While a feature is experimental, there will be a build-time
option whose name starts "EXPERIMENTAL_" that must be set in
order to include the feature. This file contains information
-about experimenatal features, all of which are unstable and
-liable to incompatibile change.
+about experimental features, all of which are unstable and
+liable to incompatible change.
OCSP Stapling support
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-X509 PKI certificates expire and can be revoked; to handle this, the
+X.509 PKI certificates expire and can be revoked; to handle this, the
clients need some way to determine if a particular certificate, from a
particular Certificate Authority (CA), is still valid. There are three
main ways to do so.
on each connection, so a new file will be handled transparently on the
next connection.
-Exim will check for a validity next update timestamp in the OCSP proof;
+Exim will check for a valid next update timestamp in the OCSP proof;
if not present, or if the proof has expired, it will be ignored.
At this point in time, we're gathering feedback on use, to determine if
it's worth adding complexity to the Exim daemon to periodically re-fetch
-OCSP files and somehow handling multiple files.
+OCSP files and somehow handling multiple files. There is no client support
+for OCSP in Exim, this is feature expected to be used by mail clients.
You can now run SPF checks in incoming SMTP by using the "spf"
ACL condition in either the MAIL, RCPT or DATA ACLs. When
-using it in the RCPT ACL, you can make the checks dependend on
+using it in the RCPT ACL, you can make the checks dependent on
the RCPT address (or domain), so you can check SPF records
only for certain target domains. This gives you the
possibility to opt-out certain customers that do not want
When the spf_guess condition has run, it sets up the same expansion
variables as when spf condition is run, described above.
-Additionally, since Best-guess is not standarized, you may redefine
+Additionally, since Best-guess is not standardized, you may redefine
what "Best-guess" means to you by redefining spf_guess variable in
global config. For example, the following:
After that "$dcc_header" contains the X-DCC-Header.
-Returnvalues are:
+Return values are:
fail for overall "R", "G" from dccifd
defer for overall "T" from dccifd
accept for overall "A", "S" from dccifd