X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/heiko/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/944a9c55d5b7d3d50ea8b8fabfb7a7be5ca8693f..7d89b8caecf6abfddbd6a07597cacf615144cb13:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 14e08ee78..e8792c3fc 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.89 2006/02/22 15:08:20 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.93 2006/03/01 11:40:51 ph10 Exp $ New Features in Exim -------------------- @@ -74,6 +74,37 @@ PH/11 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset and H retry rules, and it seems reasonable to require a retry at least once a day. +PH/12 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server + challenges are now checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. The + default action on failure is to abort the authentication. However, if + client_ignore_invalid_base64 is set true, invalid responses are ignored. + +PH/13 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the challenges + from the server are placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as they are received. + Thus, the challege that is received in response to sending the first + string (with the AUTH command) can be used in the expansion of the second + string, and so on. Currently, up to 3 challenge strings are available in + this way. If an invalid base64 string is received when client_ignore_ + invalid_base64 is set, an empty string is put in the $auth variable. + +PH/14 Messages created by the autoreply transport now contain a References: + header. This is constructed in accordance with rules that are described + in section 3.64 of RFC 2822, which states that replies should contain + such a header line, and section 3.14 of RFC 3834, which states that + automatic responses are not different in this respect. However, because + some mail processing software does not cope well with very long header + lines, no more than 12 message IDs are copied from the References: header + line in the incoming message. If there are more than 12, the first one + and then the final 11 are copied, before adding the message ID of the + incoming message. + +PH/15 The smtp transport has a new option called authenticated_sender_force. + When set true, it allows the authenticated_sender option's value to be + used, even if Exim has not authenticated as a client. + +PH/16 The expansion ${time_eval:} converts an Exim time string such as + 2d4h1m into a number of seconds. + Version 4.60 ------------