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1New Features in Exim
2--------------------
3
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 Git before the documentation is updated. Once
7the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
8
9Version 4.94
10------------
11
12 1. EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
13 file.
14
15 2. Channel-binding for authenticators is now supported under OpenSSL.
16 Previously it was GnuTLS-only.
17
18 3. A msg:defer event.
19
20 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the
21 plaintext driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and
22 SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS methods.
23
24 5. Server-side support in the gsasl authenticator for encrypted passwords, as
25 an alternate for the existing plaintext.
26
27 6. Variable $local_part_verified, set by the router check_local_part condition
28 with untainted data.
29
30 7. Named-list definitions can now be prefixed "hide" so that "-bP" commands do
31 not output the content. Previously this could only be done on options.
32
33 8. As an exerimental feature, the dovecot authenticatino driver supports inet
34 sockets. Previously it was unix-domain sockets only.
35
36 9. The ACL control "queue_only" can also be spelled "queue", and now takes an
37 option "first_pass_route" to do the same as a "-odqs" on the command line.
38
39 9. Items specified for the router and transport headers_remove option can use
40 a trailing asterisk to specify globbing.
41
4210. New $queue_size variable.
43
4411. New variables $local_part_{pre,suf}fix_v.
45
4612. New main option "sqlite_dbfile", for use in preference to prefixing the
47 lookup string. The older method fails when tainted variables are used
48 in the lookup, as the filename becomes tainted. The new method keeps the
49 filename separate.
50
5113. Options on the dsearch lookup, to return the full path and to filter
52 filetypes for matching.
53
5414. Options on pgsql and mysql lookups, to specify server separate from the
55 lookup string.
56
5715. Expansion item ${listquote {<char} {<item>}}
58
59
60
61Version 4.93
62------------
63
64 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
65
66 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
67
68 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
69 for ciphersuites.
70
71 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
72
73 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
74
75 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
76 file.
77
78 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
79 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
80
81 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
82
83 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
84 and transports.
85
8610. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
87
8811. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
89
9012. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
91
9213. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
93
9414: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
95
9615: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
97 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
98 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
99 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
100 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
101 only, and exim must be run as root).
102
10316: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
104
10517. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
106
107
108Version 4.92
109--------------
110
111 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
112 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
113 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
114 facilities hard to parse.
115
116 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
117 obvious thing.
118
119 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
120 features. See the experimental.spec file.
121
122 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
123
124 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
125
126 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
127
128 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
129
130 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
131
132 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
133
134Version 4.91
135--------------
136
137 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
138 version 3.5.6 or later.
139
140 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
141 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
142 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
143
144 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
145
146 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
147 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
148
149 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
150 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
151 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
152 a "dkim" log_selector.
153
154 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
155
156 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
157 routing rules in the manualroute router.
158
159 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
160 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
161
162 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
163 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
164
16510. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
166 version dependent.
167
16811. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
169
17012. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
171 Authentication-Results: header.
172
17313. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
174 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
175
17614: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
177
17815. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
179 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
180 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
181 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
182
18316. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
184 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
185 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
186
187
188Version 4.90
189------------
190
191 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
192 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
193
194 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
195 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
196
197 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
198 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
199 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
200 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
201 another process. Logging is also affected.
202
203 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
204
205 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
206 further recipients and for delivery.
207
208 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
209 supported.
210
211 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
212 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
213 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
214 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
215 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
216
217 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
218 restrict who can use various introspection options.
219
220 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
221 appendfile transport.
222
22310. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
224 SMTP commands.
225
22611. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
227 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
228
22912. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
230 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
231 is opened with a TFO cookie.
232
23313. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
234 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
235 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
236 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
237 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
238 the data ACL.
239
24014. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
241 configuration file.
242
24315. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
244 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
245
24616. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
247 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
248
24917. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
250
251
252Version 4.89
253------------
254
255 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
256
257 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
258 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
259 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
260
261
262Version 4.88
263------------
264
265 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
266 interpreter in taint mode.
267
268 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
269
270 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
271 modifier.
272
273 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
274 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
275 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
276
277 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
278 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
279 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
280 visibility.
281
282 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
283
284 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
285 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
286 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
287 for control.
288
289 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
290
291 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
292
29310. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
294 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
295 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
296 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
297 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
298
29911. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
300
30112. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
302 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
303 message.
304
30513. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
306
30714. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
308 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
309
31015. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
311 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
312 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
313 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
314 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
315 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
316 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
317 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
318
31916. A new syslog_pid option to suppress PID duplication in syslog lines.
320
321
322Version 4.87
323------------
324
325 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
326 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
327
328 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
329 malware= or verify= callout.
330
331 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
332
333 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
334 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
335 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
336 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
337 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
338 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
339
340 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
341
342 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
343
344 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
345 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
346
347 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
348 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
349 limits.
350
351 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
352
353
354Version 4.86
355------------
356
357 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
358
359 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
360 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
361
362 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
363
364 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
365
366 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
367
368 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
369
370 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
371 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
372
373 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
374 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
375
376 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
377 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
378
37910. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
380
38111. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
382
38312. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
384
38513. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
386 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
387
38814. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
389 same level as DNSSEC.
390
391Version 4.85
392------------
393
394 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
395 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
396 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
397 domain of the sender.
398
399 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
400 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
401 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
402 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
403 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
404 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
405
406 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
407 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
408 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
409
410
411Version 4.84
412------------
413
414
415Version 4.83
416------------
417
418 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
419 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
420 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
421 proxy that is connecting to it.
422
423 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
424 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
425 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
426 detect and reject if those characters are present.
427
428 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
429 codepoints with valid ones.
430
431 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
432 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
433 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
434 be included in the command line.
435
436 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
437 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
438 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
439 verification cancels the encryption.
440
441 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
442 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
443 default list.
444
445 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
446 file when searching the queue.
447
448 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
449
450 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
451
45210. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
453 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
454 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
455 for them added.
456
45711. PRDR is now supported dy default.
458
45912. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
460
46113. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
462 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
463 DSN features per RFC 3461.
464
465
466Version 4.82
467------------
468
469 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
470 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
471 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
472 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
473 SIEVE capability line.
474
475 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
476 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
477 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
478 followed by a newline, and no other text.
479
480 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
481 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
482 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
483 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
484 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
485 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
486 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
487 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
488
489 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
490
491 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
492 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
493 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
494 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
495 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
496 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
497
498 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
499
500 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
501 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
502 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
503
504 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
505 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
506
507 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
508 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
509
510 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
511 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
512 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
513 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
514 ignored.
515
516 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
517 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
518 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
519 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
520 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
521 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
522 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
523 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
524 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
525 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
526 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
527 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
528 system not your own.
529
530 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
531 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
532 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
533 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
534
535 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
536 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
537 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
538
539 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
540 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
541 are present for now but deprecated.
542
543 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
544
545 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
546 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
547
548 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
549 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
550 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
551 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
552 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
553 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
554 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
555 unless this new option is set.
556
557 Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability,
558 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
559 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
560 Local/Makefile:
561
562 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
563
56410. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
565 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
566 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
567 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
568 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
569 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
570 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
571 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
572 return results in a forced fail.
573
57411. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
575 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
576
57712. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
578 handled by routers/transports.
579
58013. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
581 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
582
58314. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
584 modifier (but not yet added to message).
585
58615. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
587
58816. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
589
59017. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
591 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
592 require privilege whereas -d does.
593
59418. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
595 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
596
59719. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
598 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
599 wrappers, for instance.
600
60120. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
602 connections apply.
603
60421. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
605 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
606 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
607 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
608 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
609 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
610 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
611
61222. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
613 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
614 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
615
61623. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
617 UDP host and port.
618
61924. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
620 characters in the string to \xNN form.
621
62225. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
623 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
624
62526. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
626
627
628Version 4.80
629------------
630
631 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
632 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
633 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
634 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
635 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
636
637 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
638 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
639 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
640 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
641
642 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
643 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
644 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
645 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
646 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
647
648 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
649 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
650
651 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
652
653 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
654 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
655 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
656 used by Cyrus SASL.
657
658 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
659
660 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
661 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
662 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
663 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
664 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
665 compatibility at the cost of session security.
666
667 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
668 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
669 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
670 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
671 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
672
673 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
674 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
675
676 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
677 for Exim as a server.
678
679 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
680 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
681 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
682 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
683 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
684
685 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
686 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
687 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
688 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
689 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
690
69110. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
692 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
693
69411. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
695 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
696 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
697 string, documentation for which is at:
698 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
699
700 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
701
702 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
703 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
704
70512. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
706 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
707 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
708 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
709 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
710
711 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
712
71313. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
714 identically to TXT record lookups.
715
71614. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
717
71815. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
719 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
720 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
721
72216. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
723 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
724 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
725 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
726 primes.
727
72817. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
729 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
730 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
731
732
733Version 4.77
734------------
735
736 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
737 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
738
739 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
740 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
741
742 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
743 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
744
745 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
746 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
747 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
748
749 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
750 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
751 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
752 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
753
754
755Version 4.76
756------------
757
758 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
759 or off in the resolver library.
760
761
762Version 4.75
763------------
764
765 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
766 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
767 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
768 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
769 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
770
771 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
772 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
773 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
774
775 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
776 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
777
778 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
779 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
780 including any header additions or removals from transport.
781
782 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
783 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
784
785
786Version 4.74
787------------
788
789 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
790 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
791 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
792 on content supplied by the attacker.
793
794 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
795 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
796 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
797 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
798 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
799
800
801Version 4.73
802------------
803
804 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
805 items below carefully
806
807 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
808 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
809 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
810 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
811 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
812 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
813 frivolously.
814
815 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
816 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
817 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
818 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
819 be able to take effect.
820
821 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
822 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
823 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
824 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
825
826 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
827 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
828 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
829 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
830
831 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
832
833 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
834
835 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
836 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
837 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
838 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
839 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
840 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
841
842 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
843 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
844
845 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
846 -> 4.2.0.192
847 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
848 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
849
850 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
851 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
852 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
853 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
854 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
855 don't all make sense in all contexts:
856
857 control = debug
858 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
859 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
860 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
861
862 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
863 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
864 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
865 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
866 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
867 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
868 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
869 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
870 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
871 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
872 the safeties off.
873
874 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
875 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
876 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
877 do evaluate true.
878 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
879
880 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
881
88210. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
883 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
884 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
885 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
886 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
887 build option.
888
88911. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
890 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
891
89212. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
893 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
894 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
895 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
896 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
897 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
898
89913. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
900 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
901 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
902 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
903 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
904 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
905 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
906 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
907
908
909Version 4.72
910------------
911
912 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
913 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
914
915 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
916
917 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
918 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
919 duplicates).
920
921 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
922 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
923 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
924 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
925 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
926 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
927 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
928 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
929 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
930 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
931
932 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
933 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
934
935 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
936 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
937 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
938
939
940Version 4.70 / 4.71
941-------------------
942
943 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
944 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
945 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
946 for details on conditionally disabling)
947
948 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
949
950 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
951 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
952 and{} expansion operator).
953
954 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
955 at delivery time.
956
957 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
958 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
959
960 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
961 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
962 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
963
964 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
965 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
966 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
967 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
968
969 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
970 OpenSSL.
971
972 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
973
974
975Version 4.69
976------------
977
978 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
979
980
981Version 4.68
982------------
983
984 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
985 local_scan API.
986
987 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
988 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
989 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
990 cases, for example:
991
992 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
993
994 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
995 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
996 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
997 like this:
998
999 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
1000
1001 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
1002 192.168.6.7 (for example).
1003
1004 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
1005 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
1006 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
1007 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
1008
1009 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
1010
1011 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
1012 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
1013 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
1014 $tls_peerdn.
1015
1016 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
1017 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
1018 only by an admin user.
1019
1020 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
1021 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
1022 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
1023 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
1024 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
1025
1026 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
1027 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
1028
1029 Example:
1030
1031 acl_check_connect:
1032 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1033 # we update it below
1034 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1035 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1036 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1037
1038 [... some other logic and tests...]
1039
1040 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1041 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1042 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1043 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1044
1045 accept
1046
1047 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1048 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1049 line termination character(s).
1050
1051 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
1052 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1053 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1054
1055 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1056 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1057 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1058 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1059
1060 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
1061 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1062 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1063 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1064 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1065
1066 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1067 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1068 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1069
1070 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1071 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1072 connection. The possible values are:
1073
1074 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1075 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1076 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1077 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1078 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1079 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1080 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1081 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1082 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1083 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1084
1085 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1086 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1087 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1088 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1089 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1090 used.
1091
109210. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
1093 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1094 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1095
1096 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1097 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1098 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1099
1100 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1101
1102 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1103 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1104 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1105
1106 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1107 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1108 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1109
1110 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1111
1112 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1113
1114 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1115
1116 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1117
1118 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1119
1120 you can still update the master by
1121
1122 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1123
112411. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
1125 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1126 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1127 spaces.
1128
1129
1130Version 4.67
1131------------
1132
1133 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1134 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1135 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
1136 MAIL command.
1137
1138 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
1139 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1140 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
1141 rather than the default "any" matching.
1142
1143 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1144 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1145 other parameters to be varied.
1146
1147 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1148 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
1149
1150 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
1151
1152 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
1153
1154 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
1155 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
1156
1157 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
1158 after the connection to the server has been made.
1159
1160 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
1161 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
1162
116310. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1164 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1165 time and date.
1166
116711. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
1168 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1169 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1170 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
1171 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
1172
117312. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
1174 called forany and forall.
1175
117613. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1177 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1178 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
1179
118014. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
1181
118215. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
1183 that makes it case-sensitive.
1184
118516. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1186 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1187 items, typically addresses.
1188
118917. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1190 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1191 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
1192 can be used.
1193
119418. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
1195 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
1196
119719. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1198 condition.
1199
120020. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
1201 "ignore".
1202
1203
1204Version 4.66
1205------------
1206
1207No new features were added to 4.66.
1208
1209
1210Version 4.65
1211------------
1212
1213No new features were added to 4.65.
1214
1215
1216Version 4.64
1217------------
1218
1219 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1220 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1221 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
1222 an underscore.
1223
1224 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
1225 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
1226
1227 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1228 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
1229 number of authentication methods.
1230
1231 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1232 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1233 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1234
1235 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1236 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1237 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1238 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
1239
1240 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
1241
1242 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1243 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1244 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
1245 before doing the expansions.
1246
1247 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
1248 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1249 message.
1250
1251 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1252 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
1253 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
1254
125510. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
1256 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
1257
125811. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1259 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1260 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1261 available for compatibility.)
1262
126312. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1264 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
1265
1266
1267Version 4.63
1268------------
1269
12701. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
1271 router.
1272
12732. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1274 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
1275 read.
1276
12773. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1278 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
1279 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
1280
12814. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
1282 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
1283
12845. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
1285 --reverse
1286 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1287 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1288 --random
1289 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1290 --size
1291 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1292 of their sizes.
1293 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1294 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1295 each messages value for each variable.
1296 --not
1297 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1298 same criteria without --not).
1299
1300
1301Version 4.62
1302------------
1303
13041. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1305 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1306 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1307 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1308 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1309 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1310
1311 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1312
1313 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1314 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1315 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1316 domain socket.
1317
13182. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1319 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1320 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1321
13223. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1323 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1324 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1325 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1326
1327
1328Version 4.61
1329------------
1330
1331The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1332the 4.60 release are:
1333
1334. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1335
1336. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1337
1338. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1339 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1340 for other things in complicated expansions.
1341
1342. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
1343
1344. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1345 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1346
1347. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1348
1349. More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1350
1351There are a number of other additions too.
1352
1353
1354Version 4.60
1355------------
1356
1357The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1358the 4.50 release are:
1359
1360. Support for SQLite.
1361
1362. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1363
1364. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1365
1366. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1367
1368. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
1369
1370. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
1371
1372. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
1373
1374There are many more minor changes.
1375
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