[Mimedefang] FW: sendmail 8.14.0 available

Matthew Schumacher matt.s at aptalaska.net
Thu Feb 1 12:07:04 EST 2007


fredrik.pettai at vattenfall.com wrote:
> 
> Sendmail, Inc., and the Sendmail Consortium announce the availability
> of sendmail 8.14.0 which has two "big" new features:
> 
> o headers are 8 bit "transparent".
> o the milter API has been extended; some of these new features are:
>   - New callback xxfi_negotiate() to determine the available
>     protocol actions and features of the MTA at runtime
>     and also to specify which of these a milter wants to use.
>   - New callback xxfi_data() for the DATA command.
>   - New callback xxfi_unknown() for unknown SMTP commands.
>   - New return code SMFIS_SKIP can be used in the xxfi_body()
>     callback to skip over further body chunks and directly advance
>     to the xxfi_eom() callback.
>   - A milter can be informed about rejected recipients too.
>   - A milter can now specify itself the list of macros it wants
>     to receive from the MTA.
> 

That last feature would be very nice if MD fetched a few key things such as:

SSL status.
SMTP AUTH status.
Mailbox that email address resolves to for delivery.

I'm sure there is more, but those are the things that I could use.

schu




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