pmilter-announce — One-way announcement-only list for PMilter releases and important notices

[pmilter-announce] PMilter (Pure-Perl Milter protocol stack) is now abandoned; new maintainer(s) needed

[Todd V. <tv...@po...>]

After considerable thought triggered by recent personal events in my
life, I have decided to abandon the PMilter project as maintainer.  I
have not been able to keep up -- even with requests up to two years
old -- and have to refocus myself on other things.

The project is not necessarily dead, however.  I'm sending this
message to call for one or more new maintainers to carry the project
forward.  I already know that PMilter has been deployed elsewhere in
the real world, and a couple folks have completely rewritten parts of
it to an extent that may be valuable.

If you are interested in helping to maintain PMilter, please e-mail me
directly with a short description of your experience with the
software, and your Sourceforge account ID.

Thank you all for your support in the past, and I hope that someone
else can take the reins and lead this project forward.

--
-- Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...> <to...@vi...>

[pmilter-announce] Mail::Milter 0.07 Released

[Todd V. <tv...@du...>]

It has been almost a year and a half since the last release, and I've added
quite a few more bits and pieces of useful code in the interim.  A release
is LONG overdue, and here it is.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=90860&package_id=110134&release_id=227268

Changes:
0.07  Wed Mar 22 15:45:00 2006 UTC
        - added Mail::Milter::Module::AccessDB
        - Mail::Milter::Module::MailDomainDotMX needed a "use Net::DNS"
        - improved Mail::Milter::Wrapper::DecodeSRS parsing to understand
                Mail::SRS::Guarded munging where the original localpart
                already contained an equals (=) character
        - added Mail::Milter::Module::SPF
        - added Mail::Milter::Module::MailFakeNull
        - added Mail::Milter::Module::HeaderValidateMIME
        - added method check_superdomains() to
          Mail::Milter::Module::MailDomainDNSBL, allowing use of e.g.
          surbl.org blacklist with MAIL FROM:<> addresses

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-- Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...> <to...@vi...>

[pmilter-announce] Mail::Milter 0.06 Released

[Todd V. <tv...@du...>]

There hasn't been a release of the Mail::Milter enhancement API in quite a
while, so here's a release ripe for Thanksgiving Day with several new
features.

To get it, go to the download page:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=90860&package_id=110134&release_id=219645

===

0.06  Thu Nov 25 20:30:00 2004 UTC
        - fixed Mail::Milter::Chain where second and subsequent RCPTs
                were not being rejected properly
        - fixed Mail::Milter::Wrapper::DeferToRCPT where a reject at envfrom
                was propagated as-is to further envfroms on the same session
                (should be per-envfrom only)
        - added Mail::Milter::Module::ConnectASNBL
        - added Mail::Milter::Wrapper::DecodeSRS
        - fixed parsing of AS_SETs in the AS list returned from the DNSBL
        - added Mail::Milter::Module::MailDomainDotMX

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-- Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...>

[pmilter-announce] Sendmail::PMilter 0.95 released

[Todd V. <tv...@du...>]

This is a quick bug fix over 0.94 which repairs the installation location of
the Sendmail::Milter wrapper.  If you are currently using 0.94 (and it works
at all...!), I highly recommend going to 0.95 anyway.

-- 
-- Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...>

[pmilter-announce] Sendmail::PMilter 0.94 Released

[Todd V. <tv...@du...>]

This long-awaited release fixes some glaring bugs, added several new
features, and improved stability a bit.  Based on feedback with 0.93 and
code leading up to 0.94, I have promoted the "pmilter" project to developmet
status "4 - Beta".

Note that this release does not yet contain a pool-based forking dispatcher.
A couple different implementations were submitted; I plan to review them
now, take the best concepts from them, and implement an official pool
dispatcher in 0.95.

Please try it out and share your experiences on the users' mailing list,
pmi...@li....

    http://pmilter.sourceforge.net/

=====

0.94  Wed Aug 04 17:10:00 2004 UTC
        - [923158] made installation of Sendmail::Milter layer optional
        - [925579] added support for experimental setsender() operation
        - fixed usage of max_interpreters and max_requests values
                (they were being ignored previously)
        - allowed for named configuration variables to prefork_dispatcher()
        - [1002122] fixed symbol table to return symbols from earlier
                callbacks as appropriate (reported by <s.b...@un...>)
        - [1003308] changed "EOF in stream" handling to exit as if a normal
                SMFIC_CLOSE had been received from the MTA
        - fixed warning in Context.pm wrt <= on an undefined value
        - [1003307] fixed ithread_dispatcher share() usage and warning
                appearing when $@ was defined but empty
        - [1003304] changed SIGINFO/SIGUSR1 handler to use warn() rather
                than raw prints to STDERR (requested by <an...@ia...>)
        - [925577, 1003351] added support for quarantine(), progress(),
                and shutdown() (Sendmail 8.13 special case)
        - moved SMFIF_* constants not in the standard Sendmail::Milter
                into only Sendmail::PMilter

----  Wed Jul 07 21:50:00 2004 EDT
        - Marcia Lynell May, mother of Todd Vierling's partner Adam May,
                passed away of complications related to spina bifida.

-- 
-- Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...>

[pmilter-announce] Mail::Milter 0.05 Released (important bugfix)

[Todd V. <tv...@du...>]

Mail::Milter 0.05 is now available, and fixes a very important bug in the
new MailDomainDNSBL module.  It was tempfailing MAIL FROM:<> -- very bad.
Because of this, Mail::Milter 0.04 has been withdrawn from SF and CPAN.

=====

$Id: Changes,v 1.22 2004/04/15 21:11:30 tvierling Exp $

Revision history for Perl extension Mail::Milter.

0.05  Thu Apr 15 19:15:00 2004 UTC
        - fixed Mail::Milter::Module::*DNSBL to return a descriptive 451
                error on a temporary DNSBL failure
        - fixed Mail::Milter::Module::MailDomainDNSBL not to break on <>
                sender (would cause a query beginning with a dot)

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-- Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...>

[pmilter-announce] Mail::Milter 0.04 Released

[Todd V. <tv...@du...>]

Mail::Milter is an object-oriented framework for building "milter" mail
filters for use with Sendmail and some other MTAs.  It works as a layer on
top of the Sendmail::Milter or Sendmail::PMilter protocol transport.

0.04 is a major feature update.  This release introduces DNSBL support for
connecting hosts and MAIL FROM domains (aka "RHSBLs"), a new module that
rejects many types of forged-virus bounces, and a general regular expression
milter for the HELO string.

(A release notice wasn't sent out here for Mail::Milter 0.03 because its
feature set was relatively small, so those changelog notes are also included
below.)

=====

$Id: Changes,v 1.19 2004/04/14 01:07:05 tvierling Exp $

Revision history for Perl extension Mail::Milter.

0.04  Wed Apr 14 01:00:00 2004 UTC
	- added modules
		Mail::Milter::Module::ConnectDNSBL
		Mail::Milter::Module::HeloRegex
		Mail::Milter::Module::MailDomainDNSBL
		Mail::Milter::Module::VirusBounceSpew
	- changed Mail::Milter::Wrapper::DeferToRCPT to intercept normally
		554 SMTP response codes (not valid for RCPT per RFC2822),
		and replace them with 550 (which is valid, ibid.).

0.03  Mon Mar 29 17:30:00 2004 UTC
	- added module Mail::Milter::Module::ConnectMatchesHostname

-- 
-- Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...>

[pmilter-announce] Sendmail::PMilter 0.93 Released

[Todd V. <tv...@du...>]

I didn't get to this release announce as soon as I meant to, but here it
is.  Sendmail::PMilter is now available on the pmlter website and on CPAN.

    http://pmilter.sourceforge.net/

0.93  Thu Mar 25 19:15:00 2004 UTC
	- fixed call to threads::shared::share() to pass varglob, not
		reference (reported by <sch...@za...>)
		(also fixed in 0.92_01)
	- [910599] fixed SIGINFO handler to use only a valid signal; will use
		SIGUSR1 if SIGINFO doesn't exist
		(also fixed in 0.92_01)
	- [910602] always send a response to the close packet if the socket
		is still valid (was doing this for failures, but not for
		successful closing of the session)
	- [923156] moved constants from Sendmail::PMilter to Sendmail::Milter
		to allow the libmilter implementation to coexist

-- 
-- Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...>

[pmilter-announce] Sendmail::PMilter 0.93 released

[Todd V. <tv...@du...>]

This is a release mainly intended to get CPAN to index changes that were in
0.92_01.  Apparently CPAN explicitly excludes such patchlevel releases from
indexing (why, I have NFC), so "whatever".  Change log follows.

===== Changes =====
0.93  Thu Mar 25 19:15:00 2004 UTC
        - fixed call to threads::shared::share() to pass varglob, not
                reference (reported by <sch...@za...>)
                (also fixed in 0.92_01)
        - [910599] fixed SIGINFO handler to use only a valid signal; will use
                SIGUSR1 if SIGINFO doesn't exist
                (also fixed in 0.92_01)
        - [910602] always send a response to the close packet if the socket
                is still valid (was doing this for failures, but not for
                successful closing of the session)
        - [923156] moved constants from Sendmail::PMilter to Sendmail::Milter
                to allow the libmilter implementation to coexist

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-- Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...>

[pmilter-announce] Sendmail::PMilter 0.92_01: Linux fix

[Todd V. <tv...@du...>]

Linux users have been telling me about the use-strict problem in PMilter.pm
centering on the use of SIGINFO, which is present in all BSDs and some SYSV
variants.  Linux doesn't have this signal, causing the $SIG{INFO} blocks to
fail.

If you've been running into this problem, try the patch release 0.92_01,
which should resolve the problem.

Also fixed is a typo in the ithread dispatcher, for those wanting to try it
out on Perl 5.8.

-- 
-- Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...>

[pmilter-announce] Sendmail::PMilter 0.92 Released

[Todd V. <tv...@du...>]

This is, from my perspective, the most stable release as yet.  Barring any
user-reported bugs, I have a feeling that this will be mostly unchanged from
the version to be called "1.00" -- as soon as CPAN approves the
Sendmail::PMilter namespace for inclusion.

Changelog below.

=====

0.92  Fri Feb 27 15:15:00 2004 UTC
	- added INET6 and UNIX socket support to sockaddr argument passed
		to the "connect" callback
	- fixed bug where a setreply() value was held beyond one callback
		(also fixed in 0.91_02)
	- implemented Sendmail::Milter::settimeout() and
		Sendmail::Milter::setdbg() as no-ops; needed for completeness
		(also fixed in 0.91_03)
	- fixed signal handling in prefork dispatcher

-- 
-- Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...>

[pmilter-announce] Mail::Milter 0.02 Released

[Todd V. <tv...@du...>]

This is the first "production-used" version of the Mail::Milter package,
now used for the duh.org mail server.

Now included with the package is the actual milter script being used on that
server, under examples/duh.org.  This demonstrates some of the power
available with the use of Sendmail::[P]Milter and Mail::Milter.  Please feel
free to try it out and comment.

Release notes follow.

=====

Mail::Milter version 0.02
=========================

$Id: README,v 1.7 2004/02/25 16:40:10 tvierling Exp $

Mail::Milter is a set of modules useful to mail filter writers who are
using the Sendmail::Milter and/or Sendmail::PMilter APIs to interface
directly to the SMTP transaction.  Among those currently included are:

Mail::Milter::Chain
    A milter container.  This allows multiple milter instances to exist
    within a single milter server, and still play together nicely.
    With this, an almost rule-based meta-milter can be created.

Mail::Milter::Object
    Allows a milter to exist as a blessed object, using method names
    rather than subroutine references to supply the callbacks.  This adds
    modularity and makes milter objects easier to understand.

Mail::Milter::Wrapper
    "Wraps" a milter with a user-supplied interception subroutine.  This
    can be used to defer a failure return code, add a descriptive message,
    and many other things.

Mail::Milter::Module::*
    Off-the-shelf milter modules that perform commonly used functions.
    Most useful in conjunction with Mail::Milter::Chain.

Mail::Milter::Wrapper::*
    Off-the-shelf milter wrappers that can perform commonly desired
    editing operations on milter return codes.

For a complete list of available modules, see "perldoc Mail::Milter".

-- 
-- Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...>

[pmilter-announce] Mail::Milter 0.01 Released

[Todd V. <tv...@du...>]

Mail::Milter is the second subproject of PMilter.  This is a Perl module
package consisting of enhancement APIs for milters.  It is packaged
separately from Sendmail::PMilter as these modules work with both
Sendmail::PMilter and the "standard" Sendmail::Milter.  Release notes below.

=====

Mail::Milter version 0.01
=========================

$Id: README,v 1.3 2004/02/24 02:12:09 tvierling Exp $

Mail::Milter is a set of modules useful to mail filter writers who are
using the Sendmail::Milter and/or Sendmail::PMilter APIs to interface
directly to the SMTP transaction.  Currently included are:

Mail::Milter::Chain
    A milter container.  This allows multiple milter instances to exist
    within a single milter server, and still play together nicely.
    Combined with Mail::Milter::Object below, an almost rule-based
    meta-milter can be created.

Mail::Milter::Object
    Allows a milter to exist as a blessed object, using method names
    rather than subroutine references to supply the callbacks.  This add
    modularity and makes milter objects easier to understand.

Mail::Milter::Wrapper
    "Wraps" a milter with a user-supplied interception subroutine.  This
    can be used to defer a failure return code, add a descriptive message,
    and many other purposes.

Mail::Milter::Module::*
    Off-the-shelf milter modules that perform commonly used functions.
    Most useful in conjunction with Mail::Milter::Chain.

-- 
-- Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...>

[pmilter-announce] Sendmail::PMilter 0.91 Released

[Todd V. <tv...@du...>]

Sendmail::PMilter 0.91 has been released; release notes follow.  It can be
downloaded from the PMilter project page:

    http://pmilter.sourceforge.net/

In addition to what is listed in the release notes, this release has
undergone some compatibility testing performed by me, in which I validated
that the Sendmail::Milter compatibility API is working as advertised.  As of
this release, I consider the basic protocol engine working and stable, and
I'd like to get feedback from users on any bugs noted.  Most notably, if you
are using Perl 5.8 with threads and want to try the nre "ithread" threaded
dispatcher, I'd love to get success/failure feedback on it.

Before calling this package "1.00", though, there will be some minor
architectural changes and a few more extensions added for convenience.  More
unit tests will be added and verified by then, as well.  So stay tuned....

=====

Sendmail::PMilter version 0.91
==============================

$Id: README,v 1.7 2004/02/22 14:54:29 tvierling Exp $

Sendmail::PMilter is a mail filtering API implementing the Sendmail
milter protocol in pure Perl.  This allows Sendmail servers (and perhaps
other MTAs implementing milter) to filter and modify mail in transit
during the SMTP connection, all in Perl.

It should be noted that PMilter 0.90 and later is NOT compatible with
scripts written for PMilter 0.5 and earlier.  The API has been reworked
significantly, and the enhanced APIs and rule logic provided by PMilter
0.5 and earlier has been factored out for inclusion in a separate package
to be called Mail::Milter.

0.91 significantly improves documentation, and introduces the "prefork"
and "ithread" dispatchers, allowing for more resource-efficient milter
implementations.  The dispatcher used may be set with the
PMILTER_DISPATCHER environment variable for easier use with milters using
the Sendmail::Milter compatibility API.  See "perldoc Sendmail::PMilter"
for details.

               NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE

       This version of Sendmail::PMilter is NOT well tested.
       All versions in the 0.xx series WILL have bugs, so
       USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

               NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE

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-- Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...>

[pmilter-announce] Sendmail::PMilter 0.90 released

[Todd V. <tv...@du...>]

So it's been about half a year since a major PMilter release.  To rectify
this situation, I'm pleased to announce....

Sendmail::PMilter 0.90 is the first SourceForge release of the PMilter
project, under the Sendmail::PMilter subproject.  This is the basic protocol
engine in Perl with an API almost identical to that of the standard
Sendmail::Milter.

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pmilter/Sendmail-PMilter-0.90.tar.gz

This should be considered pre-alpha quality software.  The README file for
this release is below.

Users of PMilter 0.4.x or 0.5-CVS should note that there is not currently a
migration path to Sendmail::PMilter 0.90, as the architecture has changed
significantly -- including the removal of the module system (which will be
re-added as a separate subproject in a different form).

As always, if you have questions, let me know!

=====

Sendmail::PMilter version 0.90
==============================

Sendmail::PMilter is a mail filtering API implementing the Sendmail
milter protocol in pure Perl.  This allows Sendmail servers (and perhaps
other MTAs implementing milter) to filter and modify mail in transit
during the SMTP connection, all in Perl.

It should be noted that PMilter 0.90 and later is NOT compatible with
scripts written for PMilter 0.5 and earlier.  The API has been reworked
significantly, and the enhanced APIs and rule logic provided by PMilter
0.5 and earlier has been factored out for inclusion in a separate package
to be called Mail::Milter.

So, in short, this package should be regarded as a drop-in replacement
for Sendmail::Milter, with only some very minor API extensions related
to the milter protocol itself.  (Sendmail::PMilter includes a wrapper
module named Sendmail::Milter to allow old milter scripts to continue
working as-is with this package.)

               NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE

       This version of Sendmail::PMilter is NOT well tested.
       All versions in the 0.xx series WILL have bugs, so
       USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

               NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE

=====

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

   Socket6 (optional, if inet6: connection method is used)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Licensed under the three-clause BSD license; see COPYRIGHT file supplied
with the distribution for more information.

Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...>

-- 
-- Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...>

[pmilter-announce] PMilter moving to SourceForge

[Todd V. <tv...@du...>]

What you've all been waiting for:  actual activity on the PMilter project!

In order to accomodate more collaborative work on PMilter, I'm moving the
project to SourceForge.  The mailing lists on lists.duh.org have been
removed, and the membership list for pmi...@li... has been
migrated to pmi...@li....  A discussion list has
not yet been created on SourceForge, but will be available soon.

The new SourceForge homepage is located at:

    http://pmilter.sourceforge.net/

It is currently bare, but existing files will be migrated here shortly.

The current cvs.duh.org source tree is not being imported directly to
SourceForge as-is.  Rather, I'm currently working on the new internal
architecture of PMilter to which I alluded a while back around 0.4.0.  Note
that the reorganization will mean that scripts written for existing 0.x
PMilter versions will no longer work at all -- but the changes will be worth
breaking compatibility this time around; I promise.

The first alpha/beta releases from this new code base (which will
incorporate reorganized bits of the existing code) will be numbered 0.9.x,
and public releases will start with 1.x.

Stay tuned!

-- 
-- Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...>