OCSP Stapling support, under EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP.
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1New Features in Exim
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3
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4This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
5Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
6test from the snapshots or the CVS before the documentation is updated. Once
7the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
8
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9Version 4.78
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11
12 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
13 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
14 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
15 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
3b4f55a3 16 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
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18 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
19 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
20 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
21 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
22
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23 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
24 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
25 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
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26 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
27 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
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f1e05cc7 29 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
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31 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
32 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
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33 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
34 used by Cyrus SASL.
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36 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
37
38 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
39 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
40 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
41 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
42 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
43 compatibility at the cost of session security.
44
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45 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
46 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
47 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
48 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
49 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
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51 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
52 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
53
54 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
55 for Exim as a server.
56
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57 Currently OpenSSL only.
58
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59 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
60 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
61 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
62 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
63 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
64
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65 9. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
66 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
67 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
68 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
69 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
70
71 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
72
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74Version 4.77
75------------
76
77 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
78 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
79
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80 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
81 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
82
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83 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
84 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
85
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86 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
87 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
88 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
89
90 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
91 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
92 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
93 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
94
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96Version 4.76
97------------
98
99 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
100 or off in the resolver library.
101
102
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103Version 4.75
104------------
105
106 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
107 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
108 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
109 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
110 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
111
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112 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
113 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
114 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
115
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116 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
117 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
118
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119 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
120 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
121 including any header additions or removals from transport.
122
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123 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
124 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
125
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127Version 4.74
128------------
129
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130 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
131 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
132 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
133 on content supplied by the attacker.
134
135 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
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136 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
137 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
138 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
139 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
140
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142Version 4.73
143------------
144
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145 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
146 items below carefully
147
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148 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
149 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
150 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
151 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
152 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
153 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
154 frivolously.
155
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156 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
157 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
158 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
43236f35 159 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
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160 be able to take effect.
161
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162 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
163 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
164 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
165 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
166
167 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
168 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
169 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
170 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
171
172 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
173
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174 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
175
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176 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
177 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
178 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
179 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
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180 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
181 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
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183 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
184 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
185
186 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
187 -> 4.2.0.192
188 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
189 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
190
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191 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
192 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
193 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
194 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
195 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
196 don't all make sense in all contexts:
197
198 control = debug
199 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
200 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
201 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
202
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203 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
204 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
205 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
206 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
207 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
208 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
209 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
210 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
211 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
212 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
213 the safeties off.
214
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215 8. There is a new expansion operator, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
216 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
217 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
218 do evaluate true.
219 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
220
221 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests,
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22310. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
224 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
225 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
226 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
227 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
228 build option.
229
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23011. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
231 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
232
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23312. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
234 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
90b6341f 235 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
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236 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
237 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
238 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
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239
24013. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
241 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
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242 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
243 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
244 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
43236f35 245 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
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246 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
247 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
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250Version 4.72
251------------
252
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253 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
254 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
255
256 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
257
258 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
259 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
260 duplicates).
261
262 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
263 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
264 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
265 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
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266 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
267 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
268 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
269 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
270 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
271 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
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273 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
274 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
275
276 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
277 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
8f425947 278 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
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281Version 4.70 / 4.71
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7c6d71af 284 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
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285 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
286 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
287 for details on conditionally disabling)
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289 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
65a7d8c3 290
f33253cc 291 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
7d9f747b 292 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
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293 and{} expansion operator).
294
295 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
296 at delivery time.
297
298 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
299 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
300
301 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
302 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
303 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
304
305 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
306 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
307 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
308 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
309
310 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
311 OpenSSL.
312
313 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
314
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316Version 4.69
317------------
318
319 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
320
321
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322Version 4.68
323------------
324
325 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
326 local_scan API.
327
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328 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
329 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
330 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
331 cases, for example:
332
333 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
334
335 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
336 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
337 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
338 like this:
339
340 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
341
342 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
343 192.168.6.7 (for example).
344
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345 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
346 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
347 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
348 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
349
350 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
351
352 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
353 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
354 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
355 $tls_peerdn.
356
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357 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
358 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
359 only by an admin user.
360
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361 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
362 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
363 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
364 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
365 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
366
367 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
368 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
369
370 Example:
371
372 acl_check_connect:
373 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
374 # we update it below
375 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
376 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
377 (max $sender_rate_limit)
378
379 [... some other logic and tests...]
380
381 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
382 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
383 (max $sender_rate_limit)
384 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
385
386 accept
387
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388 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
389 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
390 line termination character(s).
391
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392 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analagous to
393 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
394 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
395
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396 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
397 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
398 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
399 message is queued, the remainder are also.
400
4f054c63 401 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
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402 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
403 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
404 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
405 log files) that make the situation even worse.
406
407 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
408 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
409 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
410
411 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
412 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
413 connection. The possible values are:
414
415 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
416 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
417 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
418 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
419 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
420 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
421 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
422 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
423 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
424 tls-failed TLS failed to start
425
426 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
427 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
428 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
429 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
430 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
431 used.
432
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43310. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
434 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
435 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
436
437 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
438 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
439 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
440
441 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
442
443 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
444 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
445 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
446
447 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
448 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
449 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
450
451 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
452
453 In an updating lookup, you could then write
454
455 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
456
457 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
458
459 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
460
461 you can still update the master by
462
463 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
464
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46511. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
466 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
467 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
468 spaces.
469
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471Version 4.67
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473
474 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
475 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
476 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
4aa45c31 477 MAIL command.
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431b7361 479 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
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480 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
481 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
93655c46 482 rather than the default "any" matching.
431b7361 483
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484 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
485 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
486 other parameters to be varied.
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488 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
489 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
431b7361 490
4aa45c31 491 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
431b7361 492
4aa45c31 493 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
cf8b11a5 494
41c7c167 495 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
4aa45c31 496 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
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497
498 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
4aa45c31 499 after the connection to the server has been made.
41c7c167 500
9c57cbc0 501 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
4aa45c31 502 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
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50410. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
505 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
506 time and date.
507
047bdd8c 50811. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
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509 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
510 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
511 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
4aa45c31 512 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
047bdd8c 513
0ce9abe6 51412. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
4aa45c31 515 called forany and forall.
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51713. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
518 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
519 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
0e22dfd1 520
4aa45c31 52114. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
c51b8e75 522
75b1493f 52315. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
4aa45c31 524 that makes it case-sensitive.
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527 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
528 items, typically addresses.
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531 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
532 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
4aa45c31 533 can be used.
c3611384 534
ec95d1a6 53518. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
4aa45c31 536 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
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53819. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
539 condition.
540
c456d9bb 54120. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
4aa45c31 542 "ignore".
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545Version 4.66
546------------
547
548No new features were added to 4.66.
549
550
551Version 4.65
552------------
553
554No new features were added to 4.65.
555
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557Version 4.64
558------------
559
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560 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
561 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
562 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
883335dc 563 an underscore.
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565 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
883335dc 566 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
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568 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
569 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
883335dc 570 number of authentication methods.
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572 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
573 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
574 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
575
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577 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
578 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
579 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
af561417 580
883335dc 581 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
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583 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
584 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
585 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
883335dc 586 before doing the expansions.
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588 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
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590 message.
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592 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
593 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
883335dc 594 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
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59610. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
883335dc 597 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
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600 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
601 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
602 available for compatibility.)
603
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605 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
4e88a19f 606
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610
6111. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
38a0a95f 612 router.
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615 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
38a0a95f 616 read.
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619 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
38a0a95f 620 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
a5bd321b 621
6ec97b1b 6224. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
38a0a95f 623 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
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626 --reverse
627 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
628 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
629 --random
630 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
631 --size
632 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
633 of their sizes.
634 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
635 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
636 each messages value for each variable.
637 --not
638 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
639 same criteria without --not).
640
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644
6451. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
646 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
647 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
648 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
649 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
650 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
651
652 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
653
654 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
655 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
656 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
657 domain socket.
658
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660 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
661 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
662
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664 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
665 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
666 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
667
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671
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673the 4.60 release are:
674
675. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
676
677. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
678
679. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
680 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
681 for other things in complicated expansions.
682
843a41e8 683. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
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685. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
686 resources used in pipe deliveries.
687
688. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
689
690. More errors are detectable in retry rules.
691
692There are a number of other additions too.
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7e66e54d 694
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697
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699the 4.50 release are:
1a46a8c5 700
425ae40f 701. Support for SQLite.
1a46a8c5 702
425ae40f 703. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1a46a8c5 704
425ae40f 705. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1a46a8c5 706
425ae40f 707. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1a46a8c5 708
425ae40f 709. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
b5aea5e1 710
425ae40f 711. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
b5aea5e1 712
425ae40f 713. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
35edf2ff 714
425ae40f 715There are many more minor changes.
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