4 This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
5 Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
6 test from the snapshots or the Git before the documentation is updated. Once
7 the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
12 1. A new ACL condition: seen. Records/tests a timestamp against a key.
14 2. A variant of the "mask" expansion operator to give normalised IPv6.
16 3. UTC output option for exim_dumpdb, exim_fixdb
22 1. The fast-ramp two phase queue run support, previously experimental, is
23 now supported by default.
25 2. The native SRS support, previously experimental, is now supported. It is
26 not built unless specified in the Local/Makefile.
28 3. TLS resumption support, previously experimental, is now supported and
29 included in default builds.
31 4. Single-key LMDB lookups, previously experimental, are now supported.
32 The support is not built unless specified in the Local/Makefile.
34 5. Option "message_linelength_limit" on the smtp transport to enforce (by
35 default) the RFC 998 character limit.
37 6. An option to ignore the cache on a lookup.
39 7. Quota checking during reception (i.e. at SMTP time) for appendfile-
40 transport-managed quotas.
42 8. Sqlite lookups accept a "file=<path>" option to specify a per-operation
43 db file, replacing the previous prefix to the SQL string (which had
44 issues when the SQL used tainted values).
46 9. Lsearch lookups accept a "ret=full" option, to return both the portion
47 of the line matching the key, and the remainder.
49 10. A command-line option to have a daemon not create a notifier socket.
51 11. Faster TLS startup. When various configuration options contain no
52 expandable elements, the information can be preloaded and cached rather
53 than the previous behaviour of always loading at startup time for every
54 connection. This helps particularly for the CA bundle.
56 12. Proxy Protocol Timeout is configurable via "proxy_protocol_timeout"
59 13. Option "smtp_accept_max_per_connection" is now expanded.
61 14. Log selector "queue_time_exclusive", enabled by default, to exclude the
62 time taken for reception from QT log elements.
64 15. Main option "smtp_backlog_monitor", to set a level above which listen
65 socket backlogs are logged.
67 16. Main option "hosts_require_helo", requiring HELO or EHLO before MAIL.
69 17. A main config option "allow_insecure_tainted_data" allows to turn
71 18. TLS ALPN handling. By default, refuse TLS connections that try to specify
72 a non-smtp (eg. http) use. Options for customising.
74 19. Support for MacOS (darwin) has been dropped.
80 1. EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
83 2. Channel-binding for authenticators is now supported under OpenSSL.
84 Previously it was GnuTLS-only.
88 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the
89 plaintext driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and
90 SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS methods.
92 5. Server-side support in the gsasl authenticator for encrypted passwords, as
93 an alternate for the existing plaintext.
95 6. Variable $local_part_data now also set by router check_local_user option,
96 with an de-tainted version of $local_part.
98 7. Named-list definitions can now be prefixed "hide" so that "-bP" commands do
99 not output the content. Previously this could only be done on options.
101 8. As an experimental feature, the dovecot authentication driver supports inet
102 sockets. Previously it was unix-domain sockets only.
104 9. The ACL control "queue_only" can also be spelled "queue", and now takes an
105 option "first_pass_route" to do the same as a "-odqs" on the command line.
107 10. Items specified for the router and transport headers_remove option can use
108 a trailing asterisk to specify globbing.
110 11. New $queue_size variable.
112 12. New variables $local_part_{pre,suf}fix_v.
114 13. New main option "sqlite_dbfile", for use in preference to prefixing the
115 lookup string. The older method fails when tainted variables are used
116 in the lookup, as the filename becomes tainted. The new method keeps the
119 14. Options on the dsearch lookup, to return the full path and to filter
120 filetypes for matching.
122 15. Options on pgsql and mysql lookups, to specify server separate from the
125 16. An option on all single-key lookups, to return (on a hit) a de-tainted
126 version of the lookup key rather than the looked-up data.
128 17. $domain_data and $local_part_data are now set by all list-match successes.
129 Previously only list items that performed lookups did so.
130 Also, matching list items that are tail-match or RE-match now set the
131 numeric variables $0 (etc) in the same way os other RE matches.
133 18. Expansion item ${listquote {<char} {<item>}}.
135 19. An option for the ${readsocket {}{}{}} expansion to make the result data
138 20. dkim_verify_min_keysizes, a list of minimum acceptable public-key sizes.
140 21. bounce_message_file and warn_message_file are now expanded before use.
142 22. New main config option spf_smtp_comment_template to customise the
143 $spf_smtp_comment variable
150 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
152 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
154 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
157 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
159 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
161 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
164 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
165 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
167 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
169 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
172 10. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
174 11. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
176 12. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
178 13. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
180 14: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
182 15: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
183 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
184 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
185 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
186 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
187 only, and exim must be run as root).
189 16: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
191 17. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
197 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
198 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
199 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
200 facilities hard to parse.
202 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
205 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
206 features. See the experimental.spec file.
208 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
210 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
212 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
214 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
216 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
218 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
223 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
224 version 3.5.6 or later.
226 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
227 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
228 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
230 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
232 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
233 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
235 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
236 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
237 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
238 a "dkim" log_selector.
240 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
242 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
243 routing rules in the manualroute router.
245 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
246 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
248 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
249 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
251 10. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
254 11. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
256 12. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
257 Authentication-Results: header.
259 13. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
260 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
262 14: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
264 15. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
265 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
266 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
267 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
269 16. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
270 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
271 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
277 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
278 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
280 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
281 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
283 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
284 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
285 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
286 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
287 another process. Logging is also affected.
289 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
291 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
292 further recipients and for delivery.
294 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
297 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
298 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
299 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
300 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
301 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
303 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
304 restrict who can use various introspection options.
306 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
307 appendfile transport.
309 10. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
312 11. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
313 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
315 12. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
316 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
317 is opened with a TFO cookie.
319 13. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
320 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
321 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
322 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
323 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
326 14. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
329 15. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
330 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
332 16. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
333 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
335 17. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
341 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
343 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
344 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
345 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
351 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
352 interpreter in taint mode.
354 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
356 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
359 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
360 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
361 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
363 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
364 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
365 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
368 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
370 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
371 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
372 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
375 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
377 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
379 10. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
380 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
381 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
382 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
383 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
385 11. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
387 12. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
388 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
391 13. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
393 14. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
394 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
396 15. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
397 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
398 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
399 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
400 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
401 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
402 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
403 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
405 16. A new syslog_pid option to suppress PID duplication in syslog lines.
411 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
412 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
414 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
415 malware= or verify= callout.
417 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
419 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
420 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
421 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
422 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
423 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
424 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
426 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
428 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
430 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
431 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
433 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
434 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
437 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
443 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
445 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
446 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
448 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
450 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
452 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
454 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
456 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
457 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
459 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
460 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
462 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
463 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
465 10. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
467 11. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
469 12. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
471 13. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
472 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
474 14. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
475 same level as DNSSEC.
480 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
481 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
482 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
483 domain of the sender.
485 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
486 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
487 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
488 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
489 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
490 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
492 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
493 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
494 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
504 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
505 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
506 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
507 proxy that is connecting to it.
509 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
510 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
511 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
512 detect and reject if those characters are present.
514 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
515 codepoints with valid ones.
517 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
518 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
519 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
520 be included in the command line.
522 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
523 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
524 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
525 verification cancels the encryption.
527 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
528 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
531 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
532 file when searching the queue.
534 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
536 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
538 10. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
539 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
540 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
543 11. PRDR is now supported dy default.
545 12. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
547 13. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
548 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
549 DSN features per RFC 3461.
555 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
556 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
557 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
558 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
559 SIEVE capability line.
561 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
562 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
563 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
564 followed by a newline, and no other text.
566 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
567 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
568 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
569 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
570 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
571 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
572 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
573 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
575 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
577 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
578 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
579 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
580 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
581 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
582 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
584 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
586 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
587 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
588 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
590 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
591 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
593 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
594 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
596 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
597 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
598 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
599 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
602 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
603 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
604 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
605 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
606 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
607 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
608 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
609 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
610 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
611 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
612 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
613 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
616 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
617 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
618 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
619 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
621 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
622 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
623 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
625 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
626 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
627 are present for now but deprecated.
629 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
631 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
632 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
634 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
635 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
636 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
637 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
638 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
639 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
640 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
641 unless this new option is set.
643 Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability,
644 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
645 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
648 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
650 10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
651 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
652 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
653 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
654 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
655 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
656 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
657 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
658 return results in a forced fail.
660 11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
661 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
663 12. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
664 handled by routers/transports.
666 13. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
667 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
669 14. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
670 modifier (but not yet added to message).
672 15. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
674 16. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
676 17. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
677 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
678 require privilege whereas -d does.
680 18. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
681 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
683 19. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
684 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
685 wrappers, for instance.
687 20. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
690 21. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
691 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
692 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
693 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
694 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
695 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
696 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
698 22. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
699 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
700 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
702 23. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
705 24. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
706 characters in the string to \xNN form.
708 25. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
709 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
711 26. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
717 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
718 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
719 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
720 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
721 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
723 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
724 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
725 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
726 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
728 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
729 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
730 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
731 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
732 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
734 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
735 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
737 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
739 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
740 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
741 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
744 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
746 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
747 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
748 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
749 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
750 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
751 compatibility at the cost of session security.
753 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
754 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
755 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
756 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
757 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
759 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
760 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
762 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
763 for Exim as a server.
765 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
766 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
767 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
768 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
769 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
771 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
772 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
773 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
774 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
775 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
777 10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
778 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
780 11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
781 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
782 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
783 string, documentation for which is at:
784 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
786 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
788 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
789 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
791 12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
792 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
793 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
794 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
795 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
797 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
799 13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
800 identically to TXT record lookups.
802 14. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
804 15. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
805 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
806 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
808 16. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
809 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
810 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
811 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
814 17. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
815 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
816 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
822 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
823 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
825 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
826 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
828 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
829 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
831 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
832 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
833 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
835 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
836 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
837 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
838 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
844 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
845 or off in the resolver library.
851 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
852 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
853 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
854 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
855 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
857 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
858 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
859 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
861 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
862 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
864 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
865 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
866 including any header additions or removals from transport.
868 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
869 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
875 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
876 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
877 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
878 on content supplied by the attacker.
880 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
881 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
882 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
883 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
884 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
890 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
891 items below carefully
893 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
894 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
895 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
896 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
897 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
898 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
901 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
902 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
903 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
904 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
905 be able to take effect.
907 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
908 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
909 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
910 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
912 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
913 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
914 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
915 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
917 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
919 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
921 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
922 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
923 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
924 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
925 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
926 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
928 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
929 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
931 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
933 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
934 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
936 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
937 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
938 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
939 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
940 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
941 don't all make sense in all contexts:
944 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
945 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
946 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
948 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
949 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
950 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
951 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
952 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
953 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
954 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
955 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
956 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
957 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
960 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
961 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
962 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
964 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
966 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
968 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
969 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
970 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
971 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
972 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
975 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
976 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
978 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
979 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
980 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
981 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
982 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
983 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
985 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
986 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
987 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
988 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
989 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
990 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
991 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
992 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
998 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
999 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
1001 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
1003 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
1004 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
1007 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
1008 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
1009 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
1010 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
1011 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
1012 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
1013 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
1014 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
1015 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
1016 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
1018 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
1019 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
1021 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
1022 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
1023 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
1029 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
1030 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
1031 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
1032 for details on conditionally disabling)
1034 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
1036 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
1037 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
1038 and{} expansion operator).
1040 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
1043 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
1044 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
1046 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
1047 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
1048 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
1050 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
1051 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
1052 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
1053 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
1055 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
1058 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
1064 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
1070 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
1073 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
1074 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
1075 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
1078 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
1080 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
1081 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
1082 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
1085 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
1087 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
1088 192.168.6.7 (for example).
1090 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
1091 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
1092 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
1093 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
1095 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
1097 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
1098 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
1099 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
1102 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
1103 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
1104 only by an admin user.
1106 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
1107 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
1108 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
1109 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
1110 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
1112 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
1113 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
1118 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1119 # we update it below
1120 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1121 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1122 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1124 [... some other logic and tests...]
1126 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1127 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1128 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1129 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1133 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1134 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1135 line termination character(s).
1137 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
1138 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1139 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1141 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1142 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1143 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1144 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1146 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
1147 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1148 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1149 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1150 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1152 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1153 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1154 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1156 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1157 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1158 connection. The possible values are:
1160 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1161 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1162 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1163 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1164 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1165 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1166 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1167 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1168 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1169 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1171 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1172 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1173 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1174 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1175 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1178 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
1179 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1180 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1182 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1183 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1184 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1186 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1188 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1189 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1190 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1192 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1193 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1194 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1196 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1198 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1200 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1202 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1204 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1206 you can still update the master by
1208 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1210 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
1211 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1212 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1219 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1220 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1221 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
1224 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
1225 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1226 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
1227 rather than the default "any" matching.
1229 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1230 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1231 other parameters to be varied.
1233 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1234 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
1236 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
1238 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
1240 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
1241 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
1243 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
1244 after the connection to the server has been made.
1246 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
1247 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
1249 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1250 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1253 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
1254 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1255 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1256 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
1257 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
1259 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
1260 called forany and forall.
1262 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1263 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1264 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
1266 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
1268 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
1269 that makes it case-sensitive.
1271 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1272 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1273 items, typically addresses.
1275 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1276 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1277 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
1280 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
1281 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
1283 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1286 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
1293 No new features were added to 4.66.
1299 No new features were added to 4.65.
1305 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1306 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1307 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
1310 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
1311 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
1313 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1314 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
1315 number of authentication methods.
1317 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1318 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1319 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1321 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1322 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1323 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1324 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
1326 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
1328 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1329 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1330 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
1331 before doing the expansions.
1333 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
1334 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1337 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1338 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
1339 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
1341 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
1342 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
1344 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1345 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1346 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1347 available for compatibility.)
1349 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1350 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
1356 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
1359 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1360 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
1363 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1364 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
1365 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
1367 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
1368 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
1370 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
1372 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1373 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1375 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1377 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1379 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1380 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1381 each messages value for each variable.
1383 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1384 same criteria without --not).
1390 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1391 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1392 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1393 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1394 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1395 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1397 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1399 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1400 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1401 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1404 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1405 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1406 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1408 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1409 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1410 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1411 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1417 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1418 the 4.60 release are:
1420 . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1422 . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1424 . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1425 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1426 for other things in complicated expansions.
1428 . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
1430 . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1431 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1433 . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1435 . More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1437 There are a number of other additions too.
1443 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1444 the 4.50 release are:
1446 . Support for SQLite.
1448 . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1450 . Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1452 . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1454 . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
1456 . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
1458 . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
1460 There are many more minor changes.