X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/heiko/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/af5614178a73fc5060e4c15064cc5855681fa02d..56f5d9bd6bb563f4f0eab011ed665da234d93e37:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 53bfcc179..9d0e93993 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.121 2006/11/13 11:26:37 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.124 2006/12/05 11:35:28 ph10 Exp $ New Features in Exim -------------------- @@ -192,6 +192,56 @@ Version 4.64 ${eval:~255&0x1234} yields 4608 ${eval:-(~255&0x1234)} yields -4608 +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.) + +12. The "message" modifier can now be used on acl verbs to vary the message + that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted. For example, in a RCPT ACL + you could have: + + accept + message = OK, I'll allow you through today + + Previously, this message modifier would have had no effect whatsoever. + + IMPORTANT: The new behaviour applies to "accept" (and "discard") only if + there is no occurrence of "endpass" in the statement. If "endpass" is + present, the behaviour reverts to the old case, where "message" applies to + rejection. This is for backwards compatibility. + + It is always possible to rewrite ACL statements so that "endpass" is not + needed (and indeed it is no longer used in the default configuration, and + is somewhat not recommended nowadays because it causes confusion.) + + It is now generally true that the "message" modifier sets up a text string + that is expanded and used as a response message if the current statement + terminates the ACL. The expansion happens at the time Exim decides that the + ACL is to end, not at the time it processes "message". If the expansion + fails, or generates an empty string, the modifier is ignored. + + For ACLs that are triggered by SMTP commands, the message is returned as + part of the SMTP response. In this situation, the message may begin with an + overriding SMTP response code, optionally followed by an "extended response + code". However, the first digit of the supplied response code must be the + same as would be sent by default. A panic occurs if it is not. For the + predata ACL, note that the default success code is 354, not 2xx. + + However, notwithstanding the previous paragraph, for the QUIT ACL, unlike + the others, the message modifier cannot override the 221 response code. + + In the case of the "connect" ACL, accepting with a message modifier + overrides the value of smtp_banner. + + The ACL test specified by acl_smtp_helo happens when the client issues the + HELO or EHLO commands, after the tests specified by helo_accept_junk_hosts, + helo_allow_chars and helo(_try)_verify_hosts. An acceptance message + modifier for EHLO/HELO may not contain more than one line (it will be + truncated at the first newline and a panic logged), and it cannot affect + the EHLO options. + + Version 4.63 ------------