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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.
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18 3. A msg:defer event.
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20 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the
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_data now also set by router check_local_user option,
28 with an de-tainted version of $local_part.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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5716. An option on all single-key lookups, to return (on a hit) a de-tainted
58 version of the lookup key rather than the looked-up data.
1950cf85 59
0006e6d8 6017. $domain_data and $localpart_data are now set by all list-match successes.
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61 Previously only list items that performed lookups did so.
62 Also, matching list items that are tail-match or RE-match now set the
63 numeric variables $0 (etc) in the same way os other RE matches.
64
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6518. Expansion item ${listquote {<char} {<item>}}.
66
6719. An option for the ${readsocket {}{}{}} expansion to make the result data
68 cacheable.
69
7020. dkim_verify_min_keysizes, a list of minimum acceptable public-key sizes.
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7221. bounce_message_file and warn_message_file are now expanded before use.
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76Version 4.93
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78
b53c265b 79 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
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7f69e814 81 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
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83 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
84 for ciphersuites.
85
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86 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
87
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88 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
89
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90 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
91 file.
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93 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
94 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
95
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96 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
97
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98 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
99 and transports.
100
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10110. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
102
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10311. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
104
86ede124 10512. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
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10713. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
108
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10914: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
110
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11115: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
112 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
113 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
114 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
115 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
116 only, and exim must be run as root).
117
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11816: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
119
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12017. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
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123Version 4.92
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126 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
127 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
128 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
129 facilities hard to parse.
130
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131 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
132 obvious thing.
133
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134 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
135 features. See the experimental.spec file.
8ac90765 136
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137 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
138
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139 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
140
8442641e 141 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
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143 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
144
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145 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
146
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147 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
148
d4fd1b83 149Version 4.91
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152 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
153 version 3.5.6 or later.
154
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155 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
156 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
405074ad 157 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
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159 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
160
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161 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
162 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
163
306c6c77 164 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
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165 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
166 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
167 a "dkim" log_selector.
168
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169 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
170
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171 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
172 routing rules in the manualroute router.
173
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174 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
175 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
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286b9d5f 177 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
cb78c1a8 178 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
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18010. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
181 version dependent.
182
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18311. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
184
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18512. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
186 Authentication-Results: header.
187
617d3932 18813. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
ddd16464 189 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
617d3932 190
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19114: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
192
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19315. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
194 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
195 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
196 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
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19816. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
199 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
200 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
201
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203Version 4.90
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205
206 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
207 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
208
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209 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
210 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
211
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212 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
213 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
214 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
215 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
216 another process. Logging is also affected.
217
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218 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
219
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220 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
221 further recipients and for delivery.
222
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223 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
224 supported.
225
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226 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
227 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
228 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
229 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
230 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
231
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232 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
233 restrict who can use various introspection options.
234
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235 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
236 appendfile transport.
237
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23810. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
239 SMTP commands.
240
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24111. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
242 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
571b2715 243
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24412. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
245 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
4a5cbaff 246 is opened with a TFO cookie.
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9e70917d 24813. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
7c6ec81b 249 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
970424a5 250 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
484cc1a9 251 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
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252 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
253 the data ACL.
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25514. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
256 configuration file.
257
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25815. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
259 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
260
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26116. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
262 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
263
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26417. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
265
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267Version 4.89
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270 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
271
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272 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
273 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
12e9bb25 274 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
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277Version 4.88
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279
fc16abb4 280 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
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281 interpreter in taint mode.
282
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283 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
284
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285 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
286 modifier.
287
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288 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
289 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
290 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
291
f59aaaaa 292 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
55e70e76 293 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
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294 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
295 visibility.
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297 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
298
44bc8f0c 299 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
7e3ce68e 300 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
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301 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
302 for control.
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304 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
305
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306 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
307
fbbd45ff 30810. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
4945f557 309 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
383832ef 310 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
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311 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
312 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
fbbd45ff 313
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31411. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
315
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31612. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
317 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
318 message.
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32013. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
321
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32214. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
323 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
324
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32515. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
326 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
327 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
328 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
329 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
330 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
331 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
f59aaaaa 332 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
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33416. A new syslog_pid option to suppress PID duplication in syslog lines.
335
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337Version 4.87
338------------
339
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340 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
341 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
342
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343 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
344 malware= or verify= callout.
345
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346 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
347
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348 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
349 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
350 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
351 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
352 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
353 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
354
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355 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
356
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357 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
358
9aa35e9c 359 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
59b87190 360 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
9aa35e9c 361
62b7cd08 362 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
f59aaaaa 363 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
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364 limits.
365
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366 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
367
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371
372 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
373
374 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
375 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
376
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377 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
378
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379 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
380
381 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
382
f59aaaaa 383 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
cc00f4af 384
7eb6c37c 385 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
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386 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
387
388 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
389 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
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391 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
392 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
393
b3ef41c9 39410. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
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39611. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
397
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39812. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
399
10ca4f1c 40013. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
65463bc9 401 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
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40314. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
404 same level as DNSSEC.
405
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406Version 4.85
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408
409 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
f59aaaaa 410 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
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411 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
412 domain of the sender.
413
414 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
415 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
416 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
417 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
418 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
419 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
420
421 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
422 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
423 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
424
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426Version 4.84
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428
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430Version 4.83
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432
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433 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
434 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
435 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
436 proxy that is connecting to it.
437
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438 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
439 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
440 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
441 detect and reject if those characters are present.
442
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443 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
444 codepoints with valid ones.
445
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446 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
447 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
007a2dee 448 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
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449 be included in the command line.
450
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451 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
452 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
453 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
454 verification cancels the encryption.
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456 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
457 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
458 default list.
459
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460 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
461 file when searching the queue.
462
f2de3a33 463 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
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465 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
466
9d1c15ef 46710. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
6a8a60e0 468 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
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469 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
470 for them added.
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47211. PRDR is now supported dy default.
473
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47412. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
475
47613. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
4c04137d 477 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
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478 DSN features per RFC 3461.
479
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2c422e6f 481Version 4.82
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483
484 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
485 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
486 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
487 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
488 SIEVE capability line.
489
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490 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
491 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
492 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
493 followed by a newline, and no other text.
494
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495 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
496 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
497 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
498 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
499 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
500 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
501 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
502 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
503
504 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
505
1f4a55da 506 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
0fbd9bff 507 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
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508 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
509 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
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510 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
511 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
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513 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
514
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515 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
516 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
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517 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
518
519 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
520 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
521
522 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
523 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
36a3ae5f 524
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525 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
526 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
527 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
528 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
529 ignored.
530
976b7e9f 531 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
4c04137d 532 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
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533 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
534 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
535 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
536 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
537 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
4c04137d 538 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
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539 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
540 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
541 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
542 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
543 system not your own.
544
4c04137d 545 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
042eb971 546 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
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547 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
548 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
06a6f4ed 549
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550 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
551 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
552 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
553
554 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
555 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
556 are present for now but deprecated.
557
fcc8e047 558 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
976b7e9f 559
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560 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
561 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
98a90c36 562
2519e60d 563 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
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564 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
565 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
566 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
567 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
568 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
569 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
570 unless this new option is set.
571
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573 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
574 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
575 Local/Makefile:
576
577 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
578
3e8abda0 57910. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
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580 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
581 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
582 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
583 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
584 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
585 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
586 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
587 return results in a forced fail.
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58911. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
590 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
591
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59212. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
593 handled by routers/transports.
594
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59513. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
596 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
597
362145b5 59814. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
85ffcba6 599 modifier (but not yet added to message).
362145b5 600
bd0fff00 60115. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
3c0a92dc 602
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60316. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
604
181d9bf8 60517. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
f59aaaaa 606 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
2a47f028 607 require privilege whereas -d does.
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60918. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
610 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
611
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61219. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
613 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
614 wrappers, for instance.
615
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61620. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
617 connections apply.
618
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620 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
621 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
622 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
623 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
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624 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
625 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
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62722. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
628 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
629 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
630
4c04137d 63123. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
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632 UDP host and port.
633
63424. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
635 characters in the string to \xNN form.
636
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63725. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
638 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
639
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64026. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
641
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645
646 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
647 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
648 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
649 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
3b4f55a3 650 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
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652 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
653 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
654 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
655 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
656
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657 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
658 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
659 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
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660 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
661 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
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663 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
664 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
665
f1e05cc7 666 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
20aa9dbd 667
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668 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
669 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
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670 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
671 used by Cyrus SASL.
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673 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
674
675 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
676 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
677 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
678 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
679 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
680 compatibility at the cost of session security.
681
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682 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
683 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
684 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
685 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
686 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
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688 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
689 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
690
691 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
692 for Exim as a server.
693
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694 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
695 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
696 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
697 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
698 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
699
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700 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
701 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
702 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
703 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
704 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
705
eae0036b 70610. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
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707 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
708
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70911. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
710 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
711 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
712 string, documentation for which is at:
42bfef1e 713 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
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714
715 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
716
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717 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
718 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
719
53947857 72012. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
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721 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
722 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
723 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
724 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
725
726 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
727
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72813. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
729 identically to TXT record lookups.
730
2605c55b 73114. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
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73315. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
734 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
735 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
736
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73716. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
738 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
739 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
740 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
741 primes.
742
3ecab157 74317. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
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744 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
745 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
746
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749------------
750
751 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
752 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
753
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754 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
755 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
756
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757 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
758 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
759
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760 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
761 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
762 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
763
764 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
765 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
766 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
767 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
768
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771------------
772
773 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
774 or off in the resolver library.
775
776
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778------------
779
780 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
781 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
782 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
783 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
784 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
785
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786 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
787 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
788 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
789
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790 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
791 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
792
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793 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
794 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
795 including any header additions or removals from transport.
796
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797 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
798 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
799
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801Version 4.74
802------------
803
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804 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
805 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
806 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
807 on content supplied by the attacker.
808
809 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
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810 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
811 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
812 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
813 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
814
815
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817------------
818
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819 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
820 items below carefully
821
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822 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
823 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
824 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
825 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
826 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
827 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
828 frivolously.
829
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830 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
831 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
832 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
43236f35 833 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
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834 be able to take effect.
835
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836 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
837 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
838 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
839 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
840
841 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
842 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
843 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
844 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
845
846 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
847
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848 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
849
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850 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
851 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
852 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
853 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
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854 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
855 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
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857 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
858 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
859
860 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
861 -> 4.2.0.192
862 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
863 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
864
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865 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
866 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
867 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
868 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
869 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
870 don't all make sense in all contexts:
871
872 control = debug
873 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
874 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
875 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
876
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877 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
878 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
879 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
880 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
881 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
882 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
883 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
884 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
885 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
886 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
887 the safeties off.
888
06a6f4ed 889 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
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890 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
891 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
892 do evaluate true.
893 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
894
06a6f4ed 895 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
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898 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
899 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
900 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
901 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
902 build option.
903
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90411. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
905 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
906
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90712. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
908 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
90b6341f 909 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
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911 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
912 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
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91413. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
915 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
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917 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
918 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
43236f35 919 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
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920 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
921 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
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925------------
926
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927 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
928 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
929
930 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
931
932 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
933 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
934 duplicates).
935
936 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
937 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
938 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
939 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
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940 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
941 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
942 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
943 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
944 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
945 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
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947 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
948 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
949
950 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
951 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
8f425947 952 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
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956-------------------
65a7d8c3 957
7c6d71af 958 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
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959 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
960 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
961 for details on conditionally disabling)
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963 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
65a7d8c3 964
f33253cc 965 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
7d9f747b 966 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
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967 and{} expansion operator).
968
969 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
970 at delivery time.
971
972 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
973 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
974
975 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
976 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
977 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
978
979 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
980 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
981 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
982 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
983
984 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
985 OpenSSL.
986
987 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
988
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991------------
992
993 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
994
995
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997------------
998
999 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
1000 local_scan API.
1001
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1003 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
1004 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
1005 cases, for example:
1006
1007 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
1008
1009 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
1010 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
1011 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
1012 like this:
1013
1014 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
1015
1016 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
1017 192.168.6.7 (for example).
1018
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1020 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
1021 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
1022 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
1023
1024 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
1025
1026 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
1027 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
1028 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
1029 $tls_peerdn.
1030
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1031 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
1032 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
1033 only by an admin user.
1034
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1035 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
1036 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
1037 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
1038 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
1039 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
1040
1041 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
1042 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
1043
1044 Example:
1045
1046 acl_check_connect:
1047 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1048 # we update it below
1049 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1050 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1051 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1052
1053 [... some other logic and tests...]
1054
1055 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1056 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1057 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1058 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1059
1060 accept
1061
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1062 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1063 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1064 line termination character(s).
1065
aded2255 1066 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
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1067 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1068 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1069
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1070 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1071 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1072 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1073 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1074
4f054c63 1075 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
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1076 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1077 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1078 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1079 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1080
1081 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1082 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1083 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1084
1085 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1086 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1087 connection. The possible values are:
1088
1089 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1090 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1091 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1092 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1093 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1094 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1095 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1096 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1097 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1098 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1099
1100 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1101 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1102 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1103 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1104 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1105 used.
1106
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1108 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1109 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1110
1111 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1112 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1113 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1114
1115 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1116
1117 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1118 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1119 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1120
1121 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1122 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1123 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1124
1125 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1126
1127 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1128
1129 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1130
1131 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1132
1133 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1134
1135 you can still update the master by
1136
1137 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1138
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113911. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
1140 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1141 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1142 spaces.
1143
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1146------------
1147
1148 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1149 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1150 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
4aa45c31 1151 MAIL command.
b4ed4da0 1152
431b7361 1153 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
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1154 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1155 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
93655c46 1156 rather than the default "any" matching.
431b7361 1157
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1158 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1159 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1160 other parameters to be varied.
431b7361 1161
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1162 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1163 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
431b7361 1164
4aa45c31 1165 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
431b7361 1166
4aa45c31 1167 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
cf8b11a5 1168
41c7c167 1169 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
4aa45c31 1170 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
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1172 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
4aa45c31 1173 after the connection to the server has been made.
41c7c167 1174
9c57cbc0 1175 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
4aa45c31 1176 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
9c57cbc0 1177
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117810. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1179 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1180 time and date.
1181
047bdd8c 118211. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
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1183 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1184 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1185 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
4aa45c31 1186 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
047bdd8c 1187
0ce9abe6 118812. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
4aa45c31 1189 called forany and forall.
0ce9abe6 1190
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119113. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1192 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1193 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
0e22dfd1 1194
4aa45c31 119514. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
c51b8e75 1196
75b1493f 119715. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
4aa45c31 1198 that makes it case-sensitive.
29f89cad 1199
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120016. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1201 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1202 items, typically addresses.
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120417. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1205 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1206 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
4aa45c31 1207 can be used.
c3611384 1208
ec95d1a6 120918. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
4aa45c31 1210 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
ec95d1a6 1211
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121219. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1213 condition.
1214
c456d9bb 121520. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
4aa45c31 1216 "ignore".
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1219Version 4.66
1220------------
1221
1222No new features were added to 4.66.
1223
1224
1225Version 4.65
1226------------
1227
1228No new features were added to 4.65.
1229
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1231Version 4.64
1232------------
1233
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1234 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1235 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1236 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
883335dc 1237 an underscore.
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1239 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
883335dc 1240 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
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1242 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1243 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
883335dc 1244 number of authentication methods.
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1246 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1247 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1248 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1249
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1250 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1251 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1252 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1253 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
af561417 1254
883335dc 1255 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
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1256
1257 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1258 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1259 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
883335dc 1260 before doing the expansions.
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1262 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
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1263 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1264 message.
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1266 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1267 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
883335dc 1268 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
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127010. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
883335dc 1271 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
48c7f9e2 1272
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127311. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1274 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1275 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1276 available for compatibility.)
1277
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127812. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1279 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
4e88a19f 1280
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1283------------
1284
12851. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
38a0a95f 1286 router.
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12882. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1289 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
38a0a95f 1290 read.
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12923. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1293 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
38a0a95f 1294 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
a5bd321b 1295
6ec97b1b 12964. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
38a0a95f 1297 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
6ec97b1b 1298
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1300 --reverse
1301 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1302 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1303 --random
1304 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1305 --size
1306 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1307 of their sizes.
1308 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1309 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1310 each messages value for each variable.
1311 --not
1312 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1313 same criteria without --not).
1314
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1317------------
1318
13191. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1320 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1321 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1322 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1323 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1324 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1325
1326 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1327
1328 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1329 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1330 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1331 domain socket.
1332
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13332. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1334 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1335 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1336
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13373. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1338 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1339 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1340 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1341
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1344------------
1345
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1346The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1347the 4.60 release are:
1348
1349. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1350
1351. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1352
1353. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1354 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1355 for other things in complicated expansions.
1356
843a41e8 1357. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
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1359. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1360 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1361
1362. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1363
1364. More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1365
1366There are a number of other additions too.
71fafd95 1367
7e66e54d 1368
425ae40f 1369Version 4.60
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1371
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1372The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1373the 4.50 release are:
1a46a8c5 1374
425ae40f 1375. Support for SQLite.
1a46a8c5 1376
425ae40f 1377. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1a46a8c5 1378
425ae40f 1379. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1a46a8c5 1380
425ae40f 1381. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1a46a8c5 1382
425ae40f 1383. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
b5aea5e1 1384
425ae40f 1385. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
b5aea5e1 1386
425ae40f 1387. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
35edf2ff 1388
425ae40f 1389There are many more minor changes.
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