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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/docs/masqmail.cx/download/NEWS Thu Sep 18 18:57:02 2008 +0200 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,253 @@ 1.4 +Here I add changes which may be important for you. See ChangeLog for more 1.5 +details and the manual pages for a more complete description 1.6 +of added options. 1.7 + 1.8 +0.2.17 1.9 + 1.10 +- delivery warnings have been finally implemented: if delivery of a mail 1.11 +fails temporarily, warning mail will be generated, informing the sender 1.12 +of the problem. After some time, the mail will be handled as failing 1.13 +permanently, and be bounced. New options: 'warn_intervals', 1.14 +'max_defer_time' and 'warnmsg_file'. 1.15 + 1.16 +- the message templates for failures and warnings will now be installed 1.17 +into /usr/share/masqmail/tpl/, and no longer to /etc/masqmail/tpl/. The 1.18 +default for the search path (options 'errmsg_file' and 'warnmsg_file' 1.19 +has been changed accordingly. 1.20 + 1.21 +- new option 'last_route'. See man 5 masqmail.route. 1.22 + 1.23 +0.2.12 1.24 +two new options have been added: 1.25 +- do_pipelining will be used only in broken mail setups. Actually, I 1.26 +implemented it only to test such a setup. 1.27 + 1.28 +- helo_name for routes sets the helo_name. This may be useful for 1.29 +eg. ssh tunneling, or if do_correcthelo does not work, because you are 1.30 +behind a firewall. 1.31 + 1.32 +- the old 'remote_port' option should not be used any more. Set the 1.33 +port with mail_host="foo.bar.com:1234" in the route file instead. 1.34 + 1.35 +0.2.11 1.36 + 1.37 +- two new options have been added: do_save_envelope_to for the main 1.38 +configuration and map_h_mail_followup_to_addresses for the route 1.39 +files. See the man pages on purpose and usage. 1.40 + 1.41 +- the route files can now be mode 0400, owned by root. Previous 1.42 +versions had problems when sendmail was called directly by a 1.43 +non-priviledged user, because the route files could not be read. 1.44 + 1.45 +0.2.10 1.46 + 1.47 +- this version should work on FreeBSD. At least I care now if it does not. 1.48 + 1.49 +- masqmail now writes pid files to /var/run/, one for the smtp/queue 1.50 +daemon and one for the get daemon. So you now know whom to kill ;-) 1.51 + 1.52 +- much effort has been put into the Debian package, which now uses debconf. 1.53 + 1.54 +0.2.7 1.55 + 1.56 +- sorry for my reluctany in the last months... 1.57 +- my email address is oku@masqmail.cx. I hope that I keep this for the rest 1.58 +of my life... 1.59 + 1.60 +0.2.6 1.61 + 1.62 +- you can configure the prefered local delivery mechanism for each user. See 1.63 +man page masqmail.conf (5), options mbox_default, mbox_users, mda_users and 1.64 +maildir_users. BIT FAT NOTE: if you used an mda, set mbox_default = "mda" 1.65 +(or use the mda_users option). Just setting mda is not enough any more. 1.66 + 1.67 +- there are the allowed_return_paths and not_allowed_return_paths for the 1.68 +route configurations, this enables better checking for return path addresses 1.69 +than allowed_mail_locals. You can also use this to enable or disable messages 1.70 +from null sender addresses (<>) using "<>". 1.71 +note: this option has been there for quite a time... I just forgot to document it. 1.72 + 1.73 +0.2.5 1.74 + 1.75 +- simple relay checking: if you set do_relay=false in masqmail.conf, users 1.76 +with a return path that is not local will get a 550 reply if they try to 1.77 +deliver to a not local address. This is for users to force them to have a 1.78 +proper configuration. It is _not_ to prevent spammers from using your MTA 1.79 +as a relay, it can be easily forged! masqmail is not designed to be an always 1.80 +accessible MTA for an internet site. 1.81 + 1.82 +- added Maildir support. To use it, add --enable-maildir as ./configure 1.83 +optiom. Currently, if enabled, all local deliveries are to Maildir 1.84 +(in ~user/Maildir), and none to mailbox. This is preliminary, future versions 1.85 +will be configurable (probably together with mda delivery). 1.86 + 1.87 +0.2.4 1.88 + 1.89 +- added -v option, this logs to stdout, so you see what happens when 1.90 +calling masqmail from command line. This is not yet finished, and only 1.91 +for fetching mails completed. 1.92 + 1.93 +0.2.3 1.94 + 1.95 +- new option lock_dir where locks will be put to. Defaults to the spool 1.96 +dir with '/lock/' appended (if spool_dir is /var/spool/masqmail/, lock_dir 1.97 +is /var/spool/masqmail/lock/). 1.98 + 1.99 +- You can use the 'do_uidl_dele' option more reliably. The uidl list 1.100 +will be written immediately after a message was fetched, so if you use the 1.101 +do_uidl and do_uidl_dele option you can safely interrupt masqmail when it is 1.102 +getting mail via pop3, and do not get the message again next time. 1.103 + 1.104 +- there are a lot of new options for ./configure to customize masqmail 1.105 +to your needs. See INSTALL. 1.106 + 1.107 +- Uli Funcke sent a patch with the new options 'local_addresses' and 1.108 +'not_local_addresses' for masqmail.conf. With these, you can declare single 1.109 +email addresses as local, though they normally are not, and vice versa, 1.110 +declare addresses as not local though normally they are (determined with 1.111 +local_hosts). These options are not yet documented. 1.112 + 1.113 +0.2.2 1.114 +- with -go5m you can now run a get daemon, the command 'masqmail -go5m' will fetch 1.115 +mail every five minutes, using the detected online configuration. 1.116 + 1.117 +0.2.1 1.118 + 1.119 +- there is a new option for the main conf: online_gets. Using this option, 1.120 +you can retrieve mail with just calling masqmail -go, masqmail will detect 1.121 +whether it is online (similar to conect_routes (which is now called 1.122 +online_routes)). 1.123 + 1.124 +0.2.0 1.125 + 1.126 +This is the first release of he development branch of masqmail 1.127 + 1.128 +- the default configuration is now /etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf 1.129 + (as it already was for the debian package). The --with-conffile 1.130 + option for configure has been replaced by the --with-confdir option. 1.131 + 1.132 +- added delivery failure notices: 1.133 + o you can customize your own delivery failure report, its 1.134 + default location is /etc/masqmail/tpl/failmsg.tpl 1.135 + o if a delivery via a route fails permanently (the server replied with a 5xx status) 1.136 + the message will be bounced, if it is bounced, no further delivery will be attempted. 1.137 + This is different to previous versions, where failed messages were kept in the queue until 1.138 + it was finally delivered, deleted or forever. 1.139 + 1.140 +- there is a new online detection method: pipe. This allows you more 1.141 + flexibility to detect the current online status, eg. the DHCP status on notebooks. 1.142 + 1.143 +This method will once replace the 'mserver' option, 1.144 +you can already use the program mservdetect to use it: 1.145 + 1.146 +online_method=pipe 1.147 +online_pipe="/usr/bin/mservdetect localhost 222" 1.148 + 1.149 +instead of 1.150 + 1.151 +online_etect=mserver 1.152 +mserver_iface="localhost:222" 1.153 + 1.154 +0.1.9 1.155 + 1.156 +- you can use pipes in routes to implement gateways to uucp, fax, sms etc. 1.157 +The setup is similar to mda transport. See man pages. 1.158 + 1.159 +- for each connection (connect_routes), you can now give a list of 1.160 +route files, which will be used in the order given. You can use the 1.161 +filter rules (allowed_* and not_allowed_* rules) within each route. 1.162 + 1.163 +0.1.8 1.164 + 1.165 +- for pop retrieval and smtp sending you can use a wrapper for eg. ssl 1.166 +tunneling. See man pages. 1.167 + 1.168 +- a user can delete his mail from the spool with -Mrm if received 1.169 +locally, and if you configure with --enable-ident and set 1.170 +ident_trusted_nets also if received via smtp. 1.171 + 1.172 +- a backslash now works to escape characters in the configuration, so 1.173 +you can now use quotes inside quotes. All other characters with a 1.174 +leading backslash will be converted to itself (\a becomes a, \\ 1.175 +becomes \). 1.176 + 1.177 +- you can now use an mda for local mails. The mda will be called 1.178 +*after* alias expansion. See documentation for more. 1.179 + 1.180 +0.1.0 1.181 +- masqmail can now retrieve mail with pop3. See the manual on how to do that. 1.182 +- supports now ESMTP AUTH as a client. 1.183 +- when called with -qo (without a connection name), the online status 1.184 +will be checked with the configured method. 1.185 + 1.186 +0.0.10 1.187 +- there is now alias support. Give the location of the alias file (usually /etc/aliases) with eg. 1.188 +alias_file = "/etc/aliases" 1.189 +- delivery to pipes is now possible, but only if it appears in an alias file. Example: 1.190 +pipe: |/usr/bin/command 1.191 +will expand the address pipe to "|/usr/bin/command" which invokes '/usr/bin/command' 1.192 +as the user and group masqmail is running as. 1.193 +- entries starting with '\' in alias files will not be exanded further 1.194 + 1.195 +- changed permissions for queue runs again: got to be root, mail or in group trusted. 1.196 + 1.197 +- some configuration parameters can be read from files, these are 1.198 +allowed_mail_locals, not_allowed_mail_locals, allowed_rcpt_domains, not_allowed_rcpt_domains, 1.199 +map_return_path_addresses, map_h_from_addresses, map_h_reply_to_addresses 1.200 +any entry in these list beginning with a '/' are regarded as 1.201 +filenames, the content of these will be put at that location. Entries 1.202 +in these files are separated by new lines. Example: 1.203 +in the route file you have: 1.204 +map_h_from_addresses = "/etc/masqmail/hfrom.map" 1.205 +and hfrom.map contains: 1.206 + 1.207 +john: John Smith <jsmith@mail.academic.edu> 1.208 +cmiller: "Charlie Miller" <cmiller@foo.com> 1.209 + 1.210 +UPDATE (Jan 2000): The new home location of MasqMail is 1.211 +http://www.innominate.org/~oku/masqmail/, the new email adress of the 1.212 +author is Oliver Kurth <kurth@innominate.de>. 1.213 + 1.214 +0.0.9 1.215 +- see ChangeLog. 1.216 + 1.217 +NOTE: The home location of MasqMail at 1.218 +http://merlin.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~okurth/masqmail/ is uncertain from the 1.219 +beginning of Nov. 1999! See http://www.freshmeat.net for new 1.220 +announcements. I leave the university and begin a new job on Nov. 1st 1999 1.221 +in Berlin :-). 1.222 + 1.223 +0.0.8: 1.224 +- there is now a FAQ page. See docs/faq.html. 1.225 +- added allowed_rcpt_domains option for routes. 1.226 +- added allowed_mail_locals and not_allowed_mail_locals options for routes. 1.227 +- mailq now gives information about the time mails spent in the queue, 1.228 +the message size and the received host. 1.229 + 1.230 +0.0.7: 1.231 +-bug fix release: for statements in two adjacent lines, the second was not recognized. 1.232 + 1.233 +0.0.6: 1.234 +- bug fix release: some MUAs (cucipop) saw the locally delivered mails 1.235 +concatenated. (cucipop is not a MUA but a pop server, but it has to read the 1.236 +mails). 1.237 + 1.238 +0.0.5: 1.239 +- fixed a bug that caused the headers to be lost under some circumstances. 1.240 +- added expand_h_sender_domain option for routes. 1.241 +- rewrote the libresolv part in configure. Should work better now. 1.242 + 1.243 +0.0.4: 1.244 +- MM should now recognize whether libresolv should be linked. 1.245 +- added --with-logdir=LOGDIR and --with-spooldir=SPOOLDIR to set directories. 1.246 + These will be created if not already existent. 1.247 +- added --with-user=USER, --with-group=GROUP options to set user and group id 1.248 + for MasqMail. 1.249 + 1.250 +0.0.3: 1.251 +- MasqMail can now deliver mails that are received at online 1.252 + time immediately to the internet. See the options detect_online, 1.253 + mserver_iface and online_file. 1.254 +- You can define a route configuration for the local net. See option 1.255 + local_net_route. 1.256 +