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New Features in Exim
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test from the snapshots or the CVS before the documentation is updated. Once
the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
-Version 4.67
+Version 4.83
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- 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
- the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
- whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
- MAIL command. This includes both the case when the connection is dropped,
- and the case when QUIT is used. Note that it does not include cases where
- the connection is rejected right at the start (by an ACL, or because there
- are too many connections, or whatever). These cases already have their own
- log lines.
-
- The log line that is written contains the identity of the client in the
- usual way, followed by D= and a time, which records the duration of the
- connection. If the connection was authenticated, this fact is logged
- exactly as it is for an incoming message, with an A= item. If the
- connection was encrypted, CV=, DN=, and X= items may appear as they do for
- an incoming message, controlled by the same logging options.
-
- Finally, if any SMTP commands were issued during the connection, a C= item
- is added to the line, listing the commands that were used. For example,
-
- C=EHLO,QUIT
-
- shows that the client issued QUIT straight after EHLO. If there were fewer
- than 20 commands, they are all listed. If there were more than 20 commands,
- the last 20 are listed, preceded by "...". However, with the default
- setting of 10 for smtp_accep_max_nonmail, the connection will in any case
- be aborted before 20 non-mail commands are processed.
+ 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
+ configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
+ actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
+ proxy that is connecting to it.
- 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
- addresses, in order to restrict the match to specific results from the DNS
- lookup, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than one
- IP address. For example, consider the condition
+ 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
+ there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
+ those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
+ detect and reject if those characters are present.
- dnslists = a.b.c=127.0.0.1
+ 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
+ codepoints with valid ones.
- What happens if the DNS lookup for the incoming IP address yields both
- 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2 by means of two separate DNS records? Is the
- condition true because at least one given value was found, or is it false
- because at least one of the found values was not listed? And how does this
- affect negated conditions?
+ 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
+ command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
+ and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoofile name can
+ be included in the command line.
- The behaviour of = and & has not been changed; however, the text below
- documents it more clearly. In addition, two new additional conditions (==
- and =&) have been added, to permit the "other" behaviour to be configured.
+ 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
+ "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
+ is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
+ verification cancels the encryption.
- A DNS lookup may yield more than one record. Thus, the result of the lookup
- for a dnslists check may yield more than one IP address. The question then
- arises as to whether all the looked up addresses must be listed, or whether
- just one is good enough. Both possibilities are provided for:
+ 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
+ lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
+ default list.
- . If = or & is used, the condition is true if any one of the looked up
- IP addresses matches one of the listed addresses. Consider:
+ 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
+ file when searching the queue.
- dnslists = a.b.c=127.0.0.1
+ 8. EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3
+ or later of that.
- If the DNS lookup yields both 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2, the condition is
- true because 127.0.0.1 matches.
+ 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
- . If == or =& is used, the condition is true only if every one of the
- looked up IP addresses matches one of the listed addresses. Consider:
+10. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
+ "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
+ work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
+ for them added.
- dnslists = a.b.c==127.0.0.1
- If the DNS lookup yields both 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2, the condition is
- false because 127.0.0.2 is not listed. You would need to have
+Version 4.82
+------------
- dnslists = a.b.c==127.0.0.1,127.0.0.2
+ 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
+ of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
+ ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
+ query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
+ SIEVE capability line.
+
+ 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
+ emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
+ For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
+ followed by a newline, and no other text.
+
+ 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
+ has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
+ bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
+ acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
+ Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
+ far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
+ sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
+ establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
+
+ Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
+
+ 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
+ dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
+ to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
+ resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
+ can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
+ relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
+
+ Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
+
+ 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
+ set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
+ DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
+
+ Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
+ so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
+
+ Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
+ ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
+
+ 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
+ ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
+ is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
+ process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
+ ignored.
+
+ 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
+ ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are recieved on and
+ deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
+ if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
+ the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
+ direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
+ When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
+ is negociated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
+ does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
+ is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
+ a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
+ The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
+ system not your own.
+
+ The Recieved-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
+ early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
+ included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
+ reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
+
+ To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
+ The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
+ hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
+
+ New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
+ for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
+ are present for now but deprecated.
+
+ Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
+
+ 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
+ and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
+
+ 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
+ rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
+ modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
+ those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
+ that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
+ unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
+ through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
+ unless this new option is set.
+
+ Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability,
+ so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
+ but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
+ Local/Makefile:
+
+ AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
+
+10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
+ New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
+ "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
+ can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
+ Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
+ a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
+ or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
+ accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
+ return results in a forced fail.
+
+11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
+ option lines. The concatenated list is used.
+
+12. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
+ handled by routers/transports.
+
+13. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
+ "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
+
+14. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
+ modifier (but not yet added to messsage).
- for the condition to be true.
+15. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
- When ! is used to negate IP address matching, it inverts the result, giving
- the precise opposite of the behaviour above. Thus:
+16. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
- . If != or !& is used, the condition is true if none of the looked up IP
- addresses matches one of the listed addresses. Consider:
+17. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
+ particularly for debug_print as -bt commandline option does not
+ require privilege whereas -d does.
- dnslists = a.b.c!&0.0.0.1
+18. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
+ proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
- If the DNS lookup yields both 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2, the condition is
- false because 127.0.0.1 matches.
+19. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
+ decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
+ wrappers, for instance.
+
+20. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
+ connections apply.
- . If !== or !=& is used, the condition is true there is at least one looked
- up IP address that does not match. Consider:
+21. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
+ options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
+ It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
+ $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
+ dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
+ dmarc_enable_forensic.
+
+22. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
+ provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
+ for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
- dnslists = a.b.c!=&0.0.0.1
+23. New ACL modifer "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
+ UDP host and port.
- If the DNS lookup yields both 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2, the condition is
- true, because 127.0.0.2 does not match. You would need to have
+24. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
+ characters in the string to \xNN form.
- dnslists = a.b.c!=&0.0.0.1,0.0.0.2
+25. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
+ Patch provided by Axel Rau.
- for the condition to be false.
+26. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
- When the DNS lookup yields only a single IP address, there is no difference
- between = and == and between & and =&.
- 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
- for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
- other parameters to be varied. Here is complete documentation for the
- available features:
-
- GnuTLS allows the caller to specify separate lists of permitted key
- exchange methods, main cipher algorithms, and MAC algorithms. These may be
- used in any combination to form a specific cipher suite. This is unlike
- OpenSSL, where complete cipher names can be passed to its control function.
- GnuTLS also allows a list of acceptable protocols to be supplied.
-
- For compatibility with OpenSSL, the tls_require_ciphers option can be set
- to complete cipher suite names such as RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA, but for GnuTLS this
- option controls only the cipher algorithms. Exim searches each item in the
- list for the name of an available algorithm. For example, if the list
- contains RSA_AES_SHA, then AES is recognized, and the behaviour is exactly
- the same as if just AES were given.
-
- There are additional options called gnutls_require_kx, gnutls_require_mac,
- and gnutls_require_protocols that can be used to restrict the key exchange
- methods, MAC algorithms, and protocols, respectively. These options are
- ignored if OpenSSL is in use.
-
- All four options are available as global options, controlling how Exim
- behaves as a server, and also as options of the smtp transport, controlling
- how Exim behaves as a client. All the values are string expanded. After
- expansion, the values must be colon-separated lists, though the separator
- can be changed in the usual way.
-
- Each of the four lists starts out with a default set of algorithms. If the
- first item in one of the "require" options does _not_ start with an
- exclamation mark, all the default items are deleted. In this case, only
- those that are explicitly specified can be used. If the first item in one
- of the "require" items _does_ start with an exclamation mark, the defaults
- are left on the list.
-
- Then, any item that starts with an exclamation mark causes the relevant
- entry to be removed from the list, and any item that does not start with an
- exclamation mark causes a new entry to be added to the list. Unrecognized
- items in the list are ignored. Thus:
-
- tls_require_ciphers = !ARCFOUR
-
- allows all the defaults except ARCFOUR, whereas
-
- tls_require_ciphers = AES : 3DES
-
- allows only cipher suites that use AES or 3DES. For tls_require_ciphers
- the recognized names are AES_256, AES_128, AES (both of the preceding),
- 3DES, ARCFOUR_128, ARCFOUR_40, and ARCFOUR (both of the preceding). The
- default list does not contain all of these; it just has AES_256, AES_128,
- 3DES, and ARCFOUR_128.
-
- For gnutls_require_kx, the recognized names are DHE_RSA, RSA (which
- includes DHE_RSA), DHE_DSS, and DHE (which includes both DHE_RSA and
- DHE_DSS). The default list contains RSA, DHE_DSS, DHE_RSA.
-
- For gnutls_require_mac, the recognized names are SHA (synonym SHA1), and
- MD5. The default list contains SHA, MD5.
-
- For gnutls_require_protocols, the recognized names are TLS1 and SSL3.
- The default list contains TLS1, SSL3.
-
- In a server, the order of items in these lists is unimportant. The server
- will advertise the availability of all the relevant cipher suites. However,
- in a client, the order in the tls_require_ciphers list specifies a
- preference order for the cipher algorithms. The first one in the client's
- list that is also advertised by the server is tried first.
-
- 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. You must
- not set this option unless you really, really, really understand what you
- are doing. No pre-compiled distributions of Exim should ever set this
- option. When it is set, Exim compiles a runtime option called
- disable_fsync. If this is set true, Exim no longer calls fsync() to force
- updated files' data to be written to disc. Unexpected events such as
- crashes and power outages may cause data to be lost or scrambled. Beware.
-
- When ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC is not set, a reference to disable_fsync in a
- runtime configuration generates an "unknown option" error.
-
- 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start. The name
- is deliberately long, in order to emphasize what the contents are. This
- variable is set greater than zero only in processes spawned by the Exim
- daemon for handling incoming SMTP connections. When the daemon accepts a
- new connection, it increments this variable. A copy of the variable is
- passed to the child process that handles the connection, but its value is
- fixed, and never changes. It is only an approximation of how many incoming
- connections there actually are, because many other connections may come and
- go while a single connection is being processed. When a child process
- terminates, the daemon decrements the variable.
-
- 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining, which does what its name
- suggests. It turns off the advertising of the PIPELINING extension to SMTP.
- To be useful, this control must be obeyed before Exim sends its response to
- an EHLO command. Therefore, it should normally appear in an ACL controlled
- by acl_smtp_connect or acl_smtp_helo.
+Version 4.80
+------------
- 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
- These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up,
- and they contain the IP address and port of the local interface that is
- being used. They are of interest only on hosts that have more than on IP
- address that want to take on different personalities depending on which one
- is being used.
+ 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
+ This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
+ This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
+ careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
- 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
- after the connection to the server has been made. This means that it can
- use the value of $sending_ip_address (see 7 above) to vary the text of the
- message. For example, if you want the string that is used for helo_data to
- be obtained by a DNS lookup of the interface address, you could use this:
+ 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
+ A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
+ is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
+ "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
- helo_data = ${lookup dnsdb{ptr=$sending_ip_address}{$value}\
- {$primary_hostname}}
+ 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
+ cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
+ than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
+ "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
+ without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
- The use of helo_data applies both to sending messages and when doing
- callouts.
+ In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
+ find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
- 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
- are encoded as per RFC 2047. Binary zero bytes are replaced by question
- marks. Characters are converted into the character set defined by
- headers_charset. Overlong RFC 2047 "words" are not recognized unless
- check_rfc2047_length is set false.
+ 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
-10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
- id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
- time and date.
+ 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
+ be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
+ into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
+ used by Cyrus SASL.
-11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
- a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
- as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
- obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
- respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection. The effect of the
- new default behaviour is to disable the PIPELINING optimization in these
- situations, in order to avoid unexpected timeouts in clients.
+ 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
-12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
- called forany and forall, and they are used like this:
+ Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
+ "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
+ increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
+ implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
+ administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
+ compatibility at the cost of session security.
- ${if forany{<a list>}{<a condition>}{<yes-string>}{<no-string>}}
- ${if forall{<a list>}{<a condition>}{<yes-string>}{<no-string>}}
+ 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
+ tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
+ sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
+ different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
+ still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
- The first argument is expanded, and the result is treated as a list. By
- default, the list separator is a colon, but it can be changed by the normal
- method. The second argument is interpreted as a condition that is to be
- applied to each item in the list in turn. During the interpretation of the
- condition, the current list item is placed in a variable called $item.
+ The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
+ for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
- - For forany, interpretation stops if the condition is true for any item,
- and the yes-string is then expanded. If the condition is false for all
- items in the list, the no-string is expanded.
+ A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
+ for Exim as a server.
- - For forall, interpration stops if the condition is false for any item,
- and the no-string is then expanded. If the condition is true for all
- items in the list, the yes-string is expanded.
+ 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
+ that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
+ Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
+ Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
+ even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
- Note that negation of forany means that the condition must be false for all
- items for the overall condition to succeed, and negation of forall means
- that the condition must be false for at least one item.
+ 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
+ -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
+ already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
+ "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
+ interested in adding more support for modern variants.
- In this example, the list separator is changed to a comma:
+10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
+ for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
- ${if forany{<, $recipients}{match{$item}{^user3@}}{yes}{no}}
+11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
+ gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
+ tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
+ string, documentation for which is at:
+ http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
- Outside a forany/forall condition, the value of $item is an empty string.
- Its value is saved and restored while forany/forall is being processed, to
- enable these expansion items to be nested.
+ SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
-13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
- contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
- messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
- The default setting is:
+ For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
+ gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
- dsn_from = Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@$qualify_domain>
+12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
+ is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
+ send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
+ Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
+ are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
- The value is expanded every time it is needed. If the expansion fails, a
- panic is logged, and the default setting is used.
+ See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
-14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining. It can
- be used to suppress the use of PIPELINING to certain hosts, while still
- supporting the other SMTP extensions (cf hosts_avoid_tls).
+13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
+ identically to TXT record lookups.
-15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
- that makes it case-sensitive. This may give a performance improvement when
- searching large log files. Without -I, the Perl pattern matches use the /i
- option; with -I they don't. In both cases it is possible to change the case
- sensitivity within the pattern using (?i) or (?-i).
+14. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
-14. A number of new features have been added to string expansions to make it
- easier to process lists of items, typically addresses. These are as
- follows:
+15. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
+ hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
+ GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
- * ${addresses:<string>}
+16. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
+ Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
+ If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
+ Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
+ primes.
- The string (after expansion) is interpreted as a list of addresses in RFC
- 2822 format, such as can be found in a To: or Cc: header line. The
- operative address (local-part@domain) is extracted from each item, and the
- result of the expansion is a colon-separated list, with appropriate
- doubling of colons should any happen to be present in the email addresses.
- Syntactically invalid RFC2822 address items are omitted from the output.
+17. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
+ Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
+ install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
- It is possible to specify a character other than colon for the output
- separator by starting the string with > followed by the new separator
- character. For example:
- ${addresses:>& The Boss <ceo@up.stairs>, sec@base.ment (dogsbody)}
+Version 4.77
+------------
+
+ 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
+ The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
- expands to "ceo@up.stairs&sec@base.ment". Compare ${address (singular),
- which extracts the working address from a single RFC2822 address.
+ 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
+ use SSL-on-connect outbound.
- * ${map{<string1>}{<string2>}}
+ 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
+ there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
- After expansion, <string1> is interpreted as a list, colon-separated by
- default, but the separator can be changed in the usual way. For each item
- in this list, its value is place in $item, and then <string2> is expanded
- and added to the output as an item in a new list. The separator used for
- the output list is the same as the one used for the input, but is not
- included in the output. For example:
+ 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
+ and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
+ support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
+
+ 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
+ built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
+ the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
+ "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
+
+
+Version 4.76
+------------
+
+ 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
+ or off in the resolver library.
+
+
+Version 4.75
+------------
- ${map{a:b:c}{[$item]}} ${map{<- x-y-z}{($item)}}
+ 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
+ is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
+ libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
+ this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
+ ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
- expands to "[a]:[b]:[c] (x)-(y)-(z)". At the end of the expansion, the
- value of $item is restored to what it was before.
+ 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
+ false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
+ Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
- * ${filter{<string1>}{<condition>}}
+ 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
+ The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
- After expansion, <string1> is interpreted as a list, colon-separated by
- default, but the separator can be changed in the usual way. For each item
- in this list, its value is place in $item, and then the condition is
- evaluated. If the condition is true, $item is added to the output as an
- item in a new list; if the condition is false, the item is discarded. The
- separator used for the output list is the same as the one used for the
- input, but is not included in the output. For example:
+ 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
+ in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
+ including any header additions or removals from transport.
- ${filter{a:b:c}{!eq{$item}{b}}
+ 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
+ Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
+
+
+Version 4.74
+------------
+
+ 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
+ the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
+ arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
+ on content supplied by the attacker.
+
+ 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
+ platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
+ and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
+ dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
+ all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
+
+
+Version 4.73
+------------
+
+ NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
+ items below carefully
+
+ 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
+ is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
+ administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
+ typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
+ developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
+ consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
+ frivolously.
+
+ 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
+ diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
+ a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
+ so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
+ be able to take effect.
+
+ 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
+ Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
+ Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
+ release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
+
+ The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
+ part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
+ the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
+ a Unix-domain socket. For example:
+
+ av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
+
+ ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
+
+ 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
+ takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
+ malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
+ to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
+ Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
+ ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
+
+ 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
+ addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
+
+ ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
+ -> 4.2.0.192
+ ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
+ -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
+
+ 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
+ This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
+ production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
+ and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
+ is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
+ don't all make sense in all contexts:
+
+ control = debug
+ control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
+ control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
+ control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
+
+ 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
+ "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
+ "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
+ shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
+ themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
+ running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
+ them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
+ statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
+ will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
+ then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
+ the safeties off.
+
+ 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
+ condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
+ strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
+ do evaluate true.
+ Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
+
+ 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
+
+10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
+ Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
+ config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
+ is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
+ default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
+ build option.
+
+11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
+ the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
+
+12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
+ is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
+ TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
+ are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
+ a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
+ user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
+
+13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
+ trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
+ forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
+ include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
+ providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
+ a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
+ run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
+ ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
+
+
+Version 4.72
+------------
+
+ 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
+ writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
+
+ 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
+
+ 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
+ messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
+ duplicates).
+
+ 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
+ in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
+ only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
+ preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
+ separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
+ concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
+ or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
+ strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
+ Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
+ between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
+
+ foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
+ foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
+
+ ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
+ ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
+ ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
+
+
+Version 4.70 / 4.71
+-------------------
+
+ 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
+ (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
+ result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
+ for details on conditionally disabling)
+
+ 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
+
+ 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
+ true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
+ and{} expansion operator).
+
+ 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
+ at delivery time.
+
+ 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
+ options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
+
+ 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
+ which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
+ security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
+
+ 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
+ "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
+ not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
+ Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
+
+ 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
+ OpenSSL.
+
+ 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
+
+
+Version 4.69
+------------
+
+ 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
+
+
+Version 4.68
+------------
- yields "a:c". At the end of the expansion, the value of $item is restored
- to what it was before.
+ 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
+ local_scan API.
+
+ 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
+ in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
+ this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
+ cases, for example:
+
+ deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
+
+ the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
+ $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
+ true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
+ like this:
+
+ deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
+
+ If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
+ 192.168.6.7 (for example).
+
+ 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
+ a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
+ "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
+ authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
+
+ client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
+
+ Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
+ cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
+ contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
+ $tls_peerdn.
- * ${reduce{<string1>}{<string2>}{<string3>}}
+ 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
+ message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
+ only by an admin user.
+
+ 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
+ computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
+ the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
+ the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
+ incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
+
+ In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
+ for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
+
+ Example:
+
+ acl_check_connect:
+ # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
+ # we update it below
+ deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
+ log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
+ (max $sender_rate_limit)
+
+ [... some other logic and tests...]
+
+ warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
+ log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
+ (max $sender_rate_limit)
+ condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
+
+ accept
+
+ 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
+ longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
+ line termination character(s).
+
+ 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analagous to
+ +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
+ care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
+
+ 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
+ If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
+ the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
+ message is queued, the remainder are also.
+
+ 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
+ cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
+ itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
+ this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
+ log files) that make the situation even worse.
+
+ Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
+ statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
+ modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
+
+ When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
+ to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
+ connection. The possible values are:
+
+ acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
+ bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
+ command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
+ connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
+ data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
+ local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
+ local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
+ signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
+ synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
+ tls-failed TLS failed to start
+
+ In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
+ QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
+ connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
+ overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
+ "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
+ used.
+
+10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
+ servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
+ "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
+
+ (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
+ or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
+ remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
+
+ (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
+
+ The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
+ Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
+ successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
+
+ This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
+ are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
+ masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
+
+ mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
+
+ In an updating lookup, you could then write
+
+ ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
+
+ If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
+
+ pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
+
+ you can still update the master by
+
+ ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
+
+11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
+ compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
+ $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
+ spaces.
+
+
+Version 4.67
+------------
+
+ 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
+ the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
+ whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
+ MAIL command.
+
+ 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
+ addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
+ one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
+ rather than the default "any" matching.
+
+ 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
+ for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
+ other parameters to be varied.
+
+ 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
+ set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
+
+ 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
+
+ 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
+
+ 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
+ These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
+
+ 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
+ after the connection to the server has been made.
+
+ 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
+ are encoded as per RFC 2047.
+
+10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
+ id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
+ time and date.
+
+11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
+ a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
+ as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
+ obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
+ respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
+
+12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
+ called forany and forall.
+
+13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
+ contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
+ messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
+
+14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
+
+15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
+ that makes it case-sensitive.
- The ${reduce expansion operation reduces a list to a single, scalar string.
- After expansion, <string1> is interpreted as a list, colon-separated by
- default, but the separator can be changed in the usual way. Then <string2>
- is expanded and assigned to the $value variable. After this, each item in
- the <string1> list is assigned to $item in turn, and <string3> is expanded
- for each of them. The result of that expansion is assigned to $value before
- the next iteration. When the end of the list is reached, the final value of
- $value is added to the expansion string. The ${reduce expansion item can be
- used in a number of ways. For example, to add up a list of numbers:
+16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
+ been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
+ items, typically addresses.
- ${reduce {<, 1,2,3}{0}{${eval:$value+$item}}}
+17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
+ and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
+ modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
+ can be used.
- The result of that expansion would be "6". The maximum of a list of numbers
- can be found:
+18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
+ values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
- ${reduce {3:0:9:4:6}{0}{${if >{$item}{$value}{$item}{$value}}}}
+19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
+ condition.
- At the end of a ${reduce expansion, the values of $item and $value is
- restored to what they were before.
+20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
+ "ignore".
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