X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/4a90d4879978fe062e0539da0942c3f9176f5b9b..e8e7fafabffe61077794a2f1e5febd7b96b01116:/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt index 8c9a866a2..5e0b04427 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt +++ b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt @@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ used via the transport in question. Dovecot authenticator via inet socket ------------------------------------- +-------------------------------------------------------------- If Dovecot is configured similar to :- service auth { @@ -666,28 +666,54 @@ and a whitespace-separated port number must be given. -Twophase queue run fast ramp ----------------------------- -To include this feature, add to Local/Makefile: - EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUE_RAMP=yes -If the (added for this feature) main-section option "queue_fast_ramp" (boolean) -is set, and a two-phase ("-qq") queue run finds, during the first phase, a -suitably large number of message routed for a given host - then (subject to -the usual queue-runner resource limits) delivery for that host is initiated -immediately, overlapping with the remainder of the first phase. +Logging protocol unusual states +--------------------------------------------------------------- +An extra log_selector, "protocol_detail" has been added in the default build. +The name may change in future, hence the Experimenal status. + +Currrently the only effect is to enable logging, under TLS, +of a TCP RST received directly after a QUIT (in server mode). + +Outlook is consistently doing this; not waiting for the SMTP response +to its QUIT, not properly closing the TLS session and not properly closing +the TCP connection. Previously this resulted is an error from SSL_write +being logged. + + + +Limits ESMTP extension +--------------------------------------------------------------- +Per https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-freed-smtp-limits-01 + +If compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_ESMTP_LIMITS=yes :- + +As a server, Exim will advertise, in the EHLO response, the limit for RCPT +commands set by the recipients_max main-section config option (if it is set), +and the limit for MAIL commands set by the smtp_accept_max_per_connection +option. + +Note that as of writing, smtp_accept_max_per_connection is expanded but +recipients_max is not. + +A new main-section option "limits_advertise_hosts" controls whether +the limits are advertised; the default for the option is "*". + +As a client, Exim will: -This is incompatible with queue_run_in_order. + - note an advertised MAILMAX; the lower of the value given and the + value from the transport connection_max_messages option is used. -The result should be a faster startup of deliveries when a large queue is -present and reasonable numbers of messages are routed to common hosts; this -could be a smarthost case, or delivery onto the Internet where a large proportion -of recipients hapen to be on a Gorilla-sized provider. + - note an advertised RCPTMAX; the lower of the + value given and the value from the transport max_rcpt option is used. + Parallisation of transactions is not done if due to a RCPTMAX, unlike + max_rcpt. -As usual, the presence of a configuration option is associated with a -predefined macro, making it possible to write portable configurations. -For this one, the macro is _OPT_MAIN_QUEUE_FAST_RAMP. + - note an advertised RCPTDOMAINMAX, and behave as if the transport + multi_domains option was set to false. The value advertised is ignored. +Values advertised are only noted for TLS connections and ones for which +the server does not advertise TLS support. --------------------------------------------------------------