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Wietse Venema | 10 Dec 2002 01:24

Postfix Snapshot 20021209 (Postfix 1.2 Release Candidate)

Postfix snapshot 20021209 is release candidate for Postfix official
release 1.2. If this version seems to work OK on a sufficient number
of systems then this will be renamed to official version 1.2.

If all is done well, the changes will be backwards compatible with
existing configuration files, and safety nets are in place for the
cases where Postfix isn't. In the mean time I'll keep polishing
documentation.

Snapshot 20021209 incorporates many of changes that were discussed
in the past week. See RELEASE_NOTES and HISTORY summaries below.
As you will see, a lot of earth was moved in the past week.

The same new functionality can also be found in the trace-20021209
release, which also includes the alpha quality sender address
verification code (performs OK for low-traffic sites, but still
needs hardening for heavy-duty usage). Sender address verification
will not be included with Postfix official release 1.2, but will
evolve in Postfix 1.2 snapshots.

To highlight the major changes with the 20021209 releases:

- The Postfix SMTP server rejects mail for unknown local recipients
by default; and you can specify an optional table for all known
relay_domains destinations, so that the SMTP server can reject mail
for unknown relay recipients as well. There's a limited safety net
for sites without accessible UNIX passwd file inside a chroot jail.

- Easier configuration with address domain classes (local, virtual
alias, virtual mailbox, relay), each class having its own delivery
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Wietse Venema | 20 Dec 2002 17:16

Postfix version 2.0 pre-announcement

Here's a pre-announcement for the Postfix version 2.0 release.

After two weeks of cleaning up old Postfix code, this week I have
spent updating Postfix documentation.  The result was uploaded as
daily snapshots (last one: 20021219). The www.postfix.org on-line
documentation pages were updated as well.

Once the RELEASE_NOTES are updated, Postfix version 2.0 will go
out the door.

So you will have the code before Christmas, but I would recommend
waiting with the unwrapping until the festivities are over :-)

	Wietse
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Wietse Venema | 23 Dec 2002 03:09

Postfix version 2.0 Released

Postfix official release 2.0 brings you a long list of things that
is detailed in the RELEASE_NOTES file - too long to include in the
announcement.

Thanks to all the folks who helped building and/or testing, or who
sent corrections for documentation.

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, and a long list of other things that are meant
to improve performance or functionality without compromising what
already existed.

In ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/

   260739 Dec 22 14:32 postfix-2.0.0.HISTORY
    37021 Dec 22 17:36 postfix-2.0.0.RELEASE_NOTES
  1322886 Dec 22 17:49 postfix-2.0.0.tar.gz
      152 Dec 22 17:49 postfix-2.0.0.tar.gz.sig

The official release will be changed only in order to fix problems.
New features are developed and tested in snapshot releases before
they become part of the official release.

Simultaneously is a 20021222 snapshot release that includes the
experimental sender address verification, "sendmail -bv" (show what
would happen if mail were delivered) and "sendmail v" (show what
happened when mail was actually delivered). This and more will
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