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GMime 2.99.0 released

After a long hiatus, I am pleased to announce the release of GMime 2.99.0!

See below for a list of new features and bug fixes.

About GMime

GMime is a C library which may be used for the creation and parsing of messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME), as defined by numerous IETF specifications.

GMime features an extremely robust high-performance parser designed to be able to preserve byte-for-byte information allowing developers to re-seralize the parsed messages back to a stream exactly as the parser found them. It also features integrated GnuPG and S/MIME v3.2 support.

Built on top of GObject (the object system used by the GNOME desktop), many developers should find its API design and memory management very familiar.

Noteworthy changes in version 2.99.0

• Overhauled the GnuPG support to use GPGME under the hood rather than a custom wrapper.
• Added S/MIME support, also thanks to GPGME.
• Added International Domain Name support via GNU's libidn.
• Improved the GMimeMessage APIs for accessing the common address headers. They now all return an InternetAddressList.
• g_mime_init() no longer takes any flag arguments and the g_mime_set_user_charsets() API has also been dropped. Instead, GMimeParserOptions and GMimeFormatOptions have taken the place of these APIs to allow customization of various parser and formatting options in a much cleaner way. To facilitate this, many parsing functions and formatting functions have changed to now take these options arguments.
• InternetAddress now has a 'charset' property that can be set to override GMime's auto-detection of the best charset to use when encoding names.
• GMimeHeaderIter has been dropped in favor of a much simpler index-based API on GMimeHeaderList.
• GMimeHeaderList no longer caches the raw message/mime headers in a stream. Instead, each GMimeHeader now has its own cache. This means that changing the GMimeHeaderList or any of its GMimeHeaders no longer invalidates the entire cache.
• GMimeParser has been fixed to preserve (munged or otherwise) From-lines that sometimes appear at the start of the content of message/rfc822 parts.
• GMimeParser now also scans for encapsulated PGP blocks within MIME parts as it is parsing them and sets a flag on each GMimePart that contains one of these blocks.
• GMimePart now has APIs for dealing with said encapsulated PGP blocks.

Developers interested in migrating to the upcoming GMime 3.0 API (of which GMime 2.99.0 is a preview) should take a look at the PORTING document included with the source code as it contains a fairly comprehensive list of the API changes that they will need to be aware of.

Getting the Source Code

You can download official public release tarballs of GMime at https://download.gnome.org/sources/gmime/ or ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gmime/.

If you would like to contribute to the GMime project, it is recommended that you grab the source code from the official GitHub repository at https://github.com/jstedfast/gmime. Cloning this repository can be done using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/jstedfast/gmime.git

Documentation

API reference documentation can be found at https://developer.gnome.org/gmime/2.99/.

Documentation for getting started can be found in the README.md.

MailKit 1.14 released

I am pleased to announce the release of MailKit 1.14!

See below for a list of new features and bug fixes.

About MailKit

MailKit is a C# library which is built on top of MimeKit and is intended to be used for interfacing with IMAP, POP3 and SMTP servers.

MailKit features incredibly robust IMAP, POP3 and SMTP clients with network APIs that are all capable of being canceled. API's that might transfer significant amounts of data between the client and server also include the ability to report progress. Asynchronous API's are also available.

Built on top of .NET, MailKit can be used with any of the .NET languages including C#, VB.NET, F#, and more. It will also run on any platform that Mono or the new .NET Core runtime have been ported to including Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Windows Phone, Apple TV, Apple Watch, iPhone/iPad, Xbox, PlayStation, and Android devices.

Noteworthy changes in version 1.14

• Improved IMAP's BODYSTRUCTURE parser to sanitize the Content-Disposition values. (issue #486)
• Improved robustness of IMAP's BODYSTRUCTURE parser in cases where qstring tokens have unescaped quotes. (issue #485)
• Fixed IMAP to properly handle NIL as a folder name in LIST, LSUB and STATUS responses. (issue #482)
• Added ImapFolder.GetHeaders() to allow developers to download the entire set of message headers.
• Added SMTP support for International Domain Names in email addresses used in the MAIL FROM and RCPT TO commands.
• Modified SmtpClient to no longer throw a NotSupportedException when trying to send messages to a recipient with a unicode local-part in the email address when the SMTP server does not support the SMTPUTF8 extension. Instead, the local-part is passed through as UTF-8, leaving it up to the server to reject either the command or the message. This seems to provide the best interoperability.

Installing via NuGet

The easiest way to install MailKit is via NuGet.

In Visual Studio's Package Manager Console, simply enter the following command:

Install-Package MailKit

Getting the Source Code

First, you'll need to clone MailKit from my GitHub repository. To do this using the command-line version of Git, you'll need to issue the following command in your terminal:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/jstedfast/MailKit.git

Documentation

API documentation can be found at http://mimekit.net/docs.

A copy of the xml formatted API documentation is also included in the NuGet and/or Xamarin Component package.

MimeKit 1.14 released

I am pleased to announce the release of MimeKit 1.14!

See below for a list of new features and bug fixes.

About MimeKit

MimeKit is a C# library which may be used for the creation and parsing of messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME), as defined by numerous IETF specifications.

MimeKit features an extremely robust high-performance parser designed to be able to preserve byte-for-byte information allowing developers to re-seralize the parsed messages back to a stream exactly as the parser found them. It also features integrated DKIM-Signature, S/MIME v3.2, OpenPGP and MS-TNEF support.

Built on top of .NET, MimeKit can be used with any of the .NET languages including C#, VB.NET, F#, and more. It will also run on any platform that Mono or the new .NET Core runtime have been ported to including Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Windows Phone, Apple TV, Apple Watch, iPhone/iPad, Xbox, PlayStation, and Android devices.

Noteworthy changes in version 1.14

• Added International Domain Name support for email addresses.
• Added a work-around for mailers that didn't provide a disposition value in a Content-Disposition header.
• Added a work-around for mailers that quote the disposition value in a Content-Disposition header.
• Added automatic key retrieval functionality for the GnuPG crypto context.
• Added a virtual DigestSigner property to DkimSigner so that consumers can hook into services such as Azure. (issue #296)
• Fixed a bug in the MimeFilterBase.SaveRemainingInput() logic.
• Preserve munged From-lines at the start of message/rfc822 parts.
• Map code page 50220 to iso-2022-jp.
• Format Reply-To and Sender headers as address headers when using Header.SetValue().
• Fixed MimeMessage.CreateFromMailMessage() to set the MIME-Version header. (issue #290)

Installing via NuGet

The easiest way to install MimeKit is via NuGet.

In Visual Studio's Package Manager Console, simply enter the following command:

Install-Package MimeKit

Getting the Source Code

First, you'll need to clone MimeKit from my GitHub repository. To do this using the command-line version of Git, you'll need to issue the following command in your terminal:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/jstedfast/MimeKit.git

Documentation

API documentation can be found at http://mimekit.net/docs.

A copy of the xml formatted API documentation is also included in the NuGet and/or Xamarin Component package.