4 This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
5 Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
6 test from the snapshots or the Git before the documentation is updated. Once
7 the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
12 1. EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
15 2. Channel-binding for authenticators is now supported under OpenSSL.
16 Previously it was GnuTLS-only.
20 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the
21 plaintext driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and
22 SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS methods.
24 5. Server-side support in the gsasl authenticator for encrypted passwords, as
25 an alternate for the existing plaintext.
27 6. Variable $local_part_verified, set by the router check_local_part condition
30 7. Named-list definitions can now be prefixed "hide" so that "-bP" commands do
31 not output the content. Previously this could only be done on options.
33 8. As an exerimental feature, the dovecot authenticatino driver supports inet
34 sockets. Previously it was unix-domain sockets only.
36 9. The ACL control "queue_only" can also be spelled "queue", and now takes an
37 option "first_pass_route" to do the same as a "-odqs" on the command line.
39 9. Items specified for the router and transport headers_remove option can use
40 a trailing asterisk to specify globbing.
42 10. New $queue_size variable.
44 11. New variables $local_part_{pre,suf}fix_v.
46 12. New main option "sqlite_dbfile", for use in preference to prefixing the
47 lookup string. The older method fails when tainted variables are used
48 in the lookup, as the filename becomes tainted. The new method keeps the
51 13. Options on the dsearch lookup, to return the full path and to filter
52 filetypes for matching.
54 14. Options on pgsql and mysql lookups, to specify server separate from the
57 15. Expansion item ${listquote {<char} {<item>}}
64 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
66 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
68 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
71 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
73 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
75 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
78 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
79 reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
81 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
83 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
86 10. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
88 11. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
90 12. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
92 13. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
94 14: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
96 15: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
97 decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
98 it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
99 directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
100 GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
101 only, and exim must be run as root).
103 16: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
105 17. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
111 1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
112 list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
113 when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
114 facilities hard to parse.
116 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
119 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
120 features. See the experimental.spec file.
122 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
124 5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
126 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
128 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
130 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
132 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
137 1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
138 version 3.5.6 or later.
140 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
141 OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
142 New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
144 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
146 4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
147 src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
149 5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
150 controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
151 A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
152 a "dkim" log_selector.
154 6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
156 7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
157 routing rules in the manualroute router.
159 8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
160 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
162 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
163 GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
165 10. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
168 11. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
170 12. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
171 Authentication-Results: header.
173 13. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
174 See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
176 14: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
178 15. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
179 contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
180 the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
181 list must contain all the master and slave servers.
183 16. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
184 allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
185 several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
191 1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
192 wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
194 2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
195 connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
197 3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
198 deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
199 open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
200 making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
201 another process. Logging is also affected.
203 4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
205 5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
206 further recipients and for delivery.
208 6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
211 7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
212 wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
213 cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
214 received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
215 option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
217 8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
218 restrict who can use various introspection options.
220 9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
221 appendfile transport.
223 10. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
226 11. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
227 log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
229 12. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
230 while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
231 is opened with a TFO cookie.
233 13. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
234 DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
235 Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
236 Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
237 The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
240 14. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
243 15. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
244 for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
246 16. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
247 in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
249 17. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
255 1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
257 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
258 variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
259 when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
265 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
266 interpreter in taint mode.
268 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
270 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
273 4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
274 N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
275 With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
277 5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
278 the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
279 the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
282 6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
284 7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
285 performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
286 chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
289 8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
291 9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
293 10. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
294 and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
295 router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
296 Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
297 Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
299 11. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
301 12. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
302 returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
305 13. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
307 14. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
308 out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
310 15. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
311 supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
312 try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
313 but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
314 banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
315 another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
316 previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
317 will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
319 16. A new syslog_pid option to suppress PID duplication in syslog lines.
325 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
326 into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
328 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
329 malware= or verify= callout.
331 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
333 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
334 The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
335 leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
336 to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
337 The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
338 set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
340 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
342 6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
344 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
345 synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
347 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
348 avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
351 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
357 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
359 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
360 and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
362 3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
364 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
366 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
368 6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
370 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
371 be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
373 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
374 the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
376 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
377 used encoding of Maildir folder names.
379 10. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
381 11. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
383 12. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
385 13. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
386 Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
388 14. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
389 same level as DNSSEC.
394 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
395 DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
396 used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
397 domain of the sender.
399 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
400 and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
401 been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
402 existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
403 $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
404 experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
406 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
407 server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
408 not use the same mechanism as DANE.
418 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
419 configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
420 actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
421 proxy that is connecting to it.
423 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
424 there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
425 those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
426 detect and reject if those characters are present.
428 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
429 codepoints with valid ones.
431 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
432 command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
433 and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
434 be included in the command line.
436 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
437 "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
438 is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
439 verification cancels the encryption.
441 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
442 lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
445 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
446 file when searching the queue.
448 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
450 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
452 10. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
453 "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
454 work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
457 11. PRDR is now supported dy default.
459 12. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
461 13. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
462 Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
463 DSN features per RFC 3461.
469 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
470 of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
471 ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
472 query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
473 SIEVE capability line.
475 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
476 emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
477 For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
478 followed by a newline, and no other text.
480 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
481 has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
482 bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
483 acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
484 Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
485 far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
486 sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
487 establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
489 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
491 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
492 dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
493 to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
494 resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
495 can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
496 relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
498 Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
500 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
501 set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
502 DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
504 Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
505 so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
507 Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
508 ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
510 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
511 ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
512 is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
513 process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
516 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
517 ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
518 deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
519 if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
520 the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
521 direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
522 When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
523 is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
524 does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
525 is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
526 a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
527 The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
530 The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
531 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
532 included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
533 reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
535 To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
536 The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
537 hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
539 New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
540 for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
541 are present for now but deprecated.
543 Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
545 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
546 and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
548 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
549 rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
550 modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
551 those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
552 that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
553 unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
554 through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
555 unless this new option is set.
557 Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability,
558 so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
559 but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
562 AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
564 10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
565 New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
566 "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
567 can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
568 Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
569 a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
570 or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
571 accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
572 return results in a forced fail.
574 11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
575 option lines. The concatenated list is used.
577 12. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
578 handled by routers/transports.
580 13. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
581 "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
583 14. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
584 modifier (but not yet added to message).
586 15. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
588 16. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
590 17. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
591 particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
592 require privilege whereas -d does.
594 18. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
595 proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
597 19. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
598 decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
599 wrappers, for instance.
601 20. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
604 21. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
605 options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
606 It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
607 $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
608 dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
609 dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
610 "/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
612 22. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
613 provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
614 for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
616 23. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
619 24. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
620 characters in the string to \xNN form.
622 25. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
623 Patch provided by Axel Rau.
625 26. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
631 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
632 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
633 http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
634 This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
635 careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
637 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
638 A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
639 is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
640 "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
642 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
643 cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
644 than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
645 "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
646 without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
648 In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
649 find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
651 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
653 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
654 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
655 into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
658 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
660 Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
661 "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
662 increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
663 implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
664 administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
665 compatibility at the cost of session security.
667 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
668 tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
669 sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
670 different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
671 still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
673 The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
674 for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
676 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
677 for Exim as a server.
679 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
680 that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
681 Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
682 Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
683 even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
685 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
686 -bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
687 already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
688 "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
689 interested in adding more support for modern variants.
691 10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
692 for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
694 11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
695 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
696 tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
697 string, documentation for which is at:
698 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
700 SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
702 For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
703 gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
705 12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
706 is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
707 send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
708 Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
709 are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
711 See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
713 13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
714 identically to TXT record lookups.
716 14. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
718 15. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
719 hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
720 GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
722 16. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
723 Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
724 If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
725 Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
728 17. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
729 Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
730 install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
736 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
737 The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
739 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
740 use SSL-on-connect outbound.
742 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
743 there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
745 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
746 and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
747 support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
749 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
750 built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
751 the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
752 "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
758 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
759 or off in the resolver library.
765 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
766 is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
767 libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
768 this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
769 ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
771 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
772 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
773 Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
775 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
776 The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
778 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
779 in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
780 including any header additions or removals from transport.
782 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
783 Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
789 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
790 the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
791 arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
792 on content supplied by the attacker.
794 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
795 platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
796 and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
797 dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
798 all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
804 NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
805 items below carefully
807 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
808 is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
809 administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
810 typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
811 developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
812 consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
815 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
816 diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
817 a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
818 so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
819 be able to take effect.
821 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
822 Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
823 Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
824 release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
826 The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
827 part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
828 the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
829 a Unix-domain socket. For example:
831 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
833 ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
835 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
836 takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
837 malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
838 to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
839 Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references
840 ACL variables without a fallback then this will fail.
842 5. There is a new expansion operator, "reverse_ip", which will reverse IP
843 addresses; IPv4 into dotted quad, IPv6 into dotted nibble. Examples:
845 ${reverse_ip:192.0.2.4}
847 ${reverse_ip:2001:0db8:c42:9:1:abcd:192.0.2.3}
848 -> 3.0.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
850 6. There is a new ACL control called "debug", to enable debug logging.
851 This allows selective logging of certain incoming transactions within
852 production environments, with some care. It takes two options, "tag"
853 and "opts"; "tag" is included in the filename of the log and "opts"
854 is used as per the -d<options> command-line option. Examples, which
855 don't all make sense in all contexts:
858 control = debug/tag=.$sender_host_address
859 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl
860 control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand
862 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that
863 "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was
864 "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from
865 shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim
866 themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of
867 running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in
868 them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured
869 statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim
870 will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot,
871 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip
874 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL
875 condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many
876 strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings
878 Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true.
880 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests.
882 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name".
883 Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers
884 config file will be used to control access to the daemon. This option
885 is only available when Exim is built with USE_TCP_WRAPPERS. The
886 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
889 11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
890 the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
892 12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
893 is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option
894 TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
895 are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
896 a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
897 user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
899 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
900 trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line. Going
901 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
902 include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
903 providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
904 a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim
905 run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
906 ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
912 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
913 writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
915 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
917 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
918 messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
921 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
922 in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
923 only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
924 preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
925 separator specification. The separator can be followed by a semicolon, to
926 concatenate the individual text strings together with no join character,
927 or by a comma and a second separator character, in which case the text
928 strings within a TXT record are joined on that second character.
929 Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no ordering guarantees
930 between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
932 foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
933 foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
935 ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
936 ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
937 ${lookup dnsdb{>/,+ txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
943 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
944 (Note that if no action to prevent it is taken, a straight upgrade will
945 result in DKIM verification of all signed incoming emails. See spec
946 for details on conditionally disabling)
948 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
950 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
951 true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the
952 and{} expansion operator).
954 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
957 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
958 options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
960 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
961 which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
962 security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
964 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
965 "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
966 not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
967 Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
969 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
972 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
978 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental.
984 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
987 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
988 in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
989 this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
992 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
994 the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
995 $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
996 true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
999 deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
1001 If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
1002 192.168.6.7 (for example).
1004 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
1005 a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
1006 "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
1007 authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
1009 client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
1011 Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
1012 cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
1013 contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
1016 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
1017 message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
1018 only by an admin user.
1020 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
1021 computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
1022 the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
1023 the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
1024 incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
1026 In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
1027 for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
1032 # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
1033 # we update it below
1034 deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
1035 log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1036 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1038 [... some other logic and tests...]
1040 warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
1041 log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
1042 (max $sender_rate_limit)
1043 condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
1047 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
1048 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
1049 line termination character(s).
1051 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to
1052 +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
1053 care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
1055 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
1056 If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
1057 the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
1058 message is queued, the remainder are also.
1060 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
1061 cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
1062 itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
1063 this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
1064 log files) that make the situation even worse.
1066 Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
1067 statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
1068 modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
1070 When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
1071 to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
1072 connection. The possible values are:
1074 acl-drop Another ACL issued a "drop" command
1075 bad-commands Too many unknown or non-mail commands
1076 command-timeout Timeout while reading SMTP commands
1077 connection-lost The SMTP connection has been lost
1078 data-timeout Timeout while reading message data
1079 local-scan-error The local_scan() function crashed
1080 local-scan-timeout The local_scan() function timed out
1081 signal-exit SIGTERM or SIGINT
1082 synchronization-error SMTP synchronization error
1083 tls-failed TLS failed to start
1085 In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
1086 QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
1087 connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
1088 overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
1089 "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
1092 10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
1093 servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
1094 "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
1096 (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
1097 or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
1098 remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
1100 (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
1102 The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
1103 Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
1104 successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
1106 This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
1107 are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
1108 masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
1110 mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
1112 In an updating lookup, you could then write
1114 ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
1116 If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
1118 pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
1120 you can still update the master by
1122 ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
1124 11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
1125 compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
1126 $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
1133 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
1134 the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
1135 whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
1138 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
1139 addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
1140 one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
1141 rather than the default "any" matching.
1143 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
1144 for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
1145 other parameters to be varied.
1147 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
1148 set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
1150 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
1152 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
1154 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
1155 These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
1157 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
1158 after the connection to the server has been made.
1160 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
1161 are encoded as per RFC 2047.
1163 10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
1164 id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
1167 11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
1168 a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
1169 as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
1170 obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
1171 respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
1173 12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
1174 called forany and forall.
1176 13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
1177 contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
1178 messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
1180 14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
1182 15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
1183 that makes it case-sensitive.
1185 16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
1186 been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
1187 items, typically addresses.
1189 17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
1190 and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
1191 modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
1194 18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
1195 values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
1197 19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
1200 20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
1207 No new features were added to 4.66.
1213 No new features were added to 4.65.
1219 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
1220 "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
1221 least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
1224 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
1225 to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
1227 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
1228 authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
1229 number of authentication methods.
1231 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
1232 messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
1233 $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
1235 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
1236 second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
1237 restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
1238 without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
1240 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
1242 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
1243 conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
1244 followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
1245 before doing the expansions.
1247 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
1248 -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
1251 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
1252 is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
1253 subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
1255 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
1256 shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
1258 11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
1259 as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
1260 relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
1261 available for compatibility.)
1263 12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
1264 to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
1270 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
1273 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
1274 start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
1277 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
1278 or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
1279 start of the message for an SMTP error code.
1281 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
1282 one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
1284 5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
1286 After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
1287 before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
1289 Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
1291 Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
1293 --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
1294 Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
1295 each messages value for each variable.
1297 Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
1298 same criteria without --not).
1304 1. The ${readsocket expansion item now supports Internet domain sockets as well
1305 as Unix domain sockets. If the first argument begins "inet:", it must be of
1306 the form "inet:host:port". The port is mandatory; it may be a number or the
1307 name of a TCP port in /etc/services. The host may be a name, or it may be an
1308 IP address. An ip address may optionally be enclosed in square brackets.
1309 This is best for IPv6 addresses. For example:
1311 ${readsocket{inet:[::1]:1234}{<request data>}...
1313 Only a single host name may be given, but if looking it up yield more than
1314 one IP address, they are each tried in turn until a connection is made. Once
1315 a connection has been made, the behaviour is as for ${readsocket with a Unix
1318 2. If a redirect router sets up file or pipe deliveries for more than one
1319 incoming address, and the relevant transport has batch_max set greater than
1320 one, a batch delivery now occurs.
1322 3. The appendfile transport has a new option called maildirfolder_create_regex.
1323 Its value is a regular expression. For a maildir delivery, this is matched
1324 against the maildir directory; if it matches, Exim ensures that a
1325 maildirfolder file is created alongside the new, cur, and tmp directories.
1331 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.61 release. Major new features since
1332 the 4.60 release are:
1334 . An option called disable_ipv6, to disable the use of IPv6 completely.
1336 . An increase in the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type.
1338 . A change to use $auth1, $auth2, and $auth3 in authenticators instead of $1,
1339 $2, $3, (though those are still set) because the numeric variables get used
1340 for other things in complicated expansions.
1342 . The default for rfc1413_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
1344 . It is possible to use setclassresources() on some BSD OS to control the
1345 resources used in pipe deliveries.
1347 . A new ACL modifier called add_header, which can be used with any verb.
1349 . More errors are detectable in retry rules.
1351 There are a number of other additions too.
1357 The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
1358 the 4.50 release are:
1360 . Support for SQLite.
1362 . Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
1364 . Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
1366 . Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
1368 . Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
1370 . New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
1372 . A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
1374 There are many more minor changes.