After a long time of hacking, adding features, breaking and fixing
things and too many release candidates, DBMail 2.0.0 is finally out!
Many thanks go to our dedicated developers, especially Aaron Stone and
Paul J Stevens, but also to everyone else who has contributed through
patches, bug reports, suggestions and opinions.
A list of changes, compared to version 1.2.x is below. DBMail 2.0.0
can be downloaded from the download page.
Changes from 1.2.x to 2.0:
New features:
* LMTP (Local Mail Transport Protocol) daemon:
Messages can enter the DBMail system via LMTP. The major
difference between using dbmail-smtp and dbmail-lmtpd is that the
former starts a new process on every delivery, while the latter is a
daemon.
* IMAP Protocol enhancements
o ACL (Access Control Lists) support.
o NAMESPACE support
* PID file
DBMail daemons now leave a PID (Process ID) file on startup,
which can help startup and shutdown scripts.
Changes
* MySQL is supported from version 4.0.12 upward. Earlier versions
of MySQL will not work!
* dbmail-adduser has been renamed to dbmail-users to better
reflect what it's used for, namely: adding and removing users, and
changing user information.
* dbmail-maintenance has been renamed to dbmail-util.
* Command line options for all DBMail programs have changed.
Please take a look at the manual pages of all programs to get familiar
with them.
* Programs are placed in /usr/local/sbin by default, instead of
/usr/local/bin (update your scripts and MTA configuration!)
Changes for Developers
* The build system now uses autotools all the way.
* libtool is now also used for building parts of DBMail
* The database drivers for MySQL and PostgreSQL have been merged.
Only two small driver files with MySQL and PostgreSQL specific
functions remain.
