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-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.34 2005/04/06 14:03:53 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.131 2007/01/30 11:45:20 ph10 Exp $

 
 New Features in Exim
 --------------------
 
 
 New Features in Exim
 --------------------
 

-This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim,
-but have not yet made it into the main manual (which is most conveniently
-updated when there is a relatively large batch of changes). The doc/ChangeLog
-file contains a listing of all changes, including bug fixes.
+This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
+Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
+test from the snapshots or the CVS before the documentation is updated. Once
+the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.

 
 

+Version 4.67
+------------
+
+ 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
+    the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
+    whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
+    MAIL command. This includes both the case when the connection is dropped,
+    and the case when QUIT is used. Note that it does not include cases where
+    the connection is rejected right at the start (by an ACL, or because there
+    are too many connections, or whatever). These cases already have their own
+    log lines.
+
+    The log line that is written contains the identity of the client in the
+    usual way, followed by D= and a time, which records the duration of the
+    connection. If the connection was authenticated, this fact is logged
+    exactly as it is for an incoming message, with an A= item. If the
+    connection was encrypted, CV=, DN=, and X= items may appear as they do for
+    an incoming message, controlled by the same logging options.
+
+    Finally, if any SMTP commands were issued during the connection, a C= item
+    is added to the line, listing the commands that were used. For example,
+
+      C=EHLO,QUIT
+
+    shows that the client issued QUIT straight after EHLO. If there were fewer
+    than 20 commands, they are all listed. If there were more than 20 commands,
+    the last 20 are listed, preceded by "...". However, with the default
+    setting of 10 for smtp_accep_max_nonmail, the connection will in any case
+    be aborted before 20 non-mail commands are processed.
+
+ 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
+    addresses, in order to restrict the match to specific results from the DNS
+    lookup, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than one
+    IP address. For example, consider the condition
+
+      dnslists = a.b.c=127.0.0.1
+
+    What happens if the DNS lookup for the incoming IP address yields both
+    127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2 by means of two separate DNS records? Is the
+    condition true because at least one given value was found, or is it false
+    because at least one of the found values was not listed? And how does this
+    affect negated conditions?
+
+    The behaviour of = and & has not been changed; however, the text below
+    documents it more clearly. In addition, two new additional conditions (==
+    and =&) have been added, to permit the "other" behaviour to be configured.
+
+    A DNS lookup may yield more than one record. Thus, the result of the lookup
+    for a dnslists check may yield more than one IP address. The question then
+    arises as to whether all the looked up addresses must be listed, or whether
+    just one is good enough. Both possibilities are provided for:
+
+    . If = or & is used, the condition is true if any one of the looked up
+      IP addresses matches one of the listed addresses. Consider:
+
+        dnslists = a.b.c=127.0.0.1
+
+      If the DNS lookup yields both 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2, the condition is
+      true because 127.0.0.1 matches.
+
+    . If == or =& is used, the condition is true only if every one of the
+      looked up IP addresses matches one of the listed addresses. Consider:
+
+        dnslists = a.b.c==127.0.0.1
+
+      If the DNS lookup yields both 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2, the condition is
+      false because 127.0.0.2 is not listed. You would need to have
+
+        dnslists = a.b.c==127.0.0.1,127.0.0.2
+
+      for the condition to be true.
+
+    When ! is used to negate IP address matching, it inverts the result, giving
+    the precise opposite of the behaviour above. Thus:
+
+    . If != or !& is used, the condition is true if none of the looked up IP
+      addresses matches one of the listed addresses. Consider:
+
+        dnslists = a.b.c!&0.0.0.1
+
+      If the DNS lookup yields both 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2, the condition is
+      false because 127.0.0.1 matches.
+
+    . If !== or !=& is used, the condition is true there is at least one looked
+      up IP address that does not match. Consider:
+
+        dnslists = a.b.c!=&0.0.0.1
+
+      If the DNS lookup yields both 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2, the condition is
+      true, because 127.0.0.2 does not match. You would need to have
+
+        dnslists = a.b.c!=&0.0.0.1,0.0.0.2
+
+      for the condition to be false.
+
+    When the DNS lookup yields only a single IP address, there is no difference
+    between = and == and between & and =&.
+
+ 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
+    for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
+    other parameters to be varied. Here is complete documentation for the
+    available features:
+
+    GnuTLS allows the caller to specify separate lists of permitted key
+    exchange methods, main cipher algorithms, and MAC algorithms. These may be
+    used in any combination to form a specific cipher suite. This is unlike
+    OpenSSL, where complete cipher names can be passed to its control function.
+    GnuTLS also allows a list of acceptable protocols to be supplied.

 
 

-Version 4.51
+    For compatibility with OpenSSL, the tls_require_ciphers option can be set
+    to complete cipher suite names such as RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA, but for GnuTLS this
+    option controls only the cipher algorithms. Exim searches each item in the
+    list for the name of an available algorithm. For example, if the list
+    contains RSA_AES_SHA, then AES is recognized, and the behaviour is exactly
+    the same as if just AES were given.
+
+    There are additional options called gnutls_require_kx, gnutls_require_mac,
+    and gnutls_require_protocols that can be used to restrict the key exchange
+    methods, MAC algorithms, and protocols, respectively. These options are
+    ignored if OpenSSL is in use.
+
+    All four options are available as global options, controlling how Exim
+    behaves as a server, and also as options of the smtp transport, controlling
+    how Exim behaves as a client. All the values are string expanded. After
+    expansion, the values must be colon-separated lists, though the separator
+    can be changed in the usual way.
+
+    Each of the four lists starts out with a default set of algorithms. If the
+    first item in one of the "require" options does _not_ start with an
+    exclamation mark, all the default items are deleted. In this case, only
+    those that are explicitly specified can be used. If the first item in one
+    of the "require" items _does_ start with an exclamation mark, the defaults
+    are left on the list.
+
+    Then, any item that starts with an exclamation mark causes the relevant
+    entry to be removed from the list, and any item that does not start with an
+    exclamation mark causes a new entry to be added to the list. Unrecognized
+    items in the list are ignored. Thus:
+
+      tls_require_ciphers = !ARCFOUR
+
+    allows all the defaults except ARCFOUR, whereas
+
+      tls_require_ciphers = AES : 3DES
+
+    allows only cipher suites that use AES or 3DES. For tls_require_ciphers
+    the recognized names are AES_256, AES_128, AES (both of the preceding),
+    3DES, ARCFOUR_128, ARCFOUR_40, and ARCFOUR (both of the preceding). The
+    default list does not contain all of these; it just has AES_256, AES_128,
+    3DES, and ARCFOUR_128.
+
+    For gnutls_require_kx, the recognized names are DHE_RSA, RSA (which
+    includes DHE_RSA), DHE_DSS, and DHE (which includes both DHE_RSA and
+    DHE_DSS). The default list contains RSA, DHE_DSS, DHE_RSA.
+
+    For gnutls_require_mac, the recognized names are SHA (synonym SHA1), and
+    MD5. The default list contains SHA, MD5.
+
+    For gnutls_require_protocols, the recognized names are TLS1 and SSL3.
+    The default list contains TLS1, SSL3.
+
+    In a server, the order of items in these lists is unimportant. The server
+    will advertise the availability of all the relevant cipher suites. However,
+    in a client, the order in the tls_require_ciphers list specifies a
+    preference order for the cipher algorithms. The first one in the client's
+    list that is also advertised by the server is tried first.
+
+ 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. You must
+    not set this option unless you really, really, really understand what you
+    are doing. No pre-compiled distributions of Exim should ever set this
+    option. When it is set, Exim compiles a runtime option called
+    disable_fsync. If this is set true, Exim no longer calls fsync() to force
+    updated files' data to be written to disc. Unexpected events such as
+    crashes and power outages may cause data to be lost or scrambled. Beware.
+
+    When ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC is not set, a reference to disable_fsync in a
+    runtime configuration generates an "unknown option" error.
+
+ 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start. The name
+    is deliberately long, in order to emphasize what the contents are. This
+    variable is set greater than zero only in processes spawned by the Exim
+    daemon for handling incoming SMTP connections. When the daemon accepts a
+    new connection, it increments this variable. A copy of the variable is
+    passed to the child process that handles the connection, but its value is
+    fixed, and never changes. It is only an approximation of how many incoming
+    connections there actually are, because many other connections may come and
+    go while a single connection is being processed. When a child process
+    terminates, the daemon decrements the variable.
+
+ 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining, which does what its name
+    suggests. It turns off the advertising of the PIPELINING extension to SMTP.
+    To be useful, this control must be obeyed before Exim sends its response to
+    an EHLO command. Therefore, it should normally appear in an ACL controlled
+    by acl_smtp_connect or acl_smtp_helo.
+
+
+Version 4.66

 ------------
 
 ------------
 

-PH/01 The format in which GnuTLS parameters are written to the gnutls-param
-      file in the spool directory has been changed. This change has been made
-      to alleviate problems that some people had with the generation of the
-      parameters by Exim when /dev/random was exhausted. In this situation,
-      Exim would hang until /dev/random acquired some more entropy.
+No new features were added to 4.66.

 
 

-      The new code exports and imports the DH and RSA parameters in PEM
-      format. This means that the parameters can be generated externally using
-      the certtool command that is part of GnuTLS.

 
 

-      To replace the parameters with new ones, instead of deleting the file
-      and letting Exim re-create it, you can generate new parameters using
-      certtool and, when this has been done, replace Exim's cache file by
-      renaming. The relevant commands are something like this:
+Version 4.65
+------------

 
 

-        # rm -f new.params
-        # touch new.params
-        # chown exim:exim new.params
-        # chmod 0400 new.params
-        # certtool --generate-privkey --bits 512 >new.params
-        # echo "" >>new.params
-        # certtool --generate-dh-params --bits 1024 >> new.params
-        # mv new.params params
+No new features were added to 4.65.

 
 

-      If Exim never has to generate the parameters itself, the possibility of
-      stalling is removed.

 
 

-PH/02 A new expansion item for dynamically loading and calling a locally-
-      written C function is now provided, if Exim is compiled with
+Version 4.64
+------------

 
 

-        EXPAND_DLFUNC=yes
+ 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
+    "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
+    least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
+    an underscore.

 
 

-      set in Local/Makefile. The facility is not included by default (a
-      suitable error is given if you try to use it when it is not there.)
+ 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
+    to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.

 
 

-      If you enable EXPAND_DLFUNC, you should also be aware of the new redirect
-      router option forbid_filter_dlfunc. If you have unprivileged users on
-      your system who are permitted to create filter files, you might want to
-      set forbid_filter_dlfunc=true in the appropriate router, to stop them
-      using ${dlfunc to run code within Exim.
+ 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
+    authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
+    number of authentication methods.

 
 

-      You load and call an external function like this:
+ 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
+    messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
+    $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.

 
 

-        ${dlfunc{/some/file}{function}{arg1}{arg2}...}
+ 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
+    second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
+    restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
+    without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.

 
 

-      Once loaded, Exim remembers the dynamically loaded object so that it
-      doesn't reload the same object file in the same Exim process (but of
-      course Exim does start new processes frequently).
+ 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.

 
 

-      There may be from zero to eight arguments to the function. When compiling
-      a local function that is to be called in this way, local_scan.h should be
-      included. The Exim variables and functions that are defined by that API
-      are also available for dynamically loaded functions. The function itself
-      must have the following type:
+ 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
+    conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
+    followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
+    before doing the expansions.

 
 

-        int dlfunction(uschar **yield, int argc, uschar *argv[])
+ 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
+    -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
+    message.

 
 

-      Where "uschar" is a typedef for "unsigned char" in local_scan.h. The
-      function should return one of the following values:
+ 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
+    is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
+    subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.

 
 

-      OK            Success. The string that is placed in "yield" is put into
-                    the expanded string that is being built.
+10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
+    shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.

 
 

-      FAIL          A non-forced expansion failure occurs, with the error
-                    message taken from "yield", if it is set.
+11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
+    as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
+    relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
+    available for compatibility.)

 
 

-      FAIL_FORCED   A forced expansion failure occurs, with the error message
-                    taken from "yield" if it is set.
+12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
+    to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.

 
 

-      ERROR         Same as FAIL, except that a panic log entry is written.

 
 

-      When compiling a function that is to be used in this way with gcc,
-      you need to add -shared to the gcc command. Also, in the Exim build-time
-      configuration, you must add -export-dynamic to EXTRALIBS.
+Version 4.63
+------------
+
+1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
+   router.
+
+2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
+   start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
+   read.
+
+3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
+   or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
+   start of the message for an SMTP error code.
+
+4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
+   one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
+
+5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
+    --reverse
+        After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
+        before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
+    --random
+        Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
+    --size
+        Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
+        of their sizes.
+    --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
+        Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
+        each messages value for each variable.
+    --not
+        Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
+        same criteria without --not).
+
+
+Version 4.62
+------------
+
+1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
+   as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
+   the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
+   name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
+   IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
+   This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:

 
 

-TF/01 $received_time is a new expansion variable containing the time and date
-      as a number of seconds since the start of the Unix epoch when the
-      current message was received.
+     ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...

 
 

-PH/03 There is a new value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE that can be set in
-      Local/Makefile. It is RADIUSCLIENTNEW, and it requests that the new API,
-      in use from radiusclient 0.4.0 onwards, be used. It does not appear to be
-      possible to detect the different versions automatically.
+   Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
+   one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
+   a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
+   domain socket.

 
 

-PH/04 There is a new option called acl_not_smtp_mime that allows you to scan
-      MIME parts in non-SMTP messages. It operates in exactly the same way as
-      acl_smtp_mime
+2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
+   incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
+   one, a batch delivery now occurs.

 
 

-PH/05 It is now possible to redefine a macro within the configuration file.
-      The macro must have been previously defined within the configuration (or
-      an included file). A definition on the command line using the -D option
-      causes all definitions and redefinitions within the file to be ignored.
-      In other words, -D overrides any values that are set in the file.
-      Redefinition is specified by using '==' instead of '='. For example:
+3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
+   Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
+   against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
+   maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.

 
 

-        MAC1 =  initial value
-        ...
-        MAC1 == updated value

 
 

-      Redefinition does not alter the order in which the macros are applied to
-      the subsequent lines of the configuration file. It is still the same
-      order in which the macros were originally defined. All that changes is
-      the macro's value. Redefinition makes it possible to accumulate values.
-      For example:
+Version 4.61
+------------
+
+The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
+the 4.60 release are:

 
 

-        MAC1 =  initial value
-        ...
-        MAC1 == MAC1 and something added
+. An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.

 
 

-      This can be helpful in situations where the configuration file is built
-      from a number of other files.
+. An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.

 
 

-PH/06 Macros may now be defined or redefined between router, transport,
-      authenticator, or ACL definitions, as well as in the main part of the
-      configuration. They may not, however, be changed within an individual
-      driver or ACL, or in the local_scan, retry, or rewrite sections of the
-      configuration.
+. A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
+  $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
+  for other things in complicated expansions.

 
 

-PH/07 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
-      verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
-      particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
+. The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.

 
 

-         warn  !verify = sender
-               set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
+. It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
+  resources used in pipe deliveries.

 
 

-      Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
-      and "log_message" when a very denied access.
+. A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.

 
 

+. More errors are detectable in retry rules.

 
 

+There are a number of other additions too.

 
 

-Version 4.50
+
+Version 4.60

 ------------
 
 ------------
 

-The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.50 release.
+The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
+the 4.50 release are:
+
+. Support for SQLite.
+
+. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
+
+. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
+
+. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
+
+. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
+
+. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
+
+. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
+
+There are many more minor changes.

 
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