-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-misc/WishList,v 1.61 2006/03/02 11:24:25 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-misc/WishList,v 1.67 2006/04/04 12:59:42 ph10 Exp $
EXIM 4 WISH LIST
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So several warnings could be generated as the mailbox got bigger and bigger.
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-(146) 15-May-2000 M Allow SMTP error codes in retry rules
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-This would allow special handling of certain errors from certain hosts. In
-particular, it would allow failing of certain 4xx codes.
-
-This is now available for 4xx responses to RCPT commands. Is anything more
-needed? Apparently, yes; there's been a request for a similar feature for MAIL
-commands.
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(148) 15-May-2000 S Warn recipient if message rejected for quota excession.
Heinz Ekker
that it can be used as a safety-net while testing configurations. Instead of a
local bounce, the message stays on the queue; instead of 5xx SMTP responses,
4xx ones are given.
-
-The ability to do the opposite - turn 4xx into 5xx under certain circumstances
-might also be useful (e.g. after a certain time). This might best be done by
-extending the retry logic to recognize 4xx as a special error. (This is now
-done.)
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(202) 10-Oct-03 S -bvsomething to do a callout after the verify
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(209) 31-Oct-03 S a way of making crashes in pipe commands temporary errors
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(210) 31-Oct-03 S runtime option to change the daemon name used for tcprwappers
changed.)
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-(216) 27-Nov-03 S Option to bounce if required TLS doesn't happen
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-This is for the smtp transport with hosts_require_tls set. Currently, it
-defers. Possibly the best approach is to make the error one that can be seen by
-the retry logic.
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(217) 27-Nov-03 M A function to pass back variables from Perl
This is a function that can be called from Perl, to take a name and a value and
(236) 02-Feb-04 S String in local_scan that's added to the binary version string
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-(237) 02-Feb-04 M Add_header in ACLs because "message" is overloaded
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-This would be useful for verbs where "message" is an error message. See also
-333.
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(238) 05-Feb-04 S ${address to handle multiple addresses
At present, ${address expects to see just one address. An extension would let
both of them.
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-(286) 21-Jul-04 M Distinguishing a larger number of errors
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-For instance, detecting "connection reset by peer" (ENETRESET or ECONNRESET)
-might be useful.
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(288) 10-Aug-04 M Option for verify to require MX
e.g. verify=sender/require_mx
These are the main previous items:
Exim 3 Wish List: 41, 85, 149, 187.
-Exim 4 Wish List: 55, 62, 63, 160, 212, 237, 270, 314, 328.
+Exim 4 Wish List: 55, 62, 63, 160, 212, 270, 314, 328.
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(334) 07-Jun-05 M Support for messages larger than 2G
The natural syntax for this would be to use a regex, like this:
${lookup regex{/some/file regex}{found-string}{not-found-string}}
+However, it would be natural to want to use $1 etc in the found-string; this
+would be hard because of the lookup caching (if repeated, the lookup won't
+actually be done and therefore the numerical variables won't be set), and in
+any case, even without caching (and it could, I suppose, be disabled for this
+lookup) those variables are not in the right storage pool even if they were
+preserved after the lookup.
+
+An alternative approach might be to implement something like this:
+
+ ${scanfile{/some/file}{sub-expression}}
+
+where the sub-expression is expanded for every line in the file, with each line
+in turn being put into $value. This is like a conditional ${readfile, and in
+fact ${readfile could be written using ${scanfile. It would be nice to find a
+way of stopping the scan once something has happened. The only thing I can
+think of is to invent a variable that changes when scanning a line generates
+some non-null text, and then always to stop on a forced failure. That would
+allow expressions like this:
+
+ ${scanfile{/some/file}
+ {
+ ${if eq{$generated}{}{${if match{regex}{$value}{something}}} fail}
+ }}
+
+It's all rather clumsy. Once a line has matched and generated some text, the
+next iteration would stop the scan. Another thought: maybe use $scanline
+instead of $value (to save confusion) and have $scantext containing everything
+that's been generated so far. That sounds pretty flexible.
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(344) 10-Oct-05 M Make debug_print work in authenticators
enwildlsearch.
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-(348) 17-Nov-05 S Option to allow AUTH when not advertised.
+(351) 31-Mar-06 ? Allow some/all/a few internal variables to be set
-It seems that there are clients that send AUTH when it hasn't been advertised,
-some even after HELO, not even EHLO. Sigh. Possibly this should be an ACL
-control, to enable it to be restricted to certain hosts.
+The original idea was to allow "set authenticated = x" to pretend a connection
+is authenticated after other conditions are true. This can, of course, be
+packaged up using macros in other ways. Setting other variables could cause
+problems.
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-(350) 28-Feb-06 S Additional errors for retry rules
+(352) 04-Apr-06 S Add +accept_defer for host lists (and maybe others)
-(i) Unexpected connection close; (ii) mail_4xx.
+At present, a defer causes a delivery defer. For non-critical ACLs there are
+times when it may be better to accept. See also 226 and 289.
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+--- HWM 352 ------------------------------------------------------------------
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