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1New Features in Exim
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4This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
5Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
33f316f2 6test from the snapshots or the Git before the documentation is updated. Once
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7the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
8
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9Version 4.94
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12 1. EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
13 file.
14
1d717e1c 15 2. Channel-binding for authenticators is now supported under OpenSSL.
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16 Previously it was GnuTLS-only.
17
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18 3. A msg:defer event.
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20 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the plaintext
21 driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS
22 methods.
23
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25Version 4.93
26------------
27
b53c265b 28 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
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7f69e814 30 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
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32 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
33 for ciphersuites.
34
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35 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
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37 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
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39 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
40 file.
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42 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
43 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
44
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45 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
46
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47 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
48 and transports.
49
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5010. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
51
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5211. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
53
86ede124 5412. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
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5613. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
57
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5814: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
59
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6015: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
61 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
62 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
63 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
64 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
65 only, and exim must be run as root).
66
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6716: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
68
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6917. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
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72Version 4.92
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74
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75 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
76 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
77 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
78 facilities hard to parse.
79
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80 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
81 obvious thing.
82
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83 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
84 features. See the experimental.spec file.
8ac90765 85
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86 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
87
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88 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
89
8442641e 90 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
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92 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
93
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94 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
95
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96 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
97
d4fd1b83 98Version 4.91
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100
101 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
102 version 3.5.6 or later.
103
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104 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
105 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
405074ad 106 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
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108 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
109
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110 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
111 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
112
306c6c77 113 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
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114 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
115 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
116 a "dkim" log_selector.
117
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118 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
119
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120 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
121 routing rules in the manualroute router.
122
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123 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
124 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
125
286b9d5f 126 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
cb78c1a8 127 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
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12910. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
130 version dependent.
131
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13211. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
133
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13412. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
135 Authentication-Results: header.
136
617d3932 13713. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
ddd16464 138 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
617d3932 139
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14014: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
141
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14215. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
143 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
144 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
145 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
146
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14716. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
148 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
149 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
150
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152Version 4.90
153------------
154
155 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
156 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
157
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158 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
159 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
160
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161 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
162 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
163 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
164 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
165 another process. Logging is also affected.
166
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167 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
168
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169 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
170 further recipients and for delivery.
171
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172 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
173 supported.
174
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175 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
176 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
177 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
178 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
179 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
180
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181 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
182 restrict who can use various introspection options.
183
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184 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
185 appendfile transport.
186
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18710. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
188 SMTP commands.
189
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19011. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
191 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
571b2715 192
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19312. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
194 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
4a5cbaff 195 is opened with a TFO cookie.
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9e70917d 19713. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
7c6ec81b 198 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
970424a5 199 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
484cc1a9 200 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
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201 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
202 the data ACL.
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20414. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
205 configuration file.
206
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20715. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
208 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
209
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21016. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
211 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
212
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21317. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
214
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216Version 4.89
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218
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219 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
220
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221 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
222 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
12e9bb25 223 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
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226Version 4.88
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228
fc16abb4 229 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
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230 interpreter in taint mode.
231
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232 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
233
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234 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
235 modifier.
236
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237 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
238 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
239 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
240
f59aaaaa 241 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
55e70e76 242 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
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243 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
244 visibility.
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246 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
247
44bc8f0c 248 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
7e3ce68e 249 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
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250 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
251 for control.
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253 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
254
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255 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
256
fbbd45ff 25710. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
4945f557 258 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
383832ef 259 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
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260 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
261 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
fbbd45ff 262
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26311. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
264
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26512. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
266 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
267 message.
268
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26913. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
270
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27114. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
272 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
273
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27415. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
275 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
276 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
277 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
278 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
279 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
280 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
f59aaaaa 281 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
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28316. A new syslog_pid option to suppress PID duplication in syslog lines.
284
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286Version 4.87
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288
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289 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
290 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
291
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292 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
293 malware= or verify= callout.
294
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295 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
296
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297 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
298 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
299 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
300 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
301 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
302 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
303
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304 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
305
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306 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
307
9aa35e9c 308 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
59b87190 309 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
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62b7cd08 311 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
f59aaaaa 312 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
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313 limits.
314
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315 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
316
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320
321 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
322
323 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
324 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
325
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326 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
327
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328 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
329
330 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
331
f59aaaaa 332 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
cc00f4af 333
7eb6c37c 334 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
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335 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
336
337 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
338 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
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340 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
341 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
342
b3ef41c9 34310. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
846430d9 344
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34511. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
346
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34712. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
348
10ca4f1c 34913. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
65463bc9 350 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
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35214. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
353 same level as DNSSEC.
354
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358
359 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
f59aaaaa 360 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
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361 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
362 domain of the sender.
363
364 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
365 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
366 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
367 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
368 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
369 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
370
371 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
372 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
373 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
374
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376Version 4.84
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378
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380Version 4.83
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383 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
384 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
385 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
386 proxy that is connecting to it.
387
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388 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
389 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
390 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
391 detect and reject if those characters are present.
392
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393 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
394 codepoints with valid ones.
395
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396 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
397 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
007a2dee 398 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
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399 be included in the command line.
400
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401 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
402 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
403 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
404 verification cancels the encryption.
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406 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
407 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
408 default list.
409
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410 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
411 file when searching the queue.
412
f2de3a33 413 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
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415 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
416
9d1c15ef 41710. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
6a8a60e0 418 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
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419 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
420 for them added.
9d1c15ef 421
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42211. PRDR is now supported dy default.
423
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42412. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
425
42613. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
4c04137d 427 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
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428 DSN features per RFC 3461.
429
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433
434 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
435 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
436 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
437 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
438 SIEVE capability line.
439
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440 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
441 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
442 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
443 followed by a newline, and no other text.
444
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445 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
446 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
447 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
448 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
449 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
450 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
451 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
452 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
453
454 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
455
1f4a55da 456 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
0fbd9bff 457 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
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458 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
459 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
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460 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
461 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
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463 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
464
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465 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
466 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
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467 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
468
469 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
470 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
471
472 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
473 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
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475 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
476 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
477 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
478 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
479 ignored.
480
976b7e9f 481 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
4c04137d 482 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
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483 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
484 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
485 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
486 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
487 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
4c04137d 488 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
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489 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
490 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
491 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
492 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
493 system not your own.
494
4c04137d 495 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
042eb971 496 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
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497 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
498 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
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500 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
501 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
502 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
503
504 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
505 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
506 are present for now but deprecated.
507
fcc8e047 508 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
976b7e9f 509
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510 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
511 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
98a90c36 512
2519e60d 513 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
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514 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
515 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
516 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
517 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
518 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
519 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
520 unless this new option is set.
521
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523 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
524 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
525 Local/Makefile:
526
527 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
528
3e8abda0 52910. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
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530 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
531 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
532 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
533 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
534 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
535 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
536 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
537 return results in a forced fail.
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53911. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
540 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
541
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543 handled by routers/transports.
544
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54513. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
546 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
547
362145b5 54814. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
85ffcba6 549 modifier (but not yet added to message).
362145b5 550
bd0fff00 55115. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
3c0a92dc 552
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55316. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
554
181d9bf8 55517. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
f59aaaaa 556 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
2a47f028 557 require privilege whereas -d does.
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55918. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
560 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
561
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56219. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
563 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
564 wrappers, for instance.
565
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56620. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
567 connections apply.
568
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570 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
571 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
572 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
573 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
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574 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
575 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
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57722. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
578 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
579 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
580
4c04137d 58123. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
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582 UDP host and port.
583
58424. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
585 characters in the string to \xNN form.
586
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58725. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
588 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
589
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591
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595
596 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
597 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
598 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
599 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
3b4f55a3 600 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
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602 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
603 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
604 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
605 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
606
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607 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
608 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
609 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
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610 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
611 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
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613 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
614 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
615
f1e05cc7 616 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
20aa9dbd 617
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618 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
619 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
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620 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
621 used by Cyrus SASL.
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623 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
624
625 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
626 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
627 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
628 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
629 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
630 compatibility at the cost of session security.
631
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632 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
633 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
634 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
635 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
636 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
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638 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
639 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
640
641 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
642 for Exim as a server.
643
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644 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
645 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
646 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
647 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
648 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
649
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650 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
651 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
652 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
653 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
654 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
655
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657 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
658
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660 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
661 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
662 string, documentation for which is at:
42bfef1e 663 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
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665 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
666
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667 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
668 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
669
53947857 67012. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
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671 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
672 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
673 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
674 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
675
676 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
677
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67813. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
679 identically to TXT record lookups.
680
2605c55b 68114. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
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68315. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
684 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
685 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
686
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68716. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
688 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
689 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
690 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
691 primes.
692
3ecab157 69317. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
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694 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
695 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
696
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699------------
700
701 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
702 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
703
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704 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
705 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
706
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707 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
708 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
709
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710 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
711 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
712 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
713
714 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
715 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
716 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
717 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
718
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721------------
722
723 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
724 or off in the resolver library.
725
726
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727Version 4.75
728------------
729
730 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
731 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
732 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
733 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
734 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
735
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736 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
737 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
738 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
739
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740 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
741 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
742
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743 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
744 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
745 including any header additions or removals from transport.
746
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747 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
748 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
749
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752------------
753
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754 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
755 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
756 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
757 on content supplied by the attacker.
758
759 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
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760 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
761 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
762 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
763 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
764
765
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767------------
768
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769 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
770 items below carefully
771
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772 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
773 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
774 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
775 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
776 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
777 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
778 frivolously.
779
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780 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
781 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
782 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
43236f35 783 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
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784 be able to take effect.
785
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786 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
787 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
788 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
789 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
790
791 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
792 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
793 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
794 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
795
796 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
797
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799
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800 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
801 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
802 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
803 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
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804 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
805 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
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807 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
808 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
809
810 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
811 -> 4.2.0.192
812 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
813 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
814
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815 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
816 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
817 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
818 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
819 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
820 don't all make sense in all contexts:
821
822 control = debug
823 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
824 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
825 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
826
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827 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
828 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
829 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
830 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
831 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
832 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
833 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
834 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
835 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
836 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
837 the safeties off.
838
06a6f4ed 839 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
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840 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
841 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
842 do evaluate true.
843 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
844
06a6f4ed 845 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
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848 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
849 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
850 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
851 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
852 build option.
853
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85411. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
855 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
856
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858 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
90b6341f 859 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
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861 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
862 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
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86413. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
865 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
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866 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
867 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
868 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
43236f35 869 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
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871 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
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875------------
876
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877 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
878 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
879
880 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
881
882 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
883 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
884 duplicates).
885
886 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
887 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
888 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
889 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
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890 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
891 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
892 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
893 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
894 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
895 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
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897 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
898 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
899
900 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
901 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
8f425947 902 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
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65a7d8c3 907
7c6d71af 908 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
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909 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
910 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
911 for details on conditionally disabling)
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913 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
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7d9f747b 916 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
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917 and{} expansion operator).
918
919 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
920 at delivery time.
921
922 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
923 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
924
925 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
926 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
927 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
928
929 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
930 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
931 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
932 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
933
934 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
935 OpenSSL.
936
937 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
938
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941------------
942
943 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
944
945
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947------------
948
949 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
950 local_scan API.
951
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953 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
954 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
955 cases, for example:
956
957 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
958
959 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
960 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
961 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
962 like this:
963
964 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
965
966 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
967 192.168.6.7 (for example).
968
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970 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
971 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
972 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
973
974 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
975
976 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
977 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
978 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
979 $tls_peerdn.
980
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981 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
982 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
983 only by an admin user.
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986 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
987 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
988 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
989 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
990
991 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
992 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
993
994 Example:
995
996 acl_check_connect:
997 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
998 # we update it below
999 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1000 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1001 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1002
1003 [... some other logic and tests...]
1004
1005 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1006 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1007 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1008 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1009
1010 accept
1011
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1013 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1014 line termination character(s).
1015
aded2255 1016 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
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1017 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1018 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1019
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1020 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1021 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1022 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1023 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1024
4f054c63 1025 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
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1026 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1027 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1028 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1029 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1030
1031 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1032 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1033 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1034
1035 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1036 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1037 connection. The possible values are:
1038
1039 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1040 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1041 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1042 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1043 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1044 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1045 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1046 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1047 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1048 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1049
1050 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1051 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1052 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1053 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1054 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1055 used.
1056
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1058 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1059 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1060
1061 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1062 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1063 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1064
1065 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1066
1067 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1068 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1069 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1070
1071 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1072 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1073 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1074
1075 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1076
1077 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1078
1079 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1080
1081 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1082
1083 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1084
1085 you can still update the master by
1086
1087 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1088
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1090 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1091 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1092 spaces.
1093
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1096------------
1097
1098 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1099 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1100 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
4aa45c31 1101 MAIL command.
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431b7361 1103 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
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1104 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1105 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
93655c46 1106 rather than the default "any" matching.
431b7361 1107
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1108 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1109 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1110 other parameters to be varied.
431b7361 1111
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1112 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1113 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
431b7361 1114
4aa45c31 1115 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
431b7361 1116
4aa45c31 1117 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
cf8b11a5 1118
41c7c167 1119 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
4aa45c31 1120 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
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1122 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
4aa45c31 1123 after the connection to the server has been made.
41c7c167 1124
9c57cbc0 1125 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
4aa45c31 1126 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
9c57cbc0 1127
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112810. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1129 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1130 time and date.
1131
047bdd8c 113211. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
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1133 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1134 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1135 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
4aa45c31 1136 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
047bdd8c 1137
0ce9abe6 113812. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
4aa45c31 1139 called forany and forall.
0ce9abe6 1140
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114113. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1142 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1143 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
0e22dfd1 1144
4aa45c31 114514. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
c51b8e75 1146
75b1493f 114715. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
4aa45c31 1148 that makes it case-sensitive.
29f89cad 1149
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115016. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1151 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1152 items, typically addresses.
29f89cad 1153
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115417. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1155 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1156 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
4aa45c31 1157 can be used.
c3611384 1158
ec95d1a6 115918. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
4aa45c31 1160 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
ec95d1a6 1161
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116219. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1163 condition.
1164
c456d9bb 116520. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
4aa45c31 1166 "ignore".
c456d9bb 1167
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1169Version 4.66
1170------------
1171
1172No new features were added to 4.66.
1173
1174
1175Version 4.65
1176------------
1177
1178No new features were added to 4.65.
1179
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1181Version 4.64
1182------------
1183
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1184 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1185 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1186 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
883335dc 1187 an underscore.
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1189 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
883335dc 1190 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
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1192 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1193 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
883335dc 1194 number of authentication methods.
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1196 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1197 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1198 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1199
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1200 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1201 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1202 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1203 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
af561417 1204
883335dc 1205 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
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1206
1207 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1208 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1209 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
883335dc 1210 before doing the expansions.
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1212 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
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1213 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1214 message.
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1216 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1217 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
883335dc 1218 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
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1219
122010. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
883335dc 1221 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
48c7f9e2 1222
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122311. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1224 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1225 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1226 available for compatibility.)
1227
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122812. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1229 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
4e88a19f 1230
495ae4b0 1231
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1233------------
1234
12351. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
38a0a95f 1236 router.
4608d683 1237
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12382. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1239 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
38a0a95f 1240 read.
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12423. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1243 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
38a0a95f 1244 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
a5bd321b 1245
6ec97b1b 12464. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
38a0a95f 1247 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
6ec97b1b 1248
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12495. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
1250 --reverse
1251 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1252 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1253 --random
1254 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1255 --size
1256 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1257 of their sizes.
1258 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1259 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1260 each messages value for each variable.
1261 --not
1262 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1263 same criteria without --not).
1264
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1267------------
1268
12691. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1270 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1271 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1272 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1273 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1274 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1275
1276 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1277
1278 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1279 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1280 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1281 domain socket.
1282
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12832. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1284 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1285 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1286
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12873. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1288 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1289 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1290 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1291
1cce3af8 1292
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1293Version 4.61
1294------------
1295
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1296The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1297the 4.60 release are:
1298
1299. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1300
1301. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1302
1303. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1304 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1305 for other things in complicated expansions.
1306
843a41e8 1307. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
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1309. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1310 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1311
1312. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1313
1314. More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1315
1316There are a number of other additions too.
71fafd95 1317
7e66e54d 1318
425ae40f 1319Version 4.60
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1321
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1322The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1323the 4.50 release are:
1a46a8c5 1324
425ae40f 1325. Support for SQLite.
1a46a8c5 1326
425ae40f 1327. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1a46a8c5 1328
425ae40f 1329. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1a46a8c5 1330
425ae40f 1331. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1a46a8c5 1332
425ae40f 1333. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
b5aea5e1 1334
425ae40f 1335. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
b5aea5e1 1336
425ae40f 1337. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
35edf2ff 1338
425ae40f 1339There are many more minor changes.
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