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2 | |
3 | New Features in Exim | |
4 | -------------------- | |
5 | ||
38a0a95f PH |
6 | This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim. |
7 | Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can | |
8 | test from the snapshots or the CVS before the documentation is updated. Once | |
9 | the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list. | |
10 | ||
7c6d71af | 11 | |
77bb000f PP |
12 | Version 4.73 |
13 | ------------ | |
14 | ||
2cfd3221 PP |
15 | NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the |
16 | items below carefully | |
17 | ||
77bb000f PP |
18 | 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim |
19 | is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows | |
20 | administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections; | |
21 | typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL | |
22 | developers have not enabled by default. There may be security | |
23 | consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed | |
24 | frivolously. | |
25 | ||
a29e5231 PP |
26 | 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem |
27 | diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as | |
28 | a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default, | |
29 | so that safety mechanism would have to be overriden for this option to | |
30 | be able to take effect. | |
31 | ||
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32 | 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless |
33 | Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes | |
34 | Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future | |
35 | release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM"). | |
36 | ||
37 | The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third | |
38 | part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of | |
39 | the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at | |
40 | a Unix-domain socket. For example: | |
41 | ||
42 | av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local | |
43 | ||
491fab4c PP |
44 | ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled. |
45 | ||
8544e77a PP |
46 | 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option |
47 | takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's | |
48 | malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid | |
49 | to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools. | |
a9622bc6 PP |
50 | Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references |
51 | ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail. | |
8544e77a | 52 | |
83e029d5 PP |
53 | 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP |
54 | addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples: | |
55 | ||
56 | ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4} | |
57 | -> 4.2.0.192 | |
58 | ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3} | |
59 | -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2 | |
60 | ||
ed7f7860 PP |
61 | 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging. |
62 | This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within | |
63 | production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag" | |
64 | and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts" | |
65 | is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which | |
66 | don't all make sense in all contexts: | |
67 | ||
68 | control = debug | |
69 | control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address | |
70 | control = debug/opts=+expand+acl | |
71 | control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand | |
72 | ||
10385c15 PP |
73 | 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that |
74 | "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was | |
75 | "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from | |
76 | shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim | |
77 | themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of | |
78 | running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in | |
79 | them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured | |
80 | statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim | |
81 | will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot, | |
82 | then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip | |
83 | the safeties off. | |
84 | ||
6a8de854 PP |
85 | 8. There is a new expansion operator, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL |
86 | condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many | |
87 | strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings | |
88 | do evaluate true. | |
89 | Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true. | |
90 | ||
91 | 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests, | |
532be449 | 92 | |
5dc43717 JJ |
93 | 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name". |
94 | Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers | |
95 | config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option | |
96 | is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The | |
97 | default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME | |
98 | build option. | |
99 | ||
79d4bc3d PP |
100 | 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now |
101 | the Exim run-time user, instead of root. | |
102 | ||
2cfd3221 PP |
103 | 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and |
104 | is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option | |
90b6341f DW |
105 | TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which |
106 | are trusted; if a config file is owned by root and matches a pathname in | |
107 | the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time user without Exim | |
108 | relinquishing root privileges. | |
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109 | |
110 | 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically | |
111 | trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going | |
90b6341f DW |
112 | forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that |
113 | include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily | |
114 | providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides | |
115 | a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overriden by the Exim | |
116 | run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex | |
117 | ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values). | |
2cfd3221 | 118 | |
77bb000f | 119 | |
3fc596e4 NM |
120 | Version 4.72 |
121 | ------------ | |
122 | ||
b26eacf1 PP |
123 | 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally |
124 | writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox). | |
125 | ||
126 | 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported. | |
127 | ||
128 | 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and | |
129 | messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding | |
130 | duplicates). | |
131 | ||
132 | 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups | |
133 | in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70, | |
134 | only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default, | |
135 | preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output | |
8f425947 PP |
136 | separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to |
137 | concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character, | |
138 | or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text | |
139 | strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character. | |
140 | Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees | |
141 | between multiple records in an RRset. For example: | |
b26eacf1 PP |
142 | |
143 | foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c" | |
144 | foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f" | |
145 | ||
146 | ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d" | |
147 | ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc" | |
8f425947 | 148 | ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f" |
b26eacf1 | 149 | |
3fc596e4 | 150 | |
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151 | Version 4.70 / 4.71 |
152 | ------------------- | |
65a7d8c3 | 153 | |
7c6d71af | 154 | 1. Native DKIM support without an external library. |
a8c8d6b5 JJ |
155 | (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will |
156 | result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec | |
157 | for details on conditionally disabling) | |
7c6d71af NM |
158 | |
159 | 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha). | |
65a7d8c3 | 160 | |
f33253cc | 161 | 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to |
7d9f747b | 162 | true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the |
f33253cc NM |
163 | and{} expansion operator). |
164 | ||
165 | 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available | |
166 | at delivery time. | |
167 | ||
168 | 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as | |
169 | options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user. | |
170 | ||
171 | 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS, | |
172 | which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased | |
173 | security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients. | |
174 | ||
175 | 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a | |
176 | "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is | |
177 | not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how | |
178 | Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes. | |
179 | ||
180 | 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against | |
181 | OpenSSL. | |
182 | ||
183 | 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too. | |
184 | ||
65a7d8c3 | 185 | |
7d9f747b PP |
186 | Version 4.69 |
187 | ------------ | |
188 | ||
189 | 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental. | |
190 | ||
191 | ||
2b85bce7 PH |
192 | Version 4.68 |
193 | ------------ | |
194 | ||
195 | 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the | |
196 | local_scan API. | |
197 | ||
93655c46 PH |
198 | 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed |
199 | in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in | |
200 | this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple | |
201 | cases, for example: | |
202 | ||
203 | deny dnslists = spamhaus.example | |
204 | ||
205 | the key is also available in another variable (in this case, | |
206 | $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not | |
207 | true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup | |
208 | like this: | |
209 | ||
210 | deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|... | |
211 | ||
212 | If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be | |
213 | 192.168.6.7 (for example). | |
214 | ||
6c512171 PH |
215 | 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as |
216 | a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields | |
217 | "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text | |
218 | authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as: | |
219 | ||
220 | client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}} | |
221 | ||
222 | Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the | |
223 | cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it | |
224 | contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for | |
225 | $tls_peerdn. | |
226 | ||
a96603a0 PH |
227 | 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the |
228 | message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used | |
229 | only by an admin user. | |
230 | ||
8f240103 PH |
231 | 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It |
232 | computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update | |
233 | the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup | |
234 | the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without | |
235 | incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key. | |
236 | ||
237 | In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate | |
238 | for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero). | |
239 | ||
240 | Example: | |
241 | ||
242 | acl_check_connect: | |
243 | # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum | |
244 | # we update it below | |
245 | deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate | |
246 | log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \ | |
247 | (max $sender_rate_limit) | |
248 | ||
249 | [... some other logic and tests...] | |
250 | ||
251 | warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd | |
252 | log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \ | |
253 | (max $sender_rate_limit) | |
254 | condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}} | |
255 | ||
256 | accept | |
257 | ||
d677b2f2 PH |
258 | 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the |
259 | longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the | |
260 | line termination character(s). | |
261 | ||
d52120f2 PH |
262 | 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analagous to |
263 | +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with | |
264 | care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists. | |
265 | ||
8669f003 PH |
266 | 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true. |
267 | If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates | |
268 | the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one | |
269 | message is queued, the remainder are also. | |
270 | ||
4f054c63 | 271 | 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most |
8f128379 PH |
272 | cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim |
273 | itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files, | |
274 | this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to | |
275 | log files) that make the situation even worse. | |
276 | ||
277 | Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather | |
278 | statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay" | |
279 | modifier is forbidden in this ACL. | |
280 | ||
281 | When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set | |
282 | to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP | |
283 | connection. The possible values are: | |
284 | ||
285 | acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command | |
286 | bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands | |
287 | command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands | |
288 | connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost | |
289 | data-timeout Timeout while reading message data | |
290 | local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed | |
291 | local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out | |
292 | signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT | |
293 | synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error | |
294 | tls-failed TLS failed to start | |
295 | ||
296 | In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received | |
297 | QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the | |
298 | connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be | |
299 | overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a | |
300 | "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is | |
301 | used. | |
302 | ||
b7670459 PH |
303 | 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of |
304 | servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with | |
305 | "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms: | |
306 | ||
307 | (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers | |
308 | or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the | |
309 | remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there. | |
310 | ||
311 | (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set. | |
312 | ||
313 | The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list. | |
314 | Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been | |
315 | successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases. | |
316 | ||
317 | This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates | |
318 | are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the | |
319 | masters are in the list for reading, you might have: | |
320 | ||
321 | mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw | |
322 | ||
323 | In an updating lookup, you could then write | |
324 | ||
325 | ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...} | |
326 | ||
327 | If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups: | |
328 | ||
329 | pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw | |
330 | ||
331 | you can still update the master by | |
332 | ||
333 | ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...} | |
334 | ||
ddea74fa PH |
335 | 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards |
336 | compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in | |
337 | $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by | |
338 | spaces. | |
339 | ||
2b85bce7 | 340 | |
b4ed4da0 PH |
341 | Version 4.67 |
342 | ------------ | |
343 | ||
344 | 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in | |
345 | the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log | |
346 | whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a | |
4aa45c31 | 347 | MAIL command. |
b4ed4da0 | 348 | |
431b7361 | 349 | 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP |
4aa45c31 PH |
350 | addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than |
351 | one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all" | |
93655c46 | 352 | rather than the default "any" matching. |
431b7361 | 353 | |
4aa45c31 PH |
354 | 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been |
355 | for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the | |
356 | other parameters to be varied. | |
431b7361 | 357 | |
4aa45c31 PH |
358 | 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is |
359 | set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync. | |
431b7361 | 360 | |
4aa45c31 | 361 | 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start. |
431b7361 | 362 | |
4aa45c31 | 363 | 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining. |
cf8b11a5 | 364 | |
41c7c167 | 365 | 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port. |
4aa45c31 | 366 | These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up. |
41c7c167 PH |
367 | |
368 | 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens | |
4aa45c31 | 369 | after the connection to the server has been made. |
41c7c167 | 370 | |
9c57cbc0 | 371 | 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that |
4aa45c31 | 372 | are encoded as per RFC 2047. |
9c57cbc0 | 373 | |
f3f065bb PH |
374 | 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process |
375 | id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the | |
376 | time and date. | |
377 | ||
047bdd8c | 378 | 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing |
4c590bd1 PH |
379 | a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout, |
380 | as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by | |
381 | obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush, | |
4aa45c31 | 382 | respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection. |
047bdd8c | 383 | |
0ce9abe6 | 384 | 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are |
4aa45c31 | 385 | called forany and forall. |
0ce9abe6 | 386 | |
0e22dfd1 PH |
387 | 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the |
388 | contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated | |
389 | messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option). | |
0e22dfd1 | 390 | |
4aa45c31 | 391 | 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining. |
c51b8e75 | 392 | |
75b1493f | 393 | 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option |
4aa45c31 | 394 | that makes it case-sensitive. |
29f89cad | 395 | |
4aa45c31 PH |
396 | 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have |
397 | been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of | |
398 | items, typically addresses. | |
29f89cad | 399 | |
c3611384 PH |
400 | 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself, |
401 | and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or | |
402 | modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument | |
4aa45c31 | 403 | can be used. |
c3611384 | 404 | |
ec95d1a6 | 405 | 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with |
4aa45c31 | 406 | values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists. |
ec95d1a6 | 407 | |
b2d5182b PH |
408 | 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching |
409 | condition. | |
410 | ||
c456d9bb | 411 | 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to |
4aa45c31 | 412 | "ignore". |
c456d9bb | 413 | |
b4ed4da0 PH |
414 | |
415 | Version 4.66 | |
416 | ------------ | |
417 | ||
418 | No new features were added to 4.66. | |
419 | ||
420 | ||
421 | Version 4.65 | |
422 | ------------ | |
423 | ||
424 | No new features were added to 4.65. | |
425 | ||
38a0a95f PH |
426 | |
427 | Version 4.64 | |
428 | ------------ | |
429 | ||
af561417 PH |
430 | 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with |
431 | "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at | |
432 | least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or | |
883335dc | 433 | an underscore. |
af561417 PH |
434 | |
435 | 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible | |
883335dc | 436 | to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections. |
af561417 PH |
437 | |
438 | 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the | |
439 | authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a | |
883335dc | 440 | number of authentication methods. |
af561417 PH |
441 | |
442 | 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the | |
443 | messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to | |
444 | $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents. | |
445 | ||
883335dc PH |
446 | 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the |
447 | second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value | |
448 | restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used, | |
449 | without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record. | |
af561417 | 450 | |
883335dc | 451 | 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option. |
af561417 PH |
452 | |
453 | 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in | |
454 | conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be | |
455 | followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool | |
883335dc | 456 | before doing the expansions. |
af561417 PH |
457 | |
458 | 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like | |
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459 | -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a |
460 | message. | |
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461 | |
462 | 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it | |
463 | is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in | |
883335dc | 464 | subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached. |
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465 | |
466 | 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and | |
883335dc | 467 | shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items. |
48c7f9e2 | 468 | |
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469 | 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed |
470 | as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they | |
471 | relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain | |
472 | available for compatibility.) | |
473 | ||
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474 | 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs |
475 | to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted. | |
4e88a19f | 476 | |
495ae4b0 | 477 | |
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478 | Version 4.63 |
479 | ------------ | |
480 | ||
481 | 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect | |
38a0a95f | 482 | router. |
4608d683 | 483 | |
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484 | 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the |
485 | start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been | |
38a0a95f | 486 | read. |
45b91596 | 487 | |
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488 | 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL, |
489 | or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the | |
38a0a95f | 490 | start of the message for an SMTP error code. |
a5bd321b | 491 | |
6ec97b1b | 492 | 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes |
38a0a95f | 493 | one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow". |
6ec97b1b | 494 | |
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495 | 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options: |
496 | --reverse | |
497 | After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order | |
498 | before displaying messages (-R is synonym). | |
499 | --random | |
500 | Randomize order of matching messages before displaying. | |
501 | --size | |
502 | Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum | |
503 | of their sizes. | |
504 | --sort <variable>[,<variable>...] | |
505 | Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to | |
506 | each messages value for each variable. | |
507 | --not | |
508 | Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the | |
509 | same criteria without --not). | |
510 | ||
4608d683 | 511 | |
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512 | Version 4.62 |
513 | ------------ | |
514 | ||
515 | 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well | |
516 | as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of | |
517 | the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the | |
518 | name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an | |
519 | IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets. | |
520 | This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example: | |
521 | ||
522 | ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}... | |
523 | ||
524 | Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than | |
525 | one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once | |
526 | a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix | |
527 | domain socket. | |
528 | ||
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529 | 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one |
530 | incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than | |
531 | one, a batch delivery now occurs. | |
532 | ||
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533 | 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex. |
534 | Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched | |
535 | against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a | |
536 | maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories. | |
537 | ||
1cce3af8 | 538 | |
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539 | Version 4.61 |
540 | ------------ | |
541 | ||
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542 | The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since |
543 | the 4.60 release are: | |
544 | ||
545 | . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely. | |
546 | ||
547 | . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type. | |
548 | ||
549 | . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1, | |
550 | $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used | |
551 | for other things in complicated expansions. | |
552 | ||
843a41e8 | 553 | . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s. |
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554 | |
555 | . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the | |
556 | resources used in pipe deliveries. | |
557 | ||
558 | . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb. | |
559 | ||
560 | . More errors are detectable in retry rules. | |
561 | ||
562 | There are a number of other additions too. | |
71fafd95 | 563 | |
7e66e54d | 564 | |
425ae40f | 565 | Version 4.60 |
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566 | ------------ |
567 | ||
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568 | The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since |
569 | the 4.50 release are: | |
1a46a8c5 | 570 | |
425ae40f | 571 | . Support for SQLite. |
1a46a8c5 | 572 | |
425ae40f | 573 | . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP. |
1a46a8c5 | 574 | |
425ae40f | 575 | . Extensions to the "submission mode" features. |
1a46a8c5 | 576 | |
425ae40f | 577 | . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA). |
1a46a8c5 | 578 | |
425ae40f | 579 | . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users. |
b5aea5e1 | 580 | |
425ae40f | 581 | . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme. |
b5aea5e1 | 582 | |
425ae40f | 583 | . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list. |
35edf2ff | 584 | |
425ae40f | 585 | There are many more minor changes. |
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586 | |
587 | **** |