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-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.34 2005/04/06 14:03:53 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.125 2006/12/20 09:44:37 ph10 Exp $

 
 New Features in Exim
 --------------------
 
 
 New Features in Exim
 --------------------
 

-This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim,
-but have not yet made it into the main manual (which is most conveniently
-updated when there is a relatively large batch of changes). The doc/ChangeLog
-file contains a listing of all changes, including bug fixes.
+This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
+Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
+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 4.51
+Version 4.64

 ------------
 
 ------------
 

-PH/01 The format in which GnuTLS parameters are written to the gnutls-param
-      file in the spool directory has been changed. This change has been made
-      to alleviate problems that some people had with the generation of the
-      parameters by Exim when /dev/random was exhausted. In this situation,
-      Exim would hang until /dev/random acquired some more entropy.
+ 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
+    "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
+    least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
+    an underscore.

 
 

-      The new code exports and imports the DH and RSA parameters in PEM
-      format. This means that the parameters can be generated externally using
-      the certtool command that is part of GnuTLS.
+ 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
+    to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.

 
 

-      To replace the parameters with new ones, instead of deleting the file
-      and letting Exim re-create it, you can generate new parameters using
-      certtool and, when this has been done, replace Exim's cache file by
-      renaming. The relevant commands are something like this:
+ 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
+    authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
+    number of authentication methods.

 
 

-        # rm -f new.params
-        # touch new.params
-        # chown exim:exim new.params
-        # chmod 0400 new.params
-        # certtool --generate-privkey --bits 512 >new.params
-        # echo "" >>new.params
-        # certtool --generate-dh-params --bits 1024 >> new.params
-        # mv new.params params
+ 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
+    messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
+    $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.

 
 

-      If Exim never has to generate the parameters itself, the possibility of
-      stalling is removed.
+ 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
+    second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
+    restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
+    without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.

 
 

-PH/02 A new expansion item for dynamically loading and calling a locally-
-      written C function is now provided, if Exim is compiled with
+ 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.

 
 

-        EXPAND_DLFUNC=yes
+ 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
+    conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
+    followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
+    before doing the expansions.

 
 

-      set in Local/Makefile. The facility is not included by default (a
-      suitable error is given if you try to use it when it is not there.)
+ 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
+    -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
+    message.

 
 

-      If you enable EXPAND_DLFUNC, you should also be aware of the new redirect
-      router option forbid_filter_dlfunc. If you have unprivileged users on
-      your system who are permitted to create filter files, you might want to
-      set forbid_filter_dlfunc=true in the appropriate router, to stop them
-      using ${dlfunc to run code within Exim.
+ 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
+    is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
+    subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.

 
 

-      You load and call an external function like this:
+10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
+    shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.

 
 

-        ${dlfunc{/some/file}{function}{arg1}{arg2}...}
+11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
+    as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
+    relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
+    available for compatibility.)

 
 

-      Once loaded, Exim remembers the dynamically loaded object so that it
-      doesn't reload the same object file in the same Exim process (but of
-      course Exim does start new processes frequently).
+12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
+    to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.

 
 

-      There may be from zero to eight arguments to the function. When compiling
-      a local function that is to be called in this way, local_scan.h should be
-      included. The Exim variables and functions that are defined by that API
-      are also available for dynamically loaded functions. The function itself
-      must have the following type:

 
 

-        int dlfunction(uschar **yield, int argc, uschar *argv[])
+Version 4.63
+------------
+
+1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
+   router.
+
+2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
+   start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
+   read.
+
+3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
+   or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
+   start of the message for an SMTP error code.
+
+4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
+   one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
+
+5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
+    --reverse
+        After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
+        before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
+    --random
+        Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
+    --size
+        Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
+        of their sizes.
+    --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
+        Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
+        each messages value for each variable.
+    --not
+        Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
+        same criteria without --not).
+
+
+Version 4.62
+------------

 
 

-      Where "uschar" is a typedef for "unsigned char" in local_scan.h. The
-      function should return one of the following values:
+1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
+   as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
+   the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
+   name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
+   IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
+   This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:

 
 

-      OK            Success. The string that is placed in "yield" is put into
-                    the expanded string that is being built.
+     ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...

 
 

-      FAIL          A non-forced expansion failure occurs, with the error
-                    message taken from "yield", if it is set.
+   Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
+   one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
+   a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
+   domain socket.

 
 

-      FAIL_FORCED   A forced expansion failure occurs, with the error message
-                    taken from "yield" if it is set.
+2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
+   incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
+   one, a batch delivery now occurs.

 
 

-      ERROR         Same as FAIL, except that a panic log entry is written.
+3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
+   Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
+   against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
+   maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.

 
 

-      When compiling a function that is to be used in this way with gcc,
-      you need to add -shared to the gcc command. Also, in the Exim build-time
-      configuration, you must add -export-dynamic to EXTRALIBS.

 
 

-TF/01 $received_time is a new expansion variable containing the time and date
-      as a number of seconds since the start of the Unix epoch when the
-      current message was received.
+Version 4.61
+------------

 
 

-PH/03 There is a new value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE that can be set in
-      Local/Makefile. It is RADIUSCLIENTNEW, and it requests that the new API,
-      in use from radiusclient 0.4.0 onwards, be used. It does not appear to be
-      possible to detect the different versions automatically.
+The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
+the 4.60 release are:

 
 

-PH/04 There is a new option called acl_not_smtp_mime that allows you to scan
-      MIME parts in non-SMTP messages. It operates in exactly the same way as
-      acl_smtp_mime
+. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.

 
 

-PH/05 It is now possible to redefine a macro within the configuration file.
-      The macro must have been previously defined within the configuration (or
-      an included file). A definition on the command line using the -D option
-      causes all definitions and redefinitions within the file to be ignored.
-      In other words, -D overrides any values that are set in the file.
-      Redefinition is specified by using '==' instead of '='. For example:
+. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.

 
 

-        MAC1 =  initial value
-        ...
-        MAC1 == updated value
+. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
+  $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
+  for other things in complicated expansions.

 
 

-      Redefinition does not alter the order in which the macros are applied to
-      the subsequent lines of the configuration file. It is still the same
-      order in which the macros were originally defined. All that changes is
-      the macro's value. Redefinition makes it possible to accumulate values.
-      For example:
+. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.

 
 

-        MAC1 =  initial value
-        ...
-        MAC1 == MAC1 and something added
+. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
+  resources used in pipe deliveries.

 
 

-      This can be helpful in situations where the configuration file is built
-      from a number of other files.
+. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.

 
 

-PH/06 Macros may now be defined or redefined between router, transport,
-      authenticator, or ACL definitions, as well as in the main part of the
-      configuration. They may not, however, be changed within an individual
-      driver or ACL, or in the local_scan, retry, or rewrite sections of the
-      configuration.
+. More errors are detectable in retry rules.

 
 

-PH/07 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
-      verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
-      particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
+There are a number of other additions too.

 
 

-         warn  !verify = sender
-               set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message

 
 

-      Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
-      and "log_message" when a very denied access.
+Version 4.60
+------------

 
 

+The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
+the 4.50 release are:

 
 

+. Support for SQLite.

 
 

-Version 4.50
-------------
+. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
+
+. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
+
+. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
+
+. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
+
+. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
+
+. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.

 
 

-The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.50 release.
+There are many more minor changes.

 
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