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New Features in Exim
--------------------
This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can
test from the snapshots or the Git before the documentation is updated. Once
the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
Version 4.98
------------
1. A sieve_inbox option for redirect routers
Version 4.98
------------
1. The dkim_status ACL condition may now be used in data ACLs
2. The dkim_verbose logging control also enables logging of signing
3. The dkim_timestamps signing option now accepts zero to include a current
timestamp but no expiry timestamp. Code by Simon Arlott; testsuite
additions by jgh
4. The recipients_max main option is now expanded
5. Setting variables for "exim -be" can set a tainted value
6. A dns:fail event
7. The dsearch lookup supports search for a sub-path
8. Include mailtest utility for simple connection checking
9. Add SMTP WELLKNOWN extension
10. Sqlite3 can be used for the hints databases (vs. DBD, NDB, GBDM, TDB).
Add "USE_SQLITE = y" and "DBMLIB = -lsqlite3" in Local/Makefile, to
override the settings done in the OS/Makefile-<platform> file
Version 4.97
------------
1. The expansion-test facility (exim -be) can set variables.
2. An event on a failing SMTP AUTH, for both client and server operations.
3. Variable $sender_helo_verified with the result of an ACL "verify = helo".
4. Predefined macros for expansion items, operators, conditions and variables.
5. The smtp transport option "max_rcpt" is now expanded before use.
6. The tls_eccurve option for OpenSSL now takes a list of group names.
7. Queue runners for several queues can now be started from one daemon.
8. New utility exim_msgdate converts message-ids to human readable format.
9. An expansion operator for wrapping long header lines.
10. A commandline option to print just the message IDs of the queue
11. An option for the ${readsocket } expansion to set an SNI for TLS.
12. The ACL remove_header modifier can take a pattern.
13. Variable $recipients_list, a properly-quoted exim list.
14. A log_selector for an incoming connection ID.
Version 4.96
------------
1. A new ACL condition: seen. Records/tests a timestamp against a key.
2. A variant of the "mask" expansion operator to give normalised IPv6.
3. UTC output option for exim_dumpdb, exim_fixdb.
4. An event for failing TLS connects to the daemon.
5. The ACL "debug" control gains options "stop", "pretrigger" and "trigger".
6. Query-style lookups are now checked for quoting, if the query string is
built using untrusted data ("tainted"). For now lack of quoting is merely
logged; a future release will upgrade this to an error.
7. The expansion conditions match_<list-type> and inlist now set $value for
the expansion of the "true" result of the ${if}. With a static list, this
can be used for de-tainting.
8. Recipient verify callouts now set $domain_data & $local_part_data, with
de-tainted values.
Version 4.95
------------
1. The fast-ramp two phase queue run support, previously experimental, is
now supported by default.
2. The native SRS support, previously experimental, is now supported. It is
not built unless specified in the Local/Makefile.
3. TLS resumption support, previously experimental, is now supported and
included in default builds.
4. Single-key LMDB lookups, previously experimental, are now supported.
The support is not built unless specified in the Local/Makefile.
5. Option "message_linelength_limit" on the smtp transport to enforce (by
default) the RFC 998 character limit.
6. An option to ignore the cache on a lookup.
7. Quota checking during reception (i.e. at SMTP time) for appendfile-
transport-managed quotas.
8. Sqlite lookups accept a "file=<path>" option to specify a per-operation
db file, replacing the previous prefix to the SQL string (which had
issues when the SQL used tainted values).
9. Lsearch lookups accept a "ret=full" option, to return both the portion
of the line matching the key, and the remainder.
10. A command-line option to have a daemon not create a notifier socket.
11. Faster TLS startup. When various configuration options contain no
expandable elements, the information can be preloaded and cached rather
than the previous behaviour of always loading at startup time for every
connection. This helps particularly for the CA bundle.
12. Proxy Protocol Timeout is configurable via "proxy_protocol_timeout"
main config option.
13. Option "smtp_accept_max_per_connection" is now expanded.
14. Log selector "queue_time_exclusive", enabled by default, to exclude the
time taken for reception from QT log elements.
15. Main option "smtp_backlog_monitor", to set a level above which listen
socket backlogs are logged.
16. Main option "hosts_require_helo", requiring HELO or EHLO before MAIL.
17. A main config option "allow_insecure_tainted_data" allows to turn
18. TLS ALPN handling. By default, refuse TLS connections that try to specify
a non-smtp (eg. http) use. Options for customising.
19. Support for MacOS (darwin) has been dropped.
Version 4.94
------------
1. EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
file.
2. Channel-binding for authenticators is now supported under OpenSSL.
Previously it was GnuTLS-only.
3. A msg:defer event.
4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the
plaintext driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and
SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS methods.
5. Server-side support in the gsasl authenticator for encrypted passwords, as
an alternate for the existing plaintext.
6. Variable $local_part_data now also set by router check_local_user option,
with an de-tainted version of $local_part.
7. Named-list definitions can now be prefixed "hide" so that "-bP" commands do
not output the content. Previously this could only be done on options.
8. As an experimental feature, the dovecot authentication driver supports inet
sockets. Previously it was unix-domain sockets only.
9. The ACL control "queue_only" can also be spelled "queue", and now takes an
option "first_pass_route" to do the same as a "-odqs" on the command line.
10. Items specified for the router and transport headers_remove option can use
a trailing asterisk to specify globbing.
11. New $queue_size variable.
12. New variables $local_part_{pre,suf}fix_v.
13. New main option "sqlite_dbfile", for use in preference to prefixing the
lookup string. The older method fails when tainted variables are used
in the lookup, as the filename becomes tainted. The new method keeps the
filename separate.
14. Options on the dsearch lookup, to return the full path and to filter
filetypes for matching.
15. Options on pgsql and mysql lookups, to specify server separate from the
lookup string.
16. An option on all single-key lookups, to return (on a hit) a de-tainted
version of the lookup key rather than the looked-up data.
17. $domain_data and $local_part_data are now set by all list-match successes.
Previously only list items that performed lookups did so.
Also, matching list items that are tail-match or RE-match now set the
numeric variables $0 (etc) in the same way os other RE matches.
18. Expansion item ${listquote {<char} {<item>}}.
19. An option for the ${readsocket {}{}{}} expansion to make the result data
cacheable.
20. dkim_verify_min_keysizes, a list of minimum acceptable public-key sizes.
21. bounce_message_file and warn_message_file are now expanded before use.
22. New main config option spf_smtp_comment_template to customise the
$spf_smtp_comment variable
Version 4.93
------------
1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A.
2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions.
3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names
for ciphersuites.
4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created".
5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind.
6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec
file.
7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim
reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number).
8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512.
9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers
and transports.
10. The spf lookup now supports IPv6.
11. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types.
12. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling.
13. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL.
14: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features.
15: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture
decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path
it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool
directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under
GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side
only, and exim must be run as root).
16: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another.
17. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver.
Version 4.92
--------------
1. ${l_header:<name>} and ${l_h:<name>} expansion items, giving a colon-sep
list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters
when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous
facilities hard to parse.
2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the
obvious thing.
3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build
features. See the experimental.spec file.
4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport.
5. A "pipelining" log_selector.
6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values.
7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item.
8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output.
9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS.
Version 4.91
--------------
1. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under GnuTLS
version 3.5.6 or later.
2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and
OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental.
New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers".
3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces.
4. SPF support is promoted from Experimental to mainline status. The template
src/EDITME makefile does not enable its inclusion.
5. Logging control for DKIM verification. The existing DKIM log line is
controlled by a "dkim_verbose" selector which is _not_ enabled by default.
A new tag "DKIM=<domain>" is added to <= lines by default, controlled by
a "dkim" log_selector.
6. Receive duration on <= lines, under a new log_selector "receive_time".
7. Options "ipv4_only" and "ipv4_prefer" on the dnslookup router and on
routing rules in the manualroute router.
8. Expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>} now also supported
under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later.
9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under
GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later.
10. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library
version dependent.
11. "exim -bP macro <name>" returns caller-usable status.
12. Expansion item ${authresults {<machine>}} for creating an
Authentication-Results: header.
13. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file.
See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC.
14: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting.
15. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to
contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from
the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the
list must contain all the master and slave servers.
16. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This
allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for
several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives.
Version 4.90
------------
1. PKG_CONFIG_PATH can now be set in Local/Makefile;
wildcards will be expanded, values are collapsed.
2. The ${readsocket } expansion now takes an option to not shutdown the
connection after sending the query string. The default remains to do so.
3. An smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" to control whether multiple
deliveries on a single TCP connection can maintain a TLS connection
open. By default disabled for all hosts, doing so saves the cost of
making new TLS sessions, at the cost of having to proxy the data via
another process. Logging is also affected.
4. A malware connection type for the FPSCAND protocol.
5. An option for recipient verify callouts to hold the connection open for
further recipients and for delivery.
6. The reproducible build $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is now
supported.
7. Optionally, an alternate format for spool data-files which matches the
wire format - meaning more efficient reception and transmission (at the
cost of difficulty with standard Unix tools). Only used for messages
received using the ESMTP CHUNKING option, and when a new main-section
option "spool_wireformat" (false by default) is set.
8. New main configuration option "commandline_checks_require_admin" to
restrict who can use various introspection options.
9. New option modifier "no_check" for quota and quota_filecount
appendfile transport.
10. Variable $smtp_command_history returning a comma-sep list of recent
SMTP commands.
11. Millisecond timetamps in logs, on log_selector "millisec". Also affects
log elements QT, DT and D, and timstamps in debug output.
12. TCP Fast Open logging. As a server, logs when the SMTP banner was sent
while still in SYN_RECV state; as a client logs when the connection
is opened with a TFO cookie.
13. DKIM support for multiple signing, by domain and/or key-selector.
DKIM support for multiple hashes, and for alternate-identity tags.
Builtin macro with default list of signed headers.
Better syntax for specifying oversigning.
The DKIM ACL can override verification status, and status is visible in
the data ACL.
14. Exipick understands -C|--config for an alternative Exim
configuration file.
15. TCP Fast Open used, with data-on-SYN, for client SMTP via SOCKS5 proxy,
for ${readsocket } expansions, and for ClamAV.
16. The "-be" expansion test mode now supports macros. Macros are expanded
in test lines, and new macros can be defined.
17. Support for server-side dual-certificate-stacks (eg. RSA + ECDSA).
Version 4.89
------------
1. Allow relative config file names for ".include"
2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on
variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled
when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system.
Version 4.88
------------
1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl
interpreter in taint mode.
2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines.
3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL
modifier.
4. New expansion item ${sha3:<string>} / ${sha3_<N>:<string>}.
N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512.
With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only.
5. Facility for named queues: A command-line argument can specify
the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set
the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives
visibility.
6. New expansion operators base32/base32d.
7. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight
performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option
chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking
for control.
8. LMDB lookup support, as Experimental. Patch supplied by Andrew Colin Kissa.
9. Expansion operator escape8bit, like escape but not touching newline etc..
10. Feature macros, generated from compile options. All start with "_HAVE_"
and go on with some roughly recognisable name. Driver macros, for
router, transport and authentication drivers; names starting with "_DRIVER_".
Option macros, for each configuration-file option; all start with "_OPT_".
Use the "-bP macros" command-line option to see what is present.
11. Integer values for options can take a "G" multiplier.
12. defer=pass option for the ACL control cutthrough_delivery, to reflect 4xx
returns from the target back to the initiator, rather than spooling the
message.
13. New built-in constants available for tls_dhparam and default changed.
14. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_QUEUEFILE, a queuefile transport, for writing
out copies of the message spool files for use by 3rd-party scanners.
15. A new option on the smtp transport, hosts_try_fastopen. If the system
supports it (on Linux it must be enabled in the kernel by the sysadmin)
try to use RFC 7413 "TCP Fast Open". No data is sent on the SYN segment
but it permits a peer that also supports the facility to send its SMTP
banner immediately after the SYN,ACK segment rather then waiting for
another ACK - so saving up to one roundtrip time. Because it requires
previous communication with the peer (we save a cookie from it) this
will only become active on frequently-contacted destinations.
16. A new syslog_pid option to suppress PID duplication in syslog lines.
Version 4.87
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1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings
into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition.
2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=,
malware= or verify= callout.
3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency.
4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:<string>} and ${ipv6denorm:<string>}.
The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including
leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted
to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6.
The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest
set of 0-groups to a double-colon.
5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration.
6. New $dkim_key_length variable.
7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a
synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates.
8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to
avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The default value matches RFC
limits.
9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable.
Version 4.86
------------
1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file
and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
3. New "malware=" support for Avast.
4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
6. A command-line option to write a comment into the logfile.
7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can
be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies.
8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for
the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses.
9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly
used encoding of Maildir folder names.
10. A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
11. New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
12. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
13. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha.
14. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the
same level as DNSSEC.
Version 4.85
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1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the
DANE SMTP draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate
used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the
domain of the sender.
2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT
and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has
been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any
existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new
$event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the
experimental-spec.txt for details and examples.
3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that
server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does
not use the same mechanism as DANE.
Version 4.84
------------
Version 4.83
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1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be
configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the
actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the
proxy that is connecting to it.
2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure
there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles
those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can
detect and reject if those characters are present.
3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8
codepoints with valid ones.
4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one
command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger
and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can
be included in the command line.
5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and
"tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification
is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed
verification cancels the encryption.
6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap
lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the
default list.
7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
file when searching the queue.
8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
10. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item
"certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1
work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator
for them added.
11. PRDR is now supported dy default.
12. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
13. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negotiate
DSN features per RFC 3461.
Version 4.82
------------
1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions
of this Exim build on standard output, one per line.
ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should
query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's
SIEVE capability line.
2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an
emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you).
For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname
followed by a newline, and no other text.
3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now
has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of
bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites)
acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL).
Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as
far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other
sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to
establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like.
Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone.
4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option
dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library
to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive
resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim
can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead
relying upon a trusted path to the resolver.
Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added.
5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver,
set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant
DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header.
Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp,
so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication.
Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the
ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F.
6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an
ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag
is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the
process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and
ignored.
7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery"
ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are received on and
deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify,
if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while
the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied
direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file).
When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination
is negotiated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination
does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item
is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate
a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service.
The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination
system not your own.
The Received-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated
early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp
included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing
reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>".
To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS.
The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything)
hosts_verify_avoid_tls.
New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced
for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names
are present for now but deprecated.
Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING.
8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list
and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list.
9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS
rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11
modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in
those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means
that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being
unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed
through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation
unless this new option is set.
Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability,
so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS
but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the
Local/Makefile:
AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes
10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments.
New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition
"acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments
can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL.
Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets
a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item,
or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns
accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer
return results in a forced fail.
11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove
option lines. The concatenated list is used.
12. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets
handled by routers/transports.
13. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured),
"aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned.
14. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header
modifier (but not yet added to message).
15. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S".
16. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A".
17. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful
particularly for debug_print as -bt command-line option does not
require privilege whereas -d does.
18. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a
proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall.
19. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow
decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix
wrappers, for instance.
20. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery
connections apply.
21. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new
options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file.
It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status,
$dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier
dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and
dmarc_enable_forensic. The default for the dmarc_tld_file option is
"/etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds" and can be changed via EDITME.
22. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username
provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available
for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs).
23. New ACL modifier "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given
UDP host and port.
24. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable
characters in the string to \xNN form.
25. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added.
Patch provided by Axel Rau.
26. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker.
Version 4.80
------------
1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present).
This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only.
A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the
"server_keytab" option to point to the keytab.
3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference
cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather
than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and
"LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support
without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
used by Cyrus SASL.
6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of
"openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability
implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
compatibility at the cost of session security.
7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must
still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
for Exim as a server.
8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true. This means
that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant. We're following
Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
-bw<timespec>). With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
already listening for connections. This has a more modern name of
"socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0. We're
interested in adding more support for modern variants.
10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms. A new "G" suffix
for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
string, documentation for which is at:
http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
is now available. If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
identically to TXT record lookups.
14. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
15. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
16. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
primes.
17. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS).
Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL
install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2").
Version 4.77
------------
1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=.
The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option.
2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to
use SSL-on-connect outbound.
3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when
there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running.
4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists
and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not
support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion.
5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was
built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of
the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain",
"match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used.
Version 4.76
------------
1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
or off in the resolver library.
Version 4.75
------------
1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there
is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client
libraries. The following global options have been added in support of
this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key,
ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls.
2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default
false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then
Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce.
3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available).
The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution.
4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
including any header additions or removals from transport.
5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
Version 4.74
------------
1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
on content supplied by the attacker.
2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support
and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
Version 4.73
------------
NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
items below carefully
1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows
administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
typically this is to set bug compatibility features which the OpenSSL
developers have not enabled by default. There may be security
consequences for certain options, so these should not be changed
frivolously.
2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as
a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to
be able to take effect.
3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
Local/Makefile sets: WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
Note that this switches Exim to use a new API ("INSTREAM") and a future
release of ClamAV will remove support for the old API ("STREAM").
The av_scanner option, when set to "clamd", now takes an optional third
part, "local", which causes Exim to pass a filename to ClamAV instead of
the file content. This is the same behaviour as when clamd is pointed at
a Unix-domain socket. For example:
av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option
takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid
to ensure that Exim's scanning is working, not to replace other tools.
Note that the ACL framework is not invoked, so if av_scanner references