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annotate NEWS @ 48:f3bdb5b382ec 0.2.22
updated ChangeLog and NEWS
| author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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| date | Thu, 20 May 2010 21:22:33 +0200 |
| parents | 03817f849106 |
| children | b067916f7256 |
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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. | |
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| 9 | |
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10 0.2.22 |
| 41 | 11 |
| 12 - Hello, I'm meillo, the new maintainer and developer of masqmail. Oku | |
| 48 | 13 handed masqmail over to me, because he wasn't active anymore. |
| 41 | 14 |
| 15 - This release includes various fixes for problems in 0.2.21, mainly | |
| 16 based on bugs from Debian. | |
| 17 | |
| 18 - Distribution specific data has been excluded from the distribution, | |
| 48 | 19 but is separately available on the project's website. |
| 41 | 20 |
| 21 - Man pages will not be generated from xml sources in future, but the | |
| 22 nroff sources will be maintained directly. | |
| 23 | |
| 24 - The default online status file is now | |
| 25 /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route, as it already was in the Debian | |
| 26 package. | |
| 27 | |
| 48 | 28 |
| 41 | 29 0.2.21 |
| 30 | |
| 31 - Retrospective: Probably, this version was not published in the usual | |
| 32 way by oku. I (meillo) grabbed it from Debian's package archive. It does | |
| 33 not introduce new functions but fixes security problems, such as writing | |
| 34 log files as user `mail'. It also changes the location for pid files; | |
| 35 they are stored in /var/run/masqmail/ now. | |
| 0 | 36 |
| 48 | 37 |
| 0 | 38 0.2.18 |
| 39 | |
| 48 | 40 - delivery warnings and failures are now also implemented if the |
| 0 | 41 connection to a server fails. Because masqmail is designed for dialup |
| 42 networks, a connection failure will merely generate a warning by default. | |
| 43 If you deliver in a local network and use the default local_net route, | |
| 44 this would generte a failure. You can change this behaviour by setting | |
| 41 | 45 'connect_error_fail' to either true or false in the route configurations. |
| 0 | 46 |
| 47 0.2.17 | |
| 48 | |
| 49 - delivery warnings have been finally implemented: if delivery of a mail | |
| 50 fails temporarily, warning mail will be generated, informing the sender | |
| 51 of the problem. After some time, the mail will be handled as failing | |
| 52 permanently, and be bounced. New options: 'warn_intervals', | |
| 53 'max_defer_time' and 'warnmsg_file'. | |
| 54 | |
| 55 - the message templates for failures and warnings will now be installed | |
| 56 into /usr/share/masqmail/tpl/, and no longer to /etc/masqmail/tpl/. The | |
| 57 default for the search path (options 'errmsg_file' and 'warnmsg_file' | |
| 58 has been changed accordingly. | |
| 59 | |
| 60 - new option 'last_route'. See man 5 masqmail.route. | |
| 61 | |
| 62 0.2.12 | |
| 63 two new options have been added: | |
| 64 - do_pipelining will be used only in broken mail setups. Actually, I | |
| 65 implemented it only to test such a setup. | |
| 66 | |
| 67 - helo_name for routes sets the helo_name. This may be useful for | |
| 68 eg. ssh tunneling, or if do_correcthelo does not work, because you are | |
| 69 behind a firewall. | |
| 70 | |
| 71 - the old 'remote_port' option should not be used any more. Set the | |
| 72 port with mail_host="foo.bar.com:1234" in the route file instead. | |
| 73 | |
| 74 0.2.11 | |
| 75 | |
| 76 - two new options have been added: do_save_envelope_to for the main | |
| 77 configuration and map_h_mail_followup_to_addresses for the route | |
| 78 files. See the man pages on purpose and usage. | |
| 79 | |
| 80 - the route files can now be mode 0400, owned by root. Previous | |
| 81 versions had problems when sendmail was called directly by a | |
| 82 non-priviledged user, because the route files could not be read. | |
| 83 | |
| 84 0.2.10 | |
| 85 | |
| 86 - this version should work on FreeBSD. At least I care now if it does not. | |
| 87 | |
| 88 - masqmail now writes pid files to /var/run/, one for the smtp/queue | |
| 89 daemon and one for the get daemon. So you now know whom to kill ;-) | |
| 90 | |
| 91 - much effort has been put into the Debian package, which now uses debconf. | |
| 92 | |
| 93 0.2.7 | |
| 94 | |
| 95 - sorry for my reluctany in the last months... | |
| 96 - my email address is oku@masqmail.cx. I hope that I keep this for the rest | |
| 97 of my life... | |
| 98 | |
| 99 0.2.6 | |
| 100 | |
| 101 - you can configure the prefered local delivery mechanism for each user. See | |
| 102 man page masqmail.conf (5), options mbox_default, mbox_users, mda_users and | |
| 103 maildir_users. BIT FAT NOTE: if you used an mda, set mbox_default = "mda" | |
| 104 (or use the mda_users option). Just setting mda is not enough any more. | |
| 105 | |
| 106 - there are the allowed_return_paths and not_allowed_return_paths for the | |
| 107 route configurations, this enables better checking for return path addresses | |
| 108 than allowed_mail_locals. You can also use this to enable or disable messages | |
| 109 from null sender addresses (<>) using "<>". | |
| 110 note: this option has been there for quite a time... I just forgot to document it. | |
| 111 | |
| 112 0.2.5 | |
| 113 | |
| 114 - simple relay checking: if you set do_relay=false in masqmail.conf, users | |
| 115 with a return path that is not local will get a 550 reply if they try to | |
| 116 deliver to a not local address. This is for users to force them to have a | |
| 117 proper configuration. It is _not_ to prevent spammers from using your MTA | |
| 118 as a relay, it can be easily forged! masqmail is not designed to be an always | |
| 119 accessible MTA for an internet site. | |
| 120 | |
| 121 - added Maildir support. To use it, add --enable-maildir as ./configure | |
| 122 optiom. Currently, if enabled, all local deliveries are to Maildir | |
| 123 (in ~user/Maildir), and none to mailbox. This is preliminary, future versions | |
| 124 will be configurable (probably together with mda delivery). | |
| 125 | |
| 126 0.2.4 | |
| 127 | |
| 128 - added -v option, this logs to stdout, so you see what happens when | |
| 129 calling masqmail from command line. This is not yet finished, and only | |
| 130 for fetching mails completed. | |
| 131 | |
| 132 0.2.3 | |
| 133 | |
| 134 - new option lock_dir where locks will be put to. Defaults to the spool | |
| 135 dir with '/lock/' appended (if spool_dir is /var/spool/masqmail/, lock_dir | |
| 136 is /var/spool/masqmail/lock/). | |
| 137 | |
| 138 - You can use the 'do_uidl_dele' option more reliably. The uidl list | |
| 139 will be written immediately after a message was fetched, so if you use the | |
| 140 do_uidl and do_uidl_dele option you can safely interrupt masqmail when it is | |
| 141 getting mail via pop3, and do not get the message again next time. | |
| 142 | |
| 143 - there are a lot of new options for ./configure to customize masqmail | |
| 144 to your needs. See INSTALL. | |
| 145 | |
| 146 - Uli Funcke sent a patch with the new options 'local_addresses' and | |
| 147 'not_local_addresses' for masqmail.conf. With these, you can declare single | |
| 148 email addresses as local, though they normally are not, and vice versa, | |
| 149 declare addresses as not local though normally they are (determined with | |
| 150 local_hosts). These options are not yet documented. | |
| 151 | |
| 152 0.2.2 | |
| 153 - with -go5m you can now run a get daemon, the command 'masqmail -go5m' will fetch | |
| 154 mail every five minutes, using the detected online configuration. | |
| 155 | |
| 156 0.2.1 | |
| 157 | |
| 158 - there is a new option for the main conf: online_gets. Using this option, | |
| 159 you can retrieve mail with just calling masqmail -go, masqmail will detect | |
| 41 | 160 whether it is online (similar to connect_routes (which is now called |
| 0 | 161 online_routes)). |
| 162 | |
| 163 0.2.0 | |
| 164 | |
| 165 This is the first release of he development branch of masqmail | |
| 166 | |
| 167 - the default configuration is now /etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf | |
| 168 (as it already was for the debian package). The --with-conffile | |
| 169 option for configure has been replaced by the --with-confdir option. | |
| 170 | |
| 171 - added delivery failure notices: | |
| 172 o you can customize your own delivery failure report, its | |
| 173 default location is /etc/masqmail/tpl/failmsg.tpl | |
| 174 o if a delivery via a route fails permanently (the server replied with a 5xx status) | |
| 175 the message will be bounced, if it is bounced, no further delivery will be attempted. | |
| 176 This is different to previous versions, where failed messages were kept in the queue until | |
| 177 it was finally delivered, deleted or forever. | |
| 178 | |
| 179 - there is a new online detection method: pipe. This allows you more | |
| 180 flexibility to detect the current online status, eg. the DHCP status on notebooks. | |
| 181 | |
| 182 This method will once replace the 'mserver' option, | |
| 183 you can already use the program mservdetect to use it: | |
| 184 | |
| 185 online_method=pipe | |
| 186 online_pipe="/usr/bin/mservdetect localhost 222" | |
| 187 | |
| 188 instead of | |
| 189 | |
| 41 | 190 online_detect=mserver |
| 0 | 191 mserver_iface="localhost:222" |
| 192 | |
| 193 0.1.9 | |
| 194 | |
| 195 - you can use pipes in routes to implement gateways to uucp, fax, sms etc. | |
| 196 The setup is similar to mda transport. See man pages. | |
| 197 | |
| 198 - for each connection (connect_routes), you can now give a list of | |
| 199 route files, which will be used in the order given. You can use the | |
| 200 filter rules (allowed_* and not_allowed_* rules) within each route. | |
| 201 | |
| 202 0.1.8 | |
| 203 | |
| 204 - for pop retrieval and smtp sending you can use a wrapper for eg. ssl | |
| 205 tunneling. See man pages. | |
| 206 | |
| 207 - a user can delete his mail from the spool with -Mrm if received | |
| 208 locally, and if you configure with --enable-ident and set | |
| 209 ident_trusted_nets also if received via smtp. | |
| 210 | |
| 211 - a backslash now works to escape characters in the configuration, so | |
| 212 you can now use quotes inside quotes. All other characters with a | |
| 213 leading backslash will be converted to itself (\a becomes a, \\ | |
| 214 becomes \). | |
| 215 | |
| 216 - you can now use an mda for local mails. The mda will be called | |
| 217 *after* alias expansion. See documentation for more. | |
| 218 | |
| 219 0.1.0 | |
| 220 - masqmail can now retrieve mail with pop3. See the manual on how to do that. | |
| 221 - supports now ESMTP AUTH as a client. | |
| 222 - when called with -qo (without a connection name), the online status | |
| 223 will be checked with the configured method. | |
| 224 | |
| 225 0.0.10 | |
| 226 - there is now alias support. Give the location of the alias file (usually /etc/aliases) with eg. | |
| 227 alias_file = "/etc/aliases" | |
| 228 - delivery to pipes is now possible, but only if it appears in an alias file. Example: | |
| 229 pipe: |/usr/bin/command | |
| 230 will expand the address pipe to "|/usr/bin/command" which invokes '/usr/bin/command' | |
| 231 as the user and group masqmail is running as. | |
| 232 - entries starting with '\' in alias files will not be exanded further | |
| 233 | |
| 234 - changed permissions for queue runs again: got to be root, mail or in group trusted. | |
| 235 | |
| 236 - some configuration parameters can be read from files, these are | |
| 237 allowed_mail_locals, not_allowed_mail_locals, allowed_rcpt_domains, not_allowed_rcpt_domains, | |
| 238 map_return_path_addresses, map_h_from_addresses, map_h_reply_to_addresses | |
| 239 any entry in these list beginning with a '/' are regarded as | |
| 240 filenames, the content of these will be put at that location. Entries | |
| 241 in these files are separated by new lines. Example: | |
| 242 in the route file you have: | |
| 243 map_h_from_addresses = "/etc/masqmail/hfrom.map" | |
| 244 and hfrom.map contains: | |
| 245 | |
| 246 john: John Smith <jsmith@mail.academic.edu> | |
| 247 cmiller: "Charlie Miller" <cmiller@foo.com> | |
| 248 | |
| 249 UPDATE (Jan 2000): The new home location of MasqMail is | |
| 250 http://www.innominate.org/~oku/masqmail/, the new email adress of the | |
| 251 author is Oliver Kurth <kurth@innominate.de>. | |
| 252 | |
| 253 0.0.9 | |
| 254 - see ChangeLog. | |
| 255 | |
| 256 NOTE: The home location of MasqMail at | |
| 257 http://merlin.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~okurth/masqmail/ is uncertain from the | |
| 258 beginning of Nov. 1999! See http://www.freshmeat.net for new | |
| 259 announcements. I leave the university and begin a new job on Nov. 1st 1999 | |
| 260 in Berlin :-). | |
| 261 | |
| 262 0.0.8: | |
| 263 - there is now a FAQ page. See docs/faq.html. | |
| 264 - added allowed_rcpt_domains option for routes. | |
| 265 - added allowed_mail_locals and not_allowed_mail_locals options for routes. | |
| 266 - mailq now gives information about the time mails spent in the queue, | |
| 267 the message size and the received host. | |
| 268 | |
| 269 0.0.7: | |
| 270 -bug fix release: for statements in two adjacent lines, the second was not recognized. | |
| 271 | |
| 272 0.0.6: | |
| 273 - bug fix release: some MUAs (cucipop) saw the locally delivered mails | |
| 274 concatenated. (cucipop is not a MUA but a pop server, but it has to read the | |
| 275 mails). | |
| 276 | |
| 277 0.0.5: | |
| 278 - fixed a bug that caused the headers to be lost under some circumstances. | |
| 279 - added expand_h_sender_domain option for routes. | |
| 280 - rewrote the libresolv part in configure. Should work better now. | |
| 281 | |
| 282 0.0.4: | |
| 283 - MM should now recognize whether libresolv should be linked. | |
| 284 - added --with-logdir=LOGDIR and --with-spooldir=SPOOLDIR to set directories. | |
| 285 These will be created if not already existent. | |
| 286 - added --with-user=USER, --with-group=GROUP options to set user and group id | |
| 287 for MasqMail. | |
| 288 | |
| 289 0.0.3: | |
| 290 - MasqMail can now deliver mails that are received at online | |
| 291 time immediately to the internet. See the options detect_online, | |
| 292 mserver_iface and online_file. | |
| 293 - You can define a route configuration for the local net. See option | |
| 294 local_net_route. | |
| 295 |