X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/29f89cad0cf7be1977f6ed36d27ac9b651aec9e2..a43a27c5e355a06131c36e68a63a0609b1da8307:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index b70fa5e68..bd43aecf8 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.141 2007/02/14 14:59:01 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.145 2007/03/13 15:32:47 ph10 Exp $ New Features in Exim -------------------- @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ Version 4.67 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. A number of new features have been added to string expansions to make it +16. 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: @@ -365,6 +365,42 @@ Version 4.67 At the end of a ${reduce expansion, the values of $item and $value is restored to what they were before. +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. Typically this would be for updating a database. It is really + just a syntactic tidiness, because the following two lines have the same + effect: + + continue = + condition = ${if eq{0}{}{true}{true}} + +18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with + values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists. Such separators must + be provided literally at the time the list is processed, but the string + expansion that happens first means that you can write them using normal + escape sequences. For example, if a new-line separated list of domains is + generated by a lookup, you can now process it directly by a line such as + this: + + domains = <\n ${lookup mysql{.....}} + + This avoids having to change the list separator in such data. Unlike + printing character separators, which can be included in list items by + doubling, it is not possible to include a control character as data when it + is set as the separator. Two such characters in succession are interpreted + as enclosing an empty list item. + +19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching + condition. + +20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to + "ignore". This causes it to completely ignore a host whose IP address + cannot be found. If all the hosts in the list are ignored, the behaviour is + controlled by the new host_all_ignored option, which takes the same values + as host_find_failed, except that it cannot be set to "ignore". Its default + is "defer". + Version 4.66 ------------