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@@ -91,9 +91,10 @@ In order to run this test suite, the following requirements must be met:
 (5) Exim must be built with its user and group specified at build time, and
     with certain minimum facilities, namely:
 
-      Routers:    accept, dnslookup, manualroute, redirect
-      Transports: appendfile, autoreply, pipe, smtp
-      Lookups:    lsearch
+      Routers:        accept, dnslookup, manualroute, redirect
+      Transports:     appendfile, autoreply, pipe, smtp
+      Lookups:        lsearch
+      Authenticators: plaintext
 
     Most Exim binaries will have these included.
 
@@ -237,6 +238,11 @@ is as follows:
 
 There are some options for the ./runtest script itself:
 
+  -CONTINUE This will allow the script to move past some failing tests. It will
+            write a simple failure line with the test number in a temporary
+            logfile test/failed-summary.log. Unexpected exit codes will still
+            stall the test execution and require interaction.
+
   -DEBUG    This option is for debugging the test script. It causes some
             tracing information to be output.
 
@@ -434,6 +440,10 @@ OTHER ISSUES
   with an extra log line saying the hostname doesn't resolve.  You must use a
   FQDN for the hostname for proper test functionality.
 
+. If you change your hostname to a FQDN, you must delete the test/dnszones
+  subdirectory.  When you next run the runtest script, it will rebuild the
+  content to use the new hostname.
+
 . If your hostname has an uppercase characters in it, expect that some tests
   will fail, for example, 0036, because some log lines will have the hostname
   in all lowercase.  The regex which extracts the hostname from the log lines
@@ -448,6 +458,9 @@ OTHER ISSUES
   be on by default and you'll see this problem, so make sure your umask is
   022 and re-checkout the test/ subdirectory.
 
+. Some tests will fail if the username and group name are different. It does
+  not have to be the primary group, a secondary group is sufficient.
+
 
 OTHER SCRIPTS AND PROGRAMS
 --------------------------
@@ -664,7 +677,7 @@ only when DBM support is available in Exim, and typically follows the use of a
 "write" command (see below) that creates the input file.
 
 
-  dumpdb <dbname>
+  dump <dbname>
 
 This command runs the exim_dumpdb utility on the testing spool directory, using
 the database name given, for example: "dumpdb retry".
@@ -718,7 +731,7 @@ to the screen.
   munge <name>
 
 This command requests custom munging of the test outputs.  The munge names
-used are coded in the runtest script.
+used are coded in the runtest script (look for 'name of munge').
 
 
   need_ipv4
@@ -823,7 +836,7 @@ This command runs the auxiliary "client" program that simulates an SMTP client.
 It is controlled by a script read from its standard input, details of which are
 given below. There are two options. One is -t, which must be followed directly
 by a number, to specify the command timeout in seconds (e.g. -t5). The default
-timeout is 1 second. The other option is -tls-on-connect, which causes the
+timeout is 5 seconds. The other option is -tls-on-connect, which causes the
 client to try to start up a TLS session as soon as it has connected, without
 using the STARTTLS command. The client program connects to the given IP address
 and port, using the specified interface, if one is given.
@@ -834,9 +847,11 @@ and port, using the specified interface, if one is given.
 
 When OpenSSL is available on the host, an alternative version of the client
 program is compiled, one that supports TLS using OpenSSL. The additional
-arguments specify a certificate and key file when required. There is one
-additional option, -tls-on-connect, that causes the client to initiate TLS
-negotiation immediately on connection.
+arguments specify a certificate and key file when required for the connection.
+There are two additional options: -tls-on-connect, that causes the client to
+initiate TLS negociation immediately on connection; -ocsp that causes the TLS
+negotiation to include a certificate-status request.  The latter takes a
+filename argument, the CA info for verifying the stapled response.
 
 
   client-gnutls [<options>] <ip address> <port> [<outgoing interface>] \
@@ -882,13 +897,15 @@ input, details of which are given below. A number of options are implemented:
 
   -d       causes the server to output debugging information
 
-  -t       sets a timeout in seconds (default 5) for when the server is
+  -t <sec> sets a timeout (default 5) for when the server is
            awaiting an incoming connection
 
   -noipv4  causes the server not to set up an IPv4 socket
 
   -noipv6  causes the server not to set up an IPv6 socket
 
+  -i <sec> sets an initial pause, to delay before creating the listen sockets
+
 By default, in an IPv6 environment, both kinds of socket are set up. However,
 the test script knows which interfaces actually exist on the host, and it adds
 -noipv4 or -noipv6 to the server command as required. An error occurs if both