Change acl expansion-condition syntax to "acl {{name} {arg1}{arg2}...}"
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1New Features in Exim
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3
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4This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
5Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
6test from the snapshots or the CVS before the documentation is updated. Once
7the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
8
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9Version 4.81
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11
12 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
13 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
14 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
15 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
16 SIEVE capability line.
17
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18 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
19 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
20 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
21 followed by a newline, and no other text.
22
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23 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
24 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
25 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
26 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
27 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
28 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
29 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
30 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
31
32 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
33
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34 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
35 dns_use_dnssec; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
36 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
37 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
38 can now detect this.
39
40 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
41
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42 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
43 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
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44 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
45
46 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
47 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
48
49 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
50 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
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52 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
53 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
54 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
55 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
56 ignored.
57
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58 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
59 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are recieved on and
60 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
61 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
62 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
63 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
64 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
65 is negociated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
66 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
67 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
68 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
69 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
70 system not your own.
71
72 The Recieved-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
042eb971 73 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
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74 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
75 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
76
77 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
78 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
79 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
80
81 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
82 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
83 are present for now but deprecated.
84
85 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING, AUTH.
86
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87 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
88 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
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90 9. New expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...} to call an ACL. The argument can
91 be accessed by the ACL in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9. $acl_narg will be the
92 number of arguments. The expansion result is set by a "message =" modifier
93 and an "accept" return from the ACL.
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96------------
97
98 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
99 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
100 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
101 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
3b4f55a3 102 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
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104 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
105 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
106 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
107 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
108
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109 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
110 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
111 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
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112 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
113 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
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115 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
116 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
117
f1e05cc7 118 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
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120 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
121 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
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122 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
123 used by Cyrus SASL.
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125 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
126
127 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
128 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
129 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
130 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
131 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
132 compatibility at the cost of session security.
133
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134 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
135 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
136 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
137 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
138 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
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139
140 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
141 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
142
143 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
144 for Exim as a server.
145
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146 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
147 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
148 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
149 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
150 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
151
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152 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
153 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
154 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
155 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
156 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
157
eae0036b 15810. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
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159 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
160
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16111. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
162 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
163 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
164 string, documentation for which is at:
165 http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
166
167 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
168
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169 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
170 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
171
53947857 17212. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
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173 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
174 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
175 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
176 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
177
178 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
179
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18013. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
181 identically to TXT record lookups.
182
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18515. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
186 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
187 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
188
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18916. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
190 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
191 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
192 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
193 primes.
194
3ecab157 19517. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
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196 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
197 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
198
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200Version 4.77
201------------
202
203 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
204 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
205
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206 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
207 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
208
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209 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
210 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
211
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212 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
213 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
214 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
215
216 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
217 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
218 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
219 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
220
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222Version 4.76
223------------
224
225 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
226 or off in the resolver library.
227
228
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229Version 4.75
230------------
231
232 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
233 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
234 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
235 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
236 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
237
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238 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
239 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
240 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
241
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242 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
243 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
244
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245 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
246 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
247 including any header additions or removals from transport.
248
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249 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
250 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
251
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253Version 4.74
254------------
255
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256 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
257 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
258 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
259 on content supplied by the attacker.
260
261 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
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262 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
263 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
264 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
265 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
266
267
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268Version 4.73
269------------
270
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271 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
272 items below carefully
273
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274 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
275 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
276 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
277 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
278 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
279 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
280 frivolously.
281
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282 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
283 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
284 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
43236f35 285 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
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286 be able to take effect.
287
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288 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
289 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
290 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
291 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
292
293 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
294 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
295 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
296 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
297
298 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
299
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300 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
301
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302 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
303 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
304 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
305 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
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306 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
307 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
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309 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
310 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
311
312 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
313 -> 4.2.0.192
314 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
315 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
316
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317 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
318 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
319 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
320 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
321 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
322 don't all make sense in all contexts:
323
324 control = debug
325 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
326 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
327 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
328
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329 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
330 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
331 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
332 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
333 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
334 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
335 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
336 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
337 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
338 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
339 the safeties off.
340
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341 8. There is a new expansion operator, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
342 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
343 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
344 do evaluate true.
345 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
346
347 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests,
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34910. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
350 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
351 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
352 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
353 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
354 build option.
355
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35611. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
357 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
358
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35912. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
360 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
90b6341f 361 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
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362 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
363 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
364 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
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36613. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
367 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
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368 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
369 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
370 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
43236f35 371 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
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372 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
373 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
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376Version 4.72
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378
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379 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
380 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
381
382 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
383
384 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
385 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
386 duplicates).
387
388 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
389 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
390 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
391 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
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392 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
393 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
394 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
395 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
396 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
397 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
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399 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
400 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
401
402 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
403 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
8f425947 404 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
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407Version 4.70 / 4.71
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7c6d71af 410 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
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411 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
412 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
413 for details on conditionally disabling)
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415 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
65a7d8c3 416
f33253cc 417 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
7d9f747b 418 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
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419 and{} expansion operator).
420
421 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
422 at delivery time.
423
424 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
425 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
426
427 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
428 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
429 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
430
431 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
432 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
433 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
434 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
435
436 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
437 OpenSSL.
438
439 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
440
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443------------
444
445 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
446
447
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448Version 4.68
449------------
450
451 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
452 local_scan API.
453
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454 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
455 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
456 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
457 cases, for example:
458
459 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
460
461 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
462 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
463 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
464 like this:
465
466 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
467
468 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
469 192.168.6.7 (for example).
470
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471 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
472 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
473 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
474 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
475
476 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
477
478 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
479 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
480 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
481 $tls_peerdn.
482
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483 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
484 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
485 only by an admin user.
486
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487 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
488 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
489 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
490 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
491 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
492
493 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
494 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
495
496 Example:
497
498 acl_check_connect:
499 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
500 # we update it below
501 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
502 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
503 (max $sender_rate_limit)
504
505 [... some other logic and tests...]
506
507 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
508 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
509 (max $sender_rate_limit)
510 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
511
512 accept
513
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515 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
516 line termination character(s).
517
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518 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analagous to
519 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
520 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
521
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522 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
523 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
524 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
525 message is queued, the remainder are also.
526
4f054c63 527 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
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528 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
529 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
530 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
531 log files) that make the situation even worse.
532
533 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
534 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
535 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
536
537 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
538 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
539 connection. The possible values are:
540
541 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
542 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
543 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
544 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
545 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
546 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
547 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
548 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
549 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
550 tls-failed TLS failed to start
551
552 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
553 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
554 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
555 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
556 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
557 used.
558
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560 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
561 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
562
563 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
564 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
565 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
566
567 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
568
569 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
570 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
571 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
572
573 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
574 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
575 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
576
577 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
578
579 In an updating lookup, you could then write
580
581 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
582
583 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
584
585 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
586
587 you can still update the master by
588
589 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
590
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592 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
593 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
594 spaces.
595
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598------------
599
600 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
601 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
602 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
4aa45c31 603 MAIL command.
b4ed4da0 604
431b7361 605 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
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606 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
607 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
93655c46 608 rather than the default "any" matching.
431b7361 609
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610 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
611 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
612 other parameters to be varied.
431b7361 613
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615 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
431b7361 616
4aa45c31 617 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
431b7361 618
4aa45c31 619 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
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41c7c167 621 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
4aa45c31 622 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
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624 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
4aa45c31 625 after the connection to the server has been made.
41c7c167 626
9c57cbc0 627 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
4aa45c31 628 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
9c57cbc0 629
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63010. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
631 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
632 time and date.
633
047bdd8c 63411. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
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635 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
636 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
637 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
4aa45c31 638 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
047bdd8c 639
0ce9abe6 64012. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
4aa45c31 641 called forany and forall.
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644 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
645 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
0e22dfd1 646
4aa45c31 64714. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
c51b8e75 648
75b1493f 64915. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
4aa45c31 650 that makes it case-sensitive.
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65216. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
653 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
654 items, typically addresses.
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657 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
658 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
4aa45c31 659 can be used.
c3611384 660
ec95d1a6 66118. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
4aa45c31 662 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
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665 condition.
666
c456d9bb 66720. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
4aa45c31 668 "ignore".
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671Version 4.66
672------------
673
674No new features were added to 4.66.
675
676
677Version 4.65
678------------
679
680No new features were added to 4.65.
681
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683Version 4.64
684------------
685
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686 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
687 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
688 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
883335dc 689 an underscore.
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691 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
883335dc 692 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
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694 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
695 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
883335dc 696 number of authentication methods.
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698 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
699 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
700 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
701
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702 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
703 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
704 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
705 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
af561417 706
883335dc 707 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
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709 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
710 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
711 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
883335dc 712 before doing the expansions.
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714 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
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715 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
716 message.
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718 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
719 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
883335dc 720 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
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72210. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
883335dc 723 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
48c7f9e2 724
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726 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
727 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
728 available for compatibility.)
729
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731 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
4e88a19f 732
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735------------
736
7371. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
38a0a95f 738 router.
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7402. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
741 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
38a0a95f 742 read.
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745 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
38a0a95f 746 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
a5bd321b 747
6ec97b1b 7484. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
38a0a95f 749 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
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752 --reverse
753 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
754 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
755 --random
756 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
757 --size
758 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
759 of their sizes.
760 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
761 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
762 each messages value for each variable.
763 --not
764 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
765 same criteria without --not).
766
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769------------
770
7711. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
772 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
773 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
774 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
775 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
776 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
777
778 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
779
780 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
781 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
782 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
783 domain socket.
784
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7852. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
786 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
787 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
788
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790 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
791 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
792 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
793
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796------------
797
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798The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
799the 4.60 release are:
800
801. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
802
803. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
804
805. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
806 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
807 for other things in complicated expansions.
808
843a41e8 809. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
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811. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
812 resources used in pipe deliveries.
813
814. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
815
816. More errors are detectable in retry rules.
817
818There are a number of other additions too.
71fafd95 819
7e66e54d 820
425ae40f 821Version 4.60
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823
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825the 4.50 release are:
1a46a8c5 826
425ae40f 827. Support for SQLite.
1a46a8c5 828
425ae40f 829. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1a46a8c5 830
425ae40f 831. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1a46a8c5 832
425ae40f 833. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1a46a8c5 834
425ae40f 835. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
b5aea5e1 836
425ae40f 837. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
b5aea5e1 838
425ae40f 839. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
35edf2ff 840
425ae40f 841There are many more minor changes.
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