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| author | markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de> |
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| date | Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:02:18 -0300 |
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1 This NEWS file lists changes which may be important for you, especially
2 in regard to compatiblity in upgrades.
4 See ChangeLog file for more details and technical changes that don't
5 affect users directly.
7 The manual pages describe newly added options. Take them for reference.
10 0.3.0
12 - Start of the new development branch. Attention: Backward
13 compatibility with 0.2.x versions will *NOT* be maintained. Upgrading
14 from 0.2.x to 0.3.x will probably require manual adjustment of the
15 configuration. The script admin/config-tansition can be used to check
16 the config files for obsolete options.
18 - Removed POP3 support (also pop-before-smtp/smtp-after-pop). Use some
19 other POP3 client instead.
21 - Removed maildir support. Use an MDA, like procmail, to deliver to
22 maildir.
24 - Removed the built-in mserver functionality. Use the mservdetect
25 program instead. See masqmail.conf(5) under `online_pipe' for details.
27 - Removed --disable-smtp-server and --with-glib-static configure
28 options. We see no more need to not compile the SMTP server function.
29 For static linking, see docs/howto-static-linking.
31 - `host_name' is the only mandatory config option now. If you only set
32 host_name, then masqmail will:
33 o accept mail on the command line
34 o listen on the local port 25 for incoming mail
35 o deliver mail locally
36 o not know how to handle mail for remote destinations
37 Therefore you should set up at least one route configuration.
39 - Default values are available for: listen_addresses, local_hosts,
40 log_dir, spool_dir, mail_dir. See masqmail.conf(5) for the values.
42 - Mservdetect works much better now.
44 - Improved the documentation:
45 o Added setup guides
46 o Improved and simplified the example config
47 And removed the old manual because it is really outdated now.
49 - Renamed misc/ to devel/ and contrib/ to admin/. devel/ contains
50 stuff for developers of masqmail, admin/ contains stuff for people who
51 install, upgrade, and configure masqmail.
54 0.2.28
56 - Added STARTTLS support with external wrappers like OpenSSL. See
57 `wrapper' and `instant_helo' in masqmail.route(5) for examples how to
58 use it. `instant_helo' is a new route config option.
61 0.2.27
63 - Replaced contributed code with possible licensing problems with
64 alternatives. The MD5 implementation changed from the reference
65 implementation of RFC 1321 to the Public Domain implementation of
66 Solar Designer. The HMAC-MD5 implementation changed from the reference
67 implementation of RFC 2104 to an own implementation (ISC License).
69 - Added the authors of contributed parts to the AUTHORS file.
72 0.2.26
74 - Write a log message when the daemon starts up. Thanks to Juergen
75 Daubert.
77 - Fix handling of --with-liblockfile=no or --without-liblockfile for
78 configure script. Thanks to Nico Roeser.
80 - Improved the INSTALL file and some man pages. Thanks to Nico Roeser
81 Improved the documentation of the wrapper option of route files.
84 0.2.25
86 - Added server-side SMTP SIZE support. Thanks to Paolo.
88 - Masqmail will from now on:
89 o always remove Bcc: headers
90 o never create headers from envelope recipients
91 o add ``To: undisclosed-recipients:;'' if no recipient header (To:
92 or Cc:) is present in the mail
94 - Colons (`:') don't need to be quoted in the config file anymore.
95 Thanks to Paolo.
97 - Added checks for too long addresses in SMTP dialog. Thanks to Paolo.
99 - Moved rmail to sbin and added a man page for it.
101 - Added warnmsg.tpl.it. Thanks to Paolo.
103 - The tests do not get installed any longer. All on install created
104 dirs are removed on uninstall, except they contain generated data like
105 logs, spooled files, or configuration.
107 - Documented some, yet undocumented, config options. Several typo
108 fixes in man pages and code comments.
111 0.2.24
113 - This version keeps on logging after an restart of the deamon, for
114 instance when sending SIGHUP to the daemon process for rereading its
115 config.
117 - Now the daemon keeps the same process id when it receives SIGHUP to
118 reread the config.
120 - Mail messages with lines longer than 4096 characters do not get
121 truncated anymore.
123 - Fixed checking of the trusted group. Primary groups are now
124 detected too.
126 - Mservdetect's man page is now in section 1.
128 - An `rmail' command is now included and gets installed with
129 masqmail. See docs/uucp-setup for more information.
131 - Docs and thelike, that masqmail installs, is removed on uninstall
132 now.
135 0.2.23
137 - This release fixes a major bug in 0.2.22 which made online detection
138 by file unusable. Thanks to Juergen Daubert for reporting and providing
139 a patch.
141 - Masqmail installs to /usr/local by default now. Previously it
142 installed to /usr. To regain the old behavior, add
143 --prefix=/usr
144 to the configure call.
146 - Man pages get installed again; in 0.2.22 they were not. Again thanks
147 to Juergen Daubert. Docs and examples do get installed now too.
149 - Updated the docs. Moved the man pages from docs/ to man/. Added the
150 old manual from the old website to the distribution. Added a bug
151 reporting howto.
154 0.2.22
156 - Hello, I'm meillo, the new maintainer and developer of masqmail. Oku
157 handed masqmail over to me, because he wasn't active anymore.
159 - This release includes various fixes for problems in 0.2.21, mainly
160 based on bugs from Debian.
162 - Distribution specific data has been excluded from the distribution,
163 but is separately available on the project's website.
165 - Man pages will not be generated from xml sources in future, but the
166 nroff sources will be maintained directly.
168 - The default online status file is now
169 /var/run/masqmail/masqmail-route, as it already was in the Debian
170 package.
173 0.2.21
175 - Retrospective: Probably, this version was not published in the usual
176 way by oku. I (meillo) grabbed it from Debian's package archive. It does
177 not introduce new functions but fixes security problems, such as writing
178 log files as user `mail'. It also changes the location for pid files;
179 they are stored in /var/run/masqmail/ now.
182 0.2.18
184 - delivery warnings and failures are now also implemented if the
185 connection to a server fails. Because masqmail is designed for dialup
186 networks, a connection failure will merely generate a warning by default.
187 If you deliver in a local network and use the default local_net route,
188 this would generte a failure. You can change this behaviour by setting
189 'connect_error_fail' to either true or false in the route configurations.
191 0.2.17
193 - delivery warnings have been finally implemented: if delivery of a mail
194 fails temporarily, warning mail will be generated, informing the sender
195 of the problem. After some time, the mail will be handled as failing
196 permanently, and be bounced. New options: 'warn_intervals',
197 'max_defer_time' and 'warnmsg_file'.
199 - the message templates for failures and warnings will now be installed
200 into /usr/share/masqmail/tpl/, and no longer to /etc/masqmail/tpl/. The
201 default for the search path (options 'errmsg_file' and 'warnmsg_file'
202 has been changed accordingly.
204 - new option 'last_route'. See man 5 masqmail.route.
206 0.2.12
207 two new options have been added:
208 - do_pipelining will be used only in broken mail setups. Actually, I
209 implemented it only to test such a setup.
211 - helo_name for routes sets the helo_name. This may be useful for
212 eg. ssh tunneling, or if do_correcthelo does not work, because you are
213 behind a firewall.
215 - the old 'remote_port' option should not be used any more. Set the
216 port with mail_host="foo.bar.com:1234" in the route file instead.
218 0.2.11
220 - two new options have been added: do_save_envelope_to for the main
221 configuration and map_h_mail_followup_to_addresses for the route
222 files. See the man pages on purpose and usage.
224 - the route files can now be mode 0400, owned by root. Previous
225 versions had problems when sendmail was called directly by a
226 non-priviledged user, because the route files could not be read.
228 0.2.10
230 - this version should work on FreeBSD. At least I care now if it does not.
232 - masqmail now writes pid files to /var/run/, one for the smtp/queue
233 daemon and one for the get daemon. So you now know whom to kill ;-)
235 - much effort has been put into the Debian package, which now uses debconf.
237 0.2.7
239 - sorry for my reluctany in the last months...
240 - my email address is oku@masqmail.cx. I hope that I keep this for the rest
241 of my life...
243 0.2.6
245 - you can configure the prefered local delivery mechanism for each user. See
246 man page masqmail.conf (5), options mbox_default, mbox_users, mda_users and
247 maildir_users. BIT FAT NOTE: if you used an mda, set mbox_default = "mda"
248 (or use the mda_users option). Just setting mda is not enough any more.
250 - there are the allowed_return_paths and not_allowed_return_paths for the
251 route configurations, this enables better checking for return path addresses
252 than allowed_mail_locals. You can also use this to enable or disable messages
253 from null sender addresses (<>) using "<>".
254 note: this option has been there for quite a time... I just forgot to document it.
256 0.2.5
258 - simple relay checking: if you set do_relay=false in masqmail.conf, users
259 with a return path that is not local will get a 550 reply if they try to
260 deliver to a not local address. This is for users to force them to have a
261 proper configuration. It is _not_ to prevent spammers from using your MTA
262 as a relay, it can be easily forged! masqmail is not designed to be an always
263 accessible MTA for an internet site.
265 - added Maildir support. To use it, add --enable-maildir as ./configure
266 optiom. Currently, if enabled, all local deliveries are to Maildir
267 (in ~user/Maildir), and none to mailbox. This is preliminary, future versions
268 will be configurable (probably together with mda delivery).
270 0.2.4
272 - added -v option, this logs to stdout, so you see what happens when
273 calling masqmail from command line. This is not yet finished, and only
274 for fetching mails completed.
276 0.2.3
278 - new option lock_dir where locks will be put to. Defaults to the spool
279 dir with '/lock/' appended (if spool_dir is /var/spool/masqmail/, lock_dir
280 is /var/spool/masqmail/lock/).
282 - You can use the 'do_uidl_dele' option more reliably. The uidl list
283 will be written immediately after a message was fetched, so if you use the
284 do_uidl and do_uidl_dele option you can safely interrupt masqmail when it is
285 getting mail via pop3, and do not get the message again next time.
287 - there are a lot of new options for ./configure to customize masqmail
288 to your needs. See INSTALL.
290 - Uli Funcke sent a patch with the new options 'local_addresses' and
291 'not_local_addresses' for masqmail.conf. With these, you can declare single
292 email addresses as local, though they normally are not, and vice versa,
293 declare addresses as not local though normally they are (determined with
294 local_hosts). These options are not yet documented.
296 0.2.2
297 - with -go5m you can now run a get daemon, the command 'masqmail -go5m' will fetch
298 mail every five minutes, using the detected online configuration.
300 0.2.1
302 - there is a new option for the main conf: online_gets. Using this option,
303 you can retrieve mail with just calling masqmail -go, masqmail will detect
304 whether it is online (similar to connect_routes (which is now called
305 online_routes)).
307 0.2.0
309 This is the first release of he development branch of masqmail
311 - the default configuration is now /etc/masqmail/masqmail.conf
312 (as it already was for the debian package). The --with-conffile
313 option for configure has been replaced by the --with-confdir option.
315 - added delivery failure notices:
316 o you can customize your own delivery failure report, its
317 default location is /etc/masqmail/tpl/failmsg.tpl
318 o if a delivery via a route fails permanently (the server replied with a 5xx status)
319 the message will be bounced, if it is bounced, no further delivery will be attempted.
320 This is different to previous versions, where failed messages were kept in the queue until
321 it was finally delivered, deleted or forever.
323 - there is a new online detection method: pipe. This allows you more
324 flexibility to detect the current online status, eg. the DHCP status on notebooks.
326 This method will once replace the 'mserver' option,
327 you can already use the program mservdetect to use it:
329 online_method=pipe
330 online_pipe="/usr/bin/mservdetect localhost 222"
332 instead of
334 online_detect=mserver
335 mserver_iface="localhost:222"
337 0.1.9
339 - you can use pipes in routes to implement gateways to uucp, fax, sms etc.
340 The setup is similar to mda transport. See man pages.
342 - for each connection (connect_routes), you can now give a list of
343 route files, which will be used in the order given. You can use the
344 filter rules (allowed_* and not_allowed_* rules) within each route.
346 0.1.8
348 - for pop retrieval and smtp sending you can use a wrapper for eg. ssl
349 tunneling. See man pages.
351 - a user can delete his mail from the spool with -Mrm if received
352 locally, and if you configure with --enable-ident and set
353 ident_trusted_nets also if received via smtp.
355 - a backslash now works to escape characters in the configuration, so
356 you can now use quotes inside quotes. All other characters with a
357 leading backslash will be converted to itself (\a becomes a, \\
358 becomes \).
360 - you can now use an mda for local mails. The mda will be called
361 *after* alias expansion. See documentation for more.
363 0.1.0
364 - masqmail can now retrieve mail with pop3. See the manual on how to do that.
365 - supports now ESMTP AUTH as a client.
366 - when called with -qo (without a connection name), the online status
367 will be checked with the configured method.
369 0.0.10
370 - there is now alias support. Give the location of the alias file (usually /etc/aliases) with eg.
371 alias_file = "/etc/aliases"
372 - delivery to pipes is now possible, but only if it appears in an alias file. Example:
373 pipe: |/usr/bin/command
374 will expand the address pipe to "|/usr/bin/command" which invokes '/usr/bin/command'
375 as the user and group masqmail is running as.
376 - entries starting with '\' in alias files will not be exanded further
378 - changed permissions for queue runs again: got to be root, mail or in group trusted.
380 - some configuration parameters can be read from files, these are
381 allowed_mail_locals, not_allowed_mail_locals, allowed_rcpt_domains, not_allowed_rcpt_domains,
382 map_return_path_addresses, map_h_from_addresses, map_h_reply_to_addresses
383 any entry in these list beginning with a '/' are regarded as
384 filenames, the content of these will be put at that location. Entries
385 in these files are separated by new lines. Example:
386 in the route file you have:
387 map_h_from_addresses = "/etc/masqmail/hfrom.map"
388 and hfrom.map contains:
390 john: John Smith <jsmith@mail.academic.edu>
391 cmiller: "Charlie Miller" <cmiller@foo.com>
393 UPDATE (Jan 2000): The new home location of MasqMail is
394 http://www.innominate.org/~oku/masqmail/, the new email adress of the
395 author is Oliver Kurth <kurth@innominate.de>.
397 0.0.9
398 - see ChangeLog.
400 NOTE: The home location of MasqMail at
401 http://merlin.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~okurth/masqmail/ is uncertain from the
402 beginning of Nov. 1999! See http://www.freshmeat.net for new
403 announcements. I leave the university and begin a new job on Nov. 1st 1999
404 in Berlin :-).
406 0.0.8:
407 - there is now a FAQ page. See docs/faq.html.
408 - added allowed_rcpt_domains option for routes.
409 - added allowed_mail_locals and not_allowed_mail_locals options for routes.
410 - mailq now gives information about the time mails spent in the queue,
411 the message size and the received host.
413 0.0.7:
414 -bug fix release: for statements in two adjacent lines, the second was not recognized.
416 0.0.6:
417 - bug fix release: some MUAs (cucipop) saw the locally delivered mails
418 concatenated. (cucipop is not a MUA but a pop server, but it has to read the
419 mails).
421 0.0.5:
422 - fixed a bug that caused the headers to be lost under some circumstances.
423 - added expand_h_sender_domain option for routes.
424 - rewrote the libresolv part in configure. Should work better now.
426 0.0.4:
427 - MM should now recognize whether libresolv should be linked.
428 - added --with-logdir=LOGDIR and --with-spooldir=SPOOLDIR to set directories.
429 These will be created if not already existent.
430 - added --with-user=USER, --with-group=GROUP options to set user and group id
431 for MasqMail.
433 0.0.3:
434 - MasqMail can now deliver mails that are received at online
435 time immediately to the internet. See the options detect_online,
436 mserver_iface and online_file.
437 - You can define a route configuration for the local net. See option
438 local_net_route.