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fixed correct processing of mails with data lines longer 4096 chars Mail messages with lines longer than 4096 chars were already read correctly, i.e. the spool files were correct. This commit fixes the reading of spool files with long lines. The old behavior was that the message body was truncated right before the first line longer 4096 chars. The number comes from MAX_DATALINE.
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:06:34 +0200
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meillo@48 1 This NEWS file lists changes which may be important for you, especially
meillo@41 2 in regard to compatiblity in upgrades.
meillo@41 3
meillo@41 4 See ChangeLog file for more details and technical changes that don't
meillo@41 5 affect users directly.
meillo@41 6
meillo@41 7 The manual pages describe newly added options. Take them for reference.
meillo@41 8
meillo@41 9
meillo@53 10 0.2.23
meillo@53 11
meillo@53 12 - This release fixes a major bug in 0.2.22 which made online detection
meillo@53 13 by file unusable. Thanks to Juergen Daubert for reporting and providing
meillo@53 14 a patch.
meillo@53 15
meillo@69 16 - Masqmail installs to /usr/local by default now. Previously it
meillo@69 17 installed to /usr. To regain the old behavior, add
meillo@69 18 --prefix=/usr
meillo@69 19 to the configure call.
meillo@69 20
meillo@69 21 - Man pages get installed again; in 0.2.22 they were not. Again thanks
meillo@69 22 to Juergen Daubert. Docs and examples do get installed now too.
meillo@69 23
meillo@69 24 - Updated the docs. Moved the man pages from docs/ to man/. Added the
meillo@69 25 old manual from the old website to the distribution. Added a bug
meillo@69 26 reporting howto.
meillo@69 27
meillo@53 28
meillo@42 29 0.2.22
meillo@41 30
meillo@41 31 - Hello, I'm meillo, the new maintainer and developer of masqmail. Oku
meillo@48 32 handed masqmail over to me, because he wasn't active anymore.
meillo@41 33
meillo@41 34 - This release includes various fixes for problems in 0.2.21, mainly
meillo@41 35 based on bugs from Debian.
meillo@41 36
meillo@41 37 - Distribution specific data has been excluded from the distribution,
meillo@48 38 but is separately available on the project's website.
meillo@41 39
meillo@41 40 - Man pages will not be generated from xml sources in future, but the
meillo@41 41 nroff sources will be maintained directly.
meillo@41 42
meillo@41 43 - The default online status file is now
meillo@41 44 /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route, as it already was in the Debian
meillo@41 45 package.
meillo@41 46
meillo@48 47
meillo@41 48 0.2.21
meillo@41 49
meillo@41 50 - Retrospective: Probably, this version was not published in the usual
meillo@41 51 way by oku. I (meillo) grabbed it from Debian's package archive. It does
meillo@41 52 not introduce new functions but fixes security problems, such as writing
meillo@41 53 log files as user `mail'. It also changes the location for pid files;
meillo@41 54 they are stored in /var/run/masqmail/ now.
meillo@0 55
meillo@48 56
meillo@0 57 0.2.18
meillo@0 58
meillo@48 59 - delivery warnings and failures are now also implemented if the
meillo@0 60 connection to a server fails. Because masqmail is designed for dialup
meillo@0 61 networks, a connection failure will merely generate a warning by default.
meillo@0 62 If you deliver in a local network and use the default local_net route,
meillo@0 63 this would generte a failure. You can change this behaviour by setting
meillo@41 64 'connect_error_fail' to either true or false in the route configurations.
meillo@0 65
meillo@0 66 0.2.17
meillo@0 67
meillo@0 68 - delivery warnings have been finally implemented: if delivery of a mail
meillo@0 69 fails temporarily, warning mail will be generated, informing the sender
meillo@0 70 of the problem. After some time, the mail will be handled as failing
meillo@0 71 permanently, and be bounced. New options: 'warn_intervals',
meillo@0 72 'max_defer_time' and 'warnmsg_file'.
meillo@0 73
meillo@0 74 - the message templates for failures and warnings will now be installed
meillo@0 75 into /usr/share/masqmail/tpl/, and no longer to /etc/masqmail/tpl/. The
meillo@0 76 default for the search path (options 'errmsg_file' and 'warnmsg_file'
meillo@0 77 has been changed accordingly.
meillo@0 78
meillo@0 79 - new option 'last_route'. See man 5 masqmail.route.
meillo@0 80
meillo@0 81 0.2.12
meillo@0 82 two new options have been added:
meillo@0 83 - do_pipelining will be used only in broken mail setups. Actually, I
meillo@0 84 implemented it only to test such a setup.
meillo@0 85
meillo@0 86 - helo_name for routes sets the helo_name. This may be useful for
meillo@0 87 eg. ssh tunneling, or if do_correcthelo does not work, because you are
meillo@0 88 behind a firewall.
meillo@0 89
meillo@0 90 - the old 'remote_port' option should not be used any more. Set the
meillo@0 91 port with mail_host="foo.bar.com:1234" in the route file instead.
meillo@0 92
meillo@0 93 0.2.11
meillo@0 94
meillo@0 95 - two new options have been added: do_save_envelope_to for the main
meillo@0 96 configuration and map_h_mail_followup_to_addresses for the route
meillo@0 97 files. See the man pages on purpose and usage.
meillo@0 98
meillo@0 99 - the route files can now be mode 0400, owned by root. Previous
meillo@0 100 versions had problems when sendmail was called directly by a
meillo@0 101 non-priviledged user, because the route files could not be read.
meillo@0 102
meillo@0 103 0.2.10
meillo@0 104
meillo@0 105 - this version should work on FreeBSD. At least I care now if it does not.
meillo@0 106
meillo@0 107 - masqmail now writes pid files to /var/run/, one for the smtp/queue
meillo@0 108 daemon and one for the get daemon. So you now know whom to kill ;-)
meillo@0 109
meillo@0 110 - much effort has been put into the Debian package, which now uses debconf.
meillo@0 111
meillo@0 112 0.2.7
meillo@0 113
meillo@0 114 - sorry for my reluctany in the last months...
meillo@0 115 - my email address is oku@masqmail.cx. I hope that I keep this for the rest
meillo@0 116 of my life...
meillo@0 117
meillo@0 118 0.2.6
meillo@0 119
meillo@0 120 - you can configure the prefered local delivery mechanism for each user. See
meillo@0 121 man page masqmail.conf (5), options mbox_default, mbox_users, mda_users and
meillo@0 122 maildir_users. BIT FAT NOTE: if you used an mda, set mbox_default = "mda"
meillo@0 123 (or use the mda_users option). Just setting mda is not enough any more.
meillo@0 124
meillo@0 125 - there are the allowed_return_paths and not_allowed_return_paths for the
meillo@0 126 route configurations, this enables better checking for return path addresses
meillo@0 127 than allowed_mail_locals. You can also use this to enable or disable messages
meillo@0 128 from null sender addresses (<>) using "<>".
meillo@0 129 note: this option has been there for quite a time... I just forgot to document it.
meillo@0 130
meillo@0 131 0.2.5
meillo@0 132
meillo@0 133 - simple relay checking: if you set do_relay=false in masqmail.conf, users
meillo@0 134 with a return path that is not local will get a 550 reply if they try to
meillo@0 135 deliver to a not local address. This is for users to force them to have a
meillo@0 136 proper configuration. It is _not_ to prevent spammers from using your MTA
meillo@0 137 as a relay, it can be easily forged! masqmail is not designed to be an always
meillo@0 138 accessible MTA for an internet site.
meillo@0 139
meillo@0 140 - added Maildir support. To use it, add --enable-maildir as ./configure
meillo@0 141 optiom. Currently, if enabled, all local deliveries are to Maildir
meillo@0 142 (in ~user/Maildir), and none to mailbox. This is preliminary, future versions
meillo@0 143 will be configurable (probably together with mda delivery).
meillo@0 144
meillo@0 145 0.2.4
meillo@0 146
meillo@0 147 - added -v option, this logs to stdout, so you see what happens when
meillo@0 148 calling masqmail from command line. This is not yet finished, and only
meillo@0 149 for fetching mails completed.
meillo@0 150
meillo@0 151 0.2.3
meillo@0 152
meillo@0 153 - new option lock_dir where locks will be put to. Defaults to the spool
meillo@0 154 dir with '/lock/' appended (if spool_dir is /var/spool/masqmail/, lock_dir
meillo@0 155 is /var/spool/masqmail/lock/).
meillo@0 156
meillo@0 157 - You can use the 'do_uidl_dele' option more reliably. The uidl list
meillo@0 158 will be written immediately after a message was fetched, so if you use the
meillo@0 159 do_uidl and do_uidl_dele option you can safely interrupt masqmail when it is
meillo@0 160 getting mail via pop3, and do not get the message again next time.
meillo@0 161
meillo@0 162 - there are a lot of new options for ./configure to customize masqmail
meillo@0 163 to your needs. See INSTALL.
meillo@0 164
meillo@0 165 - Uli Funcke sent a patch with the new options 'local_addresses' and
meillo@0 166 'not_local_addresses' for masqmail.conf. With these, you can declare single
meillo@0 167 email addresses as local, though they normally are not, and vice versa,
meillo@0 168 declare addresses as not local though normally they are (determined with
meillo@0 169 local_hosts). These options are not yet documented.
meillo@0 170
meillo@0 171 0.2.2
meillo@0 172 - with -go5m you can now run a get daemon, the command 'masqmail -go5m' will fetch
meillo@0 173 mail every five minutes, using the detected online configuration.
meillo@0 174
meillo@0 175 0.2.1
meillo@0 176
meillo@0 177 - there is a new option for the main conf: online_gets. Using this option,
meillo@0 178 you can retrieve mail with just calling masqmail -go, masqmail will detect
meillo@41 179 whether it is online (similar to connect_routes (which is now called
meillo@0 180 online_routes)).
meillo@0 181
meillo@0 182 0.2.0
meillo@0 183
meillo@0 184 This is the first release of he development branch of masqmail
meillo@0 185
meillo@0 186 - the default configuration is now /etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf
meillo@0 187 (as it already was for the debian package). The --with-conffile
meillo@0 188 option for configure has been replaced by the --with-confdir option.
meillo@0 189
meillo@0 190 - added delivery failure notices:
meillo@0 191 o you can customize your own delivery failure report, its
meillo@0 192 default location is /etc/masqmail/tpl/failmsg.tpl
meillo@0 193 o if a delivery via a route fails permanently (the server replied with a 5xx status)
meillo@0 194 the message will be bounced, if it is bounced, no further delivery will be attempted.
meillo@0 195 This is different to previous versions, where failed messages were kept in the queue until
meillo@0 196 it was finally delivered, deleted or forever.
meillo@0 197
meillo@0 198 - there is a new online detection method: pipe. This allows you more
meillo@0 199 flexibility to detect the current online status, eg. the DHCP status on notebooks.
meillo@0 200
meillo@0 201 This method will once replace the 'mserver' option,
meillo@0 202 you can already use the program mservdetect to use it:
meillo@0 203
meillo@0 204 online_method=pipe
meillo@0 205 online_pipe="/usr/bin/mservdetect localhost 222"
meillo@0 206
meillo@0 207 instead of
meillo@0 208
meillo@41 209 online_detect=mserver
meillo@0 210 mserver_iface="localhost:222"
meillo@0 211
meillo@0 212 0.1.9
meillo@0 213
meillo@0 214 - you can use pipes in routes to implement gateways to uucp, fax, sms etc.
meillo@0 215 The setup is similar to mda transport. See man pages.
meillo@0 216
meillo@0 217 - for each connection (connect_routes), you can now give a list of
meillo@0 218 route files, which will be used in the order given. You can use the
meillo@0 219 filter rules (allowed_* and not_allowed_* rules) within each route.
meillo@0 220
meillo@0 221 0.1.8
meillo@0 222
meillo@0 223 - for pop retrieval and smtp sending you can use a wrapper for eg. ssl
meillo@0 224 tunneling. See man pages.
meillo@0 225
meillo@0 226 - a user can delete his mail from the spool with -Mrm if received
meillo@0 227 locally, and if you configure with --enable-ident and set
meillo@0 228 ident_trusted_nets also if received via smtp.
meillo@0 229
meillo@0 230 - a backslash now works to escape characters in the configuration, so
meillo@0 231 you can now use quotes inside quotes. All other characters with a
meillo@0 232 leading backslash will be converted to itself (\a becomes a, \\
meillo@0 233 becomes \).
meillo@0 234
meillo@0 235 - you can now use an mda for local mails. The mda will be called
meillo@0 236 *after* alias expansion. See documentation for more.
meillo@0 237
meillo@0 238 0.1.0
meillo@0 239 - masqmail can now retrieve mail with pop3. See the manual on how to do that.
meillo@0 240 - supports now ESMTP AUTH as a client.
meillo@0 241 - when called with -qo (without a connection name), the online status
meillo@0 242 will be checked with the configured method.
meillo@0 243
meillo@0 244 0.0.10
meillo@0 245 - there is now alias support. Give the location of the alias file (usually /etc/aliases) with eg.
meillo@0 246 alias_file = "/etc/aliases"
meillo@0 247 - delivery to pipes is now possible, but only if it appears in an alias file. Example:
meillo@0 248 pipe: |/usr/bin/command
meillo@0 249 will expand the address pipe to "|/usr/bin/command" which invokes '/usr/bin/command'
meillo@0 250 as the user and group masqmail is running as.
meillo@0 251 - entries starting with '\' in alias files will not be exanded further
meillo@0 252
meillo@0 253 - changed permissions for queue runs again: got to be root, mail or in group trusted.
meillo@0 254
meillo@0 255 - some configuration parameters can be read from files, these are
meillo@0 256 allowed_mail_locals, not_allowed_mail_locals, allowed_rcpt_domains, not_allowed_rcpt_domains,
meillo@0 257 map_return_path_addresses, map_h_from_addresses, map_h_reply_to_addresses
meillo@0 258 any entry in these list beginning with a '/' are regarded as
meillo@0 259 filenames, the content of these will be put at that location. Entries
meillo@0 260 in these files are separated by new lines. Example:
meillo@0 261 in the route file you have:
meillo@0 262 map_h_from_addresses = "/etc/masqmail/hfrom.map"
meillo@0 263 and hfrom.map contains:
meillo@0 264
meillo@0 265 john: John Smith <jsmith@mail.academic.edu>
meillo@0 266 cmiller: "Charlie Miller" <cmiller@foo.com>
meillo@0 267
meillo@0 268 UPDATE (Jan 2000): The new home location of MasqMail is
meillo@0 269 http://www.innominate.org/~oku/masqmail/, the new email adress of the
meillo@0 270 author is Oliver Kurth <kurth@innominate.de>.
meillo@0 271
meillo@0 272 0.0.9
meillo@0 273 - see ChangeLog.
meillo@0 274
meillo@0 275 NOTE: The home location of MasqMail at
meillo@0 276 http://merlin.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~okurth/masqmail/ is uncertain from the
meillo@0 277 beginning of Nov. 1999! See http://www.freshmeat.net for new
meillo@0 278 announcements. I leave the university and begin a new job on Nov. 1st 1999
meillo@0 279 in Berlin :-).
meillo@0 280
meillo@0 281 0.0.8:
meillo@0 282 - there is now a FAQ page. See docs/faq.html.
meillo@0 283 - added allowed_rcpt_domains option for routes.
meillo@0 284 - added allowed_mail_locals and not_allowed_mail_locals options for routes.
meillo@0 285 - mailq now gives information about the time mails spent in the queue,
meillo@0 286 the message size and the received host.
meillo@0 287
meillo@0 288 0.0.7:
meillo@0 289 -bug fix release: for statements in two adjacent lines, the second was not recognized.
meillo@0 290
meillo@0 291 0.0.6:
meillo@0 292 - bug fix release: some MUAs (cucipop) saw the locally delivered mails
meillo@0 293 concatenated. (cucipop is not a MUA but a pop server, but it has to read the
meillo@0 294 mails).
meillo@0 295
meillo@0 296 0.0.5:
meillo@0 297 - fixed a bug that caused the headers to be lost under some circumstances.
meillo@0 298 - added expand_h_sender_domain option for routes.
meillo@0 299 - rewrote the libresolv part in configure. Should work better now.
meillo@0 300
meillo@0 301 0.0.4:
meillo@0 302 - MM should now recognize whether libresolv should be linked.
meillo@0 303 - added --with-logdir=LOGDIR and --with-spooldir=SPOOLDIR to set directories.
meillo@0 304 These will be created if not already existent.
meillo@0 305 - added --with-user=USER, --with-group=GROUP options to set user and group id
meillo@0 306 for MasqMail.
meillo@0 307
meillo@0 308 0.0.3:
meillo@0 309 - MasqMail can now deliver mails that are received at online
meillo@0 310 time immediately to the internet. See the options detect_online,
meillo@0 311 mserver_iface and online_file.
meillo@0 312 - You can define a route configuration for the local net. See option
meillo@0 313 local_net_route.
meillo@0 314