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8 Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman.
17 * **BREAKING CHANGE**: ``logging.http`` section has now been split into two
18 parts, ``logging.http`` is for the Mailman internal code and
19 ``logging.gunicorn`` is for Gunicorn specifically since they have
20 different logging formats. This should fix suprious errors with
21 ``KeyError: t`` that was often confusing for users. (Fixes #1049)
25 * ``config.mta.remove_dkim_headers`` now applies to messages to -owner.
27 * The master process now robustly detects when runner processes
28 terminate and restarts them (Closes #898).
29 * Setting Postfix transport_file_type: regex without setting something for
30 postmap_command: no longer throws an exception. (Closes #1058)
31 * When bounce processing disables delivery for a user, the user's score is
32 reset so it will be zero if delivery is enabled. (Closes #1061)
33 * The ``mailman shell`` command now works and displays the banner with
34 ``use_ipython: yes``. (Closes #1062)
35 * Bogus Message-ID headers that have been observed in the wild are now fixed.
37 * Raising StopIteration in a workflow process no longer creates a mailman.error
38 log entry. (Closes #1059)
39 * The task runner now evicts old, processed bounce events. (Closes #1067)
40 * We now require authheaders>=0.15.2. (Closes #1064)
41 * Digests no longer contain a bogus Archived-At header. (Closes #1069)
42 * Content filtering will no longer add its report to a non-mixed multipart
43 message but will wrap the message and add the report to the wrapper.
45 * The administrivia rule will now decode encoded message bodies.
47 * Email address validation now accepts quoted local parts and @ in local part.
49 * The default for max_recipients has been reduced to 10 to avoid possible lost
50 mail when a large number of invalid recipients causes the MTA to disconnect.
52 * Messages preserved or forwarded by content filtering are now the original
53 message rather than the content filtered one. (Closes #1089)
57 * Typo corrected under "Building the documentation" section of
58 ``contribute.rst``. (Fixes #1075)
69 * The deprecated SQLAlchemy query.values() method is replaced by
70 query.with_entities(). This fixes an issue with MariaDB that truncated
71 the generated postfix_lmtp file. (Closes #1044)
72 * An uncaught passlib.exc.UnknownHashError in utilities/passwords.py is now
73 caught and handled appropriately. (Closes #1046)
74 * Rejection notices for a message with an RFC 2047 encoded Subject: now display
75 the decoded subject. (Closes #672)
76 * Don't RFC 2047 encode display names in UserNotifications. Allow sending
77 utf-8 encoded notifications. (Closes #673)
78 * Don't replace non-ascii in subjects in notifications. (Closes #673)
83 * The ``mailman members`` command no longer RFC 2047 encodes non-ascii display
89 * Improve the performance of Held message handling by reducing the total
90 number of database calls required. (Fixes #1026 and #1045)
95 * Add support for Python 3.10. (Closes #936)
96 * Add support for Python 3.11 (See !1076)
107 **BREAKING CHANGE**: When using PostgreSQL database with Mailman, starting with
108 Mailman Core 3.3.7 (due to bump in SQLAlchemy 1.4+), the urls in ``[database]``
109 section will require ``postgresql`` as the scheme. Previously, ``postgres`` was
110 also accepted. This is an example config::
113 class: mailman.database.postgresql.PostgreSQLDatabase
114 url: postgresql://myuser:mypassword@mypghost/mailman
119 * Add support for SQLAlchemy 1.4+ (Closes #964)
125 * Drop support for Python 3.6 since SQLAlchemy 2.0 will drop
126 support for it and it is EOL by now. (See !1035)
131 * The fix for #994 in 3.3.6 blocked too many subscription attempts. This is
132 now corrected and another test added.
144 * The ``mailman members`` command reports incompatible options that would
145 otherwise throw exceptions.
146 * Require authheaders >=0.14.0 and adjust tests accordingly. (Closes #954)
147 * Handling a held message will not remove it from the message store if there
148 are other requests for it. (Closes #955)
149 * ARC signing now signs after the message has been personalized and decorated.
151 * The prior fix for expanding replacements in the ``list:user:notice:goodbye``
152 template was incomplete. This is fixed. (Closes #922)
153 * Decoration of an html message containing non-ascii resulted in a message
154 that couldn't by flattened as_bytes and whose as_string representation
155 contained non-ascii. This is fixed. (Closes #965 and #967)
156 * The REST API will now accept JSON encoded data with boolean values for
157 boolean attributes. (Closes #970)
158 * Fix a bug where loading a plugin which raises an exception in ``pre_hook``
159 can cause Mailman to crash trying to disable that plugin. (Closes #724)
160 * Fix a bug where the ``PIDWatcher()`` iterates over internal dict while
161 it can be updated during that time. (Closes #724)
162 * The ``mailman import21`` now always imports owners/moderators with
163 ``DeliveryStatus.enabled``. (Closes #977)
164 * A specific nonmember moderation action will be checked for and applied before
165 testing the legacy ``*_these_nonmembers`` settings. (Closes #978)
166 * Invalid regexps in ``*_these_nonmembers`` are properly logged and can't be
167 set via REST. (Closes #974)
168 * Override the as_bytes() method in the mailman.email.message.Message class to
169 workaround https://bugs.python.org/issue41307. (Closes #979 and #980)
170 * The nonmember moderation rule now checks all senders, not just the first.
172 * The i18n gettext replacements now all use curly brace notation to avoid
173 issues whith translations that might follow them immediately with a period.
174 The various mailman.po files have been updated accordingly. (Closes #987)
175 * The ``mailman import21`` command no longer creates unnecessary entries in the
176 ``template`` table. (Closes #988)
177 * DMARC munge from mitigation will now find a nonmember poster's display name.
179 * Subscription workflow will now find an existing User when subscription is
180 for an Address and vice versa. (Closes #994)
181 * The subject of Welcome and Goodbye messages is now translated. (Closes #993)
182 * Emails to a list's ``-join``, ``-leave`` or ``-confirm`` address that result
183 in some errors will now produce a response. (Closes #991)
184 * RFC2047 encoded Subject: and From: headers reported in email command replies
185 are now decoded. (Closes #999)
186 * The ``mailman import21`` command now converts more template replacements and
187 reports to stderr any remaining unconverted replacements. (See #870)
188 * The postfix generated virtual mappings now have correct spacing with
189 alias_domains. (Closes #1001 and #1013)
190 * Updated outgoing runner's fake DSN to use list addresses rather than
191 mailman@example.com in From: and To:. (Closes #1018)
192 * Subject prefixing on lists with non-ascii preferred language no longer drops
193 parts of folded subject headers. (Closes #1021)
194 * The ``verp_confirmations`` setting has now been implemented with default
195 of ``yes``. (Closes #1023)
196 * The ``anonymous_list_keep_headers`` setting now only applies to X-* headers
197 and will not cause non X-* headers to be removed. (Closes #1031)
198 * The ``mailman.mta.connection.sendmail()`` method now accepts a string, bytes
199 or a Message object and ``BaseDelivery`` now passes a Message object.
201 * The ``mailman.app.inject.inject_text()`` function now creates the Message
202 object from bytes. (Closes #1024)
203 * The ``mailman import21`` command now adds ``^listname@`` to the list's
204 ``acceptable_aliases`` for compatiblity with Mailman 2.1's behavior.
206 * An ``AttributeError`` thrown in the task runner, possibly due to a race
207 condition, is now avoided. (Closes #1028)
208 * Email confirmation of a subscription request for a member is no longer
209 shunted. (Closes #1035)
213 * Expose bounce related parameters for Member objects.
217 * The ``mailman members`` command now has a ``--count-only`` option.
222 * The LMTP service now only accept ``RCPT TO`` commands if the given
223 recipient address is acceptable (See !1043).
234 * Bounce runner now properly commits database transactions. (Closes #850)
235 * Pending subscriptions now have a lifetime equal to the configured
236 ``pending_request_life`` rather than 3650 days. (Closes #729)
237 * Held messages which are handled are now removed from the message store and
238 the pending db. (Closes #257)
239 * Admin notices sent when a list member's delivery is disabled by bounce or
240 when a member's bounce score is incremented, now contain a copy of the
241 triggering DSN. (Closes #737)
242 * Handling a held message now also removes the poster's pending
243 ``held message`` from the pending db. (Closes #257)
244 * Deleting a pending request now also deletes any associated workflow.
246 * A new runner which is not a queue runner and which doesn't override its
247 ``run`` or ``_one_itiration`` methods can now be implemented. (Closes #866)
248 * The ``FileNotFound`` exception thrown in CacheManager on attempt to delete
249 an entry for a missing file is now caught. (Closes #867)
250 * Pending probe bounce tokens now have a lifetime of 10 days. (Closes #869)
251 * Improve the performance of ``/users`` API when paginating by doing the
252 pagination in database layer. (Closes #876)
253 * Attempts to get a message from the message store with a missing file are
254 now handled. (Closes #877)
255 * The task runner no longer prematurely deletes saved DSNs. (Closes #878)
256 * Bounce probe messages now contain the DSN as advertised. (Closes #880)
257 * The avoid_duplicates handler properly handles headers that are returned as
258 email.header.Header instances rather than strings. (Closeds #881)
259 * The mta.deliver module properly handles headers that are returned as
260 email.header.Header instances rather than strings. (Closeds #882)
261 * Places where ``to_list`` in the message metadata were increctly referenced
262 as ``tolist`` have been corrected. (Closes #883)
263 * It is now possible to confirm held messages by email as the admin notice
265 * Some exceptions in ARC signing of some posts from HyperKitty and some from
266 prod.outlook.com are now handled without shunting the message. (Closes #885)
267 * Command runner now will decode the message body before processing it.
269 * The ``mailinglist`` table ``info``, ``autoresponse_owner_text``,
270 ``autoresponse_postings_text`` and ``autoresponse_request_text`` columns are
271 changed to Text. (Closes #840, #886 and #925)
272 * The mailing list administrators roster ``get_member()`` method now returns
273 the owner if the target is both an owner and moderator. (Closes #888)
274 * Command runner now handles RFC 2047 encoded command with non-ascii prefix.
276 * Improve performance of the bounce runner by decreasing the number of
277 database queries executed.
278 * The master watcher will now restart a process that exits. (See #887)
279 * When using MySQL, most database columns that expect user input will now
280 accept emojis and other 4-byte unicode characters by using the utf8mb4
281 character set instead of 3-byte. (Closes #891)
282 * LMTP runner now sets unixfrom in incoming messages. (Closes #904)
283 * The ``Message`` ``senders()`` method now RFC2047-decodes and unfolds headers.
285 * The ``Message`` ``senders()`` method now gets all the addresses from the
286 configured headers. (Closes #905)
287 * Require flufl.bounce >=3.0.2, which improves parsing of bounce messages.
289 * DMARC policy discovery ignores domains with multiple DMARC records per
290 RFC 7849. (Closes #907)
291 * Held messages missing from the message store can now be accepted and/or
292 forwarded. (closes #914)
293 * Dispose SQLAlchemy connections after a new worker process is forked. (Closes
295 * Exceptions in bounce processing member removal don't roll back successful
296 removals. (Closes #909)
297 * Only remove or send warnings to list members when processing bounces.
299 * Replacements are now expanded in the ``list:user:notice:goodbye`` template.
301 * The nntp runner no longer folds long headers in newsgroup posts. (Closes
303 * RFC 2047 encoded subject headers will now be recoded in the character set of
304 the list's preferred_language during subject prefixing if possible. (Closes
306 * DMARC mitigation wrap message now ensures existing cc and reply-to headers
307 are included in the wrapper. (Closes #926)
308 * The tagger handler now stringifies any Header instances. (Closes #928)
309 * Invitation and (un)subscription confirmation subjects are now translated
310 to the list's preferred language. (Closes #930)
311 * The ``mailman syncmembers`` command now catches and reports a
312 ``SubscriptionPendingError``. (Closes #929)
313 * Trailing spaces are no longer removed from header and footer templates.
315 * The email ``join`` command now handles RFC2047 encoded display names with
316 embedded commas. (Closes #933)
317 * The ``gatenews`` command now parses messages with email.message_from_bytes
318 without specifying policy. (Closes #934)
319 * Improve error message from REST API for invalid email address (Fixes #872)
320 * Nonmember posts gated from usenet bypass nonmember moderation. (Closes #937)
321 * VERPed vacation responses and similar are no longer scored as bounces.
323 * If a message is held by a ``HeaderMatchRule``, the header name is now included
324 in the reason for hold. (Closes #785)
328 * The ``notify`` subcommand is now more tolerant of certain database anomalies.
330 * The ``notify`` subcommand now handles unicode errors in decoding RFC 2047
331 encoded subject headers. (Closes #915)
332 * The ``mailman`` command will refuse to run as root unless the new
333 ``--run-as-root`` option is specified. (Closes #776 and #920)
337 * Fixed an exception on retreiving held messages if the held request exists,
338 but the message is missing. (Closes #856)
339 * Add a new ``/users/find`` endpoint to allow searching for users by matching
340 display_name and user's email address. (Closes #874)
344 * There is a new ``bounce_notify_admin_on_bounce_increment`` list setting and
345 a corresponding ``list:admin:notice:increment`` template for the notice.
346 This setting, if True, will cause a notice to be sent to the list admins
347 when a member's bounce score is incremented, but doesn't disable delivery.
348 * There is a new ``moderator_request_life`` setting in the ``[mailman]``
349 section of mailman.cfg that controls the lifetime of pending moderator
350 requests as opposed to pending user confirmations. Default is 180 days.
351 * There is a new ``task`` runner to do periodic tasks. The current
352 implementation evicts expired pendings and cache entries and removes
353 orphaned workflows and orphaned message store messages. It does these tasks
354 at intervals defined by the new ``run_tasks_every`` setting in the
355 ``[mailman]`` section of mailman.cfg. Default is 1 hour. (Closes #467 and
357 * There is a new ``list:admin:notice:pending`` template for the notice from
358 the ``mailman notify`` command. (Closes #890)
359 * The ``nntp`` runner will now run the ``gatenews`` subcommand at intervals
360 defined by a new ``gatenews_every`` setting in the ``[nntp]`` section of
361 mailman.cfg. Default is 5 every minutes.
365 * Check the REST API password in a way that is resistant to timing attacks.
366 (CVE-2021-34337, Closes #911)
377 * Require aiosmtpd >= 1.4.1 to allow address local parts longer than 64 bytes
378 in the lmtp runner. (Closes #836)
379 * The email join command now honors the digest=<no|mime|plain> option.
381 * Folded ``Message-ID`` headers no longer cause folded smtp.log messages.
383 * Removal of headers from posts to anonymous lists that can reveal the poster
384 or the poster's domain has been improved. (Closes #848)
388 * The ``notify`` subcommand will now decode an RFC 2047 encoded Subject: for
389 the report of held messages. (Closes #831)
390 * The deprecated options ``--add``, ``--del`` and ``--sync`` are now disabled
391 on the ``mailman members`` command.
395 * Improve the speed of Members lookup via REST API. (Related to #700)
396 * Allow specifying ``delivery_mode`` and ``delivery_status`` when creating a
397 new Member. (Closes #828)
398 * Allow filtering members in ``/members/find`` API using ``delivery_status``,
399 ``delivery_mode`` and ``moderation_action``. (See #827)
403 * There is a new setting ``filter_report`` in the ``[mailman]`` section of
404 mailman.cfg. If this is set to ``yes``, a report of changes by content
405 filtering will be added to the outgoing message. (Closes #833)
406 * There is a new setting ``check_max_size_on_filtered_message`` in the
407 ``[mailman]`` section of mailman.cfg. If this is set to ``yes`` and the
408 list does content filtering, the ``max_message_size`` hold will be based
409 on the size of the content filtered message. (Closes #377)
410 * There is a new setting ``anonymous_list_keep_headers`` in the ``[mailman]``
411 section of mailman.cfg. This is part of improved removal of headers from
412 posts to anonymous lists. This setting is a space separated list of regexp
413 patterns. After anonomyzing removes the headers which are known to reveal
414 the poster or poster's domain, it then removes all headers whose names do
415 not match (case-insensitively) one of these patterns. The default setting
416 keeps non X- headers, those X- headers added by Mailman and any X-Spam-
421 * Add better error message for preferred email edit when not verified. (Closes #706)
422 * Reduce the number of database calls in UserManager. (Closes #700)
433 * Handle some UnicodeEncodeErrors in creating digests. (Closes #560)
434 * Increased the size of the data column in the workflowstate table.
436 * Implemented a ``scrubber`` for plain text digests. (Closes #473)
437 * The ``mailman gatenews`` command now adds ``original_size`` as a message
438 attribute. (Extends fix for #762)
439 * Handle FileNotFoundError when creating digest.mmdf file without a
440 parent directory present. (Closes #699)
441 * Fixed an issue where content filtering can throw UnicodeEncodeError when
442 converting HTML to plain text. (Closes #798)
443 * A bounce for a non-existent list is now handled. (Closes #799)
444 * RFC 2047 From: headers in emailed ``join`` commands are now decoded.
446 * The ``mailman addmembers`` command now catches and reports a
447 ``SubscriptionPendingError``. (Closes #805)
448 * RFC 2369 ``List-Owner`` header is now added when these headers are included.
450 * Header filters will now properly match RFC 2047 encoded headers.
452 * Mailman's ``vette`` log discard messages now include the reasons.
454 * Increase the default REST API (gunicorn) timeout to 360 seconds from 30 as
455 several API endpoinds can be very slow. (Closes #770)
456 * Header filter rules are now properly processed after deletions and/or
457 reordering. (Closes #818)
458 * Folded ``To: list-confirm+token@...`` headers are now parsed correctly.
463 * A new ``findmember`` ``mailman`` subcommand has been added to find to which
464 lists and with which roles an address matching a given pattern belongs.
465 * A new ``changeaddress`` ``mailman`` subcommand has been added to enable site
466 admins to change a user's address.
470 * There is a new setting ``hold_digest`` in the ``[mailman]`` section of
471 mailman.cfg. If this is set to ``yes``, posts with a digest like Subject:
472 header or which quote the digest masthead will be held for moderation.
476 * List configuration option ``send_goodbye_message`` is now exposed through
477 the REST API. (See !737)
478 * Allow updating an Addresses' display_name attribute. (Closes #786)
479 * Allow specifying a reason when rejecting a subscription request. (Closes
481 * REST API now exposes unsubscription requests that can be handled by
482 Moderator. (Closes #768)
491 * When importing 2.1 lists, ignore CR characters added by browsers in headers
492 and footers. (Closes #701)
493 * RFC 2369 headers are now added to notification messages. (Closes #710)
494 * Bounce probes are now encoded in the correct charset. (Closes #712)
495 * We now unfold address containing headers before parsing in avoid_duplicates.
497 * The ``dmarc`` rule no longer misses if DNS returns a name containing upper
499 * Fixed ``mailman.email.message.Message.as_string`` to not return unicode
500 surrogates. (Closes #732)
501 * Bounce probes can now be sent to a member subscribed as a User.
503 * A member subscribed as a User can now be unsubscribed. (Closes #734)
504 * When a handler rejects or discards a message, it won't be delivered or
505 archived anyway. (Closes #752)
506 * Messages forwarded when content filtering removes the entire message and
507 ``filter_action`` is forward now go to owners as well as moderators.
509 * Handle TOCTOU conditions when there are two simultaneous subscription
510 requests for the same email address. (Closes #748)
511 * Removed unnecessary call to ``Lock().disown()`` from ``bin/master.py``.
513 * Fixed an invalid logging call in bin/master.py. (Closes #756)
514 * VERPed list welcome messages now have a correct envelope sender.
516 * Messages in digests now contain a ``Message: N`` header. (Closes #764)
517 * The LMTP runner will now add a ``Message-ID:`` header if missing.
518 (Closes #448 and #490)
519 * The ``mailman gatenews`` command now adds ``original_size`` to the msgdata.
524 * New ``addmembers``, ``delmembers`` and ``syncmembers`` ``mailman``
525 subcommands have been added. These provide more options and controls than
526 the corresponding ``mailman members`` modes which are now deprecated.
528 * The ``mailman conf`` command without a ``-s/--section`` argument will now
529 show sections defined only in mailman.cfg in addition to those from
530 schema.cfg. (Closes #736)
531 * Added a ``charset`` option to the ``import21`` subcommand. (Closes #769)
532 * The ``import21`` subcommand will now truncate long SAUnicode values if the
533 database is MySQL. (Closes #772)
534 * The ``import21`` subcommand no longer adds the entire legacy
535 ``*_these_nonmembers`` list and then removes the non-regexps. It now just
536 adds the regexps. (Closes #773)
540 * Add a new endpoint ``/lists/<listid>/requests/count`` which returns total
541 number of pending requests. (Closes #713)
542 * Subscription requests API now allows filtering requests with ``token_owner``
543 parameter. (Closes #714)
544 * Add ``subscription_mode`` to ``Member`` resource so API clients can
545 differentiate between subscription via address and via primary address of an
547 * Add ``/list/<listid>/held/count`` to get a count of total held
548 messages. (Closes #713)
549 * Add ``fields`` as an optional parameter in all the Member's APIs to customize
550 which fields are included in the resource. (Closes #716)
551 * Expose ``emergency`` field of MailingList via REST API. (Closes #719)
555 * Italian translations of the templates have been added.
556 * The default charset for many languages is changed to utf-8. (Closes #747)
560 * Add a new ``archive_rendering_mode`` attribute to ``MailingList`` to
561 configure what kind of rendering should Archivers use to render
562 Emails. (Closes #720)
563 * An ``address=`` option has been added to the email ``join`` command to allow
564 requesting subscription of other than the sender of the email. (Closes #721)
565 * Added the ability to invite members to a list. (Closes #510 and #730)
566 * Made (un)subscription confirmation email subjects user friendly and
567 translatable. (Closes #541)
568 * Implemented a new email ``who`` command to obtain list membership.
569 * Add support for dnspython>=2.0. (Closes #743)
570 * Added information about ``pass_types``, ``filter_extensions`` and
571 ``pass_extensions`` to the content filtering doc. (Closes #775)
580 * Allow ``action`` for header matches to be None in REST interface. (Closes #671)
581 * It is now possible to add the list posting address with nonmember role, e.g.
582 to give it a moderaction of discard. (Closes #633)
583 * The issue of posting a message without a To: header to a fully personalized
584 list throwing a KeyError has been fixed. (Closes #639)
585 * Confirmation or moderator approval of a subscription from an address banned
586 subsequent to subscribing will no longer succeed. (Closes #642)
587 * Fixed an issue caused by the fix for #642 where email confirmation of a
588 banned subscription address would cause a shunted message. (Closes #643)
589 * Fixed a bug where the ``postfix_vmap`` file would merge two columns for long
590 domain names. (Closes #651)
591 * Fix failing test cases due to changed API in a new version of dkimpy. (Closes
593 * Mailman now auto-geneartes alias maps when it starts for the first
595 * Sending a bounce probe now resets ``bounce_score``. (Closes #660)
596 * Bounce probes which bounce are now properly recognized. (Closes #661)
597 * Residual bounces are logged but are not processed further. (Closes #662)
598 * Disabling delivery by bounce properly initializes some bounce info so
599 warnings can be sent and the member eventually removed. (Closes #663)
600 * Bouncing member is not removed until
601 ``bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings_interval`` after the last warning was
603 * Fixed recipient address in delivery disabled by bounce notice to the user.
605 * Residial bounces are now marked as processed. (Closes #669)
606 * Find members API now searches for the Member's display name too. (Closes #667)
607 * Content filtering ``convert_html_to_plaintext`` no longer creates messages
608 that can't be flattened as_bytes. (Closes #677)
609 * Removed an incorrect failing assertion when confirming a confirm_then_moderate
610 unsubscription. (Closes #553)
611 * Fix a bug due to incompatible API of a new version of ``importlib_resources``
612 library which causes Templates loading to fail. (Closes #691)
613 * Fix a bug due to incompatible API of a new version of ``zope.intefaces``.
615 * Import21 no longer tries to import banned addresses. (Closes #688)
619 * A new ``mailman members --sync`` command has been added to help you
620 synchronize subscribed mailing list members against a text list of
621 subscription addresses. (see !545)
625 * Expose ``max_days_to_hold``, ``accept_these_nonmembers``,
626 ``reject_these_nonmembers``, ``discard_these_nonmembers``,
627 ``hold_these_nonmembers``, ``personalize``, and ``unsubscription_policy``
628 attributes of a MailingList through API. (See !570)
629 * Add a new ``send_welcome_message`` flag when subscribing users to override
630 MailingList's default setting. (Closes #362)
631 * Expose content filtering settings for MailingList. (Closes #694)
632 * Add ``advertised`` attribute to ``MailingList`` object so Postorius doesn't
633 have to make multiple calls for Index Page. (See !608)
634 * Expose ``filter_action`` attribute of MailingList through API. (See !609)
635 * Unsubscribing a user by calling ``DELETE`` on a Member resources now honors
636 Lists's ``unsubscription_policy`` and also sends out notifications to user
637 and admins if list is configured to do so. (Closes #759)
641 * Add support for processing of email bounce events. Thanks to Aaryan Bhagat for
642 working on this as a part of his GSoC project and Thanks to Google for
643 sponsoring the project as a part of GSoC.(See !584)
646 3.3.0 -- "Tom Sawyer"
647 =====================
652 * A list member with ``receive_list_copy`` set to ``False`` who is addressed in
653 ``CC`` will now be removed from ``CC`` even if this results in no ``CC``.
655 * ``X-Mailman-Approved-At`` header now has correct timezone. (Closes #584)
656 * A spurious ``invalid FilterAction: discard. Treating as discard`` log
657 message is eliminated. (Closes #592)
658 * A post from a nonmember matching the legacy ``accept_these_nonmembers`` is
659 now subject to subsequent rules rather than accepted immediately.
661 * Email attempts to subscribe a user who is banned or has a subscription
662 already pending are now handled properly. (Closes #577 and #583)
663 * It is no longer possible to add the list's posting address with any role to
664 a list. (Closes #599)
665 * Fixed the nntp runner which was calling the ``nntplib.NNTP.post()`` method
666 with a string object instead of bytes. (Closes #613)
667 * A post with a Reply-To: the list address will no longer be shunted.
669 * Encoded (base64 or quoted-printable) HTML message bodies are now decoded for
670 ``html_to_plaintext``. (Closes #616)
671 * Non-VERPed temporary failure DSNs are no longer reported as unrecognized
672 bounces. (Closes #622)
673 * Fix ``mailman import21`` command to work in Python 3.7.4 and Python 3.8b4
678 * The ``mailman import21`` command now leaves only regexps in the legacy
679 ``*_these_nonmembers`` list attributes. (Closes #588)
680 * The ``mailman import21`` command now imports nonmember accept actions as
681 ``Action.defer`` rather than ``Action.accept``. (Closes #579)
682 * The ``mailman import21`` command now correctly imports ``*_these_nonmembers``
683 actions for nonmembers following a member in the list. (Closes #580)
684 * The progress meter while ``mailman import21`` is importing rosters has been
685 shortened so it no longer wraps and scrolls. (Closes #589)
686 * The ``mailman import21`` command no longer sends an email to existing owners
687 for each imported member. (Closes #605)
688 * A ``mailman notify`` command has been implemented to be run by cron to send
689 periodic notices of held requests to list owners and moderators.
691 * The ``mailman import21`` command now imports ``private_roster``.
693 * A ``mailman gatenews`` command has been implemented to be run by cron to gate
694 messages from usenet to those lists which have the gateway configured.
695 * The ``mailman members --add`` command no longer prints a stack trace if an
696 invalid email address is given. (See !544)
697 * A new ``mailman members --remove`` command has been added to help you
698 mass-unsubscribe subscribers from a mailing list.
702 * Expose a user's preferred address using REST API. (Closes #240)
703 * Expose `header_matches/find` API to find a list of ``HeaderMatches`` belonging
704 to a MailingList. (See !497)
705 * Allow adding a comment when rejecting held messages. (Closes #594)
706 * Fix a 500 error when creating a user with invalid email address. (Closes #263)
710 * Add French translations for mail templates. (See !522)
714 * Add a new attribute ``tag`` to ``HeaderMatch`` to find and manage a set of
716 * Expired cached entries will be deleted efficiently. (Closes #462)
717 * REST Runner now uses Gunicorn to run WSGI server instead of the standard
718 library wsgiref for better performance.
719 * Add support for SMPTS/STARTTLS for connections to MTA. (See !508)
720 * The last remnants of the mailing list attribute ``nntp_host`` have been
721 removed. (Closes #611)
722 * Email confirmation requests now include an ``Auto-Submitted`` header to
723 prevent robotic replies per ``RFC 3834``. (Closes #23)
724 * The mail->news gateway no longer munges Message-ID headers unless the
725 original Message-ID is rejected by the ``nntp_host``. (Closes #24)
733 * Failed validation to new Mailing List creation and Domain creation no longer
735 * Expose ``preferred_language`` for MailingList through REST API.
736 * Self-link of banned emails will be url-encoded when the email is actually
737 a regex, mainly to prevent misplaced `?` in the link.
738 * REST API now accepts inputs in JSON format. (See !451)
739 * REST API errors are now always formatted as JSON. (See !451)
740 * Failed request validations now return more verbose errors, like ``Enum`` types
741 return all acceptable values. (See !451)
742 * REST API accepts request with content type None (See !479)
747 * The ``mailman import21`` command now displays import progress. (Closes #561)
748 * An issue with ``mailman subcommand --help`` hanging has been worked around.
758 * The ``mailman import21`` command properly converts all acceptable_aliases
759 to regexps. (Closes #496)
760 * The ``mailman import21`` command correctly converts autorespond_* settings.
762 * The various ``mailman`` commands now issue a help hint in case of error.
763 Tests have been updated to recognize this. (Closes #519)
767 * Open non-regular log files (e.g. fifos) in write mode instead of append mode.
769 * Autoresponses to posts and -owner and -request messages now work.
771 * Message parts are now properly decoded when trying to remove an Approved:
772 header. (Closes #518)
773 * Outgoing SMTP connections are now closed following message delivery
774 regardless of the max_sessions_per_connection setting. (Closes #529)
775 * Messages with Subject: Re: only are now processed correctly. (Closes #545)
779 * Added German translations for mail templates. Thanks to the "Institut für
780 Gebrauchsgrafik" for providing them. (Closes #534)
784 * Allow setting ``max_num_recipients`` for a mailing list. (Closes #508)
785 * Add a per-list visibility option for Members. (Closes #108)
789 * Email commands are now case insensitive. (Closes #353)
790 * Implicit commands sent to -join, -leave and -confirm addresses no longer
791 generate a Results email. (Closes #516)
792 * An ``explicit_header_only`` option has been added to Reply-To: munging to
793 avoid putting the list address in Cc:. (Closes #531)
794 * The default list welcome message has been cleaned up a bit. (Closes #530)
795 * A substitution variable ``user_name_or_email`` has been added to
796 ``list:member:regular:header`` and ``list:member:regular:footer`` templates
797 when personalized deliveries are enabled. (Closes #533)
798 * The template search algorithm was fixed to look for in-tree templates for
799 each language in the search list. (Closes #535)
800 * Set default subscription policy to "confirm then moderate" for private
801 mailing list style. (Closes #536)
804 3.2.0 -- "La Villa Strangiato"
805 ==============================
810 * A missing html_to_plain_text_command is now properly detected and logged.
812 * Syntactically invalid sender addresses are now ignored. (Closes #229)
813 * An AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode' exception in
814 subject prefixing is fixed. (Closes #359)
815 * Messages with no syntactically valid senders are now automatically
816 discarded. (Closes #369)
817 * Various message holds and rejects that gave 'N/A' as a reason now give an
818 appropriate reason. (Closes #368)
819 * Bounce messages are now composed for proper translations.
820 * Messages with badly encoded ``Subject`` headers no longer crash the message
821 moderation REST API. (Closes #383)
822 * Generated ``regexp`` tables for Postfix now account for possible ``+extra``
823 additions to the ``-bounces`` and ``-confirm`` addresses. (Closes #401)
824 * Address confirmation notices are now properly encoded in the character set
825 of the list's preferred_language. (Closes #395 and #413)
826 * Thanks to Jim Popovitch, certain failures in DNS lookups of DMARC policy
827 will now result in mitigations being applied. (Closes #415)
828 * Messages without a sender can no longer bypass the ``nonmember-moderation``
830 * Invalid regexps in header_matches rules are properly logged and can't be set
831 via REST. (Closes #418)
832 * A list whose name is one of the ``admin``, ``bounces``, ``confirm``, etc.
833 subaddresses can now be posted to. (Closes #433)
834 * The ``admin`` subaddress, a synonym for ``bounces`` and deprecated since
835 Mailman 2.1, has been removed. (Closes #435)
836 * Better support for changing the ``list_name`` property. (Closes #428)
837 * Raw Message text is now coerced to pure ascii before sending, and
838 https://bugs.python.org/issue27321 is now defended against by overriding
839 Message.as_string() to cover more cases than before. (Closes #406)
840 * The override of Message.as_string() has been extended to catch another
841 observed exception. (Closes #441)
842 * The email.message.UserNotification() constructor will now not fail if given
843 a ``text`` argument containing a character not in the charset of the
844 ``lang`` argument. (Closes #437)
845 * A new SQLAlchemy column type ``SAUnicodeXL`` has been implemented to support
846 large columns in MySQL and is used for the ``value`` column of the
847 ``pendedkeyvalue`` table. (Closes #385)
848 * Messages with ``Subject`` headers encoded in an unknown character set no
849 longer throw ``LookupError`` in subject prefixing. (Closes #445)
850 * A list's ``last_post_at`` is now properly updated. (Closes #453)
851 * Fixed an AttributeError in mailman/handlers/decorate.py when
852 member.subscriber is an ``IUser`` instance rather than an ``IAddress``
853 instance. (Closes #449)
854 * Message decoration has been removed from the posting pipeline and added to
855 bulk delivery to avoid duplicate decoration of personalized and VERPed
856 messages. (Closes #450)
857 * The ``mailman inject`` command now reads standard input as documented if
858 there is no ``-f`` or ``--filename`` option. (Closes #459)
859 * Mailman doesn't chmod existing configuration directories on startup (Closes
861 * Calling ``set`` on a template evicts the local cache if the template was
862 cached before. (Closes #463)
863 * The override of Message.as_string() has been extended to catch yet another
864 observed exception. (Closes #470)
865 * Fixed a typo in the help for ``mailman digests --periodic``. (Closes #472)
866 * Character encoding errors in adding headers and footers to multipart messages
867 are detected and ``replaced``. (Closes #409)
868 * The help for ``mailman qfile`` has been fixed to reference ``mailman qfile``
869 rather than the non-existent ``bin/dumpdb``. (Closes #475)
870 * The dmarc rule has been fixed to not throw a TypeError when msg.get('from')
871 returns a header instance. (Closes #477)
872 * ``mailman`` command without any sub-command now invokes ``mailman help`` by
873 default. (Closes #479)
874 * The ``alias_domain`` attribute can become a null string. ``mta/postfix.py``
875 has been fixed to generate proper mappings in this case. (Closes #485)
876 * Fix a bug where duplicate address records can be created when a user adds an
877 existing address with a different case. (Closes #476)
878 * Several additional templates can now be set in the ``var/templates``
879 hierarchy. (Closes #486)
883 * Adopt the ``click`` package for command line parsing. This makes the
884 command line more consistent and pluggable. Also, many CLIs that accepted a
885 "fqdn list name" (i.e. the posting address of a mailing list), now also
886 accept a ``List-ID``. Every attempt has been made to keep the CLI backward
887 compatible, but there may be subtle differences. (Closes #346)
888 * If no listname is given, running ``mailman withlist -r`` must name a
889 function taking no arguments. This can be used to introspect Mailman
890 outside of the context of a mailing list.
891 * Fix ``mailman withlist`` command parsing. (Closes #319)
892 * Add a new option ``--periodic`` to ``mailman digests`` command. It sends out
893 digests for only those Mailing Lists that have ``digest_send_periodic`` option
894 set to ``True``. (Closes #384)
895 * The ``mailman import21`` command now imports DMARC mitigations.
896 * The ``mailman import21`` command no longer creates templates with
897 non-standard names, (Closes #482)
901 * The ``[mailman]pre_hook`` and ``[mailman]post_hook`` variables are
902 deprecated. They can still be specified but they will not be run.
903 * The ``[paths.*]ext_dir`` variable has been removed.
904 * A new logger has been added called ``logging.plugins``.
905 * The ``[styles]paths`` variable has been removed; you can now specify
906 additional styles using the new plugin architecture.
907 * Mailman now also searches at ``/etc/mailman3/mailman.cfg`` for the
912 * The fix for #313 which ported an upstream SQLAlchemy fix to Mailman
913 has been refactored now that SQLAlchemy 1.2 has been released.
917 * Broaden the semantics for ``IListManager.get()``. This API now accepts
918 both ``List-ID``s and fully qualified list names, since that's the most
919 common use case. There's now a separate ``.get_by_fqdn()`` which only
920 accepts the latter and mirrors the already existing ``.get_by_list_id()``.
921 * A new template ``list:user:notice:rejected`` has been added for customizing
922 the bounce message rejection notice.
923 * The ``acceptable_alias`` and ``require_explicit_destination`` attributes
924 have been added to the ``IMailingList`` definition. (Closes #483)
928 * Add a new plugin architecture, which allows third parties to add
929 initialization hooks, REST endpoints, and additional components. Given by
931 * Drop support for Python 3.4. (Closes #373)
932 * Bump minimum requirements for aiosmtpd (>= 1.1) and flufl.lock (>= 3.1).
933 * Add '.pc' (patch directory) to list of ignored patterns when building the
934 documentation with Sphinx.
935 * Domain objects now have an ``alias_domain`` attribute which is normally
936 ``None``, but which can be set to an alternate domain. This will enable
937 the Postfix MTA to generate ``virtual_alias_maps`` which will map list
938 addresses in the domain to addresses in the alternate domain, and will
939 modify the other generated mappings to use the ``alias_domain``. The
940 ``lmtp`` runner will also accept the alias_domain as an alias for the
942 * ``ICacheManager`` now allows evicting a single file from cache.
946 * Allow a mailing list's acceptable aliases to be cleared by calling
947 ``DELETE`` on the list's ``config/acceptable_aliases`` resource.
949 * Allow setting ``max_message_size`` for a mailing list. (Closes #417)
950 * Added new attribute in ``lists/styles`` resource ``styles`` that contains the
951 list of all the styles in Core along with their description. ``style_names``
952 attribute is now deprecated and will be removed in future versions.
953 * Add ``display_name`` for ``member`` in order to expose ``member.display_name``.
955 * Expose ``MailingList.respond_to_post_request`` through REST API. (Closes #420)
956 * Add a new API ``lists/find`` which returns all the lists related to a
957 subscriber. It optionally allows filtering based on a role. (See !388)
958 * ``IAcceptableAliasSet`` resource now interprets an empty string ('') as an
959 empty list ([]). This can be used to clear the list of acceptable aliases of a
960 MailingList in a PATCH or PUT request, without having to use a DELETE request.
961 * Expose ``MailingList.require_explicit_destination`` through REST API.
965 3.1.0 -- "Between The Wheels"
966 =============================
971 * When the mailing list's ``admin_notify_mchanges`` is True, the list owners
972 now get the subscription notification. (Closes: #1)
973 * Fix the traceback that occurred when trying to convert a ``text/html``
974 subpart to plaintext via the ``mimedel`` handler. Now, a configuration
975 variable ``[mailman]html_to_plain_text_command`` in the ``mailman.cfg`` file
976 defines the command to use. It defaults to ``lynx``. (Closes: #109)
977 * Confirmation messages should not be ``Precedence: bulk``. (Closes #75)
978 * Fix constraint violations on mailing list deletes affecting PostgreSQL.
979 Given by Abhilash Raj. (Closes #115)
980 * ``mailman`` command with no subcommand now prints the help text. Given by
981 Abhilash Raj. (Closes #137)
982 * The MHonArc archiver must set stdin=PIPE when calling the subprocess.
983 Given by Walter Doekes.
984 * For now, treat ``DeliveryMode.summary_digests`` the same as
986 (Closes #141). Also, don't enqueue a particular digest if there are no
987 recipients for that digest.
988 * For Python versions earlier than 3.5, use a compatibility layer for a
989 backported smtpd module which can accept non-UTF-8 data. (Closes #140)
990 * Bulk emails are now decorated with headers and footers. Given by Aurélien
991 Bompard. (Closes #145)
992 * Core no longer depends on the standalone ``mock`` module. (Closes: #146)
993 * The logging of moderation reasons has been fixed. Given by Aurélien
995 * Collapse multiple ``Re:`` in Subject headers. Given by Mark Sapiro.
997 * Added Trove classifiers to setup.py. (Closes: #152)
998 * Fix the processing of subscription confirmation messages when the mailing
999 list is set to confirm-then-moderate. (Closes #114)
1000 * Fix ``UnicodeEncodeError`` in the hold chain when sending the authorization
1001 email to the mailing list moderators. (Closes: #144)
1002 * Fix traceback in approved handler when the moderator password is None.
1003 Given by Aurélien Bompard.
1004 * Fix IntegrityErrors raised under PostreSQL when deleting users and
1005 addresses. Given by Aurélien Bompard.
1006 * Allow mailing lists to have localhost names with a suffix matching the
1007 subcommand extensions. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (Closes: #168)
1008 * Don't traceback if a nonexistent message-id is deleted from the message
1009 store. Given by Aurélien Bompard, tweaked by Barry Warsaw. (Closes: #167)
1010 * Fix a bug in ``SubscriptionService.find_members()`` when searching for a
1011 subscribed address that is not linked to a user. Given by Aurélien Bompard.
1012 * Fix a REST server crash when trying to subscribe a user without a preferred
1013 address. (Closes #185)
1014 * Fix membership query when multiple users are subscribed to a mailing list.
1015 Reported by Darrell Kresge. (Closes: #190)
1016 * Prevent moderation of messages held for a different list. (Closes: #161)
1017 * When approving a subscription request via the REST API, for a user who is
1018 already a member, return an HTTP 409 Conflict code instead of the previous
1019 server traceback (and resulting HTTP 500 code). (Closes: #193)
1020 * In decoration URIs (e.g. ``IMailingList.header_uri`` and ``.footer_uri``)
1021 you should now use the mailing list's List-ID instead of the
1022 fqdn-listname. The latter is deprecated. (Closes #196)
1023 * Trying to subscribe an address as a list owner (or moderator or nonmember)
1024 which is already subscribed with that role produces a server error.
1025 Originally given by Anirudh Dahiya. (Closes #198)
1026 * Cross-posting messages held on both lists no longer fails. (Closes #176)
1027 * Don't let unknown charsets crash the "approved" rule. Given by Aurélien
1028 Bompard. (Closes #203)
1029 * Don't let crashes in IArchiver plugins break handlers or runners.
1031 * Fix "None" as display name in welcome message. Given by Aditya Divekar.
1033 * Fix ``mailman shell`` processing of ``$PYTHONSTARTUP``. (Closes #224)
1034 * Fix query bug for ``SubscriptionService.find_members()`` leading to the
1035 incorrect number of members being returned. Given by Aurélien Bompard.
1037 * Fix header match rule suffix inflation. Given by Aurélien Bompard.
1039 * MIME digests now put the individual message/rfc822 messages inside a
1040 multipart/digest subpart. (Closes #234)
1041 * Nonmember subscriptions are removed when one of the addresses controlled by
1042 a user is subscribed as a member. Given by Aditya Divekar. (Closes #237)
1043 * Email address validation is now more compliant with RFC 5321. (Closes #266)
1044 * A mailing list's ``description`` must not contain newlines. Given by
1045 Aurélien Bompard. (Closes: #273)
1046 * Allow MailingList.info to be set using the REST API. Given by Aurélien
1048 * Extend header filters to also check sub-part headers. (Closes #280)
1049 * Allow REST API to PUT and PATCH domain attributes. Allows Postorius domain
1050 edit to work. (Closes: #290)
1051 * Prevent posting from banned addresses. Given by Aurélien Bompard.
1053 * Remove the digest mbox files after the digests are sent. Given by Aurélien
1054 Bompard. (Closes: #259)
1055 * Transmit the moderation reason and expose it in the REST API as the
1056 ``reason`` attribute. Given by Aurélien Bompard.
1057 * Don't return a 500 error from the REST API when trying to handle a held
1058 message with defective content. Given by Abhilash Raj. (Closes: #256)
1059 * Delete subscription requests when a mailing list is deleted. Given by
1060 Abhilash Raj. (Closes: #214)
1061 * Messages were shunted when non-ASCII characters appeared in a mailing
1062 list's description. Given by Mark Sapiro. (Closes: #215)
1063 * Fix confirmation of unsubscription requests. (Closes: #294)
1064 * Fix ``mailman stop`` not stopping some runners due to PEP 475 interaction.
1066 * Update documentation links for ``config.cfg`` settings. (Closes: #306)
1067 * Disallow problematic characters in listnames. (Closes: #311)
1068 * Forward port several content filtering fixes from the 2.1 branch.
1069 (Closes: #330, #331, #332 and #334)
1073 * Mailing lists can now have their own header matching rules, although
1074 site-defined rules still take precedence. Importing a Mailman 2.1 list
1075 with header matching rules defined will create them in Mailman 3, albeit
1076 with a few unsupported corner cases. Definition of new header matching
1077 rules is not yet exposed through the REST API. Given by Aurélien Bompard.
1078 * The default languages from Mailman 2.1 have been ported over. Given by
1080 * There is now a configuration setting to limit the characters that can be
1085 * ``mailman create <listname@dom.ain>`` will now create missing domains
1086 by default. The ``-d``/``--domain`` option is kept for backward
1087 compatibility, but now there is a ``-D``/``--no-domain`` option to prevent
1088 missing domains from being create, forcing an error in those cases.
1089 Given by Gurkirpal Singh. (Closes #39)
1090 * ``mailman`` subcommands now properly commit any outstanding transactions.
1092 * ``mailman digests`` has grown ``--verbose`` and ``-dry-run`` options.
1093 * ``mailman shell`` now supports readline history if you set the
1094 ``[shell]history_file`` variable in mailman.cfg. Also, many useful names
1095 are pre-populated in the namespace of the shell. (Closes: #228)
1099 * MySQL is now an officially supported database. Given by Abhilash Raj.
1100 * Fix a problem with tracebacks when a PostgreSQL database is power cycled
1101 while Mailman is still running. This ports an upstream SQLAlchemy fix to
1102 Mailman in lieu of a future SQLAlchemy 1.2 release. (Closes: #313)
1106 * Implement reasons for why a message is being held for moderator approval.
1107 Given by Aurélien Bompard, tweaked by Barry Warsaw.
1108 * The default ``postauth.txt`` and ``postheld.txt`` templates now no longer
1109 include the inaccurate admindb and confirmation urls.
1110 * Messages now include a ``Message-ID-Hash`` as the replacement for
1111 ``X-Message-ID-Hash`` although the latter is still included for backward
1112 compatibility. Also be sure that all places which add the header use the
1113 same algorithm. (Closes #118)
1114 * ``IMessageStore.delete_message()`` no longer raises a ``LookupError`` when
1115 you attempt to delete a nonexistent message from the message store.
1116 * ``ISubscriptionService.find_members()`` accepts asterisks as wildcards in
1117 the ``subscriber`` argument string. Given by Aurélien Bompard.
1118 * ``ISubscriptionService`` now supports mass unsubscribes. Given by Harshit
1123 * New DMARC mitigations have been added. Given by Mark Sapiro. (Closes #247)
1124 * New placeholders have been added for message headers and footers. You can
1125 use a placeholder of the format ``$<archiver-name>_url`` to insert the
1126 permalink to the message in the named archiver, for any archiver enabled
1127 for the mailing list. Given by Abhilash Raj.
1128 * The default posting chain has been modified so that the header-match chain
1129 and nonmember-moderation rule are processed before "hold" rules are
1130 processed. This allows for better anti-spam defenses and rejecting
1131 non-member posts instead of always holding them for moderator review.
1132 Given by Aurélien Bompard. (Closes #163)
1133 * Bounces can now contain rejection messages. Given by Aurélien Bompard.
1134 * The ``moderation_action`` for members and nonmember can now be ``None``
1135 which signals falling back to the appropriate list default action,
1136 e.g. ``default_member_action`` and ``default_nonmember_action``. Given by
1137 Aurélien Bompard. (Closes #189)
1138 * Ensure that postings from alternative emails aren't held for moderator
1139 approval. For example, if a user is subscribed with one email but posts
1140 with a second email that they control, the message should be processed as
1141 a posting from a member. Given by Aditya Divekar. (Closes #222)
1142 * The default message footer has been improved to include a way to
1143 unsubscribe via the ``-leave`` address. Given by Francesco Ariis.
1147 * REST API version 3.1 introduced. Mostly backward compatible with version
1148 3.0 except that UUIDs are represented as hex strings instead of 128-bit
1149 integers, since the latter are not compatible with all versions of
1150 JavaScript. (Closes #121)
1151 * REST clients must minimally support HTTP/1.1. (Closes #288)
1152 * Experimental Gunicorn support. See ``contrib/gunicorn.py`` docstring for
1153 details. With assistance from Eric Searcy. (Closes #287)
1154 * The new template system is introduced for API 3.1. See
1155 ``src/mailman/rest/docs/templates.rst`` for details. (Closes #249)
1156 * When creating a user via REST using an address that already exists, but
1157 isn't linked, the address is linked to the new user. Given by Aurélien
1159 * The REST API incorrectly parsed ``is_server_owner`` values when given
1160 explicitly in the POST that creates a user. (Closes #136)
1161 * A new top-level resource ``<api>/owners`` can be used to get the list of
1162 server owners as ``IUser`` s. (Closes #135)
1163 * By POSTing to a user resource with an existing unlinked address, you can
1164 link the address to the user. Given by Abhilash Raj.
1165 * Fix pagination values ``start`` and ``total_size`` in the REST API. Given
1166 by Aurélien Bompard. (Closes: #154)
1167 * JSON representations for held message now include a ``self_link``.
1168 * When ``[devmode]enabled`` is set, the JSON output is sorted. Given by
1170 * A member's moderation action can be changed via the REST API. Given by
1172 * Fixed a number of corner cases for the return codes when PUTing or PATCHing
1173 list configuration variables. (Closes: #182)
1174 * Expose ``digest_send_periodic``, ``digest_volume_frequency``, and
1175 ``digests_enabled`` (renamed from ``digestable``) to the REST API.
1177 * Expose the "bump digest" and "send digest" functionality though the REST
1178 API via the ``<api>/lists/<list-id>/digest`` end-point. GETting this
1179 resource returns the ``next_digest_number`` and ``volume`` as the same
1180 values accessible through the list's configuraiton resource. POSTing to
1181 the resource with either ``send=True``, ``bump=True``, or both invokes the
1183 * Global and list-centric bans can now be managed through the REST API.
1184 Given by Aurélien Bompard.
1185 * ``<api>/members/find`` accepts GET query parameters in addition to POST
1186 arguments. Given by Aurélien Bompard.
1187 * Header match rules for individual mailing lists are now exposed in the REST
1188 API. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (Closes: #192)
1189 * Expose ``goodbye_message_uri`` in the REST API. Given by Harshit Bansal.
1190 * New subscription requests are rejected if there is already one pending.
1191 With thanks to Anirudh Dahiya. (Closes #199)
1192 * Expose the system pipelines and chains via ``<api>/system/pipelines`` and
1193 ``<api>/system/chains`` respectively. Given by Simon Hanna. (Closes #66)
1194 * Support mass unsubscription of members via ``DELETE`` on the
1195 ``<api>/lists/<list-id>/roster/member`` resource. Given by Harshit
1196 Bansal. (Closes #171)
1197 * It is now possible to merge users when creating them via REST. When you
1198 POST to ``<api>/users/<address>/addresses`` and the address given in the
1199 ``email`` parameter already exists, instead of getting a 400 error, if you
1200 set ``absorb_existing=True`` in the POST data, the existing user will be
1201 merged into the newly created on. Given by Aurélien Bompard.
1202 * Port to Falcon 1.0 (Closes #20)
1203 * A member's ``moderation_action`` can be reset, allowing fallback to the
1204 list's ``default_member_action`` by setting the attribute to the empty
1205 string in the REST API. Given by Aurélien Bompard.
1206 * A list's ``moderator_password`` can be set via the REST API. Given by
1207 Andrew Breksa. (Closes #207)
1208 * The ban manager now returns a pageable, sorted sequence. Given by Amit and
1209 Aurélien Bompard. (Closes #284)
1210 * Query parameters now allow you to filter mailing lists by the
1211 ``advertised`` boolean parameter. Given by Aurélien Bompard.
1212 * Only the system-enabled archivers are returned in the REST API. Given by
1214 * **Backward incompatibility: mild** Held message resources now have an
1215 ``original_subject`` key which is the raw value of the ``Subject:`` header
1216 (i.e. without any RFC 2047 decoding). The ``subject`` key is RFC 2047
1217 decoded. Given by Simon Hanna. (Closes #219)
1221 * Add official support for Python 3.5 and 3.6. (Closes #295)
1222 * A handful of unused legacy exceptions have been removed. The redundant
1223 ``MailmanException`` has been removed; use ``MailmanError`` everywhere.
1224 * Drop the use of the ``lazr.smtptest`` library, which is based on the
1225 asynchat/asyncore-based smtpd.py stdlib module. Instead, use the
1226 asyncio-based `aiosmtpd <https://aiosmtpd.readthedocs.io/>`_ package.
1227 * Improvements in importing Mailman 2.1 lists, given by Aurélien Bompard.
1228 * The ``prototype`` archiver is not web accessible so it does not have a
1229 ``list_url`` or permalink. Given by Aurélien Bompard.
1230 * Large performance improvement in ``SubscriptionService.find_members()``.
1231 Given by Aurélien Bompard.
1232 * Rework the digest machinery, and add a new ``digests`` subcommand, which
1233 can be used from the command line or cron to immediately send out any
1234 partially collected digests, or bump the digest and volume numbers.
1235 * The mailing list "data directory" has been renamed. Instead of using the
1236 fqdn listname, the subdirectory inside ``[paths]list_data_dir`` now uses
1238 * The ``mailman members`` command can now be used to display members based on
1239 subscription roles. Also, the positional "list" argument can now accept
1240 list names or list-ids.
1241 * Unsubscriptions can now be confirmed and/or moderated. (Closes #213)
1244 3.0.0 -- "Show Don't Tell"
1245 ==========================
1250 * Domains now have a list of owners, which are ``IUser`` objects, instead of
1251 the single ``contact_address`` they used to have. ``IUser`` objects now
1252 also have a ``is_server_owner`` flag (defaulting to False) to indicate
1253 whether they have superuser privileges. Give by Abhliash Raj, with fixes
1254 and refinements by Barry Warsaw. (LP: #1423756)
1255 * Mailing list subscription policy work flow has been completely rewritten.
1256 It now properly supports email verification and subscription confirmation
1257 by the user, and approval by the moderator using unique tokens.
1258 ``IMailingList`` objects now have a ``subscription_policy`` attribute.
1260 * Port the REST machinery to Falcon 0.3. (LP: #1446881)
1264 * Fix calculation of default configuration file to use when the ``$var_dir``
1265 is created by ``mailman start``. (LP: #1411435)
1266 * When creating a user with an email address, do not create the user record
1267 if the email address already exists. Given by Andrew Stuart.
1269 * When deleting a user via REST, make sure all linked addresses are deleted.
1270 Found by Andrew Stuart. (LP: #1419519)
1271 * When trying to subscribe an address to a mailing list through the REST API
1272 where a case-differing version of the address is already subscribed, return
1273 a 409 error instead of a 500 error. Found by Ankush Sharma. (LP: #1425359)
1274 * ``mailman lists --domain`` was not properly handling its arguments. Given
1275 by Manish Gill. (LP: #1166911)
1276 * When deleting a user object, make sure their preferences are also deleted.
1277 Given by Abhishek. (LP: #1418276)
1278 * Be sure a mailing list's acceptable aliases are deleted when the mailing
1279 list itself is deleted. (LP: #1432239)
1280 * The built-in example ``IArchiver`` implementations now explicitly return
1281 None. (LP: #1203359)
1282 * The test suite now runs successfully again with PostgreSQL. Given by
1283 Aurélien Bompard. (LP: #1435941)
1287 * When specifying a file system path in the [paths.*] section, $cfg_file can
1288 be used to expand into the path of the ``-C`` option if given. In the
1289 default ``[paths.dev]`` section, ``$var_dir`` is now specified relative to
1290 ``$cfg_file`` so that it won't accidentally be relative to the current
1291 working directory, if ``-C`` is given.
1292 * ``$cwd`` is now an additional substitution variable for the ``mailman.cfg``
1293 file's ``[paths.*]`` sections. A new ``[paths.here]`` section is added,
1294 which puts the ``var_dir`` in ``$cwd``. It is made the default layout.
1298 * Improve the documentation describing how to run Alembic to add new schema
1299 migrations. Given by Abhilash Raj.
1303 * **Backward incompatible change**: The JSON representation for pending
1304 mailing list subscription hold now no longer includes the ``password``
1305 key. Also, the ``address`` key has been renamed ``email`` for consistent
1306 terminology and other usage.
1307 * You can now view the contents of, inject messages into, and delete messages
1308 from the various queue directories via the ``<api>/queues`` resource.
1309 * You can now DELETE an address. If the address is linked to a user, the
1310 user is not delete, it is just unlinked.
1311 * A new API is provided to support non-production testing infrastructures,
1312 allowing a client to cull all orphaned UIDs via ``DELETE`` on
1313 ``<api>/reserved/uids/orphans``. Note that *no guarantees* of API
1314 stability will ever be made for resources under ``reserved``.
1316 * Domains can now optionally be created with owners; domain owners can be
1317 added after the fact; domain owners can be deleted. Also, users now have
1318 an ``is_server_owner`` flag as part of their representation, which defaults
1319 to False, and can be PUT and PATCH'd. Given by Abhilash Raj, with fixes
1320 and refinements by Barry Warsaw. (LP: #1423756)
1323 3.0 beta 5 -- "Carve Away The Stone"
1324 ====================================
1329 * Fixed Unicode errors in the digest runner and when sending messages to the
1330 site owner as a fallback. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (LP: #1130957).
1331 * Fixed Unicode errors when a message being added to the digest has non-ascii
1332 characters in its payload, but no Content-Type header defining a charset.
1333 Given by Aurélien Bompard. (LP: #1170347)
1334 * Fixed messages without a `text/plain` part crashing the `Approved` rule.
1335 Given by Aurélien Bompard. (LP: #1158721)
1336 * Fixed getting non-ASCII filenames from RFC 2231 i18n'd messages. Given by
1337 Aurélien Bompard. (LP: #1060951)
1338 * Fixed `AttributeError` on MIME digest messages. Given by Aurélien Bompard.
1343 * The `mailman conf` command no longer takes the `-t/--sort` option; the
1344 output is always sorted.
1348 * The ``[database]migrations_path`` setting is removed.
1352 * The ORM layer, previously implemented with Storm, has been replaced by
1353 SQLAlchemy, thanks to the fantastic work by Abhilash Raj and Aurélien
1354 Bompard. Alembic is now used for all database schema migrations.
1355 * The new logger `mailman.database` logs any errors at the database layer.
1359 * Python 3.4 is now the minimum requirement.
1360 * You no longer have to create a virtual environment separately when running
1361 the test suite. Just use `tox`.
1362 * You no longer have to edit `src/mailman/testing/testing.cfg` to run the
1363 test suite against PostgreSQL. See `src/mailman/docs/START.rst` for
1368 * The RFC 2369 headers added to outgoing messages are now added in sorted
1370 * Several changes to the internal API:
1372 - `IListManager.mailing_lists` is guaranteed to be sorted in List-ID order.
1373 - `IDomains.mailing_lists` is guaranteed to be sorted in List-ID order.
1374 - Iteration over domains via the `IDomainManager` is guaranteed to be sorted
1375 by `IDomain.mail_host` order.
1376 - `ITemporaryDatabase` interface and all implementations are removed.
1380 * The Falcon Framework has replaced restish as the REST layer. This is an
1381 internal change only.
1382 * The JSON representation `http_etag` key uses an algorithm that is
1383 insensitive to Python's dictionary sort order.
1384 * The address resource now has an additional '/user' sub-resource which can
1385 be used to GET the address's linked user if there is one. This
1386 sub-resource also supports POST to link an unlinked address (with an
1387 optional 'auto_create' flag), and PUT to link the address to a different
1388 user. It also supports DELETE to unlink the address. (LP: #1312884)
1389 Given by Aurélien Bompard based on work by Nicolas Karageuzian.
1390 * The ``/3.0/system`` path is deprecated; use ``/3.0/system/versions`` to get
1391 the system version information.
1392 * You can access the system configuration via the resource path
1393 ``/3.0/system/configuration/<section>``. This returns a dictionary with
1394 the keys being the section's variables and the values being their value
1395 from ``mailman.cfg`` as verbatim strings. You can get a list of all
1396 section names via ``/3.0/system/configuration`` which returns a dictionary
1397 containing the ``http_etag`` and the section names as a sorted list under
1398 the ``sections`` key. The system configuration resource is read-only.
1399 * Member resource JSON now include the ``member_id`` as a separate key.
1402 3.0 beta 4 -- "Time and Motion"
1403 ===============================
1408 * Mailman 3 no longer uses ``zc.buildout`` and tests are now run by the
1409 ``nose2`` test runner. See ``src/mailman/docs/START.rst`` for details on
1410 how to build Mailman and run the test suite. Also, use ``-P`` to select a
1411 test pattern and ``-E`` to enable stderr debugging in runners.
1412 * Use the ``enum34`` package instead of ``flufl.enum``.
1413 * Use ``setuptools`` instead of ``distribute``, since the latter is defunct.
1417 * Add ``reply_to_address`` and ``first_strip_reply_to`` as writable
1418 attributes of a mailing list's configuration. (LP: #1157881)
1419 * Support pagination of some large collections (lists, users, members).
1420 [Florian Fuchs] (LP: #1156529)
1421 * Expose ``hide_address`` to the ``.../preferences`` REST API.
1422 [Sneha Priscilla.] (LP: #1203519)
1423 * Mailing lists can now individually enable or disable any archiver available
1424 site-wide. [Joanna Skrzeszewska] (LP: #1158040)
1425 * Addresses can be added to existing users, including display names, via the
1426 REST API. [Florian Fuchs]
1427 * Fixed a crash in the REST server when searching for nonmembers via
1428 ``/find`` which we've never seen before, because those members only have an
1429 address record, not a user record. This requires a small change in the API
1430 where the JSON response's ``address`` key now contains the URL to the
1431 address resource, the new ``email`` key contains the email address as a
1432 string, and the ``user`` key is optional.
1436 * `mailman conf` now has a `-t/--sort` flag which sorts the output by section
1437 and then key. [Karl-Aksel Puulmann and David Soto] (LP: 1162492)
1438 * Greatly improve the fidelity of the Mailman 2.1 list importer functionality
1439 (i.e. ``mailman import21``). [Aurélien Bompard].
1443 * Add support for the Exim 4 MTA. [Stephen Turnbull]
1444 * When creating the initial file system layout in ``var``, e.g. via
1445 ``bin/mailman info``, add an ``var/etc/mailman.cfg`` file if one does not
1446 already exist. Also, when initializing the system, look for that file as
1447 the configuration file, just after ``./mailman.cfg`` and before
1448 ``~/.mailman.cfg``. (LP: #1157861)
1452 * The `bounceevent` table now uses list-ids to cross-reference the mailing
1453 list, to match other tables. Similarly for the `IBounceEvent` interface.
1454 * Added a `listarchiver` table to support list-specific archivers.
1458 * Non-queue runners should not create ``var/queue`` subdirectories.
1459 [Sandesh Kumar Agrawal] (LP: #1095422)
1460 * Creation of lists with upper case names should be coerced to lower case.
1462 * Fix REST server crash on `mailman reopen` due to no interception of
1463 signals. (LP: #1184376)
1464 * Add `subject_prefix` to the `IMailingList` interface, and clarify the
1465 docstring for `display_name`. (LP: #1181498)
1466 * Fix importation from MM2.1 to MM3 of the archive policy.
1467 [Aurélien Bompard] (LP: #1227658)
1468 * Fix non-member moderation rule to prefer a member sender if both members
1469 and non-members are in the message's sender list. [Aurélien Bompard]
1471 * Fix IntegrityError (against PostgreSQL) when deleting a list with content
1472 filters. [Aurélien Bompard] (LP: #1117174)
1473 * Fix test isolation bug in ``languages.rst``.
1474 [Piotr Kasprzyk] (LP: #1308769)
1477 3.0 beta 3 -- "Here Again"
1478 ==========================
1483 * Python 2.7 is now required. Python 2.6 is no longer officially supported.
1484 The code base is now also `python2.7 -3` clean, although there are still
1485 some warnings in 3rd party dependencies. (LP: #1073506)
1489 * **API change**: The JSON representation for held messages no longer
1490 includes the `data` key. The values in this dictionary are flatted into
1491 the top-level JSON representation. The `key` key is remove since it's
1492 redundant. Use `message_id` for held messages, and `address` for held
1493 subscriptions/unsubscriptions. The following `_mod_*` keys are inserted
1494 without the `_mod_` prefix:
1496 - `_mod_subject` -> `subject`
1497 - `_mod_hold_date` -> `hold_date`
1498 - `_mod_reason` -> `reason`
1499 - `_mod_sender` -> `sender`
1500 - `_mod_message_id` -> `message_id`
1502 * List styles are supported through the REST API. Get the list of available
1503 styles (by name) via `.../lists/styles`. Create a list in a specific style
1504 by using POST data `style_name=<style>`. (LP: #975692)
1505 * Allow the getting/setting of IMailingList.subject_prefix via the REST API
1506 (given by Terri Oda). (LP: #1062893)
1507 * Expose a REST API for membership change (subscriptions and unsubscriptions)
1508 moderation. (LP: #1090753)
1509 * Add list_id to JSON representation for a mailing list (given by Jimmy
1511 * The canonical resource for a mailing list (and thus its self_link) is now
1512 the URL with the list-id. To reference a mailing list, the list-id url is
1513 preferred, but for backward compatibility, the posting address is still
1515 * You can now PUT and PATCH on user resources to change the user's display
1516 name or password. For passwords, you pass in the clear text password and
1517 Mailman will hash it before storing.
1518 * You can now verify and unverify an email address through the REST API.
1519 POST to .../addresses/<email>/verify and .../addresses/<email>/unverify
1520 respectively. The POST data is ignored. It is not an error to verify or
1521 unverify an address more than once, but verifying an already verified
1522 address does not change its `.verified_on` date. (LP: #1054730)
1523 * Deleting a user through the REST API also deletes all the user's linked
1524 addresses and memberships. (LP: #1074374)
1525 * A user's password can be verified by POSTing to .../user/<id>/login. The
1526 data must contain a single parameter `cleartext_password` and if this
1527 matches, a 204 (No Content) will be returned, otherwise a 403 (Forbidden)
1528 is returned. (LP: #1065447)
1532 * `[passlib]path` configuration variable renamed to `[passlib]configuration`.
1533 * Postfix-specific configurations in the `[mta]` section are moved to a
1534 separate file, named by the `[mta]configuration` variable.
1535 * In the new `postfix.cfg` file, `postfix_map_cmd` is renamed to
1537 * The default list style is renamed to `legacy-default` and a new
1538 `legacy-announce` style is added. This is similar to the `legacy-default`
1539 except set up for announce-only lists.
1543 * The `ban` table now uses list-ids to cross-reference the mailing list,
1544 since these cannot change even if the mailing list is moved or renamed.
1545 * The following columns were unused and have been removed:
1547 - `mailinglist.new_member_options`
1548 - `mailinglist.send_reminders`
1549 - `mailinglist.subscribe_policy`
1550 - `mailinglist.unsubscribe_policy`
1551 - `mailinglist.subscribe_auto_approval`
1552 - `mailinglist.private_roster`
1553 - `mailinglist.admin_member_chunksize`
1557 * The `IBanManager` is no longer a global utility. Instead, you adapt an
1558 `IMailingList` to an `IBanManager` to manage the bans for a specific
1559 mailing list. To manage the global bans, adapt ``None``.
1563 * `bin/mailman aliases` loses the `--output`, `--format`, and `--simple`
1564 arguments, and adds a `--directory` argument. This is necessary to support
1565 the Postfix `relay_domains` support.
1566 * `bin/mailman start` was passing the wrong relative path to its runner
1567 subprocesses when -C was given. (LP: #982551)
1568 * `bin/runner` command has been simplified and its command line options
1569 reduced. Now, only one `-r/--runner` option may be provided and the
1570 round-robin feature has been removed.
1574 * Added support for Postfix `relay_domains` setting for better virtual domain
1575 support. [Jimmy Bergman].
1576 * Two new events are triggered on membership changes: `SubscriptionEvent`
1577 when a new member joins a mailing list, and an `UnsubscriptionEvent` when a
1578 member leaves a mailing list. (LP: #1047286)
1579 * Improve the --help text for the `start`, `stop`, `restart`, and `reopen`
1580 subcommands. (LP: #1035033)
1584 * Fixed `send_goodbye_message()`. (LP: #1091321)
1585 * Fixed REST server crash on `reopen` command. Identification and test
1586 provided by Aurélien Bompard. (LP: #1184376)
1589 3.0 beta 2 -- "Freeze"
1590 ======================
1595 * The link between members and the mailing lists they are subscribed to, is
1596 now via the RFC 2369 `list_id` instead of the fqdn listname (i.e. posting
1597 address). This is because while the posting address can change if the
1598 mailing list is moved to a new server, the list id is fixed.
1601 - IListManager.get_by_list_id() added.
1602 - IListManager.list_ids added.
1603 - IMailingList.list_id added.
1604 - Several internal APIs that accepted fqdn list names now require list ids,
1605 e.g. ISubscriptionService.join() and .find_members().
1606 - IMember.list_id attribute added; .mailing_list is now an alias that
1607 retrieves and returns the IMailingList.
1609 * `passlib`_ is now used for all password hashing instead of flufl.password.
1610 The default hash is `sha512_crypt`. (LP: #1015758)
1611 * Internally, all datetimes are kept in the UTC timezone, however because of
1612 LP: #280708, they are stored in the database in naive format.
1613 * `received_time` is now added to the message metadata by the LMTP runner
1614 instead of by `Switchboard.enqueue()`. This latter no longer depends on
1615 `received_time` in the metadata.
1616 * The `ArchiveRunner` no longer acquires a lock before it calls the
1617 individual archiver implementations, since not all of them need a lock. If
1618 they do, the implementations must acquire said lock themselves.
1619 * The `news` runner and queue has been renamed to the more accurate `nntp`.
1620 The runner has also been ported to Mailman 3 (LP: #967409). Beta testers
1621 can safely remove `$var_dir/queue/news`.
1622 * A mailing list's *moderator password* is no longer stored in the clear; it
1623 is hashed with the currently selected scheme.
1624 * An `AddressVerificationEvent` is triggered when an `IAddress` is verified
1625 or unverified. (LP: #975698)
1626 * A `PasswordChangeEvent` is triggered when an `IUser`'s password changes.
1628 * When a queue runner gets an exception in its _dispose() method, a
1629 `RunnerCrashEvent` is triggered, which contains references to the queue
1630 runner, mailing list, message, metadata, and exception. Interested parties
1631 can subscribe to that `zope.event` for notification.
1632 * Events renamed and moved:
1633 * `mailman.chains.accept.AcceptNotification`
1634 * `mailman.chains.base.ChainNotification`
1635 * `mailman.chains.discard.DiscardNotification`
1636 * `mailman.chains.hold.HoldNotification`
1637 * `mailman.chains.owner.OwnerNotification`
1638 * `mailman.chains.reject.RejectNotification`
1639 changed to (respectively):
1640 * `mailman.interfaces.chains.AcceptEvent`
1641 * `mailman.interfaces.chains.ChainEvent`
1642 * `mailman.interfaces.chains.DiscardEvent`
1643 * `mailman.interfaces.chains.HoldEvent`
1644 * `mailman.interfaces.chains.AcceptOwnerEvent`
1645 * `mailman.interfaces.chains.RejectEvent`
1646 * A `ConfigurationUpdatedEvent` is triggered when the system-wide global
1647 configuration stack is pushed or popped.
1648 * The policy for archiving has now been collapsed into a single enum, called
1649 ArchivePolicy. This describes the three states of never archive, archive
1650 privately, and archive_publicly. (LP: #967238)
1654 * Schema migrations (LP: #971013)
1656 - mailinglist.include_list_post_header -> allow_list_posts
1657 - mailinglist.news_prefix_subject_too -> nntp_prefix_subject_too
1658 - mailinglist.news_moderation -> newsgroup_moderation
1659 - mailinglist.archive and mailinglist.archive_private have been collapsed
1660 into archive_policy.
1661 - mailinglist.nntp_host has been removed.
1662 - mailinglist.generic_nonmember_action has been removed (LP: #975696)
1664 * Schema migrations (LP: #1024509)
1665 - member.mailing_list -> list_id
1666 * The PostgreSQL port of the schema accidentally added a moderation_callback
1667 column to the mailinglist table. Since this is unused in Mailman, it was
1668 simply commented out of the base schema for PostgreSQL.
1672 * Expose `archive_policy` in the REST API. Contributed by Alexander
1673 Sulfrian. (LP: #1039129)
1677 * New configuration variables `clobber_date` and `clobber_skew` supported in
1678 every `[archiver.<name>]` section. These are used to determine under what
1679 circumstances a message destined for a specific archiver should have its
1680 `Date:` header clobbered. (LP: #963612)
1681 * With the switch to `passlib`_, `[passwords]password_scheme` has been
1682 removed. Instead use `[passwords]path` to specify where to find the
1683 `passlib.cfg` file. See the comments in `schema.cfg` for details.
1684 * Configuration schema variable changes:
1685 * [nntp]username -> [nntp]user
1686 * [nntp]port (added)
1687 * Header check specifications in the `mailman.cfg` file have changed quite
1688 bit. The previous `[spam.header.foo]` sections have been removed.
1689 Instead, there's a new `[antispam]` section that contains a `header_checks`
1690 variable. This variable takes multiple lines of `Header: regexp` values,
1691 one per line. There is also a new `jump_chain` variable which names the
1692 chain to jump to should any of the header checks (including the
1693 list-specific, and programmatically added ones) match.
1697 * Some additional documentation on related components such as Postorius and
1698 hyperkitty have been added, given by Stephen J Turnbull.
1702 * Fixed the RFC 1153 digest footer to be compliant. (LP: #887610)
1703 * Fixed a UnicodeError with non-ascii message bodies in the `approved` rule,
1704 given by Mark Sapiro. (LP: #949924)
1705 * Fixed a typo when returning the configuration file's header match checks.
1707 * List-Post should be NO when posting is not allowed. (LP: #987563)
1708 * Non-unicode values in msgdata broke pending requests. (LP: #1031391)
1709 * Show devmode in `bin/mailman info` output. (LP: #1035028)
1710 * Fix residual references to the old `IMailingList` archive variables.
1713 .. _`passlib`: https://passlib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html
1716 3.0 beta 1 -- "The Twilight Zone"
1717 =================================
1722 * Schema migrations have been implemented.
1723 * Implement the style manager as a utility instead of an attribute hanging
1724 off the `mailman.config.config` object.
1725 * PostgreSQL support contributed by Stephen A. Goss. (LP: #860159)
1726 * Separate out the RFC 2369 header adding handler.
1727 * Dynamically calculate the `List-Id` header instead of storing it in the
1728 database. This means it cannot be changed.
1729 * Major redesign of the template search system, fixing LP: #788309. $var_dir
1730 is now used when search for all template overrides, site, domain, or
1731 mailing list. The in-tree English templates are used only as a last
1733 * Support downloading templates by URI, including mailman:// URIs. This is
1734 used in welcome and goodbye messages, as well as regular and digest headers
1735 and footers, and supports both language and mailing list specifications.
1736 E.g. mailman:///test@example.com/it/welcome.txt
1737 * $user_password is no longer supported as a placeholder in headers and
1739 * Mailing lists get multiple chains and pipelines. For example, normal
1740 postings go through the `posting_chain` while messages to owners to through
1741 `owners_chain`. The default `built-in` chain is renamed to
1742 `default-posting-chain` while the `built-in` pipeline is renamed
1743 `default-posting-pipeline`.
1744 * The experimental `maildir` runner is removed. Use LMTP.
1745 * The LMTP server now requires that the incoming message have a `Message-ID`,
1746 otherwise it rejects the message with a 550 error. Also, the LMTP server
1747 adds the `X-Message-ID-Hash` header automatically. The `inject` cli
1748 command will also add the `X-Message-ID-Hash` header, but it will craft a
1749 `Message-ID` header first if one is missing from the injected text. Also,
1750 `inject` will always set the correct value for the `original_size`
1751 attribute on the message object, instead of trusting a possibly incorrect
1752 value if it's already set. The individual `IArchiver` implementations no
1753 longer set the `X-Message-ID-Hash` header.
1754 * The Prototype archiver now stores its files in maildir format inside of
1755 `$var_dir/archives/prototype`, given by Toshio Kuratomi.
1756 * Improved "8 mile high" document distilled by Stephen J Turnbull from the
1757 Pycon 2012 Mailman 3 sprint. Also improvements to the Sphinx build given
1758 by Andrea Crotti (LP: #954718).
1759 * Pipermail has been eradicated.
1760 * Configuration variable `[mailman]filtered_messages_are_preservable`
1761 controls whether messages which have their top-level `Content-Type`
1762 filtered out can be preserved in the `bad` queue by list owners.
1763 * Configuration section `[scrubber]` removed, as is the scrubber handler.
1764 This handler was essentially incompatible with Mailman 3 since it required
1765 coordination with Pipermail to store attachments on disk.
1770 - welcome_msg -> welcome_message_uri
1771 - goodbye_msg -> goodbye_message_uri
1772 - send_welcome_msg -> send_welcome_message
1773 - send_goodbye_msg -> send_goodbye_message
1774 - msg_header -> header_uri
1775 - msg_footer -> footer_uri
1776 - digest_header -> digest_header_uri
1777 - digest_footer -> digest_footer_uri
1778 - start_chain -> posting_chain
1779 - pipeline -> posting_pipeline
1780 - real_name -> display_name (mailinglist, user, address)
1782 - mailinglist.filter_action
1783 - mailinglist.owner_chain
1784 - mailinglist.owner_pipeline
1788 * Held messages can now be moderated through the REST API. Mailing list
1789 resources now accept a `held` path component. GETing this returns all held
1790 messages for the mailing list. POSTing to a specific request id under this
1791 url can dispose of the message using `Action` enums.
1792 * Mailing list resources now have a `member_count` attribute which gives the
1793 number of subscribed members. Given by Toshio Kuratomi.
1797 * Add property `IUserManager.members` to return all `IMembers` in the system.
1798 * Add property `IListmanager.name_components` which returns 2-tuples for
1799 every mailing list as (list_name, mail_host).
1800 * Remove previously deprecated `IListManager.get_mailing_lists()`.
1801 * `IMailTransportAgentAliases` now explicitly accepts duck-typed arguments.
1802 * `IRequests` interface is removed. Now just use adaptation from
1803 `IListRequests` directly (which takes an `IMailingList` object).
1804 * `handle_message()` now allows for `Action.hold` which is synonymous with
1805 `Action.defer` (since the message is already being held).
1806 * `IListRequests.get_request()` now takes an optional `request_type`
1807 argument to narrow the search for the given request.
1808 * New `ITemplateLoader` utility.
1809 * `ILanguageManager.add()` returns the `ILanguage` object just created.
1810 * `IMailinglist.decorators` removed; it was unused
1811 * `IMailingList.real_name` -> `IMailingList.display_name`
1812 * `IUser.real_name` -> `IUser.display_name`
1813 * `IAddress.real_name` -> `IAddress.display_name`
1814 * Add property `IRoster.member_count`.
1818 * IPython support in `bin/mailman shell` contributed by Andrea Crotti.
1820 * The `mailman.cfg` configuration file will now automatically be detected if
1821 it exists in an `etc` directory which is a sibling of argv0.
1822 * `bin/mailman shell` is an alias for `withlist`.
1823 * The `confirm` email command now properly handles `Re:`-like prefixes, even
1824 if they contain non-ASCII characters. (LP: #685261)
1825 * The `join` email command no longer accepts an `address=` argument. Its
1826 `digest=` argument now accepts the following values: `no` (for regular
1827 delivery), `mime`, or `plain`.
1828 * Added a `help` email command.
1829 * A welcome message is sent when the user confirms their subscription via
1831 * Global ``-C`` option now accepts an absolute path to the configuration
1832 file. Given by Andrea Crotti. (LP: #953707)
1836 * Subscription disabled probe warning notification messages are now sent
1837 without a `Precedence:` header. Given by Mark Sapiro. (LP: #808821)
1838 * Fixed KeyError in retry runner, contributed by Stephen A. Goss.
1840 * Fixed bogus use of `bounce_processing` attribute (should have been
1841 `process_bounces`, with thanks to Vincent Fretin. (LP: #876774)
1842 * Fix `test_moderation` for timezones east of UTC+0000, given by blacktav.
1846 3.0 alpha 8 -- "Where's My Thing?"
1847 ==================================
1852 * Factor out bounce detection to `flufl.bounce`.
1853 * Unrecognized bounces can now also be forwarded to the site owner.
1854 * mailman.qrunner log is renamed to mailman.runner
1855 * master-qrunner.lck -> master.lck
1856 * master-qrunner.pid -> master.pid
1857 * Four new events are created, and notifications are sent during mailing list
1859 - ListCreatingEvent - sent before the mailing list is created
1860 - ListCreatedEvent - sent after the mailing list is created
1861 - ListDeletingEvent - sent before the mailing list is deleted
1862 - ListDeletedEvent - sent after the mailing list is deleted
1863 * Four new events are created, and notifications are sent during domain
1865 - DomainCreatingEvent - sent before the domain is created
1866 - DomainCreatedEvent - sent after the domain is created
1867 - DomainDeletingEvent - sent before the domain is deleted
1868 - DomainDeletedEvent - sent after the domain is deleted
1869 * Using the above events, when a domain is deleted, associated mailing lists
1870 are deleted. (LP: #837526)
1871 * IDomain.email_host -> .mail_host (LP: #831660)
1872 * User and Member ids are now proper UUIDs.
1873 * Improved the way enums are stored in the database, so that they are more
1874 explicitly expressed in the code, and more database efficient.
1878 * Preferences for addresses, users, and members can be accessed, changed, and
1879 deleted through the REST interface. Hierarchical, combined preferences for
1880 members, and system preferences can be read through the REST interface.
1882 * The IMailingList attribute ``host_name`` has been renamed to ``mail_host``
1883 for consistency. This changes the REST API for mailing list
1884 resources. (LP: #787599)
1885 * New REST resource http://.../members/find can be POSTed to in order to find
1886 member records. Optional arguments are `subscriber` (email address to
1887 search for), `fqdn_listname`, and `role` (i.e. MemberRole). (LP: #799612)
1888 * You can now query or change a member's `delivery_mode` attribute through
1889 the REST API (LP: #833132). Given by Stephen A. Goss.
1890 * New REST resource http://.../<domain>/lists can be GETed in order to find
1891 all the mailing lists in a specific domain (LP: #829765). Given by
1893 * Fixed /lists/<fqdn_listname>/<role>/<email> (LP: #825570)
1894 * Remove role plurals from /lists/<fqdn_listname/rosters/<role>
1895 * Fixed incorrect error code for /members/<bogus> (LP: #821020). Given by
1897 * DELETE users via the REST API. (LP: #820660)
1898 * Moderators and owners can be added via REST (LP: #834130). Given by
1900 * Getting the roster or configuration of a nonexistent list did not give a
1901 404 error (LP: #837676). Given by Stephen A. Goss.
1902 * PATCHing an invalid attribute on a member did not give a 400 error
1903 (LP: #833376). Given by Stephen A. Goss.
1904 * Getting the memberships for a non-existent address did not give a 404 error
1905 (LP: #848103). Given by Stephen A. Goss.
1909 * `bin/qrunner` is renamed to `bin/runner`.
1910 * `bin/mailman aliases` gains `-f` and `-s` options.
1911 * `bin/mailman create` no longer allows a list to be created with bogus owner
1912 addresses. (LP: #778687)
1913 * `bin/mailman start --force` option is fixed. (LP: #869317)
1917 * Update the COPYING file to contain the GPLv3. (LP: #790994)
1918 * Major terminology change: ban the terms "queue runners" and "qrunners" since
1919 not all runners manage queue directories. Just call them "runners". Also,
1920 the master is now just called "the master runner".
1924 * New configuration variable in [devmode] section, called `wait` which sets
1925 the timeout value used in the test suite for starting up subprocesses.
1926 * Handle SIGTERM in the REST server so that the test suite always shuts down
1927 correctly. (LP: #770328)
1929 Other bugs and changes
1930 ----------------------
1931 * Moderating a message with Action.accept now sends the message. (LP: #827697)
1932 * Fix AttributeError triggered by i18n call in autorespond_to_sender()
1934 * Local timezone in X-Mailman-Approved-At caused test failure. (LP: #832404)
1935 * InvalidEmailAddressError no longer repr()'s its value.
1936 * Rewrote a test for compatibility between Python 2.6 and 2.7. (LP: #833208)
1937 * Fixed Postfix alias file generation when more than one mailing list
1938 exists. (LP: #874929). Given by Vincent Fretin.
1941 3.0 alpha 7 -- "Mission"
1942 ========================
1947 * Significant updates to the subscription model. Members can now subscribe
1948 with a preferred address, and changes to that will be immediately reflected
1949 in mailing list subscriptions. Users who subscribe with an explicit
1950 address can easily change to a different address, as long as that address
1951 is verified. (LP: #643949)
1952 * IUsers and IMembers are now assigned a unique, random, immutable id.
1953 * IUsers now have created_on and .preferred_address properties.
1954 * IMembers now have a .user attribute for easy access to the subscribed user.
1955 * When created with add_member(), passwords are always stored encrypted.
1956 * In all interfaces, "email" refers to the textual email address while
1957 "address" refers to the `IAddress` object.
1958 * mailman.chains.base.Chain no longer self registers.
1959 * New member and nonmember moderation rules and chains. This effectively
1960 ports moderation rules from Mailman 2 and replaces attributes such as
1961 member_moderation_action, default_member_moderation, and
1962 generic_nonmember_action. Now, nonmembers exist as subscriptions on a
1963 mailing list and members have a moderation_action attribute which describes
1964 the disposition for postings from that address.
1965 * Member.is_moderated was removed because of the above change.
1966 * default_member_action and default_nonmember_action were added to mailing
1968 * All sender addresses are registered (unverified) with the user manager by
1969 the incoming queue runner. This way, nonmember moderation rules will
1970 always have an IAddress that they can subscribe to the list (as
1971 MemberRole.nonmember).
1972 * Support for SMTP AUTH added via smtp_user and smtp_pass configuration
1973 variables in the [mta] section. (LP: #490044)
1974 * IEmailValidator interface for pluggable validation of email addresses.
1975 * .subscribe() is moved from the IAddress to the IMailingList
1976 * IAddresses get their registered_on attribute set when the object is created.
1980 * [devmode] section gets a new 'testing' variable.
1981 * Added password_scheme and password_length settings for defining the
1982 default password encryption scheme.
1983 * creator_pw_file and site_pw_file are removed.
1987 * 'bin/mailman start' does a better job of producing an error when Mailman is
1989 * 'bin/mailman status' added for providing command line status on the master
1990 queue runner watcher process.
1991 * 'bin/mailman info' now prints the REST root url and credentials.
1992 * mmsitepass removed; there is no more site password.
1996 * Add Basic Auth support for REST API security. (Jimmy Bergman)
1997 * Include the fqdn_listname and email address in the member JSON
1999 * Added reply_goes_to_list, send_welcome_msg, welcome_msg,
2000 default_member_moderation to the mailing list's writable attributes in the
2001 REST service. (Jimmy Bergman)
2002 * Expose the new membership model to the REST API. Canonical member resource
2003 URLs are now much shorter and live in their own top-level namespace instead
2004 of within the mailing list's namespace.
2005 * /addresses/<email>/memberships gets all the memberships for a given email
2007 * /users is a new top-level URL under which user information can be
2008 accessed. Posting to this creates new users.
2009 * Users can subscribe to mailing lists through the REST API.
2010 * Domains can be deleted via the REST API.
2011 * PUT and PATCH to a list configuration now returns a 204 (No Content).
2015 * Support Python 2.7. (LP: #667472)
2016 * Disable site-packages in buildout.cfg because of LP: #659231.
2017 * Don't include eggs/ or parts/ in the source tarball. (LP: #656946)
2018 * flufl.lock is now required instead of locknix.
2022 * Typo in scan_message(). (LP: #645897)
2023 * Typo in add_member(). (LP: #710182) (Florian Fuchs)
2024 * Re-enable bounce detectors. (LP: #756943)
2025 * Clean up many pyflakes problems; ditching pylint.
2028 3.0 alpha 6 -- "Cut to the Chase"
2029 =================================
2034 * The functionality of 'bin/list_members' has been moved to
2035 'bin/mailman members'.
2036 * 'bin/mailman info' -v/--verbose output displays the file system
2037 layout paths Mailman is currently configured to use.
2041 * You can now configure the paths Mailman uses for queue files, lock files,
2042 data files, etc. via the configuration file. Define a file system 'layout'
2043 and then select that layout in the [mailman] section. Default layouts
2044 include 'local' for putting everything in /var/tmp/mailman, 'dev' for local
2045 development, and 'fhs' for Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 2.3 (LP #490144).
2046 * Queue file directories now live in $var_dir/queues.
2050 * lazr.restful has been replaced by restish as the REST publishing technology
2052 * New REST API for getting all the members of a roster for a specific mailing
2054 * New REST API for getting and setting a mailing list's configuration. GET
2055 and PUT are supported to retrieve the current configuration, and set all
2056 the list's writable attributes in one request. PATCH is supported to
2057 partially update a mailing list's configuration. Individual options can be
2058 set and retrieved by using subpaths.
2059 * Subscribing an already subscribed member via REST now returns a 409 HTTP
2061 * Fixed a bug when deleting a list via the REST API. LP: #601899
2065 * X-BeenThere header is removed.
2066 * Mailman no longer touches the Sender or Errors-To headers.
2067 * Chain actions can now fire Zope events in their _process()
2069 * Environment variable $MAILMAN_VAR_DIR can be used to control the var/
2070 directory for Mailman's runtime files. New environment variable
2071 $MAILMAN_UNDER_MASTER_CONTROL is used instead of the qrunner's --subproc/-s
2076 * Allow X-Approved and X-Approve headers, equivalent to Approved and
2077 Approve. LP: #557750
2078 * Various test failure fixes. LP: #543618, LP: #544477
2079 * List-Post header is retained in MIME digest messages. LP: #526143
2080 * Importing from a Mailman 2.1.x list is partially supported.
2083 3.0 alpha 5 -- "Distant Early Warning"
2084 ======================================
2089 * Add REST API for subscription services. You can now:
2091 - list all members in all mailing lists
2092 - subscribe (and possibly register) an address to a mailing list
2093 - unsubscribe an address from mailing list
2097 * 'bin/dumpdb' is now 'bin/mailman qfile'
2098 * 'bin/unshunt' is now 'bin/mailman unshunt'
2099 * Mailman now properly handles the '-join', '-leave', and '-confirm' email
2100 commands and sub-addresses. '-subscribe' and '-unsubscribe' are aliases
2101 for '-join' and '-leave' respectively.
2105 * devmode settings now live in their own [devmode] section.
2106 * Mailman now searches for a configuration file using this search order. The
2107 first file that exists is used.
2109 - -C config command line argument
2110 - $MAILMAN_CONFIG_FILE environment variable
2116 3.0 alpha 4 -- "Vital Signs"
2117 ============================
2122 * 'bin/inject' is now 'bin/mailman inject', with some changes
2123 * 'bin/mailmanctl' is now 'bin/mailman start|stop|reopen|restart'
2124 * 'bin/mailman version' is added (output same as 'bin/mailman --version')
2125 * 'bin/mailman members' command line arguments have changed. It also
2126 now ignores blank lines and lines that start with #. It also no longer
2127 quits when it sees an address that's already subscribed.
2128 * 'bin/withlist' is now 'bin/mailman withlist', and its command line
2129 arguments have changed.
2130 * 'bin/mailman lists' command line arguments have changed.
2131 * 'bin/genaliases' is now 'bin/mailman aliases'
2135 * A near complete rewrite of the low-level SMTP delivery machinery. This
2136 greatly improves readability, testability, reuse and extensibility. Almost
2137 all the old functionality has been retained. The smtp_direct.py handler is
2139 * Refactor model objects into the mailman.model subpackage.
2140 * Refactor most of the i18n infrastructure into a separate flufl.i18n package.
2141 * Switch from setuptools to distribute.
2142 * Remove the dependency on setuptools_bzr
2143 * Do not create the .mo files during setup.
2147 * All log files now have a '.log' suffix by default.
2148 * The substitution placeholders in the verp_format configuration variable
2150 * Add a devmode configuration variable that changes some basic behavior.
2151 Most importantly, it allows you to set a low-level SMTP recipient for all
2152 mail for testing purposes. See also devmode_recipient.
2155 3.0 alpha 3 -- "Working Man"
2156 ============================
2161 * Configuration is now done through lazr.config. Defaults.py is
2162 dead. lazr.config files are essentially hierarchical ini files.
2163 * Domains are now stored in the database instead of in the configuration file.
2164 * pre- and post- initialization hooks are now available to plugins. Specify
2165 additional hooks to run in the configuration file.
2166 * Add the environment variable $MAILMAN_CONFIG_FILE which overrides the -C
2167 command line option.
2168 * Make LMTP more compliant with Postfix docs (Patrick Koetter)
2169 * Added a NullMTA for mail servers like Exim which just work automatically.
2173 * 'bin/mailman' is a new super-command for managing Mailman from the command
2174 line. Some older bin scripts have been converted, with more to come.
2175 * Mailman now has an administrative REST interface which can be used to get
2176 information from and manage Mailman remotely.
2177 * Back port of Mailman 2.1's limit on .bak file restoration. After 3
2178 restores, the file is moved to the bad queue, with a .psv extension. (Mark
2180 * Digest creation is moved into a new queue runner so it doesn't block main
2185 * bin/make_instance is no longer necessary, and removed
2186 * The debug log is turned up to info by default to reduce log file spam.
2188 Building and installation
2189 -------------------------
2190 * All doc tests can now be turned into documentation, via Sphinx. Just run
2191 bin/docs after bin/buildout.
2194 3.0 alpha 2 -- "Grand Designs"
2195 ==============================
2201 * Mailman 3 is now licensed under the GPLv3.
2206 * Changed bin/arch to attempt to open the mbox before wiping the old
2207 archive. Launchpad bug #280418.
2209 * Added digest.mbox and pending.pck to the 'list' files checked by
2210 check_perms. Launchpad bug #284802.
2215 * Converted to using zope.testing as the test infrastructure. Use bin/test
2216 now to run the full test suite.
2217 <https://pypi.org/project/zope.testing/3.7.1/>
2218 * Partially converted to using lazr.config as the new configuration
2219 regime. Not everything has been converted yet, so some manual editing
2220 of mailman/Defaults.py is required. This will be rectified in future
2221 versions. <https://launchpad.net/lazr.config>
2222 * All web-related stuff is moved to its own directory, effectively moving
2223 it out of the way for now.
2224 * The email command infrastructure has been reworked to play more nicely
2225 with the plug-in architecture. Not all commands have yet been
2231 * The LMTP server now properly calculates the message's original size.
2232 * For command line scripts, -C names the configuration file to use. For
2233 convenient testing, if -C is not given, then the environment variable
2234 MAILMAN_CONFIG_FILE is consulted.
2235 * Support added for a local MHonArc archiver, as well as archiving
2236 automatically in the remote Mail-Archive.com service.
2237 * The permalink proposal for supporting RFC 5064 has been adopted.
2238 * Mailing lists no longer have a .web_page_url attribute; this is taken from
2239 the mailing list's domain's base_url attribute.
2240 * Incoming MTA selection is now taken from the config file instead of
2241 plugins. An MTA for Postfix+LMTP is added. bin/genaliases works again.
2242 * If a message has no Message-ID, the stock archivers will return None for
2243 the permalink now instead of raising an assertion.
2244 * IArchiver no longer has an is_enabled property; this is taken from the
2245 configuration file now.
2250 * Python 2.6 is the minimal requirement.
2251 * Converted to using zc.buildout as the build infrastructure. See
2252 docs/ALPHA.txt for details.
2253 <https://pypi.org/project/zc.buildout/1.1.1/>
2256 3.0 alpha 1 -- "Leave That Thing Alone"
2257 =======================================
2260 User visible changes
2261 --------------------
2263 * So called 'new style' subject prefixing is the default now, and the only
2264 option. When a list's subject prefix is added, it's always done so before
2265 any Re: tag, not after. E.g. '[My List] Re: The subject'.
2266 * RFC 2369 headers List-Subscribe and List-Unsubscribe now use the preferred
2267 -join and -leave addresses instead of the -request address with a subject
2273 * There is no more separate configure; make; make install step. Mailman 3.0
2274 is a setuptools package.
2275 * Mailman can now be configured via a 'mailman.cfg' file which lives in
2276 $VAR_PREFIX/etc. This is used to separate the configuration from the
2277 source directory. Alternative configuration files can be specified via
2278 -C/--config for most command line scripts. mailman.cfg contains Python
2279 code. mm_cfg.py is no more. You do not need to import Defaults.py in
2280 etc/mailman.cfg. You should still consult Defaults.py for the list of site
2281 configuration variables available to you.
2283 See the etc/mailman.cfg.sample file.
2284 * PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL and DEFAULT_SUBJECT_PREFIX now takes $-string
2285 substitutions instead of %-string substitutions. See documentation in
2286 Defaults.py.in for details.
2287 * Message headers and footers now only accept $-string substitutions;
2288 %-strings are no longer supported. The substitution variable
2289 '_internal_name' has been removed; use $list_name or $real_name
2290 instead. The substitution variable $fqdn_listname has been added.
2291 DEFAULT_MSG_FOOTER in Defaults.py.in has been updated accordingly.
2292 * The KNOWN_SPAMMERS global variable is replaced with HEADER_MATCHES. The
2293 mailing list's header_filter_rules variable is replaced with header_matches
2294 which has the same semantics as HEADER_MATCHES, but is list-specific.
2295 * DEFAULT_MAIL_COMMANDS_MAX_LINES -> EMAIL_COMMANDS_MAX_LINES
2296 * All SMTP_LOG_* templates use $-strings and all consistently write the
2297 Message-ID as the first item in the log entry.
2298 * DELIVERY_MODULE now names a handler, not a module (yes, this is a
2299 misnomer, but it will likely change again before the final release).
2304 * Internally, all strings are Unicodes.
2305 * Implementation of a chain-of-rules based approach for deciding whether a
2306 message should initially be accepted, held for approval, rejected/bounced,
2307 or discarded. This replaces most of the disposition handlers in the
2308 pipeline. The IncomingRunner now only processes message through the rule
2309 chains, and once accepted, places the message in a new queue processed by
2311 * Substantially reworked the entire queue runner process management,
2312 including mailmanctl, a new master script, and the qrunners. This should
2313 be much more robust and reliable now.
2314 * The Storm ORM is used for data storage, with the SQLite backend as the
2315 default relational database.
2316 * Zope interfaces are used to describe the major components.
2317 * Users are now stored in a unified database, and shared across all mailing
2319 * Mailman's web interface is now WSGI compliant. WSGI is a Python standard
2320 (PEP 333) allowing web applications to be (more) easily integrated with any
2321 number of existing Python web application frameworks. For more information
2324 https://wsgi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
2325 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/
2327 Mailman can still be run as a traditional CGI program of course.
2328 * Mailman now provides an LMTP server for more efficient integration with
2329 supporting mail servers (e.g. Postfix, Sendmail). The Local Mail Transport
2330 Protocol is defined in RFC 2033:
2332 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2033.html
2333 * Virtual domains are now fully supported in that mailing lists of the same
2334 name can exist in more than one domain. This is accomplished by renaming
2335 the lists/ and archives/ subdirectories after the list's posting address.
2336 For example, data for list foo in example.com and list foo in example.org
2337 will be stored in lists/foo@example.com and lists/foo@example.org.
2339 For Postfix or manual MTA users, you will need to regenerate your mail
2340 aliases. Use bin/genaliases.
2342 VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW has been removed, effectively Mailman now operates
2343 as if it were always enabled. If your site has more than one domain,
2344 you must configure all domains by using add_domain() in your
2345 etc/mailman.cfg flie (see below -- add_virtual() has been removed).
2346 * If you had customizations based on Site.py, you will need to re-implement
2347 them. Site.py has been removed.
2348 * The site list is no more. You can remove your 'mailman' site list unless
2349 you want to retain it for other purposes, but it is no longer used (or
2350 required) by Mailman. You should set NO_REPLY_ADDRESS to an address that
2351 throws away replies, and you should set SITE_OWNER_ADDRESS to an email
2352 address that reaches the person ultimately responsible for the Mailman
2353 installation. The MAILMAN_SITE_LIST variable has been removed.
2354 * qrunners no longer restart on SIGINT; SIGUSR1 is used for that now.
2356 Internationalization Big Changes
2357 --------------------------------
2359 * Translators should work only on messages/<lang>/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po.
2360 Templates files are generated from mailman.po during the build process.
2365 * Confirmed member change of address is logged in the 'subscribe' log, and if
2366 admin_notify_mchanges is true, a notice is sent to the list owner using a
2367 new adminaddrchgack.txt template.
2368 * There is a new list attribute 'subscribe_auto_approval' which is a list of
2369 email addresses and regular expressions matching email addresses whose
2370 subscriptions are exempt from admin approval. RFE 403066.
2372 Command line scripts
2373 --------------------
2375 * Most scripts have grown a -C/--config flag to allow you to specify a
2376 different configuration file. Without this, the default etc/mailman.cfg
2378 * the -V/--virtual-host-overview switch in list_lists has been removed, while
2379 -d/--domain and -f/--full have been added.
2380 * bin/newlist is renamed bin/create_list and bin/rmlist is renamed
2381 bin/remove_list. Both take fully-qualified list names now (i.e. the list's
2382 posting address), but also accept short names, in which case the default
2383 domain is used. newlist's -u/--urlhost and -e/--emailhost switches have
2384 been removed. The domain that the list is being added to must already
2386 * Backport the ability to specify additional footer interpolation variables
2387 by the message metadata 'decoration-data' key.
2389 Bug fixes and other patches
2390 ---------------------------
2392 * Removal of DomainKey/DKIM signatures is now controlled by Defaults.py
2393 mm_cfg.py variable REMOVE_DKIM_HEADERS (default = No).
2394 * Queue runner processing is improved to log and preserve for analysis in the
2395 shunt queue certain bad queue entries that were previously logged but lost.
2396 Also, entries are preserved when an attempt to shunt throws an exception
2398 * The processing of Topics regular expressions has changed. Previously the
2399 Topics regexp was compiled in verbose mode but not documented as such which
2400 caused some confusion. Also, the documentation indicated that topic
2401 keywords could be entered one per line, but these entries were not handled
2402 properly. Topics regexps are now compiled in non-verbose mode and multi-
2403 line entries are 'ored'. Existing Topics regexps will be converted when
2404 the list is updated so they will continue to work.
2405 * The List-Help, List-Subscribe, and List-Unsubscribe headers were
2406 incorrectly suppressed in messages that Mailman sends directly to users.
2407 * The 'adminapproved' metadata key is renamed 'moderator_approved'.