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			SENDMAIL RELEASE NOTES
      $Id: RELEASE_NOTES,v 8.1664 2004/06/20 17:04:51 ca Exp $

This listing shows the version of the sendmail binary, the version of the sendmail configuration files, the date of release, and a summary of the changes in that release.

8.13.0/8.13.0	2004/06/20
	Do not include AUTH data in a bounce to avoid leaking confidential
		information.  See also cf/README about MSP and the section
		"Providing SMTP AUTH Data when sendmail acts as Client".
		Problem noted by Neil Rickert of Northern Illinois
		University.
	Fix compilation error in libsm/clock.c for -D_FFR_SLEEP_USE_SELECT=n
		and -DSM_CONF_SETITIMER=0.  Problem noted by Juergen Georgi
		of RUS University of Stuttgart.
	Fix bug in conversion from 8bit to quoted-printable. Problem found
		by Christof Haerens, patch from Per Hedeland.
	Add support for LDAP recursion based on types given to attribute
		specifications in an LDAP map definition.  This allows
		LDAP queries to return a new query, a DN, or an LDAP
		URL which will in turn be queried.  See the ``LDAP
		Recursion'' section of doc/op/op.me for more information.
		Based on patch from Andrew Baucom.
	Extend the default LDAP specifications for AliasFile
		(O AliasFile=ldap:) and file classes (F{X}@LDAP) to
		include support for LDAP recursion via new attributes.
		See ``USING LDAP FOR ALIASES, MAPS, and CLASSES'' section
		of cf/README for more information.
	New option for LDAP maps: the -w option allows you to specify the
		LDAP API/protocol version to use.  The default depends on
		the LDAP library.
	New option for LDAP maps: the -H option allows you to specify an
		LDAP URI instead of specifying the LDAP server via -h host
		and -p port.  This also allows for the use of LDAP over
		SSL and connections via named sockets if your LDAP
		library supports it.
	New compile time flag SM_CONF_LDAP_INITIALIZE: set this if
		ldap_initialize(3) is available (and LDAPMAP is set).
	If MaxDaemonChildren is set and a command is repeated too often
		during a SMTP session then terminate it just like it is
		done for too many bad SMTP commands.
	Basic connection rate control support has been added: the daemon
		maintains the number of incoming connections per client
		IP address and total in the macros {client_rate} and
		{total_rate}, respectively.  These macros can be used
		in the cf file to impose connection rate limits.
		A new option ConnectionRateWindowSize (default: 60s)
		determines the length of the interval for which the
		number of connections is stored.  Based on patch from
		Jose Marcio Martins da Cruz, Ecole des Mines de Paris.
	Add optional protection from open proxies and SMTP slammers which
		send SMTP traffic without waiting for the SMTP greeting.
		If enabled by the new ruleset greet_pause (see
		FEATURE(`greet_pause')), sendmail will wait the specified
		amount of time before sending the initial 220 SMTP
		greeting.  If any traffic is received before then, a 554
		SMTP response is sent and all SMTP commands are rejected
		during that connection.
	If 32 NOOP (or unknown/bad) commands are issued by a client the SMTP
		server could sleep for a very long time.  Fix based on
		patch from T. Kobayashi.
	Fix a potential memory leak in persistent queue runners if the
		number of entries in the queue exceeds the limit of jobs.
		Problem noted by Steve Hubert of University of Washington.
	Do not use 4.7.1 as enhanced status code because some broken systems
		misinterpret it as a permanent error.
	New value for SuperSafe: PostMilter which will delay fsync() until
		all milters accepted the mail.  This can increase
		performance if many mails are rejected by milters due to
		body scans.  Based on patch from David F. Skoll.
	New macro {msg_id} which contains the value of the Message-Id:
		header, whether provided by the client or generated by
		sendmail.
	New macro {client_connections} which contains the number of open
		connections in the SMTP server for the client IP address.
		Based on patch from Jose Marcio Martins da Cruz, Ecole des
		Mines de Paris.
	sendmail will now remove its pidfile when it exits.  This was done
		to prevent confusion caused by running sendmail stop
		scripts two or more times, where the second and subsequent
		runs would report misleading error messages about sendmail's 
		pid no longer existing.  See section 1.3.15 of doc/op/op.me
		for a discussion of the implications of this, including
		how to correct broken scripts which may have depended on
		the old behavior.  From John Beck of Sun Microsystems.
	Support per-daemon input filter lists which override the default
		filter list specified in InputMailFilters.  The filters
		can be listed in the I= equate of DaemonPortOptions.
	Do not add all domain prefixes of the hostname to class 'w'.  If
		your configuration relies on this behavior, you have to
		add those names to class 'w' yourself.  Problem noted
		by Sander Eerkes.
	Support message quarantining in the mail queue.  Quarantined
		messages are not run on normal queue displays or runs
		unless specifically requested with -qQ.  Quarantined queue
		files are named with an hf prefix instead of a qf prefix.
	The -q command line option now can specify which queue to display
		or run.  -qQ operates on quarantined queue items.  -qL
		operates on lost queue items.
	Restricted mail queue runs and displays can be done based on the
		quarantined reason using -qQtext to run or display
		quarantined items if the quarantine reason contains the
		given text.  Similarly, -q!Qtext will run or display
		quarantined items which do not have the given text in the
		quarantine reason.
	Items in the queue can be quarantined or unquarantined using the
		new -Q option.  See doc/op/op.me for more information.
	When displaying the quarantine mailq with 'mailq -qQ', the
		quarantine reason is shown in a new line prefixed by
		"QUARANTINE:".
	A new error code for the $#error mailer, $@ quarantine, can be used
		to quarantine messages in check_* (except check_compat) and
		header check rulesets.  The $: of the mailer triplet will
		be used for the quarantine reason.
	Add a new quarantine count to the mailstats collected.
	Add a new macro ${quarantine} which is the quarantine reason for a
		message if it is quarantined.
	New map type "socket" for a trivial query protocol over UNIX domain
		or TCP sockets (requires compile time option SOCKETMAP).
		See sendmail/README and doc/op/op.me for details as well as
		socketmapServer.pl and socketmapClient.pl in contrib.
		Code donated by Bastiaan Bakker of LifeLine Networks.
	Define new macro ${client_ptr} which holds the result of the PTR
		lookup for the client IP address.  Note: this is the same
		as ${client_name} if and only if ${client_resolve} is OK.
	Add a new macro ${nbadrcpts} which contains the number of bad
		recipients received so far in a transaction.
	Call check_relay with the value of ${client_name} to deal with bogus
		DNS entries.  See also FEATURE(`use_client_ptr').  Problem
		noted by Kai Schlichting.
	Treat Delivery-Receipt-To: headers the same as Return-Receipt-To:
		headers (turn them into DSNs).  Delivery-Receipt-To: is
		apparently used by SIMS (Sun Internet Mail System).
	Enable connection caching for LPC mailers.  Patch from Christophe
		Wolfhugel of France Telecom Oleane.
	Do not silently truncate long strings in address rewriting.
	Add support for Cyrus SASL version 2.  From Kenneth Murchison of
		Oceana Matrix Ltd.
	Add a new AuthOption=m flag to require the use of mechanisms which
		support mutual authentication.  From Kenneth Murchison of
		Oceana Matrix Ltd.
	Fix logging of TLS related problems (introduced in 8.12.11).
	The macros {auth_author} and {auth_authen} are stored in xtext
		format just like the STARTTLS related macros to avoid
		problems with parsing them.  Problem noted by Pierangelo
		Masarati of SysNet s.n.c.
	New option AuthRealm to set the authentication realm that is
		passed to the Cyrus SASL library.  Patch from Gary Mills
		of the University of Manitoba.
	Enable AUTH mechanism EXTERNAL if STARTTLS verification was
		successful, otherwise relaying would be allowed if
		EXTERNAL is listed in TRUST_AUTH_MECH() and STARTTLS
		is active.
	Add basic support for certificate revocation lists.  Note: if a
		CRLFile is specified but the file is unusable, STARTTLS
		is disabled.  Based on patch by Ralf Hornik.
	Enable workaround for inconsistent Cyrus SASLv1 API for mechanisms
		DIGEST-MD5 and LOGIN.
	Write pid to file also if sendmail only acts as persistent queue
		runner.  Proposed by Gary Mills of the University of Manitoba.
	Keep daemon pid file(s) locked so other daemons don't try to
		overwrite each other's pid files.
	Increase maximum length of logfile fields for {cert_subject} and
		{cert_issuer} from 128 to 256.  Requested by Christophe
		Wolfhugel of France Telecom.
	Log the TLS verification message on the STARTTLS= log line at
		LogLevel 12 or higher.
	If the MSP is invoked with the verbose option (-v) then it will
		try to use the SMTP command VERB to propagate this option
		to the MTA which in turn will show the delivery just like
		it was done before the default 8.12 separation of MSP and
		MTA.  Based on patch by Per Hedeland.
	If a daemon is refusing connections for longer than the time specified
		by the new option RejectLogInterval (default: 3 hours) due
		to high load, log this information.  Patch from John Beck
		of Sun Microsystems.
	Remove the ability for non-trusted users to raise the value of
		CheckpointInterval on the command line.
	New mailer flag 'B' to strip leading backslashes, which is a
		subset of the functionality of the 's' flag.
	New mailer flag 'W' to ignore long term host status information.
		Patch from Juergen Georgi of RUS University of Stuttgart.
	Enable generic mail filter API (milter) by default.  To turn
		it off, add -DMILTER=0 to the compile time options.
	An internal SMTP session discard flag was lost after an RSET/HELO/EHLO
		causing subsequent messages to be sent instead of being
		discarded.  This also caused milter callbacks to be called
		out of order after the SMTP session was reset.
	New option RequiresDirfsync to turn off the compile time flag
		REQUIRES_DIR_FSYNC at runtime.  See sendmail/README for
		further information.
	New command line option -D logfile to send debug output to
		the indicated log file instead of stdout.
	Add Timeout.queuereturn.dsn and Timeout.queuewarn.dsn to control
		queue return and warning times for delivery status
		notifications.
	New queue sort order option: 'n'one for not sorting the queue entries
		at all.
	Several more return values for ruleset srv_features have been added
		to enable/disable certain features in the server per
		connection.  See doc/op/op.me for details.
	Support for SMTP over SSL (smtps), activated by Modifier=s
		for DaemonPortOptions.
	Continue with DNS lookups on ECONNREFUSED and TRY_AGAIN when
		trying to canonify hostnames.  Suggested by Neil Rickert
		of Northern Illinois University.
	Add support for a fallback smart host (option FallbackSmartHost) to
		be tried as a last resort after all other fallbacks.  This
		is designed for sites with partial DNS (e.g., an accurate
		view of inside the company, but an incomplete view of
		outside).  From John Beck of Sun Microsystems.
	Enable timeout for STARTTLS even if client does not start the TLS
		handshake.  Based on patch by Andrey J. Melnikoff.
	Remove deprecated -v option for PH map, use -k instead.  Patch from
		Mark Roth of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
	libphclient is version 1.2.x by default, if version 1.1.x is required
		then compile with -DNPH_VERSION=10100.  Patch from Mark Roth
		of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
	Add Milter.macros.eom, allowing macros to be sent to milter
		applications for use in the xxfi_eom() callback.
	New macro {time} which contains the output of the time(3) function,
		i.e., the number of seconds since 0 hours, 0 minutes,
		0 seconds, January 1, 1970, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
	If check_relay sets the reply code to "421" the SMTP server will
		terminate the SMTP session with a 421 error message.
	Get rid of dead code that tried to access the environment variable
		HOSTALIASES.
	Deprecate the use of ErrorMode=write.  To enable this in 8.13
		compile with -DUSE_TTYPATH=1.
	Header check rulesets using $>+ (do not strip comments) will get
		the header value passed in without balancing quotes,
		parentheses, and angle brackets.  Based on patch from
		Oleg Bulyzhin.
	Do not complain and fix up unbalanced quotes, parentheses, and
		angle brackets when reading in rulesets.  This allows
		rules to be written for header checks to catch strings
		that contain quotes, parentheses, and/or angle brackets.
		Based on patch from Oleg Bulyzhin.
	Do not close socket when accept(2) in the daemon encounters
		some temporary errors like ECONNABORTED.
	Added list of CA certificates that are used by members of the
		sendmail consortium, see CACerts.
	Portability:
		Two new compile options have been added:
			HASCLOSEFROM	System has closefrom(3).
			HASFDWALK	System has fdwalk(3).
			Based on patch from John Beck of Sun Microsystems.
		The Linux kernel version 2.4 series has a broken flock() so
			change to using fcntl() locking until they can fix
			it.  Be sure to update other sendmail related
			programs to match locking techniques.
		New compile time option NEEDINTERRNO which should be set
			if <errno.h> does not declare errno itself.
		Support for UNICOS/mk and UNICOS/mp added, some changes for
			UNICOS.  Patches contributed by Aaron Davis and
			Brian Ginsbach, Cray Inc., and Manu Mahonen of
			Center for Scientific Computing.
		Add support for Darwin 7.0/Mac OS X 10.3 (a.k.a. Panther).
		Extend support to Darwin 7.x/Mac OS X 10.3 (a.k.a. Panther).
		Remove path from compiler definition for Interix because
			Interix 3.0 and 3.5 put gcc in different locations.
			Also use <sys/mkdev.h> to get the correct
			major()/minor() definitions.  Based on feedback
			from Mark Funkenhauser.
	CONFIG: Add support for LDAP recursion to the default LDAP searches
		for maps via new attributes.  See the ``USING LDAP FOR
		ALIASES, MAPS, and CLASSES'' section of cf/README and
		cf/sendmail.schema for more information.
	CONFIG: Make sure confTRUSTED_USER is valid even if confRUN_AS_USER
		is of the form "user:group" when used for submit.mc.
		Problem noted by Carsten P. Gehrke, patch from Neil Rickert
		of Northern Illinois University.
	CONFIG: Add a new access DB value of QUARANTINE:reason which
		instructs the check_* (except check_compat) to quarantine
		the message using the given reason.
	CONFIG: Use "dns -R A" as map type for dnsbl (just as for enhdnsbl)
		instead of "host" to avoid problem with looking up other
		DNS records than just A.
	CONFIG: New option confCONNECTION_RATE_WINDOW_SIZE to define the
		length of the interval for which the number of incoming
		connections is maintained.
	CONFIG: New FEATURE(`ratecontrol') to set the limits for connection
		rate control for individual hosts or nets.
	CONFIG: New FEATURE(`conncontrol') to set the limits for the
		number of open SMTP connections for individual hosts or nets.
	CONFIG: New FEATURE(`greet_pause') enables open proxy and SMTP
		slamming protection described above.  The feature can
		take an argument specifying the milliseconds to wait and/or
		use the access database to look the pause time based on
		client hostname, domain, IP address, or subnet.
	CONFIG: New FEATURE(`use_client_ptr') to have check_relay use
		$&{client_ptr} as its first argument.  This is useful for
		rejections based on the unverified hostname of client,
		which turns on the same behavior as in earlier sendmail
		versions when delay_checks was not in use.  See also entry
		above about check_relay being invoked with ${client_name}.
	CONFIG: New option confREJECT_LOG_INTERVAL to specify the log
		interval when refusing connections for this long.
	CONFIG: Remove quotes around usage of confREJECT_MSG; in some cases
		this requires a change in a mc file.  Requested by
		Ted Roberts of Electronic Data Systems.
	CONFIG: New option confAUTH_REALM to set the authentication realm
		that is passed to the Cyrus SASL library.  Patch from
		Gary Mills of the University of Manitoba.
	CONFIG: Rename the (internal) classes {tls}/{src} to {Tls}/{Src}
		to follow the naming conventions.
	CONFIG: Add a third optional argument to local_lmtp to specify
		the A= argument.
	CONFIG: Remove the f flag from the default mailer flags of
		local_lmtp.
	CONFIG: New option confREQUIRES_DIR_FSYNC to turn off the compile
		time flag REQUIRES_DIR_FSYNC at runtime.
	CONFIG: New LOCAL_UUCP macro to insert rules into the generated
		cf file at the same place where MAILER(`uucp') inserts
		its rules.
	CONFIG: New options confTO_QUEUERETURN_DSN and confTO_QUEUEWARN_DSN
		to control queue return and warning times for delivery
		status notifications.
	CONFIG: New option confFALLBACK_SMARTHOST to define FallbackSmartHost.
	CONFIG: Add the mc file which has been used to create the cf
		file to the end of the cf file when using make in cf/cf/.
		Patch from Richard Rognlie.
	CONFIG: FEATURE(nodns) has been removed, it was a no-op since 8.9.
		Use ServiceSwitchFile to turn off DNS lookups, see
		doc/op/op.me.
	CONFIG: New option confMILTER_MACROS_EOM (sendmail Milter.macros.eom
		option) defines macros to be sent to milter applications for
		use in the xxfi_eom() callback.
	CONFIG: New option confCRL to specify file which contains
		certificate revocations lists.
	CONFIG: Add a new value (sendertoo) for the third argument to
		FEATURE(`ldap_routing') which will reject the SMTP
		MAIL From: command if the sender address doesn't exist
		in LDAP.  See cf/README for more information.
	CONFIG: Add a fifth argument to FEATURE(`ldap_routing') which
		instructs the rulesets on whether or not to do a domain
		lookup if a full address lookup doesn't match.  See cf/README
		for more information.
	CONFIG: Add a sixth argument to FEATURE(`ldap_routing') which
		instructs the rulesets on whether or not to queue the mail
		or give an SMTP temporary error if the LDAP server can't be
		reached.  See cf/README for more information.  Based on
		patch from Billy Ray Miller of Caterpillar.
	CONFIG: Experimental support for MTAMark, see cf/README for details.
	CONFIG: New option confMESSAGEID_HEADER to define a different
		Message-Id: header format.  Patch from Bastiaan Bakker
		of LifeLine Networks.
	CONTRIB: New version of cidrexpand which uses Net::CIDR.  From
		Derek J. Balling.
	CONTRIB: oldbind.compat.c has been removed due to security problems.
		Found by code inspection done by Reasoning, Inc.
	DEVTOOLS: Add an example file for devtools/Site/, contributed
		by Neil Rickert of Northern Illinois University.
	LIBMILTER: Add new function smfi_quarantine() which allows the
		filter's EOM routine to quarantine the current message.
		Filters which use this function must include the
		SMFIF_QUARANTINE flag in the registered smfiDesc structure.
	LIBMILTER: If a milter sets the reply code to "421", the SMTP server
		will terminate the SMTP session with that error.
	LIBMILTER: Upon filter shutdown, libmilter will not remove a
		named socket in the file system if it is running as root.
	LIBMILTER: Add new function smfi_progress() which allows the filter
		to notify the MTA that an EOM operation is still in progress,
		resetting the timeout.
	LIBMILTER: Add new function smfi_opensocket() which allows the filter
		to attempt to establish the interface socket, and detect
		failure to do so before calling smfi_main().
	LIBMILTER: Add new function smfi_setmlreply() which allows the
		filter to return a multi-line SMTP reply.
	LIBMILTER: Deal with more temporary errors in accept() by ignoring
		them instead of stopping after too many occurred.
		Suggested by James Carlson of Sun Microsystems.
	LIBMILTER: Fix a descriptor leak in the sample program found in
		docs/sample.html.  Reported by Dmitry Adamushko.
	LIBMILTER: The sample program also needs to use SMFIF_ADDRCPT.
		Reported by Carl Byington of 510 Software Group.
	LIBMILTER: Document smfi_stop() and smfi_setdbg().  Patches
		from Bryan Costales.
	LIBMILTER: New compile time option SM_CONF_POLL; define this if
		poll(2) should be used instead of select(2).
	LIBMILTER: New function smfi_insheader() and related protocol
		amendments to support header insertion operations.
	MAIL.LOCAL: Add support for hashed mail directories, see
		mail.local/README.  Contributed by Chris Adams of HiWAAY
		Informations Services.
	MAILSTATS: Display quarantine message counts.
	MAKEMAP: Add new flag -D to specify the comment character to use
		instead of '#'.
	VACATION: Add new flag -j to auto-respond to messages regardless of
		whether or not the recipient is listed in the To: or Cc:
		headers.
	VACATION: Add new flag -R to specify the envelope sender address
		for the auto-response message.
	New Files:
		CACerts
		cf/feature/conncontrol.m4
		cf/feature/greet_pause.m4
		cf/feature/mtamark.m4
		cf/feature/ratecontrol.m4
		cf/feature/use_client_ptr.m4
		cf/ostype/unicos.m4
		cf/ostype/unicosmk.m4
		cf/ostype/unicosmp.m4
		contrib/socketmapClient.pl
		contrib/socketmapServer.pl
		devtools/OS/Darwin.7.0
		devtools/OS/UNICOS-mk
		devtools/OS/UNICOS-mp
		devtools/Site/site.config.m4.sample
		include/sm/os/sm_os_unicos.h
		include/sm/os/sm_os_unicosmk.h
		include/sm/os/sm_os_unicosmp.h
		libmilter/docs/smfi_insheader.html
		libmilter/docs/smfi_progress.html
		libmilter/docs/smfi_quarantine.html
		libmilter/docs/smfi_setdbg.html
		libmilter/docs/smfi_setmlreply.html
		libmilter/docs/smfi_stop.html
		sendmail/ratectrl.c
	Deleted Files:
		cf/feature/nodns.m4
		contrib/oldbind.compat.c
		devtools/OS/CRAYT3E.2.0.x
		devtools/OS/CRAYTS.10.0.x
		libsm/vsprintf.c
	Renamed Files:
		devtools/OS/Darwin.7.0 => devtools/OS/Darwin.7.x