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