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1 New Features in Exim
2 --------------------
3
4 This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
5 Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
6 test from the snapshots or the Git before the documentation is updated. Once
7 the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
8
9 Version 4.94
10 ------------
11
12 1. EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
13 file.
14
15 2. Channel-binding for authenticators is now supported under OpenSSL.
16 Previously it was GnuTLS-only.
17
18 3. A msg:defer event.
19
20 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the
21 plaintext driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and
22 SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS methods.
23
24 5. Server-side support in the gsasl authenticator for encrypted passwords, as
25 an alternate for the existing plaintext.
26
27 6. Variable $local_part_verified, set by the router check_local_part condition
28 with untainted data.
29
30 7. Named-list definitions can now be prefixed "hide" so that "-bP" commands do
31 not output the content. Previously this could only be done on options.
32
33 8. As an exerimental feature, the dovecot authenticatino driver supports inet
34 sockets. Previously it was unix-domain sockets only.
35
36 9. The ACL control "queue_only" can also be spelled "queue", and now takes an
37 option "first_pass_route" to do the same as a "-odqs" on the command line.
38 9. Items specified for the router and transport headers_remove option can use
39 a trailing asterisk to specify globbing.
40
41
42
43
44 Version 4.93
45 ------------
46
47 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
48
49 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
50
51 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
52 for ciphersuites.
53
54 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
55
56 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
57
58 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
59 file.
60
61 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
62 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
63
64 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
65
66 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
67 and transports.
68
69 10. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
70
71 11. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
72
73 12. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
74
75 13. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
76
77 14: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
78
79 15: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
80 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
81 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
82 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
83 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
84 only, and exim must be run as root).
85
86 16: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
87
88 17. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
89
90
91 Version 4.92
92 --------------
93
94 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
95 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
96 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
97 facilities hard to parse.
98
99 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
100 obvious thing.
101
102 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
103 features. See the experimental.spec file.
104
105 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
106
107 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
108
109 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
110
111 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
112
113 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
114
115 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
116
117 Version 4.91
118 --------------
119
120 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
121 version 3.5.6 or later.
122
123 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
124 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
125 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
126
127 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
128
129 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
130 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
131
132 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
133 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
134 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
135 a "dkim" log_selector.
136
137 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
138
139 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
140 routing rules in the manualroute router.
141
142 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
143 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
144
145 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
146 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
147
148 10. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
149 version dependent.
150
151 11. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
152
153 12. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
154 Authentication-Results: header.
155
156 13. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
157 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
158
159 14: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
160
161 15. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
162 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
163 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
164 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
165
166 16. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
167 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
168 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
169
170
171 Version 4.90
172 ------------
173
174 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
175 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
176
177 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
178 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
179
180 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
181 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
182 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
183 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
184 another process. Logging is also affected.
185
186 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
187
188 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
189 further recipients and for delivery.
190
191 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
192 supported.
193
194 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
195 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
196 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
197 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
198 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
199
200 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
201 restrict who can use various introspection options.
202
203 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
204 appendfile transport.
205
206 10. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
207 SMTP commands.
208
209 11. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
210 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
211
212 12. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
213 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
214 is opened with a TFO cookie.
215
216 13. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
217 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
218 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
219 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
220 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
221 the data ACL.
222
223 14. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
224 configuration file.
225
226 15. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
227 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
228
229 16. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
230 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
231
232 17. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
233
234
235 Version 4.89
236 ------------
237
238 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
239
240 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
241 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
242 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
243
244
245 Version 4.88
246 ------------
247
248 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
249 interpreter in taint mode.
250
251 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
252
253 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
254 modifier.
255
256 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
257 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
258 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
259
260 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
261 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
262 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
263 visibility.
264
265 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
266
267 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
268 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
269 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
270 for control.
271
272 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
273
274 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
275
276 10. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
277 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
278 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
279 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
280 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
281
282 11. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
283
284 12. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
285 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
286 message.
287
288 13. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
289
290 14. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
291 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
292
293 15. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
294 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
295 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
296 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
297 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
298 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
299 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
300 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
301
302 16. A new syslog_pid option to suppress PID duplication in syslog lines.
303
304
305 Version 4.87
306 ------------
307
308 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
309 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
310
311 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
312 malware= or verify= callout.
313
314 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
315
316 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
317 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
318 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
319 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
320 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
321 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
322
323 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
324
325 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
326
327 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
328 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
329
330 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
331 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
332 limits.
333
334 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
335
336
337 Version 4.86
338 ------------
339
340 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
341
342 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
343 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
344
345 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
346
347 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
348
349 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
350
351 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
352
353 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
354 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
355
356 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
357 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
358
359 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
360 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
361
362 10. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
363
364 11. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
365
366 12. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
367
368 13. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
369 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
370
371 14. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
372 same level as DNSSEC.
373
374
375 Version 4.85
376 ------------
377
378 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
379 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
380 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
381 domain of the sender.
382
383 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
384 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
385 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
386 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
387 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
388 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
389
390 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
391 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
392 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
393
394
395 Version 4.84
396 ------------
397
398
399 Version 4.83
400 ------------
401
402 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
403 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
404 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
405 proxy that is connecting to it.
406
407 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
408 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
409 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
410 detect and reject if those characters are present.
411
412 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
413 codepoints with valid ones.
414
415 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
416 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
417 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
418 be included in the command line.
419
420 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
421 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
422 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
423 verification cancels the encryption.
424
425 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
426 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
427 default list.
428
429 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
430 file when searching the queue.
431
432 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
433
434 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
435
436 10. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
437 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
438 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
439 for them added.
440
441 11. PRDR is now supported dy default.
442
443 12. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
444
445 13. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
446 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
447 DSN features per RFC 3461.
448
449
450 Version 4.82
451 ------------
452
453 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
454 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
455 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
456 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
457 SIEVE capability line.
458
459 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
460 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
461 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
462 followed by a newline, and no other text.
463
464 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
465 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
466 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
467 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
468 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
469 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
470 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
471 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
472
473 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
474
475 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
476 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
477 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
478 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
479 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
480 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
481
482 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
483
484 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
485 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
486 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
487
488 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
489 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
490
491 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
492 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
493
494 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
495 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
496 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
497 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
498 ignored.
499
500 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
501 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
502 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
503 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
504 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
505 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
506 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
507 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
508 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
509 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
510 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
511 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
512 system not your own.
513
514 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
515 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
516 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
517 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
518
519 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
520 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
521 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
522
523 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
524 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
525 are present for now but deprecated.
526
527 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
528
529 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
530 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
531
532 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
533 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
534 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
535 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
536 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
537 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
538 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
539 unless this new option is set.
540
541 Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability,
542 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
543 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
544 Local/Makefile:
545
546 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
547
548 10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
549 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
550 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
551 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
552 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
553 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
554 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
555 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
556 return results in a forced fail.
557
558 11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
559 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
560
561 12. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
562 handled by routers/transports.
563
564 13. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
565 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
566
567 14. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
568 modifier (but not yet added to message).
569
570 15. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
571
572 16. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
573
574 17. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
575 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
576 require privilege whereas -d does.
577
578 18. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
579 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
580
581 19. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
582 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
583 wrappers, for instance.
584
585 20. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
586 connections apply.
587
588 21. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
589 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
590 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
591 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
592 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
593 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
594 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
595
596 22. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
597 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
598 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
599
600 23. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
601 UDP host and port.
602
603 24. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
604 characters in the string to \xNN form.
605
606 25. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
607 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
608
609 26. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
610
611
612 Version 4.80
613 ------------
614
615 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
616 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
617 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
618 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
619 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
620
621 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
622 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
623 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
624 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
625
626 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
627 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
628 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
629 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
630 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
631
632 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
633 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
634
635 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
636
637 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
638 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
639 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
640 used by Cyrus SASL.
641
642 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
643
644 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
645 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
646 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
647 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
648 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
649 compatibility at the cost of session security.
650
651 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
652 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
653 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
654 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
655 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
656
657 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
658 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
659
660 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
661 for Exim as a server.
662
663 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
664 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
665 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
666 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
667 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
668
669 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
670 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
671 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
672 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
673 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
674
675 10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
676 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
677
678 11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
679 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
680 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
681 string, documentation for which is at:
682 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
683
684 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
685
686 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
687 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
688
689 12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
690 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
691 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
692 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
693 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
694
695 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
696
697 13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
698 identically to TXT record lookups.
699
700 14. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
701
702 15. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
703 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
704 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
705
706 16. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
707 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
708 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
709 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
710 primes.
711
712 17. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
713 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
714 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
715
716
717 Version 4.77
718 ------------
719
720 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
721 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
722
723 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
724 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
725
726 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
727 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
728
729 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
730 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
731 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
732
733 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
734 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
735 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
736 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
737
738
739 Version 4.76
740 ------------
741
742 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
743 or off in the resolver library.
744
745
746 Version 4.75
747 ------------
748
749 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
750 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
751 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
752 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
753 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
754
755 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
756 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
757 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
758
759 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
760 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
761
762 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
763 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
764 including any header additions or removals from transport.
765
766 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
767 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
768
769
770 Version 4.74
771 ------------
772
773 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
774 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
775 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
776 on content supplied by the attacker.
777
778 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
779 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
780 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
781 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
782 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
783
784
785 Version 4.73
786 ------------
787
788 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
789 items below carefully
790
791 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
792 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
793 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
794 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
795 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
796 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
797 frivolously.
798
799 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
800 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
801 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
802 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
803 be able to take effect.
804
805 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
806 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
807 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
808 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
809
810 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
811 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
812 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
813 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
814
815 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
816
817 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
818
819 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
820 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
821 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
822 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
823 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
824 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
825
826 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
827 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
828
829 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
830 -> 4.2.0.192
831 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
832 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
833
834 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
835 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
836 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
837 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
838 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
839 don't all make sense in all contexts:
840
841 control = debug
842 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
843 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
844 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
845
846 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
847 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
848 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
849 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
850 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
851 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
852 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
853 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
854 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
855 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
856 the safeties off.
857
858 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
859 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
860 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
861 do evaluate true.
862 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
863
864 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
865
866 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
867 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
868 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
869 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
870 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
871 build option.
872
873 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
874 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
875
876 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
877 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
878 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
879 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
880 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
881 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
882
883 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
884 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
885 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
886 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
887 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
888 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
889 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
890 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
891
892
893 Version 4.72
894 ------------
895
896 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
897 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
898
899 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
900
901 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
902 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
903 duplicates).
904
905 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
906 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
907 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
908 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
909 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
910 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
911 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
912 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
913 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
914 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
915
916 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
917 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
918
919 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
920 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
921 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
922
923
924 Version 4.70 / 4.71
925 -------------------
926
927 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
928 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
929 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
930 for details on conditionally disabling)
931
932 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
933
934 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
935 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
936 and{} expansion operator).
937
938 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
939 at delivery time.
940
941 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
942 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
943
944 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
945 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
946 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
947
948 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
949 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
950 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
951 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
952
953 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
954 OpenSSL.
955
956 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
957
958
959 Version 4.69
960 ------------
961
962 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
963
964
965 Version 4.68
966 ------------
967
968 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
969 local_scan API.
970
971 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
972 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
973 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
974 cases, for example:
975
976 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
977
978 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
979 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
980 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
981 like this:
982
983 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
984
985 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
986 192.168.6.7 (for example).
987
988 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
989 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
990 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
991 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
992
993 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
994
995 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
996 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
997 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
998 $tls_peerdn.
999
1000 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
1001 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
1002 only by an admin user.
1003
1004 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
1005 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
1006 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
1007 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
1008 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
1009
1010 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
1011 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
1012
1013 Example:
1014
1015 acl_check_connect:
1016 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1017 # we update it below
1018 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1019 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1020 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1021
1022 [... some other logic and tests...]
1023
1024 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1025 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1026 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1027 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1028
1029 accept
1030
1031 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1032 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1033 line termination character(s).
1034
1035 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
1036 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1037 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1038
1039 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1040 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1041 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1042 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1043
1044 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
1045 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1046 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1047 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1048 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1049
1050 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1051 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1052 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1053
1054 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1055 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1056 connection. The possible values are:
1057
1058 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1059 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1060 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1061 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1062 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1063 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1064 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1065 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1066 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1067 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1068
1069 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1070 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1071 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1072 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1073 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1074 used.
1075
1076 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
1077 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1078 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1079
1080 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1081 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1082 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1083
1084 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1085
1086 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1087 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1088 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1089
1090 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1091 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1092 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1093
1094 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1095
1096 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1097
1098 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1099
1100 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1101
1102 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1103
1104 you can still update the master by
1105
1106 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1107
1108 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
1109 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1110 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1111 spaces.
1112
1113
1114 Version 4.67
1115 ------------
1116
1117 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1118 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1119 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
1120 MAIL command.
1121
1122 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
1123 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1124 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
1125 rather than the default "any" matching.
1126
1127 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1128 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1129 other parameters to be varied.
1130
1131 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1132 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
1133
1134 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
1135
1136 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
1137
1138 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
1139 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
1140
1141 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
1142 after the connection to the server has been made.
1143
1144 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
1145 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
1146
1147 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1148 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1149 time and date.
1150
1151 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
1152 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1153 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1154 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
1155 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
1156
1157 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
1158 called forany and forall.
1159
1160 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1161 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1162 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
1163
1164 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
1165
1166 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
1167 that makes it case-sensitive.
1168
1169 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1170 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1171 items, typically addresses.
1172
1173 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1174 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1175 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
1176 can be used.
1177
1178 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
1179 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
1180
1181 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1182 condition.
1183
1184 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
1185 "ignore".
1186
1187
1188 Version 4.66
1189 ------------
1190
1191 No new features were added to 4.66.
1192
1193
1194 Version 4.65
1195 ------------
1196
1197 No new features were added to 4.65.
1198
1199
1200 Version 4.64
1201 ------------
1202
1203 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1204 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1205 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
1206 an underscore.
1207
1208 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
1209 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
1210
1211 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1212 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
1213 number of authentication methods.
1214
1215 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1216 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1217 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1218
1219 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1220 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1221 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1222 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
1223
1224 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
1225
1226 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1227 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1228 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
1229 before doing the expansions.
1230
1231 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
1232 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1233 message.
1234
1235 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1236 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
1237 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
1238
1239 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
1240 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
1241
1242 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1243 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1244 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1245 available for compatibility.)
1246
1247 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1248 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
1249
1250
1251 Version 4.63
1252 ------------
1253
1254 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
1255 router.
1256
1257 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1258 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
1259 read.
1260
1261 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1262 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
1263 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
1264
1265 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
1266 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
1267
1268 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
1269 --reverse
1270 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1271 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1272 --random
1273 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1274 --size
1275 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1276 of their sizes.
1277 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1278 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1279 each messages value for each variable.
1280 --not
1281 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1282 same criteria without --not).
1283
1284
1285 Version 4.62
1286 ------------
1287
1288 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1289 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1290 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1291 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1292 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1293 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1294
1295 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1296
1297 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1298 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1299 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1300 domain socket.
1301
1302 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1303 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1304 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1305
1306 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1307 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1308 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1309 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1310
1311
1312 Version 4.61
1313 ------------
1314
1315 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1316 the 4.60 release are:
1317
1318 . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1319
1320 . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1321
1322 . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1323 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1324 for other things in complicated expansions.
1325
1326 . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
1327
1328 . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1329 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1330
1331 . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1332
1333 . More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1334
1335 There are a number of other additions too.
1336
1337
1338 Version 4.60
1339 ------------
1340
1341 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1342 the 4.50 release are:
1343
1344 . Support for SQLite.
1345
1346 . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1347
1348 . Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1349
1350 . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1351
1352 . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
1353
1354 . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
1355
1356 . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
1357
1358 There are many more minor changes.
1359
1360 ****