FYI, Rgds, Asfihani
Wietse Venema wrote: > After a year of Postfix 2.2 snapshots it is a pleasure to announce > the first Postfix 2.2 stable Release Candidate. > > This is identical to the upcoming stable Postfix 2.2.0 release, > modulo bug/typo fixes. When all is well there will be an official > Postfix 2.2 release in a week. > > Please give it a swing, or browse through the documentation which > is also on-line. > > A preliminary announcement with summary of "the new stuff" is below > the signature. > > URL: > > ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.2.0-RC1.tar.gz > ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.2.0-RC1.tar.gz.sig > ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.2.0-RC1.HISTORY > ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/official/postfix-2.2.0-RC1.RELEASE_NOTES > > and soon on mirror sites. > > Wietse > > Quote from the draft announcement: > > Main changes with Postfix version 2.2.0 > --------------------------------------- > > This is a summary of the changes. These and more are detailed in > the RELEASE_NOTES document. > > - TLS and IPv6 support are now built into Postfix, based on code > from third-party patches. > > - SMTP client-side connection reuse. This can dramatically speed > up deliveries to high-volume destinations that have good and > non-responding mail servers. > > - By default, message header address rewriting is now disabled for > SMTP mail from other systems. Thus, spam from poorly written > software no longer looks like it came from a local user. > > - When your machine does not have its own domain name, Postfix can > now replace your "home network" email address by your ISP account > in outgoing SMTP mail, while leaving your email address unchanged > when sending mail to someone on the local machine. > > - Compatibility workarounds: you can now selectively turn off ESMTP > features such as AUTH or STARTTLS in the Postfix SMTP client or > server, without having to "dumb down" other mail deliveries, and > without having to use transport maps for outgoing mail. > > - Remote SMTP client resource control (the anvil server). This > allows you to limit the number of connections, or the number of > MAIL FROM and RCPT TO commands that an SMTP client can send per > unit time. > > - Support for CDB, SDBM and NIS+ databases is now built into Postfix > (but the CDB and SDBM libraries are not). > > - New SMTP access control features, and more.
