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is made available as "nqmgr".
20000528
Feature: the SMTP client SASL password file can contain
entries for destination domain names (the address remote
part) not just mail server hostnames. File: smtp_sasl_glue.c.
Feature: smtpd_sasl_local_domain parameter (default:
$myhostname) to specify the local SASL authentication realm.
File: smtpd_sasl_glue.c.
Feature: specify "body_checks=regexp:/file/name" for a very
crude one line at a time message body content filter. This
feature uses the same filtering syntax as the header_checks
feature. File: cleanup/cleanup_message.c. See also the
conf/sample-filter.cf file.
20000530
Feature: full content filtering through external software.
This uses existing interfaces for sending mail to the
external content filter and for injecting it back into
Postfix. Details in FILTER_README. Files: pickup/pickup.c,
smtpd/smtpd.c, qmgr/qmgr_message.c.
20000531
More SASL feedback by Liviu Daia, regarding the use of
authentication realms. File smtpd/smtpd_sasl_glue.c.
Added a simple shell-script based content filtering example
to the FILTER_README file.
Content filtering support for nqmgr by Patrik Rak. File:
nqmgr/qmgr_message.c.
Renamed "content inspection" etc. to "content filtering"
in anticipation of a new hook for content inspection that
only inspects mail without re-injecting it into Postfix.
20000601
Feature: limit the size of pipe mailer deliveries with the
size=nnn command-line attribute. Patch by Andrew McNamara.
20000603
Bugfix: don't try to do SASL authentication when running
in stand-alone (sendmail -bs) mode. Fix by Liviu Daia.
Bug: the unauthorized pipelining test fails with single
recipient mail when smtpd_delay_reject = yes.
20000617
Bugfix: conf/sample-ldap.cf was no longer up to date with
reality. Patch by Lamont Jones, HP.
Bugfix: the maildir delivery routine left temporary files
lying around after unsuccessful delivery (problem reported
by Brian Laughton @ Corp.Axxent.Ca).
20000621
AIX 4.x had POSIX regular expression support all the time
I was working on Postfix. Better find out late than never.
20000623
Bugfix: the SMTP server did not reset the so-called junk
command counter after successful delivery (Mark Hoffman @
wallst.com). File: smtpd/smtpd.c.
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20000625
Cleanup: remove Content-Length from incoming mail. The
sender has no authority over the format of mail as stored
by the receiving system. File: global/header_opts.h.
Feature: rewrite Mail-Followup-To: as sender. Files:
global/header_opts.[hc].
Cleanup: rewrite Reply-To, Errors-To, Return-Receipt-To as
sender, so that address masquerading works as expected.
Files: global/header_opts.c.
Feature: specify "require_home_directory = yes" to prevent
mail from being delivered to a user whose home directory
is not mounted. File: local/dotforward.c.
Cleanup: the pipe deliver agent no longer appends a blank
line when the F flag (prepend From_ line) is specified.
Specify the B flag if you need that blank line. The local
delivery agent no longer appends a blank line to mail that
is delivered to external command. Files: pipe/pipe.c,
global/mail_copy.[hc].
20000708
Portability: support for NEXT/OPENSTEP requires extra
include file in util/watchdog.c (Masaki Murase).
20000715
Added macros to turn on vstream/vstring/etc. format string
checking by gcc, in addition to the checking that was
already implemented with printfck. File: util/sys_defs.h,
the macros for PRINTFLIKE and SCANFLIKE. Problem - unlike
the printfck tool, gcc finds format argument type mismatches
only in code that isn't #ifdef-ed out.
20000718
Robustness: make_dirs() now continues when a missing
directory is created by another process.
20000720
Feature: the queue manager now logs the number of recipients
when opening a queue file (a zero recipient count is logged
with older queue files). File: global/opened.c.
20000726
Robustness: added watchdog_pat() routine to keep the watchdog
quiet if a client stays connected for a lot of time. Files:
util/watchdog.[hc], smtpd/smtpd.c.
20000729
Robustness: if relayhost is specified but the host does
not exist, defer mail instead of bouncing it (which would
lose the mail if the bounce would have to be delivered to
that same non-existent relayhost). Problem reported by
Chris Cooper @ maths.ox.ac.uk. File: smtp/smtp_connect.c.
20000821
Feature: added -r (replace key+value) option to postalias
and postmap.
Cleanup: smtpd now replies with 555 when the client sends
unrecognized RCPT TO parameters, as required by RFC 1869
(problem report by Robert Norris @ its.monash.edu.au).
File: smtpd/smtpd.c.
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Logging: the SMTP server's SASL code logs the authentication
method along with an authentication failure. Suggested by
Ronald F. Guilmette @ monkeys.com.
Workaround: some systems have file size resource limits
that cannot be represented with the off_t type that is used
by standard functions such as lseek(2). Problem reported
by Blaz Zupan @ amis.net.
20000823
Feature: all this discussion about when to reject mail and
when not made me decide to implement a TCP-based map type
so that it becomes relatively simple to implement dynamic
access controls, for example, hold off mail from an unknown
client or sender until we have completed some investigation,
after which we will either reject or accept.
However, this code is turned off until it is finished.
20000905
Robustness: the dns client now rejects malformed domain
names rather than depending on the DNS to report that the
name does not exist. Linux returns a rather misleading
server failure code as found out by Patrik Rak. File:
dns/dns_lookup.c.
20000911
Feature: added IGNORE keyword to header_checks and body_checks
to pretend that certain data does not exist. File:
cleanup/cleanup_message.c.
20000911
Bugfix: the SASL code did not allow MAIL FROM... AUTH=sender
without prior authentication. The RFC allows this, although
one wonders what the reasoning behind this is. File:
smtpd/smtpd_sasl_proto.c.
20000913
Bugfix: the rmail script did not handle remote UUCP systems
that send a from_ line with unqualified envelope sender.
Reported by Luciano Mannucci.
Compatibility: don't insert Sender: header lines. Sendmail
has not done so for at least 10 years, if it ever did.
Problem reported by Brad Knowles. File: cleanup/cleanup_message.c.
20000916
Bugfix: when propagating an address extension in a virtual
or canonical mapping, cleanup accesses memory that is no
longer allocated. This can happen when the result address
length is more than 100 characters. Problem reported by
Adi Prasaja @ satunet.com. File: global/mail_addr_crunch.c.
Bugfix: fixed a misleading error message when the cleanup
server reaches the queue file size limit. Fix by Robby
Griffin @ MIT.EDU. File: cleanup/cleanup_extracted.c.
20000917
Bugfix: postalias -i would complain about duplicate entries
for the Sendmail-compatible @ entry and for the NIS-compatible
YP_LAST_MODIFIED and YP_MASTER_NAME entries.
20000918
Gross hack: prevent looping on a bad recipient by always
forwarding recipients in :include: files to a new mail
delivery request, even when owner-listname is not set.
File: local/recipient.c.
20000919
Convenience: INSTALL.sh now imports default settings from
the process environment, in order to make scripting easier.
Robustness: INSTALL.sh now systematically skips over CVS,
RCS and SCCS cruft.
Portability: another fix for NEXTSTEP (Masaki MURASE).
File: util/spawn_command.h.
20000920
Cleanup: in a transport table entry, do not ignore port
numbers specified as [host]:port. In fact, this is now
becoming the preferred form, in order to avoid parsing
problems with IPV6 addresses. Postfix supports both forms,
but future versions will print a warning for the old form.
Problem reported by Claus Fischer @ werhats.at
Bugfix: missing initialization for state->sasl_method can
cause permit_sasl_authenticated to always succeed. Report
and fix by Lutz Jaenicke @ aet.TU-Cottbus.DE.
FAQ: added notes about how to delete, copy or restore queue
files in a safe manner.
20000921
File reorganization. No code change except Makefiles. All
sources are pushed down by one directory level to keep file
listings usable. Released as 20000922, so that I have a
reference to run "diff -cr against.
Bugfix: the spawn service was installed without man pages.
Portability: MacOSX hints and tips by Joe Block, University
of Central Florida School of Optics/CREOL
Portability: The MacOSX gcc compiler does not understand
the new printf_like/scanf_like attributes. File: util/sys_defs.h.
20000922
nqmgr update from Patrik Rak for the changed queue manager
to delivery agent protocol.
Lame feature: syslog_facility parameter to control where
syslogd sends Postfix logging (default: syslog_facility =
mail). However, errors during command-line parsing are
still logged with the default syslog facility, as are errors
while processing the main.cf file (surprise). Based on
code by Andrew McNamara.
20000923
Cleanup: new bounce logfile API so that Postfix can change
to an extensible bounce logfile format with per-recipient
sender addresses (needed for VERP and for reporting local
list delivery problems to the list owner) and other
attributes. File: global/bounce_log.[hc].
Cleanup: replaced the ad-hoc logfile parsing code in showq
by something that uses the generic bounce logfile API.
20000924
Feature: Postfix bounced mail and delayed mail notifications
now have the standard RFC 1894 form (DSN). The bounce
service now uses the generic bounce logfile API. File:
bounce/bounce_notify_service.c, bounce/bounce_notify_util.c.
Cleanup: deleted the per-recipient bounce protocol. Future
bounce logfiles will support per-recipient bounce addresses.
Files: global/bounce.c, bounce/bounce_recip_service.
20000925
Workaround: sendmail allows MAIL FROM and RCPT TO envelope
addresses like <the dude <dude@site>> so we will never get
rid of them. To disallow, specify "strict_rfc821_envelopes
= yes". File: smtpd/smtpd.c.
20000926-20001003
Feature: a "flush" server that keeps per-destination records
of deferred mail. It is the basis of a faster ETRN and
"sendmail -qRsite" implementation. This code was rewritten
half a dozen times.
20000928
Bugfix: the stricter dns_lookup() argument checks revealed
that Postfix was doing DNS lookups for domain literals
([ip.address]) when expanding aliases in MAIL FROM and RCPT
TO address parameters. Reported by Jim Littlefield. File:
smtp/smtp_unalias.c.
Documentation: added text on the biff=yes/no parameter to
conf/sample-local.cf (text provided by Paul Wagland,
relational-consultancy.com.
Robustness? Log errors from SASL library code as warnings
not as fatal errors. Files: smtp*/*glue.c.
20001001
Feature: in master.cf, specify ? after wakeup time to avoid
waking up services that aren't being used.
20001003
Feature: the fast flush refresh and purge time interval
parameters can now be specified in user-specified units by
providing an appropriate suffix: s (seconds), m (minutes),
h (hours), d (days), w (weeks). unit. This was needed so
that I could test the flush server code in a reasonable
way (its timeouts are normally specified in days or hours,
and I don't have that much time for testing). Other Postfix
time interval parameters will be migrated as time permits.
Files: conf/sample-flush.cf, global/mail_conf_time.c,
postconf/postconf.c.
Unfeature: qmgr_hog_factor is now disabled by default. It
was just too confusing. If you don't know what this means,
do not worry.
20001005
Cleanup: after "postfix reload" do not penalize mail that
was in the active queue, but make it ready for immediate
delivery so that ETRN etc. works as intended. Files:
*qmgr/qmgr.c, *qmgr/qmgr_active.c.
Portability: Redhat 7 library interfaces have changed
incompatibly, which breaks existing software. File makedefs.
Consistency: the fallback_relay parameter did not understand
the [] or host:port syntax, and there was no way to suppress
MX record lookups. Files: smtp/smtp_addr.c, smtp/smtp_connect.c.
Convenience: you can now specify multiple SMTP destinations
in the relayhost or fallback_relay configuration parameters.
The specified destinations will be tried in the specified
order. File: smtp/smtp_connect.c.
Many typographical corrections by Matthias Andree.
20001024
Documentation: the canonical, virtual etc. manual pages
did not document the effect of leading whitespace.
20001025
Bugfix: virtual map expansion stopped too early with
self-referential aliases. Reported by Michael Douglass @
datafoundry.net. File: cleanup/cleanup_map1n.c.
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20001026
Horror: postmap and postalias (newaliases) silently lose
the file lock while building a lookup table with Berkeley
DB 2.x and later on Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, and UNIXWARE.
The result is that table lookups fail while the table is
being built, so that mail is lost. In order to avoid this
misbehavior one has to use an undocumented feature that is
NOT available with the DB1.85 compatibility interface.
Therefore, Postfix now supports three Berkeley DB programming
interfaces of increasing complexity. File: util/dict_db.c.
Bugfix: some character manipulations were not portable for
signed/unsigned characters. Files: global/quote_821_local.c,
global/quote_822_local.c.
Workaround: apparently, some software sends SMTP mail that
begins with "From sender time-stamp". Sendmail silently
ignores such RFC violating garbage, and therefore Postfix
needs to jump another hoop. File: smtpd/smtpd.c.
20001028
Bugfix: the flush server tried to access config files after
going to the chroot jail. Found by Lutz Jaenicke, TU-Cottbus.DE.
File: flush/flush.c.
Update: revised LDAP module from primary maintainer John
Hensley, with contributions from many other people. Files:
util/dict_ldap.c, LDAP_README.
Update: LINUX2 chroot setup script by Matthias Andree,
uni-dortmund.de.
Feature: specify unix:/path/name for LMTP connections over
UNIX-domain sockets, and specify inet:host or inet:host:port
for IPV4. If no unix: or inet: is specified, IPV4 is assumed.
File: lmtp/lmtp_connect.c.
Feature: added UNIX-domain support to the smtpstone test
programs in order to test the LMTP client UNIX-domain
support.
20001030
Bugfix: further testing in preparation for 19991231-pl10
revealed that the DB map code was now broken for every
platform.
20001031
Performance: the slow start (gradually increase number of
parallel connections to the same site) was too gentle and
Postfix would back off too quickly. Files: qmgr/qmgr_queue.c
and nqmgr/qmgr_queue.c.
20001101
FAQ update by Ralph Hildebrandt.
20001104
Portability: RedHat Linux has changed incompatibly, again.
Fixed with the help of Matthias Andree. File: makedefs.
20001109
Cleanup: changed prototype of internal function that did
not return a useful result. File: src/util/vstream_popen.c.
20001110
Workaround: the Debian post install script passes an open
file descriptor into the master server and waits forever.
Reported by Lamont Jones. File: master/master.c.
20001114
Compatibility: added sendmail -G (gateway submission) option
for compatibility with the sendmail rmail command. Requested
by David Gilbert, Velocet Communications.
20001116
Documentation: added MAILER-DAEMON to the list of sample
masquerade_exceptions settings in conf/sample-rewrite.cf.
Suggested by Karl O. Pinc, pop.artic.edu.
Performance: the slow start (gradually increase number of
parallel connections to the same site) was too gentle and
Postfix would back off too quickly. Files: qmgr/qmgr_queue.c
and nqmgr/qmgr_queue.c. Yup, changed the same code, again.
We now allow for a margin above the actual concurrency,
with the size of the initial destination concurrency.
Final solution by Patrik Rak.
Bugfix: the recipient home directory test broke mailbox_transport
support for non-UNIX recipients. File: local/recipient.c.
20001117
Robustness: additional integrity tests for the nqmgr by
Patrik Rak. File: nqmgr/qmgr_message.c.
20001118
Bugfix: the new LDAP client code did not work properly if
the new ldap_domain parameter was not specified. LaMont
Jones, HP. File: util/dict_ldap.c.
Feature: the soft_bounce safety net is extended to the SMTP
server. With "soft_bounce = yes", The SMTP server changes
all 5xx (reject) replies into 4xx (try again) replies.
Documentation: the virtual(5) man page now documents both
Postfix-style virtual domains and Sendmail-style virtual
domains, including their interaction with local usernames,
aliases and mailing lists. Hopefully, this ends some of
the confusion surrounding virtual domain support. Updated
several FAQ entries concerning virtual domain support.
Documentation: added FAQ entry for the biff service.
20001119
Bugfix: per-destination queue names were case sensitive so
that the same site could have multiple queues. Reported
by Patrik Rak. Files: *qmgr/qmgr_message.c.
20001120
Bugfix: per-destination deferred mail logfiles were case
sensitive so that the same site could have multiple deferred
mail logfiles, so that not all mail would be flushed with
ETRN. Reported by Ralph Hildebrandt. Files: flush/flush.c.
Portability: added (int) casts to printf-like arguments
that specify the width of %*letter conversions. On some
systems, sizeof and pointer difference expressions are
wider than an int. Reported by Valentin Nechayev @ lucky.net.
20001121:
Compatibility: Postfix now retries delivery when an external
command is killed by a signal, because people expect such
behavior from Sendmail. File: global/pipe_command.c.
20001123-30
Feature: mailbox locking is now configurable. The configuration
parameter name is "mailbox_delivery_lock". Depending on
the operating system one can specify one or more of "flock",
"fcntl" and "dotlock". Use "postconf -l" to find out what
locking methods Postfix supports. The default setting is
system dependent. All mailbox file opens are now done by
one central mbox_open() routine. This affects the operation
of the postlock command, and of local delivery to mailbox
or /file/name. Files: util/safe_open.c, util/myflock.c,
global/deliver_flock.c, global/mbox_conf.c, global/mbox_open.c.
local/mailbox.c, local/file.c, postlock/postlock.c.
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Compatibility: the old sun_mailtool_compatibility parameter
is being phased out. It still works (by turning off
flock/fcntl locks), but logs a warning as a reminder that
it will go away.
Compatibility: when delivering to /file/name, the local
delivery agent now logs a warning when it is unable to
create a /file/name.lock file, and then delivers the mail
(older Postfix versions would silently deliver).
20001202
Feature: specify "smtp_never_send_ehlo = no" to disable
ESMTP. Someone asked for this long ago. Files: smtp/smtp.c,
smtp/smtp_proto.c.
Feature? Bugfix? The smtp client now skips server replies
that do not start with "CODE SPACE" or with "CODE HYPHEN",
and flags them as protocol errors. Older versions silently
treat "CODE TEXT" as "CODE SPACE TEXT". File: smtp/smtp_chat.c.
20001203
Documentation: postmap(1) and postalias(1) did not document
the process exit status for "-q key".
20001204
Bugfix: the Postfix master daemon no longer imported
MAIL_CONF and some other necessary environment parameters.
Postfix now has explicit "import_environment" and
"export_environment" configuration parameters that control
what environment parameters are shared with non-Postfix
processes. Files: util/clean_env.c, util/spawn_command.c,
util/vstream_popen.c, global/pipe_command.c, and everything
that invokes this code.
20001208
Bugfix: while processing massive amounts of one-recipient
mail, qmgr could deadlock for 10 seconds while sending a
bounce message. All queue manager bounce send requests are
now implemented asynchronously. Files: global/abounce.[hc]
(asynchronous bounce client), qmgr/qmgr_active.c. Problem
reported by El Bunzo (webpower.nl) and Tiger Technologies
(tigertech.com).
20001209
Feature: mailbox_transport and fallback_transport can now
have the form transport:nexthop, with suitable defaults
when either transport or nexthop are omitted, just like in
the Postfix transport map. This allows you to specify for
example, "mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/file/name". File:
global/deliver_pass.c.
20001210
Bugfix: the local_destination_concurrency_limit paramater
no longer worked as per-user concurrency limit but instead
worked as per-domain limit, so that the limit of "2" in
the default main.cf files resulted in poor local delivery
performance. Files: qmgr/qmgr_message.c, qmgr/qmgr_deliver.c.
Problem reported by David Schweikert (ee.ethz.ch) and Dallas
Wisehaupt (cynicism.com).
20001210
Feature: support for MYSQL connections over UNIX-domain
sockets by Piotr Klaban. Files: util/dict_mysql.c,
MYSQL_README.
20001211
Small dirt: postconf -m produced too much output due to a
missing "else", and the optional SASL code needed a fix
for the changed name_mask API.
20001212
Workaround: due to an error, record type L for "filter
transport name" was the same as that for the already existing
record type L for "record not ending in newline", causing
the pickup daemon to discard all records not ending in
newline. The code cannot be changed without breaking
compatibility with queued mail, so the pickup server is
changed to discard type L records only from the message
envelope, not from the content. File: pickup/pickup.c.
20001213
Bugfix: dict_ldap did not properly initialize a handle
after connection timeout. Problem reported by Alain Thivillon.
File: util/dict_ldap.c.
20001214
Feature: local_transport and default_transport now also
understand the transport[:destination] notation, so that
all transport config parameters are similar again. File:
trivial-rewrite/resolve.c, trivial-rewrite/transport.c.
Code cleanup: mailbox_transport and fallback_transport no
longer allow the user to omit the transport part of a
transport:destination specification. That just did not make
any sense at all. The :destination part is still optional.
File: global/deliver_pass.c.
Feature: most time-related configuration parameters take
a one-letter suffix that specifies the time unit: s
(second), m (minutes), h (hours), d (days), w (weeks).
"postconf -d" output includes the default time unit. Files:
many.
Code cleanup: in a CONFIG_TIME_TABLE, the default time unit
is now always the last character of a default time value.
It is no longer necessary to specify the default time unit
separately. This change means that it will not be possible
to specify default values in the form of function calls,
but that was unused anyway. Files: global/mail_conf_time.c,
and user code.
20001217
Bugfix: reorganized some code in the MYSQL client to end
a number of memory allocation/deallocation problems. This
code needs more work. File: dict_mysql.c.
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Bugfix: the MYSQL client did not provide function pointers
for unimplemented operations, causing "postmap -d" to dump
core instead if issuing an error message. This is what I
get for accepting code that I cannot test myself.
20001221
Code cleanup: configuration parameters that are $name
expanded at run-time now have their own data type hierarchy
instead of being piggy-backed on top of strings that are
$name expanded at program initialization time. Files:
global/mail_conf.h, global/mail_conf_raw.c, and code that
calls it.
20001230
Update: replaced the default rbl.maps.vix.com setting by
the current blackholes.mail-abuse.org.
20010102
Code cleanup: the queue manager is a bit greedier with
allocating a delivery agent. Problem pointed out by Patrik
Rak. All bugs in the solution are mine. Files:
*qmgr/qmgr_active.c.
20010105
Bugfix: the FILTER_README shell script example did not
correctly pass exit status to the parent.
Bugfix: soft errors in client hostname lookups would be
treated as hard errors. Fix by Michael Herrmann
(informatik.tu-muenchen.de). File: smtpd/smtpd_peer.c.
20010110
Bugfix: the mkdir() EEXIST race condition workaround was
not complete. Matthias Andree, Daniel Roesen. Files:
global/mail_queue.c, util/make_dirs.c.
20010111
Portability: IRIX 6.5.10 defines sa_len as a macro, causing
a name collision with a variable used by Postfix. Roberto
Totaro, enigma.ethz.ch. File: smtpstone/smtp-source.c.
20010116
Bugfix: REJECT by header/body_checks was flagged in smtpd
as a bounce, should be policy, in order to make postmaster
notifications more consistent. File: smtpd/smtpd.c.
Merged updated chroot setup procedure by Matthias Andree.
Files: examples/chroot-setup/LINUX2.
20010117
Formatting: changed the seconds and days formats in the
"your mail is delayed" text so that it does not switch to
scientific notation. File: bounce/bounce_notify_util.c.
20010119
Feature: SASL support for the LMTP client. Recent CYRUS
software requires this for Postfix over TCP sockets.
20010120
Bugfix: the 20001005 revised fallback_relay support caused
Postfix to send mail to the fallback even when the local
machine was an MX host for the final destination. Result:
mailer loop. Found by Laurent Wacrenier (teaser.fr). Files:
smtp/smtp_connect.c, smtp/smtp_addr.c.
20010121
Workaround: specify "broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes" in
order to support old Microsoft clients that implement a
non-standard version of RFC 2554 (AUTH command).
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Workaround: Lotus Domino 5.0.4 violates RFC 2554 and replies
to EHLO with AUTH=LOGIN. File: smtp/smtp_proto.c.
20010125
Code cleanup: wrote creator/destructor for dictionary
objects that provides default methods that trap all attempts
to perform an unimplemented operation. Based on an ansatz
by Laurent Wacrenier (teaser.fr). Files: util/dict*.[hc].
Code cleanup: INSTALL.sh does not ask questions when stdin
is not connected to a tty (as in: make install</dev/null).
To automate a customized install, the script imports
environment variables for install_root etc.
20010127
Workaround: randomize the delay between attempts to lock
a file, so that multiple bounce or defer servers are less
likely to retry all at the same time. likely. File:
util/rand_sleep.c, global/deliver_flock.c, global/dot_lockfile.c.
20010128
Code cleanup: complaints about invalid or numeric hostnames
either provide specific context or are removed as redundant.
Files: util/valid_hostname.c dns/dns_lookup.c.
Code cleanup: new mailbox_size_limit parameter (default:
20MB). Until now, the mailbox size limit was the same as
the message size limit, due to artefact of implementation.
Files: global/mail_params.h, local/local.c.
Bugfix: fix for the ldap_domains parameter, both semantics
and documentation by LaMont Jones. Files: LDAP_README,
conf/sample-ldap.cf, util/dict_ldap.c.
Update: merged in the virtual delivery agent by Andrew
McNamara. See VIRTUAL_README for detailed examples.
Update: merged a re-vamped nqmgr by Patrik Rak.
20010129
Tweak: several little nqmgr tweaks by Patrik Rak. Files:
global/mail_params.h, nqmgr/qmgr_job.c.
Bugfix: the virtual delivery agent did not save maps_find()
results timely. J?rgen Thomsen, postfix.jth.net. File:
virtual/mailbox.c.
Security: disallow regexp tables in the virtual delivery
agent. The $1 etc. substitution mechanism gives too much
power to the sender. File: virtual/mailbox.c.
Cleanup: clarified documentation and boundary cases in the
random_sleep() routine.
Bugfix: the MISSING_USLEEP feature was used backwards.
Patrik Rak. File: util/random_sleep.c.
20010130
Workaround: Linux usleep() is void, BSD/Solaris usleep()
returns int, don't use it. File util/random_sleep.c.
Made local maildir bounce/defer handling mode consistent
with local mailbox delivery. File local/maildir.c.
The smtp client now defers delivery when all MX hosts have
no A record. File: smtp/smtp_addr.c
Bundled the man2html and postlink quick hacks so people
can do their own manual page processing. See scripts in
the mantools directory.
Documentation: updated the reference to sendmail in the
html/index.html page.
Documentation: added note about the Cisco PIX "fixup smtp"
bug that causes mail delivery problems when "." and "CRLF"
arrive in separate packets. File: html/faq.html.
20010201
Bugfix: another missing initialization in the mysql client.
File: util/dict_mysql.c.
Sanitized time routine by Patrik Rak, to make his nqmgr
robust against people who set their clock back. Files:
util/sane_time.[hc].
Bumped the default mailbox file size limits to 50MB.
20010202
Bugfix: fixed the way the master resets the file size limit
to avoid problems when a Postfix daemon updates a queue
file. The file size limit is now increased to INT_MAX if
it is smaller than INT_MAX, so that it is less likely to
interfere than the old setting of message_size_limit.
Feature: disable mailbox size limits for the local and
virtual delivery agents by setting mailbox_size_limit or
virtual_mailbox_limit to zero.
20010203
Update: null candidate patch from Patrik Rak. Files:
nqmgr/qmgr_entry.c nqmgr/qmgr_job.c nqmgr/qmgr_message.c.
Cleanup: added one gruesome command to the postlink script
for hyperlinking nroff manual page output. Word abbreviation
broke some <a href...> </a> instances across line boundaries.
sed(1) is an amazing tool. File: mantools/postlink.
20010204
Laid the ground work for logging of table accesses. This
will give more insight into how Postfix uses its lookup
tables. User interface comes later. File: util/dict_debug.c.
20010216
Bugfix: the pipe delivery agent expanded $size as if it
were a recipient, instead of expanding it as $nexthop or
as $sender. Reported by Michael Tokarev. File: pipe/pipe.c.
20010221
Bugfix: poor LMTP performance for domains that are listed
in $mydestination, because Postfix would send one recipient
at a time, with multiple deliveries of recipients of the
same message in parallel; a similar problem could exist
with virus scanning and with firewall relay hosts that
forward mail for $mydestination to an inside machine. This
behavior is now changed to depend on the transport-specific
xxx_destination_recipient_limit parameter. This also means
that you can now get qmail behavior for SMTP deliveries by
setting smtp_destination_recipient_limit=1. File:
{qmgr,nqmgr}/qmgr_message.c.
Workaround: Solaris socketpair() can fail with EINTR. Added
a sane_socketpair.c module that joins the ranks of the
other sane_whatever workarounds. Reported by Andrew McNamara.
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Documentation: the default main.cf file has a prominent
warning that mynetworks should be properly configured in
order to reject unauthorized mail relay requests from
strangers.
Documentation: the INSTALL document, section "mandatory
configuration file edits" has a section that explains that
mynetworks should be properly configured in order to reject
unauthorized mail relay requests from strangers.
20010223
Documentation: the basic.html document has a section that
explains that mynetworks should be properly configured in
order to reject unauthorized mail relay requests from
strangers.
Feature: new "mynetworks_style" parameter that controls
how mynetworks (trusted networks) is derived from the
inet_interfaces (machine interfaces) setting. Specify
"class" for entire class A, B, C networks; "subnet" for
the local subnets only; or "host" for maximal privacy.
Files: util/inet_addr_local.[hc], global/own_inet_addr.[hc],
global/mynetworks.[hc], postconf/postconf.c.
Portability: MACOSX patches by Gerben Wierda.
Portability: Solaris /dev/null is a symlink, which tripped
up the code to safely open a file before local delivery.
We now grudgingly allow symlinks owned by root. File:
util/safe_open.c.
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Bugfix: "postconf mynetworks" ignored the inet_interfaces
setting. That was a very old one. File: postconf/postconf.c.
INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: POSTFIX NO LONGER RELAYS MAIL FOR
CLIENTS IN THE ENTIRE CLASS A/B/C NETWORK. POSTFIX BY
DEFAULT RELAYS MAIL FOR CLIENTS IN THE LOCAL SUBNETWORK.
Specify "mynetworks_style = class" to get the old behavior.
20010225
Portability: master sigchld handler based on writing to a
pipe, so that the master wakes up from select(). Based on
code by Erik Forsberg, Linkoping University, Sweden. File:
master/master_sig.c. Disabled until after the major release.
Code cleanup: Postfix should now run with no alias database.
Code cleanup: local_destination_recipient_limit and
local_destination_concurrency_limit have become first-class
configuration parameters. Files: global/mail_params.h,
*qmgr/qmgr.c, postconf/postconf.c.
20010226
Documentation suggestions by Lars Hecking and Richard
Huxton, Matthias Andree and many others.
Code cleanup: some queue/transport operations need to be
moved, after the code cleanup of the recipient/concurrency
limit handling. Patrik Rak. Files: *qmgr/qmgr_message.c.
20010301
Feature: configurable name in syslog output (default:
"syslog_name = postfix") so that different Postfix instances
can be recognized by their logging. File: global/mail_task.c.
20010313
Workaround for logic mismatch in nqmgr that was exposed
with the introduction of the asynchronous bounce client.
Patrik Rak.
20010313
Bugfix: the RFC 822 untokenizer quoted newlines inside
comments. File: global/tok822_parse.c.
20010316
Cleanup: removed an extraneous warning when a queue file
write error happened.
20010321
Workaround: LMTP connection caching never worked for
destinations starting with unix: or inet:. File:
lmtp/lmtp_connect.c.
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