4 This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
5 Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
6 test from the snapshots or the CVS before the documentation is updated. Once
7 the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
12 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
13 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
14 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
15 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
16 SIEVE capability line.
18 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
19 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
20 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
21 followed by a newline, and no other text.
23 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
24 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
25 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
26 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
27 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
28 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
29 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
30 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
32 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
34 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
35 dns_use_dnssec; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
36 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
37 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
40 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
42 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
43 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
44 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
46 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
47 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
49 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
50 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
52 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
53 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
54 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
55 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
58 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
59 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are recieved on and
60 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
61 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
62 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
63 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
64 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
65 is negociated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
66 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
67 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
68 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
69 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
72 The Recieved-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
73 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
74 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
75 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
77 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
78 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
79 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
81 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
82 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
83 are present for now but deprecated.
85 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING, AUTH.
87 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
88 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
90 9. New global option "gnutls_enable_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
91 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
92 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
93 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
94 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
95 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
96 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
97 unless this new option is set.
99 10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
100 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
101 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
102 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
103 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
104 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
105 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
106 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
107 return results in a forced fail.
109 11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
110 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
112 12. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
113 handled by routers/transports.
118 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
119 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
120 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
121 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
122 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
124 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
125 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
126 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
127 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
129 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
130 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
131 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
132 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
133 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
135 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
136 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
138 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
140 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
141 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
142 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
145 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
147 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
148 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
149 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
150 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
151 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
152 compatibility at the cost of session security.
154 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
155 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
156 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
157 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
158 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
160 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
161 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
163 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
164 for Exim as a server.
166 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
167 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
168 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
169 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
170 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
172 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
173 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
174 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
175 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
176 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
178 10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
179 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
181 11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
182 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
183 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
184 string, documentation for which is at:
185 http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
187 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
189 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
190 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
192 12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
193 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
194 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
195 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
196 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
198 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
200 13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
201 identically to TXT record lookups.
203 14. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
205 15. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
206 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
207 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
209 16. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
210 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
211 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
212 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
215 17. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
216 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
217 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
223 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
224 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
226 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
227 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
229 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
230 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
232 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
233 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
234 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
236 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
237 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
238 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
239 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
245 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
246 or off in the resolver library.
252 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
253 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
254 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
255 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
256 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
258 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
259 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
260 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
262 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
263 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
265 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
266 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
267 including any header additions or removals from transport.
269 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
270 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
276 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
277 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
278 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
279 on content supplied by the attacker.
281 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
282 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
283 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
284 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
285 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
291 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
292 items below carefully
294 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
295 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
296 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
297 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
298 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
299 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
302 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
303 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
304 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
305 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
306 be able to take effect.
308 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
309 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
310 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
311 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
313 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
314 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
315 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
316 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
318 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
320 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
322 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
323 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
324 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
325 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
326 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
327 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
329 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
330 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
332 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
334 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
335 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
337 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
338 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
339 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
340 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
341 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
342 don't all make sense in all contexts:
345 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
346 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
347 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
349 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
350 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
351 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
352 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
353 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
354 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
355 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
356 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
357 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
358 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
361 8. There is a new expansion operator, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
362 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
363 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
365 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
367 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests,
369 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
370 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
371 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
372 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
373 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
376 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
377 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
379 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
380 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
381 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
382 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
383 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
384 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
386 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
387 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
388 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
389 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
390 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
391 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
392 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
393 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
399 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
400 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
402 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
404 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
405 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
408 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
409 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
410 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
411 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
412 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
413 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
414 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
415 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
416 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
417 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
419 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
420 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
422 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
423 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
424 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
430 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
431 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
432 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
433 for details on conditionally disabling)
435 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
437 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
438 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
439 and{} expansion operator).
441 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
444 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
445 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
447 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
448 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
449 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
451 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
452 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
453 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
454 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
456 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
459 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
465 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
471 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
474 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
475 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
476 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
479 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
481 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
482 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
483 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
486 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
488 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
489 192.168.6.7 (for example).
491 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
492 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
493 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
494 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
496 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
498 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
499 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
500 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
503 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
504 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
505 only by an admin user.
507 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
508 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
509 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
510 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
511 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
513 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
514 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
519 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
521 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
522 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
523 (max $sender_rate_limit)
525 [... some other logic and tests...]
527 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
528 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
529 (max $sender_rate_limit)
530 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
534 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
535 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
536 line termination character(s).
538 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analagous to
539 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
540 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
542 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
543 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
544 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
545 message is queued, the remainder are also.
547 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
548 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
549 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
550 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
551 log files) that make the situation even worse.
553 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
554 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
555 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
557 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
558 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
559 connection. The possible values are:
561 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
562 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
563 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
564 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
565 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
566 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
567 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
568 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
569 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
570 tls-failed TLS failed to start
572 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
573 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
574 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
575 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
576 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
579 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
580 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
581 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
583 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
584 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
585 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
587 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
589 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
590 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
591 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
593 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
594 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
595 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
597 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
599 In an updating lookup, you could then write
601 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
603 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
605 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
607 you can still update the master by
609 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
611 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
612 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
613 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
620 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
621 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
622 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
625 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
626 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
627 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
628 rather than the default "any" matching.
630 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
631 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
632 other parameters to be varied.
634 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
635 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
637 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
639 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
641 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
642 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
644 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
645 after the connection to the server has been made.
647 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
648 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
650 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
651 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
654 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
655 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
656 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
657 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
658 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
660 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
661 called forany and forall.
663 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
664 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
665 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
667 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
669 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
670 that makes it case-sensitive.
672 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
673 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
674 items, typically addresses.
676 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
677 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
678 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
681 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
682 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
684 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
687 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
694 No new features were added to 4.66.
700 No new features were added to 4.65.
706 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
707 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
708 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
711 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
712 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
714 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
715 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
716 number of authentication methods.
718 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
719 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
720 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
722 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
723 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
724 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
725 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
727 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
729 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
730 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
731 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
732 before doing the expansions.
734 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
735 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
738 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
739 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
740 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
742 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
743 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
745 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
746 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
747 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
748 available for compatibility.)
750 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
751 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
757 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
760 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
761 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
764 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
765 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
766 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
768 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
769 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
771 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
773 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
774 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
776 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
778 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
780 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
781 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
782 each messages value for each variable.
784 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
785 same criteria without --not).
791 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
792 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
793 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
794 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
795 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
796 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
798 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
800 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
801 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
802 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
805 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
806 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
807 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
809 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
810 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
811 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
812 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
818 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
819 the 4.60 release are:
821 . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
823 . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
825 . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
826 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
827 for other things in complicated expansions.
829 . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
831 . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
832 resources used in pipe deliveries.
834 . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
836 . More errors are detectable in retry rules.
838 There are a number of other additions too.
844 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
845 the 4.50 release are:
847 . Support for SQLite.
849 . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
851 . Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
853 . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
855 . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
857 . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
859 . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
861 There are many more minor changes.
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