[Fwd: Postfix 2.3 stable release available]

[Mike Jakubik]

Just an FYI for postfix users. Bonus points for the first one to try and 
see if it works with MS :)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Postfix 2.3 stable release available
Date: 	Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:16:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: 	wietse at porcupine.org (Wietse Venema)
Reply-To: 	Postfix users <postfix-users at postfix.org>
To: 	Postfix announce <postfix-announce at postfix.org>
CC: 	Postfix users <postfix-users at postfix.org>



A few months later than usual, Postfix stable release 2.3 is now
available. The release was postponed until Postfix was complete
enough for today's email environment. Hopefully I can now spend
more time doing new projects.

You can find the Postfix 2.3.0 source code via the mirror sites
listed at http://www.postfix.org/. If it's not there today, then
it should show up in the course of the next 24 hours.

   435112 Jul 11 17:24 postfix-2.3.0.HISTORY
    35125 Jul 11 16:40 postfix-2.3.0.RELEASE_NOTES
  2770830 Jul 11 17:25 postfix-2.3.0.tar.gz
      280 Jul 11 17:25 postfix-2.3.0.tar.gz.sig

What follows is a very much compressed summary of what has changed.
See the RELEASE_NOTES file for compatibility issues that may affect
your site. The HISTORY file gives a blow-by-blow account of what
happened over the past 1+ year.

	Wietse

- DSN (delivery status notification) support as described in RFC
3461 .. RFC 3464.  This gives email senders control over notification
of successful, delayed, and failed delivery.  DSN involves extra
parameters to the SMTP "MAIL FROM" and "RCPT TO" commands, as well
as extra Postfix sendmail command line options for mail submission.
See DSN_README for details, including how to limit the amount of
information that you are willing to disclose.

- Major updates to the TLS (SMTP encryption and authentication)
support.  Postfix 2.3 introduces a configuration user interface
that is based on the concept of TLS security levels (none, may,
encrypt, verify, secure) and that can more effectively deal with
DNS spoofing.  The old configuration user interface, with multiple
boolean parameters to enable or enforce TLS, is still supported but
will be removed after a few releases.  See TLS_README for details.

- Milter (mail filter) application support, compatible with Sendmail
version 8.13.6 and earlier. This allows you to run a large number
of plug-ins to reject unwanted mail, and to sign mail with for
example domain keys. All Milter functions are implemented except
the one that replaces the message body (this will be added later).
All this and more is described in MILTER_README.

- Enhanced status codes (RFC 3463). For example, status code 5.1.1
means "recipient unknown".  Mail clients can translate these status
codes into text in the user's own language, and greatly improve the
user experience. Enhanced status codes can be specified in Postfix
access tables, in header/body_checks content filter rules, in "rbl"
reply templates, and so on.

- Configurable bounce messages with support for non-ASCII character
sets.  Details are in the bounce(5) manual page.

- Plug-in support for SASL authentication in the Postfix SMTP server
and client. With this, Postfix can support multiple SASL implementations
without conflicting source code patches.  Postfix 2.3 has Dovecot
SASL support built into the SMTP server.  As before, support for
Cyrus SASL is available as add-on feature for the Postfix SMTP
server and client.  See SASL_README for more information.

- Support for sender-dependent ISP accounts, in the form of
sender-dependent relayhost lookup and sender-dependent SASL
username/password lookup.

- The Postfix SMTP client now implements both the SMTP and LMTP
protocols.  This means that a lot of features have become available
for LMTP mail delivery, including the shared TCP connection cache.

- After TLS handshake failure, the SMTP client will now reconnect
to the same server to try plaintext delivery (if TLS policy permits).
Earlier Postfix versions would skip the server and defer delivery
if no alternate MX host was available.

- All delay logging now has sub-second resolution. Besides the total
delay, Postfix logs separate delays for different stages of delivery
(time in queue, time in queue manager, time to set up connection,
and time to deliver). This gives better insight into the nature of
performance bottle necks.

- Smarter utilization of cached SMTP connections. When one destination
has multiple inbound SMTP servers, the Postfix SMTP client will now
send less mail via the slower ones, and more mail via the faster ones.

- Support for empty MX records. Older Postfix versions treat this
as a malformed response and defer mail delivery.