X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/jgh/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/230205fc0acfc71dff9ce42fb20d2caba82fbd36..462182534289f0484d05688616f39943abd2f9a4:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 5d3d87b7e..065ddd3d2 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.86 2006/02/14 16:18:14 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.95 2006/03/06 16:05:12 ph10 Exp $ New Features in Exim -------------------- @@ -60,6 +60,111 @@ PH/08 The default for dns_check_names_pattern now allows slashes within names, 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 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:} 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. + + In the case of non-SMTP messages, new headers are accumulated during the + non-SMTP ACL, and added to the message at the end. + + 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. + + 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: + + deny add_header = ADDED: some text + + + deny + add_header = ADDED: some text + + 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. + Version 4.60