v5.1.6 Released

email spam filter server

v5.1.6

Changelog

  • Added the option to verify sender address syntax during SPF checks. There is also a whitelist for certain domains that regularly violate RFC 5321.
  • Moved RBL evaluation from the standard Postfix method to a policy service. This allows logging RBL rejections to the to the database.
  • Updated mb-read to read "mailborder_version" strings behind comment (#) lines.
  • Updated rejection text in SPF from RFC 3696 to RFC 5321.
  • Updated SPF domain whitelists to properly trim whitespace from a list of domains.
  • Updated build process to convert generated configuration files to Unix removing the BOM.
  • Updated mb-os-check to check for /var/lib/mailborder
  • Updated mb-os-check to check for more file, directories, and permissions
  • Reorganized mb-rebuild structure and build order to make more effective use of Postfix hash, pcre, and regex.
  • Updated all Nginx configurations to remove TLSV1 from new installations and add TLSV1.3 support to new installations.
  • /etc/mailborder/conf.d/rbls.conf has been moved to /etc/mailborder/conf.d/rbl.cf with more options. Enter any custom RBLs on the custom_rbl_list line. The old /etc/mailborder/conf.d/rbls.cf is safe to delete.
  • Added fail2ban to package requirements and added an SASL monitor to automatically ban remote hosts probing SASL with random logins.
  • Corrected an index name on the log_spf_reason database table.

Upgrade Notes

This update may require a special switch as fail2ban was added as an additional package. To upgrade:

apt-get update
apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade

 

Optional Updates

If you wish to manually update your Nginx TLS support to the new model, edit the Mailborder files in /etc/nginx/site-available and change the ssl_protocols parameter to this: ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;

 

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

This upgrade is supported, but is not required. You may continue to run Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

This upgrade can easily take an hour on a fast connection. Plan accordingly.

To upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04:

  • First, upgrade to the latest version of Mailborder as shown above.
  • Take a snapshot or full backup of some kind.
  • Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change the bionic reference to focal for the Mailborder repository. (deb.mailborder.com) Do this after upgrading to the latest version of Mailborder and before running the next step.
  • Run as root: do-release-upgrade --allow-third-party
  • If you need or want help, contact Mailborder support.

15 March 2022