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.
11 1. The dkim_status ACL condition may now be used in data ACLs
13 2. The dkim_verbose logging control also enables logging of signing
15 3. The dkim_timestamps signing option now accepts zero to include a current
16 timestamp but no extiry timestamp. Code by Simon Arlott; testsuite
19 4. The recipients_max main option is now expanded.
24 1. The expansion-test facility (exim -be) can set variables.
26 2. An event on a failing SMTP AUTH, for both client and server operations.
28 3. Variable $sender_helo_verified with the result of an ACL "verify = helo".
30 4. Predefined macros for expansion items, operators, conditions and variables.
32 5. The smtp transport option "max_rcpt" is now expanded before use.
34 6. The tls_eccurve option for OpenSSL now takes a list of group names.
36 7. Queue runners for several queues can now be started from one daemon.
38 8. New utility exim_msgdate converts message-ids to human readable format.
40 9. An expansion operator for wrapping long header lines.
42 10. A commandline option to print just the message IDs of the queue
44 11. An option for the ${readsocket } expansion to set an SNI for TLS.
46 12. The ACL remove_header modifier can take a pattern.
48 13. Variable $recipients_list, a properly-quoted exim list.
50 14. A log_selector for an incoming connection ID.
55 1. A new ACL condition: seen. Records/tests a timestamp against a key.
57 2. A variant of the "mask" expansion operator to give normalised IPv6.
59 3. UTC output option for exim_dumpdb, exim_fixdb.
61 4. An event for failing TLS connects to the daemon.
63 5. The ACL "debug" control gains options "stop", "pretrigger" and "trigger".
65 6. Query-style lookups are now checked for quoting, if the query string is
66 built using untrusted data ("tainted"). For now lack of quoting is merely
67 logged; a future release will upgrade this to an error.
69 7. The expansion conditions match_<list-type> and inlist now set $value for
70 the expansion of the "true" result of the ${if}. With a static list, this
71 can be used for de-tainting.
73 8. Recipient verify callouts now set $domain_data & $local_part_data, with
79 1. The fast-ramp two phase queue run support, previously experimental, is
80 now supported by default.
82 2. The native SRS support, previously experimental, is now supported. It is
83 not built unless specified in the Local/Makefile.
85 3. TLS resumption support, previously experimental, is now supported and
86 included in default builds.
88 4. Single-key LMDB lookups, previously experimental, are now supported.
89 The support is not built unless specified in the Local/Makefile.
91 5. Option "message_linelength_limit" on the smtp transport to enforce (by
92 default) the RFC 998 character limit.
94 6. An option to ignore the cache on a lookup.
96 7. Quota checking during reception (i.e. at SMTP time) for appendfile-
97 transport-managed quotas.
99 8. Sqlite lookups accept a "file=<path>" option to specify a per-operation
100 db file, replacing the previous prefix to the SQL string (which had
101 issues when the SQL used tainted values).
103 9. Lsearch lookups accept a "ret=full" option, to return both the portion
104 of the line matching the key, and the remainder.
106 10. A command-line option to have a daemon not create a notifier socket.
108 11. Faster TLS startup. When various configuration options contain no
109 expandable elements, the information can be preloaded and cached rather
110 than the previous behaviour of always loading at startup time for every
111 connection. This helps particularly for the CA bundle.
113 12. Proxy Protocol Timeout is configurable via "proxy_protocol_timeout"
116 13. Option "smtp_accept_max_per_connection" is now expanded.
118 14. Log selector "queue_time_exclusive", enabled by default, to exclude the
119 time taken for reception from QT log elements.
121 15. Main option "smtp_backlog_monitor", to set a level above which listen
122 socket backlogs are logged.
124 16. Main option "hosts_require_helo", requiring HELO or EHLO before MAIL.
126 17. A main config option "allow_insecure_tainted_data" allows to turn
128 18. TLS ALPN handling. By default, refuse TLS connections that try to specify
129 a non-smtp (eg. http) use. Options for customising.
131 19. Support for MacOS (darwin) has been dropped.
137 1. EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
140 2. Channel-binding for authenticators is now supported under OpenSSL.
141 Previously it was GnuTLS-only.
143 3. A msg:defer event.
145 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the
146 plaintext driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and
147 SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS methods.
149 5. Server-side support in the gsasl authenticator for encrypted passwords, as
150 an alternate for the existing plaintext.
152 6. Variable $local_part_data now also set by router check_local_user option,
153 with an de-tainted version of $local_part.
155 7. Named-list definitions can now be prefixed "hide" so that "-bP" commands do
156 not output the content. Previously this could only be done on options.
158 8. As an experimental feature, the dovecot authentication driver supports inet
159 sockets. Previously it was unix-domain sockets only.
161 9. The ACL control "queue_only" can also be spelled "queue", and now takes an
162 option "first_pass_route" to do the same as a "-odqs" on the command line.
164 10. Items specified for the router and transport headers_remove option can use
165 a trailing asterisk to specify globbing.
167 11. New $queue_size variable.
169 12. New variables $local_part_{pre,suf}fix_v.
171 13. New main option "sqlite_dbfile", for use in preference to prefixing the
172 lookup string. The older method fails when tainted variables are used
173 in the lookup, as the filename becomes tainted. The new method keeps the
176 14. Options on the dsearch lookup, to return the full path and to filter
177 filetypes for matching.
179 15. Options on pgsql and mysql lookups, to specify server separate from the
182 16. An option on all single-key lookups, to return (on a hit) a de-tainted
183 version of the lookup key rather than the looked-up data.
185 17. $domain_data and $local_part_data are now set by all list-match successes.
186 Previously only list items that performed lookups did so.
187 Also, matching list items that are tail-match or RE-match now set the
188 numeric variables $0 (etc) in the same way os other RE matches.
190 18. Expansion item ${listquote {<char} {<item>}}.
192 19. An option for the ${readsocket {}{}{}} expansion to make the result data
195 20. dkim_verify_min_keysizes, a list of minimum acceptable public-key sizes.
197 21. bounce_message_file and warn_message_file are now expanded before use.
199 22. New main config option spf_smtp_comment_template to customise the
200 $spf_smtp_comment variable
207 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
209 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
211 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
214 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
216 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
218 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
221 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
222 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
224 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
226 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
229 10. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
231 11. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
233 12. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
235 13. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
237 14: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
239 15: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
240 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
241 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
242 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
243 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
244 only, and exim must be run as root).
246 16: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
248 17. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
254 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
255 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
256 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
257 facilities hard to parse.
259 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
262 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
263 features. See the experimental.spec file.
265 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
267 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
269 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
271 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
273 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
275 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
280 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
281 version 3.5.6 or later.
283 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
284 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
285 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
287 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
289 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
290 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
292 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
293 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
294 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
295 a "dkim" log_selector.
297 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
299 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
300 routing rules in the manualroute router.
302 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
303 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
305 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
306 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
308 10. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
311 11. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
313 12. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
314 Authentication-Results: header.
316 13. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
317 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
319 14: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
321 15. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
322 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
323 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
324 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
326 16. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
327 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
328 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
334 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
335 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
337 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
338 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
340 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
341 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
342 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
343 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
344 another process. Logging is also affected.
346 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
348 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
349 further recipients and for delivery.
351 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
354 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
355 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
356 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
357 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
358 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
360 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
361 restrict who can use various introspection options.
363 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
364 appendfile transport.
366 10. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
369 11. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
370 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
372 12. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
373 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
374 is opened with a TFO cookie.
376 13. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
377 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
378 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
379 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
380 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
383 14. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
386 15. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
387 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
389 16. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
390 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
392 17. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
398 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
400 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
401 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
402 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
408 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
409 interpreter in taint mode.
411 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
413 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
416 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
417 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
418 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
420 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
421 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
422 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
425 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
427 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
428 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
429 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
432 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
434 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
436 10. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
437 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
438 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
439 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
440 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
442 11. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
444 12. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
445 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
448 13. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
450 14. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
451 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
453 15. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
454 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
455 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
456 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
457 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
458 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
459 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
460 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
462 16. A new syslog_pid option to suppress PID duplication in syslog lines.
468 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
469 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
471 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
472 malware= or verify= callout.
474 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
476 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
477 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
478 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
479 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
480 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
481 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
483 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
485 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
487 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
488 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
490 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
491 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
494 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
500 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
502 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
503 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
505 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
507 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
509 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
511 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
513 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
514 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
516 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
517 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
519 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
520 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
522 10. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
524 11. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
526 12. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
528 13. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
529 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
531 14. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
532 same level as DNSSEC.
537 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
538 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
539 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
540 domain of the sender.
542 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
543 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
544 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
545 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
546 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
547 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
549 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
550 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
551 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
561 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
562 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
563 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
564 proxy that is connecting to it.
566 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
567 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
568 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
569 detect and reject if those characters are present.
571 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
572 codepoints with valid ones.
574 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
575 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
576 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
577 be included in the command line.
579 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
580 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
581 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
582 verification cancels the encryption.
584 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
585 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
588 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
589 file when searching the queue.
591 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
593 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
595 10. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
596 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
597 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
600 11. PRDR is now supported dy default.
602 12. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
604 13. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
605 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
606 DSN features per RFC 3461.
612 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
613 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
614 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
615 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
616 SIEVE capability line.
618 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
619 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
620 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
621 followed by a newline, and no other text.
623 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
624 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
625 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
626 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
627 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
628 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
629 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
630 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
632 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
634 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
635 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
636 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
637 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
638 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
639 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
641 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
643 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
644 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
645 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
647 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
648 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
650 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
651 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
653 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
654 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
655 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
656 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
659 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
660 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
661 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
662 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
663 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
664 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
665 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
666 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
667 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
668 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
669 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
670 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
673 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
674 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
675 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
676 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
678 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
679 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
680 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
682 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
683 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
684 are present for now but deprecated.
686 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
688 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
689 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
691 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
692 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
693 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
694 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
695 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
696 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
697 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
698 unless this new option is set.
700 Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability,
701 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
702 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
705 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
707 10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
708 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
709 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
710 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
711 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
712 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
713 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
714 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
715 return results in a forced fail.
717 11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
718 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
720 12. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
721 handled by routers/transports.
723 13. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
724 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
726 14. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
727 modifier (but not yet added to message).
729 15. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
731 16. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
733 17. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
734 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
735 require privilege whereas -d does.
737 18. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
738 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
740 19. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
741 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
742 wrappers, for instance.
744 20. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
747 21. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
748 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
749 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
750 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
751 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
752 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
753 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
755 22. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
756 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
757 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
759 23. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
762 24. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
763 characters in the string to \xNN form.
765 25. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
766 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
768 26. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
774 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
775 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
776 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
777 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
778 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
780 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
781 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
782 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
783 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
785 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
786 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
787 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
788 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
789 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
791 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
792 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
794 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
796 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
797 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
798 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
801 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
803 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
804 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
805 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
806 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
807 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
808 compatibility at the cost of session security.
810 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
811 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
812 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
813 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
814 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
816 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
817 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
819 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
820 for Exim as a server.
822 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
823 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
824 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
825 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
826 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
828 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
829 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
830 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
831 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
832 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
834 10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
835 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
837 11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
838 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
839 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
840 string, documentation for which is at:
841 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
843 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
845 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
846 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
848 12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
849 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
850 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
851 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
852 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
854 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
856 13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
857 identically to TXT record lookups.
859 14. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
861 15. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
862 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
863 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
865 16. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
866 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
867 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
868 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
871 17. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
872 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
873 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
879 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
880 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
882 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
883 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
885 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
886 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
888 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
889 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
890 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
892 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
893 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
894 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
895 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
901 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
902 or off in the resolver library.
908 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
909 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
910 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
911 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
912 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
914 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
915 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
916 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
918 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
919 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
921 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
922 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
923 including any header additions or removals from transport.
925 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
926 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
932 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
933 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
934 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
935 on content supplied by the attacker.
937 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
938 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
939 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
940 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
941 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
947 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
948 items below carefully
950 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
951 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
952 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
953 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
954 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
955 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
958 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
959 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
960 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
961 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
962 be able to take effect.
964 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
965 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
966 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
967 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
969 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
970 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
971 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
972 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
974 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
976 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
978 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
979 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
980 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
981 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
982 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
983 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
985 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
986 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
988 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
990 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
991 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
993 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
994 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
995 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
996 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
997 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
998 don't all make sense in all contexts:
1001 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
1002 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
1003 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
1005 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
1006 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
1007 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
1008 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
1009 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
1010 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
1011 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
1012 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
1013 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
1014 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
1017 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
1018 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
1019 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
1021 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
1023 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
1025 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
1026 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
1027 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
1028 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
1029 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
1032 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
1033 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
1035 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
1036 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
1037 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
1038 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
1039 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
1040 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
1042 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
1043 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
1044 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
1045 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
1046 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
1047 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
1048 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
1049 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
1055 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
1056 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
1058 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
1060 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
1061 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
1064 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
1065 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
1066 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
1067 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
1068 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
1069 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
1070 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
1071 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
1072 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
1073 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
1075 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
1076 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
1078 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
1079 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
1080 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
1086 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
1087 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
1088 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
1089 for details on conditionally disabling)
1091 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
1093 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
1094 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
1095 and{} expansion operator).
1097 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
1100 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
1101 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
1103 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
1104 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
1105 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
1107 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
1108 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
1109 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
1110 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
1112 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
1115 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
1121 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
1127 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
1130 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
1131 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
1132 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
1135 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
1137 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
1138 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
1139 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
1142 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
1144 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
1145 192.168.6.7 (for example).
1147 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
1148 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
1149 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
1150 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
1152 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
1154 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
1155 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
1156 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
1159 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
1160 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
1161 only by an admin user.
1163 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
1164 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
1165 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
1166 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
1167 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
1169 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
1170 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
1175 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1176 # we update it below
1177 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1178 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1179 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1181 [... some other logic and tests...]
1183 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1184 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1185 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1186 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1190 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1191 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1192 line termination character(s).
1194 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
1195 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1196 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1198 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1199 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1200 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1201 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1203 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
1204 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1205 itself is in bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1206 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1207 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1209 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1210 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1211 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1213 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1214 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1215 connection. The possible values are:
1217 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1218 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1219 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1220 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1221 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1222 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1223 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1224 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1225 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1226 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1228 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1229 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1230 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1231 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1232 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1235 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
1236 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1237 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1239 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1240 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1241 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1243 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1245 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1246 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1247 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1249 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1250 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1251 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1253 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1255 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1257 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1259 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1261 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1263 you can still update the master by
1265 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1267 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
1268 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1269 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1276 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1277 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1278 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
1281 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
1282 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1283 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
1284 rather than the default "any" matching.
1286 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1287 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1288 other parameters to be varied.
1290 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1291 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
1293 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
1295 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
1297 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
1298 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
1300 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
1301 after the connection to the server has been made.
1303 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
1304 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
1306 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1307 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1310 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
1311 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1312 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1313 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
1314 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
1316 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
1317 called forany and forall.
1319 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1320 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1321 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
1323 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
1325 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
1326 that makes it case-sensitive.
1328 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1329 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1330 items, typically addresses.
1332 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1333 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1334 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
1337 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
1338 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
1340 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1343 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
1350 No new features were added to 4.66.
1356 No new features were added to 4.65.
1362 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1363 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1364 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
1367 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
1368 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
1370 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1371 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
1372 number of authentication methods.
1374 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1375 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1376 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1378 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1379 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1380 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1381 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
1383 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
1385 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1386 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1387 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
1388 before doing the expansions.
1390 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
1391 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1394 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1395 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
1396 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
1398 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
1399 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
1401 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1402 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1403 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1404 available for compatibility.)
1406 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1407 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
1413 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
1416 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1417 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
1420 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1421 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
1422 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
1424 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
1425 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
1427 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
1429 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1430 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1432 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1434 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1436 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1437 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1438 each messages value for each variable.
1440 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1441 same criteria without --not).
1447 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1448 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1449 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1450 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1451 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1452 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1454 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1456 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1457 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1458 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1461 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1462 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1463 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1465 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1466 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1467 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1468 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1474 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1475 the 4.60 release are:
1477 . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1479 . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1481 . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1482 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1483 for other things in complicated expansions.
1485 . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
1487 . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1488 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1490 . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1492 . More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1494 There are a number of other additions too.
1500 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1501 the 4.50 release are:
1503 . Support for SQLite.
1505 . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1507 . Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1509 . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1511 . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
1513 . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
1515 . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
1517 There are many more minor changes.