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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>"
information was in the wrong place. Pointed out by Jon
Ribbens, Oaktree Internet Solutions Ltd.
19990124
Portability: more workarounds for GNU getopt() by Liviu
Daia, Institute of Mathematics, Romanian Academy. File:
sendmail/sendmail.c.
19990125
Bugfix: Postfix should not masquerade recipient addresses
extracted from message headers. Problem reported by David
Blacka, Network Solutions. File: cleanup/cleanup_message.c.
19990126
Feature: smtpd_etrn_restrictions parameter to restrict who
may use ETRN and what domains may be specified. Example:
"smtpd_etrn_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject".
Requested by Jon Ribbens, Oaktree Internet Solutions Ltd.
File: smtpd/smtpd_check.c.
19990127
Bugfix: in an attempt to shave some cycles, the anti junk
mail routines would use the wrong resolved address. This
"optimization" is now turned off. Problem reported by Sam
Eaton, Pavilion Internet Plc. File: smtpd/smtpd_check.c.
Feature: BIFF notifications. For compatibility reasons
this feature is on by default. This "protocol" can be a
real performance pig. Specify "biff = no" in main.cf if
your machine has lots of shell users. Feature requested by
Dan Farmer - it's one of the things one does for friends.
Files: local/mailbox.c, local/biff_notify.c.
Bugfix: another case sensitivity problem, this time with
virtual lookups to recognize unknown@virtual.domain.
Problem reported by Bo Kleve, Linkoping University. File:
qmgr/qmgr_message.c.
19990128
Feature: with "soft_bounce = yes", defer delivery instead
of bouncing mail. This is a safety net for configuration
errors with delivery agents. It has no effect on errors in
virtual maps, canonical maps, or in junk mail restrictions.
Feature requested by Bennett Todd. File: global/bounce.c.
19990129
Compatibility: the qmail maildir.5 documentation prescribes
maildir file names of the form time.pid.hostname, which is
wrong because Postfix processes perform multiple deliveries.
Elsewhere the qmail author has documented how maildir files
should be named under such conditions. Postfix has been
changed to be conformant. File: local/maildir.c.
19990131
Feature: special treatment of owner-foo and foo-request
can be turned off. Specify "owner_request_special = no".
Requested by Matthew Green and others. Files: local/alias.c,
global/split_addr.c. This affects canonical, virtual and
alias lookups.
19990204
Portability: signal handling for HP-UX 9 by Lamont Jones
of Hewlett Packard. File: master/master_sig.c.
Robustness: disable random walk inside a per-site queue to
avoid message starvation under heavy load. File: qmgr_entry.c.
Robustness: under some conditions the queue manager could
declare a host dead after just one delivery failure. File:
qmgr_queue.c.
19990212
Feature: skip SMTP servers that greet us with a 4XX status
code. Example: "smtp_skip_4xx_greeting = yes". By default,
the Postfix SMTP client defers delivery when a server
declines talking to us. File: smtp/smtp_connect.c.
Robustness: upon startup the queue manager now moves active
queue files to the incoming queue instead of the deferred
queue, to avoid anomalous delivery delays on systems that
have a huge incoming queue. Files: qmgr/qmgr.c,
qmgr/qmgr_active.c, global/mail_flush.c, conf/postfix-script*
19990213
Robustness: added watchdog timers to avoid getting stuck
on systems with broken select() socket implementations.
File: qmgr_transport.c, qmgr_deliver.c.
19990218
Feature: NFS-friendly delivery to mailbox by avoiding the
use of root privileges as much as possible. With input by
Mike Muus, Army Research Lab, USA.
Feature: the smtp-sink test server now supports SMTP command
pipelining. To this end we had to generalize the timer and
vstream support. Poor performance is fixed 19990222.
Cleanup: timer event routines now have the same interface
as read/write event routines (event type + context). File:
util/events.c.
Feature: new vstream_peek() routine to tell how much unread
data is left in a VSTREAM buffer. This is the vstream
variant of the peekfd() routine for kernel read buffers.
File: util/vstream.c.
Feature: directory scanning support for hashed mail queue
directories. So far the results are disappointing: with
depth = 2 (16 directories with 16 subdirectories), mailq
takes 5 seconds with an empty queue unless all directories
happen to be cached in memory. We need a bit map before
hashed queue directories become practical. Depth=1 hashing
doesn't slow down mailq much, but doesn't help much either.
Files: util/scan_dir.c, global/mail_scan_dir.c.
19990221
Workaround: with "ignore_mx_lookup_error = yes", the SMTP
client always performs an A lookup when an MX lookup could
not be completed, rather than treating MX lookup failure
as a temporary error condition. Unfortunately there are
many broken DNS servers on the Internet. File: smtp/smtp_addr.c.
19990222
Performance: rewrote the guts of the smtp-sink test server
so it can do pipelining without losing performance.
19990223
Workaround: hotmail.com sometimes drops the connection
after "." (causing misleading diagnostics to be logged) or
waits minutes after receiving QUIT. Solution: do not wait
for the response to QUIT. File: smtp/smtp_proto.c. This
is turned off with: "smtp_skip_quit_response = no".
19990224
Feature: the pipe mailer accepts user=username:groupname,
based on code submitted by Philip A. Prindeville, Mirapoint,
Inc., USA. File: pipe/pipe.c.
Workaround: use file locking to prevent multiple processes
from select()ing on the same socket. This causes performance
problems on large BSD systems. Files: master/*_server.c.
19990225
Bugfix: with "inet_interfaces = 127.0.0.1", don't bind to
the loopback interface. Problem reported by Steve Bellovin
of AT&T. File: smtp/smtp_addr.c.
Feature: "postsuper" command to remove stale queue files
to update queues after changes to the queue structure
parameters (hash_queue_names, hash_queue_depth). This
command is to be run from the postfix-script maintenance
shell script.
19990301
Feature: new postconf -h (suppress `name = ' in output)
option to make the program easier to use in, e.g., shell
scripts.
Feature: dict_unix module so you can add the UNIX passwd
table to the SMTPD access control list.
19990302
Feature: "luser_relay = destination" captures mail for
non-existent local recipients. This works only when the
local delivery agent does mailbox delivery (including
delivery via mailbox_command), not when mailbox delivery
is delegated to another message transport.
Feature: new reject_non_fqdn_{hostname,sender,recipient}
restrictions to require fully.qualified.domain forms in
HELO, MAIL FROM and RCPT TO commands (while still allowing
the <> sender address).
19990304
Bugfix: backed out the 19990119 change to always insert
Return-Path: if that header is not present. The pipe and
local agents now are responsible for prepending Return-Path:.
Files: cleanup/cleanup_message.c, global/mail_copy.[hc],
pipe/pipe.c, global/header_opts.c. This causes an incompatible
change to the pipe flags parameter, because Return-Path:
now must be requested explicitly.
19990305
Bugfix: showq (the mailq server) incorrectly assumed that
all recipients of a deferred message are listed in the
corresponding defer logfile. It now lists all recipients.
Files: showq/showq.c, cleanup/cleanup_envelope.c (ensure
that sender records always precede recipient records).
Cleanup: smtpd HELO restrictions validate [numerical] forms.
Files: util/valid_hostname.c, smtpd/smtpd_check.c. Initial
code by Philip A. Prindeville, Mirapoint, Inc., USA.
19990306
Cleanup: re-vamped the valid_hostname module, and added a
maximal label length (63) requirement.
Feature: fallback_relay parameter to specify extra backup
hosts in case the regular relay hosts are not found or not
available. Files: smtp/smtp_addr.c.
Feature: "always_bcc = address" specifies where to send a
copy of each message that enters he system. However, if
that copy bounces, the sender will be informed of the
bounce. Files: smtpd/smtpd.c, pickup/pickup.c
Compatibility: the transport map will now route on top-level
domains, so you can dump all of .bitnet to a bitnet relay.
19990307
Feature: LDAP lookups, updated by Jon Hensley, Merit Network,
USA.
Feature: regular expression (PCRE) support by Andrew
McNamara, connect.com.au Pty. Ltd., Australia. In order to
use this code specify pcre:/file/name. You can use this
anywhere you would use a DB or DBM file, NIS or LDAP. See:
PCRE_README for how to enable this code.
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Feature: "delay_warning_time = 4" causes Postfix to send
a "your mail is delayed" notice after approx. 4 hours.
Daniel Eisenbud, University of California at Berkeley.
Files: qmgr/qmgr_active.c, qmgr/qmgr_message. Postmaster
notices for delayed mail are disabled by default. In order
to receive postmaster notices, specify "notify_classes =
... delay ...".
Cleanup: do not send undeliverable bounced mail to postmaster.
This was causing lots of pain with junk mail from bogus
sender addresses to non-existent recipients. This change
was reversed 19990311.
19990308
Bugfix: the dotforward routine was too eager with throwing
away extension information, so that the Delivered-To: info
would differ for \mailbox and |command. Problem reported
by Rafi Sadowski, Open University, Israel.
Bugfix: seems I never got around to fix the btree access
method. I finally did. Problem reported by: Matt Smith,
AvTel Communications Inc., USA.
19990311
Back by popular demand: with "notify_classes = 2bounce ..."
Postfix will send undeliverable bounced mail to postmaster.
The default is to not send double bounces. This change
reverses a change made on 19990307.
19990312
Feature: configurable exit handler for server skeletons.
Philip A. Prindeville, Mirapoint, Inc., USA. Files:
master/*server.c.
Feature: mail_spool_directory configuration parameter to
specify the UNIX mail spool directory. The default setting
is system dependent.
19990313
Cleanup: share file descriptors for resolve and rewrite
client connections. This puts less strain on the trivial-rewrite
service.
Portability: support for UnixWare 2.1 by Dmitry E. Kiselyov,
Nizhny Novgorod City Health Emergency Station.
Feature: configurable delays in the smtpstone test programs.
With input by Philip A. Prindeville, Mirapoint, Inc., USA.
Files: smtpstone/*.c.
Bugfix: a "signal 11" problem in the trivial-rewrite program
that would occasionally happen after "postfix reload".
Reason: some rewrite clients would clobber their input,
and when they had to retransmit the query, the input would
be a zero-length string, which trivial-rewrite isn't supposed
to receive.
19990314
Feature: "mailbox_transport = cyrus" delegates all local
mailbox delivery to a master.cf entry called "cyrus" (the
same trick for procmail), including users not found in the
UNIX passwd database. This gives the flexibility of $name
expansions by the pipe mailer, without losing local aliases
and ~/.forward processing. Result of discussions with Rupa
Schomaker, RS Consulting.
19990315
Feature: the mydestination parameter can now be an empty
string, for hosts that don't receive any mail locally. Be
sure to specify a default route for mail that comes to the
machine or mail will loop.
19990316
Bugfix: the SMTPD check scaffolding didn't apply the same
sanity checks as the production code. Problem reported by
Alain Thivillon, Herve Schauer Consultants, France. File:
smtpd/smtpd_check.c.
Portability: some systems can have more than 59 seconds in
a minute. Based on a fix by Liviu Daia, Institute of
Mathematics, Romanian Academy. File: global/mail_date.c.
Enhancement: include the client network address in the
rejected by RBL response. Lamont Jones, Hewlett-Packard.
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Workaround: use fstat() to figure out if the maildrop is
world-writable. access() uses the real uid, which stinks.
Robustness: don't do partial address lookups (user@, domain,
user, @domain) with regexp-style tables.
Security: don't allow regexp-style tables to be used for
aliases. It would be too easy to slip in "|command" or
:include: or /file/name.
19990317
Feature: "fallback_transport = cyrus" delegates non-UNIX
recipients to a master.cf entry called "cyrus", allowing
you to have both UNIX and non-UNIX mailboxes side by side.
19990319
Workaround: on 4.4 BSD derivatives, fstat() can return
EBADF on an open file descriptor. Now, that was a surprise.
This caused std{out,err} from cron commands to not be
delivered.
Bugfix: "local -v" stopped working.
Workaround: more watchdog timers for postfix-unfriendly
systems. By now every Postfix daemon has one. Call it life
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Robustness: increased the maximal time to receive or deliver
mail from $ipc_timeout (default: 3600 seconds) to the more
generous $daemon_timeout (default: 18000 seconds). We don't
want false alarms.
Portability: IRIX 5.2 does not have usleep().
19990320
Bugfix: \username was broken. Frank Dziuba was the first
to notice.
19990321
Workaround: from now on, Postfix on Solaris uses stream
pipes instead of UNIX-domain sockets. Despite workarounds,
the latter were causing more trouble than anything else on
all systems combined.
19990322
Portability: the makedefs would mis-identify IRIX 6.5.x as
IRIX 5.x. Fix by Brian Truelsen of Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller
Institute for Production Technology, Denmark.
Feature: reject_unknown_recipient_domain restriction for
recipient addresses. For the sake of symmetry, we now also
have reject_unknown_sender_domain. This means the old
reject_unknown_address restriction is being phased out.
Suggested by Rask Ingemann Lambertsen, Denmark Technical
University.
Feature: unknown sender/recipient domain restrictions now
distinguish between soft errors (always: 450) and hard
errors (configurable with the unknown_address_reject_code
parameter, default: 450; use 550 at your own risk).
Feature: no HELO junk mail restrictions means that no syntax
check will be done on HELO/EHLO hostname arguments.
Bugfix: the initial Solaris workaround for UNIX-domain
sockets could cause the queue manager to block if Postfix
ran into a delivery agent process limit. After another code
rewrite that problem is eliminated. Thanks to Chris
Cappuccio, Empire Net, for assistance with testing.
19990323
Bugfix: too much forwarding when users list their own name
in their .forward file (e.g. mail to user@localhost would
go through .forward, would be forwarded to user@$myorigin,
and would go through .forward again). Problem reported by
Roman Dolejsi, Prague University of Economics.
19990324
Bugfix: missing map name in check_xxx_access restrictions
could cause a segmentation error. Lamont Jones, Hewlett-
Packard.
Feature: forward_path configuration parameter (default:
$home/.forward$recipient_delimiter$extension,$home/.forward).
Based on initial code by Philip A. Prindeville, Mirapoint,
Inc., USA. Files: local/dotforward.c.
19990325
Workaround: Solaris NIS alias maps need special entries
(YP_MASTER_NAME, YP_LAST_MODIFIED). What's worse, normal
keys/values include a null byte at the end, but the YP_XXX
ones don't. Problem reported by Walcir Fontanini, state
university of Campinas, Brazil. File: postalias/postalias.c.
Compatibility: Solaris NIS apparently does include a null
byte at the end of keys and values. File: util/sys_defs.h.
Feature: library support for config parameters that are
not $name expanded at program start-up. This was needed
for forward_path, and will also be needed to make message
headers customizable.
Bugfix: pcre didn't handle \\ right. Lamont Jones, Hewlett-
Packard. File: util/dict_pcre.c.
19990326
Compatibility: Postfix now puts two spaces after the sender
in a "From sender date..." header. Found by John A. Martin,
fixed by Lamont Jones, Hewlett-Packard.
Bugfix: when a recipient appeared multiple times in a local
alias or include expansion, the delivery status could be
left uninitialized, causing the mail to be deferred and
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delivered again. File: local/recipient.c.
19990327
Cleanup: the dictionary routines now take an extra flag
argument to control such things as warning about duplicates,
and appending null bytes to key/value. The latter was needed
for a clean implementation of NIS master alias maps support.
Feature: POSIX regular expressions by Lamont Jones. See
config/sample-regexp.c. Right now, enabled on *BSD and
LINUX only.
19990328
Code cleanup: dictionaries now have flags that say whether
lookup keys are fixed strings or whether keys are subjected
to pattern matching. This is needed to avoid passing partial
addresses to regexp-based lookup tables (user, @domain,
user@, domain). Files: util/dict*.c.
Bugfix: fixed memory leaks and core dumps in the regexp
and pcre routines (neither handled an empty pattern file).
19990329
Code cleanup: the dictionary I/O routines now do their own
locking depending on dictionary flag settings. This means
that the low-level dict_get() interface can now be used
for safe dictionary lookups. This is needed for 19990328's
partial lookup key support. Files: util/dict*.c. global/maps.c.
Feature: regular expression matches are no longer limited
to user@domain address forms in access/canonical/virtual
maps, but can also be used for domains in transport maps.
This needed the partial lookup key support to avoid passing
partial addresses to regexp-based lookup tables (user,
@domain, user@, domain). Files: global/maps.c
global/mail_addr_find.c.
Feature: new dictionary types can be registered with
dict_open_register(). File: util/dict_open.c.
19990330
Bug fix: match_list membership dictionary lookups were case
sensitive when they should not. Patch by Lutz Jaenicke,
BTU Cottbus, Germany.
19990402
Feature: $domain macro support in forward_path. Philip A.
Prindeville, Mirapoint, Inc., USA. File: local/dotforward.c.
Feature: if an address extension (+foo) is explicitly
matched by the .forward+foo file name, do not propagate
the extension to recipient addresses. This is more consistent
with the way aliases are expanded. File: local/dotforward.c.
19990404
Bugfix: after receiving mail, the SMTP server didn't reset
the cleanup error flag, so that multiple deliveries over
the same SMTP session could fail due to errors with previous
deliveries. Found by Lamont Jones, Hewlett-Packard.
19990405
Feature: MIME-encapsulated bounces. Philip A. Prindeville,
Mirapoint, Inc., USA. File: bounce/bounce_notify_service.c
Cleanup: vstreams now properly look at the EOF flag before
attempting to read, eliminating the need for typing Ctrl-D
twice to test programs; the EOF flag is reset after each
unget or seek operation. Files: util/vstream.c, util/vbuf.c.
Feature: in preparation for configurable message headers
the mac_parse() routine now balances the parentheses in
${name} or $(name). We need this in order to support
conditional expressions such as ${name?text} where `text'
contains other ${name} expressions.
19990406
Cleanup: changed MIME header information to make bounces
more RFC 1892 compliant.
19990407
Feature: "best_mx_transport = local" delivers mail locally
if the local machine is the best mail exchanger (by default,
mail is bounced with a "mail loops back to myself" error).
Config: in order to make feature tracking easier the source
code distribution now has a copy of the default settings
in conf/main.cf.default.
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Feature: separate configurable postmaster addresses for
single bounces (bounce_notice_recipient), double bounces
(2bounce_notice_recipient), delayed mail (delay_notice_recipient),
and for other mailer errors (error_notice_recipient). The
default for all is "postmaster".
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Workaround: on Solaris 2.x, the master appears to lose its
exclusive lock on the master.pid file, so keep grabbing
the lock each time the master wakes up from select().
Robustness: don't flush VSTREAM buffers after I/O error.
This prevents surprises when calling vstream_fclose() after
truncating a mailbox to its original size.
Portability: on LINUX systems, if <db_185.h> exists, don't
look for <db/db.h>.
Workaround: specify "sun_mailtool_compatibility = yes" to
avoid clashes with the mailtool application. This disables
kernel locks on mailbox files. Use only where needed.
Portability: renamed readline to readlline, to avoid clashes
with mysql.
19990409
Bugfix: ignore temp queue files that aren't old enough.
Problem reported by Vivek Khera, Khera Communications, Inc.
Bugfix: fixed typo in dict_db.c that caused processes to
not release DB shared locks.
Feature: auto-detection of changes to DB or DBM lookup
tables. This avoids the need to run "postfix reload" after
change to the smtp access table and other tables.
Feature: regular expression checks for message headers.
This requires support for POSIX or for PCRE regular
expressions. Specify "header_checks = regexp:/file/name"
or "header_checks = pcre:/file/name", and specify
"/^header-name: badstuff/ REJECT" in the pattern file
(patterns are case-insensitive by default). Code by Lamont
Jones, Hewlett-Packard. It is to be expected that full
content filtering will be delegated to an external command.
19990410
Bugfix: auto-detection of changes to DB or DBM lookup tables
wasn't done for TCP connections.
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19990410
Feature: $recipient expansion in forward_path. Philip A.
Prindeville, Mirapoint, Inc., USA. File: local/dotforward.c
Feature: the smtp client consistently treats a numerical
hostname as an address. File: smtp/smtp_addr.c.
19990414
Compatibility: support comment lines starting with # in
$mydestination include files. This makes Postfix more
compatible with sendmail.cw files. File: util/match_list.c.
Feature: if your machines have short host names, specify
"mydomain = domain.name", and you no longer have to specify
"myhostname = host.domain.name". Files: global/mail_params.c,
postconf/postconf.c.
19990420
Cleanup: bounce mail when a mailbox goes over file quota,
instead of deferring delivery. File: local/mailbox.c.
19990421
Feature: auto-detection of changes to DB or DBM lookup
tables now includes the case where a file is unlinked.
Philip A. Prindeville, Mirapoint, Inc., USA. File:
util/dict.c.
19990422
Robustness: Lotus mail sends MAIL FROM: <@> instead of <>.
Problem reported by Erik Toubro Nielsen, IFAD, Denmark.
Files: trivial-rewrite/rewrite.c (@ becomes empty address)
and global/rewrite_clnt.c (allow empty response).
Bugfix: showq could segfault when writing to a broken pipe.
Problem reported by Bryan Fullerton, Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation. Files: util/vbuf_print.c.
Cleanup: got rid of the "fatal: write error: Broken pipe"
message when mailq output is piped into a program that
terminates early.
Cleanup: bounce messages are multipart/mixed with the error
report as part of the first message segment, because users
had trouble extracting the delivery error report from the
attachment.
19990423
Cleanup: the default junk mail reject code is now 554
(service unavailable) rather than 550 (user unknown).
Folded in the updated dict_ldap.c module by John Hensley,
Merit Network, USA.
Folded in the vstream_popen.c updates by Philip A.
Prindeville, Mirapoint, Inc., USA. This copies a lot of
code from pipe_command(); the next step is to trim that
module.
19990425
Workaround: renamed config.h to mail_conf.h etc. in order
to avoid name collisions with LINUX (yes, they have a system
include file called config.h). For compatibility with people
who have written software for Postfix, there's a config.h
that aliases the old names to the new ones. That file will
go away eventually.
19990426
Feature: error mailer, in order to easily bounce mail for
specific destinations. In the transport table, specify:
"host.domain error:host.domain is unavailable". Too bad
that the transport table triggers on destination domain
only; it would be nice to bounce specific users as well.
19990427
Cleanup: "disable_dns_lookups = yes" now should disable
all DNS lookups by the SMTP client.
19990428
Bugfix: with DBM files, Postfix was watching the "dir" file
modification time for changes. It should be watching the
"pag" file instead.
19990429
Cleanup: all callbacks in the master to server API now pass
on the service name and the application-specific argument
vector. Files: master/*server.c.
19990504
Feature: conditional macro expansion. ${name?text} expands
to text when name is defined, otherwise the result is empty.
${name:text} expands to text when name is undefined,
otherwise the result is empty. File: util/mac_expand.c.
Feature: conditional macro expansion of the forward_path
configuration parameters of $user, $home, $shell, $recipient,
$extension, $domain, $mailbox and $recipient_delimiter.
Files: local/dotforward.c, local/local_expand.c.
19990506
Cleanup: eliminated misleading warnings about unknown HELO
etc. SMTPD restrictions when the HELO etc. information is
not available. File: smtpd/smtpd_check.c.
19990507
Feature: all smtpd reject messages now contain the MAIL
FROM and RCPT TO addresses, if available.
19990508
Feature: conditional macro expansion of the luser_relay
configuration parameter. It is no longer possible to specify
/file/name or "|command" destinations. File: local/unknown.c.
Cleanup: changed the mac_parse interface so that the
application callback routine can return status information.
Updated the dict_regexp and dict_pcre modules accordingly.
Cleanup: changed the mac_expand interface so that the caller
provides an attribute lookup routine, instead of having to
provide a copy of all attributes upfront. Files:
util/mac_expand.c, local/local_expand.c.
Feature: control over how address extensions are propagated
to other addresses. By default, propagation of unmatched
address extensions is now restricted to canonical and
virtual mappings. Specify "propagate_unmatched_extensions
= canonical, virtual, alias, forward, include" to restore
previous behavior.
19990509
Feature: USER, EXTENSION, DOMAIN, RECIPIENT (entire address)
and MAILBOX (address localpart) environment variables are
exported to shell commands (including mailbox_command).
Feature: new command_expansion_filter parameter to control
what characters may appear in message attributes that are
exported via environment variables.
Cleanup: SMTPD reject messages are more informative, and
more complete sender/recipient information is logged for
the local sysadmin.
19990510
Bugfix: missing MIME header in postmaster bounce notices.
Found by Samuel Tardieu, Ecole Nationale Superieure des
Telecommunications, France.
Feature: UCE restrictions are always delayed until RCPT
TO, VRFY or ETRN. To change back to the default specify
"smtpd_delay_reject = no" in /etc/postfix/main.cf.
Bugfix: missing duplicate filter call. This caused too many
deliveries when a user is listed multiple times in an alias.
Reported by Hideyuki Suzuki, School of Engineering, University
of Tokyo. Backed out on 19990512 because it caused problems.
Fixed 19990513 but needs further study.
Feature: it is now possible to move queue files back into
the maildrop queue, so that they can benefit from changes
in canonical and virtual mappings. In order to make this
possible, some restrictions on queue file contents were
relaxed. Files: pickup/pickup.c, cleanup/cleanup_extracted.c.
Feature: made a start with integrating Joerg Henne's
dictionary extensions to remove entries and to iterate over
entries. That code is almost four months old by now.
19990511
Feature: added a "undeliverable postmaster notification
discarded" warning when mail is dropped on the floor.
Requested by Michael Hasenstein, SuSE, Germany.
19990517
Bugfix: reject_non_fqdn_sender/recipient would pass
user@[ip_address] regardless of destination. Eric Cholet
had the honor of suffering from this one.
19990527
More SMTP client logging for easier debugging: the smtp
client now logs hostname[ip.addr], and logs every failed
attempt to reach an MX host, not just the last one.
19990601
Bugfix: emit a blank line before a MIME boundary; the line
is part of the boundary. File: bounce/bounce_notify_service.c.
Wolfgang Segmuller, IBM Research.
19990610
Bugfix: the "is this the loopback interface" test was
broken. Reported by Claus Fischer @microworld.com. File:
smtp/smtp_connect.c.
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are being ignored after check_relay_domains, etc.
Portability: Reliant Unix support by Gert-Jan Looy, Siemens,
the Netherlands.
19990611
Robustness: the postfix-script start-up procedure now
detects a missing master program, avoiding misleading
warnings that the mail system is already running. Fix
suggested by David E. Smith @technopagan.org.
Portability: Mac OS X Server Port by Mark Miller @swoon.net.
Feature: on systems that use dotlock files for mailbox
locking, the local delivery agent now will attempt to use
dotlock files when delivering to user-specified files.
Dotlock files for user-specified destinations are created
with the privileges of the user. For backwards compatibility,
Postfix will attempt to create dotlocks for user-specified
destinations only when the user has parent directory write
permission.
Feature: specify "expand_owner_alias = yes" in order to
use the right-hand side of an owner- alias, instead of
using the left-hand side address. Needed by Juergen Georgi.
19990622
Bugfix: the local delivery agent did not set user attributes
when delivering to root, so that forward_path did not expand
properly. Found by Jozsef Kadlecsik, KFKI Research Institute
for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungary. File:
local/dotforward.c.
Bugfix: the unix:passwd.byname mechanism is not suitable
for smtpd access control - the user name would have to end
in @, or the access control software would have to be
changed. Removed the example from the RELEASE_NOTES file.
19990623
Bugfix: the smtp server did not reset the error flag after
".". Found by James Ponder, Oaktree Internet Solutions Ltd.
File: smtpd/smtpd.c.
Bugfix: fencepost error in the doze() routine (an usleep()
replacement for systems without one). Found by Simon J
Mudd. File: util/doze.c.
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Portability: support for AIX 3.2.5 (!) by Florian Lohoff
@rfc822.org.
Portability: Ultrix 4.3 support by Christian von Roques
@pond.sub.org.
Feature: mysql support by Scott Cotton and Joshua Marcus,
Internet Consultants Group, Inc. Files: util/dict_myqsl.*.
19990627
Bugfix: Postfix is now distributed under the new IBM Public
License (version 1, dated June 14, 1999).
Feature: the Delivered-To: header can be turned off for
delivery to command or file/mailbox. The default setting
is: "prepend_delivered_header = command, file, forward".
Turning off the Delivered-To: header when forwarding mail
is not recommended.
19990628
Feature: the postlock command now returns EX_TEMPFAIL when
the destination file is locked by another process.
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19990705
Workaround: in the SMTP client, move the "mail loops back
to myself test" from the 220 greeting to the HELO response.
This change does not weaken the test, and makes Postfix
more robust against broken software that greets with the
client hostname.
19990706
Workaround: in the INSTALL file, use `&&' instead of `;'
in (cd path; tar ...) pipelines because some UNIX re-invented
shells don't bail out when cd fails. Matthias Andree
@stud.uni-dortmund.de.
19990709
Bugfix: $user was not set when delivering to a non-user.
Found by Vladimir Ulogov @ rohan.control.att.com when
configuring a luser_relay that contained $user.
19990714
Robustness: add PATH statement to Solaris2 chroot setup
script to avoid running the ucb commands. Problem found by
Panagiotis Astithas @ ece.ntua.gr.
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19990721
Bugfix: don't claim a "mail loops to myself" error when
the best MX host was not found in the DNS. Found by Andrew
McNamara, connect.com.au Pty Ltd. File: smtp/smtp_addr.c.
19990810
Feature: added "-c config_dir" support to the postconf
command. This probably means that "-f file" will never be
implemented.
19990812
Bugfix: showq didn't print properly when listing a maildrop
file. Fix by: Andrew McNamara, connect.com.au Pty Ltd.
File: showq/showq.c.
Feature: added SENDER to the list of parameters exported
to external commands. File: local/command.c. Code by: Lars
Hecking, National Microelectronics Research Centre, Ireland.
19990813
Bugfix: sendmail -t (extract recipients from headers) did
not work when the always_bcc feature was turned on. Reported
by: Denis Shaposhnikov @ neva.vlink.ru.
19990813
Bugfix: "sendmail -bd" returns a bogus exit status (the
child process ID). Fix by Lamont Jones of Hewlett-Packard.
File: sendmail/sendmail.c.
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Bugfix: null pointer dereference while rejecting VRFY before
MAIL FROM. Found by Laurent Wacrenier @ fr.clara.net.
19990826
Portability: more MacOS X Server patches; some NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP
code that had been removed for the first public beta release;
NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP now defaults to netinfo for the aliases
database. Submitted by Gerben Wierda.
Portability: workaround for a FreeBSD 3.x active network
interface without IP address by Pierre Beyssac @ enst.fr.
File: inet_addr_local.c.
19990831
Workaround: sendmail now prints a warning when installed
set-uid or when run by a set-uid command. Reportedly, the
linuxconf software turns on the set-uid bit, which could
open up a security loophole. File: sendmail/sendmail.c.
Bugfix: Postfix daemons now temporarily lock DB/DBM files
while opening them, in order to avoid "invalid argument"
errors because some other process is changing the file.
Files: util/dict_db.c, util/dict_dbm.c.
Robustness: Postfix locks queue files during delivery, to
prevent duplicate delivery when "postfix reload" is
immediately followed by "sendmail -q". This involves a
change of the deliver_request interface: delivery agents
no longer need to open and close queue files explicitly.
Files: global/deliver_request.c, pipe/pipe.c, smtp/smtp.c,
local/local.c, qmgr/qmgr_active.c, qmgr/qmgr_message.c.
Feature: reject_unauth_destination SMTP recipient restriction
that rejects destinations not in $relay_domains. By Lamont
Jones of Hewlett-Packard. File: smtpd/smtpd_check.c.