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This file shortly documents the new features appearing in mailagent 3.0
compared to mailagent 2.9 PL19. For more details, please refer to the manual
page [yes, it's getting bigger and bigger, sorry].
. Mailhook disappears. Folder hooks are now handled without the need for an
extra process.
. NOTIFY now takes its FIRST argument to indicate the message file,
instead of its LAST as in the 2.9 release. This change in order to make
it compatible with MESSAGE.
. Mailagent secure configuration checks. Impossible to use mailagent if the
~/.mailagent file or the rule file are not correctly protected.
. Dynamic loading interface (dynload.pl) available for perl commands.
. Added a generic command server. Mailagent provides the server engine and
users write their own commands, with special provision for perl scripts
which can be directly loaded and executed within mailagent itself.
. User-defined macro support %-(x) and perl interface.
. New APPLY, REQUIRE, SERVER, MACRO commands.
. Support for rule caching. This avoids recompiling large rule files at every
mailagent run, but speed has never never been a main concern in this program
anyway.
. Negated mode support <!MODE>. Rule is not executed if in the specified
negated mode. This supersedes normal modes, i.e. <MODE, !MODE> is never
executed.
. Can now configure sendmail process and inews, with options, from ~/.mailagent.
If your sendmail behaves strangely or want to have interactive delivery
instead of queuing, this is the place to look at.
. New usr_log facility, enabling user-defined logfiles. Available for your
own commands and used internally by mailagent.
. Saving operations now check on the size of the produced folder for NFS.
. Can now access ~/.mailagent config params via %=var
. Fixed bug in agent queue parsing. This happened mainly on SUN systems, and
was apparently a perl fileglob bug (or is it a /bin/csh bug?). Anyway, I
now use readdir() to access the queue, which suppresses forking of an extra
process.
. Improved RFC822 address parsing. Now understands group names as login names.
. Output for mailagent -d formatted differently.
. Selector range Body <1,4>: available. This example selects body lines 1 to
4 (inclusive) for matching.
. Can now deliver to MH folders (without the need for an extra process). Use
'SAVE +foo' to deliver to the MH folder foo. Unseen sequences specified in
your ~/.mh_profile are correctly updated.
. Minimal support for directory hooks (only behaves like MH folders currently).
. New @SH package command for dist-3.0 MailAuthor.U support. That metaconfig
units sends a mail in specific format to record users of some package, and
the package command is there to automate the process.
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