Sep 2012 12:45:47 -0400
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From: peterDESPAM@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@pmoylan.org
 http://www.pmoylan.org
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