From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Thu Apr 22 2004 - 19:49:10 CDT

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After an extended period of polishing and testing, Postfix 2.1 is
released. Highlights are:

- Complete documentation rewrite. All parameters are now documented
in postconf(5), all commands and daemons are shown in proper context
in an OVERVIEW document, all documents come as HTML and ASCII text,
and every parameter and program name is hyperlinked. There's a
whole new set of documents on performance analysis and tuning.

- Policy delegation to external code. Examples of greylisting and
SPF Perl scripts are provided. See SMTPD_POLICY_README.

- Real-time content filtering before mail is accepted. This feature
should be used with care. See SMTPD_PROXY_README.

- Address verification to reject mail from/to bogus addresses. This
feature should be used with care. See ADDRESS_VERIFICATION_README.

- Major revision of the LDAP, MySQL, and PGSQL code by Liviu Daia.

- "sendmail -v" now sends a real mail delivery report to the sender.

- "sendmail -bv" now reports if an address is deliverable (it
connects to remote SMTP servers when recipients are remote).

- New actions in access tables and in header/body_checks, access
control by MX or NS server name/address, selective automatic BCC
per sender and/or recipient, and many other little features.

- Not included is client rate limiting. This needs to evolve further
in Postfix 2.2 snapshots.

One of items on the agenda for Postfix 2.2 is to integrate the TLS
and IPv6 patches, the motto being: "patches, patches, we don't need
no steenkeeng patches".

Available from ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/

   321108 Apr 22 15:00 postfix-2.1.0.HISTORY
    26665 Apr 22 18:57 postfix-2.1.0.RELEASE_NOTES
  1992845 Apr 22 19:25 postfix-2.1.0.tar.gz
      152 Apr 22 19:25 postfix-2.1.0.tar.gz.sig

Soon on the download sites listed at http://www.postfix.org/

        Wietse

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