X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/0ce9abe687c08503facdd9f4f94dfa27ada83da9..c51b8e75b2fe31282ea1526ed556d7d9402d543f:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index ff72f6fa6..3fbb1b662 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.136 2007/02/06 10:00:24 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.139 2007/02/06 14:49:13 ph10 Exp $ New Features in Exim -------------------- @@ -233,8 +233,12 @@ Version 4.67 time and date. 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing - a delay in an ACL. This behaviour can be disabled by obeying control = - no_delay_flush at some earlier point. + 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. 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are called forany and forall, and they are used like this: @@ -268,6 +272,20 @@ Version 4.67 Its value is saved and restored while forany/forall is being processed, to enable these expansion items to be nested. +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: + + dsn_from = Mail Delivery System + + The value is expanded every time it is needed. If the expansion fails, a + panic is logged, and the default setting is used. + +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). + Version 4.66 ------------