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1 New Features in Exim
2 --------------------
3
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
9 Version 4.80
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
16 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
17
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
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
26 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
27 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
28
29 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
30 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
31
32 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
33
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
36 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
37 used by Cyrus SASL.
38
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
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.
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
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
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
72 10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
73 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
74
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
83 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
84 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
85
86 12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
87 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
88 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
89 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
90 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
91
92 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
93
94 13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
95 identically to TXT record lookups.
96
97 14. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
98
99
100 Version 4.77
101 ------------
102
103 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
104 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
105
106 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
107 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
108
109 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
110 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
111
112 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
113 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
114 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
115
116 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
117 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
118 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
119 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
120
121
122 Version 4.76
123 ------------
124
125 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
126 or off in the resolver library.
127
128
129 Version 4.75
130 ------------
131
132 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
133 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
134 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
135 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
136 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
137
138 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
139 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
140 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
141
142 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
143 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
144
145 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
146 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
147 including any header additions or removals from transport.
148
149 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
150 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
151
152
153 Version 4.74
154 ------------
155
156 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
157 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
158 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
159 on content supplied by the attacker.
160
161 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
162 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
163 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
164 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
165 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
166
167
168 Version 4.73
169 ------------
170
171 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
172 items below carefully
173
174 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
175 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
176 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
177 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
178 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
179 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
180 frivolously.
181
182 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
183 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
184 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
185 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
186 be able to take effect.
187
188 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
189 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
190 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
191 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
192
193 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
194 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
195 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
196 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
197
198 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
199
200 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
201
202 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
203 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
204 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
205 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
206 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
207 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
208
209 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
210 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
211
212 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
213 -> 4.2.0.192
214 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
215 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
216
217 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
218 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
219 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
220 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
221 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
222 don't all make sense in all contexts:
223
224 control = debug
225 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
226 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
227 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
228
229 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
230 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
231 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
232 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
233 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
234 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
235 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
236 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
237 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
238 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
239 the safeties off.
240
241 8. There is a new expansion operator, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
242 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
243 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
244 do evaluate true.
245 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
246
247 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests,
248
249 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
250 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
251 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
252 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
253 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
254 build option.
255
256 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
257 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
258
259 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
260 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
261 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
262 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
263 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
264 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
265
266 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
267 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
268 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
269 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
270 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
271 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
272 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
273 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
274
275
276 Version 4.72
277 ------------
278
279 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
280 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
281
282 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
283
284 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
285 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
286 duplicates).
287
288 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
289 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
290 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
291 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
292 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
293 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
294 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
295 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
296 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
297 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
298
299 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
300 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
301
302 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
303 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
304 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
305
306
307 Version 4.70 / 4.71
308 -------------------
309
310 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
311 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
312 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
313 for details on conditionally disabling)
314
315 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
316
317 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
318 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
319 and{} expansion operator).
320
321 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
322 at delivery time.
323
324 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
325 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
326
327 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
328 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
329 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
330
331 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
332 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
333 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
334 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
335
336 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
337 OpenSSL.
338
339 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
340
341
342 Version 4.69
343 ------------
344
345 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
346
347
348 Version 4.68
349 ------------
350
351 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
352 local_scan API.
353
354 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
355 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
356 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
357 cases, for example:
358
359 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
360
361 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
362 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
363 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
364 like this:
365
366 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
367
368 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
369 192.168.6.7 (for example).
370
371 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
372 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
373 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
374 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
375
376 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
377
378 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
379 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
380 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
381 $tls_peerdn.
382
383 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
384 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
385 only by an admin user.
386
387 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
388 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
389 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
390 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
391 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
392
393 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
394 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
395
396 Example:
397
398 acl_check_connect:
399 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
400 # we update it below
401 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
402 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
403 (max $sender_rate_limit)
404
405 [... some other logic and tests...]
406
407 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
408 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
409 (max $sender_rate_limit)
410 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
411
412 accept
413
414 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
415 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
416 line termination character(s).
417
418 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analagous to
419 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
420 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
421
422 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
423 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
424 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
425 message is queued, the remainder are also.
426
427 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
428 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
429 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
430 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
431 log files) that make the situation even worse.
432
433 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
434 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
435 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
436
437 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
438 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
439 connection. The possible values are:
440
441 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
442 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
443 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
444 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
445 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
446 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
447 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
448 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
449 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
450 tls-failed TLS failed to start
451
452 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
453 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
454 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
455 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
456 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
457 used.
458
459 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
460 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
461 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
462
463 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
464 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
465 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
466
467 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
468
469 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
470 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
471 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
472
473 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
474 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
475 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
476
477 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
478
479 In an updating lookup, you could then write
480
481 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
482
483 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
484
485 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
486
487 you can still update the master by
488
489 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
490
491 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
492 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
493 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
494 spaces.
495
496
497 Version 4.67
498 ------------
499
500 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
501 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
502 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
503 MAIL command.
504
505 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
506 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
507 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
508 rather than the default "any" matching.
509
510 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
511 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
512 other parameters to be varied.
513
514 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
515 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
516
517 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
518
519 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
520
521 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
522 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
523
524 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
525 after the connection to the server has been made.
526
527 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
528 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
529
530 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
531 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
532 time and date.
533
534 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
535 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
536 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
537 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
538 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
539
540 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
541 called forany and forall.
542
543 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
544 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
545 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
546
547 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
548
549 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
550 that makes it case-sensitive.
551
552 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
553 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
554 items, typically addresses.
555
556 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
557 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
558 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
559 can be used.
560
561 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
562 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
563
564 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
565 condition.
566
567 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
568 "ignore".
569
570
571 Version 4.66
572 ------------
573
574 No new features were added to 4.66.
575
576
577 Version 4.65
578 ------------
579
580 No new features were added to 4.65.
581
582
583 Version 4.64
584 ------------
585
586 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
587 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
588 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
589 an underscore.
590
591 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
592 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
593
594 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
595 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
596 number of authentication methods.
597
598 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
599 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
600 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
601
602 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
603 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
604 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
605 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
606
607 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
608
609 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
610 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
611 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
612 before doing the expansions.
613
614 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
615 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
616 message.
617
618 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
619 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
620 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
621
622 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
623 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
624
625 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
626 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
627 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
628 available for compatibility.)
629
630 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
631 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
632
633
634 Version 4.63
635 ------------
636
637 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
638 router.
639
640 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
641 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
642 read.
643
644 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
645 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
646 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
647
648 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
649 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
650
651 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
652 --reverse
653 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
654 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
655 --random
656 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
657 --size
658 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
659 of their sizes.
660 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
661 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
662 each messages value for each variable.
663 --not
664 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
665 same criteria without --not).
666
667
668 Version 4.62
669 ------------
670
671 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
672 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
673 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
674 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
675 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
676 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
677
678 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
679
680 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
681 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
682 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
683 domain socket.
684
685 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
686 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
687 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
688
689 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
690 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
691 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
692 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
693
694
695 Version 4.61
696 ------------
697
698 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
699 the 4.60 release are:
700
701 . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
702
703 . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
704
705 . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
706 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
707 for other things in complicated expansions.
708
709 . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
710
711 . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
712 resources used in pipe deliveries.
713
714 . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
715
716 . More errors are detectable in retry rules.
717
718 There are a number of other additions too.
719
720
721 Version 4.60
722 ------------
723
724 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
725 the 4.50 release are:
726
727 . Support for SQLite.
728
729 . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
730
731 . Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
732
733 . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
734
735 . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
736
737 . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
738
739 . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
740
741 There are many more minor changes.
742
743 ****