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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 Git before the documentation is updated. Once
7 the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
8
9 Version 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
42 10. New "queue_size" variable.
43
44
45
46 Version 4.93
47 ------------
48
49 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
50
51 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
52
53 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
54 for ciphersuites.
55
56 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
57
58 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
59
60 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
61 file.
62
63 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
64 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
65
66 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
67
68 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
69 and transports.
70
71 10. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
72
73 11. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
74
75 12. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
76
77 13. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
78
79 14: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
80
81 15: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
82 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
83 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
84 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
85 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
86 only, and exim must be run as root).
87
88 16: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
89
90 17. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
91
92
93 Version 4.92
94 --------------
95
96 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
97 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
98 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
99 facilities hard to parse.
100
101 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
102 obvious thing.
103
104 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
105 features. See the experimental.spec file.
106
107 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
108
109 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
110
111 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
112
113 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
114
115 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
116
117 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
118
119 Version 4.91
120 --------------
121
122 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
123 version 3.5.6 or later.
124
125 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
126 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
127 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
128
129 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
130
131 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
132 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
133
134 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
135 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
136 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
137 a "dkim" log_selector.
138
139 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
140
141 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
142 routing rules in the manualroute router.
143
144 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
145 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
146
147 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
148 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
149
150 10. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
151 version dependent.
152
153 11. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
154
155 12. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
156 Authentication-Results: header.
157
158 13. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
159 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
160
161 14: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
162
163 15. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
164 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
165 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
166 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
167
168 16. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
169 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
170 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
171
172
173 Version 4.90
174 ------------
175
176 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
177 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
178
179 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
180 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
181
182 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
183 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
184 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
185 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
186 another process. Logging is also affected.
187
188 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
189
190 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
191 further recipients and for delivery.
192
193 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
194 supported.
195
196 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
197 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
198 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
199 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
200 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
201
202 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
203 restrict who can use various introspection options.
204
205 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
206 appendfile transport.
207
208 10. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
209 SMTP commands.
210
211 11. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
212 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
213
214 12. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
215 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
216 is opened with a TFO cookie.
217
218 13. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
219 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
220 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
221 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
222 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
223 the data ACL.
224
225 14. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
226 configuration file.
227
228 15. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
229 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
230
231 16. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
232 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
233
234 17. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
235
236
237 Version 4.89
238 ------------
239
240 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
241
242 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
243 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
244 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
245
246
247 Version 4.88
248 ------------
249
250 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
251 interpreter in taint mode.
252
253 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
254
255 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
256 modifier.
257
258 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
259 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
260 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
261
262 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
263 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
264 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
265 visibility.
266
267 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
268
269 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
270 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
271 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
272 for control.
273
274 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
275
276 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
277
278 10. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
279 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
280 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
281 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
282 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
283
284 11. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
285
286 12. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
287 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
288 message.
289
290 13. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
291
292 14. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
293 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
294
295 15. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
296 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
297 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
298 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
299 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
300 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
301 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
302 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
303
304 16. A new syslog_pid option to suppress PID duplication in syslog lines.
305
306
307 Version 4.87
308 ------------
309
310 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
311 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
312
313 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
314 malware= or verify= callout.
315
316 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
317
318 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
319 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
320 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
321 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
322 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
323 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
324
325 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
326
327 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
328
329 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
330 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
331
332 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
333 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
334 limits.
335
336 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
337
338
339 Version 4.86
340 ------------
341
342 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
343
344 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
345 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
346
347 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
348
349 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
350
351 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
352
353 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
354
355 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
356 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
357
358 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
359 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
360
361 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
362 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
363
364 10. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
365
366 11. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
367
368 12. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
369
370 13. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
371 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
372
373 14. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
374 same level as DNSSEC.
375
376 Version 4.85
377 ------------
378
379 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
380 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
381 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
382 domain of the sender.
383
384 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
385 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
386 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
387 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
388 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
389 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
390
391 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
392 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
393 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
394
395
396 Version 4.84
397 ------------
398
399
400 Version 4.83
401 ------------
402
403 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
404 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
405 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
406 proxy that is connecting to it.
407
408 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
409 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
410 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
411 detect and reject if those characters are present.
412
413 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
414 codepoints with valid ones.
415
416 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
417 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
418 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
419 be included in the command line.
420
421 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
422 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
423 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
424 verification cancels the encryption.
425
426 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
427 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
428 default list.
429
430 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
431 file when searching the queue.
432
433 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
434
435 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
436
437 10. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
438 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
439 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
440 for them added.
441
442 11. PRDR is now supported dy default.
443
444 12. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
445
446 13. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
447 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
448 DSN features per RFC 3461.
449
450
451 Version 4.82
452 ------------
453
454 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
455 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
456 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
457 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
458 SIEVE capability line.
459
460 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
461 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
462 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
463 followed by a newline, and no other text.
464
465 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
466 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
467 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
468 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
469 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
470 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
471 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
472 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
473
474 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
475
476 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
477 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
478 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
479 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
480 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
481 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
482
483 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
484
485 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
486 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
487 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
488
489 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
490 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
491
492 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
493 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
494
495 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
496 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
497 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
498 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
499 ignored.
500
501 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
502 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
503 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
504 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
505 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
506 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
507 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
508 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
509 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
510 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
511 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
512 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
513 system not your own.
514
515 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
516 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
517 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
518 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
519
520 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
521 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
522 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
523
524 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
525 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
526 are present for now but deprecated.
527
528 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
529
530 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
531 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
532
533 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
534 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
535 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
536 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
537 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
538 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
539 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
540 unless this new option is set.
541
542 Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability,
543 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
544 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
545 Local/Makefile:
546
547 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
548
549 10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
550 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
551 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
552 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
553 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
554 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
555 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
556 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
557 return results in a forced fail.
558
559 11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
560 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
561
562 12. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
563 handled by routers/transports.
564
565 13. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
566 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
567
568 14. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
569 modifier (but not yet added to message).
570
571 15. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
572
573 16. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
574
575 17. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
576 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
577 require privilege whereas -d does.
578
579 18. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
580 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
581
582 19. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
583 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
584 wrappers, for instance.
585
586 20. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
587 connections apply.
588
589 21. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
590 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
591 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
592 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
593 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
594 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
595 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
596
597 22. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
598 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
599 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
600
601 23. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
602 UDP host and port.
603
604 24. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
605 characters in the string to \xNN form.
606
607 25. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
608 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
609
610 26. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
611
612
613 Version 4.80
614 ------------
615
616 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
617 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
618 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
619 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
620 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
621
622 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
623 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
624 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
625 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
626
627 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
628 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
629 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
630 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
631 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
632
633 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
634 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
635
636 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
637
638 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
639 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
640 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
641 used by Cyrus SASL.
642
643 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
644
645 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
646 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
647 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
648 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
649 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
650 compatibility at the cost of session security.
651
652 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
653 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
654 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
655 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
656 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
657
658 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
659 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
660
661 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
662 for Exim as a server.
663
664 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
665 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
666 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
667 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
668 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
669
670 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
671 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
672 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
673 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
674 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
675
676 10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
677 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
678
679 11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
680 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
681 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
682 string, documentation for which is at:
683 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
684
685 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
686
687 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
688 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
689
690 12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
691 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
692 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
693 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
694 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
695
696 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
697
698 13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
699 identically to TXT record lookups.
700
701 14. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
702
703 15. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
704 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
705 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
706
707 16. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
708 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
709 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
710 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
711 primes.
712
713 17. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
714 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
715 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
716
717
718 Version 4.77
719 ------------
720
721 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
722 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
723
724 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
725 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
726
727 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
728 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
729
730 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
731 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
732 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
733
734 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
735 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
736 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
737 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
738
739
740 Version 4.76
741 ------------
742
743 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
744 or off in the resolver library.
745
746
747 Version 4.75
748 ------------
749
750 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
751 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
752 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
753 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
754 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
755
756 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
757 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
758 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
759
760 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
761 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
762
763 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
764 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
765 including any header additions or removals from transport.
766
767 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
768 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
769
770
771 Version 4.74
772 ------------
773
774 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
775 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
776 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
777 on content supplied by the attacker.
778
779 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
780 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
781 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
782 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
783 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
784
785
786 Version 4.73
787 ------------
788
789 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
790 items below carefully
791
792 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
793 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
794 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
795 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
796 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
797 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
798 frivolously.
799
800 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
801 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
802 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
803 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
804 be able to take effect.
805
806 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
807 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
808 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
809 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
810
811 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
812 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
813 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
814 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
815
816 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
817
818 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
819
820 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
821 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
822 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
823 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
824 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
825 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
826
827 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
828 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
829
830 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
831 -> 4.2.0.192
832 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
833 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
834
835 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
836 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
837 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
838 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
839 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
840 don't all make sense in all contexts:
841
842 control = debug
843 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
844 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
845 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
846
847 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
848 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
849 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
850 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
851 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
852 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
853 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
854 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
855 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
856 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
857 the safeties off.
858
859 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
860 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
861 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
862 do evaluate true.
863 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
864
865 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
866
867 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
868 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
869 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
870 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
871 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
872 build option.
873
874 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
875 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
876
877 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
878 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
879 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
880 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
881 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
882 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
883
884 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
885 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
886 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
887 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
888 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
889 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
890 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
891 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
892
893
894 Version 4.72
895 ------------
896
897 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
898 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
899
900 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
901
902 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
903 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
904 duplicates).
905
906 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
907 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
908 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
909 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
910 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
911 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
912 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
913 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
914 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
915 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
916
917 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
918 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
919
920 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
921 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
922 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
923
924
925 Version 4.70 / 4.71
926 -------------------
927
928 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
929 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
930 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
931 for details on conditionally disabling)
932
933 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
934
935 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
936 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
937 and{} expansion operator).
938
939 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
940 at delivery time.
941
942 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
943 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
944
945 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
946 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
947 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
948
949 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
950 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
951 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
952 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
953
954 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
955 OpenSSL.
956
957 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
958
959
960 Version 4.69
961 ------------
962
963 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
964
965
966 Version 4.68
967 ------------
968
969 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
970 local_scan API.
971
972 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
973 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
974 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
975 cases, for example:
976
977 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
978
979 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
980 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
981 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
982 like this:
983
984 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
985
986 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
987 192.168.6.7 (for example).
988
989 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
990 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
991 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
992 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
993
994 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
995
996 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
997 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
998 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
999 $tls_peerdn.
1000
1001 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
1002 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
1003 only by an admin user.
1004
1005 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
1006 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
1007 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
1008 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
1009 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
1010
1011 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
1012 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
1013
1014 Example:
1015
1016 acl_check_connect:
1017 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1018 # we update it below
1019 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1020 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1021 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1022
1023 [... some other logic and tests...]
1024
1025 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1026 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1027 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1028 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1029
1030 accept
1031
1032 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1033 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1034 line termination character(s).
1035
1036 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
1037 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1038 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1039
1040 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1041 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1042 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1043 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1044
1045 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
1046 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1047 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1048 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1049 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1050
1051 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1052 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1053 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1054
1055 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1056 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1057 connection. The possible values are:
1058
1059 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1060 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1061 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1062 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1063 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1064 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1065 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1066 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1067 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1068 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1069
1070 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1071 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1072 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1073 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1074 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1075 used.
1076
1077 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
1078 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1079 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1080
1081 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1082 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1083 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1084
1085 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1086
1087 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1088 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1089 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1090
1091 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1092 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1093 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1094
1095 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1096
1097 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1098
1099 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1100
1101 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1102
1103 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1104
1105 you can still update the master by
1106
1107 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1108
1109 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
1110 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1111 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1112 spaces.
1113
1114
1115 Version 4.67
1116 ------------
1117
1118 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1119 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1120 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
1121 MAIL command.
1122
1123 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
1124 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1125 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
1126 rather than the default "any" matching.
1127
1128 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1129 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1130 other parameters to be varied.
1131
1132 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1133 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
1134
1135 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
1136
1137 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
1138
1139 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
1140 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
1141
1142 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
1143 after the connection to the server has been made.
1144
1145 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
1146 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
1147
1148 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1149 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1150 time and date.
1151
1152 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
1153 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1154 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1155 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
1156 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
1157
1158 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
1159 called forany and forall.
1160
1161 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1162 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1163 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
1164
1165 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
1166
1167 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
1168 that makes it case-sensitive.
1169
1170 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1171 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1172 items, typically addresses.
1173
1174 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1175 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1176 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
1177 can be used.
1178
1179 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
1180 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
1181
1182 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1183 condition.
1184
1185 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
1186 "ignore".
1187
1188
1189 Version 4.66
1190 ------------
1191
1192 No new features were added to 4.66.
1193
1194
1195 Version 4.65
1196 ------------
1197
1198 No new features were added to 4.65.
1199
1200
1201 Version 4.64
1202 ------------
1203
1204 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1205 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1206 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
1207 an underscore.
1208
1209 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
1210 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
1211
1212 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1213 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
1214 number of authentication methods.
1215
1216 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1217 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1218 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1219
1220 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1221 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1222 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1223 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
1224
1225 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
1226
1227 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1228 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1229 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
1230 before doing the expansions.
1231
1232 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
1233 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1234 message.
1235
1236 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1237 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
1238 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
1239
1240 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
1241 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
1242
1243 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1244 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1245 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1246 available for compatibility.)
1247
1248 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1249 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
1250
1251
1252 Version 4.63
1253 ------------
1254
1255 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
1256 router.
1257
1258 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1259 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
1260 read.
1261
1262 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1263 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
1264 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
1265
1266 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
1267 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
1268
1269 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
1270 --reverse
1271 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1272 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1273 --random
1274 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1275 --size
1276 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1277 of their sizes.
1278 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1279 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1280 each messages value for each variable.
1281 --not
1282 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1283 same criteria without --not).
1284
1285
1286 Version 4.62
1287 ------------
1288
1289 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1290 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1291 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1292 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1293 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1294 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1295
1296 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1297
1298 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1299 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1300 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1301 domain socket.
1302
1303 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1304 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1305 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1306
1307 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1308 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1309 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1310 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1311
1312
1313 Version 4.61
1314 ------------
1315
1316 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1317 the 4.60 release are:
1318
1319 . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1320
1321 . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1322
1323 . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1324 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1325 for other things in complicated expansions.
1326
1327 . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
1328
1329 . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1330 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1331
1332 . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1333
1334 . More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1335
1336 There are a number of other additions too.
1337
1338
1339 Version 4.60
1340 ------------
1341
1342 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1343 the 4.50 release are:
1344
1345 . Support for SQLite.
1346
1347 . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1348
1349 . Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1350
1351 . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1352
1353 . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
1354
1355 . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
1356
1357 . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
1358
1359 There are many more minor changes.
1360
1361 ****