport, and Folder should implement AutoCloseable GH 174 MailDateFormat changes for version 1.6 GH 183 Fix javac warnings GH 209 fails to parse some fetch response that has space before final ')' GH 214 IMAP doesn't handle illegal CAPABILITY response after LOGIN/AUTHENTICATE GH 226 MailSessionDefinition should use the Repeatable annotation for Java EE 8 GH 227 IdleManager fails on Android GH 228 Test fails: javax.mail.internet.GetLocalAddressTest GH 229 Tests fail: com.sun.mail.util.WriteTimeoutSocketTest GH 230 MboxFolder.expunge can corrupt mailbox file GH 231 CompactFormatter should handle overridden Throwable.toString methods GH 232 Update public API to use generics GH 233 Malformed IMAP FETCH response throws the wrong exception GH 234 RFC822.SIZE > 2GB isn't handled GH 237 Protocol#command method call readResponse after IOException is thrown GH 238 Possible NPE in Status. line 96 GH 239 MailHandler should support 'login' verify type. GH 240 MailHandler support for non-multipart messages GH 241 use of YoungerTerm/OlderTerm on server without WITHIN support fails GH 244 The UIDFolder interface should have a MAXUID constant GH 245 java.io.IOException: No content when reading msg with empty attachment GH 247 look for resource files in /conf on JDK 1.9 GH 248 MimeUtility should treat GB2312 as one of the supersets GBK or GB18030 GH 249 Flags convenience methods GH 250 SMTP support for the CHUNKING extension of RFC 3030 GH 251 MimeUtility.unfold squashes multiple spaces GH 252 JavaMail PLAIN authentication should implement RFC 4616 GH 253 Support connecting through web proxy servers GH 256 support UIDPLUS UIDNOTSTICKY response code GH 257 SASL authentication should always allow UTF-8 username and password GH 258 android-activation MANIFEST has empty Bundle-SymbolicName CHANGES IN THE 1.5.6 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.5.6 release. GH 199 Support LogRecord.setMillis being deprecated in JDK 9 GH 200 Logging should support LogRecord.getInstant GH 202 Create common super class for logging tests GH 205 NPE by APOP detection when no greeting banner GH 206 Make IMAPProtocol.handleLoginResult protected GH 207 InternetAddress.parse fails for valid domain literal address GH 210 unsolicited FETCH response *must* invalidate X-GM-LABELS in cache GH 211 MimeBodyPart.isMimeType returns false if type header can't be parsed GH 213 NPE in Tomcat ClassLoader causes Session.getInstance to fail GH 215 Deadlock in IMAPFolder.doProtocolCommand() GH 216 InternetAddress.getLocalAddress should use InetAddress.getCanonicalHostName GH 217 Store finalizers should not talk to server GH 219 MailHandler verify should load additional content handlers GH 220 NullPointerException if SASL is enabled on Android GH 221 write timeouts don't work with SSL on Android GH 222 JavaMail allows injection of unwanted headers GH 223 Message.setRecipient(type, null) should remove recipients CHANGES IN THE 1.5.5 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.5.5 release. GH 168 add support for setting GMail labels on messages GH 169 Add spam filter for use with MailHandler. GH 170 Address MailDateFormat issues GH 172 Typo in "mail.stmp.sendpartial" GH 173 mail.mime.encodefilename property should override RFC 2231 encoding GH 176 IMAP should support a mail.imap.auth.mechanisms property like SMTP GH 177 setting mail..auth.mechanisms should override mail..auth..disable GH 178 add support for OAuth 2.0 without SASL GH 179 capability() command doesn't properly transform errors GH 180 MailHandler needs better support for stateful filters. GH 181 add support for IMAP login referrals (RFC 2221) GH 182 whitespace line at beginning confuses InternetHeaders GH 184 Eliminate legacy classes GH 185 IndexOutOfBoundsException reading IMAP literal when connection fails GH 186 IdleManager dies with CancelledKeyException GH 187 IdleManager can deadlock when not busy GH 188 IMAP Folder methods throw runtime exceptions when connection drops GH 189 InternetAddress doesn't detect some illegal newlines GH 190 Status class doesn't decode mailbox name GH 191 add support for IMAP COMPRESS extension (RFC 4978) GH 194 Empty Gmail X-GM-LABELS list is misparsed GH 195 IMAPMessage.getReceivedDate should check if receivedDate is present before loading envelope GH 196 CollectorFormatter descending order data race GH 198 off-by-1 error in Response.readStringList causes early termination of parsing FETCH response GH 201 INTERNALDATE FetchProfile Item GH 203 Exchange returns NIL instead of "" for empty parameter, causing NPE CHANGES IN THE 1.5.4 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.5.4 release. GH 149 Include elapsed time, thread id, and sequence for logging formatters. GH 153 MailHandlerTest does not check field is static or final GH 157 IdleManager can deadlock with frequent notifications GH 158 IdleManager can deadlock when connection fails GH 160 IMAP provider should support the MOVE extension (RFC 6851) GH 162 MODSEQ should be stored in IMAPMessage if CONDSTORE is enabled GH 163 Space character lost from end of quoted-printable body parts GH 164 GmailMessage extensions are not cached after implicit FETCH GH 165 IMAP message sets should be sorted in cases where order doesn't matter GH 166 ID command shouldn't escape NIL value GH 167 Make IMAPProtocol class extendable CHANGES IN THE 1.5.3 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.5.3 release. GH 122 Make constructor of POP3Folder protected to allow subclassing GH 123 calling IdleManager.watch twice on same folder fails GH 124 NPE in IMAPFolder.copyUIDMessages when COPYUID not returned GH 127 Message-Id leaks current user/hostname of the Java process (security) GH 128 IMAP idle breaks interrupt flag GH 129 Date search terms result in wrong greater-than SEARCH commands for IMAP GH 131 address similar to (x)(z) will throw StringIndexOutOfBoundsException GH 132 Update logging demos to use the new 1.5.2 features GH 133 Use classloader ergonomics in the MailHandler GH 137 ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in IMAPFolder.copyUIDMessages GH 138 attachment filenames aren't being encoded by default GH 139 Include javadoc example formats for logging. GH 141 SharedFileInputStream has problems with 2GB+ files GH 143 MimeBodyPart with copied DataHandler doesn't always set encoding GH 144 skip unusable Store and Transport classes GH 145 long parameter values should be split using RFC 2231 GH 146 javax.mail.Authenticator thread safety GH 148 Modify MailHandler to support Google App Engine. GH 150 EXPUNGE response during UID FETCH breaks UID->seqnum mapping GH 151 ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException caused by out-of-range IMAP responses GH 154 write timeouts don't work with a custom SSL socket factory GH 155 SMTP SASL DIGEST-MD5 fails on postfix since the last reply sent is "*" CHANGES IN THE 1.5.2 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.5.2 release. GH 57 allow IMAP search to throw SearchException when search is too complex GH 88 NullPointerException at IMAPFolder#getMessagesByUID if msg not found GH 89 add option to use canonical host name for SASL GH 90 IMAP astring parsing incorrect GH 91 SMTP SASL support doesn't handle authentication failure properly GH 92 SASL authentication failures should not try other methods GH 94 add OAuth2 support to JavaMail GH 95 IMAP failures during close can leave connection unusable GH 96 need way to monitor IMAP responses GH 97 MimeUtility.encodeText() does not work with Unicode surrogate pairs GH 105 IMAP alerts and notifications are not sent during authentication GH 106 add ability to fetch and cache entire IMAP message GH 107 add ability to return server-specific STATUS responses GH 108 add ability to set "peek" flag for all IMAP messages GH 109 add ability to specify scope of event queue GH 110 add ability to specify an Executor to process events GH 113 handle multiple IMAP BODY elements in a single FETCH response GH 115 add more efficient way to monitor multiple folders for new messages GH 116 Include a subject formatter for the logging package GH 118 Broken equals in URLName, NewsAddress GH 119 NullPointerException in ContentType.match GH 120 hashCode of two equals instances does not match for ModifiedSinceTerm, YoungerTerm, OlderTerm GH 121 NullPointerException in InternetAddress CHANGES IN THE 1.5.1 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.5.1 release. GH 66 Wrong "source" version in build.properties GH 67 IMAP provider should support the QRESYNC extension (RFC 5162) GH 68 IMAP provider should support the WITHIN search extension (RFC 5032) GH 69 JavaMail does not handle write timeouts GH 70 method fill() isn't synchronized correctly in SharedFileInputStream GH 71 NullPointerException in MimeUtility#quote() GH 72 support RFC 2359 COPYUID response code GH 73 Empty FROM Field causes Exception GH 74 Filename isn't parsed correctly if charset is not set GH 76 copying a DataHandler from a parsed message to a new message fails GH 78 MimeMessage does not unfold address headers before parsing them GH 80 When using XGWTRUSTEDAPP mechanism, LOGIN should not be issued if no authzid is specified GH 82 support empty IMAP ENVELOPE address list instead of NIL GH 83 JavaMail should support the IMAP ID extension GH 84 Typo: "mechansims" GH 86 Exchange returns out of range message numbers for SEARCH GH 87 require extra permission to create default Session with SecurityManager CHANGES IN THE 1.5.0 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.5.0 release. GH 37 add FetchProfile.Item.SIZE GH 38 fix protected fields in final classes in javax.mail.search GH 39 add MimeMultipart(String subtype, BodyPart... bps) constructor GH 40 exceptions should support exception chaining GH 41 ParameterList needs to support use by IMAP GH 42 ContentType.toString & ContentDisposition.toString shouldn't return null GH 44 add Transport.send(msg, username, password) method GH 45 add MimeMessage.setFrom(String) method GH 46 add Message.getSession() method GH 47 MimeBodyPart.attachFile should set the disposition to ATTACHMENT GH 48 add MimeMessage.reply(replyToAll, setAnswered) method GH 49 add "next" methods to HeaderTokenizer to help parsing bad headers GH 51 add @MailSessionDefinition and @MailSessionDefinitions for Java EE 7 GH 52 make cachedContent field protected in MimeMessage and MimeBodyPart GH 53 make MimeMultipart fields protected to allow subclassing GH 55 need simple way to override MIME type and encoding of attachment GH 56 enable RFC 2231 support by default GH 62 Exception when parsing bad address with unclosed quote in mail header GH 64 when failing to connect to a server, provide more detail in exception CHANGES IN THE 1.4.7 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.4.7 release. GH 60 NullPointerException when accessing the content of a message attachment GH 61 IMAPProtocol.sasllogin uses old constructor for IMAPSaslAuthenticator CHANGES IN THE 1.4.6 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.4.6 release. GH 28 IMAP Store socket leak on connect with ProtocolException GH 29 STARTTLS when already using SSL may cause connection to fail GH 30 Yahoo: Error reading emails containing "undisclosed recipients" GH 32 Infinite loop if Quota information is not correctly reported by server GH 54 Issue in decoding filename with charset iso-2022-jp from Mime header based on rfc 2231 add mail.imap.ignorebodystructuresize to work around server bugs add "gimap" EXPERIMENTAL Gmail IMAP provider add isSSL() method to all protocol providers add support for debug output using java.util.logging avoid NullPointerException when encountering a bad Content-Type CHANGES IN THE 1.4.5 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.4.5 release. 7021190 MimeMessage.setRecipients(type, String) does not accept null address GH 15 ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException for some IMAP protocol errors GH 17 MultipartReport.setReport and setDeliveryStatus are broken GH 18 Wrong representation of CR/LF are appended to the attachment GH 19 SSL Re-Negotiation Problem with checkserveridentity=true GH 22 Thread safety in javax.mail.PasswordAuthentication GH 25 Add SOCKS5 support GH 27 wrong message accessed when another client expunges and adds messages properly handle timeouts during SSL negotiation free MIME headers in IMAPMessage.invalidateHeaders fix exception in POP3Message when reading file cached content twice suppress auth info in debug output, unless mail.debug.auth=true better handle timeouts from POP3 server, throwing FolderClosedException add com.sun.mail.util.ReadableMime to allow reading raw MIME data work around Gmail IMAP bug with nested messages close the SMTP connection if there's an I/O error CHANGES IN THE 1.4.4 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.4.4 release. 5057742 javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage.addFrom() violates RFC2822 6778568 lower memory usage of POP3 parsing by buffering to disk 6905730 MimeMessage.parse() is very slow on malformed message content 6910675 IMAP provider can lose track of message sequence numbers 6928566 Header violates RFC 2822 for multiple calls of addRecipient(s) 6995537 work around this JDK bug that causes iso-2022-jp decoding problems G 11069 update the mail.jar manifest to include DynamicImport-Package GH 10 make sure socket is closed if SMTP connect fails GH 12 Multiparts do not parse correctly in presence of legacy Mac line endings GH 14 InputStreams are not closed in MimeMultipart add mail.mime.windowsfilenames System property to handle IE6 breakage properly disable TOP if POP3 CAPA response doesn't include it add mail.pop3.disablecapa property to disable use of the CAPA command fix support for Properties objects with default Properties objects integrate NTLM support, no longer needs jcifs.jar add mail.pop3.cachewriteto property, default false add mail.pop3.filecache.enable property for caching messages in tmp file add mail.mime.ignorewhitespacelines property, default false add support for IMAP UNSELECT command add mail.mime.contentypehandler System property, to clean Content-Type add mail.mime.allowencodedmessages System property add support for SASL authentication to SMTP provider add SMTPSenderFailedException to indicate problems with sender address ignore encoding for composite content when writing message cache POP3 content using java.lang.ref.SoftReference, set mail.pop3.keepmessagecontent to true to disable add POP3 PIPELINING support reduce POP3 memory usage, especially if server supports pipelining add support for IMAP SORT extension (RFC 5256) to IMAPFolder add demo classes to support non-MIME messages from Outlook fix deadlock when using IMAP fetch and IDLE add support for mail.smtp.auth..disable properties fix deadlock when accessing IMAP messages while doing a fetch CHANGES IN THE 1.4.3 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.4.3 release. 6829124 IMAPFolder deadlock using IMAP IDLE 6850882 IMAPMessage returns wrong getMessageNumber() from messageRemovedEvent 6857090 JavaMail is not sending HELO / EHLO according to specs 6872072 QPEncoderStream write method eats up trailing white space of a string 6875367 LineOutputStream wraps IOException instead of throwing it directly 6890265 SMTPTransport does not close socket if STARTTLS is req'd but not sup'd G 9941 SMTPTransport violates RFC 2821 in HELO command GH 2 InternetAddress verifies domain per RFC1034 instead of RFC822 in strict GH 4 added NTLM authentication support for SMTP and IMAP, see NTLMNOTES.txt add starttls support to POP3 add mail.transport.protocol. property fail POP3Folder.open if STAT command fails fix POP3Folder.isOpen if POP3 server fails and is then reconnected better handle modifying messages created from input streams include server error message in exception when SMTP authentication fails com.sun.mail.util.logging.MailHandler contributed by Jason Mehrens add mail.smtp.noop.strict property, default true add mail..ssl.trust property to list hosts to be trusted work around buggy IMAP servers that don't quote mbox name in STATUS resp CHANGES IN THE 1.4.2 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.4.2 release. 6621377 unexpected result when uuencode data has any line starting with "END" characters 6629213 base64 encoder sometimes omits CRLF 6670275 headers may not end up on top where they belong 6671855 list on IMAP folder that can contain both messages and folders might fail if folder is open 6672359 SMTPTransport notifying both partially delivered and not delivered methods 6676257 cannot specify two custom ssl socket factories for starttls usage 6679333 missing quotes around zero length parameter values 6720896 add mail.mime.uudecode.ignoreerrors system property 6720896 add mail.mime.uudecode.ignoremissingbeginend system property 6730637 deadlocks in IMAP provider when connections fail 6738454 deadlock when connection is broken 6738468 javadocs use fully qualified names 6797756 StringIndexOutOfBoundsError in InternetAddress.parseHeader() 6799810 getReplyTo() returns zero length array when ReplyTo hdr has no value G 3929 Inconsistent synchronization in com.sun.mail.iap.Protocol G 4997 BASE64DecoderStream.skip (etc) skips the wrong number of octets G 5189 Can't specify SSLSocketFactory for STARTTLS in Javamail 1.4 G 5861 add mail..starttls.required prop to require use of STARTTLS ignore socket timeout while waiting in IMAP IDLE fix bug in MailDateFormat parsing in non-lenient mode add mail.mime.multipart.allowempty system property to handle (illegal) empty multiparts (see javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart) add mail.mime.multipart.ignoreexistingboundaryparameter system property to allow parsing multiparts with incorrect boundary parameters handle address of the form "Undisclosed-Recipients:;" add com.sun.mail.util.DecodingException to distinguish decoding errors add mail.mime.ignoreunknownencoding system property (see MimeUtility) ignore errors from SMTP RSET command InternetAddress - detect more errors when strict, accept more when not add mail..socketFactory and .ssl.socketFactory properties add mail..ssl.enable property add mail..ssl.checkserveridentity prop for RFC 2595 checks add com.sun.mail.util.MailSSLSocketFactory class fix possible NPE in MimeMessage if flags is not set in copy constructor SMTP I/O failure incorrectly reports valid sent addresses avoid creating IMAPMessage objects until they're actually needed IMAPStore.isConnected might return true even though not connected add support for Message Delivery Notifications (RFC 3798) to dsn.jar if mail.mime.parameters.strict=false, param vals can start with specials CHANGES IN THE 1.4.1 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.4.1 release. 4107594 IMAP implementation should use the IDLE extension if available 4119871 MimeMessage.reply() should set the "References" header 6228377 IMAPFolder's setFlags method handles user flags incorrectly 6423701 Problem with using OrTerm when the protocol is IMAP 6431207 SMTP is adding extra CRLF to message content 6447295 IMAPMessage fails to return Content-Language from bodystructure 6447799 encoded text not decoded even when mail.mime.decodetext.strict is false 6447801 MimeBodyPart.writeTo reencodes data unnecessarily 6456422 NullPointerException in smtptransport when sending MimeMessages with no encoding 6456444 MimeMessages created from stream are not correctly handled with allow8bitmime 6478460 java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0 >= 0 in MultipartReport 6506794 ProtocolException not correctly treated in IMAPStore 6517273 encoded parameters not decoded when using IMAP 6538483 JavaMail fails in Turkish locale 6569311 Deadlock in IMAP attachment handling 6604571 Folder.hasNewMessages hangs with some IMAP servers when folder is closed fix performance bug in base64 encoder; now even faster! throw MessageRemovedException from getContent for IMAP messages MimeUtility.decodeText should not discard trailing whitespace SSLSocketFactory should be used for imap and smtp STARTTLS commands added mail..ssl.protocols and mail..ssl.ciphersuites props fix bug in mapping IMAP UIDs to msgs when some msgs have been expunged MimeMultipart failed to parse stream before adding/removing body parts if IMAP folder is open, assume it exists, don't ask again avoid unnecessary copies of the data in ByteArrayDataSource add mail.mime.applefilenames to work around filename encoding bug support decoding multi-segment parameter names per RFC 2231 make sure Message-ID is really unique (GlassFish Issue 3064) do SMTP authentication if connect is called with username and password even if mail.smtp.auth is not set CHANGES IN THE 1.4 RELEASE -------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.4 release. 4107342 parameterList class should support non US-ASCII parameters 4252273 support the IMAP UIDPLUS extension 4377727 allow applications to dynamically register address type mappings 4403733 MimeMessage read from a byte stream loses modifications 4623517 add ByteArrayDataSource class 4820923 JavaMail loads SocketFactories with wrong classloader 4971381 add mail.mime.multipart.ignoremissingendboundary System property 6300765 add MimePart.setText(text, charset, subtype) method 6300768 add mail.mime.encodefilename and decodefilename properties 6300771 add Service.connect(user, password) 6300811 add MimeMultipart.isComplete() method 6300814 add mail.mime.multipart.ignoremissingboundaryparameter property 6300828 add MimeMultipart getPreamble and setPreamble methods 6300831 add MimeMessage.updateMessageID() protected method 6300833 add MimeMessage.createMimeMessage() protected method 6300834 make the "part" field of MimePartDataSource protected 6301381 folder.getSeparator should not require the folder to exist 6301386 add PreencodedMimeBodyPart class 6301390 add MimeBodyPart attachFile and saveFile methods 6302118 add MimeUtility fold and unfold methods 6302832 allow more control over headers in InternetHeaders object 6302835 allow applications to dynamically register new protocol providers 6304051 standard interface for Stores that support quotas 6304189 add SharedByteArrayInputStream class 6304193 add SharedFileInputStream class 6332559 REGRESSION: Bug in JavaMail (1.3.3 !) base64 decoder 6378822 Transport.isConnected() conflicts with Sendmail NOOP check 6401071 Deadlock in IMAP attachment handling handle very large IMAP responses more efficiently changed default for mail.smtp.quitwait to true mailcap multipart entry is a JAF 1.1 fallback entry improve MIME multipart parsing performance by 30% - 40% add com.sun.mail.dsn package for parsing multipart/report DSN messages CHANGES IN THE 1.3.3 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.3.3 release. 4239782 add IMAPFolder.getUIDNext 4288393 add IMAPMessage.setPeek to allow reading message without setting SEEN 6214426 POP3Folder.isOpen may return false even though folder is open 6214448 IMAPStore.isConnected may return true even though server is down 6236588 Duplicate Message IDs are generated when mutiple threads create messages 6287582 ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when "Sender" field exists with no value 6288399 IMAP Problem parsing bad envelope address format improve base64 encoding performance 5X (thanks to John Freeman) improve base64 decoding performance 3X ignore invalid encodings for composite MIME parts add mail.mime.multipart.ignoremissingboundaryparameter if IMAP store times out, force folders closed without waiting don't check if an IMAP folder exists before subscribing/unsubscribing add IMAPMessage.getSender(), getInReplyTo() and getContentLanguage() add IMAPFolder.getAttributes to retrieve LIST response attributes add IMAPStore.hasCapability to check for IMAP server CAPABILITY strings add IMAPMessage.invalidateHeaders for memory management when opening IMAP folder, don't do LIST before SELECT add mail.pop3.disabletop property to disable use of the TOP command add mail.pop3.forgettopheaders property to forget headers from TOP cmd add POP3Folder.getSizes() method to return sizes of all messages add POP3Folder.listCommand() method to return raw results of LIST cmd add SMTPTransport.connect(Socket) to enable ATRN support in server CHANGES IN THE 1.3.2 RELEASE ---------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.3.2 release. 4358984 POP3 provider should support APOP, courtesy of "chamness" 4711696 Mapping of nested Exceptions of a SendFailedException 4863399 JavaMail should support specifying the SMTP bind address 4900116 NotifyResponseHandler in Protocol.java throws an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundExc 4924077 folder.getDeletedMessageCount() reports number of undeleted messages 4934814 SASL authentication doesn't default to server specified realm 4945852 Folder exists() function does not handle well folder names that contains * or % 4945868 Potential infinite loop in com.sun.mail.imap.protocol.BODY 4945901 Folder.copyMessages() throws wrong exception in case of deleted messages 4971383 [RFE] javamail should allow easy access to last smtp response 4971391 BASE64DecoderStream handling error in encoded streams is too strict 4996040 SharedInputStream stream closing policy is inconsistent 4996543 IndexOutOfBoundsException when using SharedInputStream 4996863 in the com.sun.mail.iap.Response bitfield constant "BAD" is set wrongly 6041271 APPEND does not consider DST when computing timezone offset 6067307 Mime-Version capitalization should match MIME spec 6172894 MIME messages with missing end boundary are not reported as an error (added mail.mime.multipart.ignoremissingendboundary System property) accommodate some RFC3501 IMAP protocol changes support RFC822 group lists when parsing IMAP address lists don't read past end of IMAP part, for buggy servers that don't handle it fix IMAP NAMESPACE support allow different SMTPTransport objects to have different localhost names make sure server is really alive in POP3Folder.isOpen() support RFC2554 AUTH= submitter via mail.smtp.submitter and SMTPMessage.setSubmitter added SMTPSendFailedException, SMTPAddressFailedException, and SMTPAddressSucceededException mail.smtp.reportsuccess causes an exception to be thrown even on successful sends, allowing access to the return codes for each address fix IMAP isSubscribed in case where LSUB returns a \Noselect folder parse invalid messages with non-ASCII characters in boundary string add IMAP AUTH=PLAIN support, courtesy of Sandy McArthur add SSL support to all protocols, see SSLNOTES.txt for details add STARTTLS support to IMAP and SMTP protocols, see SSLNOTES.txt handle IMAP email addresses composed of empty strings add SASL support to IMAP provider rename mail.stmp.saslrealm to mail.smtp.sasl.realm CHANGES IN THE 1.3.1 FCS RELEASE -------------------------------- The following bugs have been fixed in the 1.3.1 release. 4416417 IMAP alerts and notifications are not sent in all cases - more fixes 4702410 header formatting incorrect for long multibyte 4707106 AuthenticationFailedException not thrown in some cases with POP3 4708655 IMAPNestedMessage.getContent without partialfetch 4709848 message_rfc822 DataContentHandler can cause NPE 4711606 uudecoder fails when reading more than a byte at a time 4726447 InternetHeaders.getHeader() doc. doesn't document null pointer return 4726629 Java Mail very slow with large attachment 4741812 IMAPFolder can deadlock 4750514 REGRESSION: MimeBodyPart.getContent fails on image/gif if no X11 present 4750519 using SSL, SocketFetcher.getSocket0() throws incorrect Exception 4762643 JavaMail does not support search in all message's parts. 4780255 Message subject not encoded according to 'mail.mime.charset' property 4787814 accessibility 508 non-compliance: api/javax/mail/Session.html 4790700 JavaMail Store.connect() throws wrong exception when already connected 4820025 IMAPStore.getPersonalNamespaces throws a ProtocolException 4874787 InternetAddress.toUnicodeString throws NPE, personal not initialized 4882554 Line breaks in subject text break message format don't close connection if open fails, put it back in the pool don't always fetch entire envelope in IMAPMessage.getSize fixed demo webapp to work with servlet 2.3 and newer add DIGEST-MD5 support to SMTP provider, courtesy of Dean Gibson added mail.smtp.quitwait property to wait for response to QUIT added mail.imap.auth.login.disable prop to disable AUTHENTICATE LOGIN 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