The footprint of new features with Postfix 2.4.0 is significantly
smaller than with earlier releases. And that is the whole point of
approaching completeness: fewer visible changes.
Below is a brief summary of what has changed. See the RELEASE_NOTES
file for more, including compatibility issues that may affect your
site. The HISTORY file gives a blow-by-blow account of what happened
over the past year.
Wietse
- Postfix can now manage thousands of connections without needing
special main.cf, master.cf, or compile-time tweaks, on systems with
BSD kqueue, Solaris /dev/poll, or Linux epoll support.
- Milter support for message body replacement. The resulting queue
files are backwards compatible with Postfix 2.3. The existing Milter
support for message header manipulations was revised and is now
implemented by much simpler code.
- Minor improvements in TLS session cache management and in the
implementation of certificate fingerprint based authentication. A
more extensive revision of TLS internals will appear first in Postfix
2.5 snapshots.
- Improvements in queue manager performance when deferring large
amounts of mail, or when delivering mail with lots of recipients.
- Workarounds for SMTP servers that reply and hang up prematurely,
for file system clocks that are out of sync, and for broken kernel
lock management in POP servers.
This is the first version in the 2.3.x series, please see the release notes
for full list of changes since 2.2.x before upgrading your current
installation.
- install PREFIX/sbin/qshape
Updated postfix to 2.2.9
Most of this patch hardens the TLS implementation against DNS-based
attacks, and eliminates some anomalies from the TLS per-site policy
engine. See the TLS_README document for tips on how to avoid
DNS-based attacks that can change the server hostname that Postfix
uses for logging, for TLS per-site policies, and for server
certificate verification.
The patch also adds a workaround that prevents Postfix from repeatedly
trying to deliver mail to domains with a malformed MX record (for
example, with a null MX hostname). Postfix 2.2.9 bounces such mail
immediately.
And always is defined as share/examples/rc.d
which was the default before.
This rc.d scripts are not automatically added to PLISTs now also.
So add to each corresponding PLIST as required.
This was discussed on tech-pkg in late January and late April.
Todo: remove the RCD_SCRIPTS_EXAMPLEDIR uses in MESSAGES and elsewhere
and remove the RCD_SCRIPTS_EXAMPLEDIR itself.
as samples, either by the user or by bsd.pkg.install.mk.
- Correctly handle configuration files, that is, avoid touching the conf
directory directly.
- Use OWN_DIRS to handle the spool directory.
- Run post-install through an INSTALL script.
- Sort PLIST after all these changes.
- Bump PKGREVISION to 1.
configuration.
+ Document how to use /etc/rc.conf.d/postfix on NetBSD 1.5 and newer
to start /usr/pkg/sbin/postfix instead of /usr/sbin/postfix
+ Ensure that the postfix user and the postfix & maildrop groups exist.
Adds Darwin support, and prevents a working NetBSD postfix setup from being
broken on a "make install" of this package because the package used to
change /etc/postfix/{post-install,postfix-files,postfix-script}.
These changes are mostly from Amitai Schlair <schmonz@netbsd.org>,
with some tweaks by me. (Thanks Amitai!)
- Added MAILER-DAEMON to the list of always recognized local
addresses, since it is generated by Postfix bounces.
- Bugfix: transport_errno was not reset upon successful
transport map wildcard lookup after an earlier failure.
- Cleanup: unnecessary warnings from the proxymap client
after proxymap server disconnect.
- Cleanup: Patrik Rak found a few more chattr invocations
that were missed 20021209. Files: postfix-install,
conf/post-install.
- Cleanup: the pcre-config command can produce null outputs.
- Bugfix: the virtual(8) Makefile included $(AUXLIBS) in the
dependencies.
- Bugfix: fixed in the snapshots 20030105 but missed in the
stable release. "sendmail -bs" tried to access the proxymap
service. It should not try to open any user/domain/uce
related tables at all.
IMPORTANT: read the documents in /usr/pkg/share/doc/postfix/ before
upgrading from Postfix 1.1.
Hightlights:
- MIME support (including 8bit->7bit conversion and more
accurate matching of MIME headers in message bodies)
- completely rewritten RBL client code
- smarter handling of DNS lookup errors in UCE restrictions
- virtual delivery agent without transport map for every domain
- a long list of other things that are meant to improve performance
or functionality without compromising what already existed.
Remove `-p' from mkdir arguments, it is already part of ${MKDIR}.
While here substitute a couple of ${PREFIX} by `%D' in
`@exec ${MKDIR} ...' lines and add a couple of missing `%D' in such lines too!
Major changes with release-20010228
===================================
Postfix produces DSN formatted bounced/delayed mail notifications.
The human-readable text still exists, so that users will not have
to be unnecessarily confused by all the ugliness of RFC 1894. Full
DSN support will be later.
This release introduces full content filtering through an external
process. This involves an incompatible change in queue file format.
Mail is delivered to content filtering software via an existing
mail delivery agent, and is re-injected into Postfix via an existing
mail submission agent. See examples in the FILTER_README file.
Depending on how the filter is implemented, you can expect to lose
a factor of 2 to 4 in delivery performance of SMTP transit mail,
more if the content filtering software needs lots of CPU or memory.
Specify "body_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/body_checks" for a quick
and dirty emergency content filter that looks at non-header lines
one line at a time (including MIME headers inside the message body).
Details in conf/sample-filter.cf.
The header_checks and body_checks features can be used to strip
out unwanted data. Specify IGNORE on the right-hand side and the
data will disappear from the mail.
Support for SASL (RFC 2554) authentication in the SMTP server and
in the SMTP and LMTP clients. See the SASL_README file for more
details. This file still needs better examples.
Postfix now ships with an LMTP delivery agent that can deliver over
local/remote TCP sockets and over local UNIX-domain sockets. The
LMTP_README file gives example, but still needs to be revised.
Fast "ETRN" and "sendmail -qR". Postfix maintains per-destination
logfiles with information about what mail is queued for selected
destinations. See the file ETRN_README for details.
The mailbox locking style is now fully configurable at runtime.
The new configuration parameter is called "mailbox_delivery_lock".
Depending on the operating system type, mailboxes can be locked
with one or more of "flock", "fcntl" or "dotlock". The command
"postconf -l" shows the available locking styles. The default
mailbox locking style is system dependent. This change affects
all mailbox and all "/file/name" deliveries by the Postfix local
delivery agent.
