Preamble
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Normally The Exim Maintainers ensure that a configuration which works
with version N will work with version N+1, within a major version number
(eg, 4).

Occasionally this will not be the case; usually, those changes will be
at the end of a long notice period where admins have been encouraged to
move away and even then, we are hesitant to fully break things without
strong cause to move away.

This does not apply to "experimental" features, which can be withdrawn
or changed with little notice, although we still endeavour to limit
that.  We may choose to note those changes here too.

The most likely cause of a backwards-incompatible change is a security
improvement, where the benefits for everyone strongly outweigh the needs
of the few.


Changes
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Exim version 4.73
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 * The Exim run-time user can no longer be root; this was always
   strongly discouraged, but is now prohibited both at build and
   run-time.  If you need Exim to run routinely as root, you'll need to
   patch the source and accept the risk.  Here be dragons.

 * Exim will no longer accept a configuration file owned by the Exim
   run-time user, unless that account is explicitly the value in
   CONFIGURE_OWNER, which we discourage.  Exim now checks to ensure that
   files are not writable by other accounts.

 * ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and is forced on; the Exim
   user can no longer use -C/-D and retain privilege.

 * The system_filter_user option now defaults to the Exim run-time user,
   rather than root.  You can still set it explicitly to root and this
   can be done with prior versions too, letting you roll versions
   without needing to change this configuration option.