- regenerate patches and name them consistently. Note that the
configuration file format and names have changed with this release
- add an INSTALL shell fragment to detect old versions of the config
files and warn the user to regenerate them
- config files now live in /etc/courier-imap, as they are very
generic names, and this avoid conflict with other imap daemons
Summary of changes:
This release fixes some bugs in the POP3 server, adds optional
support for gb2312 and big5 text search, and introduces a new
configuration file format.
The new configuration file format will allow future upgrades
to automatically preserve the existing system configuration data,
instead of installing a default set of configuration files
Extract from RELEASE_NOTES:
===========================
Major changes with snapshot-20001217
====================================
This release involves little change in functionality and a lot of
small changes to lots of files. The code is put out as a separate
snapshot release so that I have a tested baseline for further work.
All time-related configuration parameters now accept a one-letter
suffix to indicate the time unit (s: second, m: minute, h: hour,
d: day, w: week). The exceptions are the LDAP and MYSQL modules
which are maintained separately.
The mysql client was partially rewritten in order to elimimate some
memory allocation/deallocation problems. The code needs more work,
and needs to be tested in a real production environment.
The local_transport and default_transport configuration parameters
can now be specified in transport:destination notation, just like
the mailbox_transport and fallback_transport parameters. The
:destination part is optional. However, these parameters take only
one destination, unlike relayhost and fallback-relay which take
any number of destinations.
--
VMailMgr (short for Virtual MAIL ManaGeR) is a package of programs
designed to manage multiple domains of mail addresses and mailboxes
on a single host. It co-operates with qmail for mail delivery
and program control. It features:
* A password checking interface between qmail-popup and qmail-pop3d
which replaces the usual checkpassword, as well as an authentication
module for [15]Courier IMAP, that provide access to the virtual
mailboxes by one of three methods:
+ IP-based virtual server access (invisible to the POP3 user)
+ username-based access (username-virtualuser)
+ hostname-based access (virtualuser@virtual.host or
virtualuser:virtual.host)
* CDB-based password tables to speed up access for domains of any
size.
* Tools to setup a virtual domain, add and delete individual virtual
users and aliases, and to change passwords.
* CGI programs to accomplish the above tasks from a set of web
pages.
* A native PHP library to compliment or replace the CGIs.
* A daemon process that securely directs the operation of the CGIs
and PHP code.
* A separate delivery agent that automatically deals with any address
inside a virtual domain from a single .qmail-default file.
Extract from the RELEASE_NOTES file:
Incompatible changes with snapshot-20001210
===========================================
If this release does not work for you, you can go back to a previous
Postfix version without losing your mail, subject to the "incompatible
changes" listed for previous Postfix releases below.
When delivering to /file/name (as directed in an alias or .forward
file), the local delivery agent now logs a warning when it is unable
to create a /file/name.lock file. Mail is still delivered as before.
The "sun_mailtool_compatibility" feature is going away (a compatibility
mode that turns off kernel locks on mailbox files). It still works,
but a warning is logged. Instead of using "sun_mailtool_compatibility",
specify the mailbox locking strategy as "mailbox_delivery_lock =
dotlock".
The Postfix SMTP client now skips SMTP server replies that do not
start with "CODE SPACE" or with "CODE HYPHEN" and flags them as
protocol errors. Older Postfix SMTP clients silently treated "CODE
TEXT" as "CODE SPACE TEXT", i.e. as a valid SMTP reply.
This snapshot does not yet change default relay settings. That
change alone affects a dozen files, most of which documentation.
This may be an incompatibility with some people's expectations,
but such are my rules - between code freeze and release no major
functionality changes are allowed.
Several interfaces of libutil and libglobal routines have changed.
This may break third-party code written for Postfix. In particular,
the safe_open() routine has changed, the way the preferred locking
method is specified in the sys_defs.h file, as well as all routines
that perform file locking. When compiling third-party code written
for Postfix, the incompatibilities will be detected by the compiler
provided that #include file dependencies are properly maintained.
Major changes with snapshot-20001210
====================================
This snapshot includes bugfixes that were already released as
patches 12 and 13 for the 19991231 "stable" release:
- The queue manager could deadlock for 10 seconds when bouncing
mail under extreme load from one-to-one mass mailings.
- Local delivery performance was substandard, because the per-user
concurrency limit accidentally applied to the entire local
domain.
The mailbox locking style is now fully configurable at runtime.
The new configuration parameter is called "mailbox_delivery_lock".
Depending on the operating system type, mailboxes can be locked
with one or more of "flock", "fcntl" or "dotlock". The command
"postconf -l" shows the available locking styles. The default
mailbox locking style is system dependent. This change affects
all mailbox and all "/file/name" deliveries by the Postfix local
delivery agent.
The new "import_environment" and "export_environment" configuration
parameters now provide explicit control over what environment
variables Postfix will import, and what environment variables
Postfix will pass on to a non-Postfix process. This is better than
hard-coding my debugging environment into public releases.
The "mailbox_transport" and "fallback_transport" parameters now
understand the form "transport:nexthop", with suitable defaults
when either transport or nexthop are omitted, just like in the
Postfix transport map. This allows you to specify for example,
"mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/file/name".
The MYSQL client now supports server connections over UNIX-domain
sockets. Code provided by Piotr Klaban. See the file MYSQL_README
for examples of "host" syntax.
See ChangeLog and documentation for a full list of bugs fixes and
new features. Release highlights include the addition of STARTTLS
extensions to SMTP and callback SMTP checks to verify sender addresses
on lightly loaded mail servers - prevent spam from made-up addresses.
This port includes the following flavors:
no_x11 - do not build eximon which requires X11
no_perl - do not include perl support
no_tls - do not include SSL/TLS support
mysql - support mysql queries for lookups
pgsql - support pgsql queries for lookups
ldap - support ldap (OpenLDAP) queries for lookups
All these queries are independent.
Maintainer has been temporarily chaged to me for feedback, until
Sebastian is back and available to support the port.
Testing has been limited to i386.
--
Postfix official release 19991231 patchlevel 11 is available.
This release folds in code changes from recent snapshot releases.
These changes track changes in RedHat Linux, fix two minor bugs in
the Postfix queue manager scheduling behavior that were spotted by
Patrik Rak, and turn off one misfeature.
- On RedHat Linux 7.0, you must install the db3-devel RPM before
you can compile the Postfix source code.
- The queue manager could schedule too many connections to the same
destination (domain name spelled in upper and lower case).
- The queue manager could schedule too few connections to the same
destination (back off even in case of successful delivery).
- The confusing site_hog_factor feature is disabled by default. It
caused unnecessary mail delivery delays on inbound mail gateways.
This introduces a new 'pop3' flavour, since the package bundles a POP3
server that can read from maildirs and use the same authmodules also.
And a number of stability fixes, including leaking file descriptions,
maildir handling, and also compliance with the latest IETF IMAP drafts.
Quote from the RELEASE_NOTES file:
Incompatible changes with snapshot-20001121
===========================================
If this release does not work for you, you can go back to a previous
Postfix version without losing your mail, subject to the "incompatible
changes" listed for previous Postfix releases below.
Major changes with snapshot-20001121
====================================
Support for RedHat Linux 7.0. On RedHat Linux 7.0, you must install
the db3-devel RPM before you can compile the Postfix source code.
The mailbox_transport feature works again. It was broken when the
"require_home_directory" feature was added.
More general virtual domain support. Postfix now supports both
Sendmail-style virtual domains and Postfix-style virtual domains.
Details and examples are given in the revised virtual manual page.
- With Sendmail-style virtual domains, local users/aliases/mailing
lists are visible as localname@virtual.domain. This is convenient
if you want to host mailing lists under virtual domains.
- With Postfix-style virtual domains, local users/aliases/mailing
lists are not visible as localname@virtual.domain. Each virtual
domain has its own separate name space.
More general "soft bounce" feature. Specify "soft_bounce = yes"
in main.cf to prevent the SMTP server from bouncing mail while you
are testing configurations. Until this release the SMTP server was
not aware of soft bounces.
This one has been pending for around two months because
it installs root suid files. The port strips these out
by default, and pkg/SECURITY has details on if they need
to be reenabled. qmail at least doesnt need it, others can
probably be configured to not.
(naddy@ and avsm@ discussed this)
--
maildrop is a replacement for your local mail delivery agent. It
reads a mail message from standard input, then delivers the message
to your mailbox. maildrop knows how to deliver mail to mbox-style
mailboxes, and maildirs.
maildrop will optionally read instructions from a file, which
describes how to filter incoming mail. Instructions can be provided
having mail delivered to alternate mailboxes, or forwarded somewhere
else. Unlike procmail, maildrop uses a structured filtering language.
maildrop is written in C++, and is significantly larger than procmail
in compiled form. However, it uses resources much more efficiently.
Unlike procmail, maildrop will not read a 10 megabyte mail message
into memory. Large messages are saved in a temporary file, and are
filtered from the temporary file.
(notable changes: better locking, improved RC scripts, THREAD semantics
updated to latest IETF draft, unicode support, bug fixes)
- bump NEED_VERSION, MAINTAINER real name added
- regenerate RC patch
- PLIST tweaked to not delete libexec/authlib, which is being
used by other applications now (e.g. vmailmgr)
--
Postfix 19991231 patch 09 fixes a memory corruption problem, and
includes a long list of minor bugfixes and robustness improvements
that already featured in snapshot releases (or that will feature
in the next one).
- When propagating an address extension to the right-hand side
of a virtual or canonical mapping, the cleanup server could
access memory that was no longer allocated and die with signal
11. This would happen when the result address length was more
than about 100 characters. Credit to Adi Prasaja @ satunet.com
for coming up with a small reproducible demo.
Pine has historically built against an internal copy
of the c-client library, however c-client development
has progressed beyond what is shipped with pine.
(It would appear that all new development work is
being done via UW's imap server codebase.) This change
allows pine to utilize improvements/bugfixes in the
c-client library. A consequence of this change is
that the recently reported vulnerability to BugTraq
regarding malformed X-keywords header has been fixed.
unix-mx driver doesn't set file permissions properly for non-private
messages (e.g. public#). The problem caused by mx_append procedure,
where the driver doesn't call set_mbx_permissions for just created
message file.
--
From: FreeBSD
This leads to three packages:
pine, pine+pico, pico
Note that pine does not depend on pico, since it links with the static
libpico library.
The old pine package corresponds to the newer pine+pico package.
port/package to use it
- add missing CONFIGURE_ENV options to bring in gettext support
- add a few patches to ensure mutt does not use its own gettext headers
but the headers installed on the system instead
- remove install message from Makefile and put it into pkg/MESSAGE so it's
displayed properly once this port is made into a package
- rename one patch, patch-fix_DOTLOCK_group -> patch-configure
- remove FAKE=Yes and license type
- remove configure script and integrate it into the Makefile
- add #!/bin/sh to DEINSTALL
- re-arrange INSTALL script a bit and remove bogus PIDFILE variable
- change lots of whitespace to tabs
- add HOMEPAGE
- remove license type
- add @comment with RCS id to PLIST
- use better filename for patch and change it to a unified diff
most likely will not get integrated back in ... removes unnecessary
dependency on autoconf.
- remove unnecessary CONFIGURE_ARGS
- add HOMEPAGE to DESCR
This patch provides an emergency band-aid for the next wave of
MicroSoft email worms, fixes one bug, and makes external content
filtering a bit more robust.
- Feature: specify "body_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/body_checks"
for an emergency content filter that looks at non-header lines
one line at a time (including MIME headers inside the message
body). This feature uses the same syntax as the header_checks
patterns. Details in conf/sample-filter.cf.
This feature is also available in Postfix snapshot 20000528.
- Bugfix: the masquerade_exceptions feature was case sensitive.
- Robustness: upon receipt of mail, Postfix maps MAILER-DAEMON@myorigin
sender address back into the magic null string, which prevents
mail from looping after processing by an external content filter.
format and generates a set of cross-referenced HTML documents. Each file that
is created represents a separate message in the mail archive and contains
links to other articles, so that the entire archive can be browsed in a
number of ways by following links. Archives generated by Hypermail can be
incrementally updated, and Hypermail is set by default to only update
archives when changes are detected.
- RFC 822 requires the presence of at least one destination
message header. Postfix now generates a generic "To:
undisclosed-recipients:;" message header when no destination
header is present. The header content is specified with the
new undisclosed_recipients_header parameter.
- Postfix now understands <(comment)> as SMTP MAIL FROM address,
because some broken software needs it. Postfix rejects such
illegal address forms with "strict_rfc821_envelopes = yes".
- Configuration parameters for one mysql dictionary would become
default settings for the next one. This patch was merged into
the development Postfix version a while back but apparently
that version was on a dead branch. Update by Scott Cotton.
- Some Postfix delivery agents would abort on addresses of the
form `stuff@.' which could unfortunately be generated locally.
- With local delivery, Postfix could insert > or . into the middle
of very long lines.
- SMTP sessions could time out when the remote client attempted
to deliver to a large number of rejected recipients. The SMTP
server now flushes unwritten output in-between tarpit delays,
to avoid protocol timeouts in pipelined SMTP sessions.
- Postfix would incorrectly reject domain names with adjacent `-'
characters.
* bug fixes and new features release
* fix a tempnam() usage in the patch
No fake or flavours support - this may get done if I learn enough,
quickly enough. Will not build as a real package just now. Working on
it.
The port and package install _exactly_ the same as a manual qmail install,
except for the addition of a /var/qmail/setup directory where the setup
scripts are copied.
Therefore the following should apply: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html
