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