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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@159 10 0.3.0
meillo@159 11
meillo@230 12 - Start of the new development branch. Attention: Backward
meillo@230 13 compatibility with 0.2.x versions will *NOT* be maintained. Upgrading
meillo@230 14 from 0.2.x to 0.3.x will probably require manual adjustment of the
meillo@230 15 configuration. The script admin/config-tansition can be used to check
meillo@230 16 the config files for obsolete options.
meillo@230 17
meillo@230 18 - Removed POP3 support (also pop-before-smtp/smtp-after-pop). Use some
meillo@230 19 other POP3 client instead.
meillo@230 20
meillo@230 21 - Removed maildir support. Use an MDA, like procmail, to deliver to
meillo@230 22 maildir.
meillo@230 23
meillo@230 24 - Removed the built-in mserver functionality. Use the mservdetect
meillo@230 25 program instead. See masqmail.conf(5) under `online_pipe' for details.
meillo@230 26
meillo@230 27 - Removed --disable-smtp-server and --with-glib-static configure
meillo@230 28 options. We see no more need to not compile the SMTP server function.
meillo@230 29 For static linking, see docs/howto-static-linking.
meillo@230 30
meillo@230 31 - `host_name' is the only mandatory config option now. If you only set
meillo@230 32 host_name, then masqmail will:
meillo@230 33 o accept mail on the command line
meillo@230 34 o listen on the local port 25 for incoming mail
meillo@230 35 o deliver mail locally
meillo@230 36 o not know how to handle mail for remote destinations
meillo@230 37 Therefore you should set up at least one route configuration.
meillo@230 38
meillo@230 39 - Default values are available for: listen_addresses, local_hosts,
meillo@230 40 log_dir, spool_dir, mail_dir. See masqmail.conf(5) for the values.
meillo@230 41
meillo@230 42 - Mservdetect works much better now.
meillo@230 43
meillo@230 44 - Improved the documentation:
meillo@230 45 o Added setup guides
meillo@230 46 o Improved and simplified the example config
meillo@230 47 And removed the old manual because it is really outdated now.
meillo@230 48
meillo@230 49 - Renamed misc/ to devel/ and contrib/ to admin/. devel/ contains
meillo@230 50 stuff for developers of masqmail, admin/ contains stuff for people who
meillo@230 51 install, upgrade, and configure masqmail.
meillo@230 52
meillo@230 53
meillo@230 54 0.2.28
meillo@230 55
meillo@230 56 - Added STARTTLS support with external wrappers like OpenSSL. See
meillo@230 57 `wrapper' and `instant_helo' in masqmail.route(5) for examples how to
meillo@230 58 use it. `instant_helo' is a new route config option.
meillo@230 59
meillo@230 60
meillo@230 61 0.2.27
meillo@230 62
meillo@230 63 - Replaced contributed code with possible licensing problems with
meillo@230 64 alternatives. The MD5 implementation changed from the reference
meillo@230 65 implementation of RFC 1321 to the Public Domain implementation of
meillo@230 66 Solar Designer. The HMAC-MD5 implementation changed from the reference
meillo@230 67 implementation of RFC 2104 to an own implementation (ISC License).
meillo@230 68
meillo@230 69 - Added the authors of contributed parts to the AUTHORS file.
meillo@230 70
meillo@230 71
meillo@230 72 0.2.26
meillo@230 73
meillo@230 74 - Write a log message when the daemon starts up. Thanks to Juergen
meillo@230 75 Daubert.
meillo@230 76
meillo@230 77 - Fix handling of --with-liblockfile=no or --without-liblockfile for
meillo@230 78 configure script. Thanks to Nico Roeser.
meillo@230 79
meillo@230 80 - Improved the INSTALL file and some man pages. Thanks to Nico Roeser
meillo@230 81 Improved the documentation of the wrapper option of route files.
meillo@159 82
meillo@159 83
meillo@126 84 0.2.25
meillo@126 85
meillo@126 86 - Added server-side SMTP SIZE support. Thanks to Paolo.
meillo@126 87
meillo@126 88 - Masqmail will from now on:
meillo@143 89 o always remove Bcc: headers
meillo@143 90 o never create headers from envelope recipients
meillo@143 91 o add ``To: undisclosed-recipients:;'' if no recipient header (To:
meillo@126 92 or Cc:) is present in the mail
meillo@126 93
meillo@126 94 - Colons (`:') don't need to be quoted in the config file anymore.
meillo@126 95 Thanks to Paolo.
meillo@126 96
meillo@143 97 - Added checks for too long addresses in SMTP dialog. Thanks to Paolo.
meillo@143 98
meillo@149 99 - Moved rmail to sbin and added a man page for it.
meillo@126 100
meillo@149 101 - Added warnmsg.tpl.it. Thanks to Paolo.
meillo@149 102
meillo@149 103 - The tests do not get installed any longer. All on install created
meillo@149 104 dirs are removed on uninstall, except they contain generated data like
meillo@149 105 logs, spooled files, or configuration.
meillo@126 106
meillo@143 107 - Documented some, yet undocumented, config options. Several typo
meillo@143 108 fixes in man pages and code comments.
meillo@126 109
meillo@126 110
meillo@77 111 0.2.24
meillo@77 112
meillo@77 113 - This version keeps on logging after an restart of the deamon, for
meillo@77 114 instance when sending SIGHUP to the daemon process for rereading its
meillo@77 115 config.
meillo@77 116
meillo@77 117 - Now the daemon keeps the same process id when it receives SIGHUP to
meillo@77 118 reread the config.
meillo@77 119
meillo@77 120 - Mail messages with lines longer than 4096 characters do not get
meillo@77 121 truncated anymore.
meillo@77 122
meillo@94 123 - Fixed checking of the trusted group. Primary groups are now
meillo@94 124 detected too.
meillo@94 125
meillo@94 126 - Mservdetect's man page is now in section 1.
meillo@94 127
meillo@94 128 - An `rmail' command is now included and gets installed with
meillo@94 129 masqmail. See docs/uucp-setup for more information.
meillo@94 130
meillo@94 131 - Docs and thelike, that masqmail installs, is removed on uninstall
meillo@94 132 now.
meillo@94 133
meillo@77 134
meillo@53 135 0.2.23
meillo@53 136
meillo@53 137 - This release fixes a major bug in 0.2.22 which made online detection
meillo@53 138 by file unusable. Thanks to Juergen Daubert for reporting and providing
meillo@53 139 a patch.
meillo@53 140
meillo@69 141 - Masqmail installs to /usr/local by default now. Previously it
meillo@69 142 installed to /usr. To regain the old behavior, add
meillo@69 143 --prefix=/usr
meillo@69 144 to the configure call.
meillo@69 145
meillo@69 146 - Man pages get installed again; in 0.2.22 they were not. Again thanks
meillo@69 147 to Juergen Daubert. Docs and examples do get installed now too.
meillo@69 148
meillo@69 149 - Updated the docs. Moved the man pages from docs/ to man/. Added the
meillo@69 150 old manual from the old website to the distribution. Added a bug
meillo@69 151 reporting howto.
meillo@69 152
meillo@53 153
meillo@42 154 0.2.22
meillo@41 155
meillo@41 156 - Hello, I'm meillo, the new maintainer and developer of masqmail. Oku
meillo@48 157 handed masqmail over to me, because he wasn't active anymore.
meillo@41 158
meillo@41 159 - This release includes various fixes for problems in 0.2.21, mainly
meillo@41 160 based on bugs from Debian.
meillo@41 161
meillo@41 162 - Distribution specific data has been excluded from the distribution,
meillo@48 163 but is separately available on the project's website.
meillo@41 164
meillo@41 165 - Man pages will not be generated from xml sources in future, but the
meillo@41 166 nroff sources will be maintained directly.
meillo@41 167
meillo@41 168 - The default online status file is now
meillo@41 169 /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route, as it already was in the Debian
meillo@41 170 package.
meillo@41 171
meillo@48 172
meillo@41 173 0.2.21
meillo@41 174
meillo@41 175 - Retrospective: Probably, this version was not published in the usual
meillo@41 176 way by oku. I (meillo) grabbed it from Debian's package archive. It does
meillo@41 177 not introduce new functions but fixes security problems, such as writing
meillo@41 178 log files as user `mail'. It also changes the location for pid files;
meillo@41 179 they are stored in /var/run/masqmail/ now.
meillo@0 180
meillo@48 181
meillo@0 182 0.2.18
meillo@0 183
meillo@48 184 - delivery warnings and failures are now also implemented if the
meillo@0 185 connection to a server fails. Because masqmail is designed for dialup
meillo@0 186 networks, a connection failure will merely generate a warning by default.
meillo@0 187 If you deliver in a local network and use the default local_net route,
meillo@0 188 this would generte a failure. You can change this behaviour by setting
meillo@41 189 'connect_error_fail' to either true or false in the route configurations.
meillo@0 190
meillo@0 191 0.2.17
meillo@0 192
meillo@0 193 - delivery warnings have been finally implemented: if delivery of a mail
meillo@0 194 fails temporarily, warning mail will be generated, informing the sender
meillo@0 195 of the problem. After some time, the mail will be handled as failing
meillo@0 196 permanently, and be bounced. New options: 'warn_intervals',
meillo@0 197 'max_defer_time' and 'warnmsg_file'.
meillo@0 198
meillo@0 199 - the message templates for failures and warnings will now be installed
meillo@0 200 into /usr/share/masqmail/tpl/, and no longer to /etc/masqmail/tpl/. The
meillo@0 201 default for the search path (options 'errmsg_file' and 'warnmsg_file'
meillo@0 202 has been changed accordingly.
meillo@0 203
meillo@0 204 - new option 'last_route'. See man 5 masqmail.route.
meillo@0 205
meillo@0 206 0.2.12
meillo@0 207 two new options have been added:
meillo@0 208 - do_pipelining will be used only in broken mail setups. Actually, I
meillo@0 209 implemented it only to test such a setup.
meillo@0 210
meillo@0 211 - helo_name for routes sets the helo_name. This may be useful for
meillo@0 212 eg. ssh tunneling, or if do_correcthelo does not work, because you are
meillo@0 213 behind a firewall.
meillo@0 214
meillo@0 215 - the old 'remote_port' option should not be used any more. Set the
meillo@0 216 port with mail_host="foo.bar.com:1234" in the route file instead.
meillo@0 217
meillo@0 218 0.2.11
meillo@0 219
meillo@0 220 - two new options have been added: do_save_envelope_to for the main
meillo@0 221 configuration and map_h_mail_followup_to_addresses for the route
meillo@0 222 files. See the man pages on purpose and usage.
meillo@0 223
meillo@0 224 - the route files can now be mode 0400, owned by root. Previous
meillo@0 225 versions had problems when sendmail was called directly by a
meillo@0 226 non-priviledged user, because the route files could not be read.
meillo@0 227
meillo@0 228 0.2.10
meillo@0 229
meillo@0 230 - this version should work on FreeBSD. At least I care now if it does not.
meillo@0 231
meillo@0 232 - masqmail now writes pid files to /var/run/, one for the smtp/queue
meillo@0 233 daemon and one for the get daemon. So you now know whom to kill ;-)
meillo@0 234
meillo@0 235 - much effort has been put into the Debian package, which now uses debconf.
meillo@0 236
meillo@0 237 0.2.7
meillo@0 238
meillo@0 239 - sorry for my reluctany in the last months...
meillo@0 240 - my email address is oku@masqmail.cx. I hope that I keep this for the rest
meillo@0 241 of my life...
meillo@0 242
meillo@0 243 0.2.6
meillo@0 244
meillo@0 245 - you can configure the prefered local delivery mechanism for each user. See
meillo@0 246 man page masqmail.conf (5), options mbox_default, mbox_users, mda_users and
meillo@0 247 maildir_users. BIT FAT NOTE: if you used an mda, set mbox_default = "mda"
meillo@0 248 (or use the mda_users option). Just setting mda is not enough any more.
meillo@0 249
meillo@0 250 - there are the allowed_return_paths and not_allowed_return_paths for the
meillo@0 251 route configurations, this enables better checking for return path addresses
meillo@0 252 than allowed_mail_locals. You can also use this to enable or disable messages
meillo@0 253 from null sender addresses (<>) using "<>".
meillo@0 254 note: this option has been there for quite a time... I just forgot to document it.
meillo@0 255
meillo@0 256 0.2.5
meillo@0 257
meillo@0 258 - simple relay checking: if you set do_relay=false in masqmail.conf, users
meillo@0 259 with a return path that is not local will get a 550 reply if they try to
meillo@0 260 deliver to a not local address. This is for users to force them to have a
meillo@0 261 proper configuration. It is _not_ to prevent spammers from using your MTA
meillo@0 262 as a relay, it can be easily forged! masqmail is not designed to be an always
meillo@0 263 accessible MTA for an internet site.
meillo@0 264
meillo@0 265 - added Maildir support. To use it, add --enable-maildir as ./configure
meillo@0 266 optiom. Currently, if enabled, all local deliveries are to Maildir
meillo@0 267 (in ~user/Maildir), and none to mailbox. This is preliminary, future versions
meillo@0 268 will be configurable (probably together with mda delivery).
meillo@0 269
meillo@0 270 0.2.4
meillo@0 271
meillo@0 272 - added -v option, this logs to stdout, so you see what happens when
meillo@0 273 calling masqmail from command line. This is not yet finished, and only
meillo@0 274 for fetching mails completed.
meillo@0 275
meillo@0 276 0.2.3
meillo@0 277
meillo@0 278 - new option lock_dir where locks will be put to. Defaults to the spool
meillo@0 279 dir with '/lock/' appended (if spool_dir is /var/spool/masqmail/, lock_dir
meillo@0 280 is /var/spool/masqmail/lock/).
meillo@0 281
meillo@0 282 - You can use the 'do_uidl_dele' option more reliably. The uidl list
meillo@0 283 will be written immediately after a message was fetched, so if you use the
meillo@0 284 do_uidl and do_uidl_dele option you can safely interrupt masqmail when it is
meillo@0 285 getting mail via pop3, and do not get the message again next time.
meillo@0 286
meillo@0 287 - there are a lot of new options for ./configure to customize masqmail
meillo@0 288 to your needs. See INSTALL.
meillo@0 289
meillo@0 290 - Uli Funcke sent a patch with the new options 'local_addresses' and
meillo@0 291 'not_local_addresses' for masqmail.conf. With these, you can declare single
meillo@0 292 email addresses as local, though they normally are not, and vice versa,
meillo@0 293 declare addresses as not local though normally they are (determined with
meillo@0 294 local_hosts). These options are not yet documented.
meillo@0 295
meillo@0 296 0.2.2
meillo@0 297 - with -go5m you can now run a get daemon, the command 'masqmail -go5m' will fetch
meillo@0 298 mail every five minutes, using the detected online configuration.
meillo@0 299
meillo@0 300 0.2.1
meillo@0 301
meillo@0 302 - there is a new option for the main conf: online_gets. Using this option,
meillo@0 303 you can retrieve mail with just calling masqmail -go, masqmail will detect
meillo@41 304 whether it is online (similar to connect_routes (which is now called
meillo@0 305 online_routes)).
meillo@0 306
meillo@0 307 0.2.0
meillo@0 308
meillo@0 309 This is the first release of he development branch of masqmail
meillo@0 310
meillo@0 311 - the default configuration is now /etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf
meillo@0 312 (as it already was for the debian package). The --with-conffile
meillo@0 313 option for configure has been replaced by the --with-confdir option.
meillo@0 314
meillo@0 315 - added delivery failure notices:
meillo@0 316 o you can customize your own delivery failure report, its
meillo@0 317 default location is /etc/masqmail/tpl/failmsg.tpl
meillo@0 318 o if a delivery via a route fails permanently (the server replied with a 5xx status)
meillo@0 319 the message will be bounced, if it is bounced, no further delivery will be attempted.
meillo@0 320 This is different to previous versions, where failed messages were kept in the queue until
meillo@0 321 it was finally delivered, deleted or forever.
meillo@0 322
meillo@0 323 - there is a new online detection method: pipe. This allows you more
meillo@0 324 flexibility to detect the current online status, eg. the DHCP status on notebooks.
meillo@0 325
meillo@0 326 This method will once replace the 'mserver' option,
meillo@0 327 you can already use the program mservdetect to use it:
meillo@0 328
meillo@0 329 online_method=pipe
meillo@0 330 online_pipe="/usr/bin/mservdetect localhost 222"
meillo@0 331
meillo@0 332 instead of
meillo@0 333
meillo@41 334 online_detect=mserver
meillo@0 335 mserver_iface="localhost:222"
meillo@0 336
meillo@0 337 0.1.9
meillo@0 338
meillo@0 339 - you can use pipes in routes to implement gateways to uucp, fax, sms etc.
meillo@0 340 The setup is similar to mda transport. See man pages.
meillo@0 341
meillo@0 342 - for each connection (connect_routes), you can now give a list of
meillo@0 343 route files, which will be used in the order given. You can use the
meillo@0 344 filter rules (allowed_* and not_allowed_* rules) within each route.
meillo@0 345
meillo@0 346 0.1.8
meillo@0 347
meillo@0 348 - for pop retrieval and smtp sending you can use a wrapper for eg. ssl
meillo@0 349 tunneling. See man pages.
meillo@0 350
meillo@0 351 - a user can delete his mail from the spool with -Mrm if received
meillo@0 352 locally, and if you configure with --enable-ident and set
meillo@0 353 ident_trusted_nets also if received via smtp.
meillo@0 354
meillo@0 355 - a backslash now works to escape characters in the configuration, so
meillo@0 356 you can now use quotes inside quotes. All other characters with a
meillo@0 357 leading backslash will be converted to itself (\a becomes a, \\
meillo@0 358 becomes \).
meillo@0 359
meillo@0 360 - you can now use an mda for local mails. The mda will be called
meillo@0 361 *after* alias expansion. See documentation for more.
meillo@0 362
meillo@0 363 0.1.0
meillo@0 364 - masqmail can now retrieve mail with pop3. See the manual on how to do that.
meillo@0 365 - supports now ESMTP AUTH as a client.
meillo@0 366 - when called with -qo (without a connection name), the online status
meillo@0 367 will be checked with the configured method.
meillo@0 368
meillo@0 369 0.0.10
meillo@0 370 - there is now alias support. Give the location of the alias file (usually /etc/aliases) with eg.
meillo@0 371 alias_file = "/etc/aliases"
meillo@0 372 - delivery to pipes is now possible, but only if it appears in an alias file. Example:
meillo@0 373 pipe: |/usr/bin/command
meillo@0 374 will expand the address pipe to "|/usr/bin/command" which invokes '/usr/bin/command'
meillo@0 375 as the user and group masqmail is running as.
meillo@0 376 - entries starting with '\' in alias files will not be exanded further
meillo@0 377
meillo@0 378 - changed permissions for queue runs again: got to be root, mail or in group trusted.
meillo@0 379
meillo@0 380 - some configuration parameters can be read from files, these are
meillo@0 381 allowed_mail_locals, not_allowed_mail_locals, allowed_rcpt_domains, not_allowed_rcpt_domains,
meillo@0 382 map_return_path_addresses, map_h_from_addresses, map_h_reply_to_addresses
meillo@0 383 any entry in these list beginning with a '/' are regarded as
meillo@0 384 filenames, the content of these will be put at that location. Entries
meillo@0 385 in these files are separated by new lines. Example:
meillo@0 386 in the route file you have:
meillo@0 387 map_h_from_addresses = "/etc/masqmail/hfrom.map"
meillo@0 388 and hfrom.map contains:
meillo@0 389
meillo@0 390 john: John Smith <jsmith@mail.academic.edu>
meillo@0 391 cmiller: "Charlie Miller" <cmiller@foo.com>
meillo@0 392
meillo@0 393 UPDATE (Jan 2000): The new home location of MasqMail is
meillo@0 394 http://www.innominate.org/~oku/masqmail/, the new email adress of the
meillo@0 395 author is Oliver Kurth <kurth@innominate.de>.
meillo@0 396
meillo@0 397 0.0.9
meillo@0 398 - see ChangeLog.
meillo@0 399
meillo@0 400 NOTE: The home location of MasqMail at
meillo@0 401 http://merlin.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~okurth/masqmail/ is uncertain from the
meillo@0 402 beginning of Nov. 1999! See http://www.freshmeat.net for new
meillo@0 403 announcements. I leave the university and begin a new job on Nov. 1st 1999
meillo@0 404 in Berlin :-).
meillo@0 405
meillo@0 406 0.0.8:
meillo@0 407 - there is now a FAQ page. See docs/faq.html.
meillo@0 408 - added allowed_rcpt_domains option for routes.
meillo@0 409 - added allowed_mail_locals and not_allowed_mail_locals options for routes.
meillo@0 410 - mailq now gives information about the time mails spent in the queue,
meillo@0 411 the message size and the received host.
meillo@0 412
meillo@0 413 0.0.7:
meillo@0 414 -bug fix release: for statements in two adjacent lines, the second was not recognized.
meillo@0 415
meillo@0 416 0.0.6:
meillo@0 417 - bug fix release: some MUAs (cucipop) saw the locally delivered mails
meillo@0 418 concatenated. (cucipop is not a MUA but a pop server, but it has to read the
meillo@0 419 mails).
meillo@0 420
meillo@0 421 0.0.5:
meillo@0 422 - fixed a bug that caused the headers to be lost under some circumstances.
meillo@0 423 - added expand_h_sender_domain option for routes.
meillo@0 424 - rewrote the libresolv part in configure. Should work better now.
meillo@0 425
meillo@0 426 0.0.4:
meillo@0 427 - MM should now recognize whether libresolv should be linked.
meillo@0 428 - added --with-logdir=LOGDIR and --with-spooldir=SPOOLDIR to set directories.
meillo@0 429 These will be created if not already existent.
meillo@0 430 - added --with-user=USER, --with-group=GROUP options to set user and group id
meillo@0 431 for MasqMail.
meillo@0 432
meillo@0 433 0.0.3:
meillo@0 434 - MasqMail can now deliver mails that are received at online
meillo@0 435 time immediately to the internet. See the options detect_online,
meillo@0 436 mserver_iface and online_file.
meillo@0 437 - You can define a route configuration for the local net. See option
meillo@0 438 local_net_route.
meillo@0 439