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would have treated [text] as a domain name anyway.
Bugfix: the $local_duplicate_filter_limit value was not
picked up by the local delivery agent. This means the local
delivery agent could run out of memory on large mailing
list deliveries.
19980826
Performance: mkmap/mkalias now run with the same speed as
sendmail. VMailer now uses a 4096-entry cache with 1 Mbyte
of memory for DB lookups. File: util/dict_db.c.
19980902
Robustness: the reject_unknown_hostname restriction for
HELO/EHLO hostnames will now permit names that have an MX
record instead of an A record.
19980903
Feature: appending @$myorigin to an unqualified address is
configurable with the boolean append_at_myorigin parameter
(default: yes).
Feature: appending .$mydomain to user@host is configurable
with the boolean append_dot_mydomain parameter (default:
yes).
Feature: site!user is rewritten to user@site, under control
of the boolean parameter swap_bangpath (default: yes).
Feature: permit a naked IP address in HELO commands (i.e. an
address without the enclosing [] as required by the RFC), by
specifying "permit_naked_ip_address" as one of the restrictions
in the "smtpd_helo_restrictions" config parameter.
19980904
Code cleanup: when an SMTP client aborts a session after
sending MAIL FROM, the cleanup service no longer warns that
it is "skipping further client input". Files: cleanup/*.c.
Thanks, Daniel Eisenbud, for prodding.
Code cleanup: when an SMTP server disconnects in the middle
of a session, don't try to send QUIT over the non-existing
connection. Files: global/smtp_stream.c, smtp/smtp.c.
Thanks, Daniel Eisenbud, for prodding, again.
Code cleanup: the VMailer version number has moved from
mail_params.h (which is included by lots of modules) to a
separate file global/mail_version.h, so that a version
change no longer results in massive recompilation.
Bugfix: Errors-To was flagged as a sender address, so
the address never was picked up.
Code cleanup: support for Errors-To: headers completed.
19980905
Feature: per-message exponential delivery backoff, by
looking at the amount of time a message has been queued.
Thanks, Mark Delany.
19980906
Code cleanup: ripped out the per-host exponential backoff
code. It was broken by 19980818. It was probably a bad idea
anyway, because it required per-host, in-core, state kept
by the queue manager. All we do now is to keep state for
$minimal_backoff_time seconds, but only for a limited number
of hosts. Daniel Eisenbud spotted the problem.
Lost feature: the SMTP session transcripts now show who
said what. This feature was inadvertently dropped during
development. Thanks, Daniel Eisenbud, for reminding.
Documentation: the hard-coded rewriting process of the
trivial-rewrite program is described in html/rewrite.html.
Feature: the local delivery agent now does alias lookups
before and after chopping off the recipient subaddress.
This allows you to forward user-anything to another user,
without losing the ability to redirect specific user-foo
addresses.
19980909
Feature: the smtp client now logs a warning that a server
sends a greeting banner with the client's hostname, which
could imply a mailer loop.
19980910
Feature: separate canonical maps for sender and recipient
address rewriting, so that you can rewrite an ugly sender
address and still forward mail to that same ugly address
without creating a mailer loop. Files: cleanup_envelope.c,
cleanup_message.c, cleanup_rewrite.c.
19980911
Feature: virtual maps now support multiple addresses on
the right-hand side. In the case of virtual domains this
can eliminate the need for address expansion via local
aliases, making virtual domains much easier to administer.
This required that I moved the virtual table lookups from
the queue manager to the cleanup service, so that every
recipient has an on-disk status record. Files: qmgr.c,
qmgr_message.c, cleanup_envelope.c, cleanup_rewrite.c,
cleanup_virtual.c.
Feature: sendmail/mailq/newaliases pass on the -v flag to
the program that they end up running, to make debugging a
little easier.
19980914
Bugfix: some anti-spam measures didn't recognize some
addresses as local and would do too much work. File:
smtpd_check.c.
Bugfix: the smtp sender/recipient table lookup restriction
destroyed global data, so that other restrictions could
break. File: smtpd_check.c.
Bugfix: after vmailer reload, single-threaded servers could
exit before flushing unwritten data to the client. Example:
cleanup would exit before acking success to pickup, so the
message would be delivered twice. Bug reported by Brian Candler.
Cleanup: removed spurious error output from vmailer-script.
Reported by Brian Candler.
Tolerance: ignore non-numeric SMTP server responses. There's
lot of brain damage out there on the net.
19980915
Feature: the smtp-sink benchmark tool now announces itself
with a neutral name so that it can be run on the same
machine as VMailer, without causing Postfix to complain
about a mailer loop.
Robustness: on LINUX, vmailer-script now does chattr +S to
force synchronous directory updates. Fix developed with
Chris Wedgwood.
19980916
Bugfix: when transforming an RFC 822 address to external
form, there is no need to quote " characters in comments.
This didn't break anything, it just looked ugly. File:
global/tok822_parse.c
19980917
Workaround: with deliveries to /file/name, use fsync() and
ftruncate() only on regular files. File: local/file.c
Workaround: the plumbing code in master_spawn.c didn't
check if it was dup2()/close()ing a descriptor to itself
then closing it. Will have to redo the plumbing later.
19980918
Workaround: on multiprocessor Solaris machines, one-second
rollover appears to happen on different CPUs at slightly
different times. Made the queue manager more tolerant for
such things. Problem reported by Daniel Eisenbud.
Workaround: in preparation for deployment with a network-shared
maildrop directory. make pickup more tolerant against clock
drift between clients and servers.
19980921
New vstream_popen() module that opens a two-way channel
across a socketpair-based pipe. This module isn't being
used yet; it is here only to complete the vstream code.
19980922
Code cleanup: the xxx_server_main() interface for master
child processes now uses a name-value argument list instead
of an ugly and inflexible data structure.
Bugfix: moved the test if a non-interactive process is run
by hand, so that the "don't do this" error message can be
printed to stderr before any significant processing.
Bugfix: smtpd now can talk to unix-domain sockets without
bailing out on a peer lookup problem. Files: smtpd/smtpd.c,
util/peer_name.c.
Safety: by default, the postmaster is no longer informed
of protocol problems, policy violations or bounces.
Safety: the SMTP server now sleeps before sending a [45]xx
error response, in order to prevent clients from hammering
the server with a connect/error/disconnect loop. Parameter:
smtpd_error_sleep_time (default: 5).
Feature: the logging facility is compile-time configurable
(e.g., make makefiles "CCARGS=-DLOG_FACILITY=LOG_LOCAL1").
19980923
Bugfix: changed virtual/canonical map search order from
(user@domain, @domain, user) to (user@domain, user, @domain)
so the search order is most specific to least specific.
File: global/addr_map.c, lots of documentation.
Bugfix: after the change of 19980910, cleanup_message
extracted recipients from Reply-To: etc. headers. Found
by Lamont Jones.
19980925
Bugfix: the change in virtual/canonical map search order
broke @domain entries; they would never be looked up if
the address matched $myorigin or $mydestinations. Found
by Chip Christian who now regrets asking for the change.
Bugfix: cleanup initialized an error mask incorrectly, so
that it would keep writing to a file larger than the queue
file size limit, and so it would treat the error as a
recoverable one instead of sending a bounce. Thanks, Pieter
Schoenmakers.
Bugfix: the "queue file cleanup on fatal error" action was
no longer enabled in the sendmail mail posting agent.
Feature: the sendmail mail posting program now returns
EX_UNAVAILABLE when the size of the input exceeds the queue
file size limit. NB THIS CHANGE HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN.
19980926
Code cleanup: the dotlock file locking routine is no longer
derived from Eric Allman's 4.3BSD port of mail.local.
Code cleanup: the retry strategy of the file locking routines
dot_lockfile() and deliver_flock() is now configurable
(deliver_flock_attempts, deliver_flock_delay, deliver_flock_stale).
Code cleanup: the master.pid lock file is now created with
symlink paranoia, and is properly locked so that PID rollover
will not cause false matches.
Bugfix: the vbuf_print() formatting engine did not know
about the '+' format specifier.
Cleanup: replaced unnecessary instances of stdio calls by
vstream ones.
19980929-19981002
Compatibility: added support for "sendmail -q". This required
a change to the queue manager trigger protocol, and a code
reorganization of the way queue scans were done. The queue
manager socket now has become public.
SMTPD now logs "lost connection after end-of-message" instead
of "lost connection after DATA".
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More bullet proofing: timeouts on all triggers.
19981006
Bugfix: make the number of cleanup processes unlimited, in
order to avoid deadlock. The number of instances needed is
one per smtp/pickup process, and an indeterminate number
per local delivery agent. Thanks, Thanks, David Miller and
Terry Lorrah for cleueing me in.
Bugfix: "sendmail -t" extracted recipients weren't subjected
to virtual mapping. Daniel Eisenbud strikes again.
19981007
Compatibility: if the first input line ends in CRLF, the
sendmail posting agent will treat all CRLF as LF. Otherwise,
CRLF is left alone. This is a compromise between sendmail
compatibility (all lines end in CRLF) and binary transparency
(some, but not all, lines contain CRLF).
19981008
Robustness: stop recursive virtual expansion when the
left-hand side appears in its own expansion.
19981009
Portability: trigger servers such as pickup and qmgr can
now use either FIFOs or UNIX-domain sockets; hopefully at
least one of them works properly. Trigger clients were
already capable of using either form of local IPC.
19981011
Feature: masquerading. Strip subdomains from domains listed
in $masquerade_domains. Exception: envelope recipients are
left alone, in order to not screw up routing.
19981015
Code cleanup: moved the recipient duplicate filter from
the user-level sendmail posting agent to the semi-resident
cleanup service, so that the filter operates on the output
from address canonicalization and of virtual expansion,
instead of operating on their inputs.
19981016
Bugfix: after kill()ing a bunch of child processes, wait()
sometimes fails before all children have been reaped, and
must be called again, or the master will SIGSEGV later.
Problem reported by Scott Cotton.
Workaround: don't log a complaint when an SMTP client goes
away without sending QUIT.
19981018
Workaround: Solaris 2.5 ioctl SIOCGIFCONF returns a hard
error (EINVAL) when the result buffer is not large enough.
This can happen on systems with many real or virtual
interfaces. File: util/inet_addr_local.c. Problem reported
by Scott Cotton.
Workaround: the optional HELO/EHLO hostname syntax check
now allows a single trailing dot.
Workaround: with UNIX-domain sockets, LINUX connect() blocks
until the server calls accept(). File: qmgr/qmgr_transport.c.
Terry Lorrah and Scott Cotton provided the necessary evidence.
19981020
Robustness: recursive canonical mapping terminates when
the result stops changing.
Code cleanup: reorganized the address rewriting and mapping
code in the cleanup service, to make it easier to implement
the previous enhancement.
19981022
Code cleanup: more general queue scanning programming
interface, in preparation for hashed queues. File:
qmgr/qmgr_scan.c.
Bugfix: a non-FIFO server with a process limit of 1 has a
too short listen queue. Until now this was not a problem
because only FIFO servers had a process limit of 1, and
FIFOs have no listen queue. Fix: always configure a listen
queue of proc_limit or more. File: master/master_listen.c.
19981023
Feature: by popular request, mail delay is logged when
delivering, bouncing or deferring mail.
19981024
Cleanup: double-bounce mail is now absorbed by the queue
manager, instead of the local delivery agent, so that the
mail system will not go mad when no local delivery agent
is configured.
19981025
Cleanup: moved the relocated table from the local delivery
agent to the queue manager, so that the table can also be
used for virtual addresses.
Code reorg: in order for the queue manager to absorb
recipients, the queue file has to stay open until all
recipients have been assigned to a destination queue.
19981026
vmlogger command, so that vmailer-script logging becomes
consistent with the rest of the VMailer system.
Code reorg: logger interface now can handle multiple output
handlers (e.g. syslog and stderr stream).
Bugfix: a first line starting with whitespace is no longer
treated as an extension of our own Received: header. Files:
smtpd/smtpd.c, pickup/pickup.c.
19981027
Bugfix: the bang-path swapping code went into a loop on an
address consisting of just a single !. Eilon Gishri had
the privilege of finding this one.
Workaround: the non-blocking UNIX-domain socket connect is
now enabled only on systems that need it. It may cause
kernel trouble on Solaris 2.x.
Bugfix: the resolver didn't implement bangpath swapping,
so that mail for site!user@mydomain would be delivered to
a local user named "site!user".
19981028
Cleanup: a VSTREAM can now use different file descriptors
for reading and writing. This was necessary to prevent
"sendmail -bs" and showq from writing to stdin. Eilon Gishri
observed the problem.
19981029
The RFC 822 address manipulation routines no longer give
special attention to 8-bit data. Files: global/tok822_parse.c,
global/quote_822_local.c.
Bugfix: host:port and other non-domain stuff is no longer
allowed in mail addresses. File: qmgr/qmgr_message.c.
Workaround: LINUX accept() wakes up before the three-way
handshake is complete, so it can fail with ECONNRESET.
Files: master/single_server.c, master/multi_server.c.
Feature: when delivering to user+foo, try ~user/.forward+foo
before trying ~user/.forward.
Bugfix: smtpd in "sendmail -bs" (stand-alone) mode didn't
clean up when terminated by a signal.
Bugfix: smtpd in "sendmail -bs" (stand-alone) mode should
not try to enforce spam controls because it cannot access
the address rewriting machinery.
Cleanup: the percent hack (user%domain -> user@domain) is
now configurable (allow_percent_hack, default: yes).
Bugfix: daemons in -S (stand-alone) mode didn't change
directory to the queue. This was no problem with daemons
run by the sendmail compatibility program.
19981030
Feature: when virtual/canonical/relocated lookup fails for
an address that contains the optional recipient delimiter
(e.g., user+foo@domain), the search is done again with the
unextended address (e.g., user@domain). File: global/addr_find.c.
Code reorg: the address searching is now implemented by a
separate module global/addr_find.c, so that the same code
can be used for both (non-mapping) relocated table lookups
and for canonical and virtual mapping. The actual mapping
is still done in the global/addr_map.c module.
Robustness: the SMTP client now skips hosts that don't send
greeting banner text. File: smtp/smtp_connect.c
Feature: preliminary support to disable delivered-to. This
is desirable for mailing list managers that don't want to
advertise internal aliases.
Generic support: when the recipient_feature_delimiter
configuration parameter is set, the local delivery agent
uses it to split the recipient localpart into fields. Any
field that has a known name such as "nodelivered" enables
the corresponding delivery feature.
19981031
Code reorg: address splitting on recipient delimiter is
now centralized in global/split_addr.c, which knows about
all reserved names that should never be split.
Robustness: when a request for an internal service cannot
be satisfied because the master has terminated, terminate
instead of trying to reach the service every 30 seconds.
Safety: the local delivery agent now runs as vmailer most
of the time, just like pickup and pipe. Files: local/local.c,
local/mailbox.c
19981101
Compatibility: the tokenizer for alias/forward/etc.
expansion now updates an optional counter with the number
of destinations found; If no destinations is found in a
.forward file, deliver to the mailbox instead. Thanks,
Daniel Eisenbud, for showing the way to go.
Robustness: the pickup daemon should always include a
posting-time record, even when the sendmail posting agent
didn't. However, just like before, user-provided posting
times will be ignored. Ollivier Robert found this one.
Robustness: duplicate entries in aliases or maps now cause
a warning instead of a fatal error (and an incomplete file).
Robustness: mkmap now prints a warning when an entry is
in "key: value" format, which is the format expected for
alias databases, not for maps.
Portability: on LINUX, prepend "+" to the getopt() options
string so that getopt() will stop at the first non-option
argument. Suggestion by Marco d'Itri.
19981103
Cleaned up the set_eugid() and open_as() implementations,
and added stat_as() and fstat_as() so that the local delivery
agent would look up include files and .forward files with
the right privileges.
19981104
Bugfix: the :include: routine now stat()s/open()s files
included by root-owned aliases as root, not as nobody.
Bugfix: the master crashed when a service with wakeup timer
was disabled or renamed. Fix: eliminate some pathological
coupling between process management and wakeup management.
Feature: partial implementation of ETRN (causes a full
deferred queue scan). Thanks Lamont Jones for reminding me
that things can be useful already before they are perfect.
Cleanup: simplified the SMTPD tokenizer.
Bugfix: sendmail -bs didn't properly notify the mail system
of new mail.
Compatibility: the MAIL FROM and RCPT TO commands now accept
the most common address forms without enclosing <>. The <>
is still needed for addresses that contain a "string", an
[address], or a colon (:).
19981105
Bugfix: "master -t" would claim that the master runs when
in fact the pid directory does not exist, causing trouble
with first time startup (reported by several).
Portability: added a sane_accept() module that maps all
beneficial accept() error results to EAGAIN. According to
private communication with Alan Cox, Linux 2.0.x accept()
can return a variety of error conditions, so we play safe
and allow for any error that may happen because SYN+ACK
could not be sent.
Portability: NETBSD1 uses dotlock files (Perry Metzger).
Bugfix: the local delivery agent did not canonicalize
owner-foo sender addresses, so that local users would see
owner-foo instead of owner-foo@$myorigin (Perry Metzger).
OPENSTEP4 support, similar to NEXTSTEP3 (Gerben Wierda).
19981106
Portability: the master startup would take a long time on
AIX because AIX has a very large per-process open file
limit. Fix is to check the status of only the first couple
hundred file descriptors instead. File: master/master.c.
Bugfix: mail to user@[net.work.addr.ess] was broken because
of a reversed test. File: qmgr/qmgr_message.c.
19981107
Compatibility: don't clobber the envelope sender address
when an alias has no owner-foo alias (problem diagnosed by
Christophe Kalt).
Bugfix: mail to local users in include files would be
delivered directly if the alias didn't have an owner-foo
alias, and if the alias database and include file were
owned by root.
Feature: with user+foo addresses, any +foo address extension
that is not explicitly matched in canonical, virtual or
alias databases is propagated to the table lookup result.
19981108
Bugfix: minor memory leak in the user+foo table lookup code.
Configurability: specify virtual.domain in the virtual map,
and mail for unknown@virtual.domain will bounce automatically.
The $relay_domains default value now includes $virtual_maps,
so the SMTP server will accept mail for the domain. Marco
d'Itri put me on the right track.
Configurability: The mydestinations configuration parameter
now accepts /file/name expressions and type:name lookup tables.
Code cleanup: in order to make the previous two enhancements
possible, revised the string/host/address matching engine
so it can handle any mixture of strings, /file/name patterns
and type:name lookup tables. Files: util/match_{list,ops}.c,
global/{domain,namadr,string}_list.c.
19981110
Code cleanup: replaced remaining isxxx() calls by ISXXX().
19981111
Bugfix: the "bounce unknown virtual user" code was in the
wrong place. Problem tackled with help of Chip Christian.
Portability: reportedly, Solaris 2.5.1 can hang waiting
for a UNIX-domain connection to be accepted, so it gets
the same workaround that was designed for LINUX. Problem
reported by Scott Cotton.
19981112
Management: "vmailer stop" now allows delivery agents to
finish what they are doing, like "vmailer reload".
Management; "vmailer abort" causes immediate termination.
Workaround: zombie processes pile up with HP-UX. Reason:
select() does not return upon SIGCHLD when SA_RESTART is
specified to sigaction(). Workaround: shorten the select()
timer to 10 seconds, #ifdef BRAINDEAD_SELECT_RESTARTS.
Thanks, Lamont Jones.
19981117
Rename: VMailer is now Postfix. Sigh.
19981118
Cleanup: generalized the safe_open() routine so that it is
no longer limited to mailbox files, lock files, etc.
Bugfix (found during code review): vstream*printf() could
run off the end of a stream buffer after an I/O error,
because vbuf_print() ignored the result from VBUF_SPACE().
Bugfix (found during code review): resolve_local() could
clobber its argument, but the docs didn't say so.
19981121
Cleanup: the is_header() routine now allows 8-bit data in
header labels.
19981123
Bugfix (found during code review): the mail_queue_enter()
path argument wasn't optional. File: global/mail_queue.c
19981124
Cleanup: eliminated redundant tests for a zero result from
vstream_fdopen(). Unlike the stdio fdopen() routine, the
vstream_fdopen() routine either succeeds or never returns.
Bugfix: the queue manager now looks at the clock before
examining a file time stamp, to avoid spurious complaints
about time warps on busy machines. File: qmgr/qmgr_active.c.
19981125
Compatibility: allow trailing dot at the end of user@domain.
Address canonicalization now strips it off. Issue brought
forward by Eilon Gishri. File: trivial-rewrite/rewrite.c.
Robustness: changed DNS lookup order of MAIL FROM etc.
domains from MX then A to A then MX, just in case the MX
lookup fails with a server error.
Renamed vmcat, vmlock, vmlogger, vmtrigger to postcat,
postlock, postlog, postkick. Also renamed mkmap and mkalias
to postmap and postalias.
19981126
Workaround: Lamont Jones found a way for HP-UX to terminate
select() after SIGCHLD. The code is #ifdef USE_SIG_RETURN.
Files: util/sys_defs.h, master/master_sig.c.
Bugfix: the Delivered-To: loop detection code had stopped
working, when long ago the is_header() routine was changed.
File: local/delivered.c.
19981128
Bugfix: postcat opened queue files read-write, where only
read access was needed. File: postcat/postcat.c.
19981129
Safety: added a sleep(1) to all fatal and panic exits.
File: util/msg.c.
19981201
Robustness: postcat now insists that a file starts with a
time record.
Consistency: added "-c config_dir" command-line options
where appropriate.
19981202
Man pages, on-line version.
19981203
Man pages, html version; overview documentation.
19981206
Sendmail silently accepted the unsupported -qRsite and
-qSsite options. It now prints an error message and
terminates.
Separated the contributed tree from the IBM code; moved
the LDAP and NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP code to the contributed
source tree because obviously I didn't write it.
19981206-9
Had to write a postconf configuration utility in order to
reliably find out about all configuration parameters and
their defaults.
Documentation bugfixes by Matt Shibla, Scott Drassinower,
Greg A. Woods.
19981209
On machines with short hostnames, postconf -d cored while
reporting a fatal error. It should not report that error
in the first place. Thanks, Eilon Gishri.
Changed the FAQ entry about rejecting mail for *.my.domain
on a firewall. Chip Christian was right, I was wrong.
19981214
Portability: with GNU getopt, optind is not initially 1,
breaking an assumption in sendmail/sendmail.c. Liviu Daia.
Annoyance: on non-networked systems, don't warn that only
one network interface was found. File: global/inet_addr_local.c.
Reported by several.
Bugfix: on non-networked systems, the smtp client assumed
that it was running in virtual host mode, and would bind
to the loopback interface. File smtp/smtp_connect.c. Liviu
Daia, again.
19981220
Robustness: when looking up an A or MX record, do not give
up when the A query fails because of a server error. File
dns/dns_lookup.c. Reported by Scott Drassinower.
19981221
Bugfix: "bounce mail for non-existent virtual user" didn't
work when a non-default relay host was configured in main.cf
or in the transport table. File: qmgr/qmgr_message.c.
Bugfix: the maildrop directory should not be world-readable.
Files: conf/postfix-script, showq/showq.c.
Documentation: fixed several omissions and errors.
Documentation: removed references to the broken recipient
feature delimiter configuration parameter.
Bugfix: write mailbox file as the recipient, so that file
quota work as expected.
Bugfix: pickup would die when it tried to remove a non-file
in the maildrop directory (Jeff Wolfe).
19981222
Sendmail no longer logs the queue ID when it is unable to
notify the pickup daemon. This is a late addition to the
"unreadable maildrop queue" patch.
user.lock files are now created as root, so that postfix
needs no group directory write permission.
19981224
Security: allow queue file link counts > 1, to avoid
non-delivery of maildrop files with links to a non-maildrop
directory. Files: global/mail_open_ok.c, and anything
that calls this code (qmgr, pickup, showq). If multiple
hard links are a problem, see the set-gid "postdrop" utility
below.
19981225
Robustness: the queue manager no longer aborts when a queue
file suddenly disappears (e.g. because the file was removed
by hand).
Feature: when a writable maildrop directory is a problem,
sites can make the new "postdrop" utility set-gid. This command
is never used when the maildrop directory is world-writable.
Robustness: make the queue file creation routine more
resistant against denial of service race attack. File:
global/mail_queue.c
19981226
New suid_priv module to enable/disable privileges in a
set-uid/gid program. In the end I decided to not use it.
19981228
Robustness: make the pickup daemon more resistant against
non-file race attack.
Cleanup: generic mail_stream.c interface for writing queue
file streams to files, daemons or commands. This simplifies
the code in smtpd and in sendmail that must be able to pipe
mail through the postdrop command. The cleanup daemon has
been modified to use the same interface. Result: less code.
Feature: smtpd now logs the only recipient in Received:
headers.
Feature: separate command and daemon directories. Both
default to $program_directory. Install conf/postfix-script
if you want to use this feature.
19981230
Patch to avoid conflict with non-writable top-level Makefile
(Lamont Jones).
19981231
Portability: port to UnixWare 7 by Ronald Joe Record, SCO.
19990104
Bugfix: fencepost (Jon Ribbens, Oaktree Internet Solutions
Ltd.) Files: quote_82[12]_local.c.
Bugfix: wrong default for relay_domains (Juergen Kirschbaum,
Bayerische Landesbank). File: mail_params.h.
Bugfix: changed 5xx response for "too may recipients" to
4xx. File: smtpd.c.
19990106
Feature: defer_transports specifies the names of transports
that should be used only when "sendmail -q" (or equivalent)
is issued. For example, "defer_transports = smtp" is useful
for sites that are disconnected most of the time. File:
qmgr_message.c.
19990107
Feature: local_command_shell specifies a non-default shell
for delivery to command by the local delivery agent. For
example, "local_command_shell = /some/where/smrsh -c"
restricts what may appear in "|command" destinations.
File: global/pipe_command.c.
19990112-16
Feature: SMTP command pipelining support based on an initial
version by Jon Ribbens, Oaktree Internet Solutions Ltd.
This one took several days of massaging before I felt
comfortable about it. Files: smtp.c, smtp_proto.c.
Bugfix: the SMTP server would flush responses one-by-one,
which caused suboptimal performance with pipelined clients.
The vstream routines now flush the write buffer when the
read() routine is called, instead of flushing when the
application changes from writing to reading. Delayed flush
prevents the SMTP server from flushing responses one-by-one
and thus triggering Nagle's algorithm. File: util/vstream.c.
19990117
Bugfixes and enhancements to the smtpstone tools by Drew
Derbyshire, Kendra Electronic Wonderworks: send helo command,
send message headers, format the message content to lines
< 80, work around NT stacks, make "." recognition more
robust. Files: smtp-source.c, smtp-sink.c.
Strategy: look at the deferred queue only when the incoming
queue is empty; limit the number of recipients read from
a queue file depending on the number of recipients already
in core. Files: qmgr.c, qmgr_message.c.
Feature: postponed anti-UCE restrictions. The decision to
reject junk mail on the basis of the client name/address,
HELO hostname or sender address can now be postponed until
the RCPT TO command (or HELO or MAIL FROM if you like).
File: smtpd_check.c.
19990118
Feature: incremental updates of alias databases and of
other lookup tables. Both postalias and postmap now take
a -i option for incremental updates from standard input.
Files: global/mkmap_*.c, post{map,alias}/post{map,alias}.c.
Compatibility: newaliases can now update multiple alias
databases: list them in the "alias_database" parameter in
main.cf. By the same token, postalias can now update multiple
maps in one command. Files: post{map,alias}/post{map,alias}.c
Feature: mail to <> is now sent to the address specified
with the "empty_address_recipient" configuration parameter
which defaults to MAILER-DAEMON (idea by Lamont Jones,
Hewlett-Packard). File: cleanup/cleanup_envelope.c.
Compatibility: the transport table now uses .domain.name
to match subdomains, just like sendmail mailer tables
(patch by Lamont Jones, Hewlett-Packard).
Feature: mailq now ends with a total queue size summary
(Eilon Gishri, Israel Inter University Computation Center).
19990119
Feature: address masquerade exceptions for user names listed
in the "masquerade_exceptions" configuration parameter.
File: cleanup/cleanup_masquerade.c.
Feature: qmail-style maildir support, based on initial code
by Kevin W. Brown, Quantum Internet Services Inc.
Workaround: Solaris 2.something connect() fails with
ECONNREFUSED when the system is busy (Chris Cappuccio,
Empire Net). File: global/mail_connect.c.
Feature: the cleanup service now adds a Return-Path: header
when none is present. This header is needed for some mail
delivery programs (see below). File: cleanup_message.c.
Feature: the pipe mailer now supports $user, $extension
and $mailbox macros in command-line expansions. This, plus
the Return-Path: header (see above), should be sufficient
to support cyrus IMAP out of the box. Based on initial
code by Joerg Henne, Cogito Informationssysteme GMBH.
File: pipe/pipe.c.
Bugfix: with address extensions enabled, canonical and
virtual lookups now are done in the proper order:
user+foo@domain, user@domain, user+foo, user, @domain.
File: global/mail_addr_find.c.
19990119
Feature: the local mailer now prepends a Received: message
header with the queue ID to forwarded mail, in order to
make message tracing easier. File: local/forward.c.
Cleanup: after "postfix reload", no more broken pipe
complaints from resolve/rewrite clients.
19990121
Feature: pickup (again) logs uid and sender address.
On repeated request by Scott Cotton, Internet Consultants
Group, Inc.
Portability: doze() function for systems without usleep().
Cleanup: clients are now consistently logged as host[address].
19990122
Maildir support changed: specify "home_mailbox = Maildir/".
The magic is the trailing /. Suggested by Daniel Eisenbud,
University of California at Berkeley.
Maildir support from aliases, :include: and .forward files.
Specify /file/name/ - the trailing / is required. Suggested
by Daniel Eisenbud, University of California at Berkeley.
Workaround: watchdog timer to prevent the queue manager
from locking up on some systems.
Bugfix: in Received: headers, the "for <recipient>"