postconfirm 0.41.0

Mailing list posting confirmation daemon

Caution

This is an alpha release. While the functionality is sound, the packaging is probably not even beta quality. Compilation of the components written in C has only been tested under Linux.

Description

postconfirm consists of postconfirmd, which is the long-running (daemon) part, and postconfirmc, which is the client part of a client-server program which handles email confirmations. It is intended as a front-end to mailing lists. It provides funcitonality which is a subset of TMDA, but is adapted to high-volume usage and does not have anywhere near all the bells and whistles which TMDA has. On the other hand, since the whitelist lookup is done by the long-running server part, the overhead of doing a verification that a poster has a confirmed address is much smaller than for TMDA. This makes it a factor 1000 or more faster than TMDA in production, with a memory footprint a factor 20 smaller.

Changelog

Version 0.40 (20 Jan 2017)

• Added checking of the mailman list archive flag before adding the Archived-At: header field.

• Added a mailman_dir config option, in order to be able to import the python mailman libs even if not on the regular python path.

• Fixed the -s / –socket option, to make it take an argument as intended.

• Changed the handling of sys.stdout and sys.stderr when running in foreground mode – they should not go to syslog in that case.

• Added reading of mailman listinfo for all mailman lists on startup and on receipt of SIGHUP.

Version 0.39 (10 Feb 2014)

• Added support for the Archived-At: header field for the IETF MailArchive utility

Version 0.38 (20 Mar 2010)

• Added BATV (draft-levine-smtp-batv) support.