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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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11
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.
19
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20 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the
21 plaintext driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and
22 SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS methods.
14a806d6 23
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24 5. Server-side support in the gsasl authenticator for encrypted passwords, as
25 an alternate for the existing plaintext.
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27 6. Variable $local_part_verified, set by the router check_local_part condition
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28 with untainted data.
29
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30 7. Named-list definitions can now be prefixed "hide" so that "-bP" commands do
31 not output the content. Previously this could only be done on options.
32
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33 8. As an exerimental feature, the dovecot authenticatino driver supports inet
34 sockets. Previously it was unix-domain sockets only.
35
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36 9. The ACL control "queue_only" can also be spelled "queue", and now takes an
37 option "first_pass_route" to do the same as a "-odqs" on the command line.
04403ab0 38
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39 9. Items specified for the router and transport headers_remove option can use
40 a trailing asterisk to specify globbing.
41
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4210. New $queue_size variable.
43
4411. New variables $local_part_{pre,suf}fix_v.
6656a75a 45
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4612. New main option "sqlite_dbfile", for use in preference to prefixing the
47 lookup string. The older method fails when tainted variables are used
48 in the lookup, as the filename becomes tainted. The new method keeps the
49 filename separate.
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50
5113. Options on the dsearch lookup, to return the full path and to filter
4aaeadde 52 filetypes for matching.
298849d8 53
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5414. Options on pgsql and mysql lookups, to specify server separate from the
55 lookup string.
56
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5715. Expansion item ${listquote {<char} {<item>}}.
58
5916. An option for the ${readsocket {}{}{}} expansion to make the result data
60 cacheable.
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64Version 4.93
65------------
66
b53c265b 67 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
40ed89b3 68
7f69e814 69 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
40ed89b3 70
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71 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
72 for ciphersuites.
73
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74 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
75
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76 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
77
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78 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
79 file.
80
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81 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
82 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
83
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84 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
85
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86 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
87 and transports.
88
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8910. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
90
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9111. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
92
86ede124 9312. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
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9513. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
96
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9714: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
98
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9915: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
100 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
101 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
102 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
103 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
104 only, and exim must be run as root).
105
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10616: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
107
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10817. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
109
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111Version 4.92
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113
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114 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
115 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
116 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
117 facilities hard to parse.
118
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119 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
120 obvious thing.
121
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122 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
123 features. See the experimental.spec file.
8ac90765 124
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125 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
126
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127 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
128
8442641e 129 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
12263aa8 130
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131 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
132
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133 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
134
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135 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
136
d4fd1b83 137Version 4.91
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139
140 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
141 version 3.5.6 or later.
142
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143 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
144 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
405074ad 145 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
899b8bbc 146
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147 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
148
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149 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
150 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
151
306c6c77 152 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
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153 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
154 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
155 a "dkim" log_selector.
156
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157 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
158
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159 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
160 routing rules in the manualroute router.
161
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162 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
163 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
164
286b9d5f 165 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
cb78c1a8 166 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
286b9d5f 167
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16810. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
169 version dependent.
170
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17111. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
172
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17312. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
174 Authentication-Results: header.
175
617d3932 17613. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
ddd16464 177 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
617d3932 178
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17914: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
180
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18115. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
182 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
183 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
184 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
185
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18616. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
187 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
188 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
189
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191Version 4.90
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193
194 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
195 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
196
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197 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
198 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
199
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200 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
201 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
202 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
203 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
204 another process. Logging is also affected.
205
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206 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
207
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208 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
209 further recipients and for delivery.
210
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211 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
212 supported.
213
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214 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
215 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
216 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
217 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
218 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
219
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220 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
221 restrict who can use various introspection options.
222
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223 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
224 appendfile transport.
225
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22610. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
227 SMTP commands.
228
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22911. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
230 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
571b2715 231
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23212. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
233 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
4a5cbaff 234 is opened with a TFO cookie.
a2673768 235
9e70917d 23613. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
7c6ec81b 237 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
970424a5 238 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
484cc1a9 239 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
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240 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
241 the data ACL.
d73e45df 242
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24314. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
244 configuration file.
245
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24615. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
247 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
248
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24916. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
250 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
251
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25217. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
253
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255Version 4.89
256------------
257
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258 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
259
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260 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
261 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
12e9bb25 262 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
64073d9c 263
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265Version 4.88
266------------
267
fc16abb4 268 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
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269 interpreter in taint mode.
270
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271 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
272
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273 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
274 modifier.
275
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276 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
277 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
278 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
279
f59aaaaa 280 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
55e70e76 281 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
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282 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
283 visibility.
28b3821f 284
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285 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
286
44bc8f0c 287 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
7e3ce68e 288 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
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289 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
290 for control.
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292 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
293
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294 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
295
fbbd45ff 29610. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
4945f557 297 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
383832ef 298 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
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299 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
300 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
fbbd45ff 301
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30211. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
303
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30412. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
305 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
306 message.
307
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30813. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
309
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311 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
312
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31315. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
314 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
315 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
316 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
317 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
318 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
319 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
f59aaaaa 320 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
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323
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325Version 4.87
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327
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328 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
329 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
330
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331 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
332 malware= or verify= callout.
333
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334 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
335
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336 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
337 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
338 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
339 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
340 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
341 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
342
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343 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
344
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345 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
346
9aa35e9c 347 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
59b87190 348 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
9aa35e9c 349
62b7cd08 350 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
f59aaaaa 351 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
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352 limits.
353
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354 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
355
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357Version 4.86
358------------
359
360 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
361
362 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
363 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
364
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365 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
366
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367 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
368
369 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
370
f59aaaaa 371 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
cc00f4af 372
7eb6c37c 373 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
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374 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
375
376 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
377 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
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379 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
380 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
381
b3ef41c9 38210. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
846430d9 383
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38411. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
385
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38612. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
387
10ca4f1c 38813. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
65463bc9 389 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
10ca4f1c 390
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39114. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
392 same level as DNSSEC.
393
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396
397 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
f59aaaaa 398 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
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399 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
400 domain of the sender.
401
402 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
403 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
404 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
405 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
406 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
407 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
408
409 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
410 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
411 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
412
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416
417
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418Version 4.83
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420
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421 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
422 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
423 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
424 proxy that is connecting to it.
425
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426 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
427 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
428 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
429 detect and reject if those characters are present.
430
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431 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
432 codepoints with valid ones.
433
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434 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
435 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
007a2dee 436 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
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437 be included in the command line.
438
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439 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
440 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
441 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
442 verification cancels the encryption.
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444 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
445 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
446 default list.
447
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448 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
449 file when searching the queue.
450
f2de3a33 451 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
2b4a568d 452
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453 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
454
9d1c15ef 45510. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
6a8a60e0 456 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
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457 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
458 for them added.
9d1c15ef 459
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46011. PRDR is now supported dy default.
461
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46212. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
463
46413. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
4c04137d 465 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
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466 DSN features per RFC 3461.
467
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2c422e6f 469Version 4.82
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471
472 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
473 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
474 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
475 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
476 SIEVE capability line.
477
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478 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
479 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
480 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
481 followed by a newline, and no other text.
482
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483 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
484 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
485 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
486 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
487 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
488 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
489 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
490 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
491
492 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
493
1f4a55da 494 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
0fbd9bff 495 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
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496 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
497 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
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498 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
499 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
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501 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
502
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503 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
504 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
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505 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
506
507 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
508 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
509
510 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
511 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
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514 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
515 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
516 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
517 ignored.
518
976b7e9f 519 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
4c04137d 520 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
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521 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
522 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
523 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
524 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
525 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
4c04137d 526 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
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527 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
528 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
529 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
530 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
531 system not your own.
532
4c04137d 533 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
042eb971 534 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
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535 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
536 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
06a6f4ed 537
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538 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
539 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
540 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
541
542 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
543 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
544 are present for now but deprecated.
545
fcc8e047 546 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
976b7e9f 547
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548 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
549 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
98a90c36 550
2519e60d 551 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
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552 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
553 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
554 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
555 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
556 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
557 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
558 unless this new option is set.
559
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561 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
562 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
563 Local/Makefile:
564
565 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
566
3e8abda0 56710. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
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568 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
569 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
570 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
571 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
572 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
573 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
574 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
575 return results in a forced fail.
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57711. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
578 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
579
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58012. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
581 handled by routers/transports.
582
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58313. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
584 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
585
362145b5 58614. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
85ffcba6 587 modifier (but not yet added to message).
362145b5 588
bd0fff00 58915. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
3c0a92dc 590
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59116. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
592
181d9bf8 59317. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
f59aaaaa 594 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
2a47f028 595 require privilege whereas -d does.
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59718. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
598 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
599
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601 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
602 wrappers, for instance.
603
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60420. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
605 connections apply.
606
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60721. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
608 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
609 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
610 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
611 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
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613 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
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61522. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
616 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
617 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
618
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620 UDP host and port.
621
62224. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
623 characters in the string to \xNN form.
624
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62525. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
626 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
627
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629
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633
634 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
635 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
636 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
637 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
3b4f55a3 638 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
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640 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
641 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
642 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
643 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
644
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645 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
646 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
647 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
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648 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
649 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
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651 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
652 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
653
f1e05cc7 654 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
20aa9dbd 655
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656 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
657 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
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658 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
659 used by Cyrus SASL.
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661 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
662
663 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
664 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
665 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
666 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
667 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
668 compatibility at the cost of session security.
669
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670 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
671 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
672 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
673 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
674 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
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676 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
677 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
678
679 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
680 for Exim as a server.
681
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682 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
683 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
684 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
685 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
686 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
687
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688 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
689 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
690 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
691 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
692 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
693
eae0036b 69410. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
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695 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
696
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69711. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
698 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
699 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
700 string, documentation for which is at:
42bfef1e 701 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
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703 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
704
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705 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
706 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
707
53947857 70812. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
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709 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
710 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
711 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
712 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
713
714 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
715
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71613. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
717 identically to TXT record lookups.
718
2605c55b 71914. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
c1e794ba 720
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72115. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
722 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
723 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
724
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72516. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
726 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
727 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
728 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
729 primes.
730
3ecab157 73117. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
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732 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
733 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
734
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737------------
738
739 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
740 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
741
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742 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
743 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
744
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745 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
746 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
747
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748 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
749 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
750 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
751
752 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
753 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
754 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
755 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
756
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759------------
760
761 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
762 or off in the resolver library.
763
764
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766------------
767
768 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
769 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
770 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
771 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
772 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
773
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774 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
775 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
776 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
777
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778 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
779 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
780
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781 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
782 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
783 including any header additions or removals from transport.
784
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785 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
786 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
787
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790------------
791
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792 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
793 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
794 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
795 on content supplied by the attacker.
796
797 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
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798 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
799 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
800 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
801 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
802
803
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805------------
806
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807 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
808 items below carefully
809
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810 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
811 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
812 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
813 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
814 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
815 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
816 frivolously.
817
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818 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
819 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
820 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
43236f35 821 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
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822 be able to take effect.
823
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824 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
825 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
826 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
827 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
828
829 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
830 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
831 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
832 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
833
834 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
835
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836 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
837
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838 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
839 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
840 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
841 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
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842 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
843 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
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845 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
846 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
847
848 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
849 -> 4.2.0.192
850 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
851 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
852
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853 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
854 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
855 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
856 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
857 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
858 don't all make sense in all contexts:
859
860 control = debug
861 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
862 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
863 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
864
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865 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
866 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
867 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
868 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
869 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
870 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
871 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
872 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
873 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
874 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
875 the safeties off.
876
06a6f4ed 877 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
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878 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
879 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
880 do evaluate true.
881 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
882
06a6f4ed 883 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
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886 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
887 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
888 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
889 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
890 build option.
891
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893 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
894
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896 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
90b6341f 897 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
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899 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
900 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
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90213. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
903 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
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905 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
906 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
43236f35 907 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
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909 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
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914
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915 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
916 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
917
918 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
919
920 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
921 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
922 duplicates).
923
924 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
925 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
926 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
927 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
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928 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
929 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
930 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
931 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
932 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
933 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
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935 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
936 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
937
938 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
939 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
8f425947 940 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
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7c6d71af 946 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
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947 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
948 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
949 for details on conditionally disabling)
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950
951 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
65a7d8c3 952
f33253cc 953 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
7d9f747b 954 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
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955 and{} expansion operator).
956
957 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
958 at delivery time.
959
960 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
961 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
962
963 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
964 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
965 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
966
967 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
968 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
969 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
970 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
971
972 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
973 OpenSSL.
974
975 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
976
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978Version 4.69
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980
981 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
982
983
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984Version 4.68
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986
987 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
988 local_scan API.
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990 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
991 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
992 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
993 cases, for example:
994
995 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
996
997 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
998 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
999 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
1000 like this:
1001
1002 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
1003
1004 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
1005 192.168.6.7 (for example).
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1007 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
1008 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
1009 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
1010 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
1011
1012 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
1013
1014 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
1015 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
1016 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
1017 $tls_peerdn.
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1019 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
1020 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
1021 only by an admin user.
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1023 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
1024 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
1025 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
1026 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
1027 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
1028
1029 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
1030 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
1031
1032 Example:
1033
1034 acl_check_connect:
1035 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1036 # we update it below
1037 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1038 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1039 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1040
1041 [... some other logic and tests...]
1042
1043 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1044 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1045 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1046 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1047
1048 accept
1049
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1050 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1051 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1052 line termination character(s).
1053
aded2255 1054 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
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1055 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1056 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
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1058 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1059 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1060 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1061 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1062
4f054c63 1063 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
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1064 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1065 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1066 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1067 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1068
1069 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1070 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1071 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1072
1073 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1074 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1075 connection. The possible values are:
1076
1077 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1078 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1079 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1080 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1081 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1082 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1083 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1084 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1085 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1086 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1087
1088 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1089 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1090 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1091 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1092 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1093 used.
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109510. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
1096 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1097 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1098
1099 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1100 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1101 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1102
1103 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1104
1105 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1106 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1107 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1108
1109 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1110 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1111 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1112
1113 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1114
1115 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1116
1117 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1118
1119 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1120
1121 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1122
1123 you can still update the master by
1124
1125 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1126
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112711. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
1128 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1129 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1130 spaces.
1131
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1133Version 4.67
1134------------
1135
1136 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1137 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1138 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
4aa45c31 1139 MAIL command.
b4ed4da0 1140
431b7361 1141 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
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1142 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1143 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
93655c46 1144 rather than the default "any" matching.
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1146 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1147 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1148 other parameters to be varied.
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1150 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1151 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
431b7361 1152
4aa45c31 1153 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
431b7361 1154
4aa45c31 1155 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
cf8b11a5 1156
41c7c167 1157 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
4aa45c31 1158 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
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1159
1160 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
4aa45c31 1161 after the connection to the server has been made.
41c7c167 1162
9c57cbc0 1163 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
4aa45c31 1164 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
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116610. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1167 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1168 time and date.
1169
047bdd8c 117011. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
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1171 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1172 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1173 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
4aa45c31 1174 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
047bdd8c 1175
0ce9abe6 117612. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
4aa45c31 1177 called forany and forall.
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117913. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1180 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1181 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
0e22dfd1 1182
4aa45c31 118314. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
c51b8e75 1184
75b1493f 118515. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
4aa45c31 1186 that makes it case-sensitive.
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118816. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1189 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1190 items, typically addresses.
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119217. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1193 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1194 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
4aa45c31 1195 can be used.
c3611384 1196
ec95d1a6 119718. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
4aa45c31 1198 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
ec95d1a6 1199
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120019. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1201 condition.
1202
c456d9bb 120320. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
4aa45c31 1204 "ignore".
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1207Version 4.66
1208------------
1209
1210No new features were added to 4.66.
1211
1212
1213Version 4.65
1214------------
1215
1216No new features were added to 4.65.
1217
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1219Version 4.64
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1221
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1222 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1223 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1224 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
883335dc 1225 an underscore.
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1227 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
883335dc 1228 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
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1230 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1231 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
883335dc 1232 number of authentication methods.
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1234 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1235 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1236 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1237
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1238 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1239 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1240 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1241 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
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883335dc 1243 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
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1244
1245 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1246 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1247 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
883335dc 1248 before doing the expansions.
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1250 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
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1251 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1252 message.
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1254 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1255 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
883335dc 1256 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
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125810. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
883335dc 1259 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
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126111. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1262 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1263 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1264 available for compatibility.)
1265
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126612. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1267 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
4e88a19f 1268
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1270Version 4.63
1271------------
1272
12731. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
38a0a95f 1274 router.
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12762. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1277 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
38a0a95f 1278 read.
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12803. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1281 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
38a0a95f 1282 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
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6ec97b1b 12844. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
38a0a95f 1285 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
6ec97b1b 1286
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12875. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
1288 --reverse
1289 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1290 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1291 --random
1292 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1293 --size
1294 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1295 of their sizes.
1296 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1297 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1298 each messages value for each variable.
1299 --not
1300 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1301 same criteria without --not).
1302
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1304Version 4.62
1305------------
1306
13071. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1308 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1309 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1310 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1311 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1312 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1313
1314 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1315
1316 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1317 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1318 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1319 domain socket.
1320
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13212. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1322 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1323 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1324
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13253. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1326 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1327 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1328 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1329
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1331Version 4.61
1332------------
1333
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1334The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1335the 4.60 release are:
1336
1337. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1338
1339. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1340
1341. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1342 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1343 for other things in complicated expansions.
1344
843a41e8 1345. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
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1347. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1348 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1349
1350. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1351
1352. More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1353
1354There are a number of other additions too.
71fafd95 1355
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425ae40f 1357Version 4.60
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1359
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1360The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1361the 4.50 release are:
1a46a8c5 1362
425ae40f 1363. Support for SQLite.
1a46a8c5 1364
425ae40f 1365. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1a46a8c5 1366
425ae40f 1367. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1a46a8c5 1368
425ae40f 1369. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1a46a8c5 1370
425ae40f 1371. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
b5aea5e1 1372
425ae40f 1373. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
b5aea5e1 1374
425ae40f 1375. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
35edf2ff 1376
425ae40f 1377There are many more minor changes.
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