[minion-cvs] Patches branch: Make From address support optional, fix...

[nickm@seul.org (Nick Mathewson)]

Update of /home/minion/cvsroot/src/minion
In directory moria.mit.edu:/tmp/cvs-serv20365

Modified Files:
      Tag: mixminion-v0-0-5-patches
	README 
Log Message:
Patches branch: Make From address support optional, fix SMTP bug.

Modules:
      Fix a bug where socket errors from smtplib would crash the
      server.  (If your smtp server was down, it would take mixminion
      with it.)

ClientMain, ServerInfo, test, Modules:
      Make "From" address support optional.

      [Rationale: Previously, I'd argued for having only a single
      supported "From" policy, as a measure to prevent linkability
      based on client option preferences.  Adam Back correctly pointed
      out that this is silly.  Consider that _any_ use or non-use of
      From addresses makes messages linkable *in itself*.  In other
      words, Eve can already tell which messages set their from
      addresses; she gains nothing by learning that those messages
      have chosen an exit node with From support to do so.]

      Some admins have been hesitant to support "From," even in the
      limited form described in the spec.  I still hope that it will
      eventually prove itself to be relatively harmless, but given the
      low number of Type I/II exits with *any* from support, it does
      make sense to give both options a try (at least) for now.



Index: README
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RCS file: /home/minion/cvsroot/src/minion/README,v
retrieving revision 1.59
retrieving revision 1.59.2.1
diff -u -d -r1.59 -r1.59.2.1
--- README	5 Sep 2003 21:45:19 -0000	1.59
+++ README	12 Sep 2003 15:35:47 -0000	1.59.2.1
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 $Id$
 ======================================================================
-This is Mixminion version 0.0.5.
+This is Mixminion version 0.0.5.1.
 
 CONTENTS:
         I.    Overview
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@
 
 II. WHAT'S NEW IN THIS VERSION?
 ===============================
+
+NEW IN VERSION 0.0.5.1:
+   - Allow exit servers to decide whether to support user-supplied from
+     addresses.
+   - Fail more gracefully when we try to deliver mail and the the local MTA
+     is down.
 
 NEW IN VERSION 0.0.5:
    - Fix a harmless but hard-to-detect bug that showed up when running