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1New Features in Exim
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3
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4This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
5Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
33f316f2 6test from the snapshots or the Git before the documentation is updated. Once
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7the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
8
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9Version 4.94
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12 1. EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
13 file.
14
1d717e1c 15 2. Channel-binding for authenticators is now supported under OpenSSL.
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16 Previously it was GnuTLS-only.
17
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18 3. A msg:defer event.
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20 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the plaintext
21 driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS
22 methods.
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24 5. Variable $local_part_verified, set by the router check_local_part condition
25 with untainted data.
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28Version 4.93
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30
b53c265b 31 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
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7f69e814 33 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
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35 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
36 for ciphersuites.
37
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38 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
39
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40 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
41
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42 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
43 file.
44
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45 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
46 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
47
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48 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
49
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50 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
51 and transports.
52
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5310. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
54
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5511. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
56
86ede124 5712. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
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5913. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
60
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6114: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
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6315: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
64 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
65 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
66 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
67 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
68 only, and exim must be run as root).
69
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7016: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
71
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7217. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
73
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75Version 4.92
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77
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78 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
79 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
80 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
81 facilities hard to parse.
82
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83 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
84 obvious thing.
85
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86 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
87 features. See the experimental.spec file.
8ac90765 88
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89 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
90
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91 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
92
8442641e 93 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
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95 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
96
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97 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
98
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99 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
100
d4fd1b83 101Version 4.91
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103
104 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
105 version 3.5.6 or later.
106
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107 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
108 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
405074ad 109 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
899b8bbc 110
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111 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
112
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113 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
114 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
115
306c6c77 116 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
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117 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
118 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
119 a "dkim" log_selector.
120
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121 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
122
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123 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
124 routing rules in the manualroute router.
125
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126 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
127 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
128
286b9d5f 129 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
cb78c1a8 130 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
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13210. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
133 version dependent.
134
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13511. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
136
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13712. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
138 Authentication-Results: header.
139
617d3932 14013. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
ddd16464 141 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
617d3932 142
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14314: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
144
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14515. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
146 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
147 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
148 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
149
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15016. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
151 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
152 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
153
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155Version 4.90
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157
158 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
159 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
160
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161 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
162 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
163
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164 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
165 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
166 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
167 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
168 another process. Logging is also affected.
169
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170 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
171
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172 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
173 further recipients and for delivery.
174
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175 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
176 supported.
177
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178 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
179 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
180 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
181 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
182 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
183
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184 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
185 restrict who can use various introspection options.
186
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187 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
188 appendfile transport.
189
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19010. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
191 SMTP commands.
192
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19311. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
194 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
571b2715 195
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19612. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
197 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
4a5cbaff 198 is opened with a TFO cookie.
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9e70917d 20013. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
7c6ec81b 201 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
970424a5 202 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
484cc1a9 203 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
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204 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
205 the data ACL.
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20714. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
208 configuration file.
209
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21015. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
211 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
212
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21316. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
214 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
215
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21617. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
217
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219Version 4.89
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222 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
223
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224 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
225 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
12e9bb25 226 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
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229Version 4.88
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231
fc16abb4 232 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
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233 interpreter in taint mode.
234
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235 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
236
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237 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
238 modifier.
239
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240 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
241 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
242 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
243
f59aaaaa 244 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
55e70e76 245 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
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246 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
247 visibility.
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249 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
250
44bc8f0c 251 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
7e3ce68e 252 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
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253 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
254 for control.
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256 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
257
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258 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
259
fbbd45ff 26010. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
4945f557 261 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
383832ef 262 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
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263 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
264 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
fbbd45ff 265
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26611. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
267
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26812. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
269 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
270 message.
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27213. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
273
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27414. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
275 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
276
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27715. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
278 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
279 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
280 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
281 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
282 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
283 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
f59aaaaa 284 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
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287
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289Version 4.87
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292 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
293 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
294
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295 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
296 malware= or verify= callout.
297
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298 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
299
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300 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
301 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
302 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
303 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
304 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
305 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
306
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307 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
308
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309 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
310
9aa35e9c 311 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
59b87190 312 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
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62b7cd08 314 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
f59aaaaa 315 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
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316 limits.
317
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318 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
319
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323
324 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
325
326 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
327 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
328
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329 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
330
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331 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
332
333 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
334
f59aaaaa 335 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
cc00f4af 336
7eb6c37c 337 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
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338 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
339
340 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
341 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
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343 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
344 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
345
b3ef41c9 34610. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
846430d9 347
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34811. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
349
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35012. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
351
10ca4f1c 35213. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
65463bc9 353 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
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35514. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
356 same level as DNSSEC.
357
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361
362 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
f59aaaaa 363 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
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364 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
365 domain of the sender.
366
367 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
368 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
369 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
370 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
371 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
372 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
373
374 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
375 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
376 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
377
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381
382
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383Version 4.83
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386 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
387 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
388 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
389 proxy that is connecting to it.
390
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391 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
392 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
393 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
394 detect and reject if those characters are present.
395
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396 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
397 codepoints with valid ones.
398
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399 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
400 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
007a2dee 401 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
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402 be included in the command line.
403
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404 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
405 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
406 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
407 verification cancels the encryption.
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409 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
410 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
411 default list.
412
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413 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
414 file when searching the queue.
415
f2de3a33 416 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
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418 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
419
9d1c15ef 42010. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
6a8a60e0 421 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
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422 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
423 for them added.
9d1c15ef 424
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42511. PRDR is now supported dy default.
426
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42712. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
428
42913. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
4c04137d 430 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
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431 DSN features per RFC 3461.
432
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2c422e6f 434Version 4.82
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436
437 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
438 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
439 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
440 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
441 SIEVE capability line.
442
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443 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
444 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
445 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
446 followed by a newline, and no other text.
447
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448 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
449 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
450 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
451 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
452 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
453 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
454 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
455 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
456
457 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
458
1f4a55da 459 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
0fbd9bff 460 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
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461 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
462 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
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463 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
464 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
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466 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
467
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468 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
469 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
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470 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
471
472 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
473 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
474
475 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
476 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
36a3ae5f 477
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478 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
479 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
480 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
481 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
482 ignored.
483
976b7e9f 484 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
4c04137d 485 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
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486 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
487 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
488 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
489 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
490 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
4c04137d 491 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
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492 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
493 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
494 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
495 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
496 system not your own.
497
4c04137d 498 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
042eb971 499 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
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500 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
501 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
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503 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
504 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
505 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
506
507 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
508 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
509 are present for now but deprecated.
510
fcc8e047 511 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
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513 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
514 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
98a90c36 515
2519e60d 516 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
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517 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
518 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
519 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
520 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
521 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
522 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
523 unless this new option is set.
524
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526 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
527 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
528 Local/Makefile:
529
530 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
531
3e8abda0 53210. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
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533 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
534 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
535 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
536 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
537 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
538 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
539 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
540 return results in a forced fail.
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543 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
544
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546 handled by routers/transports.
547
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54813. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
549 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
550
362145b5 55114. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
85ffcba6 552 modifier (but not yet added to message).
362145b5 553
bd0fff00 55415. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
3c0a92dc 555
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55616. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
557
181d9bf8 55817. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
f59aaaaa 559 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
2a47f028 560 require privilege whereas -d does.
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56218. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
563 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
564
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566 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
567 wrappers, for instance.
568
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56920. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
570 connections apply.
571
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573 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
574 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
575 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
576 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
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577 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
578 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
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58022. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
581 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
582 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
583
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585 UDP host and port.
586
58724. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
588 characters in the string to \xNN form.
589
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59025. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
591 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
592
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594
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598
599 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
600 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
601 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
602 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
3b4f55a3 603 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
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605 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
606 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
607 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
608 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
609
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610 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
611 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
612 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
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613 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
614 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
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616 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
617 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
618
f1e05cc7 619 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
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621 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
622 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
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623 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
624 used by Cyrus SASL.
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626 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
627
628 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
629 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
630 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
631 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
632 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
633 compatibility at the cost of session security.
634
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635 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
636 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
637 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
638 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
639 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
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641 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
642 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
643
644 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
645 for Exim as a server.
646
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647 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
648 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
649 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
650 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
651 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
652
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653 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
654 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
655 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
656 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
657 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
658
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660 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
661
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66211. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
663 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
664 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
665 string, documentation for which is at:
42bfef1e 666 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
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668 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
669
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670 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
671 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
672
53947857 67312. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
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674 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
675 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
676 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
677 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
678
679 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
680
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68113. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
682 identically to TXT record lookups.
683
2605c55b 68414. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
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68615. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
687 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
688 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
689
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69016. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
691 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
692 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
693 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
694 primes.
695
3ecab157 69617. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
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697 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
698 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
699
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702------------
703
704 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
705 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
706
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707 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
708 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
709
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710 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
711 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
712
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713 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
714 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
715 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
716
717 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
718 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
719 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
720 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
721
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724------------
725
726 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
727 or off in the resolver library.
728
729
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731------------
732
733 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
734 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
735 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
736 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
737 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
738
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739 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
740 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
741 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
742
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743 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
744 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
745
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746 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
747 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
748 including any header additions or removals from transport.
749
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750 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
751 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
752
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755------------
756
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757 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
758 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
759 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
760 on content supplied by the attacker.
761
762 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
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763 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
764 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
765 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
766 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
767
768
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770------------
771
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772 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
773 items below carefully
774
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775 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
776 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
777 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
778 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
779 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
780 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
781 frivolously.
782
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783 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
784 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
785 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
43236f35 786 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
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787 be able to take effect.
788
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789 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
790 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
791 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
792 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
793
794 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
795 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
796 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
797 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
798
799 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
800
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801 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
802
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803 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
804 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
805 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
806 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
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807 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
808 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
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810 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
811 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
812
813 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
814 -> 4.2.0.192
815 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
816 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
817
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818 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
819 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
820 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
821 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
822 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
823 don't all make sense in all contexts:
824
825 control = debug
826 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
827 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
828 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
829
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830 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
831 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
832 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
833 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
834 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
835 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
836 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
837 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
838 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
839 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
840 the safeties off.
841
06a6f4ed 842 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
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843 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
844 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
845 do evaluate true.
846 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
847
06a6f4ed 848 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
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851 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
852 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
853 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
854 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
855 build option.
856
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858 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
859
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86012. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
861 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
90b6341f 862 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
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864 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
865 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
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86713. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
868 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
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870 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
871 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
43236f35 872 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
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873 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
874 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
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878------------
879
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880 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
881 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
882
883 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
884
885 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
886 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
887 duplicates).
888
889 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
890 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
891 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
892 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
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893 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
894 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
895 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
896 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
897 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
898 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
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900 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
901 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
902
903 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
904 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
8f425947 905 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
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7c6d71af 911 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
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913 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
914 for details on conditionally disabling)
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916 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
65a7d8c3 917
f33253cc 918 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
7d9f747b 919 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
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920 and{} expansion operator).
921
922 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
923 at delivery time.
924
925 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
926 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
927
928 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
929 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
930 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
931
932 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
933 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
934 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
935 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
936
937 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
938 OpenSSL.
939
940 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
941
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944------------
945
946 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
947
948
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950------------
951
952 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
953 local_scan API.
954
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956 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
957 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
958 cases, for example:
959
960 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
961
962 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
963 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
964 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
965 like this:
966
967 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
968
969 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
970 192.168.6.7 (for example).
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973 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
974 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
975 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
976
977 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
978
979 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
980 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
981 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
982 $tls_peerdn.
983
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985 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
986 only by an admin user.
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988 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
989 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
990 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
991 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
992 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
993
994 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
995 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
996
997 Example:
998
999 acl_check_connect:
1000 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1001 # we update it below
1002 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1003 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1004 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1005
1006 [... some other logic and tests...]
1007
1008 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1009 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1010 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1011 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1012
1013 accept
1014
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1015 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1016 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1017 line termination character(s).
1018
aded2255 1019 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
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1020 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1021 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1022
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1023 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1024 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1025 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1026 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1027
4f054c63 1028 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
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1029 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1030 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1031 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1032 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1033
1034 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1035 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1036 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1037
1038 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1039 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1040 connection. The possible values are:
1041
1042 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1043 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1044 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1045 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1046 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1047 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1048 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1049 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1050 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1051 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1052
1053 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1054 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1055 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1056 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1057 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1058 used.
1059
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1061 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1062 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1063
1064 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1065 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1066 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1067
1068 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1069
1070 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1071 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1072 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1073
1074 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1075 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1076 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1077
1078 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1079
1080 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1081
1082 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1083
1084 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1085
1086 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1087
1088 you can still update the master by
1089
1090 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1091
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1093 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1094 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1095 spaces.
1096
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1099------------
1100
1101 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1102 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1103 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
4aa45c31 1104 MAIL command.
b4ed4da0 1105
431b7361 1106 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
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1107 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1108 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
93655c46 1109 rather than the default "any" matching.
431b7361 1110
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1111 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1112 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1113 other parameters to be varied.
431b7361 1114
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1115 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1116 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
431b7361 1117
4aa45c31 1118 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
431b7361 1119
4aa45c31 1120 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
cf8b11a5 1121
41c7c167 1122 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
4aa45c31 1123 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
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1125 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
4aa45c31 1126 after the connection to the server has been made.
41c7c167 1127
9c57cbc0 1128 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
4aa45c31 1129 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
9c57cbc0 1130
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113110. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1132 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1133 time and date.
1134
047bdd8c 113511. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
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1136 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1137 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1138 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
4aa45c31 1139 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
047bdd8c 1140
0ce9abe6 114112. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
4aa45c31 1142 called forany and forall.
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114413. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1145 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1146 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
0e22dfd1 1147
4aa45c31 114814. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
c51b8e75 1149
75b1493f 115015. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
4aa45c31 1151 that makes it case-sensitive.
29f89cad 1152
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115316. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1154 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1155 items, typically addresses.
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115717. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1158 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1159 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
4aa45c31 1160 can be used.
c3611384 1161
ec95d1a6 116218. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
4aa45c31 1163 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
ec95d1a6 1164
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116519. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1166 condition.
1167
c456d9bb 116820. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
4aa45c31 1169 "ignore".
c456d9bb 1170
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1172Version 4.66
1173------------
1174
1175No new features were added to 4.66.
1176
1177
1178Version 4.65
1179------------
1180
1181No new features were added to 4.65.
1182
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1184Version 4.64
1185------------
1186
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1187 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1188 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1189 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
883335dc 1190 an underscore.
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1192 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
883335dc 1193 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
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1195 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1196 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
883335dc 1197 number of authentication methods.
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1199 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1200 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1201 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1202
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1203 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1204 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1205 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1206 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
af561417 1207
883335dc 1208 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
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1210 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1211 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1212 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
883335dc 1213 before doing the expansions.
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1215 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
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1216 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1217 message.
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1219 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1220 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
883335dc 1221 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
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122310. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
883335dc 1224 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
48c7f9e2 1225
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122611. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1227 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1228 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1229 available for compatibility.)
1230
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123112. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1232 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
4e88a19f 1233
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1236------------
1237
12381. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
38a0a95f 1239 router.
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12412. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1242 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
38a0a95f 1243 read.
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12453. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1246 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
38a0a95f 1247 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
a5bd321b 1248
6ec97b1b 12494. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
38a0a95f 1250 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
6ec97b1b 1251
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1253 --reverse
1254 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1255 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1256 --random
1257 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1258 --size
1259 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1260 of their sizes.
1261 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1262 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1263 each messages value for each variable.
1264 --not
1265 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1266 same criteria without --not).
1267
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1270------------
1271
12721. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1273 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1274 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1275 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1276 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1277 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1278
1279 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1280
1281 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1282 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1283 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1284 domain socket.
1285
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12862. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1287 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1288 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1289
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12903. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1291 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1292 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1293 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1294
1cce3af8 1295
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1297------------
1298
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1299The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1300the 4.60 release are:
1301
1302. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1303
1304. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1305
1306. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1307 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1308 for other things in complicated expansions.
1309
843a41e8 1310. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
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1312. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1313 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1314
1315. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1316
1317. More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1318
1319There are a number of other additions too.
71fafd95 1320
7e66e54d 1321
425ae40f 1322Version 4.60
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1324
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1325The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1326the 4.50 release are:
1a46a8c5 1327
425ae40f 1328. Support for SQLite.
1a46a8c5 1329
425ae40f 1330. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1a46a8c5 1331
425ae40f 1332. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1a46a8c5 1333
425ae40f 1334. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1a46a8c5 1335
425ae40f 1336. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
b5aea5e1 1337
425ae40f 1338. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
b5aea5e1 1339
425ae40f 1340. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
35edf2ff 1341
425ae40f 1342There are many more minor changes.
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