Revert introduction of alloc_insecure_tainted_data

[exim.git] / doc / doc-docbook / spec.xfpt

diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index 6ede1dc95c07a81093cf2268c8e619fad7081fb2..1bc63bff30c98034cbd26bee964489987d7ad152 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -239,14 +239,6 @@
   <secondary>failure report</secondary>
   <see><emphasis>bounce message</emphasis></see>
 </indexterm>
-<indexterm role="concept">
-  <primary>de-tainting</primary>
-  <see><emphasis>tainting, de-tainting</emphasis></see>
-</indexterm>
-<indexterm role="concept">
-  <primary>detainting</primary>
-  <see><emphasis>tainting, de-tainting</emphasis></see>
-</indexterm>
 <indexterm role="concept">
   <primary>dialup</primary>
   <see><emphasis>intermittently connected hosts</emphasis></see>
@@ -9628,8 +9620,6 @@ reasons,
 .cindex expansion "tainted data"
 and expansion of data deriving from the sender (&"tainted data"&)
 is not permitted (including acessing a file using a tainted name).
-The main config option &%allow_insecure_tainted_data%& can be used as
-mitigation during uprades to more secure configurations.
 
 Common ways of obtaining untainted equivalents of variables with
 tainted values
@@ -14609,7 +14599,6 @@ listed in more than one group.
 .section "Miscellaneous" "SECID96"
 .table2
 .row &%add_environment%&             "environment variables"
-.row &%allow_insecure_tainted_data%& "turn taint errors into warnings"
 .row &%bi_command%&                  "to run for &%-bi%& command line option"
 .row &%debug_store%&                 "do extra internal checks"
 .row &%disable_ipv6%&                "do no IPv6 processing"
@@ -15223,17 +15212,6 @@ domains (defined in the named domain list &%local_domains%& in the default
 configuration). This &"magic string"& matches the domain literal form of all
 the local host's IP addresses.
 
-.option allow_insecure_tainted_data main boolean false
-.cindex "de-tainting"
-.oindex "allow_insecure_tainted_data"
-The handling of tainted data may break older (pre 4.94) configurations.
-Setting this option to "true" turns taint errors (which result in a temporary
-message rejection) into warnings. This option is meant as mitigation only
-and deprecated already today. Future releases of Exim may ignore it.
-The &%taint%& log selector can be used to suppress even the warnings.
-
-
-
 .option allow_mx_to_ip main boolean false
 .cindex "MX record" "pointing to IP address"
 It appears that more and more DNS zone administrators are breaking the rules
@@ -38901,7 +38879,6 @@ selection marked by asterisks:
 &` smtp_protocol_error        `&  SMTP protocol errors
 &` smtp_syntax_error          `&  SMTP syntax errors
 &` subject                    `&  contents of &'Subject:'& on <= lines
-&`*taint                      `&  taint errors or warnings
 &`*tls_certificate_verified   `&  certificate verification status
 &`*tls_cipher                 `&  TLS cipher suite on <= and => lines
 &` tls_peerdn                 `&  TLS peer DN on <= and => lines
@@ -39295,11 +39272,6 @@ using a CA trust anchor,
 &`CV=dane`& if using a DNS trust anchor,
 and &`CV=no`& if not.
 .next
-.cindex "log" "Taint warnings"
-&%taint%&: Log warnings about tainted data. This selector can't be
-turned of if &%allow_insecure_tainted_data%& is false (which is the
-default).
-.next
 .cindex "log" "TLS cipher"
 .cindex "TLS" "logging cipher"
 &%tls_cipher%&: When a message is sent or received over an encrypted