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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 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
30 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
31
32 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
33
34 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
35 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
36 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
37 used by Cyrus SASL.
38
39 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
40
41 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
42 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
43 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
44 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
45 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
46 compatibility at the cost of session security.
47
48 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
49 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
50 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
51 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
52 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
53
54 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
55 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
56
57 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
58 for Exim as a server.
59
60 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
61 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
62 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
63 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
64 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
65
66 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
67 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
68 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
69 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
70 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
71
72 10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
73 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
74
75 11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
76 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
77 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
78 string, documentation for which is at:
79 http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
80
81 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
82
83 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
84 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
85
86 12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
87 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
88 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
89 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
90 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
91
92 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
93
94 13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
95 identically to TXT record lookups.
96
97
98 Version 4.77
99 ------------
100
101 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
102 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
103
104 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
105 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
106
107 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
108 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
109
110 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
111 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
112 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
113
114 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
115 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
116 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
117 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
118
119
120 Version 4.76
121 ------------
122
123 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
124 or off in the resolver library.
125
126
127 Version 4.75
128 ------------
129
130 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
131 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
132 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
133 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
134 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
135
136 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
137 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
138 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
139
140 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
141 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
142
143 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
144 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
145 including any header additions or removals from transport.
146
147 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
148 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
149
150
151 Version 4.74
152 ------------
153
154 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
155 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
156 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
157 on content supplied by the attacker.
158
159 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
160 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
161 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
162 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
163 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
164
165
166 Version 4.73
167 ------------
168
169 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
170 items below carefully
171
172 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
173 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
174 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
175 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
176 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
177 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
178 frivolously.
179
180 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
181 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
182 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
183 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
184 be able to take effect.
185
186 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
187 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
188 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
189 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
190
191 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
192 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
193 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
194 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
195
196 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
197
198 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
199
200 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
201 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
202 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
203 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
204 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
205 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
206
207 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
208 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
209
210 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
211 -> 4.2.0.192
212 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
213 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
214
215 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
216 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
217 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
218 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
219 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
220 don't all make sense in all contexts:
221
222 control = debug
223 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
224 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
225 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
226
227 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
228 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
229 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
230 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
231 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
232 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
233 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
234 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
235 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
236 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
237 the safeties off.
238
239 8. There is a new expansion operator, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
240 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
241 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
242 do evaluate true.
243 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
244
245 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests,
246
247 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
248 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
249 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
250 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
251 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
252 build option.
253
254 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
255 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
256
257 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
258 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
259 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
260 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
261 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
262 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
263
264 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
265 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
266 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
267 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
268 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
269 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
270 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
271 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
272
273
274 Version 4.72
275 ------------
276
277 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
278 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
279
280 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
281
282 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
283 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
284 duplicates).
285
286 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
287 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
288 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
289 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
290 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
291 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
292 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
293 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
294 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
295 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
296
297 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
298 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
299
300 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
301 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
302 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
303
304
305 Version 4.70 / 4.71
306 -------------------
307
308 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
309 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
310 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
311 for details on conditionally disabling)
312
313 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
314
315 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
316 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
317 and{} expansion operator).
318
319 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
320 at delivery time.
321
322 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
323 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
324
325 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
326 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
327 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
328
329 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
330 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
331 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
332 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
333
334 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
335 OpenSSL.
336
337 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
338
339
340 Version 4.69
341 ------------
342
343 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
344
345
346 Version 4.68
347 ------------
348
349 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
350 local_scan API.
351
352 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
353 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
354 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
355 cases, for example:
356
357 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
358
359 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
360 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
361 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
362 like this:
363
364 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
365
366 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
367 192.168.6.7 (for example).
368
369 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
370 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
371 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
372 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
373
374 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
375
376 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
377 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
378 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
379 $tls_peerdn.
380
381 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
382 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
383 only by an admin user.
384
385 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
386 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
387 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
388 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
389 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
390
391 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
392 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
393
394 Example:
395
396 acl_check_connect:
397 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
398 # we update it below
399 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
400 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
401 (max $sender_rate_limit)
402
403 [... some other logic and tests...]
404
405 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
406 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
407 (max $sender_rate_limit)
408 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
409
410 accept
411
412 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
413 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
414 line termination character(s).
415
416 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analagous to
417 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
418 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
419
420 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
421 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
422 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
423 message is queued, the remainder are also.
424
425 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
426 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
427 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
428 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
429 log files) that make the situation even worse.
430
431 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
432 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
433 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
434
435 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
436 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
437 connection. The possible values are:
438
439 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
440 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
441 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
442 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
443 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
444 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
445 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
446 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
447 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
448 tls-failed TLS failed to start
449
450 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
451 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
452 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
453 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
454 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
455 used.
456
457 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
458 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
459 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
460
461 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
462 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
463 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
464
465 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
466
467 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
468 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
469 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
470
471 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
472 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
473 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
474
475 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
476
477 In an updating lookup, you could then write
478
479 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
480
481 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
482
483 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
484
485 you can still update the master by
486
487 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
488
489 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
490 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
491 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
492 spaces.
493
494
495 Version 4.67
496 ------------
497
498 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
499 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
500 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
501 MAIL command.
502
503 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
504 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
505 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
506 rather than the default "any" matching.
507
508 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
509 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
510 other parameters to be varied.
511
512 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
513 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
514
515 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
516
517 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
518
519 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
520 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
521
522 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
523 after the connection to the server has been made.
524
525 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
526 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
527
528 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
529 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
530 time and date.
531
532 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
533 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
534 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
535 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
536 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
537
538 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
539 called forany and forall.
540
541 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
542 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
543 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
544
545 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
546
547 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
548 that makes it case-sensitive.
549
550 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
551 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
552 items, typically addresses.
553
554 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
555 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
556 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
557 can be used.
558
559 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
560 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
561
562 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
563 condition.
564
565 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
566 "ignore".
567
568
569 Version 4.66
570 ------------
571
572 No new features were added to 4.66.
573
574
575 Version 4.65
576 ------------
577
578 No new features were added to 4.65.
579
580
581 Version 4.64
582 ------------
583
584 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
585 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
586 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
587 an underscore.
588
589 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
590 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
591
592 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
593 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
594 number of authentication methods.
595
596 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
597 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
598 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
599
600 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
601 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
602 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
603 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
604
605 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
606
607 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
608 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
609 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
610 before doing the expansions.
611
612 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
613 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
614 message.
615
616 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
617 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
618 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
619
620 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
621 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
622
623 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
624 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
625 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
626 available for compatibility.)
627
628 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
629 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
630
631
632 Version 4.63
633 ------------
634
635 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
636 router.
637
638 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
639 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
640 read.
641
642 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
643 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
644 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
645
646 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
647 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
648
649 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
650 --reverse
651 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
652 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
653 --random
654 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
655 --size
656 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
657 of their sizes.
658 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
659 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
660 each messages value for each variable.
661 --not
662 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
663 same criteria without --not).
664
665
666 Version 4.62
667 ------------
668
669 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
670 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
671 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
672 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
673 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
674 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
675
676 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
677
678 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
679 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
680 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
681 domain socket.
682
683 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
684 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
685 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
686
687 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
688 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
689 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
690 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
691
692
693 Version 4.61
694 ------------
695
696 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
697 the 4.60 release are:
698
699 . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
700
701 . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
702
703 . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
704 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
705 for other things in complicated expansions.
706
707 . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
708
709 . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
710 resources used in pipe deliveries.
711
712 . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
713
714 . More errors are detectable in retry rules.
715
716 There are a number of other additions too.
717
718
719 Version 4.60
720 ------------
721
722 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
723 the 4.50 release are:
724
725 . Support for SQLite.
726
727 . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
728
729 . Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
730
731 . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
732
733 . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
734
735 . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
736
737 . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
738
739 There are many more minor changes.
740
741 ****