1(Version 8.38 of 05/13/95) 2 3============================================================================== 4For Release 8.7: 5 - getcanonname needs to be in service switch? 6 - another pass through Sun changes 7 - another pass through documentation 8 - change dotted users to plussed users 9 - rip out MIME (on compile flag) 10============================================================================== 11 12Key: 13 X -- extension (user visible change) 14 B -- bug fix 15 S -- security fix 16 E -- enhancement to existing algorithm 17 18 19E **** forward.5 man page. 20 21X **** Multiple queues. 22 23X **** Merge Sun changes. [8.7] 24 25E **** Fix parseaddr to return a dummy mailer with QBADADDR set for 26 all cases except null input; change calls to be more sceptical 27 about the return value, checking this bit instead of just 28 checking for == NULL. (Eric Wassenaar) [8.7] 29 30X **** Run time configurable locking -- e.g., compile in HASFLOCK and 31 HASLOCKF, and then choose at runtime between these. 32 33B **** Aliases with .REDIRECT fail during newaliases if the "n" flag 34 is given. Problem is, sometimes you want them to, sometimes 35 you don't. Perhaps two flavors of "error" mailer? 36 37B **** Calls to gethostbyname with a trailing dot fail if you are 38 not running DNS. 39 40X **** Add uucp-bang mailer that strips off any domain name from 41 the envelope recipient address first; this is for use in 42 mailer table entries. 43 44X **** "quote" map (inverse of dequote). Lets you turn node::user 45 into "node::user"@DECNET.gateway 46 47E **** Change userdb code to use underlying maps, at least for 48 :mailname; this lets people use NIS to supply generics 49 information. (Or should the generics code just be broken 50 out into the config file?) 51 52? **** Should $( [1.2.3.4] $) convert the address to a name? 53 54X *** Multiple queue runners. 55 56E *** Have recipient lines rewritten by the user database. 57 58E *** Arrange to run queue jobs as the owner of that queue file. This 59 probably requires forcing a fork in order to be able to completely 60 restore the uid/gid portably without leaking out root privileges. 61 62E *** Long term host status -- store host status on disk for sharing 63 between runs. 64 65X *** Extend I option to allow setting of retry and timeout values. 66 drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (David R. Linn). 67 68X *** Total connection cache lifespan timeout -- a way to give a 69 timeout on connections regardless of whether they are active 70 or not. For single threaded servers such as Microsoft SMTP 71 gateway. Douglas Anderson <dlander@afterlife.ncsc.mil>. 72 73X *** Create a macro that has message size. 74 Peter Wemm <peter@DIALix.oz.au> 75 76E *** Dynamically allocate MAXNAME buffers for headers. 77 78E *** Dynamically allocate "line" buffer in readaliases(). 79 80X *** Add -P to set precedence (e.g., -Pbulk). [8.8] (BCX) 81 82E *** Don't send ErrMsgFile to postmaster bounces. (Josh Smith, 83 josh@osiris.ac.hmc.edu). 84 85E *** Have daemons that start up check the alias database for 86 correctness and auto-rebuild if necessary. This is to handle 87 the case of a system crash during an alias database rebuild. 88 89E *** Eliminate E qf line and e_errorqueue; use e_errorsto a la 90 e_receiptto. This simplifies and gives symmetry. (Eric 91 Wassenaar) 92 93X *** DECNET_RELAY support in configs. 94 95X *** -wN command line flag to set the width of mailq output. 96 (Allan Johannesen) 97 98E *** Move mailertable lookup after UUCP-specific class checks? 99 (Kimmo Suominen <kim@tac.nyc.ny.us>) 100 101E *** Users in more than one list with different owners get duplicate 102 deliveries -- maybe just assign them arbitrarily to one 103 envelope or the other? 104 105E *** Mailer flag to turn off MX lookups. 106 107E ** Hooks for "mail status daemon" -- send dgrams to a WKS that will 108 announce when jobs are created/destroyed. Someone needs to write 109 the daemon though.... 110 111X ** Mailer timeout (to handle things like local mailers that hang). 112 Perhaps a per-mailer value? 113 114E ** If you get a connection from a host for which you have queued 115 mail, deliver everything to that host. Intended for dialup SLIP 116 style connections. 117 118X ** Rewriting rules based on incoming mailer. 119 120X ** Have a ruleset (6?) that gets both sender and recipient 121 addresses to check compatibility. Can you do enough interesting 122 things with this? 123 124X ** Make MAXBADCOMMANDS run time configurable. 125 126E ** Allow mailertable entries of the form ``error:message''. 127 128X ** Have .forward files re-queue if the home directory isn't 129 accessible? On some option... 130 (Q.G.Campbell@newcastle.ac.uk) 131 132X ** Have local delivery queue if NIS is down? On some option... 133 (Q.G.Campbell@newcastle.ac.uk) 134 135E ** Have nullclient configuration resolve local names to the local 136 mailer and then redirect them in ruleset 5; this allows you to 137 redirect root differently depending on the client. It's not 138 clear this is really a good idea though. 139 140E ** Move CurHostAddr into mci struct, and make CurMCI variable 141 point to this, so that logging will give the correct address 142 instead of (0) for cached connections. Motonori Nakamura. 143 144X ** Allow use of a generalized network service for aliasing? 145 How would the protocol be defined? 146 James Gritton <gritton@byu.edu>. 147 148E ** Make "local configuration error" a temporary failure? 149 (add EX_CONFIG to the markfailure list) 150 151X ** (sigh) BSMTP. 152 153X ** "E" configuration line that sets environment variables. 154 155E ** Change listen() high-load backoff to accept and issue a 4xx 156 message so that it responds more quickly. 157 158B ** Commas in NAME envariable cause problems (Peter Wan 159 <peter@cc.gatech.edu>). Merge with suggestions to use 160 MIME-format for 8-bit characters? 161 162E ** Save address information that comes back as the "additional 163 records" part of an MX lookup, to avoid additional name server 164 attempts. If there is an MX record without an additional A 165 record, delete it (this avoids a problem with misconfigured 166 DNS situations). 167 168X ** Allow a way to extend the $Z macro with local configuration 169 information. 170 171X ** Allow $x in -bt mode to expand macro "x". (BCX) [8.8] 172 173X ** Allow /address in -bt mode to expand address through ruleset 0, 174 aliases, etc. and display results. [8.8] 175 176X ** "R mailer address" in -bt mode does remotename on address. 177 178E ** Adjust "infinite loop in rule" code to handle entire ruleset 179 (Code from Michael Corrigan). 180 181E ** Allow :include: from command line (not SMTP) to assist in 182 "personal list" management -- i.e., creating lists that 183 cannot be EXPNed. 184 185X ** Database (keyed lookup) auto-rebuild. 186 187X ** Find a good test suite and include in the distribution. 188 189S ** You can use symbolic links to point into protected directories. 190 (AEJ) 191 192X ** Extend OI to allow separate settings for canonification, MX, and A 193 lookups. [8.8?] 194 195X ** Add $!x class to match any number of words not in class x. (KRE) 196 197X ** LOCAL_RULE_5 (Spencer Sun, spencer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU) 198 199X ** Some way to diddle resolver flags on a per-lookup basis, such 200 as a flag to the map declaration. (Rick McCarty) 201 - Is this really a good idea? DNSRCH can be turned off by 202 putting a dot at the end. AAONLY? 203 204X ** Extend makemap to "gather" values -- i.e., merge entries that 205 have the same keys. [8.8] (BCX) 206 207E ** Allow error messages on individual addresses in the qf file. 208 (BCX) 209 210X ** User database extensions for mailing lists: 211 list:precedence -- Precedence: value for new message 212 list:envelopefrom -- envelope "from" value for new message 213 others? [8.8] 214 215X ** Command line switch to set precedence (for mailing list 216 generation). (BCX) 217 218B ** Return-Path: header should have <> added if not already there. 219 220X ** Add heuristic to determine if other end is a sendmail; use 221 that to decide whether or not to honor F=I mailer flag. 222 [der Mouse <mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>] 223 224X ** Automatically drop into MIME mode if you have a full name 225 with 8-bit characters. See envelope.c 8.19.1.1 and util.c 226 8.17.1.1. From Anders Ellefsrud <anders@ifi.uio.no>. 227 228X ** -b? flag to read a header and show you what it will look like 229 after all rewriting for an indicated address. 230 231E ** Log $u in logsender() (for=<someaddress>). 232 233B ** Include SOCKADDR in MCI struct for logging (currently gives 234 a sockaddr of zero when printing from the cache). 235 236X ** Allow option to set the characters that are autoquoted in 237 addresses? 238 239X ** Substring map class. 240 241X * Map that does MB/MR lookups. Rick McCarty <mccarty@io.com>. 242 243X * Allow $> anywhere in RHS. John Boeske <jboeske@ualberta.ca>. 244 245X * -V flag to print state of all (?) compilation flags. 246 247X * Handle Expires: header field (if still in queue). 248 249X * WIN/3B support (non-atomic rename, no h_addr_list, others?) 250 (Bruce Lilly <blilly!bruce@uu.psi.com>) 251 252X * Sun YBTS daemon uses -ba. [Martin Kiff <MGK@newton.npl.co.uk>] 253 254B * EXPN adds @domain to all mailers, including prog. Is this right? 255 [Bob Henry] 256 257B * EXPN adds @localhost instead of @$M. [Pel Emanuelsson] 258 259E * Change body put code to time out around individual puts. This will 260 make the timeout algorithm more responsive and more resilient. 261 Unfortunately, it's also a pain in the butt. 262 263X * Some way to relay unfound local users to another site. 264 265X * Disable all default RW sets except mailer-specific? 266 267 268------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 269 270IDA Features that have been requested: 271 272* USERMAILER 273 274* LOCAL_MX_HANDLER 275 276* NIS_MAILHOST 277 278* GENERICFROM 279