Migration support and DNS improvements

1.5.0

Some elected changelog items

DNS improvements

• fix checking for required DNS records
  (#412)

• query autoritative nameserver to bypass DNS cache
  (#424)

Migration support

• add guide to migrate chatmail to a new server
  (#429)

• add cmdeploy run --disable-mail to disable postfix/dovecot for migration
  (#428)

• add argument to cmdeploy run for specifying
  a different SSH host than mail_domain
  (#439)

Operations

• add support for specifying whole domains for recipient passthrough list
  (#408)

• trigger "apt upgrade" during "cmdeploy run"
  (#398)

• drop hispanilandia passthrough address, as it stopped service
  (#401)

Monitoring

• add mtail support (new optional mtail_address ini value)
  This defines the address on which mtail
  exposes its metrics collected from the logs.
  If you want to collect the metrics with Prometheus,
  setup a private network (e.g. WireGuard interface)
  and assign an IP address from this network to the host.
  If you do not plan to collect metrics,
  keep this setting unset.
  (#388)

Fix a bug that could lead to missed notifications and other issues

1.4.1

make another release

optimized resource usage / streamlined DNS

1.4.0

some elected changelog items

(see https://github.com/deltachat/chatmail/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md for full list of changes)

• Add disable_ipv6 config option to chatmail.ini.
  Required if the server doesn't have IPv6 connectivity.
  (#312)

• allow current K9/Thunderbird-mail releases to send encrypted messages
  outside by accepting their localized "encrypted subject" strings.
  (#370)

• Migrate and remove sqlite database in favor of password/lastlogin tracking
  in a user's maildir.
  (#379)

• Require pyinfra V3 installed on the client side,
  run ./scripts/initenv.sh to upgrade locally.
  (#378)

• BREAKING: new required chatmail.ini value 'delete_inactive_users_after = 100'
  which removes users from database and mails after 100 days without any login.
  (#350)

• Refine DNS checking to distinguish between "required" and "recommended" settings
  (#372)

• Make DNS-checking faster and more interactive, run it fully during "cmdeploy run",
  also introducing a generic mechanism for rapid remote ssh-based python function execution.
  (#346)

• Remove sieve to enable hardlink deduplication in LMTP
  (#343)

• dovecot: enable gzip compression on disk
  (#341)

• DKIM-sign Content-Type and oversign all signed headers
  (#296)

• Add nonci_accounts metric
  (#347)

• Multiplex HTTPS, IMAP and SMTP on port 443
  (#357)

1.3.0

Among other changes:

• The default for the delete_mails_after config value was changed from 40 to 20. If you also want this for your chatmail instance, change it in your local chatmail.ini file and run cmdeploy run.
• The logs are not saved to disk anymore. You can still view them with journalctl, but not after a reboot.
• We forked dovecot to include a patch which makes message transfer much faster. Apart from this change, it is just the same as the debian version. Read more here about how we are building it.