4 This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
5 Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
6 test from the snapshots or the Git before the documentation is updated. Once
7 the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
12 1. The fast-ramp two phase queue run support, previously experimental, is
13 now supported by default.
15 2. The native SRS support, previously experimental, is now supported. It is
16 not built unless specified in the Local/Makefile.
18 3. TLS resumption support, previously experimental, is now supported and
19 included in default builds.
21 4. Single-key LMDB lookups, previously experimental, are now supported.
22 The support is not built unless specified in the Local/Makefile.
24 5. Option "message_linelength_limit" on the smtp transport to enforce (by
25 default) the RFC 998 character limit.
27 6. An option to ignore the cache on a lookup.
29 7. Quota checking during reception (i.e. at SMTP time) for appendfile-
30 transport-managed quotas.
32 8. Sqlite lookups accept a "file=<path>" option to specify a per-operation
33 db file, replacing the previous prefix to the SQL string (which had
34 issues when the SQL used tainted values).
36 9. Lsearch lookups accept a "ret=full" option, to return both the portion
37 of the line matching the key, and the remainder.
39 10. A command-line option to have a daemon not create a notifier socket.
41 11. Faster TLS startup. When various configuration options contain no
42 expandable elements, the information can be preloaded and cached rather
43 than the provious behaviour of always loading at startup time for every
44 connection. This helps particularly for the CA bundle.
46 12. Proxy Protocol Timeout is configurable via "proxy_protocol_timeout"
52 1. EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
55 2. Channel-binding for authenticators is now supported under OpenSSL.
56 Previously it was GnuTLS-only.
60 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the
61 plaintext driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and
62 SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS methods.
64 5. Server-side support in the gsasl authenticator for encrypted passwords, as
65 an alternate for the existing plaintext.
67 6. Variable $local_part_data now also set by router check_local_user option,
68 with an de-tainted version of $local_part.
70 7. Named-list definitions can now be prefixed "hide" so that "-bP" commands do
71 not output the content. Previously this could only be done on options.
73 8. As an experimental feature, the dovecot authentication driver supports inet
74 sockets. Previously it was unix-domain sockets only.
76 9. The ACL control "queue_only" can also be spelled "queue", and now takes an
77 option "first_pass_route" to do the same as a "-odqs" on the command line.
79 10. Items specified for the router and transport headers_remove option can use
80 a trailing asterisk to specify globbing.
82 11. New $queue_size variable.
84 12. New variables $local_part_{pre,suf}fix_v.
86 13. New main option "sqlite_dbfile", for use in preference to prefixing the
87 lookup string. The older method fails when tainted variables are used
88 in the lookup, as the filename becomes tainted. The new method keeps the
91 14. Options on the dsearch lookup, to return the full path and to filter
92 filetypes for matching.
94 15. Options on pgsql and mysql lookups, to specify server separate from the
97 16. An option on all single-key lookups, to return (on a hit) a de-tainted
98 version of the lookup key rather than the looked-up data.
100 17. $domain_data and $local_part_data are now set by all list-match successes.
101 Previously only list items that performed lookups did so.
102 Also, matching list items that are tail-match or RE-match now set the
103 numeric variables $0 (etc) in the same way os other RE matches.
105 18. Expansion item ${listquote {<char} {<item>}}.
107 19. An option for the ${readsocket {}{}{}} expansion to make the result data
110 20. dkim_verify_min_keysizes, a list of minimum acceptable public-key sizes.
112 21. bounce_message_file and warn_message_file are now expanded before use.
114 22. New main config option spf_smtp_comment_template to customise the
115 $spf_smtp_comment variable
122 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
124 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
126 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
129 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
131 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
133 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
136 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
137 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
139 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
141 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
144 10. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
146 11. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
148 12. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
150 13. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
152 14: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
154 15: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
155 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
156 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
157 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
158 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
159 only, and exim must be run as root).
161 16: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
163 17. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
169 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
170 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
171 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
172 facilities hard to parse.
174 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
177 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
178 features. See the experimental.spec file.
180 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
182 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
184 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
186 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
188 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
190 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
195 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
196 version 3.5.6 or later.
198 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
199 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
200 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
202 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
204 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
205 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
207 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
208 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
209 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
210 a "dkim" log_selector.
212 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
214 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
215 routing rules in the manualroute router.
217 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
218 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
220 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
221 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
223 10. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
226 11. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
228 12. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
229 Authentication-Results: header.
231 13. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
232 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
234 14: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
236 15. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
237 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
238 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
239 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
241 16. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
242 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
243 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
249 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
250 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
252 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
253 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
255 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
256 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
257 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
258 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
259 another process. Logging is also affected.
261 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
263 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
264 further recipients and for delivery.
266 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
269 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
270 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
271 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
272 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
273 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
275 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
276 restrict who can use various introspection options.
278 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
279 appendfile transport.
281 10. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
284 11. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
285 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
287 12. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
288 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
289 is opened with a TFO cookie.
291 13. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
292 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
293 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
294 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
295 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
298 14. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
301 15. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
302 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
304 16. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
305 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
307 17. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
313 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
315 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
316 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
317 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
323 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
324 interpreter in taint mode.
326 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
328 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
331 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
332 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
333 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
335 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
336 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
337 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
340 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
342 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
343 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
344 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
347 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
349 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
351 10. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
352 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
353 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
354 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
355 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
357 11. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
359 12. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
360 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
363 13. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
365 14. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
366 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
368 15. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
369 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
370 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
371 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
372 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
373 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
374 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
375 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
377 16. A new syslog_pid option to suppress PID duplication in syslog lines.
383 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
384 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
386 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
387 malware= or verify= callout.
389 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
391 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
392 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
393 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
394 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
395 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
396 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
398 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
400 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
402 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
403 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
405 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
406 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
409 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
415 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
417 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
418 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
420 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
422 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
424 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
426 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
428 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
429 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
431 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
432 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
434 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
435 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
437 10. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
439 11. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
441 12. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
443 13. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
444 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
446 14. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
447 same level as DNSSEC.
452 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
453 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
454 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
455 domain of the sender.
457 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
458 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
459 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
460 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
461 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
462 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
464 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
465 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
466 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
476 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
477 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
478 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
479 proxy that is connecting to it.
481 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
482 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
483 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
484 detect and reject if those characters are present.
486 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
487 codepoints with valid ones.
489 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
490 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
491 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
492 be included in the command line.
494 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
495 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
496 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
497 verification cancels the encryption.
499 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
500 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
503 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
504 file when searching the queue.
506 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
508 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
510 10. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
511 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
512 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
515 11. PRDR is now supported dy default.
517 12. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
519 13. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
520 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
521 DSN features per RFC 3461.
527 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
528 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
529 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
530 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
531 SIEVE capability line.
533 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
534 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
535 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
536 followed by a newline, and no other text.
538 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
539 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
540 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
541 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
542 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
543 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
544 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
545 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
547 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
549 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
550 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
551 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
552 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
553 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
554 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
556 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
558 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
559 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
560 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
562 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
563 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
565 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
566 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
568 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
569 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
570 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
571 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
574 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
575 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
576 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
577 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
578 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
579 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
580 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
581 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
582 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
583 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
584 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
585 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
588 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
589 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
590 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
591 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
593 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
594 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
595 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
597 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
598 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
599 are present for now but deprecated.
601 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
603 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
604 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
606 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
607 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
608 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
609 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
610 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
611 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
612 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
613 unless this new option is set.
615 Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability,
616 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
617 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
620 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
622 10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
623 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
624 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
625 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
626 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
627 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
628 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
629 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
630 return results in a forced fail.
632 11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
633 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
635 12. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
636 handled by routers/transports.
638 13. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
639 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
641 14. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
642 modifier (but not yet added to message).
644 15. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
646 16. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
648 17. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
649 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
650 require privilege whereas -d does.
652 18. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
653 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
655 19. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
656 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
657 wrappers, for instance.
659 20. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
662 21. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
663 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
664 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
665 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
666 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
667 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
668 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
670 22. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
671 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
672 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
674 23. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
677 24. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
678 characters in the string to \xNN form.
680 25. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
681 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
683 26. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
689 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
690 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
691 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
692 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
693 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
695 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
696 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
697 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
698 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
700 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
701 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
702 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
703 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
704 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
706 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
707 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
709 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
711 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
712 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
713 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
716 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
718 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
719 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
720 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
721 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
722 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
723 compatibility at the cost of session security.
725 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
726 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
727 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
728 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
729 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
731 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
732 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
734 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
735 for Exim as a server.
737 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
738 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
739 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
740 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
741 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
743 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
744 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
745 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
746 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
747 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
749 10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
750 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
752 11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
753 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
754 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
755 string, documentation for which is at:
756 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
758 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
760 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
761 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
763 12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
764 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
765 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
766 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
767 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
769 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
771 13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
772 identically to TXT record lookups.
774 14. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
776 15. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
777 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
778 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
780 16. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
781 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
782 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
783 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
786 17. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
787 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
788 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
794 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
795 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
797 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
798 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
800 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
801 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
803 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
804 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
805 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
807 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
808 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
809 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
810 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
816 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
817 or off in the resolver library.
823 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
824 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
825 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
826 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
827 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
829 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
830 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
831 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
833 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
834 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
836 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
837 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
838 including any header additions or removals from transport.
840 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
841 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
847 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
848 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
849 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
850 on content supplied by the attacker.
852 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
853 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
854 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
855 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
856 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
862 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
863 items below carefully
865 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
866 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
867 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
868 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
869 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
870 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
873 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
874 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
875 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
876 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
877 be able to take effect.
879 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
880 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
881 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
882 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
884 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
885 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
886 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
887 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
889 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
891 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
893 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
894 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
895 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
896 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
897 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
898 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
900 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
901 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
903 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
905 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
906 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
908 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
909 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
910 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
911 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
912 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
913 don't all make sense in all contexts:
916 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
917 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
918 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
920 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
921 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
922 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
923 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
924 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
925 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
926 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
927 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
928 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
929 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
932 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
933 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
934 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
936 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
938 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
940 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
941 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
942 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
943 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
944 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
947 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
948 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
950 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
951 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
952 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
953 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
954 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
955 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
957 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
958 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
959 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
960 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
961 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
962 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
963 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
964 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
970 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
971 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
973 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
975 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
976 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
979 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
980 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
981 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
982 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
983 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
984 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
985 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
986 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
987 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
988 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
990 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
991 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
993 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
994 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
995 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
1001 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
1002 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
1003 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
1004 for details on conditionally disabling)
1006 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
1008 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
1009 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
1010 and{} expansion operator).
1012 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
1015 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
1016 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
1018 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
1019 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
1020 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
1022 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
1023 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
1024 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
1025 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
1027 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
1030 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
1036 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
1042 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
1045 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
1046 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
1047 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
1050 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
1052 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
1053 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
1054 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
1057 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
1059 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
1060 192.168.6.7 (for example).
1062 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
1063 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
1064 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
1065 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
1067 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
1069 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
1070 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
1071 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
1074 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
1075 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
1076 only by an admin user.
1078 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
1079 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
1080 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
1081 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
1082 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
1084 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
1085 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
1090 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1091 # we update it below
1092 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1093 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1094 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1096 [... some other logic and tests...]
1098 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1099 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1100 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1101 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1105 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1106 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1107 line termination character(s).
1109 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
1110 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1111 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1113 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1114 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1115 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1116 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1118 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
1119 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1120 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1121 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1122 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1124 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1125 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1126 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1128 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1129 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1130 connection. The possible values are:
1132 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1133 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1134 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1135 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1136 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1137 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1138 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1139 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1140 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1141 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1143 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1144 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1145 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1146 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1147 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1150 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
1151 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1152 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1154 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1155 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1156 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1158 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1160 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1161 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1162 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1164 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1165 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1166 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1168 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1170 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1172 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1174 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1176 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1178 you can still update the master by
1180 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1182 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
1183 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1184 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1191 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1192 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1193 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
1196 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
1197 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1198 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
1199 rather than the default "any" matching.
1201 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1202 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1203 other parameters to be varied.
1205 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1206 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
1208 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
1210 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
1212 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
1213 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
1215 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
1216 after the connection to the server has been made.
1218 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
1219 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
1221 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1222 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1225 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
1226 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1227 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1228 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
1229 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
1231 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
1232 called forany and forall.
1234 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1235 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1236 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
1238 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
1240 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
1241 that makes it case-sensitive.
1243 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1244 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1245 items, typically addresses.
1247 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1248 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1249 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
1252 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
1253 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
1255 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1258 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
1265 No new features were added to 4.66.
1271 No new features were added to 4.65.
1277 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1278 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1279 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
1282 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
1283 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
1285 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1286 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
1287 number of authentication methods.
1289 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1290 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1291 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1293 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1294 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1295 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1296 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
1298 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
1300 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1301 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1302 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
1303 before doing the expansions.
1305 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
1306 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1309 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1310 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
1311 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
1313 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
1314 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
1316 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1317 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1318 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1319 available for compatibility.)
1321 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1322 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
1328 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
1331 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1332 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
1335 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1336 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
1337 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
1339 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
1340 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
1342 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
1344 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1345 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1347 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1349 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1351 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1352 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1353 each messages value for each variable.
1355 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1356 same criteria without --not).
1362 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1363 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1364 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1365 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1366 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1367 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1369 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1371 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1372 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1373 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1376 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1377 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1378 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1380 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1381 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1382 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1383 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1389 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1390 the 4.60 release are:
1392 . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1394 . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1396 . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1397 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1398 for other things in complicated expansions.
1400 . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
1402 . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1403 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1405 . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1407 . More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1409 There are a number of other additions too.
1415 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1416 the 4.50 release are:
1418 . Support for SQLite.
1420 . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1422 . Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1424 . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1426 . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
1428 . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
1430 . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
1432 There are many more minor changes.