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. A new ACL condition: seen. Records/tests a timestamp against a key.
14 2. A variant of the "mask" expansion operator to give normalised IPv6.
16 3. UTC output option for exim_dumpdb, exim_fixdb
22 1. The fast-ramp two phase queue run support, previously experimental, is
23 now supported by default.
25 2. The native SRS support, previously experimental, is now supported. It is
26 not built unless specified in the Local/Makefile.
28 3. TLS resumption support, previously experimental, is now supported and
29 included in default builds.
31 4. Single-key LMDB lookups, previously experimental, are now supported.
32 The support is not built unless specified in the Local/Makefile.
34 5. Option "message_linelength_limit" on the smtp transport to enforce (by
35 default) the RFC 998 character limit.
37 6. An option to ignore the cache on a lookup.
39 7. Quota checking during reception (i.e. at SMTP time) for appendfile-
40 transport-managed quotas.
42 8. Sqlite lookups accept a "file=<path>" option to specify a per-operation
43 db file, replacing the previous prefix to the SQL string (which had
44 issues when the SQL used tainted values).
46 9. Lsearch lookups accept a "ret=full" option, to return both the portion
47 of the line matching the key, and the remainder.
49 10. A command-line option to have a daemon not create a notifier socket.
51 11. Faster TLS startup. When various configuration options contain no
52 expandable elements, the information can be preloaded and cached rather
53 than the previous behaviour of always loading at startup time for every
54 connection. This helps particularly for the CA bundle.
56 12. Proxy Protocol Timeout is configurable via "proxy_protocol_timeout"
59 13. Option "smtp_accept_max_per_connection" is now expanded.
61 14. Log selector "queue_size_exclusive", enabled by default, to exclude the
62 time taken for reception from QT log elements.
64 15. Main option "smtp_backlog_monitor", to set a level above which listen
65 socket backlogs are logged.
67 16. Main option "hosts_require_helo", requiring HELO or EHLO before MAIL.
69 17. A main config option "allow_insecure_tainted_data" allows to turn
71 18. TLS ALPN handling. By default, refuse TLS connections that try to specify
72 a non-smtp (eg. http) use. Options for customising.
78 1. EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
81 2. Channel-binding for authenticators is now supported under OpenSSL.
82 Previously it was GnuTLS-only.
86 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the
87 plaintext driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and
88 SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS methods.
90 5. Server-side support in the gsasl authenticator for encrypted passwords, as
91 an alternate for the existing plaintext.
93 6. Variable $local_part_data now also set by router check_local_user option,
94 with an de-tainted version of $local_part.
96 7. Named-list definitions can now be prefixed "hide" so that "-bP" commands do
97 not output the content. Previously this could only be done on options.
99 8. As an experimental feature, the dovecot authentication driver supports inet
100 sockets. Previously it was unix-domain sockets only.
102 9. The ACL control "queue_only" can also be spelled "queue", and now takes an
103 option "first_pass_route" to do the same as a "-odqs" on the command line.
105 10. Items specified for the router and transport headers_remove option can use
106 a trailing asterisk to specify globbing.
108 11. New $queue_size variable.
110 12. New variables $local_part_{pre,suf}fix_v.
112 13. New main option "sqlite_dbfile", for use in preference to prefixing the
113 lookup string. The older method fails when tainted variables are used
114 in the lookup, as the filename becomes tainted. The new method keeps the
117 14. Options on the dsearch lookup, to return the full path and to filter
118 filetypes for matching.
120 15. Options on pgsql and mysql lookups, to specify server separate from the
123 16. An option on all single-key lookups, to return (on a hit) a de-tainted
124 version of the lookup key rather than the looked-up data.
126 17. $domain_data and $local_part_data are now set by all list-match successes.
127 Previously only list items that performed lookups did so.
128 Also, matching list items that are tail-match or RE-match now set the
129 numeric variables $0 (etc) in the same way os other RE matches.
131 18. Expansion item ${listquote {<char} {<item>}}.
133 19. An option for the ${readsocket {}{}{}} expansion to make the result data
136 20. dkim_verify_min_keysizes, a list of minimum acceptable public-key sizes.
138 21. bounce_message_file and warn_message_file are now expanded before use.
140 22. New main config option spf_smtp_comment_template to customise the
141 $spf_smtp_comment variable
148 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
150 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
152 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
155 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
157 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
159 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
162 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
163 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
165 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
167 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
170 10. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
172 11. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
174 12. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
176 13. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
178 14: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
180 15: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
181 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
182 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
183 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
184 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
185 only, and exim must be run as root).
187 16: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
189 17. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
195 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
196 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
197 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
198 facilities hard to parse.
200 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
203 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
204 features. See the experimental.spec file.
206 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
208 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
210 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
212 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
214 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
216 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
221 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
222 version 3.5.6 or later.
224 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
225 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
226 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
228 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
230 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
231 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
233 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
234 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
235 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
236 a "dkim" log_selector.
238 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
240 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
241 routing rules in the manualroute router.
243 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
244 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
246 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
247 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
249 10. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
252 11. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
254 12. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
255 Authentication-Results: header.
257 13. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
258 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
260 14: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
262 15. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
263 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
264 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
265 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
267 16. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
268 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
269 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
275 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
276 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
278 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
279 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
281 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
282 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
283 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
284 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
285 another process. Logging is also affected.
287 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
289 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
290 further recipients and for delivery.
292 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
295 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
296 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
297 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
298 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
299 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
301 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
302 restrict who can use various introspection options.
304 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
305 appendfile transport.
307 10. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
310 11. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
311 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
313 12. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
314 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
315 is opened with a TFO cookie.
317 13. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
318 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
319 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
320 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
321 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
324 14. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
327 15. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
328 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
330 16. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
331 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
333 17. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
339 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
341 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
342 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
343 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
349 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
350 interpreter in taint mode.
352 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
354 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
357 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
358 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
359 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
361 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
362 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
363 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
366 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
368 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
369 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
370 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
373 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
375 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
377 10. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
378 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
379 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
380 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
381 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
383 11. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
385 12. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
386 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
389 13. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
391 14. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
392 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
394 15. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
395 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
396 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
397 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
398 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
399 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
400 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
401 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
403 16. A new syslog_pid option to suppress PID duplication in syslog lines.
409 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
410 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
412 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
413 malware= or verify= callout.
415 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
417 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
418 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
419 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
420 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
421 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
422 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
424 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
426 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
428 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
429 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
431 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
432 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
435 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
441 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
443 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
444 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
446 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
448 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
450 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
452 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
454 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
455 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
457 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
458 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
460 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
461 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
463 10. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
465 11. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
467 12. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
469 13. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
470 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
472 14. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
473 same level as DNSSEC.
478 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
479 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
480 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
481 domain of the sender.
483 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
484 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
485 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
486 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
487 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
488 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
490 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
491 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
492 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
502 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
503 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
504 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
505 proxy that is connecting to it.
507 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
508 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
509 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
510 detect and reject if those characters are present.
512 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
513 codepoints with valid ones.
515 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
516 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
517 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
518 be included in the command line.
520 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
521 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
522 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
523 verification cancels the encryption.
525 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
526 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
529 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
530 file when searching the queue.
532 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
534 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
536 10. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
537 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
538 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
541 11. PRDR is now supported dy default.
543 12. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
545 13. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
546 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
547 DSN features per RFC 3461.
553 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
554 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
555 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
556 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
557 SIEVE capability line.
559 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
560 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
561 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
562 followed by a newline, and no other text.
564 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
565 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
566 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
567 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
568 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
569 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
570 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
571 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
573 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
575 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
576 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
577 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
578 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
579 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
580 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
582 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
584 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
585 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
586 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
588 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
589 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
591 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
592 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
594 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
595 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
596 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
597 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
600 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
601 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
602 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
603 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
604 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
605 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
606 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
607 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
608 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
609 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
610 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
611 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
614 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
615 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
616 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
617 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
619 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
620 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
621 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
623 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
624 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
625 are present for now but deprecated.
627 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
629 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
630 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
632 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
633 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
634 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
635 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
636 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
637 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
638 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
639 unless this new option is set.
641 Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability,
642 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
643 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
646 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
648 10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
649 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
650 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
651 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
652 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
653 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
654 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
655 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
656 return results in a forced fail.
658 11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
659 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
661 12. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
662 handled by routers/transports.
664 13. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
665 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
667 14. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
668 modifier (but not yet added to message).
670 15. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
672 16. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
674 17. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
675 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
676 require privilege whereas -d does.
678 18. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
679 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
681 19. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
682 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
683 wrappers, for instance.
685 20. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
688 21. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
689 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
690 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
691 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
692 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
693 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
694 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
696 22. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
697 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
698 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
700 23. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
703 24. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
704 characters in the string to \xNN form.
706 25. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
707 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
709 26. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
715 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
716 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
717 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
718 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
719 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
721 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
722 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
723 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
724 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
726 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
727 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
728 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
729 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
730 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
732 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
733 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
735 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
737 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
738 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
739 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
742 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
744 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
745 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
746 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
747 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
748 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
749 compatibility at the cost of session security.
751 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
752 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
753 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
754 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
755 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
757 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
758 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
760 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
761 for Exim as a server.
763 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
764 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
765 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
766 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
767 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
769 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
770 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
771 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
772 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
773 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
775 10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
776 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
778 11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
779 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
780 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
781 string, documentation for which is at:
782 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
784 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
786 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
787 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
789 12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
790 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
791 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
792 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
793 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
795 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
797 13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
798 identically to TXT record lookups.
800 14. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
802 15. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
803 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
804 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
806 16. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
807 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
808 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
809 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
812 17. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
813 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
814 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
820 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
821 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
823 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
824 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
826 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
827 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
829 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
830 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
831 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
833 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
834 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
835 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
836 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
842 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
843 or off in the resolver library.
849 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
850 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
851 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
852 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
853 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
855 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
856 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
857 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
859 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
860 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
862 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
863 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
864 including any header additions or removals from transport.
866 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
867 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
873 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
874 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
875 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
876 on content supplied by the attacker.
878 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
879 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
880 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
881 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
882 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
888 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
889 items below carefully
891 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
892 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
893 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
894 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
895 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
896 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
899 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
900 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
901 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
902 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
903 be able to take effect.
905 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
906 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
907 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
908 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
910 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
911 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
912 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
913 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
915 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
917 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
919 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
920 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
921 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
922 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
923 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
924 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
926 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
927 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
929 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
931 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
932 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
934 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
935 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
936 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
937 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
938 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
939 don't all make sense in all contexts:
942 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
943 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
944 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
946 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
947 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
948 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
949 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
950 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
951 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
952 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
953 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
954 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
955 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
958 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
959 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
960 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
962 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
964 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
966 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
967 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
968 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
969 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
970 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
973 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
974 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
976 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
977 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
978 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
979 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
980 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
981 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
983 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
984 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
985 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
986 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
987 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
988 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
989 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
990 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
996 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
997 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
999 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
1001 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
1002 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
1005 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
1006 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
1007 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
1008 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
1009 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
1010 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
1011 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
1012 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
1013 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
1014 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
1016 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
1017 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
1019 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
1020 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
1021 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
1027 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
1028 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
1029 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
1030 for details on conditionally disabling)
1032 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
1034 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
1035 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
1036 and{} expansion operator).
1038 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
1041 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
1042 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
1044 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
1045 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
1046 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
1048 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
1049 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
1050 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
1051 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
1053 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
1056 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
1062 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
1068 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
1071 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
1072 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
1073 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
1076 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
1078 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
1079 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
1080 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
1083 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
1085 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
1086 192.168.6.7 (for example).
1088 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
1089 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
1090 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
1091 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
1093 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
1095 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
1096 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
1097 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
1100 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
1101 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
1102 only by an admin user.
1104 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
1105 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
1106 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
1107 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
1108 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
1110 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
1111 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
1116 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1117 # we update it below
1118 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1119 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1120 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1122 [... some other logic and tests...]
1124 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1125 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1126 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1127 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1131 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1132 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1133 line termination character(s).
1135 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
1136 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1137 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1139 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1140 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1141 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1142 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1144 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
1145 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1146 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1147 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1148 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1150 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1151 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1152 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1154 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1155 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1156 connection. The possible values are:
1158 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1159 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1160 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1161 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1162 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1163 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1164 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1165 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1166 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1167 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1169 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1170 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1171 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1172 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1173 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1176 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
1177 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1178 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1180 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1181 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1182 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1184 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1186 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1187 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1188 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1190 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1191 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1192 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1194 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1196 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1198 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1200 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1202 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1204 you can still update the master by
1206 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1208 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
1209 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1210 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1217 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1218 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1219 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
1222 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
1223 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1224 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
1225 rather than the default "any" matching.
1227 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1228 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1229 other parameters to be varied.
1231 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1232 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
1234 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
1236 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
1238 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
1239 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
1241 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
1242 after the connection to the server has been made.
1244 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
1245 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
1247 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1248 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1251 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
1252 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1253 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1254 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
1255 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
1257 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
1258 called forany and forall.
1260 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1261 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1262 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
1264 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
1266 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
1267 that makes it case-sensitive.
1269 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1270 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1271 items, typically addresses.
1273 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1274 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1275 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
1278 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
1279 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
1281 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1284 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
1291 No new features were added to 4.66.
1297 No new features were added to 4.65.
1303 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1304 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1305 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
1308 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
1309 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
1311 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1312 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
1313 number of authentication methods.
1315 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1316 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1317 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1319 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1320 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1321 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1322 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
1324 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
1326 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1327 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1328 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
1329 before doing the expansions.
1331 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
1332 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1335 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1336 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
1337 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
1339 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
1340 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
1342 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1343 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1344 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1345 available for compatibility.)
1347 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1348 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
1354 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
1357 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1358 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
1361 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1362 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
1363 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
1365 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
1366 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
1368 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
1370 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1371 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1373 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1375 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1377 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1378 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1379 each messages value for each variable.
1381 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1382 same criteria without --not).
1388 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1389 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1390 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1391 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1392 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1393 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1395 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1397 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1398 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1399 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1402 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1403 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1404 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1406 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1407 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1408 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1409 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1415 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1416 the 4.60 release are:
1418 . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1420 . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1422 . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1423 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1424 for other things in complicated expansions.
1426 . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
1428 . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1429 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1431 . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1433 . More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1435 There are a number of other additions too.
1441 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1442 the 4.50 release are:
1444 . Support for SQLite.
1446 . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1448 . Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1450 . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1452 . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
1454 . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
1456 . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
1458 There are many more minor changes.