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. EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
15 2. Channel-binding for authenticators is now supported under OpenSSL.
16 Previously it was GnuTLS-only.
20 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the
21 plaintext driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and
22 SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS methods.
24 5. Server-side support in the gsasl authenticator for encrypted passwords, as
25 an alternate for the existing plaintext.
27 6. Variable $local_part_verified, set by the router check_local_part condition
30 7. Named-list definitions can now be prefixed "hide" so that "-bP" commands do
31 not output the content. Previously this could only be done on options.
33 8. As an exerimental feature, the dovecot authenticatino driver supports inet
34 sockets. Previously it was unix-domain sockets only.
40 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
42 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
44 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
47 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
49 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
51 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
54 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
55 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
57 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
59 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
62 10. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
64 11. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
66 12. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
68 13. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
70 14: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
72 15: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
73 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
74 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
75 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
76 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
77 only, and exim must be run as root).
79 16: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
81 17. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
87 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
88 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
89 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
90 facilities hard to parse.
92 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
95 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
96 features. See the experimental.spec file.
98 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
100 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
102 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
104 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
106 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
108 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
113 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
114 version 3.5.6 or later.
116 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
117 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
118 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
120 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
122 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
123 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
125 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
126 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
127 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
128 a "dkim" log_selector.
130 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
132 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
133 routing rules in the manualroute router.
135 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
136 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
138 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
139 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
141 10. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
144 11. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
146 12. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
147 Authentication-Results: header.
149 13. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
150 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
152 14: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
154 15. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
155 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
156 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
157 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
159 16. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
160 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
161 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
167 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
168 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
170 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
171 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
173 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
174 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
175 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
176 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
177 another process. Logging is also affected.
179 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
181 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
182 further recipients and for delivery.
184 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
187 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
188 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
189 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
190 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
191 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
193 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
194 restrict who can use various introspection options.
196 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
197 appendfile transport.
199 10. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
202 11. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
203 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
205 12. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
206 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
207 is opened with a TFO cookie.
209 13. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
210 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
211 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
212 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
213 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
216 14. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
219 15. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
220 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
222 16. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
223 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
225 17. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
231 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
233 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
234 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
235 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
241 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
242 interpreter in taint mode.
244 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
246 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
249 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
250 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
251 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
253 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
254 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
255 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
258 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
260 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
261 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
262 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
265 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
267 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
269 10. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
270 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
271 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
272 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
273 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
275 11. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
277 12. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
278 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
281 13. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
283 14. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
284 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
286 15. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
287 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
288 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
289 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
290 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
291 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
292 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
293 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
295 16. A new syslog_pid option to suppress PID duplication in syslog lines.
301 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
302 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
304 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
305 malware= or verify= callout.
307 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
309 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
310 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
311 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
312 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
313 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
314 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
316 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
318 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
320 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
321 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
323 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
324 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
327 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
333 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
335 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
336 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
338 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
340 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
342 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
344 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
346 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
347 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
349 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
350 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
352 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
353 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
355 10. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
357 11. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
359 12. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
361 13. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
362 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
364 14. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
365 same level as DNSSEC.
371 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
372 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
373 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
374 domain of the sender.
376 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
377 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
378 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
379 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
380 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
381 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
383 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
384 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
385 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
395 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
396 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
397 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
398 proxy that is connecting to it.
400 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
401 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
402 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
403 detect and reject if those characters are present.
405 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
406 codepoints with valid ones.
408 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
409 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
410 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
411 be included in the command line.
413 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
414 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
415 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
416 verification cancels the encryption.
418 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
419 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
422 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
423 file when searching the queue.
425 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
427 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
429 10. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
430 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
431 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
434 11. PRDR is now supported dy default.
436 12. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
438 13. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
439 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
440 DSN features per RFC 3461.
446 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
447 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
448 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
449 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
450 SIEVE capability line.
452 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
453 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
454 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
455 followed by a newline, and no other text.
457 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
458 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
459 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
460 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
461 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
462 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
463 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
464 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
466 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
468 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
469 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
470 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
471 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
472 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
473 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
475 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
477 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
478 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
479 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
481 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
482 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
484 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
485 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
487 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
488 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
489 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
490 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
493 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
494 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
495 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
496 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
497 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
498 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
499 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
500 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
501 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
502 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
503 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
504 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
507 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
508 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
509 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
510 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
512 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
513 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
514 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
516 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
517 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
518 are present for now but deprecated.
520 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
522 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
523 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
525 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
526 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
527 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
528 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
529 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
530 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
531 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
532 unless this new option is set.
534 Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability,
535 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
536 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
539 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
541 10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
542 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
543 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
544 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
545 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
546 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
547 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
548 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
549 return results in a forced fail.
551 11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
552 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
554 12. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
555 handled by routers/transports.
557 13. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
558 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
560 14. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
561 modifier (but not yet added to message).
563 15. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
565 16. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
567 17. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
568 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
569 require privilege whereas -d does.
571 18. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
572 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
574 19. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
575 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
576 wrappers, for instance.
578 20. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
581 21. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
582 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
583 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
584 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
585 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
586 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
587 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
589 22. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
590 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
591 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
593 23. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
596 24. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
597 characters in the string to \xNN form.
599 25. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
600 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
602 26. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
608 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
609 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
610 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
611 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
612 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
614 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
615 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
616 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
617 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
619 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
620 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
621 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
622 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
623 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
625 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
626 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
628 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
630 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
631 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
632 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
635 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
637 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
638 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
639 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
640 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
641 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
642 compatibility at the cost of session security.
644 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
645 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
646 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
647 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
648 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
650 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
651 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
653 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
654 for Exim as a server.
656 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
657 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
658 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
659 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
660 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
662 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
663 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
664 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
665 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
666 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
668 10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
669 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
671 11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
672 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
673 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
674 string, documentation for which is at:
675 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
677 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
679 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
680 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
682 12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
683 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
684 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
685 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
686 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
688 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
690 13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
691 identically to TXT record lookups.
693 14. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
695 15. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
696 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
697 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
699 16. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
700 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
701 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
702 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
705 17. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
706 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
707 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
713 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
714 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
716 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
717 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
719 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
720 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
722 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
723 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
724 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
726 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
727 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
728 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
729 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
735 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
736 or off in the resolver library.
742 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
743 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
744 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
745 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
746 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
748 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
749 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
750 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
752 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
753 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
755 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
756 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
757 including any header additions or removals from transport.
759 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
760 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
766 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
767 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
768 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
769 on content supplied by the attacker.
771 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
772 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
773 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
774 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
775 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
781 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
782 items below carefully
784 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
785 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
786 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
787 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
788 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
789 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
792 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
793 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
794 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
795 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
796 be able to take effect.
798 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
799 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
800 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
801 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
803 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
804 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
805 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
806 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
808 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
810 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
812 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
813 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
814 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
815 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
816 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
817 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
819 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
820 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
822 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
824 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
825 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
827 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
828 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
829 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
830 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
831 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
832 don't all make sense in all contexts:
835 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
836 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
837 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
839 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
840 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
841 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
842 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
843 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
844 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
845 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
846 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
847 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
848 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
851 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
852 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
853 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
855 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
857 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
859 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
860 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
861 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
862 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
863 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
866 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
867 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
869 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
870 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
871 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
872 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
873 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
874 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
876 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
877 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
878 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
879 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
880 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
881 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
882 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
883 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
889 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
890 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
892 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
894 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
895 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
898 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
899 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
900 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
901 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
902 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
903 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
904 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
905 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
906 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
907 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
909 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
910 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
912 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
913 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
914 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
920 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
921 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
922 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
923 for details on conditionally disabling)
925 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
927 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
928 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
929 and{} expansion operator).
931 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
934 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
935 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
937 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
938 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
939 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
941 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
942 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
943 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
944 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
946 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
949 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
955 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
961 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
964 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
965 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
966 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
969 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
971 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
972 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
973 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
976 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
978 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
979 192.168.6.7 (for example).
981 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
982 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
983 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
984 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
986 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
988 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
989 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
990 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
993 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
994 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
995 only by an admin user.
997 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
998 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
999 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
1000 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
1001 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
1003 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
1004 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
1009 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1010 # we update it below
1011 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1012 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1013 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1015 [... some other logic and tests...]
1017 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1018 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1019 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1020 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1024 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1025 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1026 line termination character(s).
1028 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
1029 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1030 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1032 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1033 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1034 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1035 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1037 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
1038 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1039 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1040 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1041 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1043 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1044 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1045 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1047 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1048 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1049 connection. The possible values are:
1051 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1052 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1053 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1054 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1055 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1056 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1057 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1058 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1059 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1060 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1062 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1063 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1064 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1065 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1066 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1069 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
1070 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1071 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1073 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1074 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1075 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1077 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1079 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1080 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1081 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1083 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1084 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1085 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1087 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1089 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1091 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1093 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1095 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1097 you can still update the master by
1099 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1101 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
1102 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1103 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1110 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1111 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1112 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
1115 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
1116 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1117 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
1118 rather than the default "any" matching.
1120 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1121 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1122 other parameters to be varied.
1124 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1125 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
1127 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
1129 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
1131 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
1132 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
1134 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
1135 after the connection to the server has been made.
1137 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
1138 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
1140 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1141 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1144 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
1145 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1146 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1147 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
1148 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
1150 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
1151 called forany and forall.
1153 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1154 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1155 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
1157 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
1159 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
1160 that makes it case-sensitive.
1162 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1163 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1164 items, typically addresses.
1166 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1167 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1168 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
1171 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
1172 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
1174 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1177 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
1184 No new features were added to 4.66.
1190 No new features were added to 4.65.
1196 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1197 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1198 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
1201 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
1202 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
1204 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1205 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
1206 number of authentication methods.
1208 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1209 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1210 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1212 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1213 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1214 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1215 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
1217 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
1219 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1220 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1221 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
1222 before doing the expansions.
1224 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
1225 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1228 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1229 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
1230 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
1232 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
1233 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
1235 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1236 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1237 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1238 available for compatibility.)
1240 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1241 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
1247 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
1250 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1251 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
1254 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1255 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
1256 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
1258 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
1259 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
1261 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
1263 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1264 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1266 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1268 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1270 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1271 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1272 each messages value for each variable.
1274 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1275 same criteria without --not).
1281 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1282 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1283 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1284 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1285 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1286 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1288 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1290 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1291 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1292 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1295 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1296 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1297 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1299 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1300 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1301 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1302 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1308 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1309 the 4.60 release are:
1311 . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1313 . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1315 . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1316 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1317 for other things in complicated expansions.
1319 . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
1321 . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1322 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1324 . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1326 . More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1328 There are a number of other additions too.
1334 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1335 the 4.50 release are:
1337 . Support for SQLite.
1339 . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1341 . Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1343 . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1345 . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
1347 . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
1349 . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
1351 There are many more minor changes.