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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
10------------
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
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18 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
19 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
20 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
21 followed by a newline, and no other text.
22
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23 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
24 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
25 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
26 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
27 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
28 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
29 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
30 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
31
32 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
33
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34 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
35 dns_use_dnssec; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
36 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
37 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
38 can now detect this.
39
40 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
41
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42 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
43 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
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44 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
45
46 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
47 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
48
49 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
50 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
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52 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
53 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
54 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
55 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
56 ignored.
57
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60------------
61
62 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
63 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
64 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
65 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
3b4f55a3 66 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
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68 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
69 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
70 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
71 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
72
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73 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
74 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
75 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
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76 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
77 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
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79 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
80 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
81
f1e05cc7 82 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
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84 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
85 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
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86 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
87 used by Cyrus SASL.
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89 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
90
91 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
92 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
93 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
94 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
95 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
96 compatibility at the cost of session security.
97
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98 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
99 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
100 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
101 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
102 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
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103
104 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
105 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
106
107 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
108 for Exim as a server.
109
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110 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
111 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
112 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
113 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
114 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
115
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116 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
117 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
118 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
119 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
120 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
121
eae0036b 12210. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
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123 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
124
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12511. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
126 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
127 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
128 string, documentation for which is at:
129 http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
130
131 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
132
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133 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
134 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
135
53947857 13612. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
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137 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
138 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
139 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
140 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
141
142 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
143
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14413. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
145 identically to TXT record lookups.
146
2605c55b 14714. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
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14915. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
150 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
151 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
152
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15316. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
154 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
155 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
156 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
157 primes.
158
3ecab157 15917. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
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160 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
161 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
162
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164Version 4.77
165------------
166
167 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
168 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
169
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170 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
171 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
172
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173 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
174 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
175
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176 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
177 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
178 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
179
180 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
181 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
182 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
183 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
184
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186Version 4.76
187------------
188
189 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
190 or off in the resolver library.
191
192
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193Version 4.75
194------------
195
196 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
197 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
198 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
199 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
200 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
201
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202 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
203 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
204 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
205
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206 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
207 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
208
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209 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
210 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
211 including any header additions or removals from transport.
212
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213 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
214 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
215
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217Version 4.74
218------------
219
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220 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
221 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
222 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
223 on content supplied by the attacker.
224
225 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
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226 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
227 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
228 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
229 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
230
231
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232Version 4.73
233------------
234
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235 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
236 items below carefully
237
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238 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
239 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
240 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
241 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
242 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
243 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
244 frivolously.
245
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246 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
247 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
248 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
43236f35 249 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
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250 be able to take effect.
251
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252 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
253 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
254 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
255 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
256
257 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
258 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
259 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
260 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
261
262 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
263
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264 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
265
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266 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
267 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
268 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
269 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
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270 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
271 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
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273 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
274 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
275
276 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
277 -> 4.2.0.192
278 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
279 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
280
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281 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
282 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
283 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
284 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
285 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
286 don't all make sense in all contexts:
287
288 control = debug
289 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
290 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
291 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
292
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293 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
294 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
295 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
296 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
297 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
298 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
299 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
300 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
301 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
302 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
303 the safeties off.
304
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305 8. There is a new expansion operator, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
306 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
307 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
308 do evaluate true.
309 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
310
311 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests,
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31310. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
314 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
315 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
316 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
317 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
318 build option.
319
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32011. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
321 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
322
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32312. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
324 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
90b6341f 325 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
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326 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
327 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
328 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
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329
33013. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
331 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
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332 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
333 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
334 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
43236f35 335 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
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336 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
337 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
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340Version 4.72
341------------
342
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343 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
344 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
345
346 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
347
348 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
349 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
350 duplicates).
351
352 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
353 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
354 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
355 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
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356 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
357 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
358 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
359 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
360 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
361 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
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363 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
364 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
365
366 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
367 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
8f425947 368 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
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7c6d71af 374 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
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375 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
376 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
377 for details on conditionally disabling)
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379 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
65a7d8c3 380
f33253cc 381 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
7d9f747b 382 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
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383 and{} expansion operator).
384
385 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
386 at delivery time.
387
388 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
389 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
390
391 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
392 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
393 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
394
395 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
396 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
397 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
398 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
399
400 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
401 OpenSSL.
402
403 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
404
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407------------
408
409 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
410
411
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412Version 4.68
413------------
414
415 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
416 local_scan API.
417
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418 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
419 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
420 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
421 cases, for example:
422
423 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
424
425 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
426 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
427 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
428 like this:
429
430 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
431
432 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
433 192.168.6.7 (for example).
434
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435 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
436 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
437 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
438 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
439
440 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
441
442 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
443 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
444 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
445 $tls_peerdn.
446
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447 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
448 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
449 only by an admin user.
450
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451 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
452 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
453 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
454 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
455 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
456
457 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
458 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
459
460 Example:
461
462 acl_check_connect:
463 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
464 # we update it below
465 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
466 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
467 (max $sender_rate_limit)
468
469 [... some other logic and tests...]
470
471 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
472 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
473 (max $sender_rate_limit)
474 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
475
476 accept
477
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478 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
479 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
480 line termination character(s).
481
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482 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analagous to
483 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
484 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
485
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486 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
487 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
488 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
489 message is queued, the remainder are also.
490
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492 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
493 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
494 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
495 log files) that make the situation even worse.
496
497 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
498 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
499 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
500
501 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
502 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
503 connection. The possible values are:
504
505 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
506 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
507 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
508 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
509 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
510 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
511 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
512 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
513 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
514 tls-failed TLS failed to start
515
516 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
517 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
518 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
519 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
520 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
521 used.
522
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524 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
525 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
526
527 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
528 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
529 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
530
531 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
532
533 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
534 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
535 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
536
537 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
538 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
539 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
540
541 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
542
543 In an updating lookup, you could then write
544
545 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
546
547 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
548
549 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
550
551 you can still update the master by
552
553 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
554
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556 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
557 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
558 spaces.
559
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562------------
563
564 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
565 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
566 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
4aa45c31 567 MAIL command.
b4ed4da0 568
431b7361 569 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
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570 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
571 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
93655c46 572 rather than the default "any" matching.
431b7361 573
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575 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
576 other parameters to be varied.
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579 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
431b7361 580
4aa45c31 581 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
431b7361 582
4aa45c31 583 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
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41c7c167 585 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
4aa45c31 586 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
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588 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
4aa45c31 589 after the connection to the server has been made.
41c7c167 590
9c57cbc0 591 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
4aa45c31 592 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
9c57cbc0 593
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595 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
596 time and date.
597
047bdd8c 59811. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
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599 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
600 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
601 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
4aa45c31 602 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
047bdd8c 603
0ce9abe6 60412. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
4aa45c31 605 called forany and forall.
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608 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
609 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
0e22dfd1 610
4aa45c31 61114. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
c51b8e75 612
75b1493f 61315. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
4aa45c31 614 that makes it case-sensitive.
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617 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
618 items, typically addresses.
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621 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
622 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
4aa45c31 623 can be used.
c3611384 624
ec95d1a6 62518. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
4aa45c31 626 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
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629 condition.
630
c456d9bb 63120. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
4aa45c31 632 "ignore".
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635Version 4.66
636------------
637
638No new features were added to 4.66.
639
640
641Version 4.65
642------------
643
644No new features were added to 4.65.
645
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647Version 4.64
648------------
649
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651 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
652 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
883335dc 653 an underscore.
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655 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
883335dc 656 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
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658 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
659 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
883335dc 660 number of authentication methods.
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662 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
663 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
664 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
665
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666 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
667 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
668 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
669 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
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883335dc 671 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
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673 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
674 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
675 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
883335dc 676 before doing the expansions.
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678 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
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679 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
680 message.
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682 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
683 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
883335dc 684 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
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68610. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
883335dc 687 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
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690 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
691 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
692 available for compatibility.)
693
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695 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
4e88a19f 696
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699------------
700
7011. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
38a0a95f 702 router.
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705 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
38a0a95f 706 read.
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709 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
38a0a95f 710 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
a5bd321b 711
6ec97b1b 7124. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
38a0a95f 713 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
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716 --reverse
717 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
718 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
719 --random
720 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
721 --size
722 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
723 of their sizes.
724 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
725 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
726 each messages value for each variable.
727 --not
728 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
729 same criteria without --not).
730
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733------------
734
7351. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
736 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
737 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
738 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
739 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
740 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
741
742 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
743
744 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
745 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
746 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
747 domain socket.
748
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750 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
751 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
752
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754 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
755 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
756 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
757
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760------------
761
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763the 4.60 release are:
764
765. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
766
767. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
768
769. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
770 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
771 for other things in complicated expansions.
772
843a41e8 773. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
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775. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
776 resources used in pipe deliveries.
777
778. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
779
780. More errors are detectable in retry rules.
781
782There are a number of other additions too.
71fafd95 783
7e66e54d 784
425ae40f 785Version 4.60
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787
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789the 4.50 release are:
1a46a8c5 790
425ae40f 791. Support for SQLite.
1a46a8c5 792
425ae40f 793. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1a46a8c5 794
425ae40f 795. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1a46a8c5 796
425ae40f 797. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1a46a8c5 798
425ae40f 799. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
b5aea5e1 800
425ae40f 801. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
b5aea5e1 802
425ae40f 803. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
35edf2ff 804
425ae40f 805There are many more minor changes.
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