ASK 2.5.1 Beta Released

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Folks,

I've finally managed to set a few minutes aside to release a new beta
(2.5.1). As usual, a lot of changes, a lot of new features and still a lot to
go until I clear the backlog of requested features. :)

Changelog goes below, for your convenience:

V2.5.1

- - The blacklist functionality is gone for good. It caused too many problems.
  Any email addresses found in the old blacklist files are now treated as
  addresses in the ignorelist. Remote commands adding or removing from the
  blacklist will act on the ignorelist instead. "ASK HELP" will not, however,
  advertise the blacklist commands as an option, to avoid confusion.
  
- - Removed a bug that would cause a failure upon receipt of a confirmation
  message. Thanks to Jerome Dumonteil for the patch.

- - New command line option: "--rcfile=ask_rc_file". You can now "force" the
  configuration file to be a specific file. Thanks to Sven Verdoolaege
  for this patch.

- - New configuration variable: rc_junk_unknown_recipients. When set to "yes",
  ASK will junk the message if none of our configured addresses (rc_mymails)
  appear in the "To/Cc/Bcc" fields of the original message. Default = false
  (the old behavior).  Thanks to J.R. Oldroyd for this patch.

- - ASK now ignores the "Reply-To:" field when checking for mailer-daemon
  messages. Thanks to J.R. Oldroyd for this patch.

- - Many programs and files that depended on the "samples" directory have
  been changed to reference the files from the templates directory.

- - The contents of the "samples" directory have been moved off to the
  "templates" directory, as they're not exactly samples (they're used
  by asksetup).

- - Renamed main executable, ask.py, to askfilter.

- - Renamed asksetup.py to asksetup.

- - ASK PROCESS Q is now a synonym for ASK PROCESS QUEUE.

- - bugfix: Messages delivered via deliver_mail did not have a "Date:"
  field.

- - HTML Received and Size fields added to the ASK Queue Report.

- - HTML Remote commands now use a table for formatting. The whole thing
  should look much better now. We also have a new format for the textmode
  commands and a line separating messages.
  
- - Removed the mail loop message. Most people disliked it.

- - Added a new command line switch: --filter. This puts ASK in "mail
  filter" mode. This mode is very similar to the "procmail mode", with the
  difference that it always returns a valid exit code. Messages to be
  discarded are delivered to stdout (filtered) with a "X-ASK-Action: Discard"
  header indicating that it should be discarded. The old --procmail mode
  will slowly be phased out.

  If you're using procmail, you'll probably want to change your .procmailrc
  recipes to:

  :0 fW
  /path_to_ask/askfilter --logfile=ask.log --loglevel=10 --filter

  :0
  * ^X-ASK-Action: Discard
  /dev/null

- - Major re-write and code cleanup on the remote commands. When using text
  mode remote commands, results are always sent directly to the user's
  mailbox defined in rc_mymailbox, _except_ when delivering messages
  in procmail or filter mode. In this case, the MTA will be used to
  forward the messages to rc_mymails[0] with the corresponding X-ASK-Auth
  code that will cause immediately delivery.
  
The homepage should be updated shortly to reflect the new versions.

Regards,
Paga

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