Docs: Add note on -D commandline option restriction. Bug 1154

[exim.git] / doc / doc-docbook / spec.xfpt

diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index af57d9b8566f516dd782e00c0ab72853618a556c..a8b7af4f9b3d76da872d2f6c09f37bcfff2c7dc2 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -3107,8 +3107,12 @@ users, the output is as in this example:
 .code
 mysql_servers = <value not displayable>
 .endd
-If &%configure_file%& is given as an argument, the name of the run time
-configuration file is output.
+If &%config%& is given as an argument, the config is
+output, as it was parsed, any include file resolved, any comment removed.
+
+If &%config_file%& is given as an argument, the name of the run time
+configuration file is output. (&%configure_file%& works too, for
+backward compatibility.)
 If a list of configuration files was supplied, the value that is output here
 is the name of the file that was actually used.
 
@@ -3548,6 +3552,9 @@ example:
 exim '-D ABC = something' ...
 .endd
 &%-D%& may be repeated up to 10 times on a command line.
+.new
+Only macro names up to 22 letters long can be set.
+.wen
 
 
 .vitem &%-d%&<&'debug&~options'&>
@@ -7588,13 +7595,17 @@ ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...} }
 .section "Special MySQL features" "SECID73"
 For MySQL, an empty host name or the use of &"localhost"& in &%mysql_servers%&
 causes a connection to the server on the local host by means of a Unix domain
-socket. An alternate socket can be specified in parentheses. The full syntax of
-each item in &%mysql_servers%& is:
+socket. An alternate socket can be specified in parentheses.
+.new
+An option group name for MySQL option files can be specified in square brackets;
+the default value is &"exim"&.
+.wen
+The full syntax of each item in &%mysql_servers%& is:
 .display
-<&'hostname'&>::<&'port'&>(<&'socket name'&>)/<&'database'&>/&&&
-  <&'user'&>/<&'password'&>
+<&'hostname'&>::<&'port'&>(<&'socket name'&>)[<&'option group'&>]/&&&
+  <&'database'&>/<&'user'&>/<&'password'&>
 .endd
-Any of the three sub-parts of the first field can be omitted. For normal use on
+Any of the four sub-parts of the first field can be omitted. For normal use on
 the local host it can be left blank or set to just &"localhost"&.
 
 No database need be supplied &-- but if it is absent here, it must be given in
@@ -10107,6 +10118,27 @@ as is, and other byte values are converted to &`\xNN`&, for example a
 byte value 127 is converted to &`\x7f`&.
 
 
+.new
+.vitem &*${ipv6denorm:*&<&'string'&>&*}*&
+.cindex "&%ipv6denorm%& expansion item"
+.cindex "IP address" normalisation
+This expands an IPv6 address to a full eight-element colon-separated set
+of hex digits including leading zeroes.
+A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted to hex.
+Pure IPv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
+
+.vitem &*${ipv6norm:*&<&'string'&>&*}*&
+.cindex "&%ipv6norm%& expansion item"
+.cindex "IP address" normalisation
+.cindex "IP address" "canonical form"
+This converts an IPv6 address to canonical form.
+Leading zeroes of groups are omitted, and the longest
+set of zero-valued groups is replaced with a double colon.
+A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted to hex.
+Pure IPv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
+.wen
+
+
 .vitem &*${lc:*&<&'string'&>&*}*&
 .cindex "case forcing in strings"
 .cindex "string" "case forcing"
@@ -16558,7 +16590,9 @@ runs. This is appropriate behaviour for obtaining wall-clock time on some, but
 unfortunately not all, operating systems.
 
 
-.option tls_advertise_hosts main "host list&!!" unset
+.new
+.option tls_advertise_hosts main "host list&!!" *
+.wen
 .cindex "TLS" "advertising"
 .cindex "encryption" "on SMTP connection"
 .cindex "SMTP" "encrypted connection"
@@ -16566,6 +16600,11 @@ When Exim is built with support for TLS encrypted connections, the availability
 of the STARTTLS command to set up an encrypted session is advertised in
 response to EHLO only to those client hosts that match this option. See
 chapter &<<CHAPTLS>>& for details of Exim's support for TLS.
+.new
+Note that the default value requires that a certificate be supplied
+using the &%tls_certificate%& option.  If no certificate is available then
+the &%tls_advertise_hosts%& option should be set empty.
+.wen
 
 
 .option tls_certificate main string&!! unset
@@ -35161,7 +35200,7 @@ data when a message is received. See section &<<SECTlogselector>>& below.
 .cindex "log" "delivery line"
 The format of the single-line entry in the main log that is written for every
 delivery is shown in one of the examples below, for local and remote
-deliveries, respectively. Each example has been split into two lines in order
+deliveries, respectively. Each example has been split into multiple lines in order
 to fit it on the page:
 .code
 2002-10-31 08:59:13 16ZCW1-0005MB-00 => marv