ANNOUNCE New Releases of IndiMail / indimail-mta and associated software

[Manvendra Bhangui]

New versions of IndiMail, indimail-mta and associated code are out for release.

IndiMail

indimail-mta, daemontools, ucspi-tcp

libqmail

ezmlm

ezmlm-idx

Find the Release Highlights below

indimail-mta

• qmail-direct for delivering local mails directly to a user without using the queue.
• new function set_environment() to load environment variables from $HOME/.defaultqueue and sysconfdir/control/defaultqueue
• Configurable directory split
• qmail-send ability to rate limit. New service slowq-send
• qmta-send - tiny self sufficient daemon based on
• qmail-send+qmail-lspawn+qmail-lspawn+qmail-clean code
• split qmail-multi into qmail-multi and qmail-spamfilter
• complete rewrite of qmail-showctl.
• moved date822fmt, pathexec_run, pathexec_env, envdir, makeargs, mktempfile cdbmss, token822, openreadclose, prot_uid, prot_gid functions to libqmail
• qmail-local.c: add S=message_size in filename
• qmail-local.c: move maildir delivery code to maildir_deliver.c
• maildirdeliver: complete rewrite using maildir_deliver() function
• prioq.c: added feature to get prioq list in both descending and ascending order
• log current delivery rate and configured delivery rate in qmail-send logs
• document all indimail-mta environment variable in indimail-env man page
• use glibc wrappers for qgetpwent, setpwent, endpwent, qgetpwent_r, qgetpwnam, qgetpwuid, qgetpwnam_r, qgetpwuid_r, qgetgrent, qsetgrent, qendgrent, qgetgrnam, qgetgrgid, qgetgrnam_r, qgetgrgid_r
• ability of qmta-send to process messages queued by clients with any split value

daemontools

• svscan: run log supervise process with parent directory as argv2, allow supervise processes to run with three argument
• systemd.override.conf: added systemd override unit file for systems and added systemd-time-wait-sync.service in After= without battery backed RTC
• supervise.c: indicate service name (instead of just the pid) in logs when supervised service exits/crashes
• added RestartSec & PrivateTmp to main unit file and override.conf
• svscan_rc: implemented additional rc commands for FreeBSD
• envdir: ability to link additional directories files for environment variables using .envdir, .envfile
• envdir: complete recode. Added -c option to clear, -i option to ignore unreadable files and -w option to treat temporary errors as warning

ucspi-tcp

• added SSL/TLS support in tcpclient
• added STARTTLS support in tcpclient for POP3s
• dotls transparent SSL/TLS wrapper for tcpserver

IndiMail

• Minor bug fixes and use of github action workflow as part of development workflow which pushes the latest commits automatically to open build service.

indimail-access

• courier-imap version upgraded to courier-imap-5.1.3
• unicode version upgraded to 2.2.3
• maildrop version upgraded to 3.0.3

indimail-auth

• use /run/indimail for nssd socket path
• FreeBSD port
• Darwin port of pam-multi
• support dovecot authentication

fetchmail

• upgraded fetchmail to 6.4.16

libqmail

• added date822fmt, pathexec_run, pathexec_env, envdir, makeargs, mktempfile cdbmss, token822, openreadclose, prot_uid, prot_gid functions to libqmail
• added glibc wrappers for qgetpwent, setpwent, endpwent, qgetpwent_r, qgetpwnam, qgetpwuid, qgetpwnam_r, qgetpwuid_r, qgetgrent, qsetgrent, qendgrent, qgetgrnam, qgetgrgid, qgetgrnam_r, qgetgrgid_r, qgetservent, qgetservbyname, qgetservbyport, qsetservent, qendservent, qgetservent_r, qgetservbyname_r, qgetservbyport_r
• envdir: complete re-code. Added hyperlink feature to link another directory to the main directory. Added ability to read multiple directories using .envdir and key=value pairs from .envfile

ezmlm / ezmlm-idx

• load environment variables from /etc/indimail/ezmlm/global_vars