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99 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.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