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1New Features in Exim
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3
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4This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
5Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
6test from the snapshots or the CVS before the documentation is updated. Once
7the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
8
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9Version 4.81
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11
12 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
13 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
14 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
15 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
16 SIEVE capability line.
17
18
b1770b6e 19Version 4.80
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21
22 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
23 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
24 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
25 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
3b4f55a3 26 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
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28 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
29 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
30 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
31 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
32
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33 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
34 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
35 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
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36 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
37 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
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39 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
40 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
41
f1e05cc7 42 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
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44 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
45 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
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46 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
47 used by Cyrus SASL.
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49 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
50
51 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
52 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
53 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
54 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
55 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
56 compatibility at the cost of session security.
57
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58 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
59 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
60 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
61 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
62 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
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63
64 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
65 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
66
67 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
68 for Exim as a server.
69
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70 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
71 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
72 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
73 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
74 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
75
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76 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
77 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
78 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
79 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
80 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
81
eae0036b 8210. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
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83 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
84
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8511. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
86 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
87 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
88 string, documentation for which is at:
89 http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
90
91 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
92
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93 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
94 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
95
53947857 9612. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
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97 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
98 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
99 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
100 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
101
102 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
103
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10413. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
105 identically to TXT record lookups.
106
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10915. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
110 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
111 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
112
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11316. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
114 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
115 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
116 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
117 primes.
118
3ecab157 11917. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
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120 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
121 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
122
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124Version 4.77
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126
127 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
128 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
129
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130 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
131 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
132
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133 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
134 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
135
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136 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
137 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
138 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
139
140 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
141 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
142 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
143 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
144
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146Version 4.76
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148
149 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
150 or off in the resolver library.
151
152
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153Version 4.75
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155
156 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
157 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
158 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
159 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
160 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
161
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162 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
163 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
164 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
165
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166 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
167 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
168
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169 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
170 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
171 including any header additions or removals from transport.
172
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173 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
174 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
175
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177Version 4.74
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179
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180 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
181 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
182 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
183 on content supplied by the attacker.
184
185 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
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186 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
187 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
188 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
189 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
190
191
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192Version 4.73
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194
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195 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
196 items below carefully
197
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198 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
199 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
200 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
201 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
202 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
203 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
204 frivolously.
205
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206 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
207 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
208 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
43236f35 209 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
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210 be able to take effect.
211
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212 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
213 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
214 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
215 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
216
217 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
218 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
219 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
220 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
221
222 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
223
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224 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
225
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226 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
227 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
228 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
229 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
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230 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
231 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
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233 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
234 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
235
236 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
237 -> 4.2.0.192
238 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
239 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
240
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241 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
242 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
243 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
244 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
245 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
246 don't all make sense in all contexts:
247
248 control = debug
249 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
250 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
251 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
252
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253 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
254 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
255 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
256 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
257 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
258 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
259 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
260 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
261 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
262 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
263 the safeties off.
264
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265 8. There is a new expansion operator, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
266 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
267 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
268 do evaluate true.
269 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
270
271 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests,
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27310. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
274 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
275 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
276 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
277 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
278 build option.
279
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28011. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
281 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
282
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28312. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
284 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
90b6341f 285 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
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286 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
287 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
288 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
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289
29013. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
291 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
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292 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
293 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
294 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
43236f35 295 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
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296 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
297 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
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300Version 4.72
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302
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303 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
304 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
305
306 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
307
308 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
309 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
310 duplicates).
311
312 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
313 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
314 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
315 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
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316 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
317 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
318 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
319 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
320 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
321 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
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323 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
324 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
325
326 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
327 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
8f425947 328 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
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331Version 4.70 / 4.71
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7c6d71af 334 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
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335 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
336 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
337 for details on conditionally disabling)
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339 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
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f33253cc 341 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
7d9f747b 342 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
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343 and{} expansion operator).
344
345 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
346 at delivery time.
347
348 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
349 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
350
351 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
352 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
353 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
354
355 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
356 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
357 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
358 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
359
360 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
361 OpenSSL.
362
363 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
364
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366Version 4.69
367------------
368
369 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
370
371
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372Version 4.68
373------------
374
375 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
376 local_scan API.
377
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378 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
379 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
380 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
381 cases, for example:
382
383 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
384
385 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
386 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
387 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
388 like this:
389
390 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
391
392 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
393 192.168.6.7 (for example).
394
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395 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
396 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
397 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
398 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
399
400 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
401
402 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
403 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
404 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
405 $tls_peerdn.
406
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407 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
408 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
409 only by an admin user.
410
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411 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
412 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
413 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
414 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
415 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
416
417 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
418 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
419
420 Example:
421
422 acl_check_connect:
423 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
424 # we update it below
425 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
426 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
427 (max $sender_rate_limit)
428
429 [... some other logic and tests...]
430
431 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
432 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
433 (max $sender_rate_limit)
434 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
435
436 accept
437
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438 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
439 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
440 line termination character(s).
441
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442 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analagous to
443 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
444 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
445
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446 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
447 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
448 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
449 message is queued, the remainder are also.
450
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452 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
453 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
454 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
455 log files) that make the situation even worse.
456
457 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
458 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
459 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
460
461 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
462 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
463 connection. The possible values are:
464
465 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
466 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
467 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
468 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
469 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
470 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
471 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
472 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
473 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
474 tls-failed TLS failed to start
475
476 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
477 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
478 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
479 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
480 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
481 used.
482
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48310. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
484 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
485 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
486
487 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
488 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
489 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
490
491 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
492
493 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
494 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
495 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
496
497 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
498 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
499 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
500
501 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
502
503 In an updating lookup, you could then write
504
505 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
506
507 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
508
509 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
510
511 you can still update the master by
512
513 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
514
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51511. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
516 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
517 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
518 spaces.
519
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522------------
523
524 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
525 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
526 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
4aa45c31 527 MAIL command.
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431b7361 529 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
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530 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
531 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
93655c46 532 rather than the default "any" matching.
431b7361 533
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534 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
535 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
536 other parameters to be varied.
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538 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
539 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
431b7361 540
4aa45c31 541 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
431b7361 542
4aa45c31 543 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
cf8b11a5 544
41c7c167 545 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
4aa45c31 546 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
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548 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
4aa45c31 549 after the connection to the server has been made.
41c7c167 550
9c57cbc0 551 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
4aa45c31 552 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
9c57cbc0 553
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55410. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
555 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
556 time and date.
557
047bdd8c 55811. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
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559 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
560 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
561 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
4aa45c31 562 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
047bdd8c 563
0ce9abe6 56412. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
4aa45c31 565 called forany and forall.
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56713. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
568 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
569 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
0e22dfd1 570
4aa45c31 57114. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
c51b8e75 572
75b1493f 57315. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
4aa45c31 574 that makes it case-sensitive.
29f89cad 575
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57616. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
577 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
578 items, typically addresses.
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58017. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
581 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
582 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
4aa45c31 583 can be used.
c3611384 584
ec95d1a6 58518. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
4aa45c31 586 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
ec95d1a6 587
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58819. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
589 condition.
590
c456d9bb 59120. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
4aa45c31 592 "ignore".
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595Version 4.66
596------------
597
598No new features were added to 4.66.
599
600
601Version 4.65
602------------
603
604No new features were added to 4.65.
605
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607Version 4.64
608------------
609
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610 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
611 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
612 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
883335dc 613 an underscore.
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615 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
883335dc 616 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
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618 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
619 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
883335dc 620 number of authentication methods.
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622 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
623 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
624 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
625
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626 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
627 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
628 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
629 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
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883335dc 631 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
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633 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
634 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
635 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
883335dc 636 before doing the expansions.
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638 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
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639 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
640 message.
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642 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
643 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
883335dc 644 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
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64610. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
883335dc 647 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
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64911. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
650 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
651 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
652 available for compatibility.)
653
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65412. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
655 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
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659------------
660
6611. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
38a0a95f 662 router.
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6642. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
665 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
38a0a95f 666 read.
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6683. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
669 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
38a0a95f 670 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
a5bd321b 671
6ec97b1b 6724. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
38a0a95f 673 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
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676 --reverse
677 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
678 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
679 --random
680 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
681 --size
682 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
683 of their sizes.
684 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
685 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
686 each messages value for each variable.
687 --not
688 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
689 same criteria without --not).
690
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694
6951. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
696 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
697 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
698 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
699 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
700 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
701
702 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
703
704 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
705 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
706 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
707 domain socket.
708
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7092. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
710 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
711 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
712
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7133. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
714 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
715 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
716 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
717
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720------------
721
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722The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
723the 4.60 release are:
724
725. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
726
727. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
728
729. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
730 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
731 for other things in complicated expansions.
732
843a41e8 733. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
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735. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
736 resources used in pipe deliveries.
737
738. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
739
740. More errors are detectable in retry rules.
741
742There are a number of other additions too.
71fafd95 743
7e66e54d 744
425ae40f 745Version 4.60
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747
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748The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
749the 4.50 release are:
1a46a8c5 750
425ae40f 751. Support for SQLite.
1a46a8c5 752
425ae40f 753. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1a46a8c5 754
425ae40f 755. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1a46a8c5 756
425ae40f 757. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1a46a8c5 758
425ae40f 759. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
b5aea5e1 760
425ae40f 761. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
b5aea5e1 762
425ae40f 763. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
35edf2ff 764
425ae40f 765There are many more minor changes.
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