Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 08:00:59 +0200 From: VOICE News Service Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: Weasel version 1.81 released ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: peterDESPAM at DESPAMpmoylan.org Weasel, a mail server for OS/2, has now been updated to version 1.81. You can obtain it from ftp://ftp.pmoylan.org/Weasel/weasel1.81.zip or from http://www.pmoylan.org/pages/os2/weasel.html of from Hobbes. Because the many intermediate versions since version 1.80 have been made available only to members of the Weasel mailing list, the list of changes is rather large. LIST OF CHANGES since version 1.80 Version 1.81 (8 Sep 2012) Fixed: Weasel was not unhiding the files in the 'forward' directory on startup. LoadINI and DumpINI are no longer included in the Weasel distribution. You have to download GenINI separately. (Luckily, GenINI does not often get updated.) The "fetch last" POP option is now obsolete. POP clients now see all of the messages on the server, rather than the first or last 512 messages. Fixed: an uninitialised pointer that was causing a crash on some POP fetches. Added log message that identifies the domain that an SMTP outbound thread is trying to reach. Fixed a stack overflow on USER command. Some extra log messages for SMTP outbound. Removed the obsolete "POP fetch starts with most recent" checkbox from the Setup program. New policy: 5-second delay added before closing the connection from a blacklisted client. Setup now accepts new command-line parameters. See the manual for details. Policy change to accommodate servers that do greylisting: when sending out mail, we don't try the relay backup host until the fifth retry. Removed some obsolete code, cleaned up the POP data structures. Change to the interval between retries. For SMTP outbound mail, authentication is not used unless there is a relay host. The Setup notebook and manual have been updated to make this clearer. Fixed: when a backup relay is configured, the relay was not always used, so some items remained undeliverable. Added: extra log line to show whether SMTP authentication for outgoing mail was successful. Removed code for the obsolete "POPFetchLatest" option, an option that allowed fetching mail in a nonstandard order. Some minor changes to logging. Fixed: crash on USER command when TNI file used. Fixed: the next message number was not being updated in INI or TNI file. Fixed: in TNI mode, a zero-length WEASEL.INI was being created if it didn't already exist. Startup operations more carefully sequenced to take into account task interdependencies. Fixed: crash if INI or TNI file was missing. New approach to dynamic control of the number of Send_NN tasks. Fixed: the wrong number of Send_NN tasks were being started. Change: you can now change the number of these tasks (in Setup) without having to restart Weasel. Build level information added to weasel.exe. (So you can now find out its version number by running "bldlevel weasel.exe".) Fixed: the transaction log was not being cleanly closed on exit. Policy change: transaction log now updated every minute instead of once every 15 minutes. Fixed: error when trying to write a number in too small a field size. Fixed: crash caused by missing CRLF in input line or input line that is longer than the standards allow. Fixed: we accept neither mail nor logins for an account that has been marked inactive. New protection against dictionary attack: when there are too many password errors, the client IP address is blocked for 10 seconds. Misc changes to reduce stack usage. The "status" thread that was putting three counts to the log has been removed. It was created to track down a memory leak, but it never found one. New script "ban.cmd" added to tools directory on web site. (But not to zip file.) Converted many "value" string parameters to "var". Corrected a spelling error in looking up "OurHostName" in the INI or TNI file. Fixed: incorrect handling of option to forward mail for a local user to another address. Minor update to kernel stack shifting code. Fixed: Setup was crashing if SETUP.INI did not exist. Updated Spanish language file. Fixed small memory leak in TNI handling. Added log message to show how much memory has been allocated for TNI data (but only if extra logging is specified and we are in TNI mode). Added a "-i" parameter to explicitly turn off TNI mode. Fixed: Setup crash in TNI mode if MailRoot changed. Added file WEASEL.FMT, for more readable layout of TNI files if DumpINI is used. Added check for accessibility of DOMAIN.INI when clearing a recipient list. Fixed: after dropping a new font on a Setup notebook, the notebook sometimes reverted to the old font on exit. For consistency, Setup now saves its own options in Setup.TNI if running in TNI mode. Note that this implies that you can have two independent sets of fonts and window positions depending on whether you start Setup in INI or TNI mode. Added logging of heap usage, as a check for memory leaks. Removed OldDumpINI and OldLoadINI from the distribution. These programs are now officially obsolete. Added exceptq handling. Fixed: Two semaphore leaks. -- Peter Moylan mailto://peter at pmoylan.org http://www.pmoylan.org -- For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice.org [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it. 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