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64 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.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