Firma CHANGELOG
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-30/08/2005 - 0.3-cvs (rev 1.33) - rhatto
+02/09/2005 - 0.3-cvs (rev 1.34) - luis
+
+ - Added two optional (and experimental) parameters to firma.conf:
+ USE_GPG_HIDDEN_RECIPIENT_OPTION and SEND_MESSAGES_USING_BCC. If
+ both are enabled, firma will use GnuPG's --hidden-recipient
+ option (available from version 1.4.0 onwards) and send list
+ messages to all subscribers at once, using BCC. This should
+ speed up message processing, specially on lists with several
+ subscribers.
+
+ - Major changes on functions SendListMessage and SendWarningMessage
+ to implement the two options above, and some minor changes on
+ functions SendBounceMessage and ProcessMessage.
+
+ - Added a new check on function CheckFirmaConfigFile, to make sure
+ GnuPG's version is 1.4.0 or later in case
+ USE_GPG_HIDDEN_RECIPIENT_OPTION is enabled.
+
+ - Added/removed some local variables:
+ email -> ( removed )
+ ( new ) -> subscriber, email_address, recipients
+
+ - Corrected misspelled words and fixed typos on comments.
+
+30/08/2005 - v0.2.5 (rev 1.33) - rhatto
- Added GPL copyright notice and firma contact email
-23/08/2005 - 0.3-cvs (rev 1.32) - luis - released as firma 0.2.5
+23/08/2005 - 0.3-cvs (rev 1.32) - luis
- Fixed a possible infinite loop (added on rev 1.30) on function
GetMessageHeaders. It could be triggered, for example, by a
- Changed project description to: "firma: GnuPG-based encrypted
mailing list manager"
- - Declared/renamed/removed variables and arrays:
+ - Added/renamed/removed variables and arrays:
+
o Configuration file variables:
MAIL -> MAIL_AGENT
MAIL_ARGS -> MAIL_AGENT_ARGS
CONFIG -> LIST_CONFIG_FILE
LINES, n, i -> ( removed )
( new ) -> FIRMA_CONFIG_FILE
+
o Global arrays:
MESSAGE -> ORIG_MESSAGE
GPG_MESSAGE -> ORIG_GPG_MESSAGE
LISTS_DIR, and a list specific file, containing the variables
LIST_ADDRESS, LIST_ADMIN, LIST_HOMEDIR and PASSPHRASE.
- - Edited the comments at the beggining of the script to reflect the
+ - Edited the comments at the beginning of the script to reflect the
change above.
- As suggested by the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (ABSG)[1], added
same character in the PASSPHRASE;
Other minor changes in the PASSPHRASE, LIST_ADDRESS and
LIST_ADMIN checks.
+
o GetMessage:
Added a check to see if the message was successfully stored in
the ORIG_MESSAGE array.
o ChooseUid:
Declared keyid, uid_count and chosen_uid_number as local
variables, moving them to the beginning of the function;
- Minor syntax changes in the checkings;
- Added lots of comments, explaining what the checkings and the
+ Minor syntax changes in the checks;
+ Added lots of comments, explaining what the checks and the
expect script are doing.
- Major changes on functions: GetGpgMessage, GetMessageHeaders,
Changed "umask" from 0777 to 0077. Otherwise, function NewList
cannot create configuration files for new lists;
Improved parsing of option -a (--admin-task), removing
- unecessary commands and routines from this part of the code;
+ unnecessary commands and routines from this part of the code;
Again, new command-line options can be easily added to this new
nested "case" structure.
07/05/2005 - 0.3-cvs (rev 1.13) - rhatto
- Firma now uses sendmail or any smtp wrapper directly:
- - Specify your smtp wrapper through MAIL var, eg:
+ - Specify your smtp wrapper through MAIL var, e.g.:
MAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
MAIL=/usr/bin/ssmtp
- Command-line arguments passed to the wrapper must
SUBSCRIBERS -> get_subscribers_list
get_headers -> get_message_headers
- New args:
- -h: chama a usage()
- -v: chama a version()
+ -h: calls function usage
+ -v: calls function version
- Option -a passes STDIN line by line to list_admin
- - Added some checkings in the main procedure
+ - Added some checks in the main procedure
- Some minor syntax changes
02/08/2005 - 0.3-cvs - rhatto
- Completed function newlist (still needs tests)
- New function: gpg_args
-25/05/2005 - v0.2.x - rhatto
+25/05/2005 - v0.2.4 - rhatto
- Message is now stored in two arrays, MESSAGE and GPG_MESSAGE.
Temporary files are no longer needed. Deleted TMP var.
configuration file. If any of these checks fail, firma exits and
shows what should be corrected in the file.
- - GPGLIST now lists public keys using the gpg option
+ - GPGLIST now lists public keys using GnuPG's option
"--with-colons". Definitely much easier to parse.
- added --no-permission-warning on $GPGCOMMAND.
--no-use-agent"
- Added two new functions: GPGSTDERR and SUBSCRIBERS. The first gets
- gpg STDERR and discards its STDOUT and the later returns the
+ GnuPG's STDERR and discards its STDOUT and the later returns the
subscribers list.
function GPGSTDERR {
Feb 2005 - v0.1 - rhatto
- - First public release and proof of concept
+ - First public release and proof of concept.
- Based on pgplist (http://www.rediris.es/app/pgplist/index.en.html),
- but completely written from scratch
- - Strips all mail headers
- - Use keyring as database
+ but completely written from scratch.
+ - Strips all mail headers.
+ - Use keyring as database.
- List variables are sourced from a configuration file.
- - List subscription is managed through gpg public keyrings, one
+ - List subscription is managed through GnuPG's public keyrings, one
keyring for each mailing list.
- Message is read from STDIN, passed to it by postfix or some
other MTA.
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