Authenticator gsasl: client support. Bug 2349
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1 New Features in Exim
2 --------------------
3
4 This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
5 Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
6 test from the snapshots or the Git before the documentation is updated. Once
7 the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
8
9 Version 4.94
10 ------------
11
12 1. EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
13 file.
14
15 2. Channel-binding for authenticators is now supported under OpenSSL.
16 Previously it was GnuTLS-only.
17
18 3. A msg:defer event.
19
20 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the plaintext
21 driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS
22 methods.
23
24
25 Version 4.93
26 ------------
27
28 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
29
30 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
31
32 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
33 for ciphersuites.
34
35 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
36
37 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
38
39 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
40 file.
41
42 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
43 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
44
45 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
46
47 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
48 and transports.
49
50 10. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
51
52 11. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
53
54 12. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
55
56 13. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
57
58 14: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
59
60 15: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
61 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
62 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
63 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
64 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
65 only, and exim must be run as root).
66
67 16: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
68
69 17. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
70
71
72 Version 4.92
73 --------------
74
75 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
76 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
77 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
78 facilities hard to parse.
79
80 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
81 obvious thing.
82
83 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
84 features. See the experimental.spec file.
85
86 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
87
88 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
89
90 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
91
92 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
93
94 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
95
96 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
97
98 Version 4.91
99 --------------
100
101 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
102 version 3.5.6 or later.
103
104 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
105 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
106 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
107
108 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
109
110 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
111 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
112
113 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
114 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
115 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
116 a "dkim" log_selector.
117
118 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
119
120 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
121 routing rules in the manualroute router.
122
123 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
124 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
125
126 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
127 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
128
129 10. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
130 version dependent.
131
132 11. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
133
134 12. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
135 Authentication-Results: header.
136
137 13. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
138 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
139
140 14: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
141
142 15. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
143 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
144 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
145 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
146
147 16. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
148 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
149 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
150
151
152 Version 4.90
153 ------------
154
155 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
156 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
157
158 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
159 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
160
161 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
162 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
163 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
164 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
165 another process. Logging is also affected.
166
167 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
168
169 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
170 further recipients and for delivery.
171
172 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
173 supported.
174
175 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
176 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
177 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
178 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
179 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
180
181 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
182 restrict who can use various introspection options.
183
184 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
185 appendfile transport.
186
187 10. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
188 SMTP commands.
189
190 11. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
191 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
192
193 12. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
194 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
195 is opened with a TFO cookie.
196
197 13. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
198 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
199 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
200 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
201 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
202 the data ACL.
203
204 14. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
205 configuration file.
206
207 15. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
208 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
209
210 16. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
211 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
212
213 17. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
214
215
216 Version 4.89
217 ------------
218
219 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
220
221 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
222 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
223 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
224
225
226 Version 4.88
227 ------------
228
229 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
230 interpreter in taint mode.
231
232 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
233
234 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
235 modifier.
236
237 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
238 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
239 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
240
241 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
242 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
243 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
244 visibility.
245
246 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
247
248 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
249 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
250 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
251 for control.
252
253 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
254
255 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
256
257 10. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
258 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
259 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
260 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
261 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
262
263 11. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
264
265 12. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
266 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
267 message.
268
269 13. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
270
271 14. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
272 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
273
274 15. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
275 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
276 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
277 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
278 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
279 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
280 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
281 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
282
283 16. A new syslog_pid option to suppress PID duplication in syslog lines.
284
285
286 Version 4.87
287 ------------
288
289 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
290 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
291
292 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
293 malware= or verify= callout.
294
295 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
296
297 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
298 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
299 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
300 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
301 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
302 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
303
304 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
305
306 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
307
308 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
309 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
310
311 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
312 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
313 limits.
314
315 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
316
317
318 Version 4.86
319 ------------
320
321 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
322
323 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
324 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
325
326 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
327
328 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
329
330 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
331
332 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
333
334 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
335 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
336
337 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
338 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
339
340 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
341 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
342
343 10. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
344
345 11. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
346
347 12. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
348
349 13. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
350 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
351
352 14. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
353 same level as DNSSEC.
354
355
356 Version 4.85
357 ------------
358
359 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
360 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
361 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
362 domain of the sender.
363
364 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
365 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
366 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
367 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
368 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
369 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
370
371 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
372 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
373 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
374
375
376 Version 4.84
377 ------------
378
379
380 Version 4.83
381 ------------
382
383 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
384 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
385 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
386 proxy that is connecting to it.
387
388 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
389 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
390 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
391 detect and reject if those characters are present.
392
393 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
394 codepoints with valid ones.
395
396 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
397 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
398 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
399 be included in the command line.
400
401 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
402 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
403 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
404 verification cancels the encryption.
405
406 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
407 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
408 default list.
409
410 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
411 file when searching the queue.
412
413 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
414
415 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
416
417 10. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
418 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
419 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
420 for them added.
421
422 11. PRDR is now supported dy default.
423
424 12. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
425
426 13. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
427 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
428 DSN features per RFC 3461.
429
430
431 Version 4.82
432 ------------
433
434 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
435 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
436 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
437 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
438 SIEVE capability line.
439
440 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
441 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
442 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
443 followed by a newline, and no other text.
444
445 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
446 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
447 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
448 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
449 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
450 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
451 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
452 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
453
454 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
455
456 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
457 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
458 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
459 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
460 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
461 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
462
463 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
464
465 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
466 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
467 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
468
469 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
470 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
471
472 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
473 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
474
475 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
476 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
477 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
478 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
479 ignored.
480
481 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
482 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
483 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
484 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
485 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
486 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
487 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
488 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
489 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
490 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
491 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
492 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
493 system not your own.
494
495 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
496 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
497 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
498 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
499
500 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
501 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
502 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
503
504 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
505 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
506 are present for now but deprecated.
507
508 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
509
510 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
511 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
512
513 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
514 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
515 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
516 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
517 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
518 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
519 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
520 unless this new option is set.
521
522 Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability,
523 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
524 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
525 Local/Makefile:
526
527 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
528
529 10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
530 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
531 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
532 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
533 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
534 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
535 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
536 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
537 return results in a forced fail.
538
539 11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
540 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
541
542 12. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
543 handled by routers/transports.
544
545 13. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
546 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
547
548 14. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
549 modifier (but not yet added to message).
550
551 15. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
552
553 16. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
554
555 17. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
556 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
557 require privilege whereas -d does.
558
559 18. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
560 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
561
562 19. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
563 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
564 wrappers, for instance.
565
566 20. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
567 connections apply.
568
569 21. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
570 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
571 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
572 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
573 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
574 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
575 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
576
577 22. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
578 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
579 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
580
581 23. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
582 UDP host and port.
583
584 24. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
585 characters in the string to \xNN form.
586
587 25. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
588 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
589
590 26. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
591
592
593 Version 4.80
594 ------------
595
596 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
597 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
598 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
599 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
600 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
601
602 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
603 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
604 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
605 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
606
607 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
608 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
609 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
610 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
611 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
612
613 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
614 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
615
616 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
617
618 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
619 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
620 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
621 used by Cyrus SASL.
622
623 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
624
625 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
626 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
627 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
628 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
629 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
630 compatibility at the cost of session security.
631
632 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
633 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
634 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
635 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
636 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
637
638 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
639 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
640
641 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
642 for Exim as a server.
643
644 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
645 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
646 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
647 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
648 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
649
650 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
651 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
652 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
653 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
654 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
655
656 10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
657 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
658
659 11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
660 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
661 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
662 string, documentation for which is at:
663 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
664
665 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
666
667 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
668 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
669
670 12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
671 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
672 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
673 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
674 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
675
676 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
677
678 13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
679 identically to TXT record lookups.
680
681 14. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
682
683 15. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
684 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
685 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
686
687 16. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
688 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
689 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
690 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
691 primes.
692
693 17. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
694 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
695 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
696
697
698 Version 4.77
699 ------------
700
701 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
702 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
703
704 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
705 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
706
707 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
708 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
709
710 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
711 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
712 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
713
714 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
715 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
716 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
717 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
718
719
720 Version 4.76
721 ------------
722
723 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
724 or off in the resolver library.
725
726
727 Version 4.75
728 ------------
729
730 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
731 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
732 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
733 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
734 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
735
736 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
737 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
738 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
739
740 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
741 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
742
743 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
744 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
745 including any header additions or removals from transport.
746
747 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
748 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
749
750
751 Version 4.74
752 ------------
753
754 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
755 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
756 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
757 on content supplied by the attacker.
758
759 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
760 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
761 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
762 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
763 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
764
765
766 Version 4.73
767 ------------
768
769 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
770 items below carefully
771
772 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
773 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
774 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
775 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
776 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
777 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
778 frivolously.
779
780 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
781 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
782 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
783 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
784 be able to take effect.
785
786 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
787 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
788 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
789 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
790
791 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
792 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
793 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
794 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
795
796 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
797
798 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
799
800 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
801 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
802 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
803 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
804 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
805 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
806
807 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
808 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
809
810 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
811 -> 4.2.0.192
812 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
813 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
814
815 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
816 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
817 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
818 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
819 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
820 don't all make sense in all contexts:
821
822 control = debug
823 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
824 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
825 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
826
827 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
828 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
829 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
830 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
831 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
832 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
833 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
834 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
835 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
836 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
837 the safeties off.
838
839 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
840 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
841 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
842 do evaluate true.
843 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
844
845 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
846
847 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
848 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
849 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
850 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
851 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
852 build option.
853
854 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
855 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
856
857 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
858 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
859 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
860 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
861 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
862 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
863
864 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
865 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
866 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
867 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
868 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
869 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
870 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
871 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
872
873
874 Version 4.72
875 ------------
876
877 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
878 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
879
880 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
881
882 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
883 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
884 duplicates).
885
886 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
887 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
888 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
889 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
890 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
891 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
892 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
893 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
894 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
895 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
896
897 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
898 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
899
900 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
901 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
902 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
903
904
905 Version 4.70 / 4.71
906 -------------------
907
908 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
909 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
910 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
911 for details on conditionally disabling)
912
913 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
914
915 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
916 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
917 and{} expansion operator).
918
919 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
920 at delivery time.
921
922 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
923 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
924
925 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
926 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
927 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
928
929 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
930 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
931 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
932 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
933
934 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
935 OpenSSL.
936
937 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
938
939
940 Version 4.69
941 ------------
942
943 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
944
945
946 Version 4.68
947 ------------
948
949 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
950 local_scan API.
951
952 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
953 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
954 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
955 cases, for example:
956
957 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
958
959 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
960 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
961 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
962 like this:
963
964 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
965
966 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
967 192.168.6.7 (for example).
968
969 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
970 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
971 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
972 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
973
974 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
975
976 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
977 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
978 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
979 $tls_peerdn.
980
981 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
982 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
983 only by an admin user.
984
985 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
986 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
987 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
988 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
989 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
990
991 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
992 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
993
994 Example:
995
996 acl_check_connect:
997 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
998 # we update it below
999 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1000 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1001 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1002
1003 [... some other logic and tests...]
1004
1005 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1006 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1007 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1008 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1009
1010 accept
1011
1012 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1013 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1014 line termination character(s).
1015
1016 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
1017 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1018 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1019
1020 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1021 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1022 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1023 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1024
1025 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
1026 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1027 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1028 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1029 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1030
1031 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1032 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1033 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1034
1035 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1036 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1037 connection. The possible values are:
1038
1039 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1040 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1041 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1042 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1043 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1044 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1045 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1046 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1047 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1048 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1049
1050 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1051 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1052 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1053 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1054 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1055 used.
1056
1057 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
1058 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1059 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1060
1061 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1062 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1063 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1064
1065 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1066
1067 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1068 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1069 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1070
1071 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1072 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1073 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1074
1075 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1076
1077 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1078
1079 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1080
1081 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1082
1083 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1084
1085 you can still update the master by
1086
1087 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1088
1089 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
1090 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1091 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1092 spaces.
1093
1094
1095 Version 4.67
1096 ------------
1097
1098 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1099 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1100 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
1101 MAIL command.
1102
1103 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
1104 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1105 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
1106 rather than the default "any" matching.
1107
1108 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1109 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1110 other parameters to be varied.
1111
1112 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1113 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
1114
1115 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
1116
1117 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
1118
1119 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
1120 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
1121
1122 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
1123 after the connection to the server has been made.
1124
1125 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
1126 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
1127
1128 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1129 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1130 time and date.
1131
1132 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
1133 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1134 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1135 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
1136 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
1137
1138 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
1139 called forany and forall.
1140
1141 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1142 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1143 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
1144
1145 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
1146
1147 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
1148 that makes it case-sensitive.
1149
1150 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1151 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1152 items, typically addresses.
1153
1154 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1155 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1156 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
1157 can be used.
1158
1159 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
1160 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
1161
1162 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1163 condition.
1164
1165 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
1166 "ignore".
1167
1168
1169 Version 4.66
1170 ------------
1171
1172 No new features were added to 4.66.
1173
1174
1175 Version 4.65
1176 ------------
1177
1178 No new features were added to 4.65.
1179
1180
1181 Version 4.64
1182 ------------
1183
1184 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1185 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1186 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
1187 an underscore.
1188
1189 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
1190 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
1191
1192 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1193 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
1194 number of authentication methods.
1195
1196 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1197 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1198 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1199
1200 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1201 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1202 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1203 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
1204
1205 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
1206
1207 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1208 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1209 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
1210 before doing the expansions.
1211
1212 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
1213 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1214 message.
1215
1216 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1217 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
1218 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
1219
1220 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
1221 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
1222
1223 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1224 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1225 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1226 available for compatibility.)
1227
1228 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1229 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
1230
1231
1232 Version 4.63
1233 ------------
1234
1235 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
1236 router.
1237
1238 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1239 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
1240 read.
1241
1242 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1243 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
1244 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
1245
1246 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
1247 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
1248
1249 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
1250 --reverse
1251 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1252 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1253 --random
1254 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1255 --size
1256 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1257 of their sizes.
1258 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1259 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1260 each messages value for each variable.
1261 --not
1262 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1263 same criteria without --not).
1264
1265
1266 Version 4.62
1267 ------------
1268
1269 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1270 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1271 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1272 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1273 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1274 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1275
1276 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1277
1278 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1279 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1280 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1281 domain socket.
1282
1283 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1284 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1285 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1286
1287 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1288 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1289 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1290 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1291
1292
1293 Version 4.61
1294 ------------
1295
1296 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1297 the 4.60 release are:
1298
1299 . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1300
1301 . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1302
1303 . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1304 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1305 for other things in complicated expansions.
1306
1307 . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
1308
1309 . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1310 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1311
1312 . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1313
1314 . More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1315
1316 There are a number of other additions too.
1317
1318
1319 Version 4.60
1320 ------------
1321
1322 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1323 the 4.50 release are:
1324
1325 . Support for SQLite.
1326
1327 . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1328
1329 . Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1330
1331 . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1332
1333 . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
1334
1335 . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
1336
1337 . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
1338
1339 There are many more minor changes.
1340
1341 ****