Docs: more indexing for SNI

[users/heiko/exim.git] / doc / doc-docbook / spec.xfpt

diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index abd235bae1fa6dc78d07bb654ea9c6aa6159e3f8..874ef31cf706e4b8b42b20dcb0e6a549be5c7103 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -12473,7 +12473,7 @@ the complete argument of the ETRN command (see section &<<SECTETRN>>&).
 .cindex "tainted data"
 If the origin of the data is an incoming message,
 the result of expanding this variable is tainted.
-When in untainted version is needed, one should be obtained from
+When an untainted version is needed, one should be obtained from
 looking up the value in a local (therefore trusted) database.
 Often &$domain_data$& is usable in this role.
 
@@ -13808,6 +13808,8 @@ Observability for TLS session resumption.  See &<<SECTresumption>>& for details.
 .vindex "&$tls_in_sni$&"
 .vindex "&$tls_sni$&"
 .cindex "TLS" "Server Name Indication"
+.cindex "TLS" SNI
+.cindex SNI "observability on server"
 When a TLS session is being established, if the client sends the Server
 Name Indication extension, the value will be placed in this variable.
 If the variable appears in &%tls_certificate%& then this option and
@@ -13823,6 +13825,8 @@ the outbound.
 .vitem &$tls_out_sni$&
 .vindex "&$tls_out_sni$&"
 .cindex "TLS" "Server Name Indication"
+.cindex "TLS" SNI
+.cindex SNI "observability in client"
 During outbound
 SMTP deliveries, this variable reflects the value of the &%tls_sni%& option on
 the transport.
@@ -17990,6 +17994,7 @@ syslog. The value must be no longer than 32 characters. See chapter
 
 .option syslog_timestamp main boolean true
 .cindex "syslog" "timestamps"
+.cindex timestamps syslog
 If &%syslog_timestamp%& is set false, the timestamps on Exim's log lines are
 omitted when these lines are sent to syslog. See chapter &<<CHAPlog>>& for
 details of Exim's logging.
@@ -18145,6 +18150,7 @@ when a list of more than one
 file is used, the &$tls_in_ourcert$& variable is unreliable.
 The macro "_TLS_BAD_MULTICERT_IN_OURCERT" will be defined for those versions.
 
+.cindex SNI "selecting server certificate based on"
 If the option contains &$tls_out_sni$& and Exim is built against OpenSSL, then
 if the OpenSSL build supports TLS extensions and the TLS client sends the
 Server Name Indication extension, then this option and others documented in
@@ -25697,6 +25703,8 @@ See &<<SECTresumption>>& for details.
 
 .option tls_sni smtp string&!! unset
 .cindex "TLS" "Server Name Indication"
+.cindex "TLS" SNI
+.cindex SNI "setting in client"
 .vindex "&$tls_sni$&"
 If this option is set then it sets the $tls_out_sni variable and causes any
 TLS session to pass this value as the Server Name Indication extension to
@@ -29242,8 +29250,14 @@ certificate verification to the listed servers.  Verification either must
 or need not succeed respectively.
 
 The &%tls_verify_cert_hostnames%& option lists hosts for which additional
-checks are made: that the host name (the one in the DNS A record)
-is valid for the certificate.
+name checks are made on the server certificate.
+.new
+The match against this list is, as per other Exim usage, the
+IP for the host.  That is most closely associated with the
+name on the DNS A (or AAAA) record for the host.
+However, the name that needs to be in the certificate
+is the one at the head of any CNAME chain leading to the A record.
+.wen
 The option defaults to always checking.
 
 The &(smtp)& transport has two OCSP-related options:
@@ -29293,6 +29307,8 @@ outgoing connection.
 
 .section "Use of TLS Server Name Indication" "SECTtlssni"
 .cindex "TLS" "Server Name Indication"
+.cindex "TLS" SNI
+.cindex SNI
 .vindex "&$tls_in_sni$&"
 .oindex "&%tls_in_sni%&"
 With TLS1.0 or above, there is an extension mechanism by which extra
@@ -31770,8 +31786,9 @@ send email. Details of how this works are given in section
 .cindex "header lines" "verifying header names only ASCII"
 .cindex "verifying" "header names only ASCII"
 This condition is relevant only in an ACL that is run after a message has been
-received, that is, in an ACL specified by &%acl_smtp_data%& or
-&%acl_not_smtp%&.  It checks all header names (not the content) to make sure
+received.
+This usually means an ACL specified by &%acl_smtp_data%& or &%acl_not_smtp%&.
+It checks all header names (not the content) to make sure
 there are no non-ASCII characters, also excluding control characters.  The
 allowable characters are decimal ASCII values 33 through 126.
 
@@ -31926,7 +31943,7 @@ Note that '/' is legal in local-parts; if the address may have such
 (eg. is generated from the received message)
 they must be protected from the options parsing by doubling:
 .code
-verify = sender=${sg{${address:$h_sender:}}{/}{//}}
+verify = sender=${listquote{/}{${address:$h_sender:}}}
 .endd
 .endlist
 
@@ -38671,6 +38688,7 @@ an asterisk is appended to the X= cipher field in the log line.
 .next
 .cindex "log" "TLS SNI"
 .cindex "TLS" "logging SNI"
+.cindex SNI logging
 &%tls_sni%&: When a message is received over an encrypted connection, and
 the remote host provided the Server Name Indication extension, the SNI is
 added to the log line, preceded by SNI=.