milter-manager-users-en — A ML for milter manager users in English

[ANN] milter manager 0.9.0

[Kouhei S. <ko...@cl...>]

Hi,

milter manager 0.9.0 has been released.

  http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/
  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/milter-manager/milter-manager-0.9.0.tar.gz

This release is release candidate of 1.0.0.
This release includes improvements for speed and stability
as the below change list. If you are interested in milter
manager, please try to use this release.

== What is milter manager?

milter manager is a free software to support constructing
more flexible and low administration cost mail system with
milter.

== 0.8.0 -> 0.9.0

Speed and stability are improved.

=== milter-manager

  * Added a feature to change group of UNIX domain socket.
  * Speed up:
    * Changed to send milter commands in a packet.
    * Changed to process mail body on memory as far as possible.
  * configure:
    * --with-rcddir: Add a option to specify pkgsrc's rc.d directory.
  * Bug fixes:
    * Fixed a bug that a file descriptor is too closed.
    * Fixed a bug that 'temporary failure' is reported as
      'reject' in log.

=== New applicable conditions

  * sendmail-compatible:
    It's a feature to avoid macro related incompatibility
    between Sendmail's milter implementation and Postfix's
    milter implementation.
    (ref. Postfix before-queue Milter support - Workarounds
          http://www.postfix.org/MILTER_README.html#workarounds)

    It's not an applicable condition but it uses applicable
    condition framework to convert macros passed to a milter
    by MTA. dnsbl-milter can be worked with Postfix without
    a patch(*) by the feature.

    (*) [2594714] Postfix support
        http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=1015126&aid=2594714&group_id=210782

  * authentication: It's an applicable condition to apply a
    milter only when a connection is authenticated or
    unauthenticated.

=== milter-performance-check

  * Added a feature to send a file as a mail.
  * Added a feature to send each file under specified
    directories as a mail.
  * --from, --recipient, --force-from, --force-recipient:
    Added features to override from address and/or recipient
    address.
  * --interval: Added a feature to send a mail at intervals.
  * --period: Added a feature to send mails at the same
    interval in period.
  * --shuffle: Added a feature to send mails in random order.

=== milter-manager-log-analyzer

  * [incompatible]: Added an item "abort" to processed mail graph.

== More about milter manager

  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/readme.html
    README: License, How to get, Introductions of included tools

  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/introduction.html
    Introduction: More details about milter manager's advantages

  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/install.html
  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/install-to-ubuntu.html
  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/install-to-freebsd.html
  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/install-to-centos.html
    Install: How to install milter manager (for Ubuntu, FreeBSD and CentOS)
    Used milters: milter-greylist, clamav-milter, spamass-milter

  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/install-options-to-ubuntu.html
  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/install-options-to-freebsd.html
  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/install-options-to-centos.html
    Install (optional):
    How to install milter-manager-log-analyzer and milter manager admin.

  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/configuration.html
    Configuration: How to configure milter manager

  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/coverage/
    Coverage

  * Cutter: unit testing framework for C
    http://cutter.sourceforge.net/

  * LCOV: coverage result formatter
    http://ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/lcov.php

== Contact

Mailing list:
  https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/milter-manager-users-en

BTS:
  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=1099435&group_id=236233&func=browse


Thanks,
--
kou

[ANN] milter manager 0.8.0

[Kouhei S. <ko...@cl...>]

Hi,

milter manager 0.8.0 has been released.

  http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/ja/
  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/milter-manager/milter-manager-0.8.0.tar.gz

ClearCode Inc. is developing milter manager for a public
issue bussiness of IPA (INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY PROMOTION
AGENCY). This is the first release of milter manager. This
release is developement release.

== About milter manager

milter manager is a milter that manages multiple milters.
It is a free software to help constructing flexibile and low
maintenance cost mail system.

== 0.7.0 -> 0.8.0

  * New features
    * New tools:
      * milter-manager-log-analyzer:
        It visualizes milter-manager's log.
        Screenshot: http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/milter-manager-log-analyzer-graphs.png
      * milter manager admin:
        Web interface for administrating milter-manager.
	Screenshot: http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/milter-manager-admin.png
    * Add milter detection method for pkgsrc.
    * Support CentOS.
    * Applicable condition
      * Support getting status of other milter.
      * Support getting/setting macros of milter.
  * Update S25R (2009/02/01 version)
  * Bug fixes
    * [#2518782] typo in configure: [OBATA Akio]

== More about milter manager

  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/readme.html
    README: License, How to get, Introductions of included tools

  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/introduction.html
    Introduction: More details about milter manager's advantages

  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/install.html
  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/install-to-ubuntu.html
  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/install-to-freebsd.html
  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/install-to-centos.html
    Install: How to install milter manager (for Ubuntu, FreeBSD and CentOS)
    Used milters: milter-greylist, clamav-milter, spamass-milter

  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/install-options-to-ubuntu.html
  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/install-options-to-freebsd.html
  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/install-options-to-centos.html
    Install (optional):
    How to install milter-manager-log-analyzer and milter manager admin.

  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/configuration.html
    Configuration: How to configure milter manager

  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/coverage/
    Coverage

  * Cutter: unit testing framework for C
    http://cutter.sourceforge.net/

  * LCOV: coverage result formatter
    http://ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/lcov.php

== Contact

Mailing list:
  https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/milter-manager-users-en

BTS:
  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=1099435&group_id=236233&func=browse

== Thanks

  * OBATA Akio:
    * reports a bug.
    * gives hints for supporting NetBSD and pkgsrc.


Thanks,
--
kou

[ANN] milter manager 0.7.0

[Kouhei S. <ko...@cl...>]

Hi,

milter manager 0.7.0 has been released.

  http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/
  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=236233

ClearCode Inc. is developing milter manager for a public
issue bussiness of IPA (INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY PROMOTION
AGENCY). This is the first release of milter manager. This
release is developement release.

Release schedule is the last of this mail.

== About milter manager

milter manager is a milter that manages multiple milters.
It is a free software to help constructing flexibile and low
maintenance cost mail system.

milter is a pluggable message filter derived from Sendmail.
Each milter provides one or more features. We can construct
mail system for ourselves purporse by combining some
milters. The flexibility is advantage but also weakness.

The weakness is higher maintenance cost because we need to
have many configuration files and associate each milter with
MTA.

milter manager helps constructing mail system for ourselves
purporse with low maintainance cost by using milters'
advantages and covering milters' weaknesses.


milter manager embeds Ruby interpreter. Ruby is a real
programming language that provides easy to read syntax and
flexibility.

milter manager can detect installed milters in system and
register them dynamically by embeded Ruby interpreter. We
doesn't need to change MTA configuration even if milter's
socket configuration. We just change milter's configuration.
It covers a weakness caused when multipe milters are used.


It's milter's advantage that combine multiple milters. But
all registered milters are applied to all messages. We can't
select whether apply milters or not dynamically like
Postfix's SMTP Access Policy Delegation. If milter can be
applied like this, we will be able to share a whitelist with
all milters instead of maintaining a whitelist in each
milter.

milter manager has some check points in milter session. They
can be used for it.

== More about milter manager

  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/readme.html

    README: License, How to get, Introductions of included tools

  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/ja/introduction.html

    Introduction: More details about milter manager's advantages

  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/ja/install.html
    * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/ja/install-to-ubuntu.html
    * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/ja/install-to-freebsd.html

    Install: How to install milter manager (for Ubuntu and FreeBSD)
             Used milters: milter-greylist, clamav-milter, spamass-milter

  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/reference/ja/configuration.html

    Configuration: How to configure milter manager

  * http://milter-manager.sourceforge.net/coverage/

    Coverage

    * Cutter: unit testing framework for C
      http://cutter.sourceforge.net/
    * LCOV: coverage result formatter
      http://ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/lcov.php

== Release schedule

2009/1: 0.7.0
        * This release
2009/2: 0.8.0
        * Add Web interface for administration
        * Add log analyzer tool
        * Improve documents
2009/3: 0.9.0
        * 1.0.0 RC
        * Freeze library API
        * If it has problems, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, ... are released
2009/4: 1.0.0
        * If 0.9.0 doesn't have problem
        * If 0.9.0 has problem and 0.9.1, ... are released,
          1.0.0 will be released after 2009/4.

== Contact

Mailing list:
  https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/milter-manager-users-en

  The future release announce will be done the ML. If you
  interested in this project, please join the ML.

BTS:
  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=1099435&group_id=236233&func=browse


Thanks,
--
kou