<p>Changes to these pages are detailed in reverse chronological
order</p>
+ <hr size=3 width=400 align="center">
+ <h3>Tuesday July 25th, 2000</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>New versions, new outlook exploits, new filters.</li>
+ <li>Upgraded the search facility to supported</li>
+ <li>Few minor changes made in the intervening period unlogged</li>
+ </ul>
+
<hr size=3 width=400 align="center">
<h3>Monday May 22nd, 2000</h3>
<ul>
<hr>
<address><a href="mailto:Postmaster@exim.org">Nigel Metheringham</a></address>
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- <title>New Features in Exim</title>
- </head>
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- <h1>New Features in Exim</h1>
-
- <p>This file contains descriptions of new features that have been
- added to Exim, 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 ChangeLog file contains a brief
- listing of <b>all</b> changes, including bug fixes.</p>
-
- <p>When the manual is up-to-date with the code and there have been
- a lot of recent changes, the more important ones may be listed
- here for convenient reference. Otherwise this file will contain
- just these two introductory paragraphs.</p>
-
-
-<h2>Version 1.90: Short list of some of the new things</h2>
-<ol>
-<li> New expansion operators ${local_part:<string>}, ${domain:<string>}, and
-${hash_<n>_<m>:<string>} and the "extract" operator has been extended to a new
-form: ${extract {number} {separators} {string}}.
-
-<li> There's a new testing option -bh which must be followed by an IP address.
-This runs a fake SMTP session as if from that IP address, using stdin and
-stdout. Additional comments as to what is going on are written to stderr. These
-include lines beginning with "LOG" for anything that would have been logged.
-This facility is for testing configuration options for blocking hosts and/or
-senders and for checking on relaying control.
-
-<li> If there is only a single recipient address in an incoming message, then
-when the Received: header line is being built, the expansion variable
-$received_for is set to contain that address. Otherwise that variable is always
-empty. The default setting of received_header_text has been changed to include
-the use of this new variable when set.
-
-<li> The filtering facilities now include 10 variables with names n0 - n9. These
-start out at zero and can be incremented by the "add" command. After the system
-filter has run, a copy of the variables is taken, and made available in user
-filters as the expansions $sn0 - $sn9. Thus a system filter can, for example,
-do "scoring" which users' filters can make use of.
-
-<li> The freeze and fail filter commands can now be followed by the word "text"
-and a string giving an error message.
-
-<li> The amount of disc space available is checked whenever SIZE is received on
-a MAIL FROM command.
-
-<li> There is a facility for looping through a list of addresses in mail
-filters. It uses a new "foranyaddress" condition.
-
-<li> A facility for local "shadow transports" has been added. This is somewhat
-experimental and may change in future.
-
-<li> There is a new defaulting option that can be used with single-key search
-types. If the type name is followed by "*@" (e.g. lsearch*@) then, if the
-initial lookup fails and the key contains an @ character, a second lookup is
-done with everything before the last @ replaced by *.
-
-<li> Directors and routers now have generic options headers_add and
-headers_remove.
-
-<li> If an SMTP greeting line contains ESMTP, Exim now sends EHLO instead of
-HELO, and if it is told the SIZE parameter is supported, it adds SIZE=xxx to
-each MAIL FROM command.
-
-<li> Customization of error messages generated by Exim is now supported.
-
-<li> Delivery failure messages now contain an X-Failed-Recipients header,
-listing all failed addresses, for the benefit of programs that try to analyse
-such messages automatically.
-
-<li> If /dev/null is generated by an aliasfile or forwardfile, arrange to skip
-its delivery at top level, thus avoiding the need for a uid/gid on the
-transport.
-
-<li> When a delivery is not part of a queue run (typically an immediate delivery
-on receipt of a message), the directors are always run for local addresses, and
-local deliveries are always attempted, even if retry times are set for them.
-
-<li> The smtp_etrn_serialize option (default TRUE) prevents the simultaneous
-execution of more than one queue run for the same argument string as a result
-of an ETRN command.
-
-<li> The "errors_to" option is now a generic option that is available for all
-directors and routers, instead of just aliasfile and forwardfile.
-
-<li> For sendmail compatibility, if an incoming, non-smtp message has a From:
-header containing just the unqualified login id of the calling user, stick it
-in angle brackets, with the gecos field in front.
-
-<li> There's a new variable called sender_rcvhost, for use in Received headers,
-to allow them easily to be strictly compatible with RFC 822. The default header
-now uses it.
-
-<li> The domainlist router has a option called host_find_failed, which tells it
-what to do if a host which it tries to look up does not exist.
-
-<li> Several new rewrite flags have been added.
-
-<li> Alias files can now contain the items :defer: and :fail:.
-
-<li> Support for LDAP.
-</ol>
-<p>End</p>
- <hr>
- <address><a href="mailto:Postmaster@exim.org">Nigel Metheringham</a></address>
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<h2>New Things</h2>
<ul>
<li>
- An update to the system filter to protect broken MS mail
- clients from the real world has been produced. This protects
- against the bug described on <A HREF="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/article.html%3Fid%3D61">
- BugTraq</A> where a long date string can subvert the client.
- The filter can be found at <A HREF="ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/">
- <tt>ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/</tt></a> or
- <A HREF="system_filter.exim">here</A>. The file contains
- installation instructions.
+ The information on the <a href="maillist.html">Mailing
+ Lists</a> also now contains a search form.
</li>
<li>
- Exim Version 3.15 is available - see the <a
- href="mirrors.html">availability</a> pages to get hold of a
- copy.
+ A <b>Generic Windows Executable Content</b> filter is
+ available at <a href="ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/">
+ ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/</a> or <A
+ HREF="system_filter.exim">here</A>. This is an exim system
+ filter which attempts to detect executables including the
+ types responsible for the Windows/Outlook mail worms, and also
+ the recent bugs with header length checking (see this <A
+ HREF="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/article.html%3Fid%3D61">
+ BugTraq article</A>). It is not infallible, but many sites
+ may find it useful. The file contains installation
+ instructions.
</li>
<li>
- A <b>Generic Windows Executable Content</b> filter is available
- at <a href="ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/">
- ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/</a> . This is an exim system
- filter which attempts to detect executables including the
- types responsible for the recent Windows/Outlook mail worms.
- It is not infallible, but many sites may find it useful.
+ Exim Version 3.16 is available - see the <a
+ href="mirrors.html">availability</a> pages to get hold of a
+ copy.
</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<address><a href="mailto:Postmaster@exim.org">Nigel Metheringham</a></address>
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development of the software. This also has an <a href="http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/">archive</a> dating
back to 1996. Please have the courtesy to check the list
before posting basic queries.</dd>
+ <dd>The mailing list can be searched using <a
+ href="http://www.htdig.org">ht://Dig WWW Search</a>
+ <form method="post" action="http://www.exim.org/cgi-bin/htsearch">
+ <font size="-1">
+ Match: <select name="method">
+ <option value="and">All
+ <option value="or">Any
+ <option value="boolean">Boolean
+ </select>
+ Format: <select name="format">
+ <option value="builtin-long">Long
+ <option value="builtin-short">Short
+ </select>
+ Sort by: <select name="sort">
+ <option value="score">Score
+ <option value="time">Time
+ <option value="title">Title
+ <option value="revscore">Reverse Score
+ <option value="revtime">Reverse Time
+ <option value="revtitle">Reverse Title
+ </select>
+ </font>
+ <input type="hidden" name="config" value="htdig">
+ <input type="hidden" name="restrict" value="exim-users">
+ <input type="hidden" name="exclude" value="">
+ <br>
+ Search:
+ <input type="text" size="40" name="words" value="">
+ <input type="submit" value="Search">
+ </form>
+ </dd>
</dl>
<p>There is also an indexed archive at
<A target="_parent" HREF="http://www.egroups.com/list/exim-users/">
<hr>
<address><a href="mailto:Postmaster@exim.org">Nigel Metheringham</a></address>
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<h1>Versions of exim</h1>
- <p>The latest release is <b>3.15</b>. This is an incremental
- upgrade with a number of new features, however old 3.0x configuration
- files should be fully compatible. New features are documented in
- the CHANGES and NewStuff files Upgrading from previous
- releases is worth doing, particularly since a denial-of-service
- hole has been fixed over 3.0x and lower versions.</p>
+ <p>The latest release is <b>3.16</b>. This is an incremental
+ upgrade with a small number of new features and some bug fixes,
+ however old 3.0x configuration files should be fully compatible.
+ New features are documented in the CHANGES and NewStuff files
+ Upgrading from previous releases is worth doing, particularly
+ since a denial-of-service hole has been fixed over 3.0x and lower
+ versions.</p>
<p>There were a number of early beta versions of exim with version
numbers less than <b>1.0</b>. These should now be avoided.
<hr>
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