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−This NEWS file lists changes which may be important for you, especially
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−in regard to compatiblity in upgrades.
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−
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−See ChangeLog file for more details and technical changes that don't
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−affect users directly.
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−
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−The manual pages describe newly added options. Take them for reference.
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−
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−
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−0.2.23
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−
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−- This release fixes a major bug in 0.2.22 which made online detection
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−by file unusable. Thanks to Juergen Daubert for reporting and providing
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−a patch.
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−
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−
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−0.2.22
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−
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−- Hello, I'm meillo, the new maintainer and developer of masqmail. Oku
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−handed masqmail over to me, because he wasn't active anymore.
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−
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−- This release includes various fixes for problems in 0.2.21, mainly
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−based on bugs from Debian.
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−
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−- Distribution specific data has been excluded from the distribution,
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−but is separately available on the project's website.
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−
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−- Man pages will not be generated from xml sources in future, but the
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−nroff sources will be maintained directly.
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−
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−- The default online status file is now
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−/var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route, as it already was in the Debian
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−package.
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−
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−
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−0.2.21
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−
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−- Retrospective: Probably, this version was not published in the usual
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−way by oku. I (meillo) grabbed it from Debian's package archive. It does
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−not introduce new functions but fixes security problems, such as writing
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−log files as user `mail'. It also changes the location for pid files;
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−they are stored in /var/run/masqmail/ now.
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−
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−
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−0.2.18
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−
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−- delivery warnings and failures are now also implemented if the
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−connection to a server fails. Because masqmail is designed for dialup
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−networks, a connection failure will merely generate a warning by default.
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−If you deliver in a local network and use the default local_net route,
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−this would generte a failure. You can change this behaviour by setting
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−'connect_error_fail' to either true or false in the route configurations.
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−
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−0.2.17
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−
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−- delivery warnings have been finally implemented: if delivery of a mail
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−fails temporarily, warning mail will be generated, informing the sender
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−of the problem. After some time, the mail will be handled as failing
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−permanently, and be bounced. New options: 'warn_intervals',
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−'max_defer_time' and 'warnmsg_file'.
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−
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−- the message templates for failures and warnings will now be installed
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−into /usr/share/masqmail/tpl/, and no longer to /etc/masqmail/tpl/. The
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−default for the search path (options 'errmsg_file' and 'warnmsg_file'
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−has been changed accordingly.
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−
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−- new option 'last_route'. See man 5 masqmail.route.
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−
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−0.2.12
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−two new options have been added:
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−- do_pipelining will be used only in broken mail setups. Actually, I
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−implemented it only to test such a setup.
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−
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−- helo_name for routes sets the helo_name. This may be useful for
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−eg. ssh tunneling, or if do_correcthelo does not work, because you are
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−behind a firewall.
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−
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−- the old 'remote_port' option should not be used any more. Set the
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−port with mail_host="foo.bar.com:1234" in the route file instead.
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−
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−0.2.11
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−
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−- two new options have been added: do_save_envelope_to for the main
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−configuration and map_h_mail_followup_to_addresses for the route
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−files. See the man pages on purpose and usage.
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−
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−- the route files can now be mode 0400, owned by root. Previous
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−versions had problems when sendmail was called directly by a
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−non-priviledged user, because the route files could not be read.
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−
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−0.2.10
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−
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−- this version should work on FreeBSD. At least I care now if it does not.
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−
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−- masqmail now writes pid files to /var/run/, one for the smtp/queue
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−daemon and one for the get daemon. So you now know whom to kill ;-)
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−
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−- much effort has been put into the Debian package, which now uses debconf.
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−
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−0.2.7
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−
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−- sorry for my reluctany in the last months...
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−- my email address is oku@masqmail.cx. I hope that I keep this for the rest
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−of my life...
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−
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−0.2.6
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−
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−- you can configure the prefered local delivery mechanism for each user. See
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−man page masqmail.conf (5), options mbox_default, mbox_users, mda_users and
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−maildir_users. BIT FAT NOTE: if you used an mda, set mbox_default = "mda"
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−(or use the mda_users option). Just setting mda is not enough any more.
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−
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−- there are the allowed_return_paths and not_allowed_return_paths for the
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−route configurations, this enables better checking for return path addresses
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−than allowed_mail_locals. You can also use this to enable or disable messages
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−from null sender addresses (<>) using "<>".
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−note: this option has been there for quite a time... I just forgot to document it.
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−
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−0.2.5
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−
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−- simple relay checking: if you set do_relay=false in masqmail.conf, users
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−with a return path that is not local will get a 550 reply if they try to
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−deliver to a not local address. This is for users to force them to have a
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−proper configuration. It is _not_ to prevent spammers from using your MTA
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−as a relay, it can be easily forged! masqmail is not designed to be an always
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−accessible MTA for an internet site.
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−
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−- added Maildir support. To use it, add --enable-maildir as ./configure
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−optiom. Currently, if enabled, all local deliveries are to Maildir
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−(in ~user/Maildir), and none to mailbox. This is preliminary, future versions
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−will be configurable (probably together with mda delivery).
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−
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−0.2.4 
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−
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−- added -v option, this logs to stdout, so you see what happens when
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−calling masqmail from command line. This is not yet finished, and only
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−for fetching mails completed.
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−
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−0.2.3
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−
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−- new option lock_dir where locks will be put to. Defaults to the spool
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−dir with '/lock/' appended (if spool_dir is /var/spool/masqmail/, lock_dir
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−is /var/spool/masqmail/lock/).
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−
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−- You can use the 'do_uidl_dele' option more reliably. The uidl list
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−will be written immediately after a message was fetched, so if you use the
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−do_uidl and do_uidl_dele option you can safely interrupt masqmail when it is
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−getting mail via pop3, and do not get the message again next time.
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−
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−- there are a lot of new options for ./configure to customize masqmail
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−to your needs. See INSTALL.
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−
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−- Uli Funcke sent a patch with the new options 'local_addresses' and
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−'not_local_addresses' for masqmail.conf. With these, you can declare single
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−email addresses as local, though they normally are not, and vice versa,
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−declare addresses as not local though normally they are (determined with
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−local_hosts). These options are not yet documented.
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−
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−0.2.2
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−- with -go5m you can now run a get daemon, the command 'masqmail -go5m' will fetch
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−mail every five minutes, using the detected online configuration.
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−
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−0.2.1
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−
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−- there is a new option for the main conf: online_gets. Using this option,
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−you can retrieve mail with just calling masqmail -go, masqmail will detect
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−whether it is online (similar to connect_routes (which is now called
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−online_routes)).
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−
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−0.2.0
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−
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−This is the first release of he development branch of masqmail
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−
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−- the default configuration is now /etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf
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−  (as it already was for the debian package). The --with-conffile
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−  option for configure has been replaced by the --with-confdir option.
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−
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−- added delivery failure notices:
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−  o you can customize your own delivery failure report, its
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−    default location is /etc/masqmail/tpl/failmsg.tpl
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−  o if a delivery via a route fails permanently (the server replied with a 5xx status)
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−    the message will be bounced, if it is bounced, no further delivery will be attempted.
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−    This is different to previous versions, where failed messages were kept in the queue until
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−    it was finally delivered, deleted or forever.
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−
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−- there is a new online detection method: pipe. This allows you more
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−  flexibility to detect the current online status, eg. the DHCP status on notebooks.
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−
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−This method will once replace the 'mserver' option,
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−you can already use the program mservdetect to use it:
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−
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−online_method=pipe
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−online_pipe="/usr/bin/mservdetect localhost 222"
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−
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−instead of
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−
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−online_detect=mserver
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−mserver_iface="localhost:222"
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−
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−0.1.9
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−
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−- you can use pipes in routes to implement gateways to uucp, fax, sms etc.
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−The setup is similar to mda transport. See man pages.
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−
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−- for each connection (connect_routes), you can now give a list of
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−route files, which will be used in the order given. You can use the
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−filter rules (allowed_* and not_allowed_* rules) within each route.
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−
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−0.1.8
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−
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−- for pop retrieval and smtp sending you can use a wrapper for eg. ssl
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−tunneling. See man pages.
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−
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−- a user can delete his mail from the spool with -Mrm if received
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−locally, and if you configure with --enable-ident and set
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−ident_trusted_nets also if received via smtp.
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−
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−- a backslash now works to escape characters in the configuration, so
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−you can now use quotes inside quotes. All other characters with a
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−leading backslash will be converted to itself (\a becomes a, \\
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−becomes \).
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−
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−- you can now use an mda for local mails. The mda will be called
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−*after* alias expansion. See documentation for more.
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−
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−0.1.0
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−- masqmail can now retrieve mail with pop3. See the manual on how to do that.
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−- supports now ESMTP AUTH as a client.
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−- when called with -qo (without a connection name), the online status
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−will be checked with the configured method.
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−
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−0.0.10
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−- there is now alias support. Give the location of the alias file (usually /etc/aliases) with eg.
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−alias_file = "/etc/aliases"
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−- delivery to pipes is now possible, but only if it appears in an alias file. Example:
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−pipe: |/usr/bin/command
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−will expand the address pipe to "|/usr/bin/command" which invokes '/usr/bin/command'
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−as the user and group masqmail is running as.
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−- entries starting with '\' in alias files will not be exanded further
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−
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−- changed permissions for queue runs again: got to be root, mail or in group trusted.
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−
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−- some configuration parameters can be read from files, these are
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−allowed_mail_locals, not_allowed_mail_locals, allowed_rcpt_domains, not_allowed_rcpt_domains,
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−map_return_path_addresses, map_h_from_addresses, map_h_reply_to_addresses
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−any entry in these list beginning with a '/' are regarded as
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−filenames, the content of these will be put at that location. Entries
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−in these files are separated by new lines.  Example:
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−in the route file you have:
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−map_h_from_addresses = "/etc/masqmail/hfrom.map"
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−and hfrom.map contains:
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−
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−john: John Smith <jsmith@mail.academic.edu>
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−cmiller: "Charlie Miller" <cmiller@foo.com>
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−
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−UPDATE (Jan 2000): The new home location of MasqMail is
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−http://www.innominate.org/~oku/masqmail/, the new email adress of the
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−author is Oliver Kurth <kurth@innominate.de>.
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−
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−0.0.9
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−- see ChangeLog.
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−
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−NOTE: The home location of MasqMail at
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−http://merlin.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~okurth/masqmail/ is uncertain from the
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−beginning of Nov. 1999! See http://www.freshmeat.net for new
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−announcements. I leave the university and begin a new job on Nov. 1st 1999
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−in Berlin :-).
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−
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−0.0.8:
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−- there is now a FAQ page. See docs/faq.html.
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−- added allowed_rcpt_domains option for routes.
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−- added allowed_mail_locals and not_allowed_mail_locals options for routes.
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−- mailq now gives information about the time mails spent in the queue,
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−the message size and the received host.
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−
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−0.0.7:
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−-bug fix release: for statements in two	adjacent lines, the second was not recognized.
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−
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−0.0.6:
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−- bug fix release: some MUAs (cucipop) saw the locally delivered mails
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−concatenated. (cucipop is not a MUA  but a pop server, but it has to read the
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−mails).
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−
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−0.0.5:
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−- fixed a bug that caused the headers to be lost under some circumstances.
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−- added expand_h_sender_domain option for routes.
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−- rewrote the libresolv part in configure. Should work better now.
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−
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−0.0.4:
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−- MM should now recognize whether libresolv should be linked.
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−- added --with-logdir=LOGDIR and --with-spooldir=SPOOLDIR to set directories.
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−  These will be created if not already existent.
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−- added --with-user=USER, --with-group=GROUP options to set user and group id
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−  for MasqMail.
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−
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−0.0.3:
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−- MasqMail can now deliver mails that are received at online
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−  time immediately to the internet. See the options detect_online,
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−  mserver_iface and online_file.
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−- You can define a route configuration for the local net. See option
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−  local_net_route.
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−