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 CVS before the documentation is updated. Once
7 the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
12 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
13 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
14 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
15 proxy that is connecting to it.
17 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
18 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
19 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
20 detect and reject if those characters are present.
22 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
23 codepoints with valid ones.
25 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
26 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
27 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoofile name can
28 be included in the command line.
30 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
31 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
32 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
33 verification cancels the encryption.
35 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
36 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
39 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
40 file when searching the queue.
42 8. EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3
45 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
47 10. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
48 "certextract" to extract fields from them.
54 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
55 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
56 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
57 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
58 SIEVE capability line.
60 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
61 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
62 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
63 followed by a newline, and no other text.
65 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
66 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
67 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
68 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
69 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
70 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
71 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
72 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
74 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
76 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
77 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
78 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
79 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
80 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
81 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
83 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
85 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
86 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
87 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
89 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
90 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
92 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
93 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
95 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
96 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
97 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
98 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
101 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
102 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are recieved on and
103 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
104 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
105 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
106 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
107 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
108 is negociated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
109 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
110 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
111 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
112 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
115 The Recieved-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
116 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
117 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
118 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
120 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
121 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
122 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
124 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
125 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
126 are present for now but deprecated.
128 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
130 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
131 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
133 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
134 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
135 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
136 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
137 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
138 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
139 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
140 unless this new option is set.
142 Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability,
143 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
144 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
147 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
149 10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
150 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
151 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
152 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
153 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
154 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
155 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
156 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
157 return results in a forced fail.
159 11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
160 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
162 12. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
163 handled by routers/transports.
165 13. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
166 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
168 14. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
169 modifier (but not yet added to messsage).
171 15. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
173 16. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
175 17. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
176 particularly for debug_print as -bt commandline option does not
177 require privilege whereas -d does.
179 18. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
180 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
182 19. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
183 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
184 wrappers, for instance.
186 20. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
189 21. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
190 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
191 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
192 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
193 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
194 dmarc_enable_forensic.
196 22. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
197 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
198 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
200 23. New ACL modifer "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
203 24. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
204 characters in the string to \xNN form.
206 25. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
207 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
209 26. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
215 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
216 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
217 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
218 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
219 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
221 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
222 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
223 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
224 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
226 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
227 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
228 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
229 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
230 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
232 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
233 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
235 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
237 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
238 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
239 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
242 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
244 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
245 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
246 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
247 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
248 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
249 compatibility at the cost of session security.
251 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
252 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
253 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
254 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
255 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
257 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
258 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
260 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
261 for Exim as a server.
263 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
264 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
265 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
266 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
267 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
269 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
270 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
271 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
272 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
273 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
275 10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
276 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
278 11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
279 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
280 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
281 string, documentation for which is at:
282 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
284 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
286 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
287 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
289 12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
290 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
291 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
292 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
293 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
295 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
297 13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
298 identically to TXT record lookups.
300 14. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
302 15. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
303 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
304 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
306 16. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
307 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
308 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
309 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
312 17. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
313 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
314 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
320 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
321 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
323 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
324 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
326 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
327 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
329 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
330 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
331 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
333 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
334 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
335 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
336 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
342 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
343 or off in the resolver library.
349 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
350 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
351 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
352 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
353 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
355 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
356 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
357 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
359 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
360 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
362 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
363 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
364 including any header additions or removals from transport.
366 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
367 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
373 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
374 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
375 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
376 on content supplied by the attacker.
378 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
379 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
380 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
381 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
382 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
388 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
389 items below carefully
391 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
392 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
393 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
394 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
395 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
396 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
399 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
400 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
401 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
402 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
403 be able to take effect.
405 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
406 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
407 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
408 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
410 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
411 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
412 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
413 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
415 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
417 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
419 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
420 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
421 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
422 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
423 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
424 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
426 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
427 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
429 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
431 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
432 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
434 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
435 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
436 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
437 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
438 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
439 don't all make sense in all contexts:
442 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
443 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
444 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
446 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
447 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
448 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
449 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
450 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
451 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
452 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
453 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
454 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
455 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
458 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
459 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
460 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
462 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
464 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
466 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
467 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
468 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
469 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
470 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
473 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
474 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
476 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
477 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
478 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
479 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
480 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
481 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
483 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
484 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
485 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
486 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
487 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
488 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
489 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
490 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
496 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
497 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
499 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
501 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
502 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
505 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
506 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
507 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
508 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
509 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
510 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
511 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
512 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
513 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
514 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
516 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
517 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
519 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
520 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
521 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
527 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
528 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
529 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
530 for details on conditionally disabling)
532 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
534 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
535 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
536 and{} expansion operator).
538 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
541 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
542 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
544 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
545 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
546 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
548 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
549 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
550 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
551 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
553 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
556 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
562 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
568 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
571 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
572 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
573 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
576 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
578 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
579 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
580 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
583 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
585 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
586 192.168.6.7 (for example).
588 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
589 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
590 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
591 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
593 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
595 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
596 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
597 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
600 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
601 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
602 only by an admin user.
604 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
605 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
606 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
607 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
608 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
610 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
611 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
616 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
618 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
619 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
620 (max $sender_rate_limit)
622 [... some other logic and tests...]
624 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
625 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
626 (max $sender_rate_limit)
627 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
631 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
632 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
633 line termination character(s).
635 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analagous to
636 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
637 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
639 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
640 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
641 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
642 message is queued, the remainder are also.
644 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
645 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
646 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
647 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
648 log files) that make the situation even worse.
650 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
651 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
652 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
654 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
655 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
656 connection. The possible values are:
658 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
659 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
660 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
661 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
662 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
663 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
664 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
665 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
666 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
667 tls-failed TLS failed to start
669 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
670 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
671 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
672 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
673 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
676 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
677 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
678 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
680 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
681 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
682 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
684 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
686 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
687 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
688 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
690 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
691 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
692 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
694 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
696 In an updating lookup, you could then write
698 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
700 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
702 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
704 you can still update the master by
706 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
708 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
709 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
710 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
717 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
718 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
719 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
722 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
723 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
724 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
725 rather than the default "any" matching.
727 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
728 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
729 other parameters to be varied.
731 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
732 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
734 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
736 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
738 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
739 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
741 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
742 after the connection to the server has been made.
744 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
745 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
747 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
748 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
751 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
752 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
753 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
754 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
755 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
757 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
758 called forany and forall.
760 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
761 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
762 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
764 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
766 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
767 that makes it case-sensitive.
769 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
770 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
771 items, typically addresses.
773 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
774 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
775 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
778 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
779 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
781 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
784 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
791 No new features were added to 4.66.
797 No new features were added to 4.65.
803 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
804 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
805 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
808 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
809 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
811 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
812 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
813 number of authentication methods.
815 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
816 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
817 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
819 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
820 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
821 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
822 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
824 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
826 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
827 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
828 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
829 before doing the expansions.
831 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
832 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
835 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
836 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
837 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
839 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
840 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
842 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
843 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
844 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
845 available for compatibility.)
847 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
848 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
854 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
857 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
858 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
861 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
862 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
863 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
865 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
866 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
868 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
870 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
871 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
873 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
875 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
877 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
878 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
879 each messages value for each variable.
881 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
882 same criteria without --not).
888 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
889 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
890 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
891 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
892 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
893 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
895 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
897 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
898 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
899 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
902 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
903 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
904 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
906 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
907 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
908 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
909 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
915 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
916 the 4.60 release are:
918 . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
920 . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
922 . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
923 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
924 for other things in complicated expansions.
926 . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
928 . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
929 resources used in pipe deliveries.
931 . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
933 . More errors are detectable in retry rules.
935 There are a number of other additions too.
941 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
942 the 4.50 release are:
944 . Support for SQLite.
946 . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
948 . Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
950 . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
952 . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
954 . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
956 . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
958 There are many more minor changes.
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