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>4. Revision History</H1
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>Revision 1.0</TD
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>2004-09-08</TD
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>First public release.</TD
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>Revision 0.18</TD
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>2004-09-07</TD
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>Incorporated second language review from Tom Wright.</TD
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>Revision 0.17</TD
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>2004-09-06</TD
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>Incorporated language review from Tom Wright.</TD
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>Incorporated third round of changes from Devdas Bhagat.</TD
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>2004-08-04</TD
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>Incorporated second round of changes from technical
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review by Devdas Bhagat.</TD
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>2004-08-01</TD
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>Incorporated technical review comments/corrections from
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>2004-08-01</TD
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>Incorporated technical review from Joost De Cock.</TD
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>2004-07-27</TD
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>Replaced "A Note on Controversies" with a more
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opinionated "The Good, The Bad, the Ugly" section. Also
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rewrote text on DNS blocklists. Some corrections from
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Seymour J. Metz.</TD
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>2004-07-19</TD
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>Incorporated comments from Rick Stewart on RMX++.
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Swapped order of "Techniques" and "Considerations".
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Minor typographic fixes in Exim implementation.</TD
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>2004-07-16</TD
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>Added <?dbhtml..?> tags to control generated HTML
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filenames - should prevent broken links from google etc.
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Swapped order of "Forwarded Mail" and "User Settings".
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Correction from Tony Finch on Bayesian filters;
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commented out check for Subject:, Date:, and Message-ID:
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headers per Johannes Berg; processing time subtracted
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from SMTP delays per suggestion from Alan Flavell.</TD
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>2004-07-13</TD
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>Elaborated on problems with envelope sender signatures
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and mailing list servers, and a scheme to make such
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signatures optional per host/domain for each user.
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Moved "Considerations" section out as a separate
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chapter; added subsections "Blocking Access to other
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SMTP Server", "User Settings" and "Forwarded Mail".
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Incorporated Matthew Byng-Maddick's comments on the
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mechanism used to generate these signatures, Chris
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Edwards' comments on sender callout verification, and
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Hadmut Danisch's comments on RMX++ and other topics.
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Changed license terms (GPL instead of GFDL).</TD
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>2004-07-09</TD
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>Additional work on Exim implementation: Added section on
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per-user settings and data for SpamAssassin per
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suggestion from Tollef Fog Heen. Added SPF checks via
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Exiscan-ACL. Corrections from Sam Michaels.</TD
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examples, and added support for users to "opt in" to
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this feature, per suggestion from Christian Balzer.</TD
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>Incorporated Exim/MySQL greylisting implementation and
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various corrections from Johannes Berg. Moved "Sender
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Authorization Schemes" up two levels to become a
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top-level section in the Techniques chapter. Added
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greylisting for NULL empty envelope senders after DATA.
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Added SpamAssassin configuration to match Exim examples.
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Incorporated corrections from Dominik Ruff, Mark
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Valites, "Andrew" at Supernews.</TD
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>2004-07-07</TD
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to move ahead with the final review process.</TD
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>2004-07-06</TD
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Filtering", "Introduction to SMTP", and "Considerations"
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into a single "Background" chapter. Split the previous
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"Building ACLs" section in the Exim implementation into
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top-level sections. Added alternate sender
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authorization schemes to SPF: Microsoft Caller-ID for
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E-Mail and RMX++. Incorporated comments from Ken
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Raeburn.</TD
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minor corrections related to Sender Callout Verification.</TD
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>2004-06-30</TD
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