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1New Features in Exim
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4This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
5Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
33f316f2 6test from the snapshots or the Git before the documentation is updated. Once
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7the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
8
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9Version 4.94
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12 1. EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
13 file.
14
1d717e1c 15 2. Channel-binding for authenticators is now supported under OpenSSL.
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16 Previously it was GnuTLS-only.
17
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18 3. A msg:defer event.
19
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20 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the
21 plaintext driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and
22 SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS methods.
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24 5. Server-side support in the gsasl authenticator for encrypted passwords, as
25 an alternate for the existing plaintext.
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27 6. Variable $local_part_verified, set by the router check_local_part condition
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28 with untainted data.
29
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30 7. Named-list definitions can now be prefixed "hide" so that "-bP" commands do
31 not output the content. Previously this could only be done on options.
32
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33 8. As an exerimental feature, the dovecot authenticatino driver supports inet
34 sockets. Previously it was unix-domain sockets only.
35
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36 9. The ACL control "queue_only" can also be spelled "queue", and now takes an
37 option "first_pass_route" to do the same as a "-odqs" on the command line.
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39 9. Items specified for the router and transport headers_remove option can use
40 a trailing asterisk to specify globbing.
41
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4210. New $queue_size variable.
43
4411. New variables $local_part_{pre,suf}fix_v.
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48Version 4.93
49------------
50
b53c265b 51 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
40ed89b3 52
7f69e814 53 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
40ed89b3 54
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55 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
56 for ciphersuites.
57
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58 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
59
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60 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
61
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62 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
63 file.
64
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65 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
66 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
67
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68 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
69
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70 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
71 and transports.
72
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7310. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
74
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7511. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
76
86ede124 7712. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
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7913. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
80
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8114: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
82
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8315: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
84 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
85 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
86 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
87 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
88 only, and exim must be run as root).
89
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9016: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
91
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9217. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
93
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95Version 4.92
96--------------
97
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98 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
99 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
100 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
101 facilities hard to parse.
102
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103 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
104 obvious thing.
105
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106 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
107 features. See the experimental.spec file.
8ac90765 108
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109 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
110
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111 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
112
8442641e 113 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
12263aa8 114
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115 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
116
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117 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
118
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119 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
120
d4fd1b83 121Version 4.91
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123
124 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
125 version 3.5.6 or later.
126
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127 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
128 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
405074ad 129 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
899b8bbc 130
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131 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
132
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133 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
134 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
135
306c6c77 136 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
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137 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
138 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
139 a "dkim" log_selector.
140
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141 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
142
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143 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
144 routing rules in the manualroute router.
145
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146 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
147 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
148
286b9d5f 149 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
cb78c1a8 150 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
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15210. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
153 version dependent.
154
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15511. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
156
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15712. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
158 Authentication-Results: header.
159
617d3932 16013. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
ddd16464 161 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
617d3932 162
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16314: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
164
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16515. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
166 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
167 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
168 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
169
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17016. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
171 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
172 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
173
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175Version 4.90
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177
178 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
179 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
180
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181 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
182 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
183
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184 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
185 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
186 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
187 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
188 another process. Logging is also affected.
189
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190 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
191
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192 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
193 further recipients and for delivery.
194
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195 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
196 supported.
197
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198 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
199 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
200 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
201 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
202 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
203
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204 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
205 restrict who can use various introspection options.
206
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207 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
208 appendfile transport.
209
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21010. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
211 SMTP commands.
212
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21311. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
214 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
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21612. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
217 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
4a5cbaff 218 is opened with a TFO cookie.
a2673768 219
9e70917d 22013. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
7c6ec81b 221 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
970424a5 222 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
484cc1a9 223 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
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224 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
225 the data ACL.
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22714. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
228 configuration file.
229
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23015. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
231 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
232
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23316. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
234 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
235
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23617. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
237
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239Version 4.89
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242 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
243
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244 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
245 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
12e9bb25 246 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
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249Version 4.88
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251
fc16abb4 252 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
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253 interpreter in taint mode.
254
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255 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
256
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257 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
258 modifier.
259
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260 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
261 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
262 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
263
f59aaaaa 264 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
55e70e76 265 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
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266 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
267 visibility.
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269 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
270
44bc8f0c 271 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
7e3ce68e 272 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
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273 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
274 for control.
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276 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
277
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278 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
279
fbbd45ff 28010. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
4945f557 281 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
383832ef 282 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
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283 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
284 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
fbbd45ff 285
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28611. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
287
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28812. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
289 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
290 message.
291
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29213. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
293
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295 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
296
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29715. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
298 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
299 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
300 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
301 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
302 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
303 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
f59aaaaa 304 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
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307
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309Version 4.87
310------------
311
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312 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
313 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
314
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315 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
316 malware= or verify= callout.
317
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318 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
319
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320 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
321 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
322 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
323 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
324 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
325 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
326
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327 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
328
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329 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
330
9aa35e9c 331 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
59b87190 332 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
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62b7cd08 334 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
f59aaaaa 335 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
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336 limits.
337
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338 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
339
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343
344 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
345
346 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
347 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
348
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349 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
350
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351 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
352
353 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
354
f59aaaaa 355 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
cc00f4af 356
7eb6c37c 357 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
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358 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
359
360 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
361 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
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363 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
364 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
365
b3ef41c9 36610. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
846430d9 367
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36811. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
369
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37012. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
371
10ca4f1c 37213. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
65463bc9 373 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
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37514. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
376 same level as DNSSEC.
377
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380
381 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
f59aaaaa 382 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
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383 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
384 domain of the sender.
385
386 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
387 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
388 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
389 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
390 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
391 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
392
393 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
394 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
395 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
396
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399------------
400
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402Version 4.83
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405 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
406 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
407 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
408 proxy that is connecting to it.
409
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410 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
411 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
412 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
413 detect and reject if those characters are present.
414
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415 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
416 codepoints with valid ones.
417
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418 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
419 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
007a2dee 420 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
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421 be included in the command line.
422
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423 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
424 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
425 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
426 verification cancels the encryption.
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428 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
429 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
430 default list.
431
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432 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
433 file when searching the queue.
434
f2de3a33 435 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
2b4a568d 436
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437 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
438
9d1c15ef 43910. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
6a8a60e0 440 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
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441 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
442 for them added.
9d1c15ef 443
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44411. PRDR is now supported dy default.
445
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44612. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
447
44813. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
4c04137d 449 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
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450 DSN features per RFC 3461.
451
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455
456 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
457 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
458 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
459 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
460 SIEVE capability line.
461
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462 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
463 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
464 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
465 followed by a newline, and no other text.
466
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467 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
468 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
469 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
470 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
471 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
472 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
473 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
474 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
475
476 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
477
1f4a55da 478 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
0fbd9bff 479 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
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480 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
481 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
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482 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
483 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
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485 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
486
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487 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
488 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
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489 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
490
491 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
492 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
493
494 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
495 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
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497 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
498 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
499 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
500 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
501 ignored.
502
976b7e9f 503 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
4c04137d 504 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
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505 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
506 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
507 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
508 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
509 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
4c04137d 510 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
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511 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
512 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
513 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
514 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
515 system not your own.
516
4c04137d 517 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
042eb971 518 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
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519 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
520 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
06a6f4ed 521
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522 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
523 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
524 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
525
526 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
527 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
528 are present for now but deprecated.
529
fcc8e047 530 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
976b7e9f 531
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532 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
533 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
98a90c36 534
2519e60d 535 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
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536 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
537 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
538 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
539 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
540 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
541 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
542 unless this new option is set.
543
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545 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
546 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
547 Local/Makefile:
548
549 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
550
3e8abda0 55110. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
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552 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
553 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
554 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
555 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
556 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
557 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
558 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
559 return results in a forced fail.
a5f239e4 560
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56111. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
562 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
563
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56412. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
565 handled by routers/transports.
566
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56713. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
568 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
569
362145b5 57014. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
85ffcba6 571 modifier (but not yet added to message).
362145b5 572
bd0fff00 57315. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
3c0a92dc 574
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57516. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
576
181d9bf8 57717. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
f59aaaaa 578 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
2a47f028 579 require privilege whereas -d does.
181d9bf8 580
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58118. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
582 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
583
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585 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
586 wrappers, for instance.
587
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58820. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
589 connections apply.
590
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592 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
593 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
594 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
595 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
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596 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
597 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
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59922. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
600 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
601 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
602
4c04137d 60323. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
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604 UDP host and port.
605
60624. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
607 characters in the string to \xNN form.
608
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60925. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
610 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
611
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61226. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
613
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617
618 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
619 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
620 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
621 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
3b4f55a3 622 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
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624 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
625 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
626 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
627 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
628
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629 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
630 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
631 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
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632 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
633 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
252e0c7b 634
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635 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
636 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
637
f1e05cc7 638 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
20aa9dbd 639
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640 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
641 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
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642 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
643 used by Cyrus SASL.
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645 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
646
647 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
648 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
649 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
650 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
651 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
652 compatibility at the cost of session security.
653
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654 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
655 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
656 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
657 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
658 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
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660 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
661 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
662
663 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
664 for Exim as a server.
665
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666 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
667 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
668 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
669 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
670 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
671
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672 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
673 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
674 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
675 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
676 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
677
eae0036b 67810. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
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679 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
680
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68111. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
682 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
683 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
684 string, documentation for which is at:
42bfef1e 685 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
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686
687 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
688
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689 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
690 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
691
53947857 69212. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
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693 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
694 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
695 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
696 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
697
698 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
699
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70013. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
701 identically to TXT record lookups.
702
2605c55b 70314. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
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70515. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
706 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
707 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
708
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70916. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
710 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
711 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
712 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
713 primes.
714
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716 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
717 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
718
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721------------
722
723 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
724 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
725
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726 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
727 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
728
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729 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
730 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
731
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732 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
733 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
734 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
735
736 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
737 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
738 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
739 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
740
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743------------
744
745 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
746 or off in the resolver library.
747
748
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750------------
751
752 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
753 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
754 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
755 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
756 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
757
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758 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
759 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
760 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
761
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762 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
763 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
764
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765 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
766 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
767 including any header additions or removals from transport.
768
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769 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
770 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
771
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774------------
775
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776 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
777 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
778 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
779 on content supplied by the attacker.
780
781 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
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782 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
783 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
784 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
785 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
786
787
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789------------
790
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791 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
792 items below carefully
793
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794 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
795 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
796 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
797 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
798 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
799 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
800 frivolously.
801
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802 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
803 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
804 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
43236f35 805 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
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806 be able to take effect.
807
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808 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
809 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
810 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
811 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
812
813 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
814 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
815 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
816 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
817
818 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
819
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820 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
821
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822 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
823 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
824 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
825 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
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826 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
827 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
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829 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
830 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
831
832 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
833 -> 4.2.0.192
834 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
835 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
836
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837 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
838 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
839 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
840 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
841 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
842 don't all make sense in all contexts:
843
844 control = debug
845 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
846 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
847 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
848
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849 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
850 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
851 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
852 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
853 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
854 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
855 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
856 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
857 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
858 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
859 the safeties off.
860
06a6f4ed 861 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
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862 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
863 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
864 do evaluate true.
865 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
866
06a6f4ed 867 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
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870 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
871 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
872 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
873 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
874 build option.
875
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87611. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
877 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
878
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87912. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
880 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
90b6341f 881 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
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883 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
884 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
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88613. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
887 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
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888 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
889 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
890 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
43236f35 891 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
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892 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
893 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
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897------------
898
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899 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
900 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
901
902 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
903
904 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
905 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
906 duplicates).
907
908 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
909 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
910 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
911 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
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912 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
913 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
914 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
915 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
916 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
917 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
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919 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
920 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
921
922 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
923 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
8f425947 924 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
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928-------------------
65a7d8c3 929
7c6d71af 930 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
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931 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
932 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
933 for details on conditionally disabling)
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934
935 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
65a7d8c3 936
f33253cc 937 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
7d9f747b 938 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
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939 and{} expansion operator).
940
941 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
942 at delivery time.
943
944 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
945 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
946
947 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
948 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
949 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
950
951 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
952 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
953 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
954 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
955
956 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
957 OpenSSL.
958
959 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
960
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963------------
964
965 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
966
967
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969------------
970
971 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
972 local_scan API.
973
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974 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
975 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
976 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
977 cases, for example:
978
979 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
980
981 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
982 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
983 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
984 like this:
985
986 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
987
988 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
989 192.168.6.7 (for example).
990
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992 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
993 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
994 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
995
996 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
997
998 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
999 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
1000 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
1001 $tls_peerdn.
1002
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1003 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
1004 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
1005 only by an admin user.
1006
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1008 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
1009 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
1010 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
1011 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
1012
1013 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
1014 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
1015
1016 Example:
1017
1018 acl_check_connect:
1019 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1020 # we update it below
1021 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1022 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1023 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1024
1025 [... some other logic and tests...]
1026
1027 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1028 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1029 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1030 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1031
1032 accept
1033
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1034 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1035 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1036 line termination character(s).
1037
aded2255 1038 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
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1039 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1040 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1041
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1042 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1043 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1044 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1045 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1046
4f054c63 1047 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
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1048 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1049 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1050 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1051 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1052
1053 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1054 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1055 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1056
1057 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1058 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1059 connection. The possible values are:
1060
1061 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1062 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1063 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1064 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1065 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1066 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1067 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1068 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1069 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1070 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1071
1072 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1073 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1074 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1075 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1076 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1077 used.
1078
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1080 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1081 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1082
1083 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1084 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1085 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1086
1087 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1088
1089 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1090 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1091 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1092
1093 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1094 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1095 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1096
1097 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1098
1099 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1100
1101 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1102
1103 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1104
1105 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1106
1107 you can still update the master by
1108
1109 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1110
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1112 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1113 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1114 spaces.
1115
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1118------------
1119
1120 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1121 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1122 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
4aa45c31 1123 MAIL command.
b4ed4da0 1124
431b7361 1125 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
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1126 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1127 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
93655c46 1128 rather than the default "any" matching.
431b7361 1129
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1130 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1131 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1132 other parameters to be varied.
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1134 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1135 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
431b7361 1136
4aa45c31 1137 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
431b7361 1138
4aa45c31 1139 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
cf8b11a5 1140
41c7c167 1141 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
4aa45c31 1142 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
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1144 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
4aa45c31 1145 after the connection to the server has been made.
41c7c167 1146
9c57cbc0 1147 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
4aa45c31 1148 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
9c57cbc0 1149
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115010. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1151 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1152 time and date.
1153
047bdd8c 115411. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
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1155 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1156 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1157 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
4aa45c31 1158 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
047bdd8c 1159
0ce9abe6 116012. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
4aa45c31 1161 called forany and forall.
0ce9abe6 1162
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116313. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1164 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1165 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
0e22dfd1 1166
4aa45c31 116714. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
c51b8e75 1168
75b1493f 116915. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
4aa45c31 1170 that makes it case-sensitive.
29f89cad 1171
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117216. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1173 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1174 items, typically addresses.
29f89cad 1175
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117617. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1177 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1178 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
4aa45c31 1179 can be used.
c3611384 1180
ec95d1a6 118118. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
4aa45c31 1182 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
ec95d1a6 1183
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118419. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1185 condition.
1186
c456d9bb 118720. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
4aa45c31 1188 "ignore".
c456d9bb 1189
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1191Version 4.66
1192------------
1193
1194No new features were added to 4.66.
1195
1196
1197Version 4.65
1198------------
1199
1200No new features were added to 4.65.
1201
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1203Version 4.64
1204------------
1205
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1206 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1207 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1208 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
883335dc 1209 an underscore.
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1211 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
883335dc 1212 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
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1214 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1215 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
883335dc 1216 number of authentication methods.
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1218 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1219 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1220 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1221
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1222 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1223 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1224 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1225 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
af561417 1226
883335dc 1227 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
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1229 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1230 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1231 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
883335dc 1232 before doing the expansions.
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1234 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
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1235 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1236 message.
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1238 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1239 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
883335dc 1240 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
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124210. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
883335dc 1243 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
48c7f9e2 1244
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124511. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1246 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1247 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1248 available for compatibility.)
1249
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125012. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1251 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
4e88a19f 1252
495ae4b0 1253
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1255------------
1256
12571. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
38a0a95f 1258 router.
4608d683 1259
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12602. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1261 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
38a0a95f 1262 read.
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12643. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1265 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
38a0a95f 1266 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
a5bd321b 1267
6ec97b1b 12684. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
38a0a95f 1269 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
6ec97b1b 1270
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12715. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
1272 --reverse
1273 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1274 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1275 --random
1276 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1277 --size
1278 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1279 of their sizes.
1280 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1281 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1282 each messages value for each variable.
1283 --not
1284 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1285 same criteria without --not).
1286
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1289------------
1290
12911. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1292 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1293 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1294 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1295 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1296 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1297
1298 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1299
1300 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1301 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1302 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1303 domain socket.
1304
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13052. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1306 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1307 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1308
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13093. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1310 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1311 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1312 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1313
1cce3af8 1314
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1315Version 4.61
1316------------
1317
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1318The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1319the 4.60 release are:
1320
1321. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1322
1323. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1324
1325. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1326 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1327 for other things in complicated expansions.
1328
843a41e8 1329. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
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1331. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1332 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1333
1334. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1335
1336. More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1337
1338There are a number of other additions too.
71fafd95 1339
7e66e54d 1340
425ae40f 1341Version 4.60
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1343
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1344The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1345the 4.50 release are:
1a46a8c5 1346
425ae40f 1347. Support for SQLite.
1a46a8c5 1348
425ae40f 1349. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1a46a8c5 1350
425ae40f 1351. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1a46a8c5 1352
425ae40f 1353. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1a46a8c5 1354
425ae40f 1355. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
b5aea5e1 1356
425ae40f 1357. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
b5aea5e1 1358
425ae40f 1359. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
35edf2ff 1360
425ae40f 1361There are many more minor changes.
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