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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.
19
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20 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the
21 plaintext driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and
22 SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS methods.
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24 5. Server-side support in the gsasl authenticator for encrypted passwords, as
25 an alternate for the existing plaintext.
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27 6. Variable $local_part_verified, set by the router check_local_part condition
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28 with untainted data.
29
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30 7. Named-list definitions can now be prefixed "hide" so that "-bP" commands do
31 not output the content. Previously this could only be done on options.
32
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33 8. As an exerimental feature, the dovecot authenticatino driver supports inet
34 sockets. Previously it was unix-domain sockets only.
35
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36 9. The ACL control "queue_only" can also be spelled "queue", and now takes an
37 option "first_pass_route" to do the same as a "-odqs" on the command line.
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be24b950 3910. Items specified for the router and transport headers_remove option can use
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40 a trailing asterisk to specify globbing.
41
be24b950 4211. New $queue_size variable.
759502e5 43
be24b950 4412. New variables $local_part_{pre,suf}fix_v.
6656a75a 45
be24b950 4613. New main option "sqlite_dbfile", for use in preference to prefixing the
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47 lookup string. The older method fails when tainted variables are used
48 in the lookup, as the filename becomes tainted. The new method keeps the
49 filename separate.
0b4dfe7a 50
be24b950 5114. Options on the dsearch lookup, to return the full path and to filter
4aaeadde 52 filetypes for matching.
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be24b950 5415. Options on pgsql and mysql lookups, to specify server separate from the
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55 lookup string.
56
be24b950 5716. Expansion item ${listquote {<char} {<item>}}.
1950cf85 58
be24b950 5917. An option for the ${readsocket {}{}{}} expansion to make the result data
1950cf85 60 cacheable.
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6218. dkim_verify_min_keysizes, a list of minimum acceptable public-key sizes.
63
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66Version 4.93
67------------
68
b53c265b 69 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
40ed89b3 70
7f69e814 71 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
40ed89b3 72
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73 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
74 for ciphersuites.
75
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76 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
77
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78 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
79
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80 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
81 file.
82
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83 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
84 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
85
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86 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
87
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88 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
89 and transports.
90
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9110. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
92
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9311. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
94
86ede124 9512. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
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9713. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
98
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9914: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
100
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10115: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
102 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
103 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
104 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
105 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
106 only, and exim must be run as root).
107
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10816: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
109
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11017. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
111
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113Version 4.92
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115
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116 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
117 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
118 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
119 facilities hard to parse.
120
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121 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
122 obvious thing.
123
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124 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
125 features. See the experimental.spec file.
8ac90765 126
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127 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
128
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129 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
130
8442641e 131 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
12263aa8 132
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133 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
134
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135 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
136
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137 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
138
d4fd1b83 139Version 4.91
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141
142 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
143 version 3.5.6 or later.
144
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145 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
146 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
405074ad 147 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
899b8bbc 148
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149 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
150
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151 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
152 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
153
306c6c77 154 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
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155 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
156 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
157 a "dkim" log_selector.
158
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159 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
160
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161 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
162 routing rules in the manualroute router.
163
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164 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
165 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
166
286b9d5f 167 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
cb78c1a8 168 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
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17010. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
171 version dependent.
172
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17311. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
174
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17512. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
176 Authentication-Results: header.
177
617d3932 17813. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
ddd16464 179 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
617d3932 180
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18114: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
182
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184 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
185 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
186 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
187
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18816. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
189 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
190 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
191
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195
196 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
197 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
198
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199 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
200 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
201
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202 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
203 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
204 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
205 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
206 another process. Logging is also affected.
207
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208 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
209
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210 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
211 further recipients and for delivery.
212
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213 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
214 supported.
215
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216 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
217 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
218 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
219 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
220 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
221
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222 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
223 restrict who can use various introspection options.
224
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225 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
226 appendfile transport.
227
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22810. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
229 SMTP commands.
230
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23111. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
232 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
571b2715 233
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23412. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
235 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
4a5cbaff 236 is opened with a TFO cookie.
a2673768 237
9e70917d 23813. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
7c6ec81b 239 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
970424a5 240 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
484cc1a9 241 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
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242 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
243 the data ACL.
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24514. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
246 configuration file.
247
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24815. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
249 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
250
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25116. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
252 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
253
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25417. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
255
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257Version 4.89
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259
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260 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
261
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262 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
263 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
12e9bb25 264 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
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267Version 4.88
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269
fc16abb4 270 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
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271 interpreter in taint mode.
272
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273 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
274
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275 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
276 modifier.
277
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278 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
279 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
280 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
281
f59aaaaa 282 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
55e70e76 283 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
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284 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
285 visibility.
28b3821f 286
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287 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
288
44bc8f0c 289 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
7e3ce68e 290 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
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291 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
292 for control.
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295
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296 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
297
fbbd45ff 29810. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
4945f557 299 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
383832ef 300 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
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301 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
302 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
fbbd45ff 303
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30411. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
305
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30612. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
307 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
308 message.
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31013. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
311
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31214. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
313 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
314
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31515. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
316 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
317 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
318 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
319 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
320 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
321 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
f59aaaaa 322 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
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325
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327Version 4.87
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330 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
331 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
332
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333 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
334 malware= or verify= callout.
335
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336 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
337
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338 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
339 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
340 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
341 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
342 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
343 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
344
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345 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
346
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347 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
348
9aa35e9c 349 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
59b87190 350 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
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62b7cd08 352 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
f59aaaaa 353 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
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354 limits.
355
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356 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
357
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361
362 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
363
364 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
365 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
366
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367 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
368
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369 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
370
371 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
372
f59aaaaa 373 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
cc00f4af 374
7eb6c37c 375 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
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376 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
377
378 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
379 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
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381 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
382 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
383
b3ef41c9 38410. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
846430d9 385
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38611. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
387
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38812. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
389
10ca4f1c 39013. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
65463bc9 391 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
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39314. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
394 same level as DNSSEC.
395
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398
399 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
f59aaaaa 400 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
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401 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
402 domain of the sender.
403
404 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
405 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
406 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
407 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
408 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
409 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
410
411 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
412 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
413 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
414
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418
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423 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
424 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
425 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
426 proxy that is connecting to it.
427
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428 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
429 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
430 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
431 detect and reject if those characters are present.
432
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433 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
434 codepoints with valid ones.
435
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436 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
437 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
007a2dee 438 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
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439 be included in the command line.
440
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441 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
442 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
443 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
444 verification cancels the encryption.
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446 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
447 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
448 default list.
449
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450 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
451 file when searching the queue.
452
f2de3a33 453 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
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455 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
456
9d1c15ef 45710. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
6a8a60e0 458 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
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459 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
460 for them added.
9d1c15ef 461
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46211. PRDR is now supported dy default.
463
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46412. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
465
46613. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
4c04137d 467 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
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468 DSN features per RFC 3461.
469
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2c422e6f 471Version 4.82
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473
474 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
475 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
476 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
477 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
478 SIEVE capability line.
479
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480 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
481 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
482 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
483 followed by a newline, and no other text.
484
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485 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
486 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
487 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
488 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
489 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
490 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
491 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
492 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
493
494 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
495
1f4a55da 496 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
0fbd9bff 497 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
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498 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
499 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
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500 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
501 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
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503 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
504
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505 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
506 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
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507 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
508
509 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
510 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
511
512 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
513 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
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515 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
516 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
517 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
518 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
519 ignored.
520
976b7e9f 521 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
4c04137d 522 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
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523 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
524 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
525 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
526 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
527 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
4c04137d 528 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
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529 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
530 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
531 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
532 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
533 system not your own.
534
4c04137d 535 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
042eb971 536 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
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537 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
538 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
06a6f4ed 539
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540 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
541 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
542 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
543
544 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
545 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
546 are present for now but deprecated.
547
fcc8e047 548 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
976b7e9f 549
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550 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
551 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
98a90c36 552
2519e60d 553 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
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554 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
555 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
556 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
557 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
558 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
559 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
560 unless this new option is set.
561
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563 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
564 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
565 Local/Makefile:
566
567 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
568
3e8abda0 56910. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
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570 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
571 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
572 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
573 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
574 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
575 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
576 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
577 return results in a forced fail.
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57911. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
580 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
581
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58212. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
583 handled by routers/transports.
584
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58513. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
586 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
587
362145b5 58814. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
85ffcba6 589 modifier (but not yet added to message).
362145b5 590
bd0fff00 59115. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
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59316. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
594
181d9bf8 59517. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
f59aaaaa 596 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
2a47f028 597 require privilege whereas -d does.
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59918. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
600 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
601
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60219. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
603 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
604 wrappers, for instance.
605
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60620. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
607 connections apply.
608
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610 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
611 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
612 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
613 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
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615 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
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61722. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
618 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
619 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
620
4c04137d 62123. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
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622 UDP host and port.
623
62424. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
625 characters in the string to \xNN form.
626
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62725. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
628 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
629
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63026. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
631
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635
636 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
637 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
638 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
639 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
3b4f55a3 640 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
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642 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
643 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
644 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
645 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
646
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647 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
648 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
649 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
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650 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
651 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
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653 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
654 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
655
f1e05cc7 656 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
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658 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
659 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
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660 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
661 used by Cyrus SASL.
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663 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
664
665 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
666 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
667 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
668 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
669 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
670 compatibility at the cost of session security.
671
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672 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
673 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
674 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
675 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
676 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
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678 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
679 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
680
681 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
682 for Exim as a server.
683
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684 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
685 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
686 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
687 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
688 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
689
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690 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
691 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
692 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
693 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
694 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
695
eae0036b 69610. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
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697 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
698
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69911. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
700 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
701 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
702 string, documentation for which is at:
42bfef1e 703 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
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705 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
706
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707 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
708 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
709
53947857 71012. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
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711 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
712 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
713 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
714 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
715
716 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
717
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71813. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
719 identically to TXT record lookups.
720
2605c55b 72114. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
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72315. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
724 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
725 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
726
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72716. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
728 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
729 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
730 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
731 primes.
732
3ecab157 73317. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
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734 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
735 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
736
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739------------
740
741 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
742 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
743
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744 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
745 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
746
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747 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
748 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
749
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750 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
751 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
752 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
753
754 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
755 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
756 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
757 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
758
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760Version 4.76
761------------
762
763 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
764 or off in the resolver library.
765
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768------------
769
770 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
771 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
772 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
773 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
774 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
775
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776 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
777 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
778 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
779
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780 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
781 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
782
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783 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
784 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
785 including any header additions or removals from transport.
786
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787 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
788 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
789
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792------------
793
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794 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
795 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
796 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
797 on content supplied by the attacker.
798
799 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
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800 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
801 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
802 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
803 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
804
805
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807------------
808
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809 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
810 items below carefully
811
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812 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
813 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
814 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
815 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
816 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
817 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
818 frivolously.
819
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820 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
821 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
822 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
43236f35 823 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
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824 be able to take effect.
825
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826 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
827 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
828 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
829 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
830
831 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
832 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
833 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
834 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
835
836 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
837
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838 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
839
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840 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
841 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
842 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
843 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
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844 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
845 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
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847 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
848 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
849
850 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
851 -> 4.2.0.192
852 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
853 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
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855 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
856 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
857 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
858 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
859 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
860 don't all make sense in all contexts:
861
862 control = debug
863 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
864 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
865 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
866
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867 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
868 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
869 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
870 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
871 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
872 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
873 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
874 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
875 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
876 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
877 the safeties off.
878
06a6f4ed 879 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
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880 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
881 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
882 do evaluate true.
883 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
884
06a6f4ed 885 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
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888 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
889 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
890 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
891 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
892 build option.
893
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89411. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
895 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
896
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898 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
90b6341f 899 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
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901 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
902 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
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90413. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
905 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
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906 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
907 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
908 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
43236f35 909 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
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910 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
911 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
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916
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917 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
918 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
919
920 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
921
922 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
923 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
924 duplicates).
925
926 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
927 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
928 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
929 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
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930 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
931 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
932 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
933 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
934 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
935 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
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937 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
938 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
939
940 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
941 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
8f425947 942 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
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7c6d71af 948 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
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949 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
950 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
951 for details on conditionally disabling)
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953 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
65a7d8c3 954
f33253cc 955 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
7d9f747b 956 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
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957 and{} expansion operator).
958
959 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
960 at delivery time.
961
962 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
963 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
964
965 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
966 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
967 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
968
969 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
970 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
971 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
972 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
973
974 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
975 OpenSSL.
976
977 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
978
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981------------
982
983 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
984
985
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987------------
988
989 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
990 local_scan API.
991
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993 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
994 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
995 cases, for example:
996
997 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
998
999 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
1000 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
1001 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
1002 like this:
1003
1004 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
1005
1006 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
1007 192.168.6.7 (for example).
1008
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1009 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
1010 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
1011 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
1012 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
1013
1014 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
1015
1016 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
1017 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
1018 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
1019 $tls_peerdn.
1020
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1021 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
1022 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
1023 only by an admin user.
1024
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1025 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
1026 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
1027 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
1028 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
1029 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
1030
1031 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
1032 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
1033
1034 Example:
1035
1036 acl_check_connect:
1037 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1038 # we update it below
1039 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1040 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1041 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1042
1043 [... some other logic and tests...]
1044
1045 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1046 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1047 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1048 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1049
1050 accept
1051
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1052 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1053 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1054 line termination character(s).
1055
aded2255 1056 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
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1057 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1058 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1059
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1060 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1061 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1062 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1063 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1064
4f054c63 1065 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
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1066 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1067 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1068 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1069 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1070
1071 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1072 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1073 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1074
1075 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1076 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1077 connection. The possible values are:
1078
1079 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1080 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1081 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1082 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1083 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1084 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1085 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1086 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1087 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1088 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1089
1090 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1091 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1092 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1093 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1094 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1095 used.
1096
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1098 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1099 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1100
1101 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1102 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1103 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1104
1105 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1106
1107 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1108 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1109 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1110
1111 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1112 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1113 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1114
1115 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1116
1117 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1118
1119 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1120
1121 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1122
1123 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1124
1125 you can still update the master by
1126
1127 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1128
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1130 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1131 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1132 spaces.
1133
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1136------------
1137
1138 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1139 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1140 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
4aa45c31 1141 MAIL command.
b4ed4da0 1142
431b7361 1143 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
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1144 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1145 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
93655c46 1146 rather than the default "any" matching.
431b7361 1147
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1148 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1149 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1150 other parameters to be varied.
431b7361 1151
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1152 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1153 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
431b7361 1154
4aa45c31 1155 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
431b7361 1156
4aa45c31 1157 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
cf8b11a5 1158
41c7c167 1159 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
4aa45c31 1160 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
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1162 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
4aa45c31 1163 after the connection to the server has been made.
41c7c167 1164
9c57cbc0 1165 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
4aa45c31 1166 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
9c57cbc0 1167
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116810. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1169 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1170 time and date.
1171
047bdd8c 117211. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
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1173 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1174 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1175 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
4aa45c31 1176 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
047bdd8c 1177
0ce9abe6 117812. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
4aa45c31 1179 called forany and forall.
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118113. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1182 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1183 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
0e22dfd1 1184
4aa45c31 118514. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
c51b8e75 1186
75b1493f 118715. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
4aa45c31 1188 that makes it case-sensitive.
29f89cad 1189
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119016. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1191 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1192 items, typically addresses.
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119417. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1195 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1196 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
4aa45c31 1197 can be used.
c3611384 1198
ec95d1a6 119918. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
4aa45c31 1200 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
ec95d1a6 1201
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120219. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1203 condition.
1204
c456d9bb 120520. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
4aa45c31 1206 "ignore".
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1209Version 4.66
1210------------
1211
1212No new features were added to 4.66.
1213
1214
1215Version 4.65
1216------------
1217
1218No new features were added to 4.65.
1219
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1221Version 4.64
1222------------
1223
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1224 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1225 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1226 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
883335dc 1227 an underscore.
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1229 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
883335dc 1230 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
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1232 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1233 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
883335dc 1234 number of authentication methods.
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1236 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1237 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1238 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1239
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1240 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1241 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1242 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1243 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
af561417 1244
883335dc 1245 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
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1246
1247 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1248 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1249 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
883335dc 1250 before doing the expansions.
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1252 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
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1253 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1254 message.
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1256 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1257 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
883335dc 1258 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
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126010. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
883335dc 1261 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
48c7f9e2 1262
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126311. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1264 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1265 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1266 available for compatibility.)
1267
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126812. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1269 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
4e88a19f 1270
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1273------------
1274
12751. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
38a0a95f 1276 router.
4608d683 1277
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12782. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1279 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
38a0a95f 1280 read.
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12823. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1283 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
38a0a95f 1284 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
a5bd321b 1285
6ec97b1b 12864. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
38a0a95f 1287 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
6ec97b1b 1288
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12895. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
1290 --reverse
1291 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1292 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1293 --random
1294 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1295 --size
1296 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1297 of their sizes.
1298 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1299 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1300 each messages value for each variable.
1301 --not
1302 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1303 same criteria without --not).
1304
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1307------------
1308
13091. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1310 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1311 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1312 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1313 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1314 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1315
1316 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1317
1318 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1319 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1320 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1321 domain socket.
1322
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13232. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1324 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1325 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1326
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13273. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1328 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1329 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1330 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1331
1cce3af8 1332
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1334------------
1335
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1336The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1337the 4.60 release are:
1338
1339. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1340
1341. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1342
1343. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1344 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1345 for other things in complicated expansions.
1346
843a41e8 1347. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
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1349. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1350 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1351
1352. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1353
1354. More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1355
1356There are a number of other additions too.
71fafd95 1357
7e66e54d 1358
425ae40f 1359Version 4.60
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1361
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1362The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1363the 4.50 release are:
1a46a8c5 1364
425ae40f 1365. Support for SQLite.
1a46a8c5 1366
425ae40f 1367. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1a46a8c5 1368
425ae40f 1369. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1a46a8c5 1370
425ae40f 1371. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1a46a8c5 1372
425ae40f 1373. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
b5aea5e1 1374
425ae40f 1375. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
b5aea5e1 1376
425ae40f 1377. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
35edf2ff 1378
425ae40f 1379There are many more minor changes.
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