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1New Features in Exim
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3
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4This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
5Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
6test from the snapshots or the CVS before the documentation is updated. Once
7the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
8
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9Version 4.81
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11
12 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
13 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
14 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
15 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
16 SIEVE capability line.
17
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18 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
19 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
20 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
21 followed by a newline, and no other text.
22
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23 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
24 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
25 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
26 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
27 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
28 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
29 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
30 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
31
32 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
33
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34 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
35 dns_use_dnssec; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
36 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
37 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
38 can now detect this.
39
40 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
41
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42 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
43 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
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44 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
45
46 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
47 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
48
49 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
50 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
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52 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
53 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
54 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
55 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
56 ignored.
57
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58 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
59 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are recieved on and
60 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
61 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
62 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
63 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
64 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
65 is negociated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
66 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
67 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
68 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
69 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
70 system not your own.
71
72 The Recieved-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
042eb971 73 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
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74 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
75 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
76
77 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
78 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
79 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
80
81 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
82 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
83 are present for now but deprecated.
84
85 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING, AUTH.
86
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87 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
88 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
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90 9. New global option "gnutls_enable_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
91 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
92 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
93 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
94 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
95 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
96 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
97 unless this new option is set.
98
99
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102
103 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
104 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
105 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
106 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
3b4f55a3 107 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
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109 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
110 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
111 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
112 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
113
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114 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
115 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
116 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
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117 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
118 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
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120 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
121 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
122
f1e05cc7 123 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
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125 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
126 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
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127 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
128 used by Cyrus SASL.
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130 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
131
132 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
133 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
134 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
135 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
136 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
137 compatibility at the cost of session security.
138
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139 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
140 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
141 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
142 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
143 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
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144
145 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
146 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
147
148 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
149 for Exim as a server.
150
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151 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
152 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
153 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
154 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
155 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
156
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157 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
158 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
159 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
160 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
161 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
162
eae0036b 16310. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
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164 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
165
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16611. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
167 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
168 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
169 string, documentation for which is at:
170 http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
171
172 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
173
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174 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
175 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
176
53947857 17712. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
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178 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
179 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
180 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
181 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
182
183 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
184
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18513. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
186 identically to TXT record lookups.
187
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19015. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
191 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
192 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
193
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19416. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
195 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
196 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
197 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
198 primes.
199
3ecab157 20017. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
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201 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
202 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
203
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205Version 4.77
206------------
207
208 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
209 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
210
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211 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
212 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
213
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214 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
215 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
216
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217 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
218 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
219 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
220
221 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
222 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
223 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
224 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
225
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227Version 4.76
228------------
229
230 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
231 or off in the resolver library.
232
233
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234Version 4.75
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236
237 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
238 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
239 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
240 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
241 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
242
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243 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
244 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
245 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
246
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247 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
248 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
249
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250 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
251 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
252 including any header additions or removals from transport.
253
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254 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
255 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
256
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258Version 4.74
259------------
260
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261 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
262 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
263 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
264 on content supplied by the attacker.
265
266 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
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267 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
268 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
269 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
270 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
271
272
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273Version 4.73
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275
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276 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
277 items below carefully
278
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279 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
280 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
281 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
282 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
283 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
284 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
285 frivolously.
286
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287 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
288 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
289 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
43236f35 290 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
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291 be able to take effect.
292
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293 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
294 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
295 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
296 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
297
298 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
299 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
300 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
301 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
302
303 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
304
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305 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
306
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307 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
308 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
309 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
310 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
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311 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
312 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
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314 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
315 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
316
317 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
318 -> 4.2.0.192
319 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
320 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
321
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322 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
323 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
324 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
325 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
326 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
327 don't all make sense in all contexts:
328
329 control = debug
330 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
331 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
332 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
333
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334 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
335 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
336 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
337 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
338 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
339 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
340 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
341 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
342 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
343 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
344 the safeties off.
345
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346 8. There is a new expansion operator, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
347 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
348 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
349 do evaluate true.
350 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
351
352 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests,
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35410. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
355 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
356 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
357 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
358 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
359 build option.
360
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36111. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
362 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
363
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36412. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
365 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
90b6341f 366 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
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367 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
368 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
369 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
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370
37113. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
372 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
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373 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
374 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
375 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
43236f35 376 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
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377 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
378 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
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381Version 4.72
382------------
383
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384 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
385 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
386
387 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
388
389 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
390 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
391 duplicates).
392
393 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
394 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
395 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
396 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
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397 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
398 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
399 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
400 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
401 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
402 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
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404 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
405 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
406
407 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
408 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
8f425947 409 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
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412Version 4.70 / 4.71
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7c6d71af 415 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
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416 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
417 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
418 for details on conditionally disabling)
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420 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
65a7d8c3 421
f33253cc 422 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
7d9f747b 423 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
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424 and{} expansion operator).
425
426 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
427 at delivery time.
428
429 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
430 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
431
432 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
433 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
434 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
435
436 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
437 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
438 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
439 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
440
441 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
442 OpenSSL.
443
444 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
445
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447Version 4.69
448------------
449
450 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
451
452
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453Version 4.68
454------------
455
456 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
457 local_scan API.
458
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459 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
460 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
461 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
462 cases, for example:
463
464 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
465
466 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
467 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
468 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
469 like this:
470
471 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
472
473 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
474 192.168.6.7 (for example).
475
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476 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
477 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
478 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
479 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
480
481 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
482
483 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
484 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
485 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
486 $tls_peerdn.
487
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488 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
489 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
490 only by an admin user.
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492 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
493 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
494 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
495 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
496 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
497
498 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
499 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
500
501 Example:
502
503 acl_check_connect:
504 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
505 # we update it below
506 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
507 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
508 (max $sender_rate_limit)
509
510 [... some other logic and tests...]
511
512 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
513 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
514 (max $sender_rate_limit)
515 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
516
517 accept
518
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520 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
521 line termination character(s).
522
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523 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analagous to
524 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
525 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
526
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527 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
528 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
529 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
530 message is queued, the remainder are also.
531
4f054c63 532 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
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533 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
534 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
535 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
536 log files) that make the situation even worse.
537
538 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
539 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
540 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
541
542 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
543 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
544 connection. The possible values are:
545
546 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
547 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
548 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
549 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
550 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
551 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
552 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
553 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
554 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
555 tls-failed TLS failed to start
556
557 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
558 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
559 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
560 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
561 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
562 used.
563
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565 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
566 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
567
568 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
569 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
570 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
571
572 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
573
574 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
575 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
576 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
577
578 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
579 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
580 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
581
582 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
583
584 In an updating lookup, you could then write
585
586 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
587
588 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
589
590 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
591
592 you can still update the master by
593
594 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
595
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597 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
598 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
599 spaces.
600
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603------------
604
605 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
606 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
607 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
4aa45c31 608 MAIL command.
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431b7361 610 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
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611 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
612 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
93655c46 613 rather than the default "any" matching.
431b7361 614
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616 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
617 other parameters to be varied.
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619 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
620 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
431b7361 621
4aa45c31 622 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
431b7361 623
4aa45c31 624 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
cf8b11a5 625
41c7c167 626 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
4aa45c31 627 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
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629 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
4aa45c31 630 after the connection to the server has been made.
41c7c167 631
9c57cbc0 632 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
4aa45c31 633 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
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63510. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
636 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
637 time and date.
638
047bdd8c 63911. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
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640 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
641 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
642 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
4aa45c31 643 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
047bdd8c 644
0ce9abe6 64512. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
4aa45c31 646 called forany and forall.
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649 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
650 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
0e22dfd1 651
4aa45c31 65214. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
c51b8e75 653
75b1493f 65415. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
4aa45c31 655 that makes it case-sensitive.
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65716. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
658 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
659 items, typically addresses.
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66117. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
662 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
663 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
4aa45c31 664 can be used.
c3611384 665
ec95d1a6 66618. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
4aa45c31 667 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
ec95d1a6 668
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670 condition.
671
c456d9bb 67220. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
4aa45c31 673 "ignore".
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676Version 4.66
677------------
678
679No new features were added to 4.66.
680
681
682Version 4.65
683------------
684
685No new features were added to 4.65.
686
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688Version 4.64
689------------
690
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692 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
693 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
883335dc 694 an underscore.
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696 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
883335dc 697 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
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699 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
700 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
883335dc 701 number of authentication methods.
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703 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
704 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
705 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
706
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708 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
709 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
710 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
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883335dc 712 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
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714 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
715 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
716 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
883335dc 717 before doing the expansions.
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719 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
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720 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
721 message.
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723 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
724 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
883335dc 725 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
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72710. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
883335dc 728 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
48c7f9e2 729
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731 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
732 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
733 available for compatibility.)
734
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736 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
4e88a19f 737
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740------------
741
7421. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
38a0a95f 743 router.
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7452. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
746 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
38a0a95f 747 read.
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750 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
38a0a95f 751 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
a5bd321b 752
6ec97b1b 7534. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
38a0a95f 754 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
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757 --reverse
758 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
759 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
760 --random
761 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
762 --size
763 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
764 of their sizes.
765 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
766 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
767 each messages value for each variable.
768 --not
769 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
770 same criteria without --not).
771
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774------------
775
7761. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
777 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
778 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
779 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
780 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
781 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
782
783 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
784
785 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
786 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
787 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
788 domain socket.
789
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791 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
792 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
793
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795 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
796 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
797 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
798
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801------------
802
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804the 4.60 release are:
805
806. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
807
808. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
809
810. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
811 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
812 for other things in complicated expansions.
813
843a41e8 814. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
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816. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
817 resources used in pipe deliveries.
818
819. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
820
821. More errors are detectable in retry rules.
822
823There are a number of other additions too.
71fafd95 824
7e66e54d 825
425ae40f 826Version 4.60
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828
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830the 4.50 release are:
1a46a8c5 831
425ae40f 832. Support for SQLite.
1a46a8c5 833
425ae40f 834. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1a46a8c5 835
425ae40f 836. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1a46a8c5 837
425ae40f 838. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1a46a8c5 839
425ae40f 840. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
b5aea5e1 841
425ae40f 842. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
b5aea5e1 843
425ae40f 844. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
35edf2ff 845
425ae40f 846There are many more minor changes.
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