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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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Subject: [exim-cvs] cvs commit: exim/exim-doc/doc-docbook spec.xfpt exim/exim-doc/doc-txt NewStuff exim/exim-src/src version.c
nm4 2010/01/04 19:35:50 GMT

  Modified files:
    exim-doc/doc-docbook spec.xfpt 
    exim-doc/doc-txt     NewStuff 
    exim-src/src         version.c 
  Log:
  Reset environment for 4.72 development


  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.70      +0 -34     exim/exim-doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
  1.162     +4 -0      exim/exim-doc/doc-txt/NewStuff
  1.29      +1 -1      exim/exim-src/src/version.c


  Index: spec.xfpt
  ===================================================================
  RCS file: /home/cvs/exim/exim-doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt,v
  retrieving revision 1.69
  retrieving revision 1.70
  diff -u -r1.69 -r1.70
  --- spec.xfpt    16 Nov 2009 19:15:36 -0000    1.69
  +++ spec.xfpt    4 Jan 2010 19:35:49 -0000    1.70
  @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
  -. $Cambridge: exim/exim-doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt,v 1.69 2009/11/16 19:15:36 nm4 Exp $
  +. $Cambridge: exim/exim-doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt,v 1.70 2010/01/04 19:35:49 nm4 Exp $
   .
   . /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   . This is the primary source of the Exim Manual. It is an xfpt document that is
  @@ -726,14 +726,12 @@
   A number of pieces of external code are included in the Exim distribution.


.ilist
-.new
Regular expressions are supported in the main Exim program and in the
Exim monitor using the freely-distributable PCRE library, copyright
© University of Cambridge. The source to PCRE is no longer shipped with
Exim, so you will need to use the version of PCRE shipped with your system,
or obtain and install the full version of the library from
&url(ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre).
-.wen
.next
.cindex "cdb" "acknowledgment"
Support for the cdb (Constant DataBase) lookup method is provided by code
@@ -2221,14 +2219,12 @@
For backwards compatibility, ROOT is used if DESTDIR is not set,
but this usage is deprecated.

-.new
.cindex "installing Exim" "what is not installed"
Running &'make install'& does not copy the Exim 4 conversion script
&'convert4r4'&. You will probably run this only once if you are
upgrading from Exim 3. None of the documentation files in the &_doc_&
directory are copied, except for the info files when you have set
INFO_DIRECTORY, as described in section &<<SECTinsinfdoc>>& below.
-.wen

For the utility programs, old versions are renamed by adding the suffix &_.O_&
to their names. The Exim binary itself, however, is handled differently. It is
@@ -2991,13 +2987,11 @@
settings can be obtained by using &%routers%&, &%transports%&, or
&%authenticators%&.

-.new
.cindex "options" "macro &-- extracting"
If invoked by an admin user, then &%macro%&, &%macro_list%& and &%macros%&
are available, similarly to the drivers. Because macros are sometimes used
for storing passwords, this option is restricted.
The output format is one item per line.
-.wen

.vitem &%-bp%&
.oindex "&%-bp%&"
@@ -5895,11 +5889,9 @@
To make the authenticators work, you can use a string expansion
expression like one of the examples in &<<CHAPplaintext>>&.

-.new
Beware that the sequence of the parameters to PLAIN and LOGIN differ; the
usercode and password are in different positions. &<<CHAPplaintext>>&
covers both.
-.wen

.ecindex IIDconfiwal

@@ -5919,14 +5911,12 @@
Jeffrey Friedl's &'Mastering Regular Expressions'&, which is published by
O'Reilly (see &url(http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/)).

-.new
The documentation for the syntax and semantics of the regular expressions that
are supported by PCRE is included in the PCRE distribution, and no further
description is included here. The PCRE functions are called from Exim using
the default option settings (that is, with no PCRE options set), except that
the PCRE_CASELESS option is set when the matching is required to be
case-insensitive.
-.wen

In most cases, when a regular expression is required in an Exim configuration,
it has to start with a circumflex, in order to distinguish it from plain text
@@ -9761,7 +9751,6 @@
As a special case, the numerical value of an empty string is taken as
zero.

-.new
.vitem &*bool&~{*&<&'string'&>&*}*&
.cindex "expansion" "boolean parsing"
.cindex "&%bool%& expansion condition"
@@ -9777,7 +9766,6 @@
.code
${if bool{$acl_m_privileged_sender} ...
.endd
-.wen

.vitem &*crypteq&~{*&<&'string1'&>&*}{*&<&'string2'&>&*}*&
.cindex "expansion" "encrypted comparison"
@@ -10230,12 +10218,10 @@
.code
server_condition = ${if pwcheck{$auth1:$auth2}}
.endd
-.new
Again, for a PLAIN authenticator configuration, this would be:
.code
server_condition = ${if pwcheck{$auth2:$auth3}}
.endd
-.wen
.vitem &*queue_running*&
.cindex "queue runner" "detecting when delivering from"
.cindex "expansion" "queue runner test"
@@ -11022,12 +11008,10 @@
precise size of the file that has been written. See also
&$message_body_size$&, &$body_linecount$&, and &$body_zerocount$&.

-.new
.cindex "RCPT" "value of &$message_size$&"
While running a per message ACL (mail/rcpt/predata), &$message_size$&
contains the size supplied on the MAIL command, or -1 if no size was given. The
value may not, of course, be truthful.
-.wen

.vitem &$mime_$&&'xxx'&
A number of variables whose names start with &$mime$& are
@@ -13393,12 +13377,10 @@
This option controls the protocols when GnuTLS is used in an Exim
server. For details, see section &<<SECTreqciphgnu>>&.

-.new
.option gnutls_compat_mode main boolean unset
This option controls whether GnuTLS is used in compatibility mode in an Exim
server. This reduces security slightly, but improves interworking with older
implementations of TLS.
-.wen

.option headers_charset main string "see below"
This option sets a default character set for translating from encoded MIME
@@ -17872,12 +17854,10 @@
:defer:
:fail:
.endd
-.new
respectively. When a redirection list contains such an item, it applies
to the entire redirection; any other items in the list are ignored. Any
text following &':fail:'& or &':defer:'& is placed in the error text
associated with the failure. For example, an alias file might contain:
-.wen
.code
X.Employee: :fail: Gone away, no forwarding address
.endd
@@ -19021,12 +19001,10 @@
filter itself, and the original process that reads the result and delivers it
are all run in parallel, like a shell pipeline.

-.new
The filter can perform any transformations it likes, but of course should take
care not to break RFC 2822 syntax. Exim does not check the result, except to
test for a final newline when SMTP is in use. All messages transmitted over
SMTP must end with a newline, so Exim supplies one if it is missing.
-.wen

.cindex "content scanning" "per user"
A transport filter can be used to provide content-scanning on a per-user basis
@@ -21503,12 +21481,10 @@
This option controls the protocols when GnuTLS is used in an Exim
client. For details, see section &<<SECTreqciphgnu>>&.

-.new
.option gnutls_compat_mode smtp boolean unset
This option controls whether GnuTLS is used in compatibility mode in an Exim
server. This reduces security slightly, but improves interworking with older
implementations of TLS.
-.wen

   .option helo_data smtp string&!! "see below"
   .cindex "HELO" "argument, setting"
  @@ -23602,7 +23578,6 @@
                ldap://ldap.example.org/} }} }
     server_set_id = uid=$auth1,ou=people,o=example.org
   .endd
  -.new
   We have to check that the username is not empty before using it, because LDAP
   does not permit empty DN components. We must also use the &%quote_ldap_dn%&
   operator to correctly quote the DN for authentication. However, the basic
  @@ -23610,7 +23585,6 @@
   correct one to use for the password, because quoting is needed only to make
   the password conform to the Exim syntax. At the LDAP level, the password is an
   uninterpreted string.
  -.wen



.section "Support for different kinds of authentication" "SECID174"
@@ -24502,13 +24476,11 @@
the current host is abandoned, and the &(smtp)& transport tries to deliver to
alternative hosts, if any.

  -.new
    &*Note*&:
   These options must be set in the &(smtp)& transport for Exim to use TLS when it
   is operating as a client. Exim does not assume that a server certificate (set
   by the global options of the same name) should also be used when operating as a
   client.
  -.wen


.vindex "&$host$&"
.vindex "&$host_address$&"
@@ -24844,7 +24816,6 @@
connection is closed. In these special cases, the QUIT ACL does not run.


-.new
.section "The not-QUIT ACL" "SECTNOTQUITACL"
.vindex &$acl_smtp_notquit$&
The not-QUIT ACL, specified by &%acl_smtp_notquit%&, is run in most cases when
@@ -24852,7 +24823,6 @@
trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files, this ACL is not run,
because it might try to do things (such as write to log files) that make the
situation even worse.
-.wen

Like the QUIT ACL, this ACL is provided to make it possible to do customized
logging or to gather statistics, and its outcome is ignored. The &%delay%&
@@ -27634,12 +27604,10 @@
timeout checks succeed. The &$prvscheck_result$& variable contains the result
of the checks (empty for failure, &"1"& for success).

  -.new
   There is one more issue you must consider when implementing prvs-signing:
   you have to ensure that the routers accept prvs-signed addresses and
   deliver them correctly. The easiest way to handle this is to use a &(redirect)&
   router to remove the signature with a configuration along these lines:
  -.wen
   .code
   batv_redirect:
     driver = redirect
  @@ -34352,7 +34320,6 @@
   . ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   . ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


  -.new
   .chapter "Support for DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) - RFC4871" "CHID12" &&&
            "DKIM Support"
   .cindex "DKIM"
  @@ -34609,7 +34576,6 @@
   see the documentation of the &%$dkim_verify_status%& expansion variable above
   for more information of what they mean.
   .endlist
  -.wen


. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

  Index: NewStuff
  ===================================================================
  RCS file: /home/cvs/exim/exim-doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v
  retrieving revision 1.161
  retrieving revision 1.162
  diff -u -r1.161 -r1.162
  --- NewStuff    16 Nov 2009 19:06:35 -0000    1.161
  +++ NewStuff    4 Jan 2010 19:35:50 -0000    1.162
  @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
  -$Cambridge: exim/exim-doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.161 2009/11/16 19:06:35 nm4 Exp $
  +$Cambridge: exim/exim-doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.162 2010/01/04 19:35:50 nm4 Exp $


New Features in Exim
--------------------
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.


+Version 4.72
+------------
+
+
Version 4.70 / 4.71
-------------------


  Index: version.c
  ===================================================================
  RCS file: /home/cvs/exim/exim-src/src/version.c,v
  retrieving revision 1.28
  retrieving revision 1.29
  diff -u -r1.28 -r1.29
  --- version.c    16 Nov 2009 19:50:37 -0000    1.28
  +++ version.c    4 Jan 2010 19:35:50 -0000    1.29
  @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
  -/* $Cambridge: exim/exim-src/src/version.c,v 1.28 2009/11/16 19:50:37 nm4 Exp $ */
  +/* $Cambridge: exim/exim-src/src/version.c,v 1.29 2010/01/04 19:35:50 nm4 Exp $ */


   /*************************************************
   *     Exim - an Internet mail transport agent    *
  @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   #include "exim.h"



-#define THIS_VERSION "4.71"
+#define THIS_VERSION "4.72"


/* The header file cnumber.h contains a single line containing the