-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.27 2005/03/08 11:38:21 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.97 2006/03/16 11:51:09 ph10 Exp $
New Features in Exim
--------------------
updated when there is a relatively large batch of changes). The doc/ChangeLog
file contains a listing of all changes, including bug fixes.
-
-Version 4.51
+Version 4.61
------------
-PH/01. The format in which GnuTLS parameters are written to the gnutls-param
- file in the spool directory has been changed. This change has been made
- to alleviate problems that some people had with the generation of the
- parameters by Exim when /dev/random was exhausted. In this situation,
- Exim would hang until /dev/random acquired some more entropy.
+PH/01 There is a new global option called disable_ipv6, which does exactly what
+ its name implies. If set true, even if the Exim binary has IPv6 support,
+ no IPv6 activities take place. AAAA records are never looked up for host
+ names given in manual routing data or elsewhere. AAAA records that are
+ received from the DNS as additional data for MX records are ignored. Any
+ IPv6 addresses that are listed in local_interfaces, manualroute route
+ data, etc. are also ignored. If IP literals are enabled, the ipliteral
+ router declines to handle IPv6 literal addresses.
+
+PH/02 There are now 20 of each type of ACL variable by default (instead of 10).
+ It is also possible to change the numbers by setting ACL_CVARS and/or
+ ACL_MVARS in Local/Makefile. Backward compatibility is maintained if you
+ upgrade to this release with existing messages containing ACL variable
+ settings on the queue. However, going in the other direction
+ (downgrading) will not be compatible; the values of ACL variables will be
+ lost.
+
+PH/03 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
+ adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
+ errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
+
+PH/04 The variables $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 are now available in authenticators,
+ containing the same values as $1, $2, $3. The new variables are provided
+ because the numerical variables can be reset during string expansions
+ (for example, during a "match" operation) and so may lose the
+ authentication data. The preferred variables are now the new ones, with
+ the use of the numerical ones being deprecated, though the support will
+ not be removed, at least, not for a long time.
+
+PH/05 The "control=freeze" ACL modifier can now be followed by /no_tell. If
+ the global option freeze_tell is set, it is ignored for the current
+ message (that is, nobody is told about the freezing), provided all the
+ "control=freeze" modifiers that are obeyed in the current message have
+ the /no_tell option.
+
+PH/06 In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that results
+ in an empty string is now treated as unset.
+
+PH/07 There is a new log selector called sender_verify_fail, which is set by
+ default. If it is unset, the separate log line that gives details of a
+ sender verification failure is not written. Log lines for the rejection
+ of SMTP commands (e.g. RCPT) contain just "sender verify failed", so some
+ detail is lost.
+
+PH/08 The default for dns_check_names_pattern now allows slashes within names,
+ as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check is
+ only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
+ characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
+
+PH/09 The default for rfc4131_query_timeout has been changed from 30s to 5s.
+
+PH/10 When compiled on FreeBSD, NetBSD, or BSD/OS, the pipe transport has a new
+ Boolean option called use_classresources, defaulting false. If it is set
+ true, the setclassresources() function is used to set resource limits
+ when a pipe transport is run to perform a delivery. The limits for the
+ uid under which the pipe is to run are obtained from the login class
+ database.
+
+PH/11 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
+ to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
+ 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<n> 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:<string>} converts an Exim time string such as
+ 2d4h1m into a number of seconds.
+
+PH/17 The ACL modifier control=allow_auth_unadvertised can be used to permit a
+ client host to use the SMTP AUTH command even when it has not been
+ advertised in response to EHLO. Furthermore, because there are apparently
+ some really broken clients that do this, Exim will even accept AUTH after
+ HELO when this control is set. It should only be used if you really need
+ it, and you should limit its use to those broken hosts that do not work
+ without it. For example:
+
+ warn hosts = 192.168.34.25
+ control = allow_auth_unadvertised
+
+ This control is permitted only in the connection and HELO ACLs.
+
+PH/18 There is a new ACL modifier called "add_header" which does what its name
+ implies. It specifies one of more header lines that are to be added to an
+ incoming message, assuming, of course, that the message is ultimately
+ accepted.
+
+ This modifier is permitted in the MAIL, RCPT, PREDATA, DATA, MIME, and
+ non-SMTP ACLs (in other words, those that are concerned with accepting a
+ message). Added header lines are accumulated during the MAIL, RCPT, and
+ PREDATA ACLs, with any duplicates being discarded. They are then added to
+ the message before processing the DATA and MIME ACLs, during which
+ further added header lines are accumulated, again with duplicates
+ discarded. Thus, it is possible to add two identical header lines to an
+ SMTP message, but only if one is added before DATA and one after.
- The new code exports and imports the DH and RSA parameters in PEM
- format. This means that the parameters can be generated externally using
- the certtool command that is part of GnuTLS.
+ In the case of non-SMTP messages, new headers are accumulated during the
+ non-SMTP ACL, and added to the message at the end.
- To replace the parameters with new ones, instead of deleting the file
- and letting Exim re-create it, you can generate new parameters using
- certtool and, when this has been done, replace Exim's cache file by
- renaming. The relevant commands are something like this:
+ The add_header modifier is available for use with all ACL verbs. In the
+ case of the WARN verb, add_header supersedes the use of "message" for
+ this purpose; for the other verbs, it provides a new facility. If both
+ add_header and "message" are present on a WARN verb, both are processed
+ according to their specifications.
- # rm -f new.params
- # touch new.params
- # chown exim:exim new.params
- # chmod 0400 new.params
- # certtool --generate-privkey --bits 512 >new.params
- # echo "" >>new.params
- # certtool --generate-dh-params --bits 1024 >> new.params
- # mv new.params params
+ The add_header modifier acts immediately it is encountered during the
+ processing of an ACL. This is different to the (now-deprecated) use of
+ "message" on a WARN verb, where the action is taken only if all the
+ conditions are true. Notice the difference between these two cases on a
+ RCPT ACL:
- If Exim never has to generate the parameters itself, the possibility of
- stalling is removed.
+ deny add_header = ADDED: some text
+ <some condition>
+ deny <some condition>
+ add_header = ADDED: some text
-Version 4.50
+ In the first case, the header is always added, whether or not the current
+ recipient is rejected. In the second case, the header is added only if
+ the recipient is rejected.
+
+ If add_header appears more than once on an ACL statement, multiple
+ headers are added, provided that they have different content. (In the
+ case of WARN with "message", only the last value of "message" is used.)
+
+ The facility for specifying where the new header is to be inserted, as
+ described for WARN with "message" in section 39.19 of the 4.60 manual, is
+ supported.
+
+PH/19 The following errors can now be detected in retry rules:
+
+ mail_4xx This is like rcpt_4xx, but applies to MAIL commands
+
+ data_4xx This is like rcpt_4xx, but applies to DATA commands and the
+ response code after the end of the data
+
+ lost_connection This error occurs when the server unexpectedly closes
+ the SMTP connection. There may, of course, legitmate reasons
+ for this (host died, network died), but if it repeats a lot
+ for the same host, it indicates something odd.
+
+ tls_required The server was required to use TLS (hosts_require_tls),
+ but either did not offer it, or responded with 4xx to
+ STARTTLS, or there was a problem setting up the TLS connection
+
+ Note that a 5xx response to STARTTLS is a permanent error.
+
+PH/20 There are now two options for the exicyclog script:
+
+ -k <days> specifies the number of old logs to keep, overriding the
+ default that is set when Exim is built.
+
+ -l <path> specifies the log file path, in the same format as the
+ log_file_path option (e.g. /var/log/exim_%slog), again,
+ overriding the script's default - which is to find the setting
+ from Exim's configuration.
+
+
+Version 4.60
------------
-The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.50 release.
+The documentation is up-to-date for the 4.60 release. Major new features since
+the 4.50 release are:
+
+. Support for SQLite.
+
+. Support for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP.
+
+. Extensions to the "submission mode" features.
+
+. Support for Client SMTP Authorization (CSA).
+
+. Support for ratelimiting hosts and users.
+
+. New expansion items to help with the BATV "prvs" scheme.
+
+. A "match_ip" condition, that matches an IP address against a list.
+
+There are many more minor changes.
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