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1New Features in Exim
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3
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4This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
5Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
6test from the snapshots or the CVS before the documentation is updated. Once
7the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
8
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9Version 4.78
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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
3b4f55a3 16 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
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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
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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
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26 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
27 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
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f1e05cc7 29 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
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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
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33 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
34 used by Cyrus SASL.
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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
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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 Currently OpenSSL only.
51
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53Version 4.77
54------------
55
56 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
57 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
58
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59 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
60 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
61
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62 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
63 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
64
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65 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
66 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
67 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
68
69 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
70 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
71 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
72 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
73
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75Version 4.76
76------------
77
78 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
79 or off in the resolver library.
80
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82Version 4.75
83------------
84
85 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
86 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
87 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
88 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
89 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
90
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91 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
92 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
93 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
94
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95 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
96 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
97
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98 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
99 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
100 including any header additions or removals from transport.
101
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102 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
103 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
104
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106Version 4.74
107------------
108
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109 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
110 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
111 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
112 on content supplied by the attacker.
113
114 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
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115 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
116 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
117 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
118 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
119
120
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121Version 4.73
122------------
123
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124 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
125 items below carefully
126
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127 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
128 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
129 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
130 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
131 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
132 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
133 frivolously.
134
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135 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
136 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
137 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
43236f35 138 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
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139 be able to take effect.
140
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141 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
142 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
143 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
144 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
145
146 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
147 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
148 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
149 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
150
151 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
152
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153 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
154
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155 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
156 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
157 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
158 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
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159 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
160 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
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162 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
163 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
164
165 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
166 -> 4.2.0.192
167 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
168 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
169
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170 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
171 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
172 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
173 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
174 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
175 don't all make sense in all contexts:
176
177 control = debug
178 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
179 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
180 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
181
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182 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
183 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
184 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
185 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
186 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
187 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
188 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
189 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
190 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
191 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
192 the safeties off.
193
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194 8. There is a new expansion operator, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
195 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
196 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
197 do evaluate true.
198 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
199
200 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests,
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20210. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
203 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
204 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
205 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
206 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
207 build option.
208
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20911. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
210 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
211
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21212. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
213 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
90b6341f 214 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
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215 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
216 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
217 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
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21913. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
220 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
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221 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
222 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
223 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
43236f35 224 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
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225 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
226 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
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229Version 4.72
230------------
231
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232 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
233 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
234
235 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
236
237 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
238 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
239 duplicates).
240
241 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
242 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
243 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
244 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
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245 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
246 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
247 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
248 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
249 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
250 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
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252 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
253 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
254
255 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
256 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
8f425947 257 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
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260Version 4.70 / 4.71
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7c6d71af 263 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
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264 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
265 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
266 for details on conditionally disabling)
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268 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
65a7d8c3 269
f33253cc 270 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
7d9f747b 271 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
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272 and{} expansion operator).
273
274 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
275 at delivery time.
276
277 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
278 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
279
280 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
281 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
282 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
283
284 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
285 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
286 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
287 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
288
289 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
290 OpenSSL.
291
292 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
293
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295Version 4.69
296------------
297
298 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
299
300
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301Version 4.68
302------------
303
304 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
305 local_scan API.
306
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307 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
308 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
309 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
310 cases, for example:
311
312 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
313
314 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
315 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
316 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
317 like this:
318
319 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
320
321 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
322 192.168.6.7 (for example).
323
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324 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
325 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
326 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
327 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
328
329 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
330
331 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
332 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
333 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
334 $tls_peerdn.
335
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336 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
337 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
338 only by an admin user.
339
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340 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
341 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
342 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
343 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
344 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
345
346 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
347 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
348
349 Example:
350
351 acl_check_connect:
352 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
353 # we update it below
354 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
355 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
356 (max $sender_rate_limit)
357
358 [... some other logic and tests...]
359
360 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
361 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
362 (max $sender_rate_limit)
363 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
364
365 accept
366
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367 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
368 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
369 line termination character(s).
370
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371 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analagous to
372 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
373 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
374
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375 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
376 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
377 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
378 message is queued, the remainder are also.
379
4f054c63 380 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
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381 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
382 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
383 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
384 log files) that make the situation even worse.
385
386 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
387 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
388 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
389
390 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
391 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
392 connection. The possible values are:
393
394 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
395 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
396 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
397 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
398 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
399 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
400 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
401 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
402 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
403 tls-failed TLS failed to start
404
405 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
406 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
407 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
408 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
409 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
410 used.
411
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41210. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
413 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
414 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
415
416 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
417 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
418 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
419
420 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
421
422 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
423 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
424 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
425
426 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
427 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
428 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
429
430 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
431
432 In an updating lookup, you could then write
433
434 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
435
436 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
437
438 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
439
440 you can still update the master by
441
442 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
443
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44411. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
445 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
446 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
447 spaces.
448
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450Version 4.67
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452
453 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
454 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
455 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
4aa45c31 456 MAIL command.
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431b7361 458 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
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459 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
460 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
93655c46 461 rather than the default "any" matching.
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463 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
464 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
465 other parameters to be varied.
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467 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
468 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
431b7361 469
4aa45c31 470 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
431b7361 471
4aa45c31 472 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
cf8b11a5 473
41c7c167 474 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
4aa45c31 475 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
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477 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
4aa45c31 478 after the connection to the server has been made.
41c7c167 479
9c57cbc0 480 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
4aa45c31 481 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
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48310. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
484 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
485 time and date.
486
047bdd8c 48711. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
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488 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
489 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
490 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
4aa45c31 491 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
047bdd8c 492
0ce9abe6 49312. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
4aa45c31 494 called forany and forall.
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49613. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
497 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
498 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
0e22dfd1 499
4aa45c31 50014. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
c51b8e75 501
75b1493f 50215. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
4aa45c31 503 that makes it case-sensitive.
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50516. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
506 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
507 items, typically addresses.
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50917. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
510 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
511 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
4aa45c31 512 can be used.
c3611384 513
ec95d1a6 51418. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
4aa45c31 515 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
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51719. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
518 condition.
519
c456d9bb 52020. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
4aa45c31 521 "ignore".
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524Version 4.66
525------------
526
527No new features were added to 4.66.
528
529
530Version 4.65
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532
533No new features were added to 4.65.
534
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536Version 4.64
537------------
538
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540 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
541 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
883335dc 542 an underscore.
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544 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
883335dc 545 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
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547 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
548 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
883335dc 549 number of authentication methods.
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551 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
552 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
553 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
554
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555 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
556 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
557 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
558 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
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883335dc 560 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
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562 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
563 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
564 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
883335dc 565 before doing the expansions.
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567 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
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569 message.
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571 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
572 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
883335dc 573 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
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57510. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
883335dc 576 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
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579 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
580 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
581 available for compatibility.)
582
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584 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
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5901. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
38a0a95f 591 router.
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594 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
38a0a95f 595 read.
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598 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
38a0a95f 599 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
a5bd321b 600
6ec97b1b 6014. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
38a0a95f 602 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
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605 --reverse
606 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
607 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
608 --random
609 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
610 --size
611 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
612 of their sizes.
613 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
614 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
615 each messages value for each variable.
616 --not
617 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
618 same criteria without --not).
619
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6241. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
625 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
626 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
627 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
628 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
629 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
630
631 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
632
633 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
634 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
635 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
636 domain socket.
637
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639 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
640 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
641
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643 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
644 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
645 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
646
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650
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652the 4.60 release are:
653
654. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
655
656. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
657
658. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
659 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
660 for other things in complicated expansions.
661
843a41e8 662. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
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664. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
665 resources used in pipe deliveries.
666
667. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
668
669. More errors are detectable in retry rules.
670
671There are a number of other additions too.
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676
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678the 4.50 release are:
1a46a8c5 679
425ae40f 680. Support for SQLite.
1a46a8c5 681
425ae40f 682. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1a46a8c5 683
425ae40f 684. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1a46a8c5 685
425ae40f 686. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1a46a8c5 687
425ae40f 688. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
b5aea5e1 689
425ae40f 690. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
b5aea5e1 691
425ae40f 692. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
35edf2ff 693
425ae40f 694There are many more minor changes.
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