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require host_name to be set in config file exit otherwise there is no portable way to determine the hostname (actually the hostname that masqmail should use) thus it must be set by the administrator
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:49:05 +0200
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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@126 10 0.2.25
meillo@126 11
meillo@126 12 - Added server-side SMTP SIZE support. Thanks to Paolo.
meillo@126 13
meillo@126 14 - Masqmail will from now on:
meillo@143 15 o always remove Bcc: headers
meillo@143 16 o never create headers from envelope recipients
meillo@143 17 o add ``To: undisclosed-recipients:;'' if no recipient header (To:
meillo@126 18 or Cc:) is present in the mail
meillo@126 19
meillo@126 20 - Colons (`:') don't need to be quoted in the config file anymore.
meillo@126 21 Thanks to Paolo.
meillo@126 22
meillo@143 23 - Added checks for too long addresses in SMTP dialog. Thanks to Paolo.
meillo@143 24
meillo@149 25 - Moved rmail to sbin and added a man page for it.
meillo@126 26
meillo@149 27 - Added warnmsg.tpl.it. Thanks to Paolo.
meillo@149 28
meillo@149 29 - The tests do not get installed any longer. All on install created
meillo@149 30 dirs are removed on uninstall, except they contain generated data like
meillo@149 31 logs, spooled files, or configuration.
meillo@126 32
meillo@143 33 - Documented some, yet undocumented, config options. Several typo
meillo@143 34 fixes in man pages and code comments.
meillo@126 35
meillo@126 36
meillo@77 37 0.2.24
meillo@77 38
meillo@77 39 - This version keeps on logging after an restart of the deamon, for
meillo@77 40 instance when sending SIGHUP to the daemon process for rereading its
meillo@77 41 config.
meillo@77 42
meillo@77 43 - Now the daemon keeps the same process id when it receives SIGHUP to
meillo@77 44 reread the config.
meillo@77 45
meillo@77 46 - Mail messages with lines longer than 4096 characters do not get
meillo@77 47 truncated anymore.
meillo@77 48
meillo@94 49 - Fixed checking of the trusted group. Primary groups are now
meillo@94 50 detected too.
meillo@94 51
meillo@94 52 - Mservdetect's man page is now in section 1.
meillo@94 53
meillo@94 54 - An `rmail' command is now included and gets installed with
meillo@94 55 masqmail. See docs/uucp-setup for more information.
meillo@94 56
meillo@94 57 - Docs and thelike, that masqmail installs, is removed on uninstall
meillo@94 58 now.
meillo@94 59
meillo@77 60
meillo@53 61 0.2.23
meillo@53 62
meillo@53 63 - This release fixes a major bug in 0.2.22 which made online detection
meillo@53 64 by file unusable. Thanks to Juergen Daubert for reporting and providing
meillo@53 65 a patch.
meillo@53 66
meillo@69 67 - Masqmail installs to /usr/local by default now. Previously it
meillo@69 68 installed to /usr. To regain the old behavior, add
meillo@69 69 --prefix=/usr
meillo@69 70 to the configure call.
meillo@69 71
meillo@69 72 - Man pages get installed again; in 0.2.22 they were not. Again thanks
meillo@69 73 to Juergen Daubert. Docs and examples do get installed now too.
meillo@69 74
meillo@69 75 - Updated the docs. Moved the man pages from docs/ to man/. Added the
meillo@69 76 old manual from the old website to the distribution. Added a bug
meillo@69 77 reporting howto.
meillo@69 78
meillo@53 79
meillo@42 80 0.2.22
meillo@41 81
meillo@41 82 - Hello, I'm meillo, the new maintainer and developer of masqmail. Oku
meillo@48 83 handed masqmail over to me, because he wasn't active anymore.
meillo@41 84
meillo@41 85 - This release includes various fixes for problems in 0.2.21, mainly
meillo@41 86 based on bugs from Debian.
meillo@41 87
meillo@41 88 - Distribution specific data has been excluded from the distribution,
meillo@48 89 but is separately available on the project's website.
meillo@41 90
meillo@41 91 - Man pages will not be generated from xml sources in future, but the
meillo@41 92 nroff sources will be maintained directly.
meillo@41 93
meillo@41 94 - The default online status file is now
meillo@41 95 /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route, as it already was in the Debian
meillo@41 96 package.
meillo@41 97
meillo@48 98
meillo@41 99 0.2.21
meillo@41 100
meillo@41 101 - Retrospective: Probably, this version was not published in the usual
meillo@41 102 way by oku. I (meillo) grabbed it from Debian's package archive. It does
meillo@41 103 not introduce new functions but fixes security problems, such as writing
meillo@41 104 log files as user `mail'. It also changes the location for pid files;
meillo@41 105 they are stored in /var/run/masqmail/ now.
meillo@0 106
meillo@48 107
meillo@0 108 0.2.18
meillo@0 109
meillo@48 110 - delivery warnings and failures are now also implemented if the
meillo@0 111 connection to a server fails. Because masqmail is designed for dialup
meillo@0 112 networks, a connection failure will merely generate a warning by default.
meillo@0 113 If you deliver in a local network and use the default local_net route,
meillo@0 114 this would generte a failure. You can change this behaviour by setting
meillo@41 115 'connect_error_fail' to either true or false in the route configurations.
meillo@0 116
meillo@0 117 0.2.17
meillo@0 118
meillo@0 119 - delivery warnings have been finally implemented: if delivery of a mail
meillo@0 120 fails temporarily, warning mail will be generated, informing the sender
meillo@0 121 of the problem. After some time, the mail will be handled as failing
meillo@0 122 permanently, and be bounced. New options: 'warn_intervals',
meillo@0 123 'max_defer_time' and 'warnmsg_file'.
meillo@0 124
meillo@0 125 - the message templates for failures and warnings will now be installed
meillo@0 126 into /usr/share/masqmail/tpl/, and no longer to /etc/masqmail/tpl/. The
meillo@0 127 default for the search path (options 'errmsg_file' and 'warnmsg_file'
meillo@0 128 has been changed accordingly.
meillo@0 129
meillo@0 130 - new option 'last_route'. See man 5 masqmail.route.
meillo@0 131
meillo@0 132 0.2.12
meillo@0 133 two new options have been added:
meillo@0 134 - do_pipelining will be used only in broken mail setups. Actually, I
meillo@0 135 implemented it only to test such a setup.
meillo@0 136
meillo@0 137 - helo_name for routes sets the helo_name. This may be useful for
meillo@0 138 eg. ssh tunneling, or if do_correcthelo does not work, because you are
meillo@0 139 behind a firewall.
meillo@0 140
meillo@0 141 - the old 'remote_port' option should not be used any more. Set the
meillo@0 142 port with mail_host="foo.bar.com:1234" in the route file instead.
meillo@0 143
meillo@0 144 0.2.11
meillo@0 145
meillo@0 146 - two new options have been added: do_save_envelope_to for the main
meillo@0 147 configuration and map_h_mail_followup_to_addresses for the route
meillo@0 148 files. See the man pages on purpose and usage.
meillo@0 149
meillo@0 150 - the route files can now be mode 0400, owned by root. Previous
meillo@0 151 versions had problems when sendmail was called directly by a
meillo@0 152 non-priviledged user, because the route files could not be read.
meillo@0 153
meillo@0 154 0.2.10
meillo@0 155
meillo@0 156 - this version should work on FreeBSD. At least I care now if it does not.
meillo@0 157
meillo@0 158 - masqmail now writes pid files to /var/run/, one for the smtp/queue
meillo@0 159 daemon and one for the get daemon. So you now know whom to kill ;-)
meillo@0 160
meillo@0 161 - much effort has been put into the Debian package, which now uses debconf.
meillo@0 162
meillo@0 163 0.2.7
meillo@0 164
meillo@0 165 - sorry for my reluctany in the last months...
meillo@0 166 - my email address is oku@masqmail.cx. I hope that I keep this for the rest
meillo@0 167 of my life...
meillo@0 168
meillo@0 169 0.2.6
meillo@0 170
meillo@0 171 - you can configure the prefered local delivery mechanism for each user. See
meillo@0 172 man page masqmail.conf (5), options mbox_default, mbox_users, mda_users and
meillo@0 173 maildir_users. BIT FAT NOTE: if you used an mda, set mbox_default = "mda"
meillo@0 174 (or use the mda_users option). Just setting mda is not enough any more.
meillo@0 175
meillo@0 176 - there are the allowed_return_paths and not_allowed_return_paths for the
meillo@0 177 route configurations, this enables better checking for return path addresses
meillo@0 178 than allowed_mail_locals. You can also use this to enable or disable messages
meillo@0 179 from null sender addresses (<>) using "<>".
meillo@0 180 note: this option has been there for quite a time... I just forgot to document it.
meillo@0 181
meillo@0 182 0.2.5
meillo@0 183
meillo@0 184 - simple relay checking: if you set do_relay=false in masqmail.conf, users
meillo@0 185 with a return path that is not local will get a 550 reply if they try to
meillo@0 186 deliver to a not local address. This is for users to force them to have a
meillo@0 187 proper configuration. It is _not_ to prevent spammers from using your MTA
meillo@0 188 as a relay, it can be easily forged! masqmail is not designed to be an always
meillo@0 189 accessible MTA for an internet site.
meillo@0 190
meillo@0 191 - added Maildir support. To use it, add --enable-maildir as ./configure
meillo@0 192 optiom. Currently, if enabled, all local deliveries are to Maildir
meillo@0 193 (in ~user/Maildir), and none to mailbox. This is preliminary, future versions
meillo@0 194 will be configurable (probably together with mda delivery).
meillo@0 195
meillo@0 196 0.2.4
meillo@0 197
meillo@0 198 - added -v option, this logs to stdout, so you see what happens when
meillo@0 199 calling masqmail from command line. This is not yet finished, and only
meillo@0 200 for fetching mails completed.
meillo@0 201
meillo@0 202 0.2.3
meillo@0 203
meillo@0 204 - new option lock_dir where locks will be put to. Defaults to the spool
meillo@0 205 dir with '/lock/' appended (if spool_dir is /var/spool/masqmail/, lock_dir
meillo@0 206 is /var/spool/masqmail/lock/).
meillo@0 207
meillo@0 208 - You can use the 'do_uidl_dele' option more reliably. The uidl list
meillo@0 209 will be written immediately after a message was fetched, so if you use the
meillo@0 210 do_uidl and do_uidl_dele option you can safely interrupt masqmail when it is
meillo@0 211 getting mail via pop3, and do not get the message again next time.
meillo@0 212
meillo@0 213 - there are a lot of new options for ./configure to customize masqmail
meillo@0 214 to your needs. See INSTALL.
meillo@0 215
meillo@0 216 - Uli Funcke sent a patch with the new options 'local_addresses' and
meillo@0 217 'not_local_addresses' for masqmail.conf. With these, you can declare single
meillo@0 218 email addresses as local, though they normally are not, and vice versa,
meillo@0 219 declare addresses as not local though normally they are (determined with
meillo@0 220 local_hosts). These options are not yet documented.
meillo@0 221
meillo@0 222 0.2.2
meillo@0 223 - with -go5m you can now run a get daemon, the command 'masqmail -go5m' will fetch
meillo@0 224 mail every five minutes, using the detected online configuration.
meillo@0 225
meillo@0 226 0.2.1
meillo@0 227
meillo@0 228 - there is a new option for the main conf: online_gets. Using this option,
meillo@0 229 you can retrieve mail with just calling masqmail -go, masqmail will detect
meillo@41 230 whether it is online (similar to connect_routes (which is now called
meillo@0 231 online_routes)).
meillo@0 232
meillo@0 233 0.2.0
meillo@0 234
meillo@0 235 This is the first release of he development branch of masqmail
meillo@0 236
meillo@0 237 - the default configuration is now /etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf
meillo@0 238 (as it already was for the debian package). The --with-conffile
meillo@0 239 option for configure has been replaced by the --with-confdir option.
meillo@0 240
meillo@0 241 - added delivery failure notices:
meillo@0 242 o you can customize your own delivery failure report, its
meillo@0 243 default location is /etc/masqmail/tpl/failmsg.tpl
meillo@0 244 o if a delivery via a route fails permanently (the server replied with a 5xx status)
meillo@0 245 the message will be bounced, if it is bounced, no further delivery will be attempted.
meillo@0 246 This is different to previous versions, where failed messages were kept in the queue until
meillo@0 247 it was finally delivered, deleted or forever.
meillo@0 248
meillo@0 249 - there is a new online detection method: pipe. This allows you more
meillo@0 250 flexibility to detect the current online status, eg. the DHCP status on notebooks.
meillo@0 251
meillo@0 252 This method will once replace the 'mserver' option,
meillo@0 253 you can already use the program mservdetect to use it:
meillo@0 254
meillo@0 255 online_method=pipe
meillo@0 256 online_pipe="/usr/bin/mservdetect localhost 222"
meillo@0 257
meillo@0 258 instead of
meillo@0 259
meillo@41 260 online_detect=mserver
meillo@0 261 mserver_iface="localhost:222"
meillo@0 262
meillo@0 263 0.1.9
meillo@0 264
meillo@0 265 - you can use pipes in routes to implement gateways to uucp, fax, sms etc.
meillo@0 266 The setup is similar to mda transport. See man pages.
meillo@0 267
meillo@0 268 - for each connection (connect_routes), you can now give a list of
meillo@0 269 route files, which will be used in the order given. You can use the
meillo@0 270 filter rules (allowed_* and not_allowed_* rules) within each route.
meillo@0 271
meillo@0 272 0.1.8
meillo@0 273
meillo@0 274 - for pop retrieval and smtp sending you can use a wrapper for eg. ssl
meillo@0 275 tunneling. See man pages.
meillo@0 276
meillo@0 277 - a user can delete his mail from the spool with -Mrm if received
meillo@0 278 locally, and if you configure with --enable-ident and set
meillo@0 279 ident_trusted_nets also if received via smtp.
meillo@0 280
meillo@0 281 - a backslash now works to escape characters in the configuration, so
meillo@0 282 you can now use quotes inside quotes. All other characters with a
meillo@0 283 leading backslash will be converted to itself (\a becomes a, \\
meillo@0 284 becomes \).
meillo@0 285
meillo@0 286 - you can now use an mda for local mails. The mda will be called
meillo@0 287 *after* alias expansion. See documentation for more.
meillo@0 288
meillo@0 289 0.1.0
meillo@0 290 - masqmail can now retrieve mail with pop3. See the manual on how to do that.
meillo@0 291 - supports now ESMTP AUTH as a client.
meillo@0 292 - when called with -qo (without a connection name), the online status
meillo@0 293 will be checked with the configured method.
meillo@0 294
meillo@0 295 0.0.10
meillo@0 296 - there is now alias support. Give the location of the alias file (usually /etc/aliases) with eg.
meillo@0 297 alias_file = "/etc/aliases"
meillo@0 298 - delivery to pipes is now possible, but only if it appears in an alias file. Example:
meillo@0 299 pipe: |/usr/bin/command
meillo@0 300 will expand the address pipe to "|/usr/bin/command" which invokes '/usr/bin/command'
meillo@0 301 as the user and group masqmail is running as.
meillo@0 302 - entries starting with '\' in alias files will not be exanded further
meillo@0 303
meillo@0 304 - changed permissions for queue runs again: got to be root, mail or in group trusted.
meillo@0 305
meillo@0 306 - some configuration parameters can be read from files, these are
meillo@0 307 allowed_mail_locals, not_allowed_mail_locals, allowed_rcpt_domains, not_allowed_rcpt_domains,
meillo@0 308 map_return_path_addresses, map_h_from_addresses, map_h_reply_to_addresses
meillo@0 309 any entry in these list beginning with a '/' are regarded as
meillo@0 310 filenames, the content of these will be put at that location. Entries
meillo@0 311 in these files are separated by new lines. Example:
meillo@0 312 in the route file you have:
meillo@0 313 map_h_from_addresses = "/etc/masqmail/hfrom.map"
meillo@0 314 and hfrom.map contains:
meillo@0 315
meillo@0 316 john: John Smith <jsmith@mail.academic.edu>
meillo@0 317 cmiller: "Charlie Miller" <cmiller@foo.com>
meillo@0 318
meillo@0 319 UPDATE (Jan 2000): The new home location of MasqMail is
meillo@0 320 http://www.innominate.org/~oku/masqmail/, the new email adress of the
meillo@0 321 author is Oliver Kurth <kurth@innominate.de>.
meillo@0 322
meillo@0 323 0.0.9
meillo@0 324 - see ChangeLog.
meillo@0 325
meillo@0 326 NOTE: The home location of MasqMail at
meillo@0 327 http://merlin.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~okurth/masqmail/ is uncertain from the
meillo@0 328 beginning of Nov. 1999! See http://www.freshmeat.net for new
meillo@0 329 announcements. I leave the university and begin a new job on Nov. 1st 1999
meillo@0 330 in Berlin :-).
meillo@0 331
meillo@0 332 0.0.8:
meillo@0 333 - there is now a FAQ page. See docs/faq.html.
meillo@0 334 - added allowed_rcpt_domains option for routes.
meillo@0 335 - added allowed_mail_locals and not_allowed_mail_locals options for routes.
meillo@0 336 - mailq now gives information about the time mails spent in the queue,
meillo@0 337 the message size and the received host.
meillo@0 338
meillo@0 339 0.0.7:
meillo@0 340 -bug fix release: for statements in two adjacent lines, the second was not recognized.
meillo@0 341
meillo@0 342 0.0.6:
meillo@0 343 - bug fix release: some MUAs (cucipop) saw the locally delivered mails
meillo@0 344 concatenated. (cucipop is not a MUA but a pop server, but it has to read the
meillo@0 345 mails).
meillo@0 346
meillo@0 347 0.0.5:
meillo@0 348 - fixed a bug that caused the headers to be lost under some circumstances.
meillo@0 349 - added expand_h_sender_domain option for routes.
meillo@0 350 - rewrote the libresolv part in configure. Should work better now.
meillo@0 351
meillo@0 352 0.0.4:
meillo@0 353 - MM should now recognize whether libresolv should be linked.
meillo@0 354 - added --with-logdir=LOGDIR and --with-spooldir=SPOOLDIR to set directories.
meillo@0 355 These will be created if not already existent.
meillo@0 356 - added --with-user=USER, --with-group=GROUP options to set user and group id
meillo@0 357 for MasqMail.
meillo@0 358
meillo@0 359 0.0.3:
meillo@0 360 - MasqMail can now deliver mails that are received at online
meillo@0 361 time immediately to the internet. See the options detect_online,
meillo@0 362 mserver_iface and online_file.
meillo@0 363 - You can define a route configuration for the local net. See option
meillo@0 364 local_net_route.
meillo@0 365