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