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+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-misc/WishList,v 1.57 2005/11/17 10:15:28 ph10 Exp $
EXIM 4 WISH LIST
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address?
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-(172) 11-Sep-2000 S Allow file/directory in appendfile to override
-"Michael J. Tubby"
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-When appendfile is called from forward or filter files, it ignores file or
-directory settings. Maybe they should override. The path set by the forward or
-filter is available in $address_file these days, so it could be used to create
-a longer path.
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(173) 18-Sep-2000 S A way of doing lsearches with EOL terminated keys
Jason Robertson
exim_dbmbuild to make them into DBM files.
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-(174) 19-Sep-2000 S A way of using a different port for fallback hosts.
-Dean Brooks
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(181) 10-Nov-2000 S Compile-time options for ignoring Sendmail options
So that new ones could be accommodated easily.
headers_remove = "X-*:Additional-header"
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-(188) 02-Jan-2001 S Make pipe timeout a temporary error
-Georg v.Zezschwitz
-
-A way to make a timeout into a temporary error.
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(190) 03-Jan-2001 M Multiple message operations in eximon
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might have. At ACL time, one would need to verify the recipient, and determine
that it routed to host X.
-. A new lookup library that operates on a specially prepared file of IP
-addresses and masks so that a single "lookup" yields a yes/no answer. This
-should be a freestanding thing - needs a utility to build the file from a list.
-
. People want to change the wording of messages; can we find an efficient way
of allowing this? (Maybe put all messages into a separate module?) The problem
is not in the messages themselves, but in the values that get inserted into
. Implement randomize for ldap/sql servers.
. Add an option for ETRN that says "wait for the command to finish, and use its
-stdout as the SMTP response."
+stdout as the SMTP response." // A serialized ETRN now does the waiting, but
+there is as yet no way to use the status. //
. -odsomething for "ignore retry when doing immediate delivery".
it were 4xx. Or possible add a sophisticated "after command X, treat xxx as
yyy".
-. A way of rewriting addresses in non-standard header lines such as
-Mail-Followup-To.
-
. Global option to enable initgroups() for exim uid. Default off.
. When verifying a sender, should it be rewritten with any T rewrites, because
. Options and/or a utility to enable non-privileged users to view the queue
(e.g. -bpp), manipulate their own messages, etc.
-. Specify a port along with a host in a route_list.
-
. A generalized "From" escaping scheme that also escapes >From so that the
whole thing can be reversed.
John W Baxter
May be tricky, because at the higher levels, the format of the query is not
-understood.
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-(8) 01-Jan-02 S Expand once_repeat in autoreply
-John Jetmore
+understood. // There is now a fudge that works in some cases. See ChangeLog
+4.51/PH/10. //
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(9) 01-Jan-02 S Headers as well as body in file for autoreply
Suggested patch supplied.
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-(171) 23-Jun-03 S Option to make timeout a soft failure on pipe transport
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(172) 23-Jun-03 M Option to make SQL query to specific server
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supported, but not individual messages; no doubt one day this will be wanted.
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-(335) 14-Jun-05 T Re-arrange default configuration
-
-A small niggle which might be worth fixing is the ordering of the ACL in the
-default configuration file. The relay_from_hosts and authenticated clauses
-would be better off before the dnslists examples. However, this should be left
-until a x.x0 release, because of the documentation implications.
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(336) 16-Jun-05 M Show recipient(s) after header check failure
The mainlog line for "There is no valid sender in any header line" shows the
additional data.
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-(337) 29-Jun-06 S Add "defer" to $recipient_verify_failure
+(337) 29-Jun-05 S Add "defer" to $recipient_verify_failure
This is for when defer_ok was set when verifying recipients. Since this isn't
for a failure, we probably also need "ok" for the non-fail case.
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---- HWM 337 ------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+(338) 14-Jul-05 M Change to Bind 9 API
+
+Exim uses the original API for calling the DNS resolver. There is a newer API
+available, and noises are being made in some OS that compatibility with the old
+API is going to be dropped. Nevertheless, there are sure to be systems about
+for ages that require the use of the old API. Therefore, we will have to
+implement not only an interface to the new API, but a backwards compatibility
+feature. It would be nice if this was automatic.
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+
+(339) 28-Jul-05 S Log name of maildir file
+
+This wish is for an option to log the name of the file that is written in
+maildir format (e.g. time.pid.host).
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+
+(340) 30-Aug-05 M Match more than one item
+
+match_address, for instance, matches one address to a list. The wish is to be
+able to supply two lists; for each address in the first list, search the
+second. Maybe something like ${match_any{...}{...}} is needed.
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+
+(341) 15-Sep-05 S Add /return_path_retain to submission mode
+
+This would re-instate the behaviour prior to change 4.52/TF/02.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+(342) 26-Sep-05 T Log and maybe defer odd values for condition pre-condition
+
+Odd values for "condition" in an ACL cause it to defer. In a router, they are
+treated as "true". At least they should be logged in a router, and perhaps they
+should also defer, for compatibility with ACLs.
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+
+(343) 03-Oct-05 M A query-style lookup for scanning flat files
+
+The natural syntax for this would be to use a regex, like this:
+${lookup regex{/some/file regex}{found-string}{not-found-string}}
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+
+(344) 10-Oct-05 M Make debug_print work in authenticators
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+
+(345) 14-Oct-05 M Standardize rejection messages
+
+"The parsing for rejection lines is a bit of a mess, and fairly
+unmaintainable. Do you think it would be possible to standardise
+rejection/refusal log messages? How about something like:
+
+(<ID>|16 Spaces) *< (Connection|MAIL|RCPT|HELO|EHLO|DATA) rejected (from
+<Address>)?: <Reason> (\(<Detail>\))?"
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+(346) 20-Oct-05 S Set $domain and $local_part in retry matching
+
+Currently, these variables are unset. Make it like rewrite matching.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+(347) 15-Nov-05 M Arrange to expand data from wildlsearch
+
+This would allow keys that are regular expressions to set up numerical
+variables that are included in the data. This has to be done inside the lookup
+code, because of caching. Probably means we have to invent ewildlsearch and
+enwildlsearch.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+(348) 17-Nov-05 S Option to allow AUTH when not advertised.
+
+It seems that there are clients that send AUTH when it hasn't been advertised,
+some even after HELO, not even EHLO. Sigh. Possibly this should be an ACL
+control, to enable it to be restricted to certain hosts.
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+--- HWM 348 ------------------------------------------------------------------
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