4 This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
5 Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
6 test from the snapshots or the Git before the documentation is updated. Once
7 the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
12 1. The fast-ramp two phase queue run support, previously experimental, is
13 now supported by default.
15 2. The native SRS support, previously experimental, is now supported. It is
16 not built unless specified in the Local/Makefile.
18 3. TLS resumption support, previously experimental, is now supported and
19 included in default builds.
21 4. Single-key LMDB lookups, previously experimental, are now supported.
22 The support is not built unless specified in the Local/Makefile.
24 5. Option "message_linelength_limit" on the smtp transport to enforce (by
25 default) the RFC 998 character limit.
27 6. An option to ignore the cache on a lookup.
33 1. EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
36 2. Channel-binding for authenticators is now supported under OpenSSL.
37 Previously it was GnuTLS-only.
41 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the
42 plaintext driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and
43 SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS methods.
45 5. Server-side support in the gsasl authenticator for encrypted passwords, as
46 an alternate for the existing plaintext.
48 6. Variable $local_part_data now also set by router check_local_user option,
49 with an de-tainted version of $local_part.
51 7. Named-list definitions can now be prefixed "hide" so that "-bP" commands do
52 not output the content. Previously this could only be done on options.
54 8. As an exerimental feature, the dovecot authenticatino driver supports inet
55 sockets. Previously it was unix-domain sockets only.
57 9. The ACL control "queue_only" can also be spelled "queue", and now takes an
58 option "first_pass_route" to do the same as a "-odqs" on the command line.
60 10. Items specified for the router and transport headers_remove option can use
61 a trailing asterisk to specify globbing.
63 11. New $queue_size variable.
65 12. New variables $local_part_{pre,suf}fix_v.
67 13. New main option "sqlite_dbfile", for use in preference to prefixing the
68 lookup string. The older method fails when tainted variables are used
69 in the lookup, as the filename becomes tainted. The new method keeps the
72 14. Options on the dsearch lookup, to return the full path and to filter
73 filetypes for matching.
75 15. Options on pgsql and mysql lookups, to specify server separate from the
78 16. An option on all single-key lookups, to return (on a hit) a de-tainted
79 version of the lookup key rather than the looked-up data.
81 17. $domain_data and $localpart_data are now set by all list-match successes.
82 Previously only list items that performed lookups did so.
83 Also, matching list items that are tail-match or RE-match now set the
84 numeric variables $0 (etc) in the same way os other RE matches.
86 18. Expansion item ${listquote {<char} {<item>}}.
88 19. An option for the ${readsocket {}{}{}} expansion to make the result data
91 20. dkim_verify_min_keysizes, a list of minimum acceptable public-key sizes.
93 21. bounce_message_file and warn_message_file are now expanded before use.
100 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
102 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
104 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
107 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
109 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
111 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
114 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
115 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
117 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
119 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
122 10. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
124 11. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
126 12. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
128 13. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
130 14: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
132 15: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
133 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
134 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
135 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
136 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
137 only, and exim must be run as root).
139 16: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
141 17. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
147 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
148 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
149 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
150 facilities hard to parse.
152 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
155 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
156 features. See the experimental.spec file.
158 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
160 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
162 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
164 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
166 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
168 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
173 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
174 version 3.5.6 or later.
176 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
177 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
178 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
180 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
182 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
183 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
185 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
186 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
187 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
188 a "dkim" log_selector.
190 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
192 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
193 routing rules in the manualroute router.
195 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
196 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
198 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
199 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
201 10. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
204 11. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
206 12. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
207 Authentication-Results: header.
209 13. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
210 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
212 14: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
214 15. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
215 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
216 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
217 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
219 16. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
220 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
221 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
227 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
228 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
230 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
231 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
233 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
234 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
235 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
236 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
237 another process. Logging is also affected.
239 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
241 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
242 further recipients and for delivery.
244 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
247 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
248 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
249 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
250 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
251 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
253 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
254 restrict who can use various introspection options.
256 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
257 appendfile transport.
259 10. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
262 11. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
263 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
265 12. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
266 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
267 is opened with a TFO cookie.
269 13. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
270 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
271 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
272 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
273 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
276 14. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
279 15. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
280 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
282 16. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
283 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
285 17. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
291 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
293 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
294 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
295 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
301 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
302 interpreter in taint mode.
304 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
306 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
309 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
310 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
311 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
313 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
314 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
315 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
318 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
320 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
321 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
322 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
325 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
327 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
329 10. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
330 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
331 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
332 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
333 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
335 11. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
337 12. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
338 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
341 13. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
343 14. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
344 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
346 15. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
347 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
348 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
349 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
350 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
351 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
352 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
353 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
355 16. A new syslog_pid option to suppress PID duplication in syslog lines.
361 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
362 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
364 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
365 malware= or verify= callout.
367 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
369 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
370 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
371 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
372 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
373 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
374 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
376 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
378 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
380 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
381 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
383 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
384 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
387 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
393 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
395 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
396 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
398 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
400 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
402 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
404 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
406 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
407 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
409 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
410 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
412 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
413 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
415 10. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
417 11. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
419 12. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
421 13. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
422 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
424 14. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
425 same level as DNSSEC.
430 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
431 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
432 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
433 domain of the sender.
435 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
436 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
437 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
438 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
439 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
440 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
442 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
443 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
444 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
454 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
455 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
456 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
457 proxy that is connecting to it.
459 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
460 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
461 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
462 detect and reject if those characters are present.
464 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
465 codepoints with valid ones.
467 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
468 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
469 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
470 be included in the command line.
472 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
473 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
474 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
475 verification cancels the encryption.
477 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
478 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
481 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
482 file when searching the queue.
484 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
486 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
488 10. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
489 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
490 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
493 11. PRDR is now supported dy default.
495 12. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
497 13. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
498 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
499 DSN features per RFC 3461.
505 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
506 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
507 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
508 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
509 SIEVE capability line.
511 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
512 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
513 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
514 followed by a newline, and no other text.
516 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
517 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
518 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
519 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
520 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
521 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
522 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
523 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
525 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
527 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
528 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
529 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
530 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
531 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
532 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
534 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
536 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
537 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
538 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
540 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
541 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
543 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
544 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
546 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
547 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
548 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
549 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
552 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
553 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
554 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
555 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
556 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
557 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
558 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
559 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
560 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
561 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
562 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
563 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
566 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
567 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
568 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
569 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
571 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
572 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
573 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
575 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
576 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
577 are present for now but deprecated.
579 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
581 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
582 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
584 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
585 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
586 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
587 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
588 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
589 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
590 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
591 unless this new option is set.
593 Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability,
594 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
595 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
598 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
600 10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
601 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
602 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
603 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
604 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
605 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
606 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
607 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
608 return results in a forced fail.
610 11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
611 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
613 12. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
614 handled by routers/transports.
616 13. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
617 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
619 14. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
620 modifier (but not yet added to message).
622 15. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
624 16. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
626 17. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
627 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
628 require privilege whereas -d does.
630 18. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
631 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
633 19. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
634 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
635 wrappers, for instance.
637 20. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
640 21. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
641 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
642 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
643 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
644 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
645 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
646 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
648 22. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
649 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
650 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
652 23. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
655 24. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
656 characters in the string to \xNN form.
658 25. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
659 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
661 26. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
667 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
668 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
669 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
670 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
671 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
673 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
674 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
675 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
676 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
678 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
679 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
680 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
681 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
682 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
684 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
685 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
687 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
689 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
690 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
691 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
694 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
696 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
697 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
698 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
699 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
700 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
701 compatibility at the cost of session security.
703 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
704 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
705 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
706 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
707 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
709 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
710 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
712 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
713 for Exim as a server.
715 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
716 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
717 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
718 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
719 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
721 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
722 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
723 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
724 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
725 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
727 10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
728 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
730 11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
731 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
732 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
733 string, documentation for which is at:
734 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
736 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
738 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
739 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
741 12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
742 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
743 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
744 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
745 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
747 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
749 13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
750 identically to TXT record lookups.
752 14. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
754 15. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
755 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
756 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
758 16. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
759 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
760 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
761 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
764 17. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
765 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
766 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
772 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
773 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
775 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
776 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
778 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
779 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
781 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
782 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
783 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
785 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
786 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
787 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
788 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
794 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
795 or off in the resolver library.
801 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
802 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
803 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
804 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
805 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
807 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
808 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
809 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
811 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
812 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
814 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
815 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
816 including any header additions or removals from transport.
818 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
819 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
825 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
826 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
827 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
828 on content supplied by the attacker.
830 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
831 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
832 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
833 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
834 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
840 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
841 items below carefully
843 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
844 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
845 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
846 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
847 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
848 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
851 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
852 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
853 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
854 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
855 be able to take effect.
857 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
858 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
859 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
860 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
862 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
863 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
864 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
865 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
867 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
869 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
871 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
872 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
873 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
874 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
875 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
876 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
878 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
879 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
881 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
883 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
884 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
886 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
887 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
888 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
889 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
890 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
891 don't all make sense in all contexts:
894 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
895 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
896 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
898 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
899 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
900 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
901 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
902 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
903 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
904 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
905 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
906 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
907 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
910 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
911 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
912 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
914 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
916 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
918 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
919 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
920 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
921 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
922 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
925 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
926 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
928 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
929 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
930 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
931 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
932 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
933 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
935 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
936 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
937 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
938 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
939 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
940 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
941 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
942 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
948 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
949 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
951 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
953 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
954 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
957 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
958 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
959 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
960 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
961 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
962 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
963 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
964 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
965 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
966 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
968 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
969 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
971 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
972 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
973 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
979 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
980 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
981 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
982 for details on conditionally disabling)
984 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
986 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
987 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
988 and{} expansion operator).
990 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
993 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
994 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
996 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
997 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
998 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
1000 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
1001 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
1002 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
1003 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
1005 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
1008 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
1014 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
1020 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
1023 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
1024 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
1025 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
1028 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
1030 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
1031 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
1032 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
1035 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
1037 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
1038 192.168.6.7 (for example).
1040 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
1041 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
1042 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
1043 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
1045 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
1047 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
1048 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
1049 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
1052 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
1053 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
1054 only by an admin user.
1056 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
1057 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
1058 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
1059 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
1060 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
1062 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
1063 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
1068 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1069 # we update it below
1070 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1071 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1072 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1074 [... some other logic and tests...]
1076 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1077 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1078 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1079 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1083 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1084 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1085 line termination character(s).
1087 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
1088 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1089 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1091 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1092 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1093 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1094 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1096 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
1097 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1098 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1099 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1100 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1102 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1103 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1104 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1106 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1107 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1108 connection. The possible values are:
1110 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1111 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1112 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1113 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1114 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1115 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1116 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1117 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1118 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1119 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1121 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1122 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1123 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1124 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1125 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1128 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
1129 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1130 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1132 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1133 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1134 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1136 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1138 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1139 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1140 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1142 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1143 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1144 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1146 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1148 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1150 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1152 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1154 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1156 you can still update the master by
1158 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1160 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
1161 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1162 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1169 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1170 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1171 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
1174 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
1175 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1176 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
1177 rather than the default "any" matching.
1179 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1180 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1181 other parameters to be varied.
1183 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1184 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
1186 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
1188 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
1190 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
1191 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
1193 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
1194 after the connection to the server has been made.
1196 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
1197 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
1199 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1200 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1203 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
1204 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1205 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1206 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
1207 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
1209 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
1210 called forany and forall.
1212 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1213 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1214 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
1216 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
1218 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
1219 that makes it case-sensitive.
1221 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1222 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1223 items, typically addresses.
1225 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1226 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1227 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
1230 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
1231 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
1233 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1236 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
1243 No new features were added to 4.66.
1249 No new features were added to 4.65.
1255 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1256 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1257 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
1260 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
1261 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
1263 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1264 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
1265 number of authentication methods.
1267 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1268 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1269 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1271 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1272 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1273 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1274 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
1276 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
1278 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1279 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1280 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
1281 before doing the expansions.
1283 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
1284 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1287 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1288 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
1289 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
1291 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
1292 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
1294 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1295 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1296 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1297 available for compatibility.)
1299 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1300 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
1306 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
1309 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1310 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
1313 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1314 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
1315 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
1317 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
1318 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
1320 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
1322 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1323 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1325 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1327 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1329 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1330 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1331 each messages value for each variable.
1333 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1334 same criteria without --not).
1340 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1341 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1342 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1343 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1344 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1345 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1347 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1349 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1350 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1351 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1354 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1355 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1356 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1358 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1359 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1360 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1361 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1367 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1368 the 4.60 release are:
1370 . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1372 . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1374 . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1375 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1376 for other things in complicated expansions.
1378 . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
1380 . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1381 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1383 . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1385 . More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1387 There are a number of other additions too.
1393 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1394 the 4.50 release are:
1396 . Support for SQLite.
1398 . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1400 . Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1402 . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1404 . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
1406 . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
1408 . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
1410 There are many more minor changes.