X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/heiko/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/ff4dbb191fab3d0bc10b82bb6d59898d03c2b50d..76a2d7bad2f69787569f842d9d154524c4758ce3:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 3109ea96f..5d6e915d3 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.21 2004/12/20 15:24:27 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.25 2005/01/04 16:36:27 ph10 Exp $ New Features in Exim -------------------- @@ -234,6 +234,27 @@ Version 4.50 19. The Exiscan patch is now merged into the main source. See src/EDITME for parameters for the build. +20. If the key for a dnsdb PTR lookup is not an IP address, it is used + verbatim, without component reversal and without the addition of + in-addr.arpa or ip6.arpa. + +21. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option: + + (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable. Its value + sticks with the message and is therefore available in routers and + transports at delivery time. + + (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead + of $primary_hostname. + +22. The hosts_max_try_hardlimit option (default 50) is added to the smtp + transport. Exim will never try more than this number of IP addresses; if it + hits this limit and they are all timed out, the message is bounced, even + though not all IP addresses may have been tried. Compare hosts_max_try, + which is a "soft" limit, because Exim will exceed it when hosts time out. + The new limit is a protection against lunatic DNS configurations with + hundreds of IP addresses. + Version 4.43 ------------