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annotate NEWS @ 214:ecd8d737d78e
removed the old manual because it is really outdated now
In masqmail's 0.3 branch, so much changed that the old manual
causes more harm than it improves the distribution.
Most content is covered by the man pages anyway.
You'll still find the old manual on masqmail's homepage.
| author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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| date | Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:06:08 +0200 |
| parents | 27363b36a28c |
| children | 4f999b3ee49d |
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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 | |
| 159 | 10 0.3.0 |
| 11 | |
| 12 - Started a new development branch. Attention: It will not maintain | |
| 13 compatibility with 0.2.x versions. Upgrading from 0.2.x to 0.3.x will | |
| 14 surely require manual adjustment of the configuration. | |
| 15 | |
| 16 | |
| 126 | 17 0.2.25 |
| 18 | |
| 19 - Added server-side SMTP SIZE support. Thanks to Paolo. | |
| 20 | |
| 21 - Masqmail will from now on: | |
| 143 | 22 o always remove Bcc: headers |
| 23 o never create headers from envelope recipients | |
| 24 o add ``To: undisclosed-recipients:;'' if no recipient header (To: | |
| 126 | 25 or Cc:) is present in the mail |
| 26 | |
| 27 - Colons (`:') don't need to be quoted in the config file anymore. | |
| 28 Thanks to Paolo. | |
| 29 | |
| 143 | 30 - Added checks for too long addresses in SMTP dialog. Thanks to Paolo. |
| 31 | |
| 149 | 32 - Moved rmail to sbin and added a man page for it. |
| 33 | |
| 34 - Added warnmsg.tpl.it. Thanks to Paolo. | |
| 126 | 35 |
| 149 | 36 - The tests do not get installed any longer. All on install created |
| 37 dirs are removed on uninstall, except they contain generated data like | |
| 38 logs, spooled files, or configuration. | |
| 126 | 39 |
| 143 | 40 - Documented some, yet undocumented, config options. Several typo |
| 41 fixes in man pages and code comments. | |
| 126 | 42 |
| 43 | |
| 77 | 44 0.2.24 |
| 45 | |
| 46 - This version keeps on logging after an restart of the deamon, for | |
| 47 instance when sending SIGHUP to the daemon process for rereading its | |
| 48 config. | |
| 49 | |
| 50 - Now the daemon keeps the same process id when it receives SIGHUP to | |
| 51 reread the config. | |
| 52 | |
| 53 - Mail messages with lines longer than 4096 characters do not get | |
| 54 truncated anymore. | |
| 55 | |
| 94 | 56 - Fixed checking of the trusted group. Primary groups are now |
| 57 detected too. | |
| 58 | |
| 59 - Mservdetect's man page is now in section 1. | |
| 60 | |
| 61 - An `rmail' command is now included and gets installed with | |
| 62 masqmail. See docs/uucp-setup for more information. | |
| 63 | |
| 64 - Docs and thelike, that masqmail installs, is removed on uninstall | |
| 65 now. | |
| 66 | |
| 77 | 67 |
| 53 | 68 0.2.23 |
| 69 | |
| 70 - This release fixes a major bug in 0.2.22 which made online detection | |
| 71 by file unusable. Thanks to Juergen Daubert for reporting and providing | |
| 72 a patch. | |
| 73 | |
| 69 | 74 - Masqmail installs to /usr/local by default now. Previously it |
| 75 installed to /usr. To regain the old behavior, add | |
| 76 --prefix=/usr | |
| 77 to the configure call. | |
| 78 | |
| 79 - Man pages get installed again; in 0.2.22 they were not. Again thanks | |
| 80 to Juergen Daubert. Docs and examples do get installed now too. | |
| 81 | |
| 82 - Updated the docs. Moved the man pages from docs/ to man/. Added the | |
| 83 old manual from the old website to the distribution. Added a bug | |
| 84 reporting howto. | |
| 85 | |
| 53 | 86 |
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decided to release the next version as 0.2.22 (not as 0.3.0)
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87 0.2.22 |
| 41 | 88 |
| 89 - Hello, I'm meillo, the new maintainer and developer of masqmail. Oku | |
| 48 | 90 handed masqmail over to me, because he wasn't active anymore. |
| 41 | 91 |
| 92 - This release includes various fixes for problems in 0.2.21, mainly | |
| 93 based on bugs from Debian. | |
| 94 | |
| 95 - Distribution specific data has been excluded from the distribution, | |
| 48 | 96 but is separately available on the project's website. |
| 41 | 97 |
| 98 - Man pages will not be generated from xml sources in future, but the | |
| 99 nroff sources will be maintained directly. | |
| 100 | |
| 101 - The default online status file is now | |
| 102 /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route, as it already was in the Debian | |
| 103 package. | |
| 104 | |
| 48 | 105 |
| 41 | 106 0.2.21 |
| 107 | |
| 108 - Retrospective: Probably, this version was not published in the usual | |
| 109 way by oku. I (meillo) grabbed it from Debian's package archive. It does | |
| 110 not introduce new functions but fixes security problems, such as writing | |
| 111 log files as user `mail'. It also changes the location for pid files; | |
| 112 they are stored in /var/run/masqmail/ now. | |
| 0 | 113 |
| 48 | 114 |
| 0 | 115 0.2.18 |
| 116 | |
| 48 | 117 - delivery warnings and failures are now also implemented if the |
| 0 | 118 connection to a server fails. Because masqmail is designed for dialup |
| 119 networks, a connection failure will merely generate a warning by default. | |
| 120 If you deliver in a local network and use the default local_net route, | |
| 121 this would generte a failure. You can change this behaviour by setting | |
| 41 | 122 'connect_error_fail' to either true or false in the route configurations. |
| 0 | 123 |
| 124 0.2.17 | |
| 125 | |
| 126 - delivery warnings have been finally implemented: if delivery of a mail | |
| 127 fails temporarily, warning mail will be generated, informing the sender | |
| 128 of the problem. After some time, the mail will be handled as failing | |
| 129 permanently, and be bounced. New options: 'warn_intervals', | |
| 130 'max_defer_time' and 'warnmsg_file'. | |
| 131 | |
| 132 - the message templates for failures and warnings will now be installed | |
| 133 into /usr/share/masqmail/tpl/, and no longer to /etc/masqmail/tpl/. The | |
| 134 default for the search path (options 'errmsg_file' and 'warnmsg_file' | |
| 135 has been changed accordingly. | |
| 136 | |
| 137 - new option 'last_route'. See man 5 masqmail.route. | |
| 138 | |
| 139 0.2.12 | |
| 140 two new options have been added: | |
| 141 - do_pipelining will be used only in broken mail setups. Actually, I | |
| 142 implemented it only to test such a setup. | |
| 143 | |
| 144 - helo_name for routes sets the helo_name. This may be useful for | |
| 145 eg. ssh tunneling, or if do_correcthelo does not work, because you are | |
| 146 behind a firewall. | |
| 147 | |
| 148 - the old 'remote_port' option should not be used any more. Set the | |
| 149 port with mail_host="foo.bar.com:1234" in the route file instead. | |
| 150 | |
| 151 0.2.11 | |
| 152 | |
| 153 - two new options have been added: do_save_envelope_to for the main | |
| 154 configuration and map_h_mail_followup_to_addresses for the route | |
| 155 files. See the man pages on purpose and usage. | |
| 156 | |
| 157 - the route files can now be mode 0400, owned by root. Previous | |
| 158 versions had problems when sendmail was called directly by a | |
| 159 non-priviledged user, because the route files could not be read. | |
| 160 | |
| 161 0.2.10 | |
| 162 | |
| 163 - this version should work on FreeBSD. At least I care now if it does not. | |
| 164 | |
| 165 - masqmail now writes pid files to /var/run/, one for the smtp/queue | |
| 166 daemon and one for the get daemon. So you now know whom to kill ;-) | |
| 167 | |
| 168 - much effort has been put into the Debian package, which now uses debconf. | |
| 169 | |
| 170 0.2.7 | |
| 171 | |
| 172 - sorry for my reluctany in the last months... | |
| 173 - my email address is oku@masqmail.cx. I hope that I keep this for the rest | |
| 174 of my life... | |
| 175 | |
| 176 0.2.6 | |
| 177 | |
| 178 - you can configure the prefered local delivery mechanism for each user. See | |
| 179 man page masqmail.conf (5), options mbox_default, mbox_users, mda_users and | |
| 180 maildir_users. BIT FAT NOTE: if you used an mda, set mbox_default = "mda" | |
| 181 (or use the mda_users option). Just setting mda is not enough any more. | |
| 182 | |
| 183 - there are the allowed_return_paths and not_allowed_return_paths for the | |
| 184 route configurations, this enables better checking for return path addresses | |
| 185 than allowed_mail_locals. You can also use this to enable or disable messages | |
| 186 from null sender addresses (<>) using "<>". | |
| 187 note: this option has been there for quite a time... I just forgot to document it. | |
| 188 | |
| 189 0.2.5 | |
| 190 | |
| 191 - simple relay checking: if you set do_relay=false in masqmail.conf, users | |
| 192 with a return path that is not local will get a 550 reply if they try to | |
| 193 deliver to a not local address. This is for users to force them to have a | |
| 194 proper configuration. It is _not_ to prevent spammers from using your MTA | |
| 195 as a relay, it can be easily forged! masqmail is not designed to be an always | |
| 196 accessible MTA for an internet site. | |
| 197 | |
| 198 - added Maildir support. To use it, add --enable-maildir as ./configure | |
| 199 optiom. Currently, if enabled, all local deliveries are to Maildir | |
| 200 (in ~user/Maildir), and none to mailbox. This is preliminary, future versions | |
| 201 will be configurable (probably together with mda delivery). | |
| 202 | |
| 203 0.2.4 | |
| 204 | |
| 205 - added -v option, this logs to stdout, so you see what happens when | |
| 206 calling masqmail from command line. This is not yet finished, and only | |
| 207 for fetching mails completed. | |
| 208 | |
| 209 0.2.3 | |
| 210 | |
| 211 - new option lock_dir where locks will be put to. Defaults to the spool | |
| 212 dir with '/lock/' appended (if spool_dir is /var/spool/masqmail/, lock_dir | |
| 213 is /var/spool/masqmail/lock/). | |
| 214 | |
| 215 - You can use the 'do_uidl_dele' option more reliably. The uidl list | |
| 216 will be written immediately after a message was fetched, so if you use the | |
| 217 do_uidl and do_uidl_dele option you can safely interrupt masqmail when it is | |
| 218 getting mail via pop3, and do not get the message again next time. | |
| 219 | |
| 220 - there are a lot of new options for ./configure to customize masqmail | |
| 221 to your needs. See INSTALL. | |
| 222 | |
| 223 - Uli Funcke sent a patch with the new options 'local_addresses' and | |
| 224 'not_local_addresses' for masqmail.conf. With these, you can declare single | |
| 225 email addresses as local, though they normally are not, and vice versa, | |
| 226 declare addresses as not local though normally they are (determined with | |
| 227 local_hosts). These options are not yet documented. | |
| 228 | |
| 229 0.2.2 | |
| 230 - with -go5m you can now run a get daemon, the command 'masqmail -go5m' will fetch | |
| 231 mail every five minutes, using the detected online configuration. | |
| 232 | |
| 233 0.2.1 | |
| 234 | |
| 235 - there is a new option for the main conf: online_gets. Using this option, | |
| 236 you can retrieve mail with just calling masqmail -go, masqmail will detect | |
| 41 | 237 whether it is online (similar to connect_routes (which is now called |
| 0 | 238 online_routes)). |
| 239 | |
| 240 0.2.0 | |
| 241 | |
| 242 This is the first release of he development branch of masqmail | |
| 243 | |
| 244 - the default configuration is now /etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf | |
| 245 (as it already was for the debian package). The --with-conffile | |
| 246 option for configure has been replaced by the --with-confdir option. | |
| 247 | |
| 248 - added delivery failure notices: | |
| 249 o you can customize your own delivery failure report, its | |
| 250 default location is /etc/masqmail/tpl/failmsg.tpl | |
| 251 o if a delivery via a route fails permanently (the server replied with a 5xx status) | |
| 252 the message will be bounced, if it is bounced, no further delivery will be attempted. | |
| 253 This is different to previous versions, where failed messages were kept in the queue until | |
| 254 it was finally delivered, deleted or forever. | |
| 255 | |
| 256 - there is a new online detection method: pipe. This allows you more | |
| 257 flexibility to detect the current online status, eg. the DHCP status on notebooks. | |
| 258 | |
| 259 This method will once replace the 'mserver' option, | |
| 260 you can already use the program mservdetect to use it: | |
| 261 | |
| 262 online_method=pipe | |
| 263 online_pipe="/usr/bin/mservdetect localhost 222" | |
| 264 | |
| 265 instead of | |
| 266 | |
| 41 | 267 online_detect=mserver |
| 0 | 268 mserver_iface="localhost:222" |
| 269 | |
| 270 0.1.9 | |
| 271 | |
| 272 - you can use pipes in routes to implement gateways to uucp, fax, sms etc. | |
| 273 The setup is similar to mda transport. See man pages. | |
| 274 | |
| 275 - for each connection (connect_routes), you can now give a list of | |
| 276 route files, which will be used in the order given. You can use the | |
| 277 filter rules (allowed_* and not_allowed_* rules) within each route. | |
| 278 | |
| 279 0.1.8 | |
| 280 | |
| 281 - for pop retrieval and smtp sending you can use a wrapper for eg. ssl | |
| 282 tunneling. See man pages. | |
| 283 | |
| 284 - a user can delete his mail from the spool with -Mrm if received | |
| 285 locally, and if you configure with --enable-ident and set | |
| 286 ident_trusted_nets also if received via smtp. | |
| 287 | |
| 288 - a backslash now works to escape characters in the configuration, so | |
| 289 you can now use quotes inside quotes. All other characters with a | |
| 290 leading backslash will be converted to itself (\a becomes a, \\ | |
| 291 becomes \). | |
| 292 | |
| 293 - you can now use an mda for local mails. The mda will be called | |
| 294 *after* alias expansion. See documentation for more. | |
| 295 | |
| 296 0.1.0 | |
| 297 - masqmail can now retrieve mail with pop3. See the manual on how to do that. | |
| 298 - supports now ESMTP AUTH as a client. | |
| 299 - when called with -qo (without a connection name), the online status | |
| 300 will be checked with the configured method. | |
| 301 | |
| 302 0.0.10 | |
| 303 - there is now alias support. Give the location of the alias file (usually /etc/aliases) with eg. | |
| 304 alias_file = "/etc/aliases" | |
| 305 - delivery to pipes is now possible, but only if it appears in an alias file. Example: | |
| 306 pipe: |/usr/bin/command | |
| 307 will expand the address pipe to "|/usr/bin/command" which invokes '/usr/bin/command' | |
| 308 as the user and group masqmail is running as. | |
| 309 - entries starting with '\' in alias files will not be exanded further | |
| 310 | |
| 311 - changed permissions for queue runs again: got to be root, mail or in group trusted. | |
| 312 | |
| 313 - some configuration parameters can be read from files, these are | |
| 314 allowed_mail_locals, not_allowed_mail_locals, allowed_rcpt_domains, not_allowed_rcpt_domains, | |
| 315 map_return_path_addresses, map_h_from_addresses, map_h_reply_to_addresses | |
| 316 any entry in these list beginning with a '/' are regarded as | |
| 317 filenames, the content of these will be put at that location. Entries | |
| 318 in these files are separated by new lines. Example: | |
| 319 in the route file you have: | |
| 320 map_h_from_addresses = "/etc/masqmail/hfrom.map" | |
| 321 and hfrom.map contains: | |
| 322 | |
| 323 john: John Smith <jsmith@mail.academic.edu> | |
| 324 cmiller: "Charlie Miller" <cmiller@foo.com> | |
| 325 | |
| 326 UPDATE (Jan 2000): The new home location of MasqMail is | |
| 327 http://www.innominate.org/~oku/masqmail/, the new email adress of the | |
| 328 author is Oliver Kurth <kurth@innominate.de>. | |
| 329 | |
| 330 0.0.9 | |
| 331 - see ChangeLog. | |
| 332 | |
| 333 NOTE: The home location of MasqMail at | |
| 334 http://merlin.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~okurth/masqmail/ is uncertain from the | |
| 335 beginning of Nov. 1999! See http://www.freshmeat.net for new | |
| 336 announcements. I leave the university and begin a new job on Nov. 1st 1999 | |
| 337 in Berlin :-). | |
| 338 | |
| 339 0.0.8: | |
| 340 - there is now a FAQ page. See docs/faq.html. | |
| 341 - added allowed_rcpt_domains option for routes. | |
| 342 - added allowed_mail_locals and not_allowed_mail_locals options for routes. | |
| 343 - mailq now gives information about the time mails spent in the queue, | |
| 344 the message size and the received host. | |
| 345 | |
| 346 0.0.7: | |
| 347 -bug fix release: for statements in two adjacent lines, the second was not recognized. | |
| 348 | |
| 349 0.0.6: | |
| 350 - bug fix release: some MUAs (cucipop) saw the locally delivered mails | |
| 351 concatenated. (cucipop is not a MUA but a pop server, but it has to read the | |
| 352 mails). | |
| 353 | |
| 354 0.0.5: | |
| 355 - fixed a bug that caused the headers to be lost under some circumstances. | |
| 356 - added expand_h_sender_domain option for routes. | |
| 357 - rewrote the libresolv part in configure. Should work better now. | |
| 358 | |
| 359 0.0.4: | |
| 360 - MM should now recognize whether libresolv should be linked. | |
| 361 - added --with-logdir=LOGDIR and --with-spooldir=SPOOLDIR to set directories. | |
| 362 These will be created if not already existent. | |
| 363 - added --with-user=USER, --with-group=GROUP options to set user and group id | |
| 364 for MasqMail. | |
| 365 | |
| 366 0.0.3: | |
| 367 - MasqMail can now deliver mails that are received at online | |
| 368 time immediately to the internet. See the options detect_online, | |
| 369 mserver_iface and online_file. | |
| 370 - You can define a route configuration for the local net. See option | |
| 371 local_net_route. | |
| 372 |