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495ae4b0 PH |
1 | New Features in Exim |
2 | -------------------- | |
3 | ||
38a0a95f PH |
4 | This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim. |
5 | Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can | |
6 | test from the snapshots or the CVS before the documentation is updated. Once | |
7 | the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list. | |
8 | ||
c1e794ba PP |
9 | Version 4.78 |
10 | ------------ | |
11 | ||
12 | 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present). | |
13 | This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at | |
14 | http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/. | |
15 | This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so | |
3b4f55a3 | 16 | careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim. |
c1e794ba | 17 | |
97753960 PP |
18 | 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only. |
19 | A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME | |
20 | is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the | |
21 | "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab. | |
22 | ||
252e0c7b PP |
23 | 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference |
24 | cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather | |
25 | than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and | |
7e6a8985 PP |
26 | "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support |
27 | without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS". | |
252e0c7b | 28 | |
6a6084f8 PP |
29 | In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to |
30 | find the headers and libraries for PCRE. | |
31 | ||
f1e05cc7 | 32 | 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits. |
20aa9dbd | 33 | |
4a6a987a PP |
34 | 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will |
35 | be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass | |
3b4f55a3 PP |
36 | into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as |
37 | used by Cyrus SASL. | |
4a6a987a | 38 | |
da3ad30d PP |
39 | 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1. |
40 | ||
41 | Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of | |
42 | "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that | |
43 | increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability | |
44 | implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but | |
45 | administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore | |
46 | compatibility at the cost of session security. | |
47 | ||
7be682ca PP |
48 | 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option |
49 | tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client | |
50 | sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a | |
51 | different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must | |
52 | still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set. | |
3f0945ff PP |
53 | |
54 | The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname | |
55 | for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too. | |
56 | ||
57 | A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values | |
58 | for Exim as a server. | |
59 | ||
9cbad13b PP |
60 | 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means |
61 | that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following | |
62 | Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default. | |
63 | Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that, | |
64 | even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option. | |
65 | ||
9ee44efb PP |
66 | 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as |
67 | -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is | |
68 | already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of | |
69 | "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're | |
70 | interested in adding more support for modern variants. | |
71 | ||
eae0036b | 72 | 10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix |
97d17305 JH |
73 | for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3. |
74 | ||
17c76198 PP |
75 | 11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx, |
76 | gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported. | |
77 | tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority | |
78 | string, documentation for which is at: | |
79 | http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html | |
80 | ||
81 | SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too. | |
82 | ||
53947857 | 83 | 12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file |
3f7eeb86 PP |
84 | is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will |
85 | send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling. | |
86 | Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators | |
87 | are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date. | |
88 | ||
89 | See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details. | |
90 | ||
eae0036b PP |
91 | 13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled |
92 | identically to TXT record lookups. | |
93 | ||
c1e794ba | 94 | |
3ce96ada TF |
95 | Version 4.77 |
96 | ------------ | |
97 | ||
98 | 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=. | |
99 | The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option. | |
100 | ||
061b7ebd PP |
101 | 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to |
102 | use SSL-on-connect outbound. | |
103 | ||
9e949f00 PP |
104 | 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when |
105 | there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running. | |
106 | ||
39257585 PP |
107 | 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists |
108 | and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not | |
109 | support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion. | |
110 | ||
111 | 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was | |
112 | built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of | |
113 | the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain", | |
114 | "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used. | |
115 | ||
7c6d71af | 116 | |
e97d1f08 PP |
117 | Version 4.76 |
118 | ------------ | |
119 | ||
120 | 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on | |
121 | or off in the resolver library. | |
122 | ||
123 | ||
bc19a55b PP |
124 | Version 4.75 |
125 | ------------ | |
126 | ||
127 | 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there | |
128 | is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client | |
129 | libraries. The following global options have been added in support of | |
130 | this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key, | |
131 | ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls. | |
132 | ||
2fe76745 PP |
133 | 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default |
134 | false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then | |
135 | Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce. | |
136 | ||
f1e5fef5 PP |
137 | 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available). |
138 | The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution. | |
139 | ||
332f5cf3 PP |
140 | 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option, |
141 | in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines, | |
142 | including any header additions or removals from transport. | |
143 | ||
29cfeb94 PP |
144 | 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address, |
145 | Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup. | |
146 | ||
bc19a55b | 147 | |
a01ba081 PP |
148 | Version 4.74 |
149 | ------------ | |
150 | ||
1670ef10 PP |
151 | 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux) |
152 | the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to | |
153 | arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based | |
154 | on content supplied by the attacker. | |
155 | ||
156 | 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your | |
a01ba081 PP |
157 | platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support |
158 | and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to | |
159 | dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against | |
160 | all the libraries needed for all the lookup types. | |
161 | ||
162 | ||
77bb000f PP |
163 | Version 4.73 |
164 | ------------ | |
165 | ||
2cfd3221 PP |
166 | NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the |
167 | items below carefully | |
168 | ||
77bb000f PP |
169 | 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim |
170 | is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows | |
171 | administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections; | |
172 | typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL | |
173 | developers have not enabled by default. There may be security | |
174 | consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed | |
175 | frivolously. | |
176 | ||
a29e5231 PP |
177 | 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem |
178 | diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as | |
179 | a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default, | |
43236f35 | 180 | so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to |
a29e5231 PP |
181 | be able to take effect. |
182 | ||
8544e77a PP |
183 | 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless |
184 | Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes | |
185 | Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future | |
186 | release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM"). | |
187 | ||
188 | The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third | |
189 | part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of | |
190 | the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at | |
191 | a Unix-domain socket. For example: | |
192 | ||
193 | av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local | |
194 | ||
491fab4c PP |
195 | ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled. |
196 | ||
8544e77a PP |
197 | 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option |
198 | takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's | |
199 | malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid | |
200 | to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools. | |
a9622bc6 PP |
201 | Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references |
202 | ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail. | |
8544e77a | 203 | |
83e029d5 PP |
204 | 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP |
205 | addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples: | |
206 | ||
207 | ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4} | |
208 | -> 4.2.0.192 | |
209 | ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3} | |
210 | -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2 | |
211 | ||
ed7f7860 PP |
212 | 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging. |
213 | This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within | |
214 | production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag" | |
215 | and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts" | |
216 | is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which | |
217 | don't all make sense in all contexts: | |
218 | ||
219 | control = debug | |
220 | control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address | |
221 | control = debug/opts=+expand+acl | |
222 | control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand | |
223 | ||
10385c15 PP |
224 | 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that |
225 | "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was | |
226 | "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from | |
227 | shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim | |
228 | themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of | |
229 | running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in | |
230 | them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured | |
231 | statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim | |
232 | will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot, | |
233 | then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip | |
234 | the safeties off. | |
235 | ||
6a8de854 PP |
236 | 8. There is a new expansion operator, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL |
237 | condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many | |
238 | strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings | |
239 | do evaluate true. | |
240 | Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true. | |
241 | ||
242 | 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests, | |
532be449 | 243 | |
5dc43717 JJ |
244 | 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name". |
245 | Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers | |
246 | config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option | |
247 | is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The | |
248 | default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME | |
249 | build option. | |
250 | ||
79d4bc3d PP |
251 | 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now |
252 | the Exim run-time user, instead of root. | |
253 | ||
2cfd3221 PP |
254 | 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and |
255 | is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option | |
90b6341f | 256 | TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which |
7f7f0545 DW |
257 | are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches |
258 | a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time | |
259 | user without Exim relinquishing root privileges. | |
2cfd3221 PP |
260 | |
261 | 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically | |
262 | trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going | |
90b6341f DW |
263 | forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that |
264 | include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily | |
265 | providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides | |
43236f35 | 266 | a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim |
90b6341f DW |
267 | run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex |
268 | ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values). | |
2cfd3221 | 269 | |
77bb000f | 270 | |
3fc596e4 NM |
271 | Version 4.72 |
272 | ------------ | |
273 | ||
b26eacf1 PP |
274 | 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally |
275 | writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox). | |
276 | ||
277 | 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported. | |
278 | ||
279 | 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and | |
280 | messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding | |
281 | duplicates). | |
282 | ||
283 | 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups | |
284 | in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70, | |
285 | only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default, | |
286 | preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output | |
8f425947 PP |
287 | separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to |
288 | concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character, | |
289 | or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text | |
290 | strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character. | |
291 | Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees | |
292 | between multiple records in an RRset. For example: | |
b26eacf1 PP |
293 | |
294 | foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c" | |
295 | foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f" | |
296 | ||
297 | ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d" | |
298 | ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc" | |
8f425947 | 299 | ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f" |
b26eacf1 | 300 | |
3fc596e4 | 301 | |
f33253cc NM |
302 | Version 4.70 / 4.71 |
303 | ------------------- | |
65a7d8c3 | 304 | |
7c6d71af | 305 | 1. Native DKIM support without an external library. |
a8c8d6b5 JJ |
306 | (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will |
307 | result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec | |
308 | for details on conditionally disabling) | |
7c6d71af NM |
309 | |
310 | 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha). | |
65a7d8c3 | 311 | |
f33253cc | 312 | 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to |
7d9f747b | 313 | true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the |
f33253cc NM |
314 | and{} expansion operator). |
315 | ||
316 | 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available | |
317 | at delivery time. | |
318 | ||
319 | 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as | |
320 | options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user. | |
321 | ||
322 | 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS, | |
323 | which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased | |
324 | security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients. | |
325 | ||
326 | 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a | |
327 | "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is | |
328 | not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how | |
329 | Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes. | |
330 | ||
331 | 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against | |
332 | OpenSSL. | |
333 | ||
334 | 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too. | |
335 | ||
65a7d8c3 | 336 | |
7d9f747b PP |
337 | Version 4.69 |
338 | ------------ | |
339 | ||
340 | 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental. | |
341 | ||
342 | ||
2b85bce7 PH |
343 | Version 4.68 |
344 | ------------ | |
345 | ||
346 | 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the | |
347 | local_scan API. | |
348 | ||
93655c46 PH |
349 | 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed |
350 | in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in | |
351 | this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple | |
352 | cases, for example: | |
353 | ||
354 | deny dnslists = spamhaus.example | |
355 | ||
356 | the key is also available in another variable (in this case, | |
357 | $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not | |
358 | true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup | |
359 | like this: | |
360 | ||
361 | deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|... | |
362 | ||
363 | If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be | |
364 | 192.168.6.7 (for example). | |
365 | ||
6c512171 PH |
366 | 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as |
367 | a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields | |
368 | "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text | |
369 | authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as: | |
370 | ||
371 | client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}} | |
372 | ||
373 | Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the | |
374 | cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it | |
375 | contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for | |
376 | $tls_peerdn. | |
377 | ||
a96603a0 PH |
378 | 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the |
379 | message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used | |
380 | only by an admin user. | |
381 | ||
8f240103 PH |
382 | 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It |
383 | computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update | |
384 | the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup | |
385 | the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without | |
386 | incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key. | |
387 | ||
388 | In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate | |
389 | for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero). | |
390 | ||
391 | Example: | |
392 | ||
393 | acl_check_connect: | |
394 | # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum | |
395 | # we update it below | |
396 | deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate | |
397 | log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \ | |
398 | (max $sender_rate_limit) | |
399 | ||
400 | [... some other logic and tests...] | |
401 | ||
402 | warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd | |
403 | log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \ | |
404 | (max $sender_rate_limit) | |
405 | condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}} | |
406 | ||
407 | accept | |
408 | ||
d677b2f2 PH |
409 | 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the |
410 | longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the | |
411 | line termination character(s). | |
412 | ||
d52120f2 PH |
413 | 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analagous to |
414 | +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with | |
415 | care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists. | |
416 | ||
8669f003 PH |
417 | 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true. |
418 | If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates | |
419 | the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one | |
420 | message is queued, the remainder are also. | |
421 | ||
4f054c63 | 422 | 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most |
8f128379 PH |
423 | cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim |
424 | itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files, | |
425 | this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to | |
426 | log files) that make the situation even worse. | |
427 | ||
428 | Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather | |
429 | statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay" | |
430 | modifier is forbidden in this ACL. | |
431 | ||
432 | When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set | |
433 | to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP | |
434 | connection. The possible values are: | |
435 | ||
436 | acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command | |
437 | bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands | |
438 | command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands | |
439 | connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost | |
440 | data-timeout Timeout while reading message data | |
441 | local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed | |
442 | local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out | |
443 | signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT | |
444 | synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error | |
445 | tls-failed TLS failed to start | |
446 | ||
447 | In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received | |
448 | QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the | |
449 | connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be | |
450 | overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a | |
451 | "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is | |
452 | used. | |
453 | ||
b7670459 PH |
454 | 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of |
455 | servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with | |
456 | "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms: | |
457 | ||
458 | (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers | |
459 | or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the | |
460 | remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there. | |
461 | ||
462 | (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set. | |
463 | ||
464 | The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list. | |
465 | Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been | |
466 | successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases. | |
467 | ||
468 | This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates | |
469 | are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the | |
470 | masters are in the list for reading, you might have: | |
471 | ||
472 | mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw | |
473 | ||
474 | In an updating lookup, you could then write | |
475 | ||
476 | ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...} | |
477 | ||
478 | If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups: | |
479 | ||
480 | pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw | |
481 | ||
482 | you can still update the master by | |
483 | ||
484 | ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...} | |
485 | ||
ddea74fa PH |
486 | 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards |
487 | compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in | |
488 | $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by | |
489 | spaces. | |
490 | ||
2b85bce7 | 491 | |
b4ed4da0 PH |
492 | Version 4.67 |
493 | ------------ | |
494 | ||
495 | 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in | |
496 | the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log | |
497 | whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a | |
4aa45c31 | 498 | MAIL command. |
b4ed4da0 | 499 | |
431b7361 | 500 | 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP |
4aa45c31 PH |
501 | addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than |
502 | one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all" | |
93655c46 | 503 | rather than the default "any" matching. |
431b7361 | 504 | |
4aa45c31 PH |
505 | 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been |
506 | for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the | |
507 | other parameters to be varied. | |
431b7361 | 508 | |
4aa45c31 PH |
509 | 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is |
510 | set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync. | |
431b7361 | 511 | |
4aa45c31 | 512 | 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start. |
431b7361 | 513 | |
4aa45c31 | 514 | 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining. |
cf8b11a5 | 515 | |
41c7c167 | 516 | 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port. |
4aa45c31 | 517 | These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up. |
41c7c167 PH |
518 | |
519 | 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens | |
4aa45c31 | 520 | after the connection to the server has been made. |
41c7c167 | 521 | |
9c57cbc0 | 522 | 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that |
4aa45c31 | 523 | are encoded as per RFC 2047. |
9c57cbc0 | 524 | |
f3f065bb PH |
525 | 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process |
526 | id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the | |
527 | time and date. | |
528 | ||
047bdd8c | 529 | 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing |
4c590bd1 PH |
530 | a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout, |
531 | as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by | |
532 | obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush, | |
4aa45c31 | 533 | respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection. |
047bdd8c | 534 | |
0ce9abe6 | 535 | 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are |
4aa45c31 | 536 | called forany and forall. |
0ce9abe6 | 537 | |
0e22dfd1 PH |
538 | 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the |
539 | contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated | |
540 | messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option). | |
0e22dfd1 | 541 | |
4aa45c31 | 542 | 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining. |
c51b8e75 | 543 | |
75b1493f | 544 | 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option |
4aa45c31 | 545 | that makes it case-sensitive. |
29f89cad | 546 | |
4aa45c31 PH |
547 | 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have |
548 | been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of | |
549 | items, typically addresses. | |
29f89cad | 550 | |
c3611384 PH |
551 | 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself, |
552 | and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or | |
553 | modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument | |
4aa45c31 | 554 | can be used. |
c3611384 | 555 | |
ec95d1a6 | 556 | 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with |
4aa45c31 | 557 | values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists. |
ec95d1a6 | 558 | |
b2d5182b PH |
559 | 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching |
560 | condition. | |
561 | ||
c456d9bb | 562 | 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to |
4aa45c31 | 563 | "ignore". |
c456d9bb | 564 | |
b4ed4da0 PH |
565 | |
566 | Version 4.66 | |
567 | ------------ | |
568 | ||
569 | No new features were added to 4.66. | |
570 | ||
571 | ||
572 | Version 4.65 | |
573 | ------------ | |
574 | ||
575 | No new features were added to 4.65. | |
576 | ||
38a0a95f PH |
577 | |
578 | Version 4.64 | |
579 | ------------ | |
580 | ||
af561417 PH |
581 | 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with |
582 | "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at | |
583 | least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or | |
883335dc | 584 | an underscore. |
af561417 PH |
585 | |
586 | 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible | |
883335dc | 587 | to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections. |
af561417 PH |
588 | |
589 | 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the | |
590 | authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a | |
883335dc | 591 | number of authentication methods. |
af561417 PH |
592 | |
593 | 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the | |
594 | messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to | |
595 | $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents. | |
596 | ||
883335dc PH |
597 | 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the |
598 | second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value | |
599 | restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used, | |
600 | without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record. | |
af561417 | 601 | |
883335dc | 602 | 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option. |
af561417 PH |
603 | |
604 | 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in | |
605 | conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be | |
606 | followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool | |
883335dc | 607 | before doing the expansions. |
af561417 PH |
608 | |
609 | 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like | |
883335dc PH |
610 | -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a |
611 | message. | |
af561417 PH |
612 | |
613 | 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it | |
614 | is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in | |
883335dc | 615 | subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached. |
af561417 PH |
616 | |
617 | 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and | |
883335dc | 618 | shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items. |
48c7f9e2 | 619 | |
194cc0e4 PH |
620 | 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed |
621 | as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they | |
622 | relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain | |
623 | available for compatibility.) | |
624 | ||
883335dc PH |
625 | 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs |
626 | to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted. | |
4e88a19f | 627 | |
495ae4b0 | 628 | |
4608d683 PH |
629 | Version 4.63 |
630 | ------------ | |
631 | ||
632 | 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect | |
38a0a95f | 633 | router. |
4608d683 | 634 | |
45b91596 PH |
635 | 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the |
636 | start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been | |
38a0a95f | 637 | read. |
45b91596 | 638 | |
a5bd321b PH |
639 | 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL, |
640 | or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the | |
38a0a95f | 641 | start of the message for an SMTP error code. |
a5bd321b | 642 | |
6ec97b1b | 643 | 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes |
38a0a95f | 644 | one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow". |
6ec97b1b | 645 | |
e22ca4ac JJ |
646 | 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options: |
647 | --reverse | |
648 | After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order | |
649 | before displaying messages (-R is synonym). | |
650 | --random | |
651 | Randomize order of matching messages before displaying. | |
652 | --size | |
653 | Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum | |
654 | of their sizes. | |
655 | --sort <variable>[,<variable>...] | |
656 | Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to | |
657 | each messages value for each variable. | |
658 | --not | |
659 | Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the | |
660 | same criteria without --not). | |
661 | ||
4608d683 | 662 | |
1cce3af8 PH |
663 | Version 4.62 |
664 | ------------ | |
665 | ||
666 | 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well | |
667 | as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of | |
668 | the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the | |
669 | name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an | |
670 | IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets. | |
671 | This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example: | |
672 | ||
673 | ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}... | |
674 | ||
675 | Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than | |
676 | one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once | |
677 | a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix | |
678 | domain socket. | |
679 | ||
f7fd3850 PH |
680 | 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one |
681 | incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than | |
682 | one, a batch delivery now occurs. | |
683 | ||
d6629cdc PH |
684 | 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex. |
685 | Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched | |
686 | against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a | |
687 | maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories. | |
688 | ||
1cce3af8 | 689 | |
7e66e54d PH |
690 | Version 4.61 |
691 | ------------ | |
692 | ||
4f578862 PH |
693 | The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since |
694 | the 4.60 release are: | |
695 | ||
696 | . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely. | |
697 | ||
698 | . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type. | |
699 | ||
700 | . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1, | |
701 | $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used | |
702 | for other things in complicated expansions. | |
703 | ||
843a41e8 | 704 | . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s. |
4f578862 PH |
705 | |
706 | . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the | |
707 | resources used in pipe deliveries. | |
708 | ||
709 | . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb. | |
710 | ||
711 | . More errors are detectable in retry rules. | |
712 | ||
713 | There are a number of other additions too. | |
71fafd95 | 714 | |
7e66e54d | 715 | |
425ae40f | 716 | Version 4.60 |
b5aea5e1 PH |
717 | ------------ |
718 | ||
425ae40f PH |
719 | The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since |
720 | the 4.50 release are: | |
1a46a8c5 | 721 | |
425ae40f | 722 | . Support for SQLite. |
1a46a8c5 | 723 | |
425ae40f | 724 | . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP. |
1a46a8c5 | 725 | |
425ae40f | 726 | . Extensions to the "submission mode" features. |
1a46a8c5 | 727 | |
425ae40f | 728 | . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA). |
1a46a8c5 | 729 | |
425ae40f | 730 | . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users. |
b5aea5e1 | 731 | |
425ae40f | 732 | . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme. |
b5aea5e1 | 733 | |
425ae40f | 734 | . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list. |
35edf2ff | 735 | |
425ae40f | 736 | There are many more minor changes. |
495ae4b0 PH |
737 | |
738 | **** |