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.
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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)
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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.
