Version 4.2 released

Item posted by Sergey Poznyakoff <gray> on Tue Oct 23 16:18:18 2007.

The version 4.2 of mailfromd is available for download from ftp://download.gnu.org.ua/pub/release/mailfromd.

New in this version:

• Licensed under the GPLv3

• New command line options --syslog-async and --no-syslog-async

These options allow to select the implementation of syslog to use at run time.

• RFC 2821 compatibility

The sender verification engine used to send whitespace character between `MAIL FROM:' and `RCPT TO:' commands and their argument. This violated RFC 2821, which requires the argument to follow the command without any intermediate whitespace. It is fixed in this
release.

• Sample threshold for `rate' function.

The `rate' function takes an optional third argument allowing to specify the minimum number of received mails needed to obtain the sending rate value. The default is 2, which is probably too conservative. The following example raises it to 10:

if rate($f "-" ${client_addr}, interval("1 hour"), 10) > %maxrate
...
fi

• mtasim is improved

In particular, it accepts MAIL FROM: and RCPT TO: without extra space after the colon, as required by RFC. The milter interface is also improved.

• The `resolve' function ignores TXT records.

In other words, resolve and primitive_resolve are guaranteed to return either an A or a PTR record.