annotate ChangeLog @ 148:9330b8d6a56b

add documentation fixes, allow env_from target of inherit
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date Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:27:49 -0800
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3 5.27 2007-01-30
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4 Allow 'inherit' as an env_from target. Documentation cleanup
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5 from G.W. Haywood.
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7 5.26 2006-12-04
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8 Fix bug in content filtering introduced in 5.23 that prevented
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9 seeing any host names in the body.
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11 5.25 2006-10-15
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12 DNSBL lists are inherited, so dump the effective list with the
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13 -c switch.
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15 5.24 2006-10-15
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16 Allow child and parent context to specify the same fully qualified
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17 env_to address. Only dump the rate limit for the default context
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18 with -c switch.
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20 5.23 2006-10-10
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21 Require two periods in ip addresses.
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23 5.22 2006-09-27
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24 Change syntax for default rate limit. Improve hourly reset of
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25 limits. Warning for rate limits in non default contexts to allow
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26 nesting of client configurations.
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28 5.21 2006-09-26
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29 Add SMTP AUTH recipient rate limits, to help throttle infected
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30 client machines and accounts with weak cracked passwords.
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32 5.20 2006-08-02
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33 Fully qualify all dns lookups. Fix my_read() bug. Try to convert
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34 names that might be ip addresses via inet_aton before doing dns
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35 lookups.
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37 5.19 2006-08-01
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38 Bug fix - add trailing dot to uribl dns lookups to make them fully
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39 qualified. Check host names with only two components, since
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40 spammers are now using bare http://domain.tld references.
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41 Spec file now creates an rpm that properly creates the dnsbl user.
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44 Bug fix - newer sendmail versions don't guarantee envelope addresses
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45 enclosed in <> wrapper.
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47 Document backscatter prevention configuration for systems that are
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48 used to mainly spam filter and then forward to mail to the internal
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49 server.
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51 Never ask uribl blacklists about rfc1918 address space.
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53 5.17 2006-03-25
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54 Never ask dns blacklists about rfc1918 address space.
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57 Bug fix - the smtp error message for uribl filtering needs to
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58 reference the host name, not the ip address.
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61 Bug fix - we failed to properly set the return code to indicate the
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62 reason when rejecting mail for content filtering.
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65 Fix a typo in the default config file and documentation for using
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68 5.13 2006-03-12
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70 add SURBL/URIBL lookups, remove trailing dots from hostnames,
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71 allow ip address literals as hostnames.
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72 add configuration for surbl/uribl list and reject message
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74 5.12 2006-01-08
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75 Use larger resolver buffer to accomodate spammers with many name
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76 servers. A current example is life-all.com which needs to retry in
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77 tcp mode to fetch the 1444 byte response.
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79 'make chkconfig' now creates the dnsbl user if it does not exist.
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81 5.11 2005-12-20
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82 switch to autoconf/automake/docbook
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85 Fix a compile error on Fedora Core 3.
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86 Discovered by Nigel Horne <njh@bandsman.co.uk>
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88 5.9 2005-09-26
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89 Fix a bug with empty return paths passed to the verification code.
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90 That resulted in 'MAIL FROM:<<>>' being sent to the verification
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91 mail server.
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94 Allow empty env_to at global context level to remove restrictions
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95 on env_to values in child contexts.
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98 Failed to return a value from parse_verify() which caused failures
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99 to load the configuration.
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101 5.6 2005-09-22
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102 Tokenizer errors now go thru the syslog code, so they are visible
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103 when generated during config file reloads during normal operation.
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105 5.5 2005-09-21
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106 Cleanup debug logging. Verify from/to pairs now remembers the last
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107 from value sent to the remote server to prevent unnecessary rset
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108 commands.
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110 5.4 2005-09-18
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111 Add verify statement to specify the smtp host to be used to verify
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112 envelope from / recipient pairs.
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114 Authenticated clients are now exempt from all white/black listing
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115 in addition to the dnsbl lookups.
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117 dcc_to should not look at substitute mail_host. That is only used
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118 by dcc_from.
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120 5.3 2005-08-07
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121 Properly quit if the config file has syntax errors on startup. Send
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122 mail to root if the config file needs to be reloaded since it was
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123 modified, but contains syntax errors. In this case, we continue to
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124 use the old configuration.
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126 5.2 2005-08-02
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127 Patch from Stephen Johnson <stephen.johnson@arkansas.gov> fixing the
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128 lack of a default return value in CONTEXT::acceptable_content().
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130 5.1 2005-07-20
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131 Add multiple syslog debug levels. Detect and silently remove
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132 duplicate DNSBL definitions. That allows us to accept mail to
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133 recipients in multiple domains that use the same blacklist and yet
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134 only check that blacklist once. This may happen when your config
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135 file directly includes as child contexts the config files used on
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136 your clients mail servers.
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138 5.0 2005-07-16
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139 Major changes to the syntax of the config file. Content filtering
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140 is no longer a global mail server setting.
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142 4.6 2005-04-02
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143 Fix enum compilation error on Fedora Core 3.
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144 Discovered by Nigel Horne <njh@bandsman.co.uk>
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146 Remove bad html tag command from the default conf file. Spammers
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147 seem to have abandoned this.
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149 Add toolbar.msn.click-url.com in hosts-ignore.conf. These are all
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150 commented, but you might want to uncomment them.
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152 4.5 2005-01-22
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153 Add uuencode decoding for old style attachments.
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155 4.4 2005-01-18
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156 Bug fix in forked process termination that left zombies.
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158 4.3 2005-01-16
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159 Only keep 20% of the resolver sockets in the ready pool.
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161 4.2 2005-01-08
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162 Use the separate resolver processes even if we don't have the
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163 resolver interfaces and need gethostbyname.
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166 Use a local unix domain socket for the resolver process
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167 communication, rather than a tcp/ip socket.
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169 4.0 2005-01-03
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170 Initialize the thread mutex objects early, before they are needed
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171 by possible calls to my_syslog.
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172
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173 Fork off a separate resolver listener process, so we can do multiple
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174 dns operations in parallel. For each simultaneous inbound email,
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175 we have a separate sendmail process, a milter thread, and a dns
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176 resolver process.
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177
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178 3.7 2004-10-28
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179 Added an 'ignore' command to the conf file, used to ignore some
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180 hosts that might end up on the SBL and otherwise trip the content
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181 scanning filter. In particular, many recent Microsoft Word
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182 documents contain the string www.5iantlavalamp.com which is
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183 associated with their smart tags stuff. That is currently hosted at
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184 216.168.224.70, which is shared with a site that ended up on the
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185 SBL.
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186
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187 3.6 2004-09-08
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188 Contributions from Dan Harkless <software@harkless.org>
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189 Better documentation for disabling the content filtering.
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190 Don't bother looking at the body text if we are not doing
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191 content filtering.
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192
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193 3.5 2004-07-17
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194 Extend the error message for content filtering when the NS record
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195 points to an ip address on the SBL. Include the original host name
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196 that referenced that NS name.
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197
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198
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199 3.4 2004-07-15
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200 Tokens with two consecutive periods cannot be ip addresses or host
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201 names.
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202
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203 Updated dnsbl.spec file for building rpms from John Gunkel.
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204
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206 3.3 2004-07-09
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207 Drop root priviledges properly, including the group id.
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208
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209
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210 3.2 2004-07-09
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211
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212 Contributions from John Gunkel <jgunkel@palliser.ca>:
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213 Add .spec file for building rpms, contributed by John Gunkel
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214
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215 Changes to file layout to conform to RedHat/LSB standards.
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216
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217 Add some html (actually xml) tags used by Apple mac print
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218 subsystem that were tripping the html tag detector.
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219
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220 Help with changes required to allow dnsbl to drop root
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221 priviledges. Move the socket to /var/run/dnsbl/dnsbl.sock
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222
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223 Change parser to handle &#xnnn; obfuscated urls with charaters
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224 specified in hex.
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225
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226 Make bad_html tags more sensitive to binary tags, to reduce false
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227 positives in .zip or .tar.gz file attachments.
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228
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229 Add sendmail queueid to the dnsbl syslog messages.
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230
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231 Fix one place where host names were not forced to lower case.
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232 Discovered by Nigel Horne <njh@bandsman.co.uk>
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233
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234 Remove duplicate dns queries within the same smtp transaction from
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235 the body content filtering. This helps if the mail server does not
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236 have a nearby caching dns server.
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237
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238 Add host_soft_limit config keyword. Use only one of host_limit or
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239 host_soft_limit, since the last one wins. The host_limit is a hard
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240 upper limit on the number of host names in a message. The
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241 host_soft_limit allows unlimited host names, but only checks a
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242 random sample of them against the dnsbl.
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243
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244 The main thread has dropped root priviledges, but other threads
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245 are still running as root. This needs to be fixed.