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Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman.
! 2.1 beta 1 (???)
! - The action to take when a moderated member posts to a list is
! now configurable. The list can either hold, reject (bounce), or
! discard the message. If the message is rejected, a rejection
! notice string can be given.
! - ALLOW_SITE_ADMIN_COOKIES is a new configuration variable which
! says whether to allow AuthSiteAdmin cookies or not. Normally,
! when a list administrator logs into a list with the site
! password, they are issued a cookie that only allows them to do
! administration for this one list. By setting
! ALLOW_SITE_ADMIN_COOKIES to 1, the user only needs to
! authenticate to one list with the site password, and they can
! administer any mailing list.
! I'm not sure this feature is wise, so the default value for
! ALLOW_SITE_ADMIN_COOKIES is 0.
! - New feature: banned subscription addresses. Privacy
! options/subscription rules now has an additional list box, which
! can contain addresses or regular expressions. Subscription
! requests from any matching address is automatically rejected.
! - The configuration variable DEFAULT_DEFAULT_MEMBER_MODERATION is
! now set to 1 by default. This means that by default, new
! members will have their moderation flag turned on.
! - admindb summary page gives the option of clearing the moderation
! flag of members who are on probation.
! - More robustness against badly MIME encapsulated messages: if a
! MessageParseError is raised during the initial parse, the
! message can either be discarded or saved in qfiles/bad,
! depending on the value of the new configuration variable
! QRUNNER_SAVE_BAD_MESSAGES.
! - Russian templates and catalogs have been added.
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Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman.
! 2.1 beta 1 (16-Mar-2002)
! In addition to the usual bug fixes, performance improvements, and
! GUI changes, here are the highlights:
! - MIME and other message handling
! o More robustness against badly MIME encapsulated messages: if
! a MessageParseError is raised during the initial parse, the
! message can either be discarded or saved in qfiles/bad,
! depending on the value of the new configuration variable
! QRUNNER_SAVE_BAD_MESSAGES.
! o There is a new per-user option that can be used to avoid
! receipt of extra copies, when a member of the list is also
! explicitly CC'd.
! o Always add an RFC 2822 Date: header if missing, since not
! all MTAs insert one automatically.
! o The Sender: and Errors-To: headers are no longer added to
! outgoing messages.
! o Headers and footers are always added by concatenation, if
! the message is not MIME and if the list's charset is a
! superset of us-ascii.
! - List administration
! o An `invitation' feature has been added. This is selectable
! as a radio button on the mass subscribe page. When
! selected, users are invited to join instead of immediately
! joined, i.e. they get a confirmation message.
!
! o You can now enable and disable list owner notifications for
! disabled-due-to-bouncing and removal-due-to-bouncing
! actions. The site config variables
! DEFAULT_BOUNCE_NOTIFY_OWNER_ON_DISABLE and
! DEFAULT_BOUNCE_NOTIFY_OWNER_ON_REMOVAL control the default
! behavior.
!
! o List owners can now decide whether they receive unrecognized
! bounce messages or not (i.e. messages that the bounce
! processor doesn't recognize). Site admins can set the
! default value for this flag with the config variable
! DEFAULT_BOUNCE_UNRECOGNIZED_GOES_TO_LIST_OWNER.
!
! o The admindb summary page gives the option of clearing the
! moderation flag of members who are on quarantined.
!
! o The action to take when a moderated member posts to a list
! is now configurable. The message can either be held,
! rejected (bounced), or discarded. If the message is
! rejected, a rejection notice string can be given.
!
! o In the General admin page, you can now set the default value
! for five per-user flags: concealing the user's email
! address, acknowledging posts sent by the user, copy
! suppression, not-me-too selection, and the default digest
! type. Site admins can set the default bit field with the
! new DEFAULT_NEW_MEMBER_OPTIONS variable.
!
! o A new "Emergency brake" feature for turning on moderation of
! all list postings. This is useful for when flamewars break
! out, and the list needs a cooling off period. Messages
! containing an Approved: header with the list owner password
! are still allowed through, as are messages approved through
! the admindb interface.
!
! o When a moderated message is approved for the list, add an
! X-Mailman-Approved-At: header which contains the timestamp
! of the approval action (changed from X-Moderated: with a
! different format).
!
! o Lists can now be converted to using a less error prone
! mechanism for variable substitution syntax in headers and
! footers. Instead of %(var)s strings, you'd use $var
! strings. You must use "bin/withlist -r convert" to enable
! this.
!
! o When moderating held messages, the header text box and the
! message excerpt text box are now both read-only.
!
! o You can't delete the site list through the web.
!
! o When creating new lists through the web, you have the option
! of setting the "default member moderation" flag.
!
! - Security and privacy
! o New feature: banned subscription addresses. Privacy
! options/subscription rules now have an additional list box
! which can contain addresses or regular expressions.
! Subscription requests from any matching address are
! automatically rejected.
!
! o Membership tests which compare message headers against list
! rosters are now more robust. They now check, by default
! these header in order: From:, unixfrom, Reply-To:, Sender:.
! If any match, then the membership test succeeds.
!
! o ALLOW_SITE_ADMIN_COOKIES is a new configuration variable
! which says whether to allow AuthSiteAdmin cookies or not.
! Normally, when a list administrator logs into a list with
! the site password, they are issued a cookie that only allows
! them to do administration for this one list. By setting
! ALLOW_SITE_ADMIN_COOKIES to 1, the user only needs to
! authenticate to one list with the site password, and they
! can administer any mailing list.
!
! I'm not sure this feature is wise, so the default value for
! ALLOW_SITE_ADMIN_COOKIES is 0.
!
! o Marc MERLIN's new recipes for secure Linuxes have been
! updated.
!
! o DEFAULT_PRIVATE_ROSTER now defaults to 1.
!
! o Passwords are no longer included in the confirmation pages.
!
! - Internationalization
! o With the approval of Tamito KAJIYAMA, the Japanese codes for
! Python are now included automatically, so you don't need to
! download and install these separate. It is installed in a
! Mailman-specific place so it won't affect your larger Python
! installation.
!
! o The configure script will produce a warning if the Chinese
! codes are not installed. This is not a fatal error.
!
! o Russian templates and catalogs have been added.
!
! o Finnish templates and catalogs have been added.
!
! - Scripts and utilities
! o New program bin/unshunt to safely move shunted messages back
! into the appropriate processing queue.
!
! o New program bin/inject for sending a plaintext message into
! the incoming queue from the command line.
!
! o New cron script cron/disabled for periodically culling the
! disabled membership.
!
! o bin/list_members has grown some new command line switches
! for filtering on different criteria (digest mode, disable
! mode, etc.)
!
! o bin/remove_members has grown the --fromall switch.
!
! o You can now do a bin/rmlist -a to remove an archive even
! after the list has been deleted.
!
! o bin/update removes the $prefix/Mailman/pythonlib directory.
!
! o bin/withlist grows a --all/-a flag so the --run/-r option
! can be applied to all the mailing lists. Also, interactive
! mode is now the default if -r isn't used. You don't need to
! run this script as "python -i bin/withlist" anymore.
!
! o There is a new script contrib/majordomo2mailman.pl which
! should ease the transition from Majordomo to Mailman.
!
! - MTA integration
! o Postfix integration has been made much more robust, but now
! you have to set POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD and POSTFIX_MAP_CMD to
! point to the postalias and postmap commands respectively.
!
! o VERP-ish delivery has been made much more efficient by
! eliminating extra disk copies of messages for each recipient
! of a VERP delivery. It has also been made more robust in
! the face of failures during chunk delivery. This required a
! rewrite of SMTPDirect.py and one casualty of that rewrite
! was the experimental threaded delivery. It is no longer
! supported (but /might/ be resurrected if there's enough
! demand -- or a contributed patch :).
!
! o A new site config variable SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION
! specifies how many consecutive SMTP sessions will be
! conducted down the same socket connection. Some MTAs have a
! limit on this.
!
! o Support for VERP-ing confirmation messages. These are less
! error prone since the Subject: header doesn't need to be
! retained, and they allow a more user friendly (and i18n'd)
! Subject: header. VERP_CONFIRM_FORMAT, VERP_CONFIRM_REGEXP,
! and VERP_CONFIRMATIONS control this feature (only supported
! for invitation confirmations currently, but will be expanded
! to the other confirmations).
!
! o Several new list-centric addresses have been added:
! -subscribe and -unsubscribe are synonyms for -join and
! -leave, respectively. Also -confirm has been added to
! support VERP'd confirmations.
!
! - Archiver
! o There's now a default page for the Pipermail archive link
! for when no messages have yet been posted to the list.
!
! o Just the mere presence of an X-No-Archive: is enough to
! inhibit archiving for this message; the value of the header
! is now ignored.
!
! - Configuring, building, installing
! o Mailman now has a new favicon, donated by Terry Oda. Not
! all web pages are linked to the favicon yet though.
!
! o The add-on email package is now distributed and installed
! automatically, so you don't need to do this. It is
! installed in a Mailman-specific place so it won't affect
! your larger Python installation.
!
! o The default value of VERP_REGEXP has changed.
!
! o New site configuration variables BADQUEUE_DIR and
! QRUNNER_SAVE_BAD_MESSAGES which describe where to save
! messages which are not properly MIME encoded.
!
! o configure should be more POSIX-ly conformant.
!
! o The Mailman/pythonlib directory has been removed, but a new
! $prefix/pythonlib directory has been added.
!
! o Regression tests are now installed.
!
! o The second argument to add_virtual() calls in mm_cfg.py are
! now optional.
!
! o DEFAULT_FIRST_STRIP_REPLY_TO now defaults to 0.
!
! o Site administrators can edit the Mailman/Site.py file to
! customize some filesystem layout policies.
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