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SpamPD Change Log
-----------------
2.41 (11-Aug-10) (experimental)

- Added setting of user name at SA init time.

2.40 (10-Jan-09) (experimental)

- New config option to load a specific configuration file after the default
  local.cf file, thereby overriding any settings therein.  The new option is
  --saconfig=filename. Thanks to Sven Mueller for code and Bernd Zeimetz for 
  bringing it up. (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=344373)
  
- Integrated code by Alexander Wirt to introduce a parameter which
  sets a proper home directory (--homedir=path) and also cleans up the 
  environment before backgrounding. 
  (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=421100)
  * NOTE: * default homedir is /var/spool/spamassassin/spampd which needs to be 
  writable by the user spampd is running as.  Previously, some files like the
  auto-whitelist were written to the .spamassassin folder inside the users home
  directory who started spampd, typically root.
  
- Integrated fix from Vladislav Kurz for LMTP multi-line response after DATA
  is sent. (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=395355)
  
- Yet another fix for older Net::Server versions (<= 0.87) dying when logging 
  a % character to Sys::Syslog. This also fixes the bug in 2.30 that logs "%s"
  instead of the actual messages on some system.
  
- Fixed bug with temp files sticking around until spampd child exists, 
  introduced when SA 3.0 was released 
  (https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5444).
  Thanks to Simon Matter for bringing this to my attention.

########
  
2.30 (31-Oct-05)
- Another, hopefully final, fix for the Sys::Syslog issue of % signs in the log
  string. Fixes possible DoS vulnerability. Thanks to Sven Mueller and Florian 
  Weimer for the solution.
- Added new options for adding X-Envelope-From and (optionally) X-Envelope-To
  headers to messages before SA processing.  The idea is to help SA process any 
  blacklist/whitelist to/from directives on the actual sender/recipients instead
  of the possibly bogus envelope headers.  Use --seh or --set-envelope-headers 
  to enable setting both headers, or use --sef or --set-envelope-from to enable
  only X-Envelope-From.  If added, spampd attempts to remove the X-Envelope-To 
  header after SA processing to preserve BCC recipient anonymity, but enabling 
  this header may still expose recipient information. See man page for more 
  details.  This patch was originally submitted by Sven Mueller, was slightly 
  modified, and the --sef option was added.

########
  
2.21 (23-Oct-05) (unreleased)
- fixed SA version check on alphanumeric version strings.  Stops the annoying 
  Perl warning messages in the mail log.  Thanks to Sven Mueller for the fix.

########
  
2.20 (05-Oct-04)
- added support for SpamAssassin version 3.  spampd should now support all 
  SA versions (tested with 2.6.3 and 3.0.0).
- removed --add-sc-header feature.  It is now redundant with SA v2.6 ability 
  to (almost fully) customize headers, which v3 improves on.  If anyone
  really needs this feature, please let me know.
- added --nodetach option to prevent daemon process backgrounding. Patch
  provided by Urban Petry. Can be useful for win32/cygwin.
- if --debug is specified, Net::Server log level is increased to 4 (debug)
  to provide some more info in the log (can be useful for diagnosing 
  user/permission issues). Thanks to Urban Petry for idea.
- the message sender (From header) is now included in the log along with message
  ID, recipient, and scoring info. Thanks to Roland Koeckel for the patch.

########
  
2.13 (24-Nov-03)
- SA debug messages redirected from STDERR (warn) to syslog. Thanks to Roland 
  Koeckel for the suggestion.

########
  
2.12 (15-Nov-03)
- fixed bug related to Sys::Syslog where we needed to escape % signs in
  Message IDs. Thanks to Jeffrey W. Collyer and Yann Grossel for the bug reports.
- minor performance improvement in SpamPD::Client using buffered write to send 
  message data. Thanks to Sam Horrocks for the tip.
- fixed error condition when an error response ([4|5]xx) was returned after a 
  DATA command was sent. Thanks to Rodrigo Ventura for bug reports about this.

########
  
2.11 (15-Jul-03):
- fix for occasional corrupted message headers which caused blank messages
  (seemed to have only affected certain malformed spam mail).
- added --logsock option for syslog socket. Defaults to 'unix' except for
  HP-UX and SunOS (Solaris) which I'm told prefer 'inet'.

########
  
2.10 (01-Jul-03):
- added optional 'X-Spam-Checked-By: {hostname}' header, where {hostname} is,
  theoretically, the name of the machine doing the message scanning.  New
  options --add-sc-header and --hostname=name control this behavior.

########
  
2.00 (10-Jun-03):
- major rewrite of how mail is handled internally.  spampd now takes no
  responsibility for the mail at any point, instead acting as a transparent
  proxy between the originating and the destination servers. That is, the
  servers speak to each other through spampd so final mail delivery
  occurs only when the destination server acknowledges receipt of the data.
  Idea based on smtpprox by Bennett Todd (http://bent.latency.net/smtpprox/).
  Unfortunately this breaks the ability to redirect the mail based on spam
  score, since scoring happens after all recipients have been specified and
  accepted.  But, it is much cleaner and safer than the previous method.

- new architecture doesn't store the mail data in memory any more. Message
  is still written to memory before scanning by SpamAssassin, but messages
  larger than the --maxsize to be scanned won't eat up a bunch of memory.
  From smtpprox documentation by Bennet Todd:
  "it [spampd] stores the body of the message in an unlinked file
  under /tmp, which should be a tmpfs; this prevents the allocation
  overhead associated with large strings (often 2-3x) and ensures that
  space will be returned to the OS as soon as it's not needed."
  
- as a bonus feature, LMTP is now supported by virtue of spampd's transparency.

- added a timeout check around the socket operations as suggested in the 
  Net::Server docs.  Added new parameter to control this: --childtimeout=n
  where n is number of seconds.

- added a timeout check around the message processing (spam checking) routines
  to guard against a SpamAssassin hang. Added new parameter to control 
  this: --satimeout=n where n is number of seconds.  If a timeout (or error)
  occurs while processing, the mail is still passed on unless the new --dose
  (die-on-sa-errors) paramater is given.
  
- added --children=n parameter to specify how many child 
  servers to spawn and maintain. Default is 5 children (plus 
  one parent).
  
- now uses Net::Server::PreForkSimple instead of PreFork.  (Tried utilizing the
  advanced children pool features of PreFork but either couldn't figure it out
  or they're kinda broken. If anyone has experience here, please let me know.)
  
- improved logging including the Message-ID, recipients, 100ths precision
  on spam score, processing time, and file size. Logging format now better
  resembles that of spamd (which hopefully means spamd log analysis tools can be
  made to work with spampd easily).
     
- removed dependencies on Net::SMTP, Net::SMTP::Server::Client, and Error
  modules.

- host/port and relay host/port can both be specified as xx.xx.xx.xx:nn in
  the --host and --relayhost parameters, or as individual parameters (--host,
  --port, --relayhost, --relayport).
  
# The next 3 items are ideas/patches by 
#	Kurt Andersen, 
#	Agilent Technologies Postmaster
#	Global Messaging Team, Agilent Technologies

- added optional support for Time::HiRes for more accurate processing time 
  reporting in the log (automatically loaded if Time::HiRes is available).

- added optional logging of which SA rules matched a message. New option is
  --log-rules-hit or --rh for short.
  
- Added auto HPUX OS detection for syslog loggging
   "(for some reason HPUX chokes on using the 'unix' socket type)."

# Thanks Kurt!

- added much more verbose spampd logging when using the --debug option.
  
- 3 parameters are now deprecated but accepted for backwards compatability:
     --dead-letters, --heloname, and --stop-at-threshold
     
- added shorthand choice for some options: 
    --aw for --auto-whitelist; --L for --local-only; --a for --tagall
    --u for --user; --g for --group; --p for --pid
    --d for --debug; --h for --help; 

- documentation updates

- licensing change due to use of Bennet Todd's code (to GNU GPL from Perl 
  Artistic).

########
  
1.0.2 (13-Apr-03):
- added 'local-only' parameter to pass on to SA which turns off all 
  network-based tests (DNS, Razor, etc).

########
  
1.0.1 (3-Feb-03): 
- fixed minor but substantial bug preventing child processes 
  from exiting properly since the counter wasn't being incremented (d'oh!).
  Thanks to Mark Blackman for pointing this out.

- fixed typo in pod docs (Thx to James Sizemore for pointing out)

########

Changes to assassind (1.0.0 initial release of spampd - May 2002):
A different message rewriting method (using 
  Mail::SpamAssassin::NoMailAudit instead of Dave Carrigan's 
  custom headers and Mail::Audit); 
Adding more options for message handling, network/protocol options, 
  some options to pass on to SpamAssassin (such as whitelist usage);
More orientation to being used as a content filter for the 
  Postfix MTA, mostly by changing some default values; 
Documentation changes;

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