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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.
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9Version 4.90
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11
12 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
13 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
14
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15 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
16 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
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18 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
19 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
20 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
21 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
22 another process. Logging is also affected.
23
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24 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
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26 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
27 further recipients and for delivery.
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29 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
30 supported.
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32 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
33 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
34 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
35 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
36 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
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38 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
39 restrict who can use various introspection options.
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41 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
42 appendfile transport.
43
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4410. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
45 SMTP commands.
46
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4711. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
48 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
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5012. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
51 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
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52 is opened with a TFO cookie. Support varies between platforms
53 (Linux does both. FreeBSD server only, others unknown).
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5513. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
56 DKIM support for multiple hashes.
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5814. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
59 configuration file.
60
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62Version 4.89
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65 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
66
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67 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
68 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
69 when a memory corrution issue is suspected on a production system.
70
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72Version 4.88
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74
fc16abb4 75 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
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76 interpreter in taint mode.
77
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78 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
79
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80 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
81 modifier.
82
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83 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
84 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
85 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
86
f59aaaaa 87 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
55e70e76 88 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
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89 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
90 visibility.
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92 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
93
44bc8f0c 94 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
7e3ce68e 95 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
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96 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
97 for control.
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99 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
100
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101 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
102
fbbd45ff 10310. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
4945f557 104 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
383832ef 105 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
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106 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
107 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
fbbd45ff 108
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10911. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
110
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11112. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
112 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
113 message.
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11513. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
116
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11714. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
118 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
119
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12015. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
121 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
122 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
123 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
124 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
125 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
126 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
f59aaaaa 127 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
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12916. A new syslog_pid option to suppress PID duplication in syslog lines.
130
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132Version 4.87
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135 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
136 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
137
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138 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
139 malware= or verify= callout.
140
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141 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
142
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143 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
144 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
145 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
146 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
147 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
148 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
149
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150 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
151
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152 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
153
9aa35e9c 154 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
59b87190 155 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
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62b7cd08 157 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
f59aaaaa 158 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
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159 limits.
160
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161 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
162
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164Version 4.86
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166
167 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
168
169 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
170 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
171
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172 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
173
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174 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
175
176 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
177
f59aaaaa 178 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
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7eb6c37c 180 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
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181 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
182
183 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
184 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
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186 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
187 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
188
b3ef41c9 18910. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
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19111. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
192
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19312. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
194
10ca4f1c 19513. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
65463bc9 196 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
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19814. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
199 same level as DNSSEC.
200
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204
205 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
f59aaaaa 206 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
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207 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
208 domain of the sender.
209
210 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
211 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
212 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
213 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
214 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
215 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
216
217 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
218 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
219 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
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222Version 4.84
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224
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226Version 4.83
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229 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
230 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
231 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
232 proxy that is connecting to it.
233
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234 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
235 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
236 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
237 detect and reject if those characters are present.
238
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239 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
240 codepoints with valid ones.
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242 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
243 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
007a2dee 244 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
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245 be included in the command line.
246
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247 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
248 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
249 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
250 verification cancels the encryption.
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252 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
253 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
254 default list.
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256 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
257 file when searching the queue.
258
f2de3a33 259 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
2b4a568d 260
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261 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
262
9d1c15ef 26310. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
6a8a60e0 264 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
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265 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
266 for them added.
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26811. PRDR is now supported dy default.
269
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27012. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
271
27213. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
4c04137d 273 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
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274 DSN features per RFC 3461.
275
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2c422e6f 277Version 4.82
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279
280 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
281 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
282 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
283 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
284 SIEVE capability line.
285
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286 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
287 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
288 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
289 followed by a newline, and no other text.
290
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291 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
292 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
293 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
294 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
295 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
296 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
297 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
298 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
299
300 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
301
1f4a55da 302 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
0fbd9bff 303 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
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304 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
305 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
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306 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
307 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
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309 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
310
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311 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
312 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
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313 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
314
315 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
316 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
317
318 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
319 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
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321 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
322 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
323 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
324 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
325 ignored.
326
976b7e9f 327 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
4c04137d 328 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
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329 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
330 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
331 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
332 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
333 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
4c04137d 334 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
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335 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
336 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
337 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
338 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
339 system not your own.
340
4c04137d 341 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
042eb971 342 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
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343 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
344 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
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346 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
347 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
348 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
349
350 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
351 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
352 are present for now but deprecated.
353
fcc8e047 354 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
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356 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
357 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
98a90c36 358
2519e60d 359 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
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360 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
361 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
362 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
363 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
364 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
365 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
366 unless this new option is set.
367
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368 Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability,
369 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
370 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
371 Local/Makefile:
372
373 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
374
3e8abda0 37510. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
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376 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
377 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
378 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
379 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
380 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
381 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
382 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
383 return results in a forced fail.
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38511. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
386 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
387
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38812. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
389 handled by routers/transports.
390
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39113. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
392 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
393
362145b5 39414. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
85ffcba6 395 modifier (but not yet added to message).
362145b5 396
bd0fff00 39715. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
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39916. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
400
181d9bf8 40117. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
f59aaaaa 402 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
2a47f028 403 require privilege whereas -d does.
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40518. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
406 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
407
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40819. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
409 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
410 wrappers, for instance.
411
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41220. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
413 connections apply.
414
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41521. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
416 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
417 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
418 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
419 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
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420 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
421 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
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42322. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
424 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
425 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
426
4c04137d 42723. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
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428 UDP host and port.
429
43024. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
431 characters in the string to \xNN form.
432
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43325. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
434 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
435
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437
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442 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
443 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
444 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
445 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
3b4f55a3 446 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
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449 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
450 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
451 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
452
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453 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
454 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
455 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
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456 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
457 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
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459 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
460 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
461
f1e05cc7 462 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
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464 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
465 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
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466 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
467 used by Cyrus SASL.
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469 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
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471 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
472 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
473 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
474 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
475 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
476 compatibility at the cost of session security.
477
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478 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
479 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
480 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
481 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
482 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
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484 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
485 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
486
487 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
488 for Exim as a server.
489
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490 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
491 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
492 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
493 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
494 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
495
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496 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
497 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
498 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
499 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
500 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
501
eae0036b 50210. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
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503 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
504
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50511. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
506 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
507 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
508 string, documentation for which is at:
42bfef1e 509 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
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511 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
512
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513 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
514 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
515
53947857 51612. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
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517 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
518 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
519 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
520 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
521
522 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
523
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52413. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
525 identically to TXT record lookups.
526
2605c55b 52714. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
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52915. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
530 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
531 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
532
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53316. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
534 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
535 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
536 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
537 primes.
538
3ecab157 53917. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
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540 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
541 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
542
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545------------
546
547 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
548 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
549
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550 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
551 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
552
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553 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
554 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
555
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556 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
557 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
558 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
559
560 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
561 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
562 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
563 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
564
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567------------
568
569 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
570 or off in the resolver library.
571
572
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573Version 4.75
574------------
575
576 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
577 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
578 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
579 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
580 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
581
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582 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
583 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
584 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
585
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586 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
587 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
588
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589 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
590 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
591 including any header additions or removals from transport.
592
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593 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
594 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
595
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597Version 4.74
598------------
599
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600 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
601 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
602 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
603 on content supplied by the attacker.
604
605 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
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606 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
607 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
608 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
609 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
610
611
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612Version 4.73
613------------
614
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615 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
616 items below carefully
617
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618 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
619 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
620 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
621 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
622 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
623 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
624 frivolously.
625
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626 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
627 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
628 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
43236f35 629 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
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630 be able to take effect.
631
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632 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
633 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
634 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
635 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
636
637 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
638 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
639 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
640 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
641
642 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
643
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644 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
645
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646 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
647 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
648 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
649 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
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650 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
651 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
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653 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
654 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
655
656 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
657 -> 4.2.0.192
658 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
659 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
660
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661 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
662 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
663 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
664 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
665 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
666 don't all make sense in all contexts:
667
668 control = debug
669 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
670 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
671 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
672
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673 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
674 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
675 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
676 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
677 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
678 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
679 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
680 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
681 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
682 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
683 the safeties off.
684
06a6f4ed 685 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
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686 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
687 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
688 do evaluate true.
689 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
690
06a6f4ed 691 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
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694 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
695 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
696 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
697 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
698 build option.
699
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70011. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
701 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
702
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70312. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
704 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
90b6341f 705 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
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707 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
708 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
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71013. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
711 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
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713 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
714 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
43236f35 715 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
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716 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
717 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
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721------------
722
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723 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
724 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
725
726 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
727
728 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
729 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
730 duplicates).
731
732 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
733 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
734 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
735 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
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736 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
737 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
738 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
739 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
740 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
741 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
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743 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
744 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
745
746 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
747 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
8f425947 748 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
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752-------------------
65a7d8c3 753
7c6d71af 754 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
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755 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
756 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
757 for details on conditionally disabling)
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759 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
65a7d8c3 760
f33253cc 761 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
7d9f747b 762 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
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763 and{} expansion operator).
764
765 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
766 at delivery time.
767
768 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
769 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
770
771 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
772 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
773 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
774
775 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
776 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
777 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
778 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
779
780 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
781 OpenSSL.
782
783 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
784
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787------------
788
789 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
790
791
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793------------
794
795 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
796 local_scan API.
797
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798 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
799 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
800 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
801 cases, for example:
802
803 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
804
805 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
806 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
807 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
808 like this:
809
810 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
811
812 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
813 192.168.6.7 (for example).
814
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816 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
817 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
818 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
819
820 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
821
822 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
823 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
824 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
825 $tls_peerdn.
826
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827 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
828 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
829 only by an admin user.
830
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831 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
832 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
833 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
834 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
835 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
836
837 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
838 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
839
840 Example:
841
842 acl_check_connect:
843 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
844 # we update it below
845 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
846 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
847 (max $sender_rate_limit)
848
849 [... some other logic and tests...]
850
851 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
852 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
853 (max $sender_rate_limit)
854 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
855
856 accept
857
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858 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
859 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
860 line termination character(s).
861
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862 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analagous to
863 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
864 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
865
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866 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
867 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
868 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
869 message is queued, the remainder are also.
870
4f054c63 871 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
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872 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
873 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
874 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
875 log files) that make the situation even worse.
876
877 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
878 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
879 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
880
881 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
882 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
883 connection. The possible values are:
884
885 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
886 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
887 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
888 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
889 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
890 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
891 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
892 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
893 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
894 tls-failed TLS failed to start
895
896 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
897 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
898 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
899 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
900 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
901 used.
902
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904 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
905 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
906
907 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
908 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
909 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
910
911 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
912
913 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
914 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
915 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
916
917 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
918 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
919 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
920
921 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
922
923 In an updating lookup, you could then write
924
925 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
926
927 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
928
929 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
930
931 you can still update the master by
932
933 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
934
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936 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
937 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
938 spaces.
939
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942------------
943
944 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
945 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
946 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
4aa45c31 947 MAIL command.
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950 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
951 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
93655c46 952 rather than the default "any" matching.
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955 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
956 other parameters to be varied.
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959 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
431b7361 960
4aa45c31 961 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
431b7361 962
4aa45c31 963 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
cf8b11a5 964
41c7c167 965 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
4aa45c31 966 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
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968 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
4aa45c31 969 after the connection to the server has been made.
41c7c167 970
9c57cbc0 971 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
4aa45c31 972 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
9c57cbc0 973
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975 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
976 time and date.
977
047bdd8c 97811. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
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979 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
980 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
981 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
4aa45c31 982 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
047bdd8c 983
0ce9abe6 98412. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
4aa45c31 985 called forany and forall.
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988 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
989 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
0e22dfd1 990
4aa45c31 99114. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
c51b8e75 992
75b1493f 99315. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
4aa45c31 994 that makes it case-sensitive.
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997 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
998 items, typically addresses.
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1001 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1002 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
4aa45c31 1003 can be used.
c3611384 1004
ec95d1a6 100518. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
4aa45c31 1006 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
ec95d1a6 1007
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100819. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1009 condition.
1010
c456d9bb 101120. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
4aa45c31 1012 "ignore".
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1015Version 4.66
1016------------
1017
1018No new features were added to 4.66.
1019
1020
1021Version 4.65
1022------------
1023
1024No new features were added to 4.65.
1025
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1027Version 4.64
1028------------
1029
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1030 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1031 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1032 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
883335dc 1033 an underscore.
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1035 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
883335dc 1036 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
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1038 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1039 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
883335dc 1040 number of authentication methods.
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1042 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1043 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1044 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1045
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1046 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1047 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1048 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1049 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
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883335dc 1051 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
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1053 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1054 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1055 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
883335dc 1056 before doing the expansions.
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1058 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
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1059 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1060 message.
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1062 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1063 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
883335dc 1064 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
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106610. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
883335dc 1067 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
48c7f9e2 1068
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106911. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1070 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1071 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1072 available for compatibility.)
1073
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107412. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1075 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
4e88a19f 1076
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1080
10811. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
38a0a95f 1082 router.
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10842. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1085 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
38a0a95f 1086 read.
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1089 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
38a0a95f 1090 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
a5bd321b 1091
6ec97b1b 10924. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
38a0a95f 1093 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
6ec97b1b 1094
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1096 --reverse
1097 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1098 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1099 --random
1100 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1101 --size
1102 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1103 of their sizes.
1104 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1105 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1106 each messages value for each variable.
1107 --not
1108 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1109 same criteria without --not).
1110
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1114
11151. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1116 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1117 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1118 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1119 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1120 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1121
1122 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1123
1124 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1125 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1126 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1127 domain socket.
1128
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1130 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1131 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1132
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11333. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1134 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1135 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1136 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1137
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1141
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1142The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1143the 4.60 release are:
1144
1145. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1146
1147. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1148
1149. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1150 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1151 for other things in complicated expansions.
1152
843a41e8 1153. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
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1155. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1156 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1157
1158. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1159
1160. More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1161
1162There are a number of other additions too.
71fafd95 1163
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1167
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1168The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1169the 4.50 release are:
1a46a8c5 1170
425ae40f 1171. Support for SQLite.
1a46a8c5 1172
425ae40f 1173. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1a46a8c5 1174
425ae40f 1175. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1a46a8c5 1176
425ae40f 1177. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1a46a8c5 1178
425ae40f 1179. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
b5aea5e1 1180
425ae40f 1181. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
b5aea5e1 1182
425ae40f 1183. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
35edf2ff 1184
425ae40f 1185There are many more minor changes.
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