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Upcoming iRedMail release (0.9.8)

Work In Progress

• Integrate mlmmj mailing list manager.

  • Improve iRedAPD to handle access policy of mlmmj mailing list.
  • [DONE] RESTful API server used to manage mlmmj: mlmmj-admin.
  • [DONE] Integrate mlmmj and mlmmj-admin in iRedAdmin-Pro for SQL backends.
  • [DONE] Integrate mlmmj and mlmmj-admin in iRedAdmin-Pro for LDAP backends.

• Replace Awstats by netdata.

  • [DONE] Remove Awstats.
  • Install and configure netdata.

• Issues:

  • Postfix: Improper SQL queries used to query per-user bcc address.

DONE

Features listed below have been implemented in latest development edition.

• Supports new distribution releases:

  • OpenBSD 6.2.
  • Ubuntu 17.10

• Drop support for old distribution releases:

  • CentOS 6
  • Debian 8
  • OpenBSD 6.1
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 17.04.

• Apache has been removed, Nginx is the only one option you have.

• Improvements:

  • LDAP backend: Allow mailing list account to use 2 attributes: member, uniqueMember.
  • Dovecot: Log subject, sender, size in mail deliver log.
  • Amavisd: Add new sql column maddr.email_raw and trigger to store email address without address extension.

• Fixed issues:

  • installer: not correctly configure SOGo with IPv6 SQL server address. Thanks to Wraptor for the report in forum.
  • Nginx: Use single config file for default web hosts.
  • SQL backends: User under disabled domain is able to send email with smtp protocol.
  • Cannot sync contacts on Android devices via EAS with SOGo.
  • scripts under iRedMail-0.9.8/tools/:
    • backup_sogo.sh:
      • not set correct owner and permission on backup files.
      • cannot remove old backup files.
    • backup_openldap.sh: Cannot log backup result to SQL db. Note: backup is fine, just no log in SQL db. Thanks swejun for the feedback and fix in forum.
    • create_mail_user_*: not use current date as password last change date for newly created user.
    • migrate_sql_alias_table.py: doesn't support 'utf8' charset. Thanks Kacper Guzik for the report and code contribution.

• Updated packages:

  • Roundcube -> 1.3.3

Planned changes in next iRedMail / iRedAdmin-Pro release

• HIGH: #14 Allow domain admin to set vacation message for mail user

Planned changes in future iRedMail release

• A (new) RESTful API server for general administration (core of API server has been implemented, need to write plugins for each particular tasks):

  • Network service control: get service status, stop/start/restart service.
  • Manage fail2ban banned/unbanned IPs.
  • Manage Nginx virtual web hosts.
  • Query user mailbox with doveadm search, fetch partial/full messages or message information. Possible use cases with iRedAdmin-Pro:
    • View (either partial/full) mail messages in user's mailbox.
    • In sent/received mail log page, query API server with given query messages with Message-ID: or subject, display the full message if necessary.
    • Destroy delivered messages which matches given query.
  • LOW: Allow domain admin to share someone's mailbox folder to others.
  • SOGo management via command line tool sogo-tool.

• Dovecot:

  • Enable plugin imap_sieve for spam learning while user moving message to Junk folder. Requires Dovecot-2.2.24+ (dovecot-pigeonhole-0.4.14+).
  • Enable plugin mail_crypt to encrypts and decrypts mail. (requires Dovecot-2.2.27+).

• LDAP backends:

  • Migrate old mailing list (objectClass=mailList) to new mlmmj mailing list, convert all old mailing lists to be groups which have ldap dn of all members defined in ldap attribute member (or memberdn).
  • Configure OpenLDAP with slapd.d instead of slapd.conf