X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/f4ee74acd38ba15c920cf59af1a3ade933c7e14f..846726c5a374d833fb5211dde62ae6bceb6841c7:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 7efbe6ef4..e684344c9 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -55,6 +55,59 @@ Version 4.81 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and ignored. + 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery" + ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are recieved on and + deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify, + if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while + the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied + direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file). + When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination + is negociated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination + does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item + is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate + a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service. + The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination + system not your own. + + The Recieved-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated + early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp + included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing + reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>". + + To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS. + The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything) + hosts_verify_avoid_tls. + + New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced + for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names + are present for now but deprecated. + + Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING, AUTH. + + 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list + and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list. + + 9. New global option "gnutls_enable_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS + rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11 + modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in + those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means + that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being + unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed + through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation + unless this new option is set. + +10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments. + New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition + "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments + can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL. + Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets + a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item, + or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns + accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer + return results in a forced fail. + +11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove + option lines. The concatenated list is used. Version 4.80 ------------