1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.151 2007/06/20 14:13:39 ph10 Exp $
6 This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
7 Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
8 test from the snapshots or the CVS before the documentation is updated. Once
9 the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
14 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
17 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
18 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
19 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
22 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
24 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
25 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
26 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
29 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
31 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
32 192.168.6.7 (for example).
34 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
35 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
36 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
37 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
39 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
41 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
42 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
43 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
46 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
47 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
48 only by an admin user.
50 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
51 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
52 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
53 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
54 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
56 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
57 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
62 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
64 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
65 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
66 (max $sender_rate_limit)
68 [... some other logic and tests...]
70 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
71 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
72 (max $sender_rate_limit)
73 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
81 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
82 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
83 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
86 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
87 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
88 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
89 rather than the default "any" matching.
91 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
92 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
93 other parameters to be varied.
95 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
96 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
98 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
100 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
102 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
103 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
105 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
106 after the connection to the server has been made.
108 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
109 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
111 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
112 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
115 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
116 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
117 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
118 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
119 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
121 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
122 called forany and forall.
124 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
125 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
126 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
128 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
130 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
131 that makes it case-sensitive.
133 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
134 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
135 items, typically addresses.
137 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
138 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
139 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
142 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
143 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
145 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
148 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
155 No new features were added to 4.66.
161 No new features were added to 4.65.
167 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
168 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
169 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
172 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
173 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
175 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
176 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
177 number of authentication methods.
179 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
180 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
181 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
183 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
184 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
185 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
186 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
188 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
190 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
191 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
192 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
193 before doing the expansions.
195 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
196 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
199 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
200 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
201 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
203 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
204 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
206 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
207 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
208 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
209 available for compatibility.)
211 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
212 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
218 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
221 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
222 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
225 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
226 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
227 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
229 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
230 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
232 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
234 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
235 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
237 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
239 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
241 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
242 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
243 each messages value for each variable.
245 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
246 same criteria without --not).
252 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
253 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
254 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
255 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
256 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
257 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
259 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
261 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
262 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
263 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
266 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
267 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
268 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
270 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
271 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
272 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
273 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
279 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
280 the 4.60 release are:
282 . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
284 . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
286 . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
287 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
288 for other things in complicated expansions.
290 . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
292 . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
293 resources used in pipe deliveries.
295 . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
297 . More errors are detectable in retry rules.
299 There are a number of other additions too.
305 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
306 the 4.50 release are:
308 . Support for SQLite.
310 . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
312 . Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
314 . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
316 . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
318 . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
320 . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
322 There are many more minor changes.