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EXIM 4 WISH LIST
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+This Wish List is now obsolete. The items it contains have been imported into
+the Exim Bugzilla, which is where all new wishes should be added. This file is
+no longer maintained. Some day it should be deleted.
+
+
+===============================================================================
Even when it was first released, Exim 4 had a Wish List because not all the
things suggested for it were implemented. The list has not stopped growing...
times when it may be better to accept. See also 226 and 289.
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-(353) 10-May-06 T Add option to stop addition of $home in filter files
+(354) 30-Jun-06 ? Extensions to SMTP error codes
+
+A number of ideas arose following a discussion on the mailing list. I record
+them here so that they don't get lost. The motivations were to support the 551
+bounce code and enhanced status codes. Suggestions are to add a new ACL
+feature, possibly one of:
+
+ errorcode = 511
+ control = errorcode=551
+ message = 551 xxxx
+
+where in the last case, it's recognized by being 3 digits. In all cases, the
+first digit must be "right" for the circumstance - ignore or fault if not?
+
+To handle ESC, perhaps a new variable called $smtp_errorcode, settable by an
+option in a router when it fails, would do the trick. It could be used in any
+of the above modifiers.
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+(355) 30-Jun-06 ? Facility to permit experiments with SMTP extensions
+
+This is what was suggested:
+
+- adding some expansion variables: $ehlo_extensions (which will
+ hold the remote server supported smtp extensions announced
+ in the ehlo) and $rcpt_arguments with any RCPT extra argument
+
+- a main configuration option for adding ehlo extensions to the
+ ehlo response, like:
+
+ extra_ehlo_extensions = XFOO : XBAR
+
+- a extra option for the smtp transport to add arguments to
+ the RCPT TO command, like:
+
+ rcpt_args = FOO=BAR (will make exim issue RCPT TO:<a@b.c> FOO=BAR
+ when delivering that message)
+
+- a new acl for unknown smtp commands
-This would make them more like Sieve (which came afterwards, I must point out).
+This should be very simple to implement and will allow to make
+some experiments and implement custom extensions, i.e. one to
+known if remote client will redirect on 551 or not. Also the acl
+for unknown smpt command could be used for other purposes, like
+to dectect and react to some kiddies that send things like
+http://... on the smtp port.
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+--- HWM 355 ------------------------------------------------------------------
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