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 Git before the documentation is updated. Once
7 the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
12 1. The expansion-test faciility (exim -be) can set variables.
14 2. An event on a failing SMTP AUTH, for both client and server operations.
16 3. Variable $sender_helo_verified with the result of an ACL "verify = helo".
18 4. Predefined macros for expansion items, operators, conditions and variables.
20 5. The smtp transport option "max_rcpt" is now expanded before use.
22 6. The tls_eccurve option for OpenSSL now takes a list of group names.
24 7. Queue runners for several queues can now be started from one daemon.
29 1. A new ACL condition: seen. Records/tests a timestamp against a key.
31 2. A variant of the "mask" expansion operator to give normalised IPv6.
33 3. UTC output option for exim_dumpdb, exim_fixdb.
35 4. An event for failing TLS connects to the daemon.
37 5. The ACL "debug" control gains options "stop", "pretrigger" and "trigger".
39 6. Query-style lookups are now checked for quoting, if the query string is
40 built using untrusted data ("tainted"). For now lack of quoting is merely
41 logged; a future release will upgrade this to an error.
43 7. The expansion conditions match_<list-type> and inlist now set $value for
44 the expansion of the "true" result of the ${if}. With a static list, this
45 can be used for de-tainting.
47 8. Recipient verify callouts now set $domain_data & $local_part_data, with
53 1. The fast-ramp two phase queue run support, previously experimental, is
54 now supported by default.
56 2. The native SRS support, previously experimental, is now supported. It is
57 not built unless specified in the Local/Makefile.
59 3. TLS resumption support, previously experimental, is now supported and
60 included in default builds.
62 4. Single-key LMDB lookups, previously experimental, are now supported.
63 The support is not built unless specified in the Local/Makefile.
65 5. Option "message_linelength_limit" on the smtp transport to enforce (by
66 default) the RFC 998 character limit.
68 6. An option to ignore the cache on a lookup.
70 7. Quota checking during reception (i.e. at SMTP time) for appendfile-
71 transport-managed quotas.
73 8. Sqlite lookups accept a "file=<path>" option to specify a per-operation
74 db file, replacing the previous prefix to the SQL string (which had
75 issues when the SQL used tainted values).
77 9. Lsearch lookups accept a "ret=full" option, to return both the portion
78 of the line matching the key, and the remainder.
80 10. A command-line option to have a daemon not create a notifier socket.
82 11. Faster TLS startup. When various configuration options contain no
83 expandable elements, the information can be preloaded and cached rather
84 than the previous behaviour of always loading at startup time for every
85 connection. This helps particularly for the CA bundle.
87 12. Proxy Protocol Timeout is configurable via "proxy_protocol_timeout"
90 13. Option "smtp_accept_max_per_connection" is now expanded.
92 14. Log selector "queue_time_exclusive", enabled by default, to exclude the
93 time taken for reception from QT log elements.
95 15. Main option "smtp_backlog_monitor", to set a level above which listen
96 socket backlogs are logged.
98 16. Main option "hosts_require_helo", requiring HELO or EHLO before MAIL.
100 17. A main config option "allow_insecure_tainted_data" allows to turn
102 18. TLS ALPN handling. By default, refuse TLS connections that try to specify
103 a non-smtp (eg. http) use. Options for customising.
105 19. Support for MacOS (darwin) has been dropped.
111 1. EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
114 2. Channel-binding for authenticators is now supported under OpenSSL.
115 Previously it was GnuTLS-only.
117 3. A msg:defer event.
119 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the
120 plaintext driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and
121 SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS methods.
123 5. Server-side support in the gsasl authenticator for encrypted passwords, as
124 an alternate for the existing plaintext.
126 6. Variable $local_part_data now also set by router check_local_user option,
127 with an de-tainted version of $local_part.
129 7. Named-list definitions can now be prefixed "hide" so that "-bP" commands do
130 not output the content. Previously this could only be done on options.
132 8. As an experimental feature, the dovecot authentication driver supports inet
133 sockets. Previously it was unix-domain sockets only.
135 9. The ACL control "queue_only" can also be spelled "queue", and now takes an
136 option "first_pass_route" to do the same as a "-odqs" on the command line.
138 10. Items specified for the router and transport headers_remove option can use
139 a trailing asterisk to specify globbing.
141 11. New $queue_size variable.
143 12. New variables $local_part_{pre,suf}fix_v.
145 13. New main option "sqlite_dbfile", for use in preference to prefixing the
146 lookup string. The older method fails when tainted variables are used
147 in the lookup, as the filename becomes tainted. The new method keeps the
150 14. Options on the dsearch lookup, to return the full path and to filter
151 filetypes for matching.
153 15. Options on pgsql and mysql lookups, to specify server separate from the
156 16. An option on all single-key lookups, to return (on a hit) a de-tainted
157 version of the lookup key rather than the looked-up data.
159 17. $domain_data and $local_part_data are now set by all list-match successes.
160 Previously only list items that performed lookups did so.
161 Also, matching list items that are tail-match or RE-match now set the
162 numeric variables $0 (etc) in the same way os other RE matches.
164 18. Expansion item ${listquote {<char} {<item>}}.
166 19. An option for the ${readsocket {}{}{}} expansion to make the result data
169 20. dkim_verify_min_keysizes, a list of minimum acceptable public-key sizes.
171 21. bounce_message_file and warn_message_file are now expanded before use.
173 22. New main config option spf_smtp_comment_template to customise the
174 $spf_smtp_comment variable
181 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
183 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
185 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
188 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
190 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
192 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
195 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
196 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
198 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
200 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
203 10. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
205 11. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
207 12. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
209 13. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
211 14: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
213 15: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
214 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
215 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
216 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
217 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
218 only, and exim must be run as root).
220 16: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
222 17. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
228 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
229 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
230 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
231 facilities hard to parse.
233 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
236 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
237 features. See the experimental.spec file.
239 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
241 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
243 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
245 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
247 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
249 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
254 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
255 version 3.5.6 or later.
257 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
258 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
259 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
261 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
263 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
264 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
266 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
267 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
268 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
269 a "dkim" log_selector.
271 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
273 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
274 routing rules in the manualroute router.
276 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
277 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
279 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
280 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
282 10. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
285 11. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
287 12. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
288 Authentication-Results: header.
290 13. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
291 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
293 14: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
295 15. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
296 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
297 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
298 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
300 16. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
301 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
302 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
308 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
309 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
311 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
312 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
314 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
315 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
316 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
317 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
318 another process. Logging is also affected.
320 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
322 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
323 further recipients and for delivery.
325 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
328 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
329 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
330 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
331 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
332 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
334 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
335 restrict who can use various introspection options.
337 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
338 appendfile transport.
340 10. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
343 11. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
344 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
346 12. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
347 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
348 is opened with a TFO cookie.
350 13. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
351 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
352 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
353 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
354 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
357 14. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
360 15. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
361 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
363 16. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
364 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
366 17. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
372 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
374 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
375 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
376 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
382 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
383 interpreter in taint mode.
385 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
387 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
390 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
391 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
392 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
394 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
395 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
396 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
399 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
401 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
402 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
403 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
406 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
408 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
410 10. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
411 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
412 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
413 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
414 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
416 11. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
418 12. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
419 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
422 13. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
424 14. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
425 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
427 15. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
428 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
429 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
430 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
431 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
432 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
433 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
434 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
436 16. A new syslog_pid option to suppress PID duplication in syslog lines.
442 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
443 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
445 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
446 malware= or verify= callout.
448 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
450 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
451 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
452 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
453 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
454 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
455 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
457 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
459 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
461 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
462 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
464 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
465 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
468 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
474 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
476 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
477 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
479 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
481 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
483 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
485 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
487 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
488 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
490 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
491 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
493 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
494 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
496 10. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
498 11. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
500 12. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
502 13. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
503 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
505 14. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
506 same level as DNSSEC.
511 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
512 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
513 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
514 domain of the sender.
516 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
517 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
518 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
519 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
520 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
521 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
523 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
524 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
525 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
535 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
536 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
537 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
538 proxy that is connecting to it.
540 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
541 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
542 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
543 detect and reject if those characters are present.
545 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
546 codepoints with valid ones.
548 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
549 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
550 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
551 be included in the command line.
553 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
554 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
555 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
556 verification cancels the encryption.
558 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
559 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
562 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
563 file when searching the queue.
565 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
567 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
569 10. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
570 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
571 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
574 11. PRDR is now supported dy default.
576 12. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
578 13. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
579 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
580 DSN features per RFC 3461.
586 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
587 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
588 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
589 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
590 SIEVE capability line.
592 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
593 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
594 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
595 followed by a newline, and no other text.
597 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
598 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
599 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
600 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
601 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
602 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
603 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
604 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
606 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
608 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
609 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
610 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
611 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
612 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
613 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
615 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
617 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
618 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
619 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
621 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
622 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
624 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
625 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
627 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
628 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
629 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
630 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
633 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
634 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
635 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
636 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
637 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
638 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
639 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
640 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
641 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
642 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
643 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
644 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
647 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
648 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
649 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
650 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
652 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
653 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
654 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
656 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
657 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
658 are present for now but deprecated.
660 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
662 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
663 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
665 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
666 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
667 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
668 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
669 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
670 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
671 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
672 unless this new option is set.
674 Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability,
675 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
676 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
679 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
681 10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
682 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
683 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
684 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
685 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
686 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
687 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
688 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
689 return results in a forced fail.
691 11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
692 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
694 12. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
695 handled by routers/transports.
697 13. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
698 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
700 14. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
701 modifier (but not yet added to message).
703 15. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
705 16. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
707 17. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
708 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
709 require privilege whereas -d does.
711 18. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
712 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
714 19. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
715 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
716 wrappers, for instance.
718 20. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
721 21. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
722 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
723 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
724 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
725 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
726 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
727 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
729 22. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
730 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
731 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
733 23. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
736 24. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
737 characters in the string to \xNN form.
739 25. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
740 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
742 26. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
748 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
749 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
750 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
751 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
752 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
754 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
755 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
756 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
757 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
759 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
760 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
761 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
762 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
763 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
765 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
766 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
768 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
770 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
771 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
772 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
775 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
777 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
778 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
779 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
780 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
781 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
782 compatibility at the cost of session security.
784 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
785 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
786 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
787 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
788 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
790 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
791 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
793 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
794 for Exim as a server.
796 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
797 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
798 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
799 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
800 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
802 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
803 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
804 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
805 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
806 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
808 10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
809 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
811 11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
812 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
813 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
814 string, documentation for which is at:
815 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
817 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
819 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
820 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
822 12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
823 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
824 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
825 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
826 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
828 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
830 13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
831 identically to TXT record lookups.
833 14. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
835 15. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
836 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
837 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
839 16. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
840 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
841 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
842 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
845 17. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
846 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
847 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
853 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
854 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
856 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
857 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
859 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
860 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
862 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
863 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
864 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
866 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
867 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
868 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
869 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
875 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
876 or off in the resolver library.
882 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
883 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
884 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
885 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
886 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
888 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
889 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
890 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
892 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
893 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
895 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
896 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
897 including any header additions or removals from transport.
899 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
900 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
906 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
907 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
908 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
909 on content supplied by the attacker.
911 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
912 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
913 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
914 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
915 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
921 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
922 items below carefully
924 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
925 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
926 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
927 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
928 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
929 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
932 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
933 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
934 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
935 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
936 be able to take effect.
938 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
939 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
940 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
941 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
943 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
944 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
945 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
946 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
948 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
950 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
952 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
953 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
954 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
955 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
956 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
957 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
959 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
960 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
962 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
964 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
965 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
967 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
968 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
969 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
970 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
971 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
972 don't all make sense in all contexts:
975 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
976 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
977 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
979 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
980 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
981 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
982 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
983 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
984 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
985 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
986 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
987 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
988 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
991 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
992 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
993 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
995 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
997 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
999 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
1000 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
1001 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
1002 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
1003 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
1006 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
1007 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
1009 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
1010 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
1011 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
1012 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
1013 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
1014 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
1016 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
1017 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
1018 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
1019 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
1020 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
1021 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
1022 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
1023 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
1029 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
1030 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
1032 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
1034 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
1035 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
1038 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
1039 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
1040 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
1041 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
1042 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
1043 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
1044 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
1045 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
1046 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
1047 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
1049 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
1050 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
1052 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
1053 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
1054 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
1060 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
1061 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
1062 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
1063 for details on conditionally disabling)
1065 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
1067 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
1068 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
1069 and{} expansion operator).
1071 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
1074 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
1075 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
1077 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
1078 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
1079 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
1081 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
1082 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
1083 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
1084 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
1086 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
1089 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
1095 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
1101 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
1104 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
1105 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
1106 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
1109 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
1111 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
1112 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
1113 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
1116 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
1118 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
1119 192.168.6.7 (for example).
1121 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
1122 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
1123 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
1124 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
1126 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
1128 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
1129 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
1130 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
1133 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
1134 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
1135 only by an admin user.
1137 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
1138 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
1139 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
1140 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
1141 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
1143 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
1144 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
1149 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1150 # we update it below
1151 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1152 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1153 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1155 [... some other logic and tests...]
1157 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1158 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1159 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1160 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1164 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1165 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1166 line termination character(s).
1168 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
1169 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1170 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1172 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1173 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1174 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1175 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1177 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
1178 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1179 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1180 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1181 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1183 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1184 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1185 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1187 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1188 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1189 connection. The possible values are:
1191 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1192 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1193 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1194 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1195 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1196 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1197 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1198 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1199 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1200 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1202 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1203 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1204 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1205 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1206 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1209 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
1210 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1211 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1213 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1214 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1215 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1217 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1219 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1220 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1221 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1223 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1224 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1225 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1227 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1229 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1231 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1233 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1235 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1237 you can still update the master by
1239 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1241 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
1242 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1243 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1250 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1251 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1252 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
1255 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
1256 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1257 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
1258 rather than the default "any" matching.
1260 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1261 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1262 other parameters to be varied.
1264 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1265 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
1267 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
1269 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
1271 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
1272 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
1274 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
1275 after the connection to the server has been made.
1277 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
1278 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
1280 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1281 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1284 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
1285 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1286 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1287 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
1288 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
1290 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
1291 called forany and forall.
1293 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1294 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1295 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
1297 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
1299 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
1300 that makes it case-sensitive.
1302 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1303 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1304 items, typically addresses.
1306 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1307 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1308 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
1311 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
1312 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
1314 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1317 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
1324 No new features were added to 4.66.
1330 No new features were added to 4.65.
1336 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1337 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1338 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
1341 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
1342 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
1344 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1345 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
1346 number of authentication methods.
1348 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1349 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1350 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1352 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1353 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1354 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1355 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
1357 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
1359 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1360 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1361 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
1362 before doing the expansions.
1364 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
1365 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1368 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1369 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
1370 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
1372 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
1373 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
1375 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1376 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1377 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1378 available for compatibility.)
1380 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1381 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
1387 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
1390 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1391 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
1394 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1395 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
1396 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
1398 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
1399 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
1401 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
1403 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1404 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1406 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1408 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1410 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1411 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1412 each messages value for each variable.
1414 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1415 same criteria without --not).
1421 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1422 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1423 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1424 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1425 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1426 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1428 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1430 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1431 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1432 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1435 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1436 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1437 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1439 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1440 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1441 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1442 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1448 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1449 the 4.60 release are:
1451 . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1453 . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1455 . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1456 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1457 for other things in complicated expansions.
1459 . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
1461 . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1462 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1464 . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1466 . More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1468 There are a number of other additions too.
1474 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1475 the 4.50 release are:
1477 . Support for SQLite.
1479 . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1481 . Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1483 . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1485 . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
1487 . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
1489 . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
1491 There are many more minor changes.