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1 New Features in Exim
2 --------------------
3
4 This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
5 Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
6 test from the snapshots or the Git before the documentation is updated. Once
7 the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
8
9 Version 4.94
10 ------------
11
12 1. EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
13 file.
14
15 2. Channel-binding for authenticators is now supported under OpenSSL.
16 Previously it was GnuTLS-only.
17
18 3. A msg:defer event.
19
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.
23
24 5. Server-side support in the gsasl authenticator for encrypted passwords, as
25 an alternate for the existing plaintext.
26
27 6. Variable $local_part_verified, set by the router check_local_part condition
28 with untainted data.
29
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
33 8. As an exerimental feature, the dovecot authenticatino driver supports inet
34 sockets. Previously it was unix-domain sockets only.
35
36 9. The ACL control "queue_only" can also be spelled "queue", and now takes an
37 option "first_pass_route" to do the same as a "-odqs" on the command line.
38
39
40 Version 4.93
41 ------------
42
43 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
44
45 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
46
47 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
48 for ciphersuites.
49
50 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
51
52 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
53
54 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
55 file.
56
57 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
58 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
59
60 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
61
62 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
63 and transports.
64
65 10. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
66
67 11. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
68
69 12. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
70
71 13. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
72
73 14: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
74
75 15: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
76 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
77 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
78 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
79 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
80 only, and exim must be run as root).
81
82 16: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
83
84 17. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
85
86
87 Version 4.92
88 --------------
89
90 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
91 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
92 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
93 facilities hard to parse.
94
95 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
96 obvious thing.
97
98 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
99 features. See the experimental.spec file.
100
101 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
102
103 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
104
105 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
106
107 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
108
109 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
110
111 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
112
113 Version 4.91
114 --------------
115
116 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
117 version 3.5.6 or later.
118
119 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
120 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
121 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
122
123 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
124
125 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
126 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
127
128 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
129 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
130 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
131 a "dkim" log_selector.
132
133 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
134
135 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
136 routing rules in the manualroute router.
137
138 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
139 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
140
141 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
142 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
143
144 10. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
145 version dependent.
146
147 11. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
148
149 12. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
150 Authentication-Results: header.
151
152 13. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
153 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
154
155 14: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
156
157 15. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
158 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
159 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
160 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
161
162 16. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
163 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
164 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
165
166
167 Version 4.90
168 ------------
169
170 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
171 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
172
173 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
174 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
175
176 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
177 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
178 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
179 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
180 another process. Logging is also affected.
181
182 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
183
184 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
185 further recipients and for delivery.
186
187 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
188 supported.
189
190 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
191 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
192 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
193 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
194 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
195
196 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
197 restrict who can use various introspection options.
198
199 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
200 appendfile transport.
201
202 10. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
203 SMTP commands.
204
205 11. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
206 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
207
208 12. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
209 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
210 is opened with a TFO cookie.
211
212 13. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
213 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
214 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
215 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
216 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
217 the data ACL.
218
219 14. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
220 configuration file.
221
222 15. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
223 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
224
225 16. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
226 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
227
228 17. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
229
230
231 Version 4.89
232 ------------
233
234 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
235
236 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
237 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
238 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
239
240
241 Version 4.88
242 ------------
243
244 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
245 interpreter in taint mode.
246
247 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
248
249 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
250 modifier.
251
252 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
253 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
254 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
255
256 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
257 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
258 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
259 visibility.
260
261 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
262
263 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
264 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
265 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
266 for control.
267
268 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
269
270 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
271
272 10. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
273 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
274 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
275 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
276 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
277
278 11. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
279
280 12. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
281 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
282 message.
283
284 13. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
285
286 14. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
287 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
288
289 15. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
290 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
291 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
292 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
293 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
294 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
295 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
296 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
297
298 16. A new syslog_pid option to suppress PID duplication in syslog lines.
299
300
301 Version 4.87
302 ------------
303
304 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
305 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
306
307 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
308 malware= or verify= callout.
309
310 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
311
312 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
313 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
314 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
315 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
316 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
317 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
318
319 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
320
321 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
322
323 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
324 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
325
326 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
327 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
328 limits.
329
330 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
331
332
333 Version 4.86
334 ------------
335
336 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
337
338 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
339 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
340
341 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
342
343 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
344
345 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
346
347 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
348
349 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
350 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
351
352 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
353 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
354
355 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
356 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
357
358 10. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
359
360 11. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
361
362 12. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
363
364 13. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
365 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
366
367 14. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
368 same level as DNSSEC.
369
370
371 Version 4.85
372 ------------
373
374 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
375 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
376 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
377 domain of the sender.
378
379 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
380 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
381 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
382 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
383 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
384 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
385
386 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
387 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
388 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
389
390
391 Version 4.84
392 ------------
393
394
395 Version 4.83
396 ------------
397
398 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
399 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
400 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
401 proxy that is connecting to it.
402
403 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
404 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
405 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
406 detect and reject if those characters are present.
407
408 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
409 codepoints with valid ones.
410
411 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
412 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
413 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
414 be included in the command line.
415
416 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
417 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
418 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
419 verification cancels the encryption.
420
421 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
422 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
423 default list.
424
425 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
426 file when searching the queue.
427
428 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
429
430 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
431
432 10. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
433 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
434 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
435 for them added.
436
437 11. PRDR is now supported dy default.
438
439 12. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
440
441 13. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
442 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
443 DSN features per RFC 3461.
444
445
446 Version 4.82
447 ------------
448
449 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
450 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
451 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
452 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
453 SIEVE capability line.
454
455 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
456 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
457 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
458 followed by a newline, and no other text.
459
460 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
461 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
462 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
463 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
464 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
465 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
466 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
467 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
468
469 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
470
471 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
472 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
473 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
474 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
475 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
476 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
477
478 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
479
480 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
481 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
482 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
483
484 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
485 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
486
487 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
488 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
489
490 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
491 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
492 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
493 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
494 ignored.
495
496 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
497 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
498 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
499 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
500 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
501 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
502 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
503 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
504 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
505 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
506 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
507 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
508 system not your own.
509
510 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
511 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
512 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
513 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
514
515 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
516 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
517 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
518
519 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
520 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
521 are present for now but deprecated.
522
523 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
524
525 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
526 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
527
528 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
529 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
530 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
531 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
532 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
533 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
534 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
535 unless this new option is set.
536
537 Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability,
538 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
539 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
540 Local/Makefile:
541
542 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
543
544 10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
545 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
546 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
547 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
548 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
549 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
550 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
551 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
552 return results in a forced fail.
553
554 11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
555 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
556
557 12. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
558 handled by routers/transports.
559
560 13. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
561 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
562
563 14. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
564 modifier (but not yet added to message).
565
566 15. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
567
568 16. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
569
570 17. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
571 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
572 require privilege whereas -d does.
573
574 18. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
575 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
576
577 19. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
578 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
579 wrappers, for instance.
580
581 20. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
582 connections apply.
583
584 21. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
585 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
586 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
587 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
588 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
589 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
590 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
591
592 22. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
593 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
594 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
595
596 23. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
597 UDP host and port.
598
599 24. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
600 characters in the string to \xNN form.
601
602 25. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
603 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
604
605 26. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
606
607
608 Version 4.80
609 ------------
610
611 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
612 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
613 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
614 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
615 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
616
617 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
618 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
619 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
620 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
621
622 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
623 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
624 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
625 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
626 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
627
628 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
629 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
630
631 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
632
633 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
634 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
635 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
636 used by Cyrus SASL.
637
638 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
639
640 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
641 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
642 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
643 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
644 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
645 compatibility at the cost of session security.
646
647 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
648 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
649 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
650 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
651 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
652
653 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
654 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
655
656 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
657 for Exim as a server.
658
659 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
660 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
661 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
662 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
663 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
664
665 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
666 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
667 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
668 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
669 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
670
671 10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
672 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
673
674 11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
675 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
676 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
677 string, documentation for which is at:
678 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
679
680 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
681
682 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
683 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
684
685 12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
686 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
687 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
688 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
689 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
690
691 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
692
693 13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
694 identically to TXT record lookups.
695
696 14. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
697
698 15. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
699 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
700 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
701
702 16. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
703 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
704 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
705 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
706 primes.
707
708 17. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
709 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
710 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
711
712
713 Version 4.77
714 ------------
715
716 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
717 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
718
719 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
720 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
721
722 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
723 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
724
725 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
726 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
727 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
728
729 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
730 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
731 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
732 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
733
734
735 Version 4.76
736 ------------
737
738 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
739 or off in the resolver library.
740
741
742 Version 4.75
743 ------------
744
745 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
746 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
747 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
748 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
749 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
750
751 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
752 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
753 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
754
755 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
756 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
757
758 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
759 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
760 including any header additions or removals from transport.
761
762 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
763 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
764
765
766 Version 4.74
767 ------------
768
769 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
770 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
771 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
772 on content supplied by the attacker.
773
774 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
775 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
776 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
777 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
778 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
779
780
781 Version 4.73
782 ------------
783
784 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
785 items below carefully
786
787 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
788 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
789 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
790 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
791 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
792 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
793 frivolously.
794
795 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
796 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
797 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
798 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
799 be able to take effect.
800
801 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
802 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
803 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
804 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
805
806 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
807 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
808 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
809 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
810
811 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
812
813 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
814
815 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
816 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
817 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
818 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
819 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
820 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
821
822 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
823 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
824
825 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
826 -> 4.2.0.192
827 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
828 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
829
830 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
831 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
832 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
833 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
834 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
835 don't all make sense in all contexts:
836
837 control = debug
838 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
839 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
840 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
841
842 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
843 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
844 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
845 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
846 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
847 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
848 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
849 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
850 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
851 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
852 the safeties off.
853
854 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
855 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
856 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
857 do evaluate true.
858 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
859
860 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
861
862 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
863 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
864 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
865 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
866 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
867 build option.
868
869 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
870 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
871
872 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
873 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
874 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
875 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
876 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
877 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
878
879 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
880 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
881 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
882 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
883 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
884 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
885 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
886 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
887
888
889 Version 4.72
890 ------------
891
892 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
893 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
894
895 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
896
897 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
898 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
899 duplicates).
900
901 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
902 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
903 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
904 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
905 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
906 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
907 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
908 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
909 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
910 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
911
912 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
913 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
914
915 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
916 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
917 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
918
919
920 Version 4.70 / 4.71
921 -------------------
922
923 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
924 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
925 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
926 for details on conditionally disabling)
927
928 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
929
930 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
931 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
932 and{} expansion operator).
933
934 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
935 at delivery time.
936
937 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
938 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
939
940 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
941 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
942 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
943
944 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
945 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
946 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
947 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
948
949 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
950 OpenSSL.
951
952 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
953
954
955 Version 4.69
956 ------------
957
958 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
959
960
961 Version 4.68
962 ------------
963
964 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
965 local_scan API.
966
967 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
968 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
969 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
970 cases, for example:
971
972 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
973
974 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
975 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
976 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
977 like this:
978
979 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
980
981 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
982 192.168.6.7 (for example).
983
984 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
985 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
986 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
987 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
988
989 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
990
991 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
992 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
993 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
994 $tls_peerdn.
995
996 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
997 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
998 only by an admin user.
999
1000 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
1001 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
1002 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
1003 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
1004 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
1005
1006 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
1007 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
1008
1009 Example:
1010
1011 acl_check_connect:
1012 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1013 # we update it below
1014 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1015 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1016 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1017
1018 [... some other logic and tests...]
1019
1020 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1021 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1022 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1023 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1024
1025 accept
1026
1027 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1028 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1029 line termination character(s).
1030
1031 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
1032 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1033 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1034
1035 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1036 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1037 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1038 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1039
1040 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
1041 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1042 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1043 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1044 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1045
1046 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1047 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1048 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1049
1050 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1051 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1052 connection. The possible values are:
1053
1054 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1055 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1056 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1057 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1058 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1059 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1060 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1061 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1062 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1063 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1064
1065 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1066 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1067 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1068 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1069 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1070 used.
1071
1072 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
1073 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1074 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1075
1076 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1077 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1078 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1079
1080 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1081
1082 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1083 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1084 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1085
1086 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1087 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1088 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1089
1090 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1091
1092 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1093
1094 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1095
1096 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1097
1098 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1099
1100 you can still update the master by
1101
1102 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1103
1104 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
1105 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1106 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1107 spaces.
1108
1109
1110 Version 4.67
1111 ------------
1112
1113 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1114 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1115 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
1116 MAIL command.
1117
1118 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
1119 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1120 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
1121 rather than the default "any" matching.
1122
1123 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1124 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1125 other parameters to be varied.
1126
1127 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1128 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
1129
1130 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
1131
1132 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
1133
1134 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
1135 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
1136
1137 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
1138 after the connection to the server has been made.
1139
1140 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
1141 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
1142
1143 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1144 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1145 time and date.
1146
1147 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
1148 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1149 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1150 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
1151 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
1152
1153 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
1154 called forany and forall.
1155
1156 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1157 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1158 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
1159
1160 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
1161
1162 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
1163 that makes it case-sensitive.
1164
1165 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1166 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1167 items, typically addresses.
1168
1169 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1170 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1171 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
1172 can be used.
1173
1174 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
1175 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
1176
1177 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1178 condition.
1179
1180 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
1181 "ignore".
1182
1183
1184 Version 4.66
1185 ------------
1186
1187 No new features were added to 4.66.
1188
1189
1190 Version 4.65
1191 ------------
1192
1193 No new features were added to 4.65.
1194
1195
1196 Version 4.64
1197 ------------
1198
1199 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1200 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1201 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
1202 an underscore.
1203
1204 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
1205 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
1206
1207 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1208 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
1209 number of authentication methods.
1210
1211 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1212 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1213 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1214
1215 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1216 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1217 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1218 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
1219
1220 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
1221
1222 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1223 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1224 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
1225 before doing the expansions.
1226
1227 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
1228 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1229 message.
1230
1231 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1232 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
1233 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
1234
1235 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
1236 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
1237
1238 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1239 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1240 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1241 available for compatibility.)
1242
1243 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1244 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
1245
1246
1247 Version 4.63
1248 ------------
1249
1250 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
1251 router.
1252
1253 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1254 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
1255 read.
1256
1257 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1258 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
1259 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
1260
1261 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
1262 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
1263
1264 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
1265 --reverse
1266 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1267 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1268 --random
1269 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1270 --size
1271 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1272 of their sizes.
1273 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1274 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1275 each messages value for each variable.
1276 --not
1277 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1278 same criteria without --not).
1279
1280
1281 Version 4.62
1282 ------------
1283
1284 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1285 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1286 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1287 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1288 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1289 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1290
1291 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1292
1293 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1294 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1295 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1296 domain socket.
1297
1298 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1299 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1300 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1301
1302 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1303 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1304 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1305 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1306
1307
1308 Version 4.61
1309 ------------
1310
1311 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1312 the 4.60 release are:
1313
1314 . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1315
1316 . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1317
1318 . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1319 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1320 for other things in complicated expansions.
1321
1322 . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
1323
1324 . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1325 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1326
1327 . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1328
1329 . More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1330
1331 There are a number of other additions too.
1332
1333
1334 Version 4.60
1335 ------------
1336
1337 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1338 the 4.50 release are:
1339
1340 . Support for SQLite.
1341
1342 . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1343
1344 . Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1345
1346 . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1347
1348 . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
1349
1350 . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
1351
1352 . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
1353
1354 There are many more minor changes.
1355
1356 ****