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Stuart D. Gathman</a><br>
This web page is written by Stuart D. Gathman<br>and<br>sponsored by
<a href="http://www.bmsi.com">Business Management Systems, Inc.</a> <br>
Last updated Jan 05, 2005</h4>
Last updated May 31, 2005</h4>
See the <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a> | <a href="#download">Download now</a> |
See the <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a> | <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=139894">Download now</a> |
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<a href="#overview">Overview</a>
<p>
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<h2> Recent Changes </h2>
Python milter is being moved to
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pymilter/">Sourceforge</a> for
development.
<p>
Release 0.7.2 tightens the authentication screws with a "3 strikes and
your out" policy. A sender must have a valid PTR, HELO, or SPF record
to send email. Specific senders can be whitelisted using the
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requires <a href="http://pydns.sourceforge.net/">
pydns</a>. Configuration documentation is currently included as comments
in the <a href="milter.cfg">sample config file</a> for the bms.py milter.
<h3><a name=download>Downloading</a></h3>
The latest stable release is <a href="#stable">0.7.2</a>. A stable
release is one which has been installed (and working correctly) on
production systems long enough to convince me that it is stable. As
the package gains more features and complexity, stable will mean no
bug reports from outside users either.
<p>
The latest version is 0.7.2-2. See the <a href=NEWS>Change Log</a>.
PLEASE NOTE - if you are using the modules, but not the bms milter application,
then ignore the RPMs and milter.spec. Use 'python setup.py bdist_rpm' to
build source and binary rpms that do not include the milter application.
<p>
I want to split the bms milter application to a new project once I figure
out the renaming. The current plan is to rename 'milter' to 'pymilter', which
will have the Python modules. The bms milter application will still be named
'milter' and depend on pymilter (so that my installs won't notice anything).
<p>
<a name="stable"><b>Stable</b></a>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/python/milter-0.7.2.tar.gz">
milter-0.7.2.tar.gz</a> Three strikes and your out policy. Some SPF fixes.
Recognizes PTR records for dynamic IPs.
<br>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh72/milter-0.7.2-2.i386.rpm">
milter-0.7.2-2.i386.rpm</a> Binary RPM for Redhat 7.x, now requires
sendmail-8.12 and <a href="http://www.python.org/2.3.3/rpms.html">
python2.3</a>.
<br>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh9/milter-0.7.2-2rh9.i386.rpm">
milter-0.7.2-2rh9.i386.rpm</a> Binary RPM for Redhat 9, now requires
sendmail-8.12 and <a href="http://www.python.org/2.3.3/rpms.html">
python2.3</a>.
<br>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh9/milter-0.7.2-2.src.rpm">
milter-0.7.2-2.src.rpm</a> Source RPM for Redhat 9,7.x.
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/python/milter-0.7.1.tar.gz">
milter-0.7.1.tar.gz</a> Support setmlreply, handle some more exceptions
for malformed spam. Compiling pymilter with sendmail-8.12.10, requires
sendmail-devel with _FFR_MULTILINE set. The binary will work with older
sendmails. The _FFR_MULTILINE option only affects libmilter.a.
<br>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh72/milter-0.7.1-1.i386.rpm">
milter-0.7.1-1.i386.rpm</a> Binary RPM for Redhat 7.x, now requires
sendmail-8.12 and <a href="http://www.python.org/2.3.3/rpms.html">
python2.3</a>.
<br>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh9/milter-0.7.1-1.src.rpm">
milter-0.7.1-1.src.rpm</a> Source RPM for Redhat 9,7.x.
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/python/milter-0.7.0.tar.gz">
milter-0.7.0.tar.gz</a> Move config file and default socket location.
Parse M$ CID records.
<br>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh72/milter-0.7.0-1.i386.rpm">
milter-0.7.0-1.i386.rpm</a> Binary RPM for Redhat 7.x, now requires
sendmail-8.12 and <a href="http://www.python.org/2.3.3/rpms.html">
python2.3</a>.
<br>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh9/milter-0.7.0-1rh9.i386.rpm">
milter-0.7.0-1rh9.i386.rpm</a> Binary RPM for Redhat 9, requires
sendmail-8.12 and <a href="http://www.python.org/2.3.3/rpms.html">
python2.3</a>.
<br>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/aix/milter-0.7.0-1.ppc.rpm">
milter-0.7.0-1.ppc.rpm</a> Binary RPM for AIX, requires sendmail-8.13.1.
<br>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh9/milter-0.7.0-1.src.rpm">
milter-0.7.0-1.src.rpm</a> Source RPM for Redhat 9,7.x.
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/python/milter-0.6.9.tar.gz">
milter-0.6.9.tar.gz</a> Add SPF test suite driver, and validate
spf.py against test suite. Add best_guess and get_header to spf.py.
Libmilter timeout option in config.
<br>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh72/milter-0.6.9-1.i386.rpm">
milter-0.6.9-1.i386.rpm</a> Binary RPM for Redhat 7.x, now requires
sendmail-8.12 and <a href="http://www.python.org/2.3.3/rpms.html">
python2.3</a>.
<br>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh9/milter-0.6.9-1.src.rpm">
milter-0.6.9-1.src.rpm</a> Source RPM for Redhat 9,7.x.
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/python/milter-0.6.8.tar.gz">
milter-0.6.8.tar.gz</a> Include Received-SPF headers in Dspam analysis.
Fix sysv init for Redhat 9 and later. Reject bounces with multiple
recipients.
<br>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/python/milter-0.6.8.patch">milter-0.6.8.patch</a>
Last minutes fixes from production testing.
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh72/milter-0.6.8-3.i386.rpm">
milter-0.6.8-3.i386.rpm</a> Binary RPM for Redhat 7.x, now requires
sendmail-8.12 and <a href="http://www.python.org/2.3.3/rpms.html">
python2.3</a>.
<br>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh9/milter-0.6.8-3.src.rpm">
milter-0.6.8-3.src.rpm</a> Source RPM for Redhat 9,7.x.
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/python/milter-0.6.7.tar.gz">
milter-0.6.7.tar.gz</a> Explicit local socket bug,
<a href="http://spf.pobox.com/srs.html">SRS</a> forgery detection,
thread resource starvation detection.
SRS support requires <a href="http://bmsi.com/python/pysrs.html">pysrs</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh72/milter-0.6.7-3.i386.rpm">
milter-0.6.7-3.i386.rpm</a> Binary RPM for Redhat 7.x, now requires
sendmail-8.12 and <a href="http://www.python.org/2.3.3/rpms.html">
python2.3</a>.
<br>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh72/milter-0.6.7-3.src.rpm">
milter-0.6.7-3.src.rpm</a> Source RPM for Redhat 7.x.
Release 0.6.7-3 patches:
<ul>
<li> Defang message/rfc822 content_type with boundary
<li> Support SPF delegation
<li> Reject neutral SPF result for selected domains
</ul>
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/python/milter-0.6.6.tar.gz">
milter-0.6.6.tar.gz</a> Plug another memory leak,
<a href="http://spf.pobox.com/">SPF</a> support, hello blacklist.
SPF support requires <a href="http://pydns.sourceforge.net/">pydns</a>.
NOTE - the spf.py module included is modified from the official 1.6
version at <a href="http://www.wayforward.net/spf/">wayforward.net</a>.
I neglected to add the CVS log. The changes are expanded result codes
and tolerating common method misspellings in SPF records. I have notified the
author, but haven't heard back. At some point, the RPM will
include the official pyspf tarball and apply patches.
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh72/milter-0.6.6-2.i386.rpm">
milter-0.6.6-2.i386.rpm</a> Binary RPM for Redhat 7.x, now requires
sendmail-8.12 and <a href="http://www.python.org/2.3.3/rpms.html">
python2.3</a>. Release 2 fixes sysv init script bug for python2.3.
<br>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh72/milter-0.6.6-2.src.rpm">
milter-0.6.6-2.src.rpm</a> Source RPM for Redhat 7.x
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/python/milter-0.6.5.tar.gz">
milter-0.6.5.tar.gz</a> Plug memory leak, progress reporting, trusted relay.
Redhat RPM now requires sendmail-8.12.
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh72/milter-0.6.5-2.i386.rpm">
milter-0.6.5-2.i386.rpm</a> Binary RPM for Redhat 7.x
<br>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh72/milter-0.6.5-2.src.rpm">
milter-0.6.5-2.src.rpm</a> Source RPM for Redhat 7.x
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/python/milter-0.6.4.tar.gz">
milter-0.6.4.tar.gz</a> Numerous Dspam fixes. Requires
<a href="dspam.html">pydspam-1.1.5</a> and
<a href="/libdspam/dspam.html">dspam-2.6.5.2</a>
for Dspam features. The dspam-python RPM has been replaced by pydspam.
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh72/milter-0.6.4-1.i386.rpm">
milter-0.6.4-1.i386.rpm</a> Binary RPM for Redhat 7.x
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/python/milter-0.6.3.1.tar.gz">
milter-0.6.3.1.tar.gz</a> New dspam SCREENER feature with pydspam-1.1.4.
Don't save a defang copy of false positives. Fixed an oops from last fix,
rejecting false positives. BUG: sendmail-8.11 doesn't invoke milter
when sending mail via sendmail from command line (8.12 works). Therefore,
the supplied falsepositive script for milter based dspam doesn't work
with stock RedHat 7.x. I am writing a HOWTO for configuring milter
based dspam that will address this (and a fix in the next version).
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh72/milter-0.6.3-1.i386.rpm">
milter-0.6.3-1.i386.rpm</a> Binary RPM for Redhat 7.x
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/python/milter-0.6.2.tar.gz">
milter-0.6.2.tar.gz</a> work around email.Message.get_filename bug,
dspam_exempt list, REJECT messages with missing MIME boundaries (which
are almost always spam),
DISCARD messages which any dspam user flags as spam,
start.sh was calling python instead of python2 on Linux.
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh72/milter-0.6.2-1.src.rpm">
milter-0.6.2-1.src.rpm</a> Source RPM for Redhat 7.x (and likely
higher versions)
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/python/milter-0.6.1.tar.gz">
milter-0.6.1.tar.gz</a> dspam milter application, python-2.2.3 support.
<p>
You must have <a href=dspam.html>dspam and dspam-python</a> loaded for
the dspam feature to work. Brief instructions for configuring are
in the default config file. This is working at a customer, but I'm
sure a few more iterations will be required to make setup as smooth
as possible.
<p>
NOTE: Outlook destroys dspam tags when forwarding mail (while converting
HTML to text). Perhaps some config option will turn this abominable
"feature" off. Working around this by making dspam tags visble on
HTML mail is ugly. My suggestion is to not use Outlook, for this and
many other reasons - especially security. Any other suggestions for
those married to Microsoft are welcome. The DSPAM LDA works around this
by making the tags visible in HTML attachments. This is ugly, and
occasionally corrupts attachments.
<p>
We have to supply workarounds for bugs in the email module (reported
to sourceforge). The workarounds reference some internal variables
which change with python versions.
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh72/milter-0.6.1-1.i386.rpm">
milter-0.6.1-1.i386.rpm</a> Binary RPM for Redhat 7.x
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh72/milter-0.6.1-1.src.rpm">
milter-0.6.1-1.src.rpm</a> Source RPM for Redhat 7.x (and likely
higher versions)
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/python/milter-0.6.0.tar.gz">
milter-0.6.0.tar.gz</a> simple dspam pre-filtering, use email module,
requires python &gt;= 2.2.2.
<ul>
<li> The milter.so module from 0.5.4
is needed to run this release on AIX. Haven't tracked this down yet.
<li> The patches to fix the email packages in mime.py don't work
on python-2.2.3. The email package is still broken in 2.3, and patches
required for that will likely be different still.
</ul>
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh72/milter-0.6.0-1.i386.rpm">
milter-0.6.0-1.i386.rpm</a> Binary RPM for Redhat 7.x
<p>
<a href="http://bmsi.com/linux/rh72/milter-0.6.0-1.src.rpm">
milter-0.6.0-1.src.rpm</a> Source RPM for Redhat 7.x (and likely
higher versions)
<p>
<a href="http://www.bmsi.com/python/milter-0.5.5.tar.gz">
milter-0.5.5.tar.gz</a> IPV6 support, passing None to set_XXX_callback,
set_reply, chg_header, detect internal connections. Note, this release
did not work on AIX4.1.5, probably due to IPV6 support breaking something.
The milter.so module from 0.5.4 can be installed to use this release
with AIX.
<p>
<a href="http://www.bmsi.com/python/milter-0.5.4.tar.gz">
milter-0.5.4.tar.gz</a> wiretap, smart alias features, quarantine support.
<p>
The name of the production "sample" milter "bms.py" now
stands for "Basic Milter System" until someone suggests a better name.
The test coverage is rather
sparse at present.
Please <a href="mailto:%73%74%75%61%72%74%40%62%6D%73%69%2E%63%6F%6D">email</a> with proposals for what
to name the milter application.
<h4>NOTES</h4>
<ul>
<li>
Quarantine support requires that you define _FFR_QUARANTINE
when compiling miltermodule.c. I am not sure how to make setup.py
do that for you iff sendmail was actually compiled with _FFR_QUARANTINE.
<li>
While 0.6.0 will use the new email package in Python-2.2, that
package seems to be buggy in Python-2.2.1. The list example in the docs
doesn't find all MIME parts. Update: Python-2.2.2 has fixed the email
package. It can now parse my test cases.
<li>
Preliminary testing with python-2.2 shows that most things work after
adding <code>self.readahead = ""</code> to <code>mimepart.seek</code>.
Python-2.2 <code>multifile</code> reads one less newline per section than
2.1. I'm not not sure which is correct. After adding some calls to
<code>rstrip()</code> in testmime.py, all milter modules pass unit testing
with python-2.2. Python-2.2 patches have been released since 0.5.3.
<li>
sgmlop-1.1a3 has a memory leak (at least Python milter has a
memory leak when using sgmlop instead of sgmllib). Do not make Python
milter use sgmlop-1.1a2 or a3 in a production
system unless you can restart your milter periodically. The amount
of memory leaked seems roughly proportional to the amount of HTML
parsed.
<li>
There are a number of ways that malformed MIME attachments
can cause a python traceback. Uncaught exceptions cause a 415
error to be returned to sendmail. So far, all the malformed messages
I've investigated have been SPAM - so good riddance. I would prefer,
however, that the mime handling libraries were more precise. Beginning
with 0.5.1, bms.py will save messages that cause a traceback during
scanning in the tempfile directory with a ".fail" extension. This
makes it easier to get samples of mail that causes parsing problems
for incorporation into the unit tests.
</ul>
<p>
<a href="http://www.bmsi.com/python/milter-0.5.2.tar.gz">
milter-0.5.2.tar.gz</a> Fix and unittest another HTML parsing bug.<br>
<a href="http://www.bmsi.com/python/milter-0.5.1.tar.gz">
milter-0.5.1.tar.gz</a> Handle encoded rfc822 attachments.<br>
<a href="http://www.bmsi.com/python/milter-0.5.0.tar.gz">
milter-0.5.0.tar.gz</a> Use a config file so users don't have to
keep syncing with bms.py. <br>
<a href="http://www.bmsi.com/python/milter-0.4.5.tar.gz">
milter-0.4.5.tar.gz</a> Work with sgmlop. Reduce local hacks to config variables.
<p>
Python milter is under GPL. The authors can probably be convinced to
change this to LGPL.
change this to LGPL if needed.
<h3>What is a <a name="milter">milter</a>?</h3>
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