Postfix official release 20010228 Patch 05 fixes a problem with
canonical and virtual address rewriting, and with the parsing of
malformed address extensions.
Submitted by Patroklos Argyroudis <argp@bsd.gr>.
prepop is a simple "online" POP3 email client. It's a complementing
email client doing some of the things your ordinary email client
should have handled in the first place.
Submitted by Nikolay Sturm <nikolay.sturm@desy.de>
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This is GNU Mailman, a mailing list management system distributed
under the GNU Public License (GPL).
Mailman has most of the standard features you'd expect in a
mailing list manager, and more.
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The Mutt Mail User Agent
This is a nifty e-mail client that includes excellent PGP hooks.
Other features include:
- color support
- message threading
- MIME support (including RFC2047 support for encoded headers)
- IMAP (also over SSL) and POP3 support
- support for multiple mailbox formats (mbox, MMDF, MH, maildir)
- highly customizable, including key bindings
- searches using regular expression
- Delivery Status Notification (DSN) support
- PGP/MIME (RFC2015)
- small and efficient
Flavors:
slang - build using the S-Lang library for screen handling.
imap - build with IMAP & SSL support.
pop - build with POP3 support.
compressed - build with compressed folder support
(see: http://www.spinnaker.de/mutt/compressed/)
mixmaster - build with anonymous remailing support.
This is the development version of mutt.
WWW: http://www.mutt.org/
Submitted by Patroklos Argyroudis <argp@bsd.gr>.
This program is a minimal SMTP client that takes an email
message body and passes it on to a SMTP server (default is the
MTA on the local host). Since it is completely self-supporting,
it is especially suitable for use in restricted environments.
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20010727
Bugfix: updated LDAP client module from LaMont Jones, HP.
This also introduces new LDAP query filter patterns: %u
(address localpart) and %d (domain part). Files:
conf/sample-ldap.cf, util/dict_ldap.c.
20010729
Bugfix: recursive smtpd_whatever_restrictions clobbered
intermediate results when switching between sender and
recipient address restrictions. Problem found by Victor
Duchovni, morganstanley.com. In order to fix, introduced
address resolver result caching, which should also help to
speed up sender/recipient address restriction processing.
Bugfix: the not yet announced DUNNO access table lookup
result did not prevent lookups with substrings of the same
lookup key. Found by Victor Duchovni, morganstanley.com.
20010730
Robustness: trim trailing whitespace from regexp and pcre
right-hand sides, for consistency with DB/DBM tables.
Files: util/dict_pcre.c, util/dict_regexp.c.
20010731
Robustness: eliminate duplicate IP addresses after expansion
of hostnames in $inet_interfaces, so that Postfix does not
suddenly refuse to start up after someone changes the DNS.
- never create an ldap FLAVORized Pico package since it does not pertain
to Pico and do not mistakenly register a dependency on ldap with the
package either
- Move old kerberosIV flavor to kerberos4.
- Add kerberosV support via kerberos5 flavor.
KerberosV support is not really tested. I'm not sure if that diff is
100% correct, so I'm gonna hold a bit to submit it. Please test.
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This software comes in a client only configuration! If you want
to setup a mixmaster server, read through the example files,
man page and keep in mind, that the server stores all it's files
in $MIXPATH (/etc/mixmaster by default).
The purpose of anonymous remailers (hereafter simply remailers) is
to provide protection against traffic analysis. Traffic analysis
is the study of who you are communicating with, when, and how often.
This reveals more than you might expect about your activities. It
will indicate who your friends and colleagues are (and they can be
told apart by looking at the times you contact them). What your
interests are, from which catalog companies you contact, and which
ftp and WWW sites you visit. Traffic analysis can even reveal
business secrets, e.g. your frequent contact with a rival could
give hints of an impending merger.
Remailers protect your e-mail from traffic analysis. The original
remailers did this by removing all headers, except the subject line,
from any message you sent to them and then forwarding them a
destination of your choice. The recipient of such a message would
not know who had sent it.
The addition of encryption to this scheme gave significant protection
from attackers who simply look a the primary improvement with the
type 2 remailer Mixmaster.
WWW: http://mixmaster.shinn.net
Submitted by Nikolay Sturm <nikolay.sturm@desy.de>
Poppy is a small perl script that allows you to perform simple tasks
on a POP3 or IMAP server. It is of most use in a "limited resources
environment" whether thats low disk space, slow internet connection,
or no graphical environment.
- A workaround for a bug in old versions of the CISCO PIX firewall software
l that caused mail to be resent repeatedly to systems behind such a product.
The same workaround will be folded into the "stable" release when time
permits.
- A much enhanced pipe delivery agent with flags to control case folding of
the $nexthop, $recipient, $user, $extension or $mailbox command-line macros.
- A much enhanced pipe delivery agent with proper quoting of white space and
other special characters in the expansions of the $sender and $recipient
command-line macros. This is necessary for correct operation of the "simple"
content filter, among others.
- Retraction of one RFC2821-induced change that was causing more problems
than it solved.
Submitted by Joshua Stein <jcs@rt.fm>.
Grepmail searches a normal, gzip'd, bzip'd, or tzip'd mailbox for a given
regular expression, and returns those emails that match it.
to mutt via a patch provided by Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de>,
located at http://www.spinnaker.de/mutt/compressed/.
Also, add a patch to browser.c to handle proper handling of timestamp in
folder view of Maildir forlders.
Okayed by fgsch@
Postfix official release 20010228 patch 03 fixes all known problems that were
also fixed with snapshot 20010525.
The official Postfix release does not change except for bugfixes. New
features are introduced in Postfix snapshots; the snapshots eventually evolve
into the next official release.
Only only major fix is for a memory leak in the LDAP client module. If you do
not use LDAP, then there is no urgent need to apply the patch.
A fully patched version will be made available via the usual sites listed on
the www.postfix.org web site.
- Many little revisions of little details in the light of the new RFC 2821
and RFC 2822 standards. RFC features considered less urgent or less useful
are discussed in source code comments. See the RELEASE_NOTES for possible
incompatibilities.
- A much enhanced postsuper queue maintenance tool that can fix Postfix
queues restored from another machine or from backup. The postsuper tool
corrects file names when a file name does not match the message file
inode number. My respect has doubled for people who write fsck-like programs.
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The qtools package comprises several utilities for use with qmail,
typically as part of .qmail command processing.
The provided utilities can do things like:
* Parse 822-formatted email messages
* Perform address matching
* Conditionally deliver mail to a maildir
* Filter, forward, and autoreply to email messages
Submitted by Brian J. Kifiak <bk@rt.fm>
- Split into subpackages: courier-pop3 and courier-imap
- pop3 FLAVOR no longer needed, so removed
- Disable ipv6, since if it detects ipv6, it will bind only to the ipv6
socket and expect that to also accept ipv4 connections. Author notified
a "monster" (not really) all FLAVORs exim build. The no_ssl FLAVOR
is not normally used and I have left it out for use in special
circumstances.
ok espie@
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KBiff is a "biff" or new mail notification utility. It is highly
configurable but very easy to use and setup. It tries to combine
the best of the features of most of the "other" biff programs out
there.
KBiff supports all major mailbox formats: mbox (Berkely style),
maildir, mh, POP3, IMAP4, and NNTP.
KBiff is also part of the KDE project. Among other things, this
means that it has support for session management (it "remembers"
the last state it was in before you logged off) and can be docked
into the panel.
checked by wilfried@ (thanks!).
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Postfix Release 20010228 Patchlevel 01 includes patches that were
sent to the list in the last month, some portability enhancements,
and updated documentation.
- The flush daemon complained when Postfix was deferring mail
for user@[ip.address], and aborted with a panic when deferring
mail to user@a.domain.name (one-letter subdomain name).
- The LMTP connection caching did not work for destinations that
start with inet: or unix:.
- The cleanup server stalled when mail exceeded the queue file
size limit by a small amount. The sender was not informed of
the file size problem and kept sending the mail repeatedly.
- Mail address headers with newline inside (comment) caused
Postfix to emit a backslash before the end of line.
With help from Shell Hung <i@shellhung.org>
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The Mail::Box module is a modern mail-folder manager.
The modules are trying to keep messages stored in the mailbox file(s)
for as long as possible. Only if the user of a folder really needs
the content of a message, that message is read from file and parsed.
ChangeLog:
- added man page for abookrc (Alan Ford)
- notes are returned as optional data in mutt queries
- created a workaround for a mutt query bug
- new "extra_alternative" config option (Alan)
- added undo feature to editor
- FAQ
- macro updates
- fixed the cancel key behavior in editor
the static authentication modules.
This allows us to add two new flavors: ldap and mysql, which communicate
via the authdaemon.
Note that this requires users to rehaul their configuration scripts;
the INSTALL script should detect this and print out a message.
- setup CONFIGURE_ENV more carefully
- /etc/userdb -> ${SYSCONFDIR}/userdb - this doesn't go in /etc/courier-imap
since the userdb can be shared across several applications
- finally cave in, and activate the workarounds for bugs in IMAP clients.
This actually breaks RFC2060, but allows NS4/Mozilla/StarOffice brain-dead
clients to work with courier-imap.
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Add support for the IMAP IDLE extensions
Block out clients that constantly send garbage
Mailcrypt allows seamless integration of cryptography and internet
usage. It can be used to sign and encrypt mail, to sign usenet
articles, and to verify/decrypt mail and articles.
Submitted by: Shell Hung <i@shellhung.org>
isync is a command line application which synchronizes a
local maildir-style mailbox with a remote IMAP4 mailbox. It
is suitable for use in IMAP-disconnected mode. Multiple
copies of the remote IMAP4 mailbox can be maintained, and
all flags are synchronized.
--
The mailbox file size limits for the local and virtual delivery
agents can be disabled by setting mailbox_size_limit and/or
virtual_mailbox_limit to zero.
Incompatible changes with snapshot-20010128
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REJECT in header/body_checks is now flagged as policy violation
rather than bounce, for consistency in postmaster notifications.
The mailbox size limit for local delivery is no longer controlled
by the message_size_limit paramater, but by a separate parameter
called mailbox_size_limit (default: 20MBytes).
The default RBL (real-time blackhole lists) domain examples have
been updated from *.vix.com to *.mail-abuse.org.
Major changes with snapshot-20010128
====================================
Updated nqmgr (experimental queue manager with clever queueing
strategy) by Patrik Rak. This code is still new. Once it stops
changing (for a long time!) it will become part of the non-beta
release.
Virtual mailbox delivery agent by Andrew McNamara. This delivery
agent can deliver mail for any number of domains. See the file
VIRTUAL_README for detailed examples. This code is still new. Once
it stops changing it will become part of the non-beta release.
Many "valid_hostname" warnings were eliminated. The complaints that
were not eliminated were replaced by something more informative.
SASL support (RFC 2554) for the LMTP delivery agent. This is required
by recent Cyrus implementations when delivering mail over TCP
sockets. The LMTP_README file has been updated but still contains
some obsolete information.
Workarounds for non-standard RFC 2554 (AUTH command) implementations.
Specify "broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes" to enable SMTP server
support for old Microsoft client applications. The Postfix SMTP
client supports non-standard RFC 2554 servers by default.
- bump NEED_VERSION
This is a bugfix release:
o Fix big5/gb2312 conversion logic.
o Fix authldap connection failure recovery
o Update INSTALL to reflect new upgrade instructions.
Summary
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This patch fixes a problem in the Postfix SMTP client's fallback
relay feature in snapshot releases after 20001005.
By default, Postfix does not use the fallback_relay feature. To
find out if your system uses it, issue the command:
postconf fallback_relay
The result is "fallback_relay =" when the feature is turned off.
Description
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As of 20001005, the Postfix SMTP client will send mail to a fallback
relay host (if one is configured) even when the local machine is
a backup MX host for the final destination.
This causes a loop when the primary MX host is down. Postfix receives
the mail, because it's a backup MX host for the destination. Postfix
then sends the mail to the fallback relay, because the primary MX
host is down. The fallback sends the mail back to Postfix, because
it's a backup MX host. Mail then bounces after 25 or so iterations.
Laurent Wacrenier had the, um, pleasure, of finding this one.
Solution
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If the local machine is listed as MX host for the final destination,
do not send undeliverable mail to the fallback relay. That is how
releases prior to 20001005 work, including 19991231.
This patch should apply to all snapshots since 20001005, but I have
tested this only with 20001217.
To apply, step into the src/smtp source directory, feed this text
into the patch command, and rebuild. The "make install" command
replaces only the smtp client program.
