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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
21 plaintext driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and
22 SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS methods.
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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.
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37Version 4.93
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39
b53c265b 40 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
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7f69e814 42 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
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44 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
45 for ciphersuites.
46
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47 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
48
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49 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
50
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51 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
52 file.
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54 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
55 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
56
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57 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
58
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59 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
60 and transports.
61
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6210. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
63
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6411. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
65
86ede124 6612. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
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6813. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
69
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7014: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
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7215: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
73 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
74 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
75 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
76 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
77 only, and exim must be run as root).
78
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7916: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
80
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8117. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
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84Version 4.92
85--------------
86
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87 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
88 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
89 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
90 facilities hard to parse.
91
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92 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
93 obvious thing.
94
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95 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
96 features. See the experimental.spec file.
8ac90765 97
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98 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
99
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100 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
101
8442641e 102 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
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104 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
105
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106 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
107
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108 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
109
d4fd1b83 110Version 4.91
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112
113 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
114 version 3.5.6 or later.
115
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116 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
117 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
405074ad 118 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
899b8bbc 119
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120 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
121
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122 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
123 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
124
306c6c77 125 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
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126 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
127 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
128 a "dkim" log_selector.
129
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130 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
131
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132 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
133 routing rules in the manualroute router.
134
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135 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
136 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
137
286b9d5f 138 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
cb78c1a8 139 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
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14110. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
142 version dependent.
143
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14411. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
145
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14612. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
147 Authentication-Results: header.
148
617d3932 14913. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
ddd16464 150 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
617d3932 151
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15214: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
153
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15415. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
155 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
156 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
157 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
158
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15916. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
160 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
161 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
162
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164Version 4.90
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166
167 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
168 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
169
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170 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
171 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
172
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173 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
174 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
175 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
176 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
177 another process. Logging is also affected.
178
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179 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
180
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181 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
182 further recipients and for delivery.
183
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184 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
185 supported.
186
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187 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
188 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
189 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
190 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
191 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
192
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193 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
194 restrict who can use various introspection options.
195
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196 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
197 appendfile transport.
198
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19910. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
200 SMTP commands.
201
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20211. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
203 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
571b2715 204
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20512. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
206 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
4a5cbaff 207 is opened with a TFO cookie.
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9e70917d 20913. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
7c6ec81b 210 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
970424a5 211 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
484cc1a9 212 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
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213 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
214 the data ACL.
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21614. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
217 configuration file.
218
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21915. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
220 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
221
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22216. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
223 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
224
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22517. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
226
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228Version 4.89
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230
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231 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
232
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233 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
234 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
12e9bb25 235 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
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238Version 4.88
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240
fc16abb4 241 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
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242 interpreter in taint mode.
243
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244 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
245
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246 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
247 modifier.
248
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249 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
250 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
251 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
252
f59aaaaa 253 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
55e70e76 254 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
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255 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
256 visibility.
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258 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
259
44bc8f0c 260 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
7e3ce68e 261 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
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262 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
263 for control.
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266
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267 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
268
fbbd45ff 26910. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
4945f557 270 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
383832ef 271 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
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272 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
273 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
fbbd45ff 274
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27511. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
276
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27712. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
278 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
279 message.
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28113. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
282
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284 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
285
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28615. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
287 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
288 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
289 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
290 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
291 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
292 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
f59aaaaa 293 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
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296
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298Version 4.87
299------------
300
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301 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
302 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
303
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304 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
305 malware= or verify= callout.
306
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307 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
308
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309 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
310 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
311 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
312 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
313 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
314 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
315
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316 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
317
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318 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
319
9aa35e9c 320 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
59b87190 321 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
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62b7cd08 323 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
f59aaaaa 324 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
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325 limits.
326
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327 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
328
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332
333 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
334
335 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
336 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
337
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338 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
339
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340 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
341
342 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
343
f59aaaaa 344 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
cc00f4af 345
7eb6c37c 346 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
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347 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
348
349 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
350 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
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352 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
353 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
354
b3ef41c9 35510. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
846430d9 356
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35711. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
358
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35912. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
360
10ca4f1c 36113. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
65463bc9 362 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
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36414. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
365 same level as DNSSEC.
366
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370
371 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
f59aaaaa 372 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
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373 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
374 domain of the sender.
375
376 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
377 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
378 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
379 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
380 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
381 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
382
383 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
384 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
385 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
386
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388Version 4.84
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390
391
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392Version 4.83
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395 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
396 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
397 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
398 proxy that is connecting to it.
399
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400 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
401 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
402 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
403 detect and reject if those characters are present.
404
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405 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
406 codepoints with valid ones.
407
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408 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
409 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
007a2dee 410 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
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411 be included in the command line.
412
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413 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
414 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
415 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
416 verification cancels the encryption.
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418 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
419 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
420 default list.
421
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422 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
423 file when searching the queue.
424
f2de3a33 425 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
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427 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
428
9d1c15ef 42910. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
6a8a60e0 430 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
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431 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
432 for them added.
9d1c15ef 433
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43411. PRDR is now supported dy default.
435
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43612. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
437
43813. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
4c04137d 439 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
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440 DSN features per RFC 3461.
441
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2c422e6f 443Version 4.82
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445
446 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
447 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
448 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
449 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
450 SIEVE capability line.
451
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452 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
453 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
454 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
455 followed by a newline, and no other text.
456
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457 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
458 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
459 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
460 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
461 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
462 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
463 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
464 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
465
466 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
467
1f4a55da 468 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
0fbd9bff 469 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
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470 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
471 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
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472 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
473 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
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475 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
476
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477 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
478 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
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479 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
480
481 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
482 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
483
484 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
485 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
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487 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
488 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
489 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
490 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
491 ignored.
492
976b7e9f 493 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
4c04137d 494 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
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495 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
496 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
497 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
498 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
499 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
4c04137d 500 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
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501 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
502 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
503 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
504 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
505 system not your own.
506
4c04137d 507 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
042eb971 508 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
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509 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
510 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
06a6f4ed 511
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512 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
513 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
514 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
515
516 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
517 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
518 are present for now but deprecated.
519
fcc8e047 520 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
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522 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
523 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
98a90c36 524
2519e60d 525 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
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526 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
527 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
528 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
529 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
530 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
531 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
532 unless this new option is set.
533
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535 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
536 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
537 Local/Makefile:
538
539 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
540
3e8abda0 54110. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
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542 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
543 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
544 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
545 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
546 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
547 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
548 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
549 return results in a forced fail.
a5f239e4 550
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55111. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
552 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
553
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55412. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
555 handled by routers/transports.
556
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55713. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
558 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
559
362145b5 56014. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
85ffcba6 561 modifier (but not yet added to message).
362145b5 562
bd0fff00 56315. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
3c0a92dc 564
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56516. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
566
181d9bf8 56717. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
f59aaaaa 568 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
2a47f028 569 require privilege whereas -d does.
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57118. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
572 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
573
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575 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
576 wrappers, for instance.
577
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57820. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
579 connections apply.
580
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58121. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
582 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
583 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
584 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
585 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
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586 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
587 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
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58922. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
590 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
591 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
592
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594 UDP host and port.
595
59624. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
597 characters in the string to \xNN form.
598
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59925. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
600 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
601
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60226. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
603
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607
608 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
609 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
610 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
611 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
3b4f55a3 612 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
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615 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
616 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
617 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
618
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619 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
620 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
621 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
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622 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
623 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
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625 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
626 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
627
f1e05cc7 628 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
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630 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
631 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
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632 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
633 used by Cyrus SASL.
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635 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
636
637 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
638 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
639 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
640 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
641 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
642 compatibility at the cost of session security.
643
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644 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
645 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
646 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
647 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
648 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
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650 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
651 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
652
653 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
654 for Exim as a server.
655
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656 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
657 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
658 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
659 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
660 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
661
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662 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
663 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
664 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
665 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
666 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
667
eae0036b 66810. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
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669 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
670
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67111. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
672 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
673 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
674 string, documentation for which is at:
42bfef1e 675 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
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676
677 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
678
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679 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
680 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
681
53947857 68212. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
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683 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
684 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
685 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
686 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
687
688 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
689
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69013. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
691 identically to TXT record lookups.
692
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69515. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
696 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
697 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
698
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69916. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
700 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
701 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
702 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
703 primes.
704
3ecab157 70517. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
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706 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
707 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
708
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711------------
712
713 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
714 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
715
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716 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
717 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
718
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719 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
720 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
721
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722 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
723 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
724 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
725
726 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
727 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
728 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
729 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
730
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732Version 4.76
733------------
734
735 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
736 or off in the resolver library.
737
738
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740------------
741
742 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
743 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
744 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
745 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
746 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
747
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748 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
749 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
750 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
751
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752 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
753 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
754
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755 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
756 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
757 including any header additions or removals from transport.
758
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759 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
760 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
761
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764------------
765
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766 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
767 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
768 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
769 on content supplied by the attacker.
770
771 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
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772 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
773 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
774 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
775 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
776
777
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779------------
780
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781 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
782 items below carefully
783
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784 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
785 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
786 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
787 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
788 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
789 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
790 frivolously.
791
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792 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
793 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
794 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
43236f35 795 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
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797
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798 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
799 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
800 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
801 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
802
803 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
804 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
805 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
806 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
807
808 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
809
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811
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812 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
813 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
814 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
815 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
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816 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
817 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
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819 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
820 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
821
822 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
823 -> 4.2.0.192
824 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
825 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
826
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827 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
828 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
829 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
830 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
831 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
832 don't all make sense in all contexts:
833
834 control = debug
835 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
836 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
837 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
838
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839 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
840 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
841 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
842 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
843 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
844 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
845 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
846 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
847 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
848 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
849 the safeties off.
850
06a6f4ed 851 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
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852 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
853 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
854 do evaluate true.
855 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
856
06a6f4ed 857 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
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860 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
861 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
862 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
863 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
864 build option.
865
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86611. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
867 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
868
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870 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
90b6341f 871 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
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873 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
874 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
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87613. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
877 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
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878 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
879 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
880 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
43236f35 881 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
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882 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
883 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
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887------------
888
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889 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
890 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
891
892 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
893
894 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
895 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
896 duplicates).
897
898 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
899 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
900 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
901 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
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902 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
903 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
904 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
905 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
906 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
907 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
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909 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
910 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
911
912 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
913 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
8f425947 914 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
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65a7d8c3 919
7c6d71af 920 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
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921 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
922 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
923 for details on conditionally disabling)
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925 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
65a7d8c3 926
f33253cc 927 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
7d9f747b 928 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
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929 and{} expansion operator).
930
931 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
932 at delivery time.
933
934 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
935 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
936
937 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
938 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
939 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
940
941 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
942 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
943 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
944 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
945
946 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
947 OpenSSL.
948
949 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
950
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953------------
954
955 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
956
957
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959------------
960
961 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
962 local_scan API.
963
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964 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
965 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
966 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
967 cases, for example:
968
969 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
970
971 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
972 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
973 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
974 like this:
975
976 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
977
978 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
979 192.168.6.7 (for example).
980
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982 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
983 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
984 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
985
986 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
987
988 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
989 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
990 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
991 $tls_peerdn.
992
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994 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
995 only by an admin user.
996
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998 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
999 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
1000 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
1001 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
1002
1003 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
1004 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
1005
1006 Example:
1007
1008 acl_check_connect:
1009 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1010 # we update it below
1011 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1012 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1013 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1014
1015 [... some other logic and tests...]
1016
1017 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1018 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1019 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1020 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1021
1022 accept
1023
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1024 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1025 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1026 line termination character(s).
1027
aded2255 1028 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
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1029 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1030 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1031
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1032 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1033 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1034 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1035 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1036
4f054c63 1037 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
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1038 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1039 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1040 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1041 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1042
1043 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1044 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1045 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1046
1047 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1048 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1049 connection. The possible values are:
1050
1051 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1052 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1053 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1054 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1055 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1056 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1057 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1058 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1059 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1060 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1061
1062 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1063 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1064 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1065 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1066 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1067 used.
1068
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1070 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1071 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1072
1073 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1074 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1075 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1076
1077 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1078
1079 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1080 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1081 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1082
1083 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1084 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1085 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1086
1087 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1088
1089 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1090
1091 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1092
1093 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1094
1095 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1096
1097 you can still update the master by
1098
1099 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1100
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110111. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
1102 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1103 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1104 spaces.
1105
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1108------------
1109
1110 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1111 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1112 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
4aa45c31 1113 MAIL command.
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431b7361 1115 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
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1116 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1117 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
93655c46 1118 rather than the default "any" matching.
431b7361 1119
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1120 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1121 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1122 other parameters to be varied.
431b7361 1123
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1124 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1125 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
431b7361 1126
4aa45c31 1127 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
431b7361 1128
4aa45c31 1129 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
cf8b11a5 1130
41c7c167 1131 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
4aa45c31 1132 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
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1134 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
4aa45c31 1135 after the connection to the server has been made.
41c7c167 1136
9c57cbc0 1137 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
4aa45c31 1138 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
9c57cbc0 1139
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114010. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1141 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1142 time and date.
1143
047bdd8c 114411. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
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1145 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1146 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1147 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
4aa45c31 1148 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
047bdd8c 1149
0ce9abe6 115012. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
4aa45c31 1151 called forany and forall.
0ce9abe6 1152
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115313. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1154 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1155 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
0e22dfd1 1156
4aa45c31 115714. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
c51b8e75 1158
75b1493f 115915. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
4aa45c31 1160 that makes it case-sensitive.
29f89cad 1161
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116216. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1163 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1164 items, typically addresses.
29f89cad 1165
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116617. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1167 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1168 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
4aa45c31 1169 can be used.
c3611384 1170
ec95d1a6 117118. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
4aa45c31 1172 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
ec95d1a6 1173
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117419. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1175 condition.
1176
c456d9bb 117720. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
4aa45c31 1178 "ignore".
c456d9bb 1179
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1181Version 4.66
1182------------
1183
1184No new features were added to 4.66.
1185
1186
1187Version 4.65
1188------------
1189
1190No new features were added to 4.65.
1191
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1193Version 4.64
1194------------
1195
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1196 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1197 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1198 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
883335dc 1199 an underscore.
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1200
1201 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
883335dc 1202 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
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1204 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1205 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
883335dc 1206 number of authentication methods.
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1208 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1209 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1210 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1211
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1212 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1213 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1214 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1215 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
af561417 1216
883335dc 1217 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
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1219 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1220 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1221 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
883335dc 1222 before doing the expansions.
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1224 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
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1225 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1226 message.
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1228 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1229 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
883335dc 1230 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
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123210. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
883335dc 1233 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
48c7f9e2 1234
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123511. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1236 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1237 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1238 available for compatibility.)
1239
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124012. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1241 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
4e88a19f 1242
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1245------------
1246
12471. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
38a0a95f 1248 router.
4608d683 1249
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12502. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1251 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
38a0a95f 1252 read.
45b91596 1253
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12543. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1255 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
38a0a95f 1256 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
a5bd321b 1257
6ec97b1b 12584. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
38a0a95f 1259 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
6ec97b1b 1260
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12615. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
1262 --reverse
1263 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1264 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1265 --random
1266 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1267 --size
1268 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1269 of their sizes.
1270 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1271 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1272 each messages value for each variable.
1273 --not
1274 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1275 same criteria without --not).
1276
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1279------------
1280
12811. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1282 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1283 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1284 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1285 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1286 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1287
1288 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1289
1290 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1291 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1292 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1293 domain socket.
1294
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12952. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1296 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1297 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1298
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12993. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1300 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1301 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1302 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1303
1cce3af8 1304
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1306------------
1307
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1308The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1309the 4.60 release are:
1310
1311. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1312
1313. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1314
1315. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1316 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1317 for other things in complicated expansions.
1318
843a41e8 1319. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
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1321. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1322 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1323
1324. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1325
1326. More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1327
1328There are a number of other additions too.
71fafd95 1329
7e66e54d 1330
425ae40f 1331Version 4.60
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1333
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1334The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1335the 4.50 release are:
1a46a8c5 1336
425ae40f 1337. Support for SQLite.
1a46a8c5 1338
425ae40f 1339. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1a46a8c5 1340
425ae40f 1341. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1a46a8c5 1342
425ae40f 1343. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1a46a8c5 1344
425ae40f 1345. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
b5aea5e1 1346
425ae40f 1347. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
b5aea5e1 1348
425ae40f 1349. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
35edf2ff 1350
425ae40f 1351There are many more minor changes.
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