X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/32bcb602b77fbf4a7a746f448663688694677adc..e89d95f1909c0972b0e854ae05f50246f4d727d6:/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt index abd235bae..8350b4da7 100644 --- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt +++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt @@ -29242,8 +29242,14 @@ certificate verification to the listed servers. Verification either must or need not succeed respectively. The &%tls_verify_cert_hostnames%& option lists hosts for which additional -checks are made: that the host name (the one in the DNS A record) -is valid for the certificate. +name checks are made on the server certificate. +.new +The match against this list is, as per other Exim usage, the +IP for the host. That is most closely associated with the +name on the DNS A (or AAAA) record for the host. +However, the name that needs to be in the certificate +is the one at the head of any CNAME chain leading to the A record. +.wen The option defaults to always checking. The &(smtp)& transport has two OCSP-related options: @@ -31770,8 +31776,9 @@ send email. Details of how this works are given in section .cindex "header lines" "verifying header names only ASCII" .cindex "verifying" "header names only ASCII" This condition is relevant only in an ACL that is run after a message has been -received, that is, in an ACL specified by &%acl_smtp_data%& or -&%acl_not_smtp%&. It checks all header names (not the content) to make sure +received. +This usually means an ACL specified by &%acl_smtp_data%& or &%acl_not_smtp%&. +It checks all header names (not the content) to make sure there are no non-ASCII characters, also excluding control characters. The allowable characters are decimal ASCII values 33 through 126. @@ -31926,7 +31933,7 @@ Note that '/' is legal in local-parts; if the address may have such (eg. is generated from the received message) they must be protected from the options parsing by doubling: .code -verify = sender=${sg{${address:$h_sender:}}{/}{//}} +verify = sender=${listquote{/}{${address:$h_sender:}}} .endd .endlist