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Feature: postmulti mult-instance manager command, very
lightly tested. The MULTI_INSTANCE_README still needs to
be proofread. Originally by Victor Duchovni. Files:
src/postmulti/*, proto/MULTI_INSTANCE_README.html,
conf/postmulti-script.
Cleanup: assorted code cleanups in postmulti. File:
src/postmulti/postmulti.c.
Cleanup: multiple instances of the same global. Files:
util/inet_windowsize.c, util/inet_listen.c.
Cleanup: the Postfix SMTP server now maintains a per-session
"improper command pipelining detected" flag. This flag can
be tested at any time with reject_unauth_pipelining, and
is raised whenever a client command is followed by unexpected
commands or message content. Files: smtpd/smtpd.c,
smtpd/smtpd_check.c.
Logging: the Postfix SMTP server now logs the first command
pipelining transgression as "improper command pipelining
after <command> from <hostname>[<hostaddress>]".
Cleanup: after DATA command failure, log "(approximately
XX bytes)" only if Postfix actually accepted the DATA
command. File: smtpd/smtpd.c.
Cleanup: word smithing of "sendmail -bv" probe message.
File: sendmail/sendmail.c.
Cleanup: OpenLDAP now provides a sane solution for conflicts
with PAM ldap-over-tls. Victor Duchovni. File: global/dict_ldap.c.
Cleanup: skip over suspended or throttled queues while
looking for delivery requests. File: *qmgr/qmgr_transport.c.
Bugfix: in the "new queue manager", the _destination_rate_delay
code needed to postpone the job scheduler updates after
delivery completion, otherwise the scheduler could loop on
blocked jobs. Victor & Wietse. File: qmgr/qmgr_entry.c,
qmgr/qmgr_queue.c, qmgr/qmgr_job.c.
Cleanup: report a "queue file write error", instead of
passing though bogus 2xx replies from proxy filters to SMTP
clients. File: smtpd/smtpd_proxy.c.
Cleanup: with "lmtp_assume_final = yes", the Postfix LMTP
delivery agent assumes that delivery is final when talking
to an LMTP server that announces no DSN support. Otherwise,
the Postfix LMTP delivery agent assumes that delivery is
"relayed", to maintain compatibility with simple LMTP-based
content filters. Based on code by Michel Sebastien, ATOS
Origin. File: smtp/smtp_rcpt.c.
Bugfix: Postfix used mumble_concurrency_failed_cohort_limit
instead of mumble_destination_concurrency_failed_cohort_limit
as documented. File: global/mail_params.h.
Cleanup: add (Resent-) From:, Date:, Message-ID: or To:
headers only when clients match $local_header_rewrite_clients.
Specify "always_add_missing_headers = yes" for backwards
compatibility. Adding such headers to remote mail can break
DKIM signatures that cover headers that are not present.
File: cleanup/cleanup_message.c.
Workaround: to avoid unnecessary "fatal" delivery agent
exits, delivery agents retry getting a shared lock on a
queue file. This is necessary since the queue manager's
behavior was changed years ago to refill the in-memory
recipient list before it was completely empty. File:
global/deliver_request.c.
Workaround: some AWK implementations have a limit of 10
output files and lack a working close() function. It is too
much trouble to find out what systems have this limitation,
and where, if any, such systems store their XPG4-compatible
AWK program. So instead we generate a stream of here
documents and let the shell split the stream into files.
File: postconf/extract.awk.
Documentation: clarification of certificate file usage.
Victor Duchovni. Files: proto/postconf.proto,
proto/TLS_README.html.
Feature: pass a "TLS is active" flag to the server-side
SASL support. Based on code by Timo Sirainen, except that
the implementation uses an extensible API so that it will
be less painful to add more attributes in future Postfix
versions. Files: xsasl/xsasl.h, xsasl/xsasl_*server.c,
smtpd/smtpd_sasl_glue.c.
Documentation: re-generate READMEs and manpages for updated
hyperlinks.
Documentation: missing hyperlinks and missing parameters
in manpages. File: mantools/postlink, mantools/check-postlink.
Cleanup: use the extensible API to pass SMTP client address
information to the dovecot SASL plugin, and prepare for
passing server address information. Files: xsasl/xsasl.h,
xsasl/xsasl_dovecot_server.c, smtpd/smtpd_sasl_glue.c.
Same extensible API transformation for the SASL client-side
code to make future extensions less painful. Files:
xsasl/xsasl.h, xsasl/xsasl*client.c, smtp/smtp_sasl_glue.c.
Bugfix: don't re-enable SIGHUP if it is ignored in the
parent. This may cause random "Postfix integrity check
failed" errors at boot time (POSIX SIGHUP death), causing
Postfix not to start. We duplicate code from postdrop and
thus avoid past mistakes. File: postsuper/postsuper.c.
Robustness: don't re-enable SIGTERM if it is ignored in the
parent. Files: postsuper/postsuper.c, postdrop/postdrop.c.
Undo delivery agent change 20090415. The queue manager never
locks a queue file to read additional recipients into memory,
so if a delivery agent runs into a locked file, then something
is seriously wrong. File: global/deliver_request.c.
Compatibility: the Postfix SMTP client no longer uses the
obsolete SSLv2 by default for opportunistic encryption.
This has nothing to do with security (we're willing to send
plaintext over an unauthenticated connection) but with the
loss of advanced options that give better performance.
Victor Duchovni. Files: proto/postconf.proto, global/mail_params.h.
Feature: more accurate support for Milter macros {mail_addr}
and {rcpt_addr}, and new support for Milter macros {mail_host},
{mail_mailer}, {rcpt_host}, and {rcpt_mailer}. Files:
milter/milter.[hc], smtpd/smtpd.[hc], smtpd/smtpd_milter.c,
smtpd/smtpd_resolve.c.
Feature: support to report rejected recipients to Milters
(SMFIP_RCPT_REJ). Postfix reports the event as decribed in
Sendmail 8.14.0 documentation: {rcpt_mailer} = "error",
{rcpt_host} = enhanced status code (e.g., "5.7.1"), and
{rcpt_addr} = reason to reject (e.g., "Relay access denied").
Files: milter/milter.[hc], milter/milter8.c, smtpd/smtpd.[hc],
smtpd/smtpd_milter.c.
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Feature: Milter support for replacing the envelope sender
and adding recipients (SMFIR_CHGFROM, SMFIR_ADDRCPT_PAR).
This support currently ignores ESMTP command parameters.
Files: milter/milter8.c, cleanup/cleanup_milter.c.
20090428
Compatibility: to make all the new Milter features usable,
raise the default milter_protocol setting from 2 to 6.
This has been tested with a Sendmail 8.14 libmilter.
File: global/mail_params.h.
Bugfix: don't disable MIME parsing with smtp_header_checks,
smtp_mime_header_checks, smtp_nested_header_checks or with
smtp_body_checks. Bug reported by Victor. File: smtp/smtp_proto.c.
Code cleanups: respect VSTRING invariants by using VSTRING_RESET
and VSTRING_TERMINATE instead of directly groping the
underlying character buffer. Files: global/dsn_buf.c,
milter/milter8.c.
20090507
main.cf:tls_random_source now defaults to /dev/arandom on
OpenBSD. This device was introduced before Postfix development
began. Files: util/sys_defs.h, global/mail_params.h.
20090510
Code cleanups: while emulating SMTP client requests for
Milter applications, use user@domain form addresses as
required by the SMTP protocol, instead of bare usernames.
This avoids hard to debug errors from some Milter applications.
Files: cleanup/cleanup_envelope.c, cleanup/cleanup_extracted.c,
cleanup/cleanup_addr.c.
20090511
Code cleanups: don't clobber -o command-line arguments so
that Linux people can debug daemon command lines more easily.
Files: master/*server.c.
20090513
Code cleanups: better parsing of Postfix daemon "-o"
command-line options, with better error handling. Files:
master/*server.c.
20090518
Documentation: missing dummy entries for lmtp_mumble_checks.
File: proto/postconf.proto.
20090519
Bugfix (introduced: Postfix 2.3, but did not cause trouble
until 20090427). Queue file corruption with (smtpd_milters
or non_smtpd_milters) enabled, AND with delay_warning_time
enabled, AND with short envelope sender addresses (e.g.,
local submissions with bare usernames, but not bounces).
The queue file would be corrupted when the delay_warning_time
record was marked as "done" after sending the "your mail
is delayed" notice. File: qmgr/qmgr_message.c.
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20090522
Bugfix (introduced: Postfix 2.3). The cleanup server
rejected mail with records of type REC_TYPE_DRCP (recipient
deleted by Milter), but such records could be present in
mail re-submitted with "postsuper -r". Found during code
review. Files: global/record.h, cleanup/cleanup_envelope.c.
20090524
Feature: new postcat options: -e (print envelope), -h (print
header), and -b (print body). Specify "postcat -bh" to
suppress information about envelope records, and "postcat
-h" to get the message header only. With large messages,
"postcat -h" is much faster than manually stripping the
message body from the output. File: postcat/postcat.c.
20090528
Bugfix (introduced: Postfix 2.6 change 20080629): with
plaintext sessions, smtpd_tls_auth_only=yes caused spurious
warnings with reject_authenticated_sender_login_mismatch,
and broke reject_unauthenticated_sender_login_mismatch and
reject_sender_login_mismatch. Based on fix by Victor
Duchovni. File: smtpd/smtpd_check.c.
20090603
Cleanup: Postfix 2.3 adopted a file descriptor passing
workaround for OpenBSD. This workaround was hard-coded for
all platforms because there were no have adverse effects.
This is no longer the case: OpenBSD is fixed, and NetBSD
does not like the workaround. We now default back to the
non-workaround code and turn on the workaround dynamically.
Files: util/unix_send_fd.c, unix_recv_fd.c, unix_pass_fd_fix.c.
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Portability: modern kernels below ancient user-land. File:
makedefs.
20090606
Feature: post-Milter header checks, with all actions except
PREPEND. To enable, specify for example "milter_header_checks
= pcre:/path/to/file". Files: cleanup/cleanup_init.c,
cleanup/cleanup_milter.c, cleanup/cleanup_extracted.c,
cleanup/cleanup_state.c.
Bugfix: non-portable command pathname in postmulti-script.
Safety: "postmulti -e destroy" no longer attempts to remove
files that are created AFTER "postmulti -e create". Rationale:
by design, postfix queue/data directories are not trusted;
actions within those directory trees must not affect files
outside those those trees (e.g. by symlink race attacks).
We don't want to be nailed with a bunch of CVEs for unsafe
pathname handling. File: conf/postmulti-script.
20090607
Cleanup: revise milter_header_checks action implementation,
and avoid redundant logging and work when milter_header_checks
and Milters make redundant or conflicting decisions. File:
cleanup_milter.c.
20090614
Preliminary postscreen triage server for all inbound SMTP
connections. This is not a proxy: it rejects bad clients
and forwards the rest of the connections to a real Postfix
SMTP server. The initial version does a simple "friend or
foe" based on whether the client starts talking too soon.
Decisions are cached, so "good" clients have no overhead.
File: postscreen/postscreen.c.
Cleanup: more robust code for receiving file descriptors
via the "pass" master service protocol. File:
util/upass_listen.c.
20090617
Temporary helper daemon that does parallel DNSBL lookups
for postscreen(8). It logs successful lookups to the maillog
file without blocking the client. postscreen(8) will use
the results in a later non-production version. To enable
DNSBL lookups, specify "postscreen_dnsbl_sites = name,
name, etc". and restart postscreen(8) with "postfix reload".
File: src/dnsblog/dnblog.c.
20090618
postscreen(8) logging and actions are now documented in the
postscreen(8) manpage. When a client is listed in DNSBLs
specified with postscreen_dnsbl_sites, it is no longer
whitelisted. Instead the number of blocklist hits is logged.
File: postscreen/postscreen.c.
20090619
postscreen(8) by default no longer immediately drops
connections. Specify "postscreen_greet_action = drop" and
"postscreen_hangup_action = drop" for the old behavior.
There is also a new postscreen_dnsbl_action parameter, for
completeness. File: postscreen/postscreen.c.
20090708
Portability: FreeBSD 8 has closefrom(). File: uti/sys_defs.h.
20090710
Bugfix (introduced Postfix 2.3): Postfix got out of sync
with a Milter application after the application sent a
"quarantine" request at end-of-message time. The milter
application would still be in the end-of-message state,
while Postfix would already be working on the next SMTP
event (typically, QUIT or MAIL FROM). Problem diagnosed
with help from Alban Deniz. File: milter/milter8.c.
20090711-2
New "event_server" Postfix server framework. It is similar
to the "multi_server" framework but does not manage client
I/O events. This framework is suitable for servers such
as postscreen that have complex event management requirements.
File: master/event_server.c.
New event_fork() primitive to resume event processing in a
child process after it is created with fork(). This is
needed by postscreen to complete work-in-progress in the
background after "postfix reload". File: util/events.c.
Cleanup: postscreen migrated to the "event_server" framework.
File: postscreen/postscreen.c.
Cleanup: ${multi_instance_name:postfix}${multi_instance_name
?$multi_instance_name} garbage in Postfix logging is now
hopefully gone. File: global/mail_task.c.
20090715
Documentation: as of Postfix 2.6, the reject_unauth_pipelining
feature can be used meaningfully at any protocol stage.
File: proto/postconf.proto.
20090717
Cleanup: postscreen PREGREET detection now uses non-destructive
read, so that the real SMTP server can still receive the
HELO command (apparently some sites allow pregreeters to
talk to their servers). File: postscreen/postscreen.c.
20090805
Bugfix: don't panic when an unexpected smtpd access map is
specified. File: smtpd/smtpd_check.c.
20090918
Bugfix (introduced Postfix 2.3): with Milter RCPT TO replies
turned off, there was no automatic flush-before-read on the
smtpd-to-milter stream, because the read was done on the
cleanup-to-milter stream. Problem reported by Stephen Warren.
File: milter/milter8.c.
20091005
Bugfix: core dump while printing error message for malformed
%<letter> sequence in LDAP, MySQL or PostgreSQL configuration.
File: global/db_common.c. Fix by Victor Duchovni.
Feature: "postscreen_whitelist_networks = $mynetworks" (the
default) to avoid problems with buggy SMTP implementations
in network appliances. Note: this feature never uses the
remote SMTP client hostname. Files: global/addr_match_list.[hc],
postscreen/postscreen.c.
Feature: postscreen_blacklist_networks (default: empty) to
permanently blacklist hosts or networks. Address syntax is
as with mynetworks. Note: this feature never uses the remote
SMTP client hostname. File: postscreen/postscreen.c.
Feature: postscreen_blacklist_action (default: continue)
to control what happens with a permanently blacklisted
client. File: postscreen/postscreen.c.
Feature: hostname-based check_client_{mx,ns}_access,
check_reverse_client_hostname_{mx,ns}_access (the client
IP address is not used). Rob Foehl. Files: smtpd/smtpd_check.c,
global/mail_params.h, proto/postconf.proto, mantools/postlink.
Documentation: restructured the postscreen(8) manpage
as a sequence of tests. File: postscreen/postscreen.c.
Bugfix: postmulti did not skip commands with -p. Luca
Berra. File: postmulti/postmulti.c.
Feature: specify "smtpd_command_filter = pcre:/file/name"
to replace remote SMTP client commands before they are
executed by the Postfix SMTP server. This a last-resort
tool to fix inter-operability problems. See examples in
the postconf(5) manual page. File: smtpd/smtpd.c.
Cleanup: changed parameter evaluation order so that the
multi_instance_wrapper parameter value is evaluated after
the command and daemon directory parameters. File:
global/mail_params.h.
Performance: specify "smtpd_proxy_options = speed_adjust"
to receive an entire message before sending it through a
before-queue content filter. This reduces the number of
simultaneous content filtering processes, and thus, the
system memory requirements. Files: smtpd/smtpd.[hc],
smtpd/smtpd_proxy.[hc].
Cleaned up the speed-adjust code, streamlined the error
handling, and updated documentation. Files: smtpd/smtpd.[hc],
smtpd/smtpd_proxy.[hc], proto/SMTPD_PROXY_README.html.
Cleaning up after speed_adjust introduction: smtpd segfault
caused by an incomplete API change; refined the queue space
check; release scratch space immediately after delivering
mail to the before-queue filter. Files: smtpd.c, smtpd_proxy.c.
Workaround: specify "smtp_tls_block_early_mail_reply = yes"
to detect a mail hijacking attack based on a TLS protocol
vulnerability (CVE-2009-3555). The attack involves prepending
malicious HELO/MAIL/RCPT/DATA commands to a Postfix SMTP
client TLS session. The attack would succeed with non-Postfix
SMTP servers that reply to the malicious commands after
negotiating the Postfix SMTP client TLS session. File:
Workaround: skip interfaces without netmask, to avoid
segfaults (reported by Dmitry Karasik). Don't supply a dummy
null netmask, as that would turn Postfix into an open relay
(mynetworks = 0.0.0.0/0). File: util/inet_addr_local.c.
Bugfix: forgot to flush output to the smtpd_proxy speed-adjust
buffer before truncating the file. Reported by Mark Martinec,
fix by Victor Duchovni. File: smtpd/smtpd_proxy.c.
Feature: specify "smtp_reply_filter = pcre:/file/name" to
replace remote SMTP server reply lines before they are
parsed by the Postfix SMTP client. This a last-resort tool
to fix inter-operability problems. See examples in the
postconf(5) manual page. File: smtp/smtp_chat.c.
Safety: don't send postmaster notifications to report
problems delivering (possible) postmaster notifications.
File: smtp/smtp_connect.c.
Feature: sender_dependent_default_transport_maps, to override
the default transport in a sender-dependent manner. This
is not a transport_maps override, and therefore it does not
use the transport_maps syntax for null transport, null
nexthop, or null email address.
Usability: the Postfix SMTP client now logs a warning that
wrappermode TLS is not supported, when configured to connect
to port smtps/465. File: smtp/smtp_connect.c.
Safety: the postscreen daemon logs a warning when table
lookup is slow. Slow lookups cause postscreen to fall behind,
and worse, to catch up in bursts, which results in overload
elsewhere. File: postscreen/postscreen.c.
Feature: by popular demand, the Postfix SMTP server now
logs the before-queue content filter's end-of-message
accept/reject response. File: smtpd/smtpd.c.
Portability: as the result of continuous improvement,
Berkeley DB no longer allows fork-then-close. File:
postscreen/postscreen.c.
Bugfix: sender_dependent_relayhost_maps did not reject an
empty lookup result, and did not recognize lookup errors,
thus treating errors as "not found". Problem found during
code maintenance. File: trivial-rewrite/resolve.c.
Cleanup: the postscreen daemon now applies the permanent
whitelist first. It is a safety feature that prevents mail
from being blocked. File: postscreeb/postscreen.c.
Bugfix (introduced 20041215): dict_dbm_sequence() did not
release the shared lock when the end of the sequence was
reached. File: util/dict_dbm.c.
Cleanup: postscreen and verify periodic cache cleanup
(default: 12 hours after the previous cache cleanup run).
This is based on a new dict_cache(3) module that implements
a generalized version of the tlsmgr(8) cache maintenance
code. Once the new dict_cache(3) code is burned in, the
tlsmgr(8) will be migrated to it. See the RELEASE_NOTES for
user interface details. Files: util/htable.[hc], util/dict_ht.c,
util/dict_cache.[hc], postscreen/postscreen.c, verify/verify.c.
Bugfix: the event handler starved I/O events when a timer
call-back routine scheduled a zero-delay timer request.
This bug was exposed when adding the new dict_cache(3)
module for cache expiration. File: util/events.c.
Cleanup: postscreen and verify periodic cache cleanup is
now optional (specify a null time interval between cache
cleanup runs).
Cleanup: the address_verify_poll_count default parameter
value is now stress-dependent, so that the Postfix SMTP
server will not wait (up to 6 seconds) for the address
verification result. File: global/mail_params.h.
Final slution for the I/O event starvation problem when a
timer call-back schedules a zero-delay timer request. File:
util/events.c.
Cleanup: the non-shared, in-memory hash table is now
accessible as the "internal:" map type. This simplifies
code by eliminating some special cases. Files: util/dict_ht.c,
util/dict_open.c, and documentation.
Bugfix: the mantools/postlink script applied hyperlinks
for the "virtual:" transport to "/etc/postfix/virtual:".
Symptom reported by Christoph Anton Mitterer.
Workaround: don't report bogus Berkeley DB close errors as
fatal errors. All operations before close are already error
checked, so the data is known to be safe. File: util/dict_db.c.
Documentation: the access(5) manual page did not document
the "send 521 and disconnect" behavior in the Postfix SMTP
server (introduced with Postfix 2.6). File: proto/access.
Bugfix: the pickup daemon did not discard messages that
were requeued after all recipients were delivered (or
bounced), and the cleanup server tried to bounce such
messages. Files: pickup/pickup.c, global/cleanup_user.h.
Future proofing: redundant code in postdrop to reject a
submission without recipient record. File: postdrop/postdrop.c.
Cleanup: "postcat -q" will now access files in the "saved"
queue directory (for corrupted queue files). As before, the
"postsuper" command will not, to avoid suddenly deleting
such files. Files: global/mail_queue.h postcat/postcat.c.
Cleanup: don't supply the "-o stress" command-line option
with a single-process service. File: master/master_ent.c.
Bugfix: the valid_hostname() fuction did not set the
"non-numeric" flag after encountering the '-' character.
Reported by Jan Schampera. File: util/valid_hostname.c.
Documentation: the content_filter and FILTER features never
supported the special cases of transport_maps. References
to transport_maps syntax are now removed from content filter
discussions. Files: proto/postconf.proto, proto/FILTER_README.
Workaround: as of Postfix 2.3 the VRFY command did not allow
a mailbox address inside <>, which broke expectations. RFC
2821 (and 5321) is vague about the VRFY request format, but
spends lots of text on the reply format. File: smtpd/smtpd.c.
Cleanup: when a content_filter parameter or FILTER command
specifies an empty next-hop destination, the queue manager
now uses the recipient domain instead of $myhostname. Specify
"default_filter_nexthop = $myhostname" for compatibility
with Postfix 2.6 and earlier, or specify a non-empty next-hop
filter destination. Files: *qmgr/qmgr_message.c proto/access,
proto/header_checks, proto/postconf.proto, proto/FILTER_README.
Cleanup: detect illegal pipelining after HELO, EHLO. File:
smtpd/smtpd.c.
Documentation: streamlined the decriptions of protocol and
cipher tweaks. Victor Duchovni. Files: proto/TLS_README,
proto/postconf.proto.
Documentation: the address verification database is now
persistent by default. This, combined with the now default
stress-dependent configuration, improves the performance
limits and simplifies database maintenance. Files:
proto/ADDRESS_VERIFICATION_README, verify/verify.c.
Cleanup: undo the proxymap and trivial-rewrite max_idle=1s
override that was introduced with Postfix 2.3. It did not
help to retire long-lived proxymap or trivial-rewrite
processes on busy servers, and worsened performance on
low-traffic servers. The reduced ipc_ttl value (introduced
with Postfix 2.4) already solves the problem of retiring
long-lived proxymap or trivial-rewrite processes. Files:
proxymap/proxymap.c, trivial-rewrite/trivial-rewrite.c.
Documentation: major revision of SASL_README with many
details on how to configure Cyrus SASL internals. Patrick
Koetter. File: proto/SASL_README.html
Feature: added "forward_secrecy" option for Cyrus SASL.
File: xsasl/xsasl_cyrus_security.c.
Bugfix (from day zero): the local delivery agent returned
undeliverable mail to the envelope sender instead of the
owner- alias, when delivering to command or file. This
reuses the workaround that was implemented to report a
Delivered-To: loop. Files: local/file.c, local/command.c,
local/recipient.c, local/bounce_workaround.c.
The tcp_table(5) interface is now part of the stable release.
The last protocol change was in Postfix 2.1. File:
util/dict_open.c.
20100422
Workaround (introduced: postfix-19990906 a.k.a. Postfix
0.8.0). The Postfix local delivery agent did not properly
distinguish between "address has no extension" and "address
has an extension, but the extension is invalid". In both
cases it would run only the full recipient local-part through
the alias maps. Instead, it now drops the faulty extension
from the recipient address local-part (it would be too
error-prone to replace all tests for "no extension" by tests
for "no valid extension". File: local/recipient.c.
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20100515
Bugfix (introduced Postfix 2.6): the Postfix SMTP client
XFORWARD implementation did not skip "unknown" SMTP client
attributes, causing a syntax error when sending a PORT
attribute. Reported by Victor Duchovni. File: smtp/smtp_proto.c.
20100526
Cleanup: a unit-test driver (for stand-alone tests) was not
updated after an internal API change. Vesa-Matti J Kari
File: milter/milter.c.
20100529
Portability: OpenSSL 1.0.0 changes the priority of anonymous
cyphers. Victor Duchovni. Files: postconf.proto,
global/mail_params.h, tls/tls_certkey.c, tls/tls_client.c,
tls/tls_dh.c, tls/tls_server.c.
Portability: Mac OS 10.6.3 requires <arpa/nameser_compat.h>
instead of <nameser8_compat.h>. Files: makedefs, util/sys_defs.h,
dns/dns.h.
20100531
Robustness: skip LDAP queries with non-ASCII search strings.
The LDAP library requires well-formed UTF-8. Victor Duchovni.
File: global/dict_ldap.c.
20100601
Safety: Postfix processes log a warning when a matchlist
has a #comment at the end of a line (for example mynetworks
or relay_domains). File: util/match_list.c.
Portability: Berkeley DB 5.x has the same API as Berkeley
DB 4.1 and later. File: util/dict_db.c.
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20100610
Bugfix (introduced Postfix 2.2): Postfix no longer appends
the system default CA certificates to the lists specified
with *_tls_CAfile or with *_tls_CApath. This prevents
third-party certificates from getting mail relay permission
with the permit_tls_all_clientcerts feature. Unfortunately
this may cause compatibility problems with configurations
that rely on certificate verification for other purposes.
To get the old behavior, specify "tls_append_default_CA =
yes". Files: tls/tls_certkey.c, tls/tls_misc.c,
global/mail_params.h. proto/postconf.proto, mantools/postlink.
20100714
Compatibility with Postfix < 2.3: fix 20061207 was incomplete
(undoing the change to bounce instead of defer after
pipe-to-command delivery fails with a signal). Fix by Thomas
Arnett. File: global/pipe_command.c.
20100727
Bugfix: the milter_header_checks parser provided only the
actions that change the message flow (reject, filter,
discard, redirect) but disabled the non-flow actions (warn,
replace, prepend, ignore, dunno, ok). File:
cleanup/cleanup_milter.c.
20100827
Performance: fix for poor smtpd_proxy_filter TCP performance
over loopback (127.0.0.1) connections. Problem reported by
Mark Martinec. Files: smtpd/smtpd_proxy.c.
20101023
Cleanup: don't apply reject_rhsbl_helo to non-domain forms
such as network addresses. This would cause false positives
with dbl.spamhaus.org. File: smtpd/smtpd_check.c.
20101117
Bugfix: the "421" reply after Milter error was overruled
by Postfix 1.1 code that replied with "503" for RFC 2821
compliance. We now make an exception for "final" replies,
as permitted by RFC. Solution by Victor Duchovni. File:
smtpd/smtpd.c.
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20101201
Workaround: BSD-ish mkdir() ignores the effective GID and
copies group ownership from the parent directory. File:
util/make_dirs.c.
20101202
Cleanup: the cleanup server now reports a temporary delivery
error when it reaches the virtual_alias_expansion_limit or
virtual_alias_recursion_limit. Previously, it would silently
ignore the excess recipients and deliver the message. File:
cleanup/cleanup_map1n.c.
20110105
Bugfix (introduced with the Postfix TLS patch): discard
plaintext following the STARTTLS command or response. This
matters only for the minority of SMTP clients that actually
verify server certificates. Files: smtpd/smtpd.c,
smtp/smtp_proto.c.
This vulnerability is also known as CVE-2011-0411.
20110109
Bugfix (introduced Postfix 2.4): on Solaris the Postfix
event engine was deaf for SIGHUP and SIGALRM signals after
the switch to /dev/poll. Symptoms were delayed "postfix
reload" response, and killed processes when the watchdog
timeout was less than max_idle. The fix is to set up SIGHUP
and SIGALRM handlers that write to a pipe, and to monitor
that pipe for read events via the Postfix event engine.
Files: master/master_sig.c, util/watchdog.c, util/sys_defs.h.
20110117
Bugfix (introduced Postfix alpha, or thereabouts): on HP-UX
the Postfix event engine was deaf for SIGALRM signals.
Symptoms were killed processes when the watchdog timeout
was less than max_idle. The fix is the same as Solaris fix
20110109. Since we can't know what other systems need this,
the workaround is enabled by default. Files: util/sys_defs.h.
20110225
Workaround (problem introduced with IPv6 support in Postfix
2.2): the SMTP client did not support mail to [ipv6:ipv6addr].
Fix based on a patch by Gurusamy Sarathy (Sophos). File:
util/host_port.c and regression test files.
20110227
Portability: FreeBSD closefrom() support time window. Sahil
Tandon. File: util/sys_defs.h.
20110414
Bugfix (introduced with Postfix SASL patch 20000314): don't
reuse a server SASL handle after authentication failure.
Problem reported by Thomas Jarosch of Intra2net AG. File:
smtpd/smtpd_proto.c.
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20110418
Bugfix (introduced Postfix 2.3 and Postfix 2.7): the Milter
client reported some "file too large" errors as temporary
errors. Problem reported by Michael Tokarev. Files:
milter/milter8.c, cleanup/cleanup_milter.c.
20110420
Performance: a high load of DSN success notification requests
could slow down the queue manager. Solution: make the trace
client asynchronous, just like the bounce and defer clients.
Problem reported by Eduardo M. Stelmaszczyk of terra.com.br.
Files: global/abounce.[hc], *qmgr/qmgr_active.c (the
qmgr_active.c files are identical).
20110426
Bugfix (introduced in Postfix 1.1, duplicated in Postfix
2.3, unrelated mistake in Postfix 2.7): the local(8) delivery
agent ignored table lookup errors in mailbox_command_maps,
mailbox_transport_maps, fallback_transport_maps and (while
bouncing mail to alias) alias owner lookup. Problem reported
by William Ono. Files: local/command.c, local/mailbox.c,
local/unknown.c, local/bounce_workaround.c.
20110601
Bugfix (introduced Postfix 2.6 with master_service_disable)
loop control error when parsing a malformed master.cf file.
Found by Coverity. File: master/master_ent.c.
20110602
Bugfix (introduced: Postfix 2.7): "sendmail -t" reported
"protocol error" after queue file write error. File:
postdrop/postdrop.c.
20110614
Linux kernel version 3 support. Linus Torvalds has reset
the counters for reasons not related to changes in code.
Files: makedefs, util/sys_defs.h.
20110615
Workaround: some Spamhaus RHSBL rejects lookups with "No
IP queries" even if the name has an alphanumerical prefix.
We play safe, and skip RHSBL queries for names ending in a
numerical suffix. File: smtpd/smtpd_check.c.
20110811
Workaround: report a {client_connections} Milter macro value
of zero instead of garbage, when the remote SMTP client is
not subject to any smtpd_client_* limits. Problem reported
by Christian Roessner. File: smtpd/smtpd_state.c,
proto/MILTER_README.html.
20110831
Bugfix: allow for Milters that send an SMTP server reply
without RFC 3463 enhanced status code. Reported by Vladimir
Vassiliev. File: milter/milter8.c.
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20110903
Bugfix: master daemon panic with "master_spawn: at process
limit" error, when "postfix reload" reduced the process
limit from (a value larger than the current process count
for some service) to (a value <= the current process count),
and then a new connection was made to that service. This
is the smallest change that eliminates the problem. The
final solution involves structural change, and goes into
the development release. File: master/master_avail.c.
20110921
Bugfix (introduced: Postfix 1.1): smtpd(8) did not sanitize
newline characters in cleanup(8) REJECT messages, causing
them to be sent out via SMTP as bare newline characters.
This happened when a REJECT pattern matched multi-line
header text. Discovered by Kevin Locke. File: smtpd/smtpd.c.
20110922
Bugfix (introduced: Postfix 2.1): smtpd(8) sent multi-line
responses from a before-queue content filter as text with
bare <LF> instead of <CR><LF>. Found during code maintenance.
File: smtpd/smtpd_proxy.c.
20111020
EAI Future-proofing: don't apply strict_mime_encoding_domain
checks to unknown message subtypes such as message/global*.
File: global/mime_state.c.