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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 CVS before the documentation is updated. Once
7 the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
8
9 Version 4.78
10 ------------
11
12 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
13 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
14 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
15 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
16 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
17
18 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
19 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
20 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
21 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
22
23 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
24 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
25 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
26 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
27 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
28
29 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
30
31 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
32 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
33 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
34 used by Cyrus SASL.
35
36 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
37
38 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
39 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
40 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
41 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
42 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
43 compatibility at the cost of session security.
44
45 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
46 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
47 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
48 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
49 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
50
51 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
52 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
53
54 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
55 for Exim as a server.
56
57 Currently OpenSSL only.
58
59 8. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
60 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
61 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
62
63
64 Version 4.77
65 ------------
66
67 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
68 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
69
70 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
71 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
72
73 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
74 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
75
76 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
77 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
78 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
79
80 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
81 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
82 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
83 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
84
85
86 Version 4.76
87 ------------
88
89 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
90 or off in the resolver library.
91
92
93 Version 4.75
94 ------------
95
96 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
97 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
98 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
99 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
100 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
101
102 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
103 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
104 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
105
106 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
107 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
108
109 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
110 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
111 including any header additions or removals from transport.
112
113 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
114 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
115
116
117 Version 4.74
118 ------------
119
120 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
121 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
122 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
123 on content supplied by the attacker.
124
125 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
126 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
127 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
128 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
129 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
130
131
132 Version 4.73
133 ------------
134
135 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
136 items below carefully
137
138 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
139 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
140 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
141 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
142 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
143 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
144 frivolously.
145
146 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
147 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
148 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
149 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
150 be able to take effect.
151
152 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
153 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
154 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
155 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
156
157 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
158 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
159 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
160 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
161
162 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
163
164 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
165
166 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
167 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
168 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
169 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
170 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
171 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
172
173 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
174 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
175
176 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
177 -> 4.2.0.192
178 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
179 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
180
181 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
182 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
183 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
184 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
185 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
186 don't all make sense in all contexts:
187
188 control = debug
189 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
190 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
191 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
192
193 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
194 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
195 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
196 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
197 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
198 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
199 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
200 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
201 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
202 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
203 the safeties off.
204
205 8. There is a new expansion operator, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
206 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
207 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
208 do evaluate true.
209 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
210
211 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests,
212
213 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
214 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
215 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
216 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
217 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
218 build option.
219
220 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
221 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
222
223 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
224 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
225 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
226 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
227 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
228 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
229
230 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
231 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
232 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
233 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
234 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
235 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
236 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
237 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
238
239
240 Version 4.72
241 ------------
242
243 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
244 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
245
246 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
247
248 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
249 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
250 duplicates).
251
252 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
253 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
254 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
255 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
256 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
257 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
258 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
259 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
260 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
261 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
262
263 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
264 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
265
266 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
267 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
268 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
269
270
271 Version 4.70 / 4.71
272 -------------------
273
274 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
275 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
276 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
277 for details on conditionally disabling)
278
279 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
280
281 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
282 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
283 and{} expansion operator).
284
285 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
286 at delivery time.
287
288 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
289 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
290
291 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
292 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
293 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
294
295 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
296 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
297 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
298 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
299
300 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
301 OpenSSL.
302
303 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
304
305
306 Version 4.69
307 ------------
308
309 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
310
311
312 Version 4.68
313 ------------
314
315 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
316 local_scan API.
317
318 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
319 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
320 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
321 cases, for example:
322
323 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
324
325 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
326 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
327 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
328 like this:
329
330 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
331
332 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
333 192.168.6.7 (for example).
334
335 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
336 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
337 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
338 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
339
340 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
341
342 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
343 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
344 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
345 $tls_peerdn.
346
347 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
348 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
349 only by an admin user.
350
351 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
352 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
353 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
354 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
355 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
356
357 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
358 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
359
360 Example:
361
362 acl_check_connect:
363 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
364 # we update it below
365 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
366 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
367 (max $sender_rate_limit)
368
369 [... some other logic and tests...]
370
371 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
372 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
373 (max $sender_rate_limit)
374 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
375
376 accept
377
378 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
379 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
380 line termination character(s).
381
382 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analagous to
383 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
384 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
385
386 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
387 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
388 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
389 message is queued, the remainder are also.
390
391 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
392 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
393 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
394 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
395 log files) that make the situation even worse.
396
397 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
398 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
399 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
400
401 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
402 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
403 connection. The possible values are:
404
405 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
406 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
407 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
408 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
409 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
410 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
411 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
412 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
413 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
414 tls-failed TLS failed to start
415
416 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
417 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
418 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
419 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
420 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
421 used.
422
423 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
424 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
425 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
426
427 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
428 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
429 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
430
431 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
432
433 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
434 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
435 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
436
437 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
438 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
439 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
440
441 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
442
443 In an updating lookup, you could then write
444
445 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
446
447 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
448
449 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
450
451 you can still update the master by
452
453 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
454
455 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
456 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
457 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
458 spaces.
459
460
461 Version 4.67
462 ------------
463
464 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
465 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
466 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
467 MAIL command.
468
469 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
470 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
471 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
472 rather than the default "any" matching.
473
474 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
475 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
476 other parameters to be varied.
477
478 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
479 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
480
481 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
482
483 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
484
485 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
486 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
487
488 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
489 after the connection to the server has been made.
490
491 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
492 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
493
494 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
495 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
496 time and date.
497
498 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
499 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
500 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
501 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
502 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
503
504 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
505 called forany and forall.
506
507 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
508 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
509 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
510
511 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
512
513 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
514 that makes it case-sensitive.
515
516 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
517 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
518 items, typically addresses.
519
520 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
521 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
522 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
523 can be used.
524
525 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
526 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
527
528 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
529 condition.
530
531 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
532 "ignore".
533
534
535 Version 4.66
536 ------------
537
538 No new features were added to 4.66.
539
540
541 Version 4.65
542 ------------
543
544 No new features were added to 4.65.
545
546
547 Version 4.64
548 ------------
549
550 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
551 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
552 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
553 an underscore.
554
555 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
556 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
557
558 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
559 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
560 number of authentication methods.
561
562 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
563 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
564 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
565
566 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
567 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
568 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
569 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
570
571 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
572
573 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
574 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
575 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
576 before doing the expansions.
577
578 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
579 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
580 message.
581
582 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
583 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
584 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
585
586 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
587 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
588
589 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
590 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
591 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
592 available for compatibility.)
593
594 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
595 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
596
597
598 Version 4.63
599 ------------
600
601 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
602 router.
603
604 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
605 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
606 read.
607
608 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
609 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
610 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
611
612 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
613 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
614
615 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
616 --reverse
617 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
618 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
619 --random
620 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
621 --size
622 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
623 of their sizes.
624 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
625 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
626 each messages value for each variable.
627 --not
628 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
629 same criteria without --not).
630
631
632 Version 4.62
633 ------------
634
635 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
636 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
637 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
638 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
639 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
640 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
641
642 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
643
644 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
645 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
646 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
647 domain socket.
648
649 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
650 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
651 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
652
653 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
654 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
655 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
656 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
657
658
659 Version 4.61
660 ------------
661
662 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
663 the 4.60 release are:
664
665 . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
666
667 . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
668
669 . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
670 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
671 for other things in complicated expansions.
672
673 . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
674
675 . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
676 resources used in pipe deliveries.
677
678 . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
679
680 . More errors are detectable in retry rules.
681
682 There are a number of other additions too.
683
684
685 Version 4.60
686 ------------
687
688 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
689 the 4.50 release are:
690
691 . Support for SQLite.
692
693 . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
694
695 . Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
696
697 . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
698
699 . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
700
701 . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
702
703 . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
704
705 There are many more minor changes.
706
707 ****