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@@ -1647,6 +1647,7 @@ architecture and operating system for itself, but the defaults can be
 overridden if necessary.
 
 
+.new
 .section "PCRE library" "SECTpcre"
 .cindex "PCRE library"
 Exim no longer has an embedded PCRE library as the vast majority of
@@ -1654,10 +1655,14 @@ modern systems include PCRE as a system library, although you may need
 to install the PCRE or PCRE development package for your operating
 system. If your system has a normal PCRE installation the Exim build
 process will need no further configuration. If the library or the
-headers are in an unusual location you will need to set the PCRE_LIBS
-and INCLUDE directives appropriately. If your operating system has no
+headers are in an unusual location you will need to either set the PCRE_LIBS
+and INCLUDE directives appropriately,
+or set PCRE_CONFIG=yes to use the installed &(pcre-config)& command.
+If your operating system has no
 PCRE support then you will need to obtain and build the current PCRE
 from &url(ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/).
+More information on PCRE is available at &url(http://www.pcre.org/).
+.wen
 
 .section "DBM libraries" "SECTdb"
 .cindex "DBM libraries" "discussion of"
@@ -3386,6 +3391,23 @@ This option acts like &%-bv%&, but verifies the address as a sender rather
 than a recipient address. This affects any rewriting and qualification that
 might happen.
 
+.vitem &%-bw%&
+.oindex "&%-bw%&"
+.cindex "daemon"
+.cindex "inetd"
+.cindex "inetd" "wait mode"
+This option runs Exim as a daemon, awaiting incoming SMTP connections,
+similarly to the &%-bd%& option.  All port specifications on the command-line
+and in the configuration file are ignored.  Queue-running may not be specified.
+
+In this mode, Exim expects to be passed a socket as fd 0 (stdin) which is
+listening for connections.  This permits the system to start up and have
+inetd (or equivalent) listen on the SMTP ports, starting an Exim daemon for
+each port only when the first connection is received.
+
+If the option is given as &%-bw%&<&'time'&> then the time is a timeout, after
+which the daemon will exit, which should cause inetd to listen once more.
+
 .vitem &%-C%&&~<&'filelist'&>
 .oindex "&%-C%&"
 .cindex "configuration file" "alternate"
@@ -9522,9 +9544,10 @@ decimal, even if they start with a leading zero; hexadecimal numbers are not
 permitted. This can be useful when processing numbers extracted from dates or
 times, which often do have leading zeros.
 
-A number may be followed by &"K"& or &"M"& to multiply it by 1024 or 1024*1024,
+A number may be followed by &"K"&, &"M"& or &"G"& to multiply it by 1024, 1024*1024
+or 1024*1024*1024,
 respectively. Negative numbers are supported. The result of the computation is
-a decimal representation of the answer (without &"K"& or &"M"&). For example:
+a decimal representation of the answer (without &"K"&, &"M"& or &"G"&). For example:
 
 .display
 &`${eval:1+1}            `&  yields 2
@@ -12850,14 +12873,23 @@ See also the &'Policy controls'& section above.
 Those options that undergo string expansion before use are marked with
 &dagger;.
 
-.option accept_8bitmime main boolean false
+.new
+.option accept_8bitmime main boolean true
 .cindex "8BITMIME"
 .cindex "8-bit characters"
 This option causes Exim to send 8BITMIME in its response to an SMTP
 EHLO command, and to accept the BODY= parameter on MAIL commands.
 However, though Exim is 8-bit clean, it is not a protocol converter, and it
 takes no steps to do anything special with messages received by this route.
-Consequently, this option is turned off by default.
+
+Historically Exim kept this option off by default, but the maintainers
+feel that in today's Internet, this causes more problems than it solves.
+It now defaults to true.
+A more detailed analysis of the issues is provided by Dan Bernstein:
+.display
+&url(http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html)
+.endd
+.wen
 
 .option acl_not_smtp main string&!! unset
 .cindex "&ACL;" "for non-SMTP messages"