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- A new release of the UIUC/NIU version of IDA sendmail is now available for
- anon-FTP from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/sendmail-5.65c+IDA-1.4.4.tar.Z .
- Because of the size of this release, the RCS files are not included, but
- are available as pub/sendmail-5.65c-RCS.tar.Z .
-
- Source changes from the previous release:
-
- Installation has been simplified by the creation of a src/config
- directory. Files in this directory are named for the operating
- systems that the IDA sendmail has been installed on. They contain
- the OS specific compilation definitions.
-
- A new macro, $m, has been defined. For single recipients in
- a local mail delivery, it's value is the original address before
- aliasing. If all recipients for the current transaction derive
- from a single original recipient, use that for $m. Else make
- $m undefined (to preserve Bcc: privacy).
-
- Rationalized reapchild() based on whether LACK_WAIT3 is defined.
-
- Replaced time_t declarations with TIME_TYPE define.
-
- macro values are now expand()ed in class definitions.
-
- Removed #define NO_WILDCARD_MX from conf.h . This option is too
- dangerous for the minor performance gain obtained.
-
- Three new command line line flags have been added, -Mqid, -Raddr,
- and -Saddr. -Mqid processes the queued message whose queue-id
- matches qid. -Raddr processes queued messages that have the string
- "addr" within one of the recipient addresses. Ditto for the sender's
- address with -Saddr. Adapted from patches sent by Peter J Nilsson
- (pjn@ida.liu.se).
-
- Changes for Interactive Systems UNIX adapted from patches
- sent by Andy Linton <Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz>.
-
- If Os (SuperSafe) is set in the sendmail.cf file, files in the spool
- area will either be open()ed with O_SYNC set or fsync()ed prior
- to close.
-
- Received: lines will now show "givenname (realhostname)" if the
- hostname supplied in the SMTP HELO command differs from what is
- returned by getpeername().
-
- Robert A. Larson's (blarson@skat.usc.edu) portable vprintf() package
- has drastically simplified the #ifdef mess in err.c. ANSI compilers
- now use stdarg.h, others now use varargs.h.
-
- Keld Simonsen (keld@dkuug.dk) contributed his character set
- conversion code that handles 90+ character sets. Sendmail can
- now send 8-bit messages between sites defined in mailertable.
-
- RS/6000 AIX systems can now use frozen config files.
-
- Bruce Lilly (bruce@broadcast.sony.com) contributed several items:
- arpatounix() that converts RFC-822/1123 date-time fields to UNIX
- ctime format and changes to use 4 digit years
- updates to the doc/07.sendmailop/op.me document
- additional System 5 portability changes
- simplified collect()
- case-sensitive (as well as -insensitive) database lookups.
- straightened out usage of DAEMON and VMUNIX for selecting
- sendmail features.
- maphostname() now uses uname() if available and all else fails
- deleted ON (NetName) option.
-
- Eric Wassenaar (e07@nikhefh.nikhef.nl) posted fixes for
- handling of multi-line .forward files.
- a bug that referenced the wrong envelope.
-
- Apollos now use proc1_$get_loadav() which greatly simplified the
- routine. The previous code is wrapped in #ifdef notdef if needed.
- From Chrisos S. Zoulas (christos@ee.cornell.edu).
-
- Simon J Gerraty (sjg@melb.bull.oz.au) contributed patch for SUN's
- $%x and $!x features ($!x added as $^x).
-
-
- ida/cf/Sendmail.mc changes:
-
- Bug fixes: corrected a problem with MAILSERVER by adding the server
- domain to the address.
-
- Modified the handling of addresses with '/', so that X.400 format
- addresses in UUCP format will be correctly processed.
-
- The Received header now has 'for $m' in place of 'for $u'. The
- new code release supports $m as the recipient prior to aliasing.
- This will not cause any problems with earlier code releases, except
- that the 'for user' will no appear on the header unless you change
- this back to $u.
-
- ENHANCEMENTS:
-
- Added UUCP_MAILER_DEF, LOCAL_MAILER_DEF and OTHER_MAILER_DEF keywords. This
- makes it easier to select an alternative set of UUCP or LOCAL mailers. You
- can either select one of the builtin choices, or you can put your own
- definitions in a file, and use the pathname of that file. Defaults to the
- standard definitions. See comments is Sendmail.mc for more info.
-
- Added GENERICENVELOPE and GENERICTO keywords. The standard GENERICFROM
- keyword already permitted the rewriting of say 'rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu' as
- 'Neil_Rickert@niu.edu'. This normally only affect header from addresses.
- These are the addresses to which replies are normally made. But if your
- mail bounces, the error messages are usually returned to the envelope
- sender address. Suppose our organization were set up so that 'niu.edu'
- were a gateway address accessible to external email, but internal
- domains such as 'mp.cs.niu.edu' were not accessible. In that case any
- error message to 'rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu' would not make it back here.
- Using GENERICENVELOPE, the generic address processing is also applied to
- the envelope sender address, so that now the bounce messages can get
- back. It is particularly useful in exactly these cases where all
- addresses must be to a gateway machine. The GENERICTO keyword applies
- generic processing to the 'To:' and 'Cc:' headers also.
-
- Changed ruleset 14 so that the Dmail mailer now supports DECNETXTABLE
- for converting domain style names into DECNET style names.
-
- Added HIDDENDOMAIN and HIDDENDOMAINHOST. With this option any address
- of the form 'user@anything.hidden.domain' will be rewritten as
- 'user@hidden.domain.host', where the value of HIDDENDOMAINHOST defaults to
- HIDDENDOMAIN. This processing does not affect envelope recipients, so
- it is still possible to alias addresses to hosts in the hiddendomain.
- If DOMAINTABLE is in use, the same feature is available with a domain
- table entry of
-
- VALUE KEY
- hidden.domain.host .hidden.domain
-
- Likewise, you could use the domaintable entry
-
- VALUE KEY
- %s.new.domain .old.domain
-
- to automatically remap any address (except envelope recipients) of
- the form 'user@host.old.domain' to 'user@host.new.domain'. This
- is particularly useful for organizations changing names.
-
- MINOR CHANGES:
-
- When testing (with sendmail -bt), you can now send the output of
- ruleset 0 through ruleset 2, mailerspecific,4 to see the final format of
- the generated address. For example, the TCP mailer uses ruleset 10
- for envelope recipients. If it happens that my pathtable and mailertable
- are routing mail for chinet.UUCP via a TCP connection, I could try the
- following input to 'sendmail -bt'
-
- 3,0,2,10,4 chinet!user
-
- and I would see the final outgoing envelope address to be used.
-
- ========
-
- The original IDA enhancements, plus the UIUC/NIU and contributed changes,
- provide the following:
-
- * support for mail11v3 for DECnet sites (optional)
- * support for Dbm(3) files - dbm, ndbm, sdbm, mdbm, and gdbm
- - allows pathalias database to be directly used
- - allows choice of mailer to be table driven
- - allows UUCP and domain name aliasing
- - optional support to access Sun NIS (aka YP) DBM databases
- * improved support of MX records
- * split header rewriting between envelope and headers
- * improved test mode
- * support for multi-token matches in .cf macros and classes
- * batched SMTP support
- * allow set (class) declarations to use programs as well as files
- to define a set
- * delayed macro evaluation using $&x syntax
- * RFC822 quoted macro expansion using $!x syntax
- * an excellent general purpose m4 template for .cf file generation
- - supports pure UUCP site requirements
- - supports pure Internet site requirements
- - supports a hybrid of UUCP site and Internet site
- - supports hidden and isolated local area networks connected
- via a gateway (either UUCP or IP) to the Internet
- - provides NIS (aka YP) aliases (optional)
- - provides DECnet gateway support
- - supports genericfrom database mapping actual user names to
- generic user names.
- - supports pathalias database
- - support UUCP and domain name aliasing
-
-