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-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.50 2005/06/16 20:03:43 tom Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.68 2005/09/12 13:39:31 ph10 Exp $
 
 New Features in Exim
 --------------------
@@ -8,6 +8,144 @@ but have not yet made it into the main manual (which is most conveniently
 updated when there is a relatively large batch of changes). The doc/ChangeLog
 file contains a listing of all changes, including bug fixes.
 
+Exim version 4.53
+-----------------
+
+TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. When an
+      address generates new addresses during routing, Exim will abort
+      verification with "success" when more than one address has been
+      generated, but continue to verify a single new address. The latter
+      does not happen when the new "success_on_redirect" option is set, like
+
+      require verify = recipient/success_on_redirect/callout=10s
+
+      In that case, verification will succeed when a router generates a new
+      address.
+
+PH/01 Support for SQLite database lookups has been added. This is another
+      query-style lookup, but it is slightly different from the others because
+      a file name is required in addition to the SQL query. This is because an
+      SQLite database is a single file and there is no daemon as in other SQL
+      databases. The interface to Exim requires the name of the file, as an
+      absolute path, to be given at the start of the query. It is separated
+      from the query by white space. This means that the path name cannot
+      contain white space. Here is a lookup expansion example:
+
+        ${lookup sqlite {/some/thing/sqlitedb \
+          select name from aliases where id='ph10';}}
+
+      In a list, the syntax is similar. For example:
+
+        domainlist relay_domains = sqlite;/some/thing/sqlitedb \
+           select * from relays where ip='$sender_host_address';
+
+      The only character affected by the ${quote_sqlite: operator is a single
+      quote, which it doubles.
+
+      The SQLite library handles multiple simultaneous accesses to the database
+      internally. Multiple readers are permitted, but only one process can
+      update at once. Attempts to access the database while it is being updated
+      are rejected after a timeout period, during which the SQLite library
+      waits for the lock to be released. In Exim, the default timeout is set
+      to 5 seconds, but it can be changed by means of the sqlite_lock_timeout
+      option.
+
+      Note that you must set LOOKUP_SQLITE=yes in Local/Makefile in order to
+      obtain SQLite support, and you will also need to add -lsqlite3 to the
+      EXTRALIBS setting. And of course, you have to install SQLite on your
+      host first.
+
+PH/02 The variable $message_id is now deprecated, to be replaced by
+      $message_exim_id, which makes it clearer which ID is being referenced.
+
+PH/03 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
+      ${stat: expansion item.
+
+PH/04 The IGNOREQUOTA extension to the LMTP protocol is now available in both
+      the lmtp transport and the smtp transport running in LMTP mode. In the
+      lmtp transport there is a new Boolean option called ignore_quota, and in
+      the smtp transport there is a new Boolean option called
+      lmtp_ignore_quota. If either of these options is set TRUE, the string
+      "IGNOREQUOTA" is added to RCPT commands when using the LMTP protocol,
+      provided that the server has advertised support for IGNOREQUOTA in its
+      response to the LHLO command.
+
+PH/05 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
+      only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
+      verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
+      tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
+      not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
+
+PH/06 It is now possible to specify a port number along with a host name or
+      IP address in the list of hosts defined in the manualroute or
+      queryprogram routers, fallback_hosts, or the "hosts" option of the smtp
+      transport. These all override any port specification on the transport.
+      The relatively standard syntax of using a colon separator has been
+      adopted, but there are some gotchas that need attention:
+
+      * In all these lists of hosts, colon is the default separator, so either
+        the colon that specifies a port must be doubled, or the separator must
+        be changed. The following two examples have the same effect:
+
+          fallback_hosts = host1.tld::1225 : host2.tld::1226
+          fallback_hosts = <; host1.tld:1225 ; host2.tld:1226
+
+      * When IPv6 addresses are involved, it gets worse, because they contain
+        colons of their own. To make this case easier, it is permitted to
+        enclose an IP address (either v4 or v6) in square brackets if a port
+        number follows. Here's an example from a manualroute router:
+
+           route_list = * "</ [10.1.1.1]:1225 / [::1]:1226"
+
+      If the "/MX" feature is to be used as well as a port specifier, the port
+      must come last. For example:
+
+           route_list = *  dom1.tld/mx::1225
+
+PH/07 $smtp_command_argument is now set for all SMTP commands, not just the
+      non-message ones. This makes it possible to inspect the complete command
+      for RCPT commands, for example.
+
+PH/08 The ${eval expansion now supports % as a "remainder" operator.
+
+PH/09 There is a new ACL condition "verify = not_blind". It checks that there
+      are no blind (bcc) recipients in the message. Every envelope recipient
+      must appear either in a To: header line or in a Cc: header line for this
+      condition to be true. Local parts are checked case-sensitively; domains
+      are checked case-insensitively. If Resent-To: or Resent-Cc: header lines
+      exist, they are also checked. This condition can be used only in a DATA
+      or non-SMTP ACL.
+
+      There are, of course, many legitimate messages that make use of blind
+      (bcc) recipients. This check should not be used on its own for blocking
+      messages.
+
+PH/10 There is a new ACL control called "suppress_local_fixups". This applies
+      to locally submitted (non TCP/IP) messages, and is the complement of
+      "control = submission". It disables the fixups that are normally applied
+      to locally-submitted messages. Specifically:
+
+      (a) Any Sender: header line is left alone (in this respect, it's a
+          dynamic version of local_sender_retain).
+
+      (b) No Message-ID:, From:, or Date: headers are added.
+
+      (c) There is no check that From: corresponds to the actual sender.
+
+      This feature may be useful when a remotely-originated message is
+      accepted, passed to some scanning program, and then re-submitted for
+      delivery. It means that all four possibilities can now be specified:
+
+      (1) Locally submitted, fixups applies: the default.
+      (2) Locally submitted, no fixups applied: use control =
+          suppress_local_fixups.
+      (3) Remotely submitted, no fixups applied: the default.
+      (4) Remotely submitted, fixups applied: use control = submission.
+
+PH/11 There is a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log
+      entry when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup
+      failed.
+
 
 Exim version 4.52
 -----------------
@@ -150,6 +288,12 @@ TF/04 There is a new ratelimit ACL condition which can be used to measure
       example, you can limit the sending rate of each authenticated user,
       independent of the computer they are sending from, by setting the key
       to $authenticated_id. The default key is $sender_host_address.
+      Internally, Exim includes the smoothing constant p and the options in
+      the lookup key because they alter the meaning of the stored data.
+      This is not true for the limit m, so you can alter the configured
+      maximum rate and Exim will still remember clients' past behaviour,
+      but if you alter the other ratelimit parameters Exim will effectively
+      forget their past behaviour.
 
       Each ratelimit condition can have up to two options. The first option
       specifies what Exim measures the rate of, and the second specifies how
@@ -235,6 +379,14 @@ TF/04 There is a new ratelimit ACL condition which can be used to measure
                         cdb {DB/ratelimits.cdb} \
                         {$value} {RATELIMIT} }
 
+      Warning: if you have a busy server with a lot of ratelimit tests,
+      especially with the per_rcpt option, you may suffer from a performance
+      bottleneck caused by locking on the ratelimit hints database. Apart from
+      making your ACLs less complicated, you can reduce the problem by using a
+      RAM disk for Exim's hints directory, /var/spool/exim/db/. However this
+      means that Exim will lose its hints data after a reboot (including retry
+      hints, the callout cache, and ratelimit data).
+
 TK/01 Added an 'spf' lookup type that will return an SPF result for a given
       email address (the key) and an IP address (the database):
 
@@ -342,6 +494,54 @@ TK/02 There are two new expansion items to help with the implementation of
                                sender='${quote_mysql:$sender_address}'} \
                            {$value}fail}}}
 
+PH/04 There are two new options that control the retrying done by the daemon
+      at startup when it cannot immediately bind a socket (typically because
+      the socket is already in use). The default values reproduce what were
+      built-in constants previously: daemon_startup_retries defines the number
+      of retries after the first failure (default 9); daemon_startup_sleep
+      defines the length of time to wait between retries (default 30s).
+
+PH/05 There is now a new ${if condition called "match_ip". It is similar to
+      match_domain, etc. It must be followed by two argument strings. The first
+      (after expansion) must be an IP address or an empty string. The second
+      (after expansion) is a restricted host list that can match only an IP
+      address, not a host name. For example:
+
+        ${if match_ip{$sender_host_address}{1.2.3.4:5.6.7.8}{...}{...}}
+
+      The specific types of host list item that are permitted in the list are
+      shown below. Consult the manual section on host lists for further
+      details.
+
+      . An IP address, optionally with a CIDR mask.
+
+      . A single asterisk matches any IP address.
+
+      . An empty item matches only if the IP address is empty. This could be
+        useful for testing for a locally submitted message or one from specific
+        hosts in a single test such as
+
+          ${if match_ip{$sender_host_address}{:4.3.2.1:...}{...}{...}}
+
+        where the first item in the list is the empty string.
+
+      . The item @[] matches any of the local host's interface addresses.
+
+      . Lookups are assumed to be "net-" style lookups, even if "net-" is not
+        specified. Thus, the following are equivalent:
+
+          ${if match_ip{$sender_host_address}{lsearch;/some/file}...
+          ${if match_ip{$sender_host_address}{net-lsearch;/some/file}...
+
+        You do need to specify the "net-" prefix if you want to specify a
+        specific address mask, for example, by using "net24-".
+
+PH/06 The "+all" debug selector used to set the flags for all possible output;
+      it is something that people tend to use semi-automatically when
+      generating debug output for me or for the list. However, by including
+      "+memory", an awful lot of output that is very rarely of interest was
+      generated. I have changed this so that "+all" no longer includes
+      "+memory". However, "-all" still turns everything off.
 
 
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