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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
33f316f2 6test from the snapshots or the Git before the documentation is updated. Once
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7the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
8
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9Version 4.94
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12 1. EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
13 file.
14
1d717e1c 15 2. Channel-binding for authenticators is now supported under OpenSSL.
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16 Previously it was GnuTLS-only.
17
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18 3. A msg:defer event.
19
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20 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the plaintext
21 driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS
22 methods.
23
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24 5. Server-side support in the gsasl authenticator for encrypted passwords, as an
25 alternate for the existing plaintext.
26
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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31Version 4.93
32------------
33
b53c265b 34 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
40ed89b3 35
7f69e814 36 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
40ed89b3 37
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38 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
39 for ciphersuites.
40
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41 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
42
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43 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
44
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45 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
46 file.
47
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48 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
49 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
50
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51 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
52
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53 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
54 and transports.
55
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5610. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
57
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5811. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
59
86ede124 6012. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
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6213. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
63
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6414: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
65
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6615: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
67 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
68 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
69 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
70 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
71 only, and exim must be run as root).
72
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7316: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
74
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7517. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
76
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78Version 4.92
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80
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81 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
82 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
83 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
84 facilities hard to parse.
85
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86 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
87 obvious thing.
88
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89 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
90 features. See the experimental.spec file.
8ac90765 91
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92 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
93
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94 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
95
8442641e 96 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
12263aa8 97
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98 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
99
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100 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
101
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102 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
103
d4fd1b83 104Version 4.91
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106
107 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
108 version 3.5.6 or later.
109
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110 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
111 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
405074ad 112 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
899b8bbc 113
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114 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
115
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116 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
117 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
118
306c6c77 119 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
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120 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
121 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
122 a "dkim" log_selector.
123
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124 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
125
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126 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
127 routing rules in the manualroute router.
128
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129 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
130 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
131
286b9d5f 132 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
cb78c1a8 133 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
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13510. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
136 version dependent.
137
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13811. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
139
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14012. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
141 Authentication-Results: header.
142
617d3932 14313. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
ddd16464 144 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
617d3932 145
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14614: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
147
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14815. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
149 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
150 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
151 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
152
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15316. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
154 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
155 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
156
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158Version 4.90
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160
161 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
162 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
163
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164 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
165 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
166
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167 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
168 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
169 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
170 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
171 another process. Logging is also affected.
172
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173 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
174
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175 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
176 further recipients and for delivery.
177
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178 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
179 supported.
180
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181 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
182 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
183 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
184 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
185 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
186
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187 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
188 restrict who can use various introspection options.
189
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190 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
191 appendfile transport.
192
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19310. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
194 SMTP commands.
195
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19611. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
197 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
571b2715 198
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19912. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
200 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
4a5cbaff 201 is opened with a TFO cookie.
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9e70917d 20313. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
7c6ec81b 204 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
970424a5 205 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
484cc1a9 206 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
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207 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
208 the data ACL.
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21014. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
211 configuration file.
212
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21315. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
214 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
215
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21616. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
217 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
218
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21917. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
220
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222Version 4.89
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224
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225 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
226
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227 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
228 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
12e9bb25 229 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
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232Version 4.88
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234
fc16abb4 235 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
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236 interpreter in taint mode.
237
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238 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
239
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240 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
241 modifier.
242
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243 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
244 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
245 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
246
f59aaaaa 247 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
55e70e76 248 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
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249 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
250 visibility.
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252 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
253
44bc8f0c 254 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
7e3ce68e 255 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
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256 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
257 for control.
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259 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
260
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261 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
262
fbbd45ff 26310. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
4945f557 264 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
383832ef 265 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
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266 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
267 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
fbbd45ff 268
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26911. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
270
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27112. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
272 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
273 message.
274
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27513. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
276
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27714. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
278 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
279
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28015. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
281 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
282 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
283 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
284 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
285 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
286 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
f59aaaaa 287 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
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290
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292Version 4.87
293------------
294
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295 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
296 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
297
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298 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
299 malware= or verify= callout.
300
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301 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
302
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303 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
304 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
305 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
306 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
307 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
308 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
309
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310 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
311
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312 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
313
9aa35e9c 314 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
59b87190 315 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
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62b7cd08 317 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
f59aaaaa 318 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
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319 limits.
320
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321 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
322
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325------------
326
327 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
328
329 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
330 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
331
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332 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
333
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334 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
335
336 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
337
f59aaaaa 338 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
cc00f4af 339
7eb6c37c 340 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
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341 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
342
343 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
344 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
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346 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
347 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
348
b3ef41c9 34910. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
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35111. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
352
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35312. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
354
10ca4f1c 35513. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
65463bc9 356 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
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35814. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
359 same level as DNSSEC.
360
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364
365 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
f59aaaaa 366 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
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367 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
368 domain of the sender.
369
370 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
371 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
372 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
373 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
374 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
375 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
376
377 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
378 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
379 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
380
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384
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386Version 4.83
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389 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
390 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
391 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
392 proxy that is connecting to it.
393
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394 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
395 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
396 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
397 detect and reject if those characters are present.
398
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399 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
400 codepoints with valid ones.
401
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402 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
403 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
007a2dee 404 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
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405 be included in the command line.
406
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407 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
408 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
409 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
410 verification cancels the encryption.
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412 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
413 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
414 default list.
415
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416 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
417 file when searching the queue.
418
f2de3a33 419 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
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421 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
422
9d1c15ef 42310. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
6a8a60e0 424 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
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425 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
426 for them added.
9d1c15ef 427
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42811. PRDR is now supported dy default.
429
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43012. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
431
43213. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
4c04137d 433 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
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434 DSN features per RFC 3461.
435
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2c422e6f 437Version 4.82
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439
440 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
441 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
442 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
443 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
444 SIEVE capability line.
445
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446 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
447 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
448 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
449 followed by a newline, and no other text.
450
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451 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
452 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
453 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
454 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
455 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
456 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
457 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
458 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
459
460 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
461
1f4a55da 462 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
0fbd9bff 463 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
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464 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
465 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
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466 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
467 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
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469 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
470
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471 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
472 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
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473 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
474
475 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
476 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
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478 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
479 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
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481 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
482 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
483 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
484 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
485 ignored.
486
976b7e9f 487 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
4c04137d 488 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
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489 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
490 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
491 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
492 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
493 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
4c04137d 494 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
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495 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
496 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
497 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
498 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
499 system not your own.
500
4c04137d 501 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
042eb971 502 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
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503 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
504 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
06a6f4ed 505
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506 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
507 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
508 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
509
510 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
511 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
512 are present for now but deprecated.
513
fcc8e047 514 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
976b7e9f 515
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516 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
517 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
98a90c36 518
2519e60d 519 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
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520 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
521 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
522 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
523 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
524 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
525 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
526 unless this new option is set.
527
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529 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
530 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
531 Local/Makefile:
532
533 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
534
3e8abda0 53510. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
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536 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
537 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
538 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
539 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
540 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
541 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
542 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
543 return results in a forced fail.
a5f239e4 544
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54511. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
546 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
547
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54812. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
549 handled by routers/transports.
550
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55113. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
552 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
553
362145b5 55414. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
85ffcba6 555 modifier (but not yet added to message).
362145b5 556
bd0fff00 55715. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
3c0a92dc 558
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55916. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
560
181d9bf8 56117. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
f59aaaaa 562 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
2a47f028 563 require privilege whereas -d does.
181d9bf8 564
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56518. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
566 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
567
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56819. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
569 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
570 wrappers, for instance.
571
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57220. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
573 connections apply.
574
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57521. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
576 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
577 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
578 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
579 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
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580 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
581 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
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58322. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
584 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
585 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
586
4c04137d 58723. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
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588 UDP host and port.
589
59024. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
591 characters in the string to \xNN form.
592
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59325. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
594 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
595
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59626. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
597
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b1770b6e 599Version 4.80
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601
602 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
603 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
604 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
605 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
3b4f55a3 606 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
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609 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
610 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
611 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
612
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613 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
614 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
615 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
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616 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
617 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
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619 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
620 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
621
f1e05cc7 622 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
20aa9dbd 623
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624 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
625 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
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626 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
627 used by Cyrus SASL.
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629 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
630
631 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
632 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
633 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
634 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
635 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
636 compatibility at the cost of session security.
637
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638 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
639 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
640 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
641 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
642 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
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644 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
645 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
646
647 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
648 for Exim as a server.
649
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650 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
651 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
652 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
653 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
654 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
655
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656 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
657 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
658 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
659 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
660 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
661
eae0036b 66210. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
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663 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
664
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66511. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
666 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
667 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
668 string, documentation for which is at:
42bfef1e 669 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
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670
671 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
672
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673 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
674 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
675
53947857 67612. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
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677 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
678 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
679 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
680 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
681
682 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
683
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68413. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
685 identically to TXT record lookups.
686
2605c55b 68714. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
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68915. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
690 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
691 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
692
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69316. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
694 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
695 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
696 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
697 primes.
698
3ecab157 69917. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
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700 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
701 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
702
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704Version 4.77
705------------
706
707 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
708 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
709
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710 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
711 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
712
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713 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
714 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
715
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716 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
717 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
718 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
719
720 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
721 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
722 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
723 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
724
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726Version 4.76
727------------
728
729 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
730 or off in the resolver library.
731
732
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733Version 4.75
734------------
735
736 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
737 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
738 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
739 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
740 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
741
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742 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
743 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
744 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
745
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746 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
747 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
748
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749 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
750 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
751 including any header additions or removals from transport.
752
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753 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
754 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
755
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757Version 4.74
758------------
759
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760 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
761 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
762 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
763 on content supplied by the attacker.
764
765 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
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766 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
767 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
768 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
769 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
770
771
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773------------
774
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775 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
776 items below carefully
777
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778 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
779 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
780 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
781 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
782 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
783 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
784 frivolously.
785
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786 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
787 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
788 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
43236f35 789 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
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790 be able to take effect.
791
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792 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
793 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
794 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
795 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
796
797 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
798 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
799 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
800 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
801
802 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
803
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804 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
805
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806 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
807 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
808 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
809 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
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810 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
811 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
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813 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
814 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
815
816 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
817 -> 4.2.0.192
818 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
819 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
820
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821 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
822 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
823 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
824 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
825 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
826 don't all make sense in all contexts:
827
828 control = debug
829 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
830 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
831 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
832
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833 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
834 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
835 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
836 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
837 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
838 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
839 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
840 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
841 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
842 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
843 the safeties off.
844
06a6f4ed 845 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
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846 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
847 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
848 do evaluate true.
849 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
850
06a6f4ed 851 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
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85310. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
854 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
855 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
856 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
857 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
858 build option.
859
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86011. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
861 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
862
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86312. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
864 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
90b6341f 865 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
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867 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
868 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
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87013. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
871 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
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872 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
873 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
874 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
43236f35 875 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
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876 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
877 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
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881------------
882
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883 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
884 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
885
886 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
887
888 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
889 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
890 duplicates).
891
892 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
893 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
894 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
895 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
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896 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
897 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
898 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
899 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
900 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
901 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
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903 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
904 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
905
906 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
907 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
8f425947 908 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
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65a7d8c3 913
7c6d71af 914 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
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915 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
916 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
917 for details on conditionally disabling)
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919 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
65a7d8c3 920
f33253cc 921 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
7d9f747b 922 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
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923 and{} expansion operator).
924
925 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
926 at delivery time.
927
928 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
929 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
930
931 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
932 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
933 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
934
935 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
936 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
937 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
938 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
939
940 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
941 OpenSSL.
942
943 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
944
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947------------
948
949 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
950
951
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953------------
954
955 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
956 local_scan API.
957
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959 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
960 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
961 cases, for example:
962
963 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
964
965 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
966 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
967 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
968 like this:
969
970 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
971
972 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
973 192.168.6.7 (for example).
974
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976 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
977 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
978 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
979
980 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
981
982 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
983 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
984 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
985 $tls_peerdn.
986
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987 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
988 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
989 only by an admin user.
990
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991 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
992 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
993 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
994 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
995 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
996
997 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
998 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
999
1000 Example:
1001
1002 acl_check_connect:
1003 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1004 # we update it below
1005 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1006 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1007 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1008
1009 [... some other logic and tests...]
1010
1011 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1012 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1013 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1014 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1015
1016 accept
1017
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1018 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1019 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1020 line termination character(s).
1021
aded2255 1022 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
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1023 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1024 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1025
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1026 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1027 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1028 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1029 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1030
4f054c63 1031 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
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1032 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1033 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1034 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1035 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1036
1037 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1038 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1039 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1040
1041 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1042 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1043 connection. The possible values are:
1044
1045 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1046 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1047 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1048 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1049 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1050 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1051 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1052 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1053 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1054 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1055
1056 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1057 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1058 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1059 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1060 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1061 used.
1062
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1064 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1065 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1066
1067 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1068 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1069 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1070
1071 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1072
1073 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1074 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1075 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1076
1077 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1078 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1079 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1080
1081 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1082
1083 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1084
1085 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1086
1087 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1088
1089 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1090
1091 you can still update the master by
1092
1093 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1094
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1096 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1097 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1098 spaces.
1099
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1102------------
1103
1104 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1105 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1106 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
4aa45c31 1107 MAIL command.
b4ed4da0 1108
431b7361 1109 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
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1110 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1111 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
93655c46 1112 rather than the default "any" matching.
431b7361 1113
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1114 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1115 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1116 other parameters to be varied.
431b7361 1117
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1118 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1119 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
431b7361 1120
4aa45c31 1121 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
431b7361 1122
4aa45c31 1123 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
cf8b11a5 1124
41c7c167 1125 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
4aa45c31 1126 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
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1128 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
4aa45c31 1129 after the connection to the server has been made.
41c7c167 1130
9c57cbc0 1131 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
4aa45c31 1132 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
9c57cbc0 1133
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113410. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1135 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1136 time and date.
1137
047bdd8c 113811. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
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1139 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1140 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1141 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
4aa45c31 1142 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
047bdd8c 1143
0ce9abe6 114412. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
4aa45c31 1145 called forany and forall.
0ce9abe6 1146
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114713. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1148 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1149 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
0e22dfd1 1150
4aa45c31 115114. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
c51b8e75 1152
75b1493f 115315. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
4aa45c31 1154 that makes it case-sensitive.
29f89cad 1155
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115616. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1157 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1158 items, typically addresses.
29f89cad 1159
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116017. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1161 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1162 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
4aa45c31 1163 can be used.
c3611384 1164
ec95d1a6 116518. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
4aa45c31 1166 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
ec95d1a6 1167
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116819. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1169 condition.
1170
c456d9bb 117120. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
4aa45c31 1172 "ignore".
c456d9bb 1173
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1175Version 4.66
1176------------
1177
1178No new features were added to 4.66.
1179
1180
1181Version 4.65
1182------------
1183
1184No new features were added to 4.65.
1185
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1187Version 4.64
1188------------
1189
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1190 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1191 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1192 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
883335dc 1193 an underscore.
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1195 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
883335dc 1196 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
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1198 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1199 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
883335dc 1200 number of authentication methods.
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1202 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1203 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1204 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1205
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1206 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1207 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1208 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1209 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
af561417 1210
883335dc 1211 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
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1212
1213 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1214 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1215 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
883335dc 1216 before doing the expansions.
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1218 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
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1219 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1220 message.
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1222 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1223 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
883335dc 1224 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
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122610. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
883335dc 1227 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
48c7f9e2 1228
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122911. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1230 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1231 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1232 available for compatibility.)
1233
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123412. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1235 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
4e88a19f 1236
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1238Version 4.63
1239------------
1240
12411. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
38a0a95f 1242 router.
4608d683 1243
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12442. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1245 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
38a0a95f 1246 read.
45b91596 1247
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12483. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1249 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
38a0a95f 1250 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
a5bd321b 1251
6ec97b1b 12524. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
38a0a95f 1253 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
6ec97b1b 1254
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1256 --reverse
1257 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1258 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1259 --random
1260 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1261 --size
1262 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1263 of their sizes.
1264 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1265 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1266 each messages value for each variable.
1267 --not
1268 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1269 same criteria without --not).
1270
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1273------------
1274
12751. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1276 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1277 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1278 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1279 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1280 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1281
1282 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1283
1284 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1285 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1286 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1287 domain socket.
1288
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12892. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1290 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1291 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1292
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12933. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1294 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1295 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1296 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1297
1cce3af8 1298
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1300------------
1301
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1302The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1303the 4.60 release are:
1304
1305. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1306
1307. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1308
1309. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1310 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1311 for other things in complicated expansions.
1312
843a41e8 1313. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
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1315. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1316 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1317
1318. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1319
1320. More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1321
1322There are a number of other additions too.
71fafd95 1323
7e66e54d 1324
425ae40f 1325Version 4.60
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1327
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1328The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1329the 4.50 release are:
1a46a8c5 1330
425ae40f 1331. Support for SQLite.
1a46a8c5 1332
425ae40f 1333. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1a46a8c5 1334
425ae40f 1335. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1a46a8c5 1336
425ae40f 1337. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1a46a8c5 1338
425ae40f 1339. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
b5aea5e1 1340
425ae40f 1341. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
b5aea5e1 1342
425ae40f 1343. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
35edf2ff 1344
425ae40f 1345There are many more minor changes.
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