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