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start coding on new config syntax
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date Sun, 17 Jul 2005 08:14:02 -0700
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3 5.0 2005-07-16
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4 Major changes to the syntax of the config file. Content filtering
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5 is no longer a global mail server setting.
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7 4.6 2005-04-02
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8 Fix enum compilation error on Fedora Core 3.
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9 Discovered by Nigel Horne <njh@bandsman.co.uk>
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11 Remove bad html tag command from the default conf file. Spammers
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12 seem to have abandoned this.
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14 Add toolbar.msn.click-url.com in hosts-ignore.conf. These are all
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15 commented, but you might want to uncomment them.
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17 4.5 2005-01-22
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18 Add uuencode decoding for old style attachments.
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20 4.4 2005-01-18
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21 Bug fix in forked process termination that left zombies.
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23 4.3 2005-01-16
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24 Only keep 20% of the resolver sockets in the ready pool.
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26 4.2 2005-01-08
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27 Use the separate resolver processes even if we don't have the
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28 resolver interfaces and need gethostbyname.
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30 4.1 2005-01-06
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31 Use a local unix domain socket for the resolver process
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32 communication, rather than a tcp/ip socket.
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34 4.0 2005-01-03
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35 Initialize the thread mutex objects early, before they are needed
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36 by possible calls to my_syslog.
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38 Fork off a separate resolver listener process, so we can do multiple
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39 dns operations in parallel. For each simultaneous inbound email,
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40 we have a separate sendmail process, a milter thread, and a dns
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41 resolver process.
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43 3.7 2004-10-28
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44 Added an 'ignore' command to the conf file, used to ignore some
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45 hosts that might end up on the SBL and otherwise trip the content
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46 scanning filter. In particular, many recent Microsoft Word
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47 documents contain the string www.5iantlavalamp.com which is
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48 associated with their smart tags stuff. That is currently hosted at
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49 216.168.224.70, which is shared with a site that ended up on the
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50 SBL.
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52 3.6 2004-09-08
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53 Contributions from Dan Harkless <software@harkless.org>
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54 Better documentation for disabling the content filtering.
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55 Don't bother looking at the body text if we are not doing
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56 content filtering.
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58 3.5 2004-07-17
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59 Extend the error message for content filtering when the NS record
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60 points to an ip address on the SBL. Include the original host name
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61 that referenced that NS name.
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64 3.4 2004-07-15
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65 Tokens with two consecutive periods cannot be ip addresses or host
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66 names.
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68 Updated dnsbl.spec file for building rpms from John Gunkel.
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71 3.3 2004-07-09
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72 Drop root priviledges properly, including the group id.
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77 Contributions from John Gunkel <jgunkel@palliser.ca>:
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78 Add .spec file for building rpms, contributed by John Gunkel
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80 Changes to file layout to conform to RedHat/LSB standards.
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82 Add some html (actually xml) tags used by Apple mac print
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83 subsystem that were tripping the html tag detector.
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85 Help with changes required to allow dnsbl to drop root
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86 priviledges. Move the socket to /var/run/dnsbl/dnsbl.sock
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88 Change parser to handle &#xnnn; obfuscated urls with charaters
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89 specified in hex.
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91 Make bad_html tags more sensitive to binary tags, to reduce false
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92 positives in .zip or .tar.gz file attachments.
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94 Add sendmail queueid to the dnsbl syslog messages.
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96 Fix one place where host names were not forced to lower case.
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97 Discovered by Nigel Horne <njh@bandsman.co.uk>
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99 Remove duplicate dns queries within the same smtp transaction from
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100 the body content filtering. This helps if the mail server does not
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101 have a nearby caching dns server.
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103 Add host_soft_limit config keyword. Use only one of host_limit or
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104 host_soft_limit, since the last one wins. The host_limit is a hard
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105 upper limit on the number of host names in a message. The
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106 host_soft_limit allows unlimited host names, but only checks a
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107 random sample of them against the dnsbl.
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109 The main thread has dropped root priviledges, but other threads
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110 are still running as root. This needs to be fixed.