Version 1.81 (8 Sep 2012)

Fixed: Weasel was not unhiding the files in the

'forward' directory on startup.

LoadINI and DumpINI are no longer included in the Weasel

distribution. You have to download GenINI separately.

(Luckily, GenINI does not often get updated.)

The "fetch last" POP option is now obsolete. POP clients

now see all of the messages on the server, rather

than the first or last 512 messages.

Fixed: an uninitialised pointer that was causing a

crash on some POP fetches.

Added log message that identifies the domain that an

SMTP outbound thread is trying to reach.

Fixed a stack overflow on USER command.

Some extra log messages for SMTP outbound.

Removed the obsolete "POP fetch starts with most recent"

checkbox from the Setup program.

New policy: 5-second delay added before closing the

connection from a blacklisted client.

Setup now accepts new command-line parameters. See

the manual for details.

Policy change to accommodate servers that do

greylisting: when sending out mail, we don't try

the relay backup host until the fifth retry.

Removed some obsolete code, cleaned up the POP data

structures.

Change to the interval between retries.

For SMTP outbound mail, authentication is not used

unless there is a relay host. The Setup notebook

and manual have been updated to make this clearer.

Fixed: when a backup relay is configured, the relay

was not always used, so some items remained

undeliverable.

Added: extra log line to show whether SMTP authentication

for outgoing mail was successful.

Removed code for the obsolete "POPFetchLatest"

option, an option that allowed fetching mail in

a nonstandard order.

Some minor changes to logging.

Fixed: crash on USER command when TNI file used.

Fixed: the next message number was not being updated

in INI or TNI file.

Fixed: in TNI mode, a zero-length WEASEL.INI was

being created if it didn't already exist.

Startup operations more carefully sequenced to take

into account task interdependencies.

Fixed: crash if INI or TNI file was missing.

New approach to dynamic control of the number of

Send_NN tasks.

Fixed: the wrong number of Send_NN tasks were

being started.

Change: you can now change the number of these tasks

(in Setup) without having to restart Weasel.

Build level information added to weasel.exe. (So

you can now find out its version number by

running "bldlevel weasel.exe".)

Fixed: the transaction log was not being cleanly closed on exit.

Policy change: transaction log now updated every minute

instead of once every 15 minutes.

Fixed: error when trying to write a number in too

small a field size.

Fixed: crash caused by missing CRLF in input line

or input line that is longer than the standards allow.

Fixed: we accept neither mail nor logins for an

account that has been marked inactive.

New protection against dictionary attack: when there

are too many password errors, the client IP

address is blocked for 10 seconds.

Misc changes to reduce stack usage.

The "status" thread that was putting three counts to

the log has been removed. It was created to track

down a memory leak, but it never found one.

New script "ban.cmd" added to tools directory on web site.

(But not to zip file.)

Converted many "value" string parameters to "var".

Corrected a spelling error in looking up "OurHostName"

in the INI or TNI file.

Fixed: incorrect handling of option to forward mail

for a local user to another address.

Minor update to kernel stack shifting code.

Fixed: Setup was crashing if SETUP.INI did not exist.

Updated Spanish language file.

Fixed small memory leak in TNI handling.

Added log message to show how much memory has been

allocated for TNI data (but only if extra logging

is specified and we are in TNI mode).

Added a "-i" parameter to explicitly turn off

TNI mode.

Fixed: Setup crash in TNI mode if MailRoot changed.

Added file WEASEL.FMT, for more readable layout of

TNI files if DumpINI is used.

Added check for accessibility of DOMAIN.INI

when clearing a recipient list.

Fixed: after dropping a new font on a Setup

notebook, the notebook sometimes reverted to

the old font on exit.

For consistency, Setup now saves its own options in

Setup.TNI if running in TNI mode. Note that this

implies that you can have two independent sets

of fonts and window positions depending on whether

you start Setup in INI or TNI mode.

Added logging of heap usage, as a check for

memory leaks.

Removed OldDumpINI and OldLoadINI from the distribution.

These programs are now officially obsolete.

Added exceptq handling.

Fixed: Two semaphore leaks.