X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/jgh/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/af5614178a73fc5060e4c15064cc5855681fa02d..431b736177e2cdfd0b4da4c8545d8b732286abe1:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 53bfcc179..960f93ce8 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.121 2006/11/13 11:26:37 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.127 2007/01/17 11:17:58 ph10 Exp $ New Features in Exim -------------------- @@ -8,6 +8,116 @@ Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can test from the snapshots or the CVS before the documentation is updated. Once the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list. +Version 4.67 +------------ + + 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in + the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log + whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a + MAIL command. This includes both the case when the connection is dropped, + and the case when QUIT is used. Note that it does not include cases where + the connection is rejected right at the start (by an ACL, or because there + are too many connections, or whatever). These cases already have their own + log lines. + + The log line that is written contains the identity of the client in the + usual way, followed by D= and a time, which records the duration of the + connection. If the connection was authenticated, this fact is logged + exactly as it is for an incoming message, with an A= item. If the + connection was encrypted, CV=, DN=, and X= items may appear as they do for + an incoming message, controlled by the same logging options. + + Finally, if any SMTP commands were issued during the connection, a C= item + is added to the line, listing the commands that were used. For example, + + C=EHLO,QUIT + + shows that the client issued QUIT straight after EHLO. If there were fewer + than 20 commands, they are all listed. If there were more than 20 commands, + the last 20 are listed, preceded by "...". However, with the default + setting of 10 for smtp_accep_max_nonmail, the connection will in any case + be aborted before 20 non-mail commands are processed. + + 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP + addresses, in order to restrict the match to specific results from the DNS + lookup, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than one + IP address. For example, consider the condition + + dnslists = a.b.c=127.0.0.1 + + What happens if the DNS lookup for the incoming IP address yields both + 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2 by means of two separate DNS records? Is the + condition true because at least one given value was found, or is it false + because at least one of the found values was not listed? And how does this + affect negated conditions? + + The behaviour of = and & has not been changed; however, the text below + documents it more clearly. In addition, two new additional conditions (== + and =&) have been added, to permit the "other" behaviour to be configured. + + A DNS lookup may yield more than one record. Thus, the result of the lookup + for a dnslists check may yield more than one IP address. The question then + arises as to whether all the looked up addresses must be listed, or whether + just one is good enough. Both possibilities are provided for: + + . If = or & is used, the condition is true if any one of the looked up + IP addresses matches one of the listed addresses. Consider: + + dnslists = a.b.c=127.0.0.1 + + If the DNS lookup yields both 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2, the condition is + true because 127.0.0.1 matches. + + . If == or =& is used, the condition is true only if every one of the + looked up IP addresses matches one of the listed addresses. Consider: + + dnslists = a.b.c==127.0.0.1 + + If the DNS lookup yields both 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2, the condition is + false because 127.0.0.2 is not listed. You would need to have + + dnslists = a.b.c==127.0.0.1,127.0.0.2 + + for the condition to be true. + + When ! is used to negate IP address matching, it inverts the result, giving + the precise opposite of the behaviour above. Thus: + + . If != or !& is used, the condition is true if none of the looked up IP + addresses matches one of the listed addresses. Consider: + + dnslists = a.b.c!&0.0.0.1 + + If the DNS lookup yields both 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2, the condition is + false because 127.0.0.1 matches. + + . If !== or !=& is used, the condition is true there is at least one looked + up IP address that does not match. Consider: + + dnslists = a.b.c!=&0.0.0.1 + + If the DNS lookup yields both 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2, the condition is + true, because 127.0.0.2 does not match. You would need to have + + dnslists = a.b.c!=&0.0.0.1,0.0.0.2 + + for the condition to be false. + + When the DNS lookup yields only a single IP address, there is no difference + between = and == and between & and =&. + + +Version 4.66 +------------ + +No new features were added to 4.66. + + +Version 4.65 +------------ + +No new features were added to 4.65. + Version 4.64 ------------ @@ -15,182 +125,49 @@ Version 4.64 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or - an underscore. The rest of the name can contain alphanumeric characters and - underscores. This is a compatible change because the old set of variables - such as acl_m12 are a subset of the allowed names. There may now be any - number of ACL variables. For example: - - set acl_c13 = value for original ACL variable - set acl_c13b = whatever - set acl_m_foo = something - - What happens if a syntactically valid but undefined ACL variable is - referenced depends on the setting of the strict_acl_vars option. If it is - false (the default), an empty string is substituted; if it is true, an - error is generated. This affects all ACL variables, including the "old" - ones such as acl_c4. (Previously there wasn't the concept of an undefined - ACL variable.) - - The implementation has been done in such a way that spool files containing - ACL variable settings written by previous releases of Exim are compatible - and can be read by the new release. If only the original numeric names are - used, spool files written by the new release can be read by earlier - releases. + an underscore. 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible - to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections. Its - argument is a list of words which can be "main", "reject", or "panic". The - default is "main:reject". The list may be empty, in which case a rejection - is not logged at all. For example, this ACL fragment writes no logging - information when access is denied: - - deny - log_reject_target = - - The modifier can be used in SMTP and non-SMTP ACLs. It applies to both - permanent and temporary rejections. + to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections. 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a - number of authentication methods. If you are using Dovecot to authenticate - POP/IMAP clients, it might be helpful to use the same mechanisms for SMTP - authentication. This is a server authenticator only. The only option is - server_socket, which must specify the socket which is the interface to - Dovecot authentication. The public_name option must specify an - authentication mechanism that Dovecot is configured to support. You can - have several authenticators for different mechanisms. For example: - - dovecot_plain: - driver = dovecot - public_name = PLAIN - server_name = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client - server_setid = $auth1 - - dovecot_ntlm: - driver = dovecot - public_name = NTLM - server_name = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client - server_setid = $auth1 - - If the SMTP connection is encrypted, or if $sender_host_address is equal to - $interface_address (that is, the connection is local), the "secured" option - is passed in the Dovecot authentication command. If, for a TLS connection, - a client certificate has been verified, the "valid-client-cert" option is - passed. + number of authentication methods. 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents. - 5. In a DNS black list, when the facility for restricting the matching IP - values is used, the text from the TXT record that is set in $dnslist_text - may not reflect the true reason for rejection. This happens when lists are - merged and the IP address in the A record is used to distinguish them; - unfortunately there is only one TXT record. One way round this is not to - use merged lists, but that can be inefficient because it requires multiple - DNS lookups where one would do in the vast majority of cases when the host - of interest is not on any of the lists. - - A less inefficient way of solving this problem has now been implemented. If - two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the second is used first to - do an initial check, making use of any IP value restrictions that are set. - If there is a match, the first domain is used, without any IP value - restrictions, to get the TXT record. As a byproduct of this, there is also - a check that the IP being tested is indeed on the first list. The first - domain is the one that is put in $dnslist_domain. For example: - - reject message = rejected because $sender_ip_address is blacklisted \ - at $dnslist_domain\n$dnslist_text - dnslists = sbl.spamhaus.org,sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org=127.0.0.2 : \ - dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net,dnsbl.sorbs.net=127.0.0.10 - - For the first blacklist item, this starts by doing a lookup in - sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org and testing for a 127.0.0.2 return. If there is a - match, it then looks in sbl.spamhaus.org, without checking the return - value, and as long as something is found, it looks for the corresponding - TXT record. If there is no match in sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, nothing more is - done. The second blacklist item is processed similarly. - - If you are interested in more than one merged list, the same list must be - given several times, but because the results of the DNS lookups are cached, - the DNS calls themselves are not repeated. For example: - - reject dnslists = http.dnsbl.sorbs.net,dnsbl.sorbs.net=127.0.0.2 : \ - socks.dnsbl.sorbs.net,dnsbl.sorbs.net=127.0.0.3 : \ - misc.dnsbl.sorbs.net,dnsbl.sorbs.net=127.0.0.4 : \ - dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net,dnsbl.sorbs.net=127.0.0.10 - - In this case there is a lookup in dnsbl.sorbs.net, and if none of the IP - values matches (or if no record is found), this is the only lookup that is - done. Only if there is a match is one of the more specific lists consulted. - - 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option. Previously, only - plaintext had this, and this has not changed: it must be set to the - authenticator as a server. For the others, if server_condition is set, it - is expanded if authentication is successful, and treated exactly as it is - in plaintext. This can serve as a means of adding authorization to an - authenticator. + 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the + second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value + restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used, + without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record. + + 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option. 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool - before doing the expansions, thus setting message-specific variables such - as $message_size and the header variables. The $recipients variable is - available. This feature is provided to make it easier to test expansions - that make use of these variables. However, Exim must be called by an admin - user when -Mset is used. + before doing the expansions. 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like - -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file. For example: - - exim -bem /tmp/testmessage - - The file is read as a message (as if receiving a locally-submitted non-SMTP - message) before any of the test expansions are done. Thus, message-specific - variables such as $message_size and $h_from: are available. However, no - Received: header is added to the message. If the -t option is set, - recipients are read from the headers in the normal way, and are shown in - the $recipients variable. Note that recipients cannot be given on the - command line, because further arguments are taken as strings to expand - (just like -be). + -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a + message. 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in - subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached. You can revert to - the previous behavious, that is, delay the recipient independent of the - sender, by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the smtp - transport. However, this can lead to problems with servers that regularly - issue 4xx responses to RCPT commands. + subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached. 10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and - shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items. These - items may now contain arithmetic operators (plus, minus, times, divide, - remainder, negate), bitwise operators (and, or, xor, not, shift), and - parentheses. All operations are carried out using signed integer - arithmetic. Operator priorities are as in C, namely: - - (highest) not, negate - times, divide, remainder - plus, minus - shift-left, shift-right - and - xor - (lowest) or - - Binary operators with the same priority are evaluated from left to right. - For example: - - ${eval:1+1} yields 2 - ${eval:1+2*3} yields 7 - ${eval:(1+2)*3} yields 9 - ${eval:2+42%5} yields 4 - ${eval:0xc&5} yields 4 - ${eval:0xc|5} yields 13 - ${eval:0xc^5} yields 9 - ${eval:0xc>>1} yields 6 - ${eval:0xc<<1} yields 24 - ${eval:~255&0x1234} yields 4608 - ${eval:-(~255&0x1234)} yields -4608 + shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items. + +11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed + as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they + relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain + available for compatibility.) + +12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs + to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted. Version 4.63