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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.
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.
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.
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20090605
Bugfix: "postmulti -e destroy" used hard-coded /bin/env
command. Simplified the "destroy" procedure to destroy only
known safe names without "/". File: conf/postmulti-script.
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.
20090712
Bugfix (garbage introduced Postfix 2.6): the ugly
${multi_instance_name:postfix}${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.
20090805
Bugfix: don't panic when an unexpected smtpd access map is
specified. File: smtpd/smtpd_check.c.
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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.
20091012
Bugfix: postmulti did not skip commands with -p. Luca
Berra. File: postmulti/postmulti.c.
20091026
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.
20091209
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.
20091229
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.
20100107
Documentation: the access(5) manual page did not document
the "send 521 and disconnect" behavior in the Postfix SMTP
server. 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.
20100115
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.
20100116
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.
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.
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
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.
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): the Milter client reported
some "file too large" errors as temporary errors. Problem
reported by Michael Tokarev. File: milter/milter8.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): the local(8) delivery
agent ignored table lookup errors in mailbox_command_maps,
mailbox_transport_maps, and fallback_transport_maps. Problem
reported by William Ono. Files: local/command.c, local/mailbox.c,
local/unknown.c.
20110601
Cleanup: don't supply the "-o stress" command-line option
with a single-process service. File: master/master_ent.c.
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.
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.