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Fixed an important bug with folded headers! g_strconcat() returns a *copy* of the string, but hdr->value still pointed to the old header (which probably was a memory leak, too). If the folded part had been quite small it was likely that the new string was at the same position as the old one, thus making everything go well. But if pretty long headers were folded several times it was likely that the new string was allocated somewhere else in memory, thus breaking things. In result mails to lots of recipients (folded header) were frequently only sent to the ones in the first line. Sorry for the inconvenience.
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:52:17 +0200
parents 18a5c335afda
children 4e96665808c3
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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@176 10 0.2.28
meillo@176 11
meillo@176 12 - Added STARTTLS support with external wrappers like OpenSSL. See
meillo@176 13 `wrapper' and `instant_helo' in masqmail.route(5) for examples how to
meillo@176 14 use it. `instant_helo' is a new route config option.
meillo@176 15
meillo@176 16
meillo@167 17 0.2.27
meillo@167 18
meillo@167 19 - Replaced contributed code with possible licensing problems with
meillo@167 20 alternatives. The MD5 implementation changed from the reference
meillo@167 21 implementation of RFC 1321 to the Public Domain implementation of
meillo@167 22 Solar Designer. The HMAC-MD5 implementation changed from the reference
meillo@167 23 implementation of RFC 2104 to an own implementation (ISC License).
meillo@167 24
meillo@167 25 - Added the authors of contributed parts to the AUTHORS file.
meillo@167 26
meillo@167 27
meillo@160 28 0.2.26
meillo@160 29
meillo@160 30 - Write a log message when the daemon starts up. Thanks to Juergen
meillo@160 31 Daubert.
meillo@160 32
meillo@160 33 - Fix handling of --with-liblockfile=no or --without-liblockfile for
meillo@160 34 configure script. Thanks to Nico Roeser.
meillo@160 35
meillo@160 36 - Improved the INSTALL file and some man pages. Thanks to Nico Roeser
meillo@160 37 Improved the documentation of the wrapper option of route files.
meillo@160 38
meillo@160 39
meillo@126 40 0.2.25
meillo@126 41
meillo@126 42 - Added server-side SMTP SIZE support. Thanks to Paolo.
meillo@126 43
meillo@126 44 - Masqmail will from now on:
meillo@143 45 o always remove Bcc: headers
meillo@143 46 o never create headers from envelope recipients
meillo@143 47 o add ``To: undisclosed-recipients:;'' if no recipient header (To:
meillo@126 48 or Cc:) is present in the mail
meillo@126 49
meillo@126 50 - Colons (`:') don't need to be quoted in the config file anymore.
meillo@126 51 Thanks to Paolo.
meillo@126 52
meillo@143 53 - Added checks for too long addresses in SMTP dialog. Thanks to Paolo.
meillo@143 54
meillo@149 55 - Moved rmail to sbin and added a man page for it.
meillo@126 56
meillo@149 57 - Added warnmsg.tpl.it. Thanks to Paolo.
meillo@149 58
meillo@149 59 - The tests do not get installed any longer. All on install created
meillo@149 60 dirs are removed on uninstall, except they contain generated data like
meillo@149 61 logs, spooled files, or configuration.
meillo@126 62
meillo@143 63 - Documented some, yet undocumented, config options. Several typo
meillo@143 64 fixes in man pages and code comments.
meillo@126 65
meillo@126 66
meillo@77 67 0.2.24
meillo@77 68
meillo@77 69 - This version keeps on logging after an restart of the deamon, for
meillo@77 70 instance when sending SIGHUP to the daemon process for rereading its
meillo@77 71 config.
meillo@77 72
meillo@77 73 - Now the daemon keeps the same process id when it receives SIGHUP to
meillo@77 74 reread the config.
meillo@77 75
meillo@77 76 - Mail messages with lines longer than 4096 characters do not get
meillo@77 77 truncated anymore.
meillo@77 78
meillo@94 79 - Fixed checking of the trusted group. Primary groups are now
meillo@94 80 detected too.
meillo@94 81
meillo@94 82 - Mservdetect's man page is now in section 1.
meillo@94 83
meillo@94 84 - An `rmail' command is now included and gets installed with
meillo@94 85 masqmail. See docs/uucp-setup for more information.
meillo@94 86
meillo@94 87 - Docs and thelike, that masqmail installs, is removed on uninstall
meillo@94 88 now.
meillo@94 89
meillo@77 90
meillo@53 91 0.2.23
meillo@53 92
meillo@53 93 - This release fixes a major bug in 0.2.22 which made online detection
meillo@53 94 by file unusable. Thanks to Juergen Daubert for reporting and providing
meillo@53 95 a patch.
meillo@53 96
meillo@69 97 - Masqmail installs to /usr/local by default now. Previously it
meillo@69 98 installed to /usr. To regain the old behavior, add
meillo@69 99 --prefix=/usr
meillo@69 100 to the configure call.
meillo@69 101
meillo@69 102 - Man pages get installed again; in 0.2.22 they were not. Again thanks
meillo@69 103 to Juergen Daubert. Docs and examples do get installed now too.
meillo@69 104
meillo@69 105 - Updated the docs. Moved the man pages from docs/ to man/. Added the
meillo@69 106 old manual from the old website to the distribution. Added a bug
meillo@69 107 reporting howto.
meillo@69 108
meillo@53 109
meillo@42 110 0.2.22
meillo@41 111
meillo@41 112 - Hello, I'm meillo, the new maintainer and developer of masqmail. Oku
meillo@48 113 handed masqmail over to me, because he wasn't active anymore.
meillo@41 114
meillo@41 115 - This release includes various fixes for problems in 0.2.21, mainly
meillo@41 116 based on bugs from Debian.
meillo@41 117
meillo@41 118 - Distribution specific data has been excluded from the distribution,
meillo@48 119 but is separately available on the project's website.
meillo@41 120
meillo@41 121 - Man pages will not be generated from xml sources in future, but the
meillo@41 122 nroff sources will be maintained directly.
meillo@41 123
meillo@41 124 - The default online status file is now
meillo@41 125 /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route, as it already was in the Debian
meillo@41 126 package.
meillo@41 127
meillo@48 128
meillo@41 129 0.2.21
meillo@41 130
meillo@41 131 - Retrospective: Probably, this version was not published in the usual
meillo@41 132 way by oku. I (meillo) grabbed it from Debian's package archive. It does
meillo@41 133 not introduce new functions but fixes security problems, such as writing
meillo@41 134 log files as user `mail'. It also changes the location for pid files;
meillo@41 135 they are stored in /var/run/masqmail/ now.
meillo@0 136
meillo@48 137
meillo@0 138 0.2.18
meillo@0 139
meillo@48 140 - delivery warnings and failures are now also implemented if the
meillo@0 141 connection to a server fails. Because masqmail is designed for dialup
meillo@0 142 networks, a connection failure will merely generate a warning by default.
meillo@0 143 If you deliver in a local network and use the default local_net route,
meillo@0 144 this would generte a failure. You can change this behaviour by setting
meillo@41 145 'connect_error_fail' to either true or false in the route configurations.
meillo@0 146
meillo@0 147 0.2.17
meillo@0 148
meillo@0 149 - delivery warnings have been finally implemented: if delivery of a mail
meillo@0 150 fails temporarily, warning mail will be generated, informing the sender
meillo@0 151 of the problem. After some time, the mail will be handled as failing
meillo@0 152 permanently, and be bounced. New options: 'warn_intervals',
meillo@0 153 'max_defer_time' and 'warnmsg_file'.
meillo@0 154
meillo@0 155 - the message templates for failures and warnings will now be installed
meillo@0 156 into /usr/share/masqmail/tpl/, and no longer to /etc/masqmail/tpl/. The
meillo@0 157 default for the search path (options 'errmsg_file' and 'warnmsg_file'
meillo@0 158 has been changed accordingly.
meillo@0 159
meillo@0 160 - new option 'last_route'. See man 5 masqmail.route.
meillo@0 161
meillo@0 162 0.2.12
meillo@0 163 two new options have been added:
meillo@0 164 - do_pipelining will be used only in broken mail setups. Actually, I
meillo@0 165 implemented it only to test such a setup.
meillo@0 166
meillo@0 167 - helo_name for routes sets the helo_name. This may be useful for
meillo@0 168 eg. ssh tunneling, or if do_correcthelo does not work, because you are
meillo@0 169 behind a firewall.
meillo@0 170
meillo@0 171 - the old 'remote_port' option should not be used any more. Set the
meillo@0 172 port with mail_host="foo.bar.com:1234" in the route file instead.
meillo@0 173
meillo@0 174 0.2.11
meillo@0 175
meillo@0 176 - two new options have been added: do_save_envelope_to for the main
meillo@0 177 configuration and map_h_mail_followup_to_addresses for the route
meillo@0 178 files. See the man pages on purpose and usage.
meillo@0 179
meillo@0 180 - the route files can now be mode 0400, owned by root. Previous
meillo@0 181 versions had problems when sendmail was called directly by a
meillo@0 182 non-priviledged user, because the route files could not be read.
meillo@0 183
meillo@0 184 0.2.10
meillo@0 185
meillo@0 186 - this version should work on FreeBSD. At least I care now if it does not.
meillo@0 187
meillo@0 188 - masqmail now writes pid files to /var/run/, one for the smtp/queue
meillo@0 189 daemon and one for the get daemon. So you now know whom to kill ;-)
meillo@0 190
meillo@0 191 - much effort has been put into the Debian package, which now uses debconf.
meillo@0 192
meillo@0 193 0.2.7
meillo@0 194
meillo@0 195 - sorry for my reluctany in the last months...
meillo@0 196 - my email address is oku@masqmail.cx. I hope that I keep this for the rest
meillo@0 197 of my life...
meillo@0 198
meillo@0 199 0.2.6
meillo@0 200
meillo@0 201 - you can configure the prefered local delivery mechanism for each user. See
meillo@0 202 man page masqmail.conf (5), options mbox_default, mbox_users, mda_users and
meillo@0 203 maildir_users. BIT FAT NOTE: if you used an mda, set mbox_default = "mda"
meillo@0 204 (or use the mda_users option). Just setting mda is not enough any more.
meillo@0 205
meillo@0 206 - there are the allowed_return_paths and not_allowed_return_paths for the
meillo@0 207 route configurations, this enables better checking for return path addresses
meillo@0 208 than allowed_mail_locals. You can also use this to enable or disable messages
meillo@0 209 from null sender addresses (<>) using "<>".
meillo@0 210 note: this option has been there for quite a time... I just forgot to document it.
meillo@0 211
meillo@0 212 0.2.5
meillo@0 213
meillo@0 214 - simple relay checking: if you set do_relay=false in masqmail.conf, users
meillo@0 215 with a return path that is not local will get a 550 reply if they try to
meillo@0 216 deliver to a not local address. This is for users to force them to have a
meillo@0 217 proper configuration. It is _not_ to prevent spammers from using your MTA
meillo@0 218 as a relay, it can be easily forged! masqmail is not designed to be an always
meillo@0 219 accessible MTA for an internet site.
meillo@0 220
meillo@0 221 - added Maildir support. To use it, add --enable-maildir as ./configure
meillo@0 222 optiom. Currently, if enabled, all local deliveries are to Maildir
meillo@0 223 (in ~user/Maildir), and none to mailbox. This is preliminary, future versions
meillo@0 224 will be configurable (probably together with mda delivery).
meillo@0 225
meillo@0 226 0.2.4
meillo@0 227
meillo@0 228 - added -v option, this logs to stdout, so you see what happens when
meillo@0 229 calling masqmail from command line. This is not yet finished, and only
meillo@0 230 for fetching mails completed.
meillo@0 231
meillo@0 232 0.2.3
meillo@0 233
meillo@0 234 - new option lock_dir where locks will be put to. Defaults to the spool
meillo@0 235 dir with '/lock/' appended (if spool_dir is /var/spool/masqmail/, lock_dir
meillo@0 236 is /var/spool/masqmail/lock/).
meillo@0 237
meillo@0 238 - You can use the 'do_uidl_dele' option more reliably. The uidl list
meillo@0 239 will be written immediately after a message was fetched, so if you use the
meillo@0 240 do_uidl and do_uidl_dele option you can safely interrupt masqmail when it is
meillo@0 241 getting mail via pop3, and do not get the message again next time.
meillo@0 242
meillo@0 243 - there are a lot of new options for ./configure to customize masqmail
meillo@0 244 to your needs. See INSTALL.
meillo@0 245
meillo@0 246 - Uli Funcke sent a patch with the new options 'local_addresses' and
meillo@0 247 'not_local_addresses' for masqmail.conf. With these, you can declare single
meillo@0 248 email addresses as local, though they normally are not, and vice versa,
meillo@0 249 declare addresses as not local though normally they are (determined with
meillo@0 250 local_hosts). These options are not yet documented.
meillo@0 251
meillo@0 252 0.2.2
meillo@0 253 - with -go5m you can now run a get daemon, the command 'masqmail -go5m' will fetch
meillo@0 254 mail every five minutes, using the detected online configuration.
meillo@0 255
meillo@0 256 0.2.1
meillo@0 257
meillo@0 258 - there is a new option for the main conf: online_gets. Using this option,
meillo@0 259 you can retrieve mail with just calling masqmail -go, masqmail will detect
meillo@41 260 whether it is online (similar to connect_routes (which is now called
meillo@0 261 online_routes)).
meillo@0 262
meillo@0 263 0.2.0
meillo@0 264
meillo@0 265 This is the first release of he development branch of masqmail
meillo@0 266
meillo@0 267 - the default configuration is now /etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf
meillo@0 268 (as it already was for the debian package). The --with-conffile
meillo@0 269 option for configure has been replaced by the --with-confdir option.
meillo@0 270
meillo@0 271 - added delivery failure notices:
meillo@0 272 o you can customize your own delivery failure report, its
meillo@0 273 default location is /etc/masqmail/tpl/failmsg.tpl
meillo@0 274 o if a delivery via a route fails permanently (the server replied with a 5xx status)
meillo@0 275 the message will be bounced, if it is bounced, no further delivery will be attempted.
meillo@0 276 This is different to previous versions, where failed messages were kept in the queue until
meillo@0 277 it was finally delivered, deleted or forever.
meillo@0 278
meillo@0 279 - there is a new online detection method: pipe. This allows you more
meillo@0 280 flexibility to detect the current online status, eg. the DHCP status on notebooks.
meillo@0 281
meillo@0 282 This method will once replace the 'mserver' option,
meillo@0 283 you can already use the program mservdetect to use it:
meillo@0 284
meillo@0 285 online_method=pipe
meillo@0 286 online_pipe="/usr/bin/mservdetect localhost 222"
meillo@0 287
meillo@0 288 instead of
meillo@0 289
meillo@41 290 online_detect=mserver
meillo@0 291 mserver_iface="localhost:222"
meillo@0 292
meillo@0 293 0.1.9
meillo@0 294
meillo@0 295 - you can use pipes in routes to implement gateways to uucp, fax, sms etc.
meillo@0 296 The setup is similar to mda transport. See man pages.
meillo@0 297
meillo@0 298 - for each connection (connect_routes), you can now give a list of
meillo@0 299 route files, which will be used in the order given. You can use the
meillo@0 300 filter rules (allowed_* and not_allowed_* rules) within each route.
meillo@0 301
meillo@0 302 0.1.8
meillo@0 303
meillo@0 304 - for pop retrieval and smtp sending you can use a wrapper for eg. ssl
meillo@0 305 tunneling. See man pages.
meillo@0 306
meillo@0 307 - a user can delete his mail from the spool with -Mrm if received
meillo@0 308 locally, and if you configure with --enable-ident and set
meillo@0 309 ident_trusted_nets also if received via smtp.
meillo@0 310
meillo@0 311 - a backslash now works to escape characters in the configuration, so
meillo@0 312 you can now use quotes inside quotes. All other characters with a
meillo@0 313 leading backslash will be converted to itself (\a becomes a, \\
meillo@0 314 becomes \).
meillo@0 315
meillo@0 316 - you can now use an mda for local mails. The mda will be called
meillo@0 317 *after* alias expansion. See documentation for more.
meillo@0 318
meillo@0 319 0.1.0
meillo@0 320 - masqmail can now retrieve mail with pop3. See the manual on how to do that.
meillo@0 321 - supports now ESMTP AUTH as a client.
meillo@0 322 - when called with -qo (without a connection name), the online status
meillo@0 323 will be checked with the configured method.
meillo@0 324
meillo@0 325 0.0.10
meillo@0 326 - there is now alias support. Give the location of the alias file (usually /etc/aliases) with eg.
meillo@0 327 alias_file = "/etc/aliases"
meillo@0 328 - delivery to pipes is now possible, but only if it appears in an alias file. Example:
meillo@0 329 pipe: |/usr/bin/command
meillo@0 330 will expand the address pipe to "|/usr/bin/command" which invokes '/usr/bin/command'
meillo@0 331 as the user and group masqmail is running as.
meillo@0 332 - entries starting with '\' in alias files will not be exanded further
meillo@0 333
meillo@0 334 - changed permissions for queue runs again: got to be root, mail or in group trusted.
meillo@0 335
meillo@0 336 - some configuration parameters can be read from files, these are
meillo@0 337 allowed_mail_locals, not_allowed_mail_locals, allowed_rcpt_domains, not_allowed_rcpt_domains,
meillo@0 338 map_return_path_addresses, map_h_from_addresses, map_h_reply_to_addresses
meillo@0 339 any entry in these list beginning with a '/' are regarded as
meillo@0 340 filenames, the content of these will be put at that location. Entries
meillo@0 341 in these files are separated by new lines. Example:
meillo@0 342 in the route file you have:
meillo@0 343 map_h_from_addresses = "/etc/masqmail/hfrom.map"
meillo@0 344 and hfrom.map contains:
meillo@0 345
meillo@0 346 john: John Smith <jsmith@mail.academic.edu>
meillo@0 347 cmiller: "Charlie Miller" <cmiller@foo.com>
meillo@0 348
meillo@0 349 UPDATE (Jan 2000): The new home location of MasqMail is
meillo@0 350 http://www.innominate.org/~oku/masqmail/, the new email adress of the
meillo@0 351 author is Oliver Kurth <kurth@innominate.de>.
meillo@0 352
meillo@0 353 0.0.9
meillo@0 354 - see ChangeLog.
meillo@0 355
meillo@0 356 NOTE: The home location of MasqMail at
meillo@0 357 http://merlin.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~okurth/masqmail/ is uncertain from the
meillo@0 358 beginning of Nov. 1999! See http://www.freshmeat.net for new
meillo@0 359 announcements. I leave the university and begin a new job on Nov. 1st 1999
meillo@0 360 in Berlin :-).
meillo@0 361
meillo@0 362 0.0.8:
meillo@0 363 - there is now a FAQ page. See docs/faq.html.
meillo@0 364 - added allowed_rcpt_domains option for routes.
meillo@0 365 - added allowed_mail_locals and not_allowed_mail_locals options for routes.
meillo@0 366 - mailq now gives information about the time mails spent in the queue,
meillo@0 367 the message size and the received host.
meillo@0 368
meillo@0 369 0.0.7:
meillo@0 370 -bug fix release: for statements in two adjacent lines, the second was not recognized.
meillo@0 371
meillo@0 372 0.0.6:
meillo@0 373 - bug fix release: some MUAs (cucipop) saw the locally delivered mails
meillo@0 374 concatenated. (cucipop is not a MUA but a pop server, but it has to read the
meillo@0 375 mails).
meillo@0 376
meillo@0 377 0.0.5:
meillo@0 378 - fixed a bug that caused the headers to be lost under some circumstances.
meillo@0 379 - added expand_h_sender_domain option for routes.
meillo@0 380 - rewrote the libresolv part in configure. Should work better now.
meillo@0 381
meillo@0 382 0.0.4:
meillo@0 383 - MM should now recognize whether libresolv should be linked.
meillo@0 384 - added --with-logdir=LOGDIR and --with-spooldir=SPOOLDIR to set directories.
meillo@0 385 These will be created if not already existent.
meillo@0 386 - added --with-user=USER, --with-group=GROUP options to set user and group id
meillo@0 387 for MasqMail.
meillo@0 388
meillo@0 389 0.0.3:
meillo@0 390 - MasqMail can now deliver mails that are received at online
meillo@0 391 time immediately to the internet. See the options detect_online,
meillo@0 392 mserver_iface and online_file.
meillo@0 393 - You can define a route configuration for the local net. See option
meillo@0 394 local_net_route.
meillo@0 395