Perdition is a fully featured POP3 and IMAP4 proxy server. It is able to handle both SSL and non-SSL connections and redirect users to a real-server based on a database lookup. Perdition supports modular based database access. ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, GDBM, POSIX Regular Expression and NIS modules ship with the distribution.

The API for modules is open allowing developers to write to allow access to any data store.

Perdition has many uses. Including, creating large mail systems where an end-user's mailbox may be stored on one of several hosts, integrating different mail systems together, migrating between different email infrastructures, and bridging plain-text, SSL and TLS services. It can also be used as part of a firewall. The use of perditon to scale mail services beyond a single box is discussed in high capacity email.

What's New in This Release:

· Added explicit domain option. Brendan O'Dea
· Make sure all source files are inculded in tar ball, regardless of what parts of the code are excluded from the build by configure.
· Fixed possible buffer overflow in berkely db module Chris Stratford
· Option to disable compilation of ldap (latex) documentation
· Use ldap_initialize() when compiled against openssl (>=2.0.0) to allow arbitary ldap urls. In particular, ldaps is now supported.
· Don't add libraries discovered in configure to LDADD.
· Better loging connection failures relating to capabilities on the real-server
· Pass asynchronous messages sent by the real-server during authentication back to the end-user
· When add_domain is used, allow the depth to which the domain name has leading levels stripped.
· Fix gcc-4.0 compile problem. Andreas Jochens
· Removed bogus loging that occurs before the logger is fully intialised when debug is enabled. Roberto Suarez Soto
· Add link daemon module against socket libraries
· Reopen logger so child processes get their own file descriptors
· Fix segmentation fault when timeout is set to 0. John Capo
· Fix ODBC library detection
· Fix printing of server_port ojects (in particular the logging of the outgoing_server option)
· Use pg_config for Postgress library detection



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