DSCP: take numeric values too.
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1New Features in Exim
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3
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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
6test from the snapshots or the CVS before the documentation is updated. Once
7the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
8
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9Version 4.81
10------------
11
12 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
13 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
14 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
15 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
16 SIEVE capability line.
17
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18 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
19 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
20 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
21 followed by a newline, and no other text.
22
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23 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
24 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
25 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
26 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
27 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
28 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
29 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
30 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
31
32 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
33
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34 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
35 dns_use_dnssec; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
36 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
37 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
38 can now detect this.
39
40 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
41
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42 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
43 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
44 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header. Supported values depend
45 upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the ones Exim knows of.
2a1b36b3 46 You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
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b1770b6e 49Version 4.80
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50------------
51
52 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
53 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
54 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
55 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
3b4f55a3 56 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
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58 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
59 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
60 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
61 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
62
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63 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
64 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
65 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
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66 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
67 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
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69 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
70 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
71
f1e05cc7 72 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
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74 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
75 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
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76 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
77 used by Cyrus SASL.
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79 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
80
81 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
82 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
83 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
84 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
85 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
86 compatibility at the cost of session security.
87
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88 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
89 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
90 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
91 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
92 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
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93
94 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
95 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
96
97 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
98 for Exim as a server.
99
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100 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
101 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
102 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
103 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
104 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
105
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106 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
107 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
108 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
109 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
110 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
111
eae0036b 11210. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
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113 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
114
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11511. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
116 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
117 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
118 string, documentation for which is at:
119 http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
120
121 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
122
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123 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
124 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
125
53947857 12612. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
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127 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
128 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
129 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
130 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
131
132 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
133
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13413. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
135 identically to TXT record lookups.
136
2605c55b 13714. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
c1e794ba 138
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13915. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
140 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
141 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
142
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14316. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
144 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
145 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
146 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
147 primes.
148
3ecab157 14917. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
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150 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
151 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
152
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154Version 4.77
155------------
156
157 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
158 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
159
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160 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
161 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
162
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163 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
164 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
165
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166 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
167 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
168 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
169
170 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
171 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
172 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
173 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
174
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176Version 4.76
177------------
178
179 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
180 or off in the resolver library.
181
182
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183Version 4.75
184------------
185
186 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
187 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
188 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
189 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
190 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
191
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192 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
193 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
194 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
195
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196 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
197 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
198
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199 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
200 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
201 including any header additions or removals from transport.
202
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203 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
204 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
205
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207Version 4.74
208------------
209
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210 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
211 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
212 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
213 on content supplied by the attacker.
214
215 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
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216 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
217 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
218 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
219 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
220
221
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222Version 4.73
223------------
224
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225 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
226 items below carefully
227
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228 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
229 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
230 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
231 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
232 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
233 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
234 frivolously.
235
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236 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
237 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
238 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
43236f35 239 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
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240 be able to take effect.
241
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242 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
243 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
244 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
245 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
246
247 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
248 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
249 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
250 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
251
252 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
253
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254 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
255
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256 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
257 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
258 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
259 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
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260 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
261 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
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263 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
264 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
265
266 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
267 -> 4.2.0.192
268 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
269 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
270
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271 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
272 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
273 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
274 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
275 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
276 don't all make sense in all contexts:
277
278 control = debug
279 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
280 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
281 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
282
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283 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
284 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
285 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
286 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
287 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
288 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
289 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
290 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
291 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
292 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
293 the safeties off.
294
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295 8. There is a new expansion operator, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
296 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
297 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
298 do evaluate true.
299 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
300
301 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests,
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30310. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
304 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
305 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
306 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
307 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
308 build option.
309
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31011. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
311 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
312
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31312. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
314 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
90b6341f 315 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
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316 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
317 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
318 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
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319
32013. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
321 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
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322 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
323 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
324 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
43236f35 325 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
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326 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
327 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
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330Version 4.72
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332
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333 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
334 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
335
336 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
337
338 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
339 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
340 duplicates).
341
342 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
343 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
344 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
345 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
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346 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
347 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
348 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
349 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
350 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
351 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
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353 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
354 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
355
356 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
357 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
8f425947 358 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
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361Version 4.70 / 4.71
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7c6d71af 364 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
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365 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
366 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
367 for details on conditionally disabling)
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369 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
65a7d8c3 370
f33253cc 371 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
7d9f747b 372 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
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373 and{} expansion operator).
374
375 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
376 at delivery time.
377
378 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
379 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
380
381 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
382 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
383 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
384
385 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
386 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
387 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
388 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
389
390 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
391 OpenSSL.
392
393 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
394
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396Version 4.69
397------------
398
399 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
400
401
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402Version 4.68
403------------
404
405 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
406 local_scan API.
407
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408 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
409 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
410 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
411 cases, for example:
412
413 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
414
415 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
416 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
417 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
418 like this:
419
420 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
421
422 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
423 192.168.6.7 (for example).
424
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425 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
426 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
427 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
428 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
429
430 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
431
432 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
433 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
434 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
435 $tls_peerdn.
436
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437 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
438 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
439 only by an admin user.
440
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441 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
442 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
443 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
444 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
445 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
446
447 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
448 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
449
450 Example:
451
452 acl_check_connect:
453 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
454 # we update it below
455 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
456 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
457 (max $sender_rate_limit)
458
459 [... some other logic and tests...]
460
461 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
462 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
463 (max $sender_rate_limit)
464 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
465
466 accept
467
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468 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
469 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
470 line termination character(s).
471
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472 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analagous to
473 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
474 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
475
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476 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
477 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
478 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
479 message is queued, the remainder are also.
480
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482 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
483 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
484 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
485 log files) that make the situation even worse.
486
487 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
488 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
489 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
490
491 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
492 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
493 connection. The possible values are:
494
495 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
496 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
497 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
498 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
499 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
500 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
501 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
502 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
503 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
504 tls-failed TLS failed to start
505
506 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
507 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
508 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
509 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
510 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
511 used.
512
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514 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
515 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
516
517 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
518 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
519 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
520
521 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
522
523 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
524 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
525 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
526
527 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
528 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
529 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
530
531 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
532
533 In an updating lookup, you could then write
534
535 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
536
537 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
538
539 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
540
541 you can still update the master by
542
543 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
544
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546 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
547 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
548 spaces.
549
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552------------
553
554 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
555 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
556 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
4aa45c31 557 MAIL command.
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431b7361 559 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
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561 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
93655c46 562 rather than the default "any" matching.
431b7361 563
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565 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
566 other parameters to be varied.
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569 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
431b7361 570
4aa45c31 571 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
431b7361 572
4aa45c31 573 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
cf8b11a5 574
41c7c167 575 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
4aa45c31 576 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
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578 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
4aa45c31 579 after the connection to the server has been made.
41c7c167 580
9c57cbc0 581 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
4aa45c31 582 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
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585 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
586 time and date.
587
047bdd8c 58811. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
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589 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
590 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
591 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
4aa45c31 592 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
047bdd8c 593
0ce9abe6 59412. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
4aa45c31 595 called forany and forall.
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598 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
599 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
0e22dfd1 600
4aa45c31 60114. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
c51b8e75 602
75b1493f 60315. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
4aa45c31 604 that makes it case-sensitive.
29f89cad 605
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607 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
608 items, typically addresses.
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611 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
612 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
4aa45c31 613 can be used.
c3611384 614
ec95d1a6 61518. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
4aa45c31 616 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
ec95d1a6 617
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619 condition.
620
c456d9bb 62120. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
4aa45c31 622 "ignore".
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625Version 4.66
626------------
627
628No new features were added to 4.66.
629
630
631Version 4.65
632------------
633
634No new features were added to 4.65.
635
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637Version 4.64
638------------
639
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641 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
642 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
883335dc 643 an underscore.
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645 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
883335dc 646 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
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648 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
649 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
883335dc 650 number of authentication methods.
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652 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
653 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
654 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
655
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657 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
658 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
659 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
af561417 660
883335dc 661 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
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663 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
664 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
665 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
883335dc 666 before doing the expansions.
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668 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
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670 message.
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672 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
673 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
883335dc 674 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
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67610. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
883335dc 677 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
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680 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
681 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
682 available for compatibility.)
683
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685 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
4e88a19f 686
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689------------
690
6911. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
38a0a95f 692 router.
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6942. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
695 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
38a0a95f 696 read.
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699 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
38a0a95f 700 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
a5bd321b 701
6ec97b1b 7024. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
38a0a95f 703 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
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706 --reverse
707 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
708 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
709 --random
710 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
711 --size
712 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
713 of their sizes.
714 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
715 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
716 each messages value for each variable.
717 --not
718 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
719 same criteria without --not).
720
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724
7251. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
726 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
727 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
728 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
729 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
730 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
731
732 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
733
734 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
735 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
736 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
737 domain socket.
738
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740 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
741 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
742
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744 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
745 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
746 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
747
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750------------
751
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753the 4.60 release are:
754
755. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
756
757. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
758
759. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
760 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
761 for other things in complicated expansions.
762
843a41e8 763. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
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765. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
766 resources used in pipe deliveries.
767
768. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
769
770. More errors are detectable in retry rules.
771
772There are a number of other additions too.
71fafd95 773
7e66e54d 774
425ae40f 775Version 4.60
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777
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779the 4.50 release are:
1a46a8c5 780
425ae40f 781. Support for SQLite.
1a46a8c5 782
425ae40f 783. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1a46a8c5 784
425ae40f 785. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1a46a8c5 786
425ae40f 787. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1a46a8c5 788
425ae40f 789. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
b5aea5e1 790
425ae40f 791. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
b5aea5e1 792
425ae40f 793. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
35edf2ff 794
425ae40f 795There are many more minor changes.
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