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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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6JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
7 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
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9JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
10 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
11 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
12
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13JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
14 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
15 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
16 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
17 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
18 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
19 if one fails this test.
20 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
21 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
22
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23JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
24 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
25
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26JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
27 selfsigned certificate for inbound TLS connections.
28
0bd1b1ed 29JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 30 in rewrites and routers.
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32JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
33 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
34
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35JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
36 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
37
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38JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
39
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40JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
41 certificate).
42
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43JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
44 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
45 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
46 connection after a verify cache hit.
47 Do not update it with the verify result either.
48
49JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
50 when routing results in more than one destination address.
51
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52JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
53 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
54 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
55 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
56 when the cutthrough connection is made).
57
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58JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
59 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
60
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61JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
62 Previously they were not counted.
63
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64JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
65 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
66 that needed the lookup.
67
803628d5 68JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a norml message arrival "<="; now
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69 distinguished as "(=".
70
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72Exim version 4.87
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74JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
75 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
76 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
77 client dropping the TLS connection.
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79TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
80 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
81
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82TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
83 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
84 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
85 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
86 outgoing I= field.
87
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88JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
89 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
90 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
91 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
92 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
93 check on the next write.
94
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95HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
96 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
97 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
98 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
99 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
100
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101JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
102 mime_regex ACL conditions.
103
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104JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
105 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
106 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
107
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108JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
109 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
110 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
111 an authenticate fail is not an error.
112
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113HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
114 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
115
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116JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
117 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
118
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119JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
120 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
121 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
122 distinct.
123
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124JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
125
126JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
127
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128JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
129
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130JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
131 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
132
98b98887 133JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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134 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
135
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136JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
137
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138JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
139 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
140
141JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
142
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143JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
144 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
145
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146JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
147
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148JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
149 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
150 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
151 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
152 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
153 they will retry in-clear.
154 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
155 at installation time.
156
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157HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
158 with the $config_file variable.
159
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160JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
161 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
162 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
163 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
164 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
165
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166GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
167 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
168 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
169 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
170 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
171
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172JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
173
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174JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
175 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
176 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
177 list order is no longer honoured.
178
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179JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
180 for DKIM processing.
181
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182JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
183 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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185JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
186 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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187 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
188 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 189
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190JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
191 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
192
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193JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
194 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
195
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196JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
197 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
198
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199JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
200
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201JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
202 cached by the daemon.
203
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204JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
205 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
206
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207JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
208 keys are given for lookup.
209
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210JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
211 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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212 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
213 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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215JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
216 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
217 server-side so match that on older versions.
218
07c73177 219JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 220 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 221 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 222
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223JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
224 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
225
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226JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
227 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
228 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 229 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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230 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
231 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
232 initial truncated version.
233
ab9152ff 234JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
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236JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
237
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238JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
239 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
240
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241JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
242
bc3c7bb7 243HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
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245JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
246 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
247 induced overflows.
248
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249JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
250 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
251 stage.
252
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253JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
254 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
255
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256JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
257 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
258 former class.
259
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260JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
261 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
262 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
263
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264JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
265 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
266 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
267 extraction. Accept either.
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273JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
274 expanded.
275
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276JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
277
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278JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
279 it.
280
01a4a5c5 281JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 282 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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283 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
284 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
285
cb1d7830 286JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 287 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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288 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
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610ff438 290JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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291 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
292 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
293 TLS connections
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295JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
296 sites use this now.
297
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298JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
299 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
300 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
301 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
302 have a dsn_lasthop option.
303
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304JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
305 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 306 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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308JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
309
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310JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
311 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
312
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313JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
314 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
315
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316JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
317 /defer_ok option.
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319JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
320 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
321
fd4d8871 322JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 323 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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324 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
325
326JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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327 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
328 specify a port-range.
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330JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
331 timeout value per server.
332
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333JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
334 now have the list separator specified.
335
8a512ed5 336JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 337 option values.
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82c0c8ea 339JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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340 under OpenSSL.
341
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342JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
343
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344JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
345 rather than the verbs used.
346
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347JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
348 from 255 to 1024 chars.
349
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350JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
351
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99c1bb4e 353 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 354
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355JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
356 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
357
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358HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
359 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
360
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361JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
362
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363JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
364
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365JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
366 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
367 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
368 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
369
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370JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
371
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372JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
373 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
374
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375JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
376 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
377
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378JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
379
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380JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
381
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382JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
383
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384JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
385 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
386
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387JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
388 added for tls authenticator.
389
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390HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
391
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395TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
396 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
397 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
398 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
399 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
400 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
401 the script parsing/test process like normal.
402
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403TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
404 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
405 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
406 function when detected.
407
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408JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
409 cause callback expansion.
410
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411TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
412 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
413 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
414 instead of bool when processing it.
415
0f06b4f2 416JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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417 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
418
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419JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
420
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421JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
422
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423TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
424
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425TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
426 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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428JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
429 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
430 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
431 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
432 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
433 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
434
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435JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
436 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
437 exceeded it.
438
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439JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
440 version 3.3.6 or later.
441
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442JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
443 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
444 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 445 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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446 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
447 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
448 option is defined.
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450TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
451 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
452
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453JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
454 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
455 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
456 matches.
457
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458JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
459 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
460 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
461
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462JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
463 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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464
465JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
466 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
467 syntax errors.
468
3394b36a 469JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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471JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
472 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
473
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474TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
475 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
476 tarball.
477
ad4c5ff9
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478JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
479
480JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
481 Bug 1561.
482
483JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
484 output list separator was used.
485
8bc732e8 486
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487Exim version 4.84
488-----------------
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489TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
490 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
491 return.
1f0ebb98 492
a612424f
JH
493JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
494 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
495
496JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
497
498TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 499 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 500
1f0ebb98 501
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502Exim version 4.83
503-----------------
504
505TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
506
507 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
508 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
509 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
510 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
511 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
512 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
513
7245734e
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514TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
515 utilities have not been installed.
516
fd5dad68
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517JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
518 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
519
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520TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
521 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
522
a3c86431
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523TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
524 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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525 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
526 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 527
aa26e137
JH
528JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
529
5a1b8443
WB
530TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
531 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
532
72c9e342
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533PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
534 not dns_use_dnssec.
535
76f44207
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536JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
537
770747fd
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538TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
539 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
540 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
541
8ddef691 542TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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543 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
544 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
545 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
546 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 547 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 548
b9c2e32f
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549JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
550
e45a1c37
JH
551JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
552 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
553
67d81c10
JH
554JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
555 failed delivery.
556
b1f8e4f8
JH
557JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
558
511a6c14 559JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
560
561JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
562 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 563
51c7471d
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564JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
565 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
566
3695be34
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567TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
568
1e06383a
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569JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
570
76146973
JH
571JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
572 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
573
574 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
575 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
576 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
577
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578TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
579 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
580 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
581 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 582
35aba663
JH
583JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
584
8c51eead 585JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
586 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
587 lookup).
8c51eead 588
deae092e
HS
589TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
590 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
591 Schlichting.
35aba663 592
fd3b6a4a 593JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 594 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 595
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596TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
597 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
598
2b4a568d
JH
599JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
600
d2af03f4
HS
601TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
602 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
603 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
604
9d1c15ef
JH
605JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
606 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
607
44662487
JH
608JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
609 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
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610 hosts_request_ocsp.
611
ed3bba5f 612JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 613 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 614 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 615
8ccd00b1
JH
616JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
617
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618TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
619 Christian Aistleitner.
620
f2de3a33
JH
621JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
622
6eb02f88
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623TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
624 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
625
00bff6f6
JH
626JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
627 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
628
071c51f7
JH
629JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
630 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
631
a6d4c44e
TF
632TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
633 support and error reporting did not work properly.
634
3ae173e7
ACK
635TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
636 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
637
c13d09b8
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638TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
639 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
640 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
641
0df4ab80
JH
642JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
643
66be95e0
PP
644PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
645 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
646 Jasper Wallace.
647
1bd0d12b
JH
648JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
649
0de7239e
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650TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
651 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
652 CVE-2014-2972
653
fd3b6a4a 654
2c422e6f 655Exim version 4.82
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656-----------------
657
658PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
659
12f69989
PP
660PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
661 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
662
54c90be1
PP
663PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
664 by GnuTLS.
665
1f4a55da
PP
666PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
667 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
668 routines.
669
13363eba 670PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 671
66645890 672PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
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673 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
674 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
675 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
676 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 677
a3fb9793 678PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
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679 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
680 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
681 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 682 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 683 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 684
d27f98fe 685TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 686
6822b909
TL
687TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
688
e7568d51
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689TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
690 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
691
ae0e32ee 692TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 693 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 694 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
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695
696TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 697
e2658fff
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698TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
699
83712b39
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700TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
701 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
702
976b7e9f
JH
703JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
704
be4a1376
JH
705JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
706
ec4b68e5
PP
707PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
708
d7148a07
NM
709NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
710 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 711
585121e2 712JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 713
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714PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
715 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
716 function.
a5f239e4 717
13d08c90
PP
718PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
719 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
720
bef3ea7f
JH
721JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
722 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
723 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 724
846726c5
JH
725JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
726
3a796370
JH
727JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
728
ea722490 729JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
730 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
731
b1b05573
JH
732JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
733 Bugzilla 884.
734
362145b5
JH
735JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
736 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
737
3c0a92dc
JH
738JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
739 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
740
6d7c6175
PP
741PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
742 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 743 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 744
6f123593
JH
745JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
746 authenticators.
747
c8e2fc1e
JH
748JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
749 for control.
750
005ac57f
PP
751PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
752
3f1df0e3
PP
753PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
754 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
755 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
756 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
757
67bd1ab3
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758TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
759
760 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
761 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
762 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
763 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
764 the retry rules.
765
766 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
767 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
768 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
769
770 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
771 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
772 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
773 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
774
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775 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
776 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
777 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
778 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
779 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
780 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
781 delivery, as in LMTP.
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782
783 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
784 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
785
326cdc37
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786TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
787
788 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
789
790 Resent-From: f
791
792 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
793 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
794 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
795 username as equal to the username.
796
797 This change corrects that bug.
798
f62514b3
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799GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
800 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
801 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
802
eb505532
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803TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
804
14c7b357
PP
805PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
806 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
807 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
808 NULL dereference and crash.
809
94eaf700
PP
810JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
811
6f5a440a
PP
812PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
813 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
814 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
815
514ee161
SC
816SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
817
fd98a5c6
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818JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
819 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
820 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
821 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
822 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
823 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
824 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
825 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
826 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
827 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
828 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
829
035c7f1e
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830PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
831 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
832
ff284120
PP
833PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
834 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
835 Bugzilla 880.
836
26e72755
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837PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
838 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
839 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
840 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
841 an empty string is now equivalent.
842
0fbd9bff
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843PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
844 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
845 not performing validation itself.
846
700d22f3
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847PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
848 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
849
fcc8e047
JH
850JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
851 Bugzilla 321, 823.
852
7142daca
PP
853TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
854
8c020188
PP
855PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
856 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
857 other false fix of the same issue.
858 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
859 Bugzilla 1363.
860
d13cdd30
PP
861PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
862 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
863
e2fbf4a2
PP
864PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
865 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
866 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
867
f4c1088b
PP
868PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
869 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
870 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
871
c5c2182f
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872TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
873
73431ca9
JH
874JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
875
2d07a215
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876TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
877 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
878
a30a8861
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879TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
880 Alexander Miroch.
881
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882TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
883 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
884 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
885 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
886 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 887
046172e6
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888TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
889 the src/util/ subdirectory.
890
581d7bee 891TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 892 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
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893 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
894
895TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
896 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
897 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
898 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
899
237b2cf2
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900TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
901
9fc5a352
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902TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
903 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
904 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 905
b10e4ec2
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906TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
907
e2cebd74
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908TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
909 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
910 interaction.
911
912TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
913 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
914
2519e60d
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915TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
916 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
917
e78e6ecf 918
4263f395
PP
919Exim version 4.80.1
920-------------------
921
922PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
923 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 924 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 925
ea722490 926
b1770b6e 927Exim version 4.80
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929
930PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
931 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
932 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
933
23c7e742
NM
934NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
935
b322aac8
NM
936NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
937 improved.
938
4a891427
NM
939NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
940
c1e794ba 941PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 942
97753960
PP
943PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
944
945PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
946 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
947
df6303fa
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948PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
949 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
950
7e6a8985
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951PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
952 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
953
f1e05cc7 954PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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955 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
956 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 957
4c287009
PP
958PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
959
b98bb9ac
PP
960PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
961 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
962
4a6a987a
PP
963PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
964
c45dd180 965PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 966
7db8d074
PP
967PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
968 non-compliant senders.
969 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
970
eae0036b 971NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 972 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
973 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
974
dec5017e
PP
975PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
976 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
977 in spool file corruption.
978
c80c5570
PP
979PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
980 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
981 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
982 "Got SSL error 2".
983
076b11e2
PP
984TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
985 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
986 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
987
5407bfff
JH
988JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
989 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
990
9e45c72b
PP
991JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
992
e74376d8
PP
993PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
994 diagnostics.
995 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
996
da3ad30d
PP
997PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
998 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
999 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1000
7be682ca
PP
1001PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1002 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1003 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1004 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1005
ef840681
PP
1006PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1007 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1008
5bfb4cdf
PP
1009PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1010 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1011 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1012 resolver implementation change.
1013
c6e95d22
PP
1014PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1015 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1016
9cbad13b
PP
1017PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1018
9ee44efb
PP
1019PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1020
6a6084f8
PP
1021PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1022 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1023
12dd53c7
PP
1024PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1025 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1026
9e45c72b 1027JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1028 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1029
17c76198
PP
1030PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1031 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1032 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1033 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1034 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1035
53947857 1036PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1037
eae0036b 1038PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1039 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1040 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1041
9e45c72b 1042JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1043
7390e768
PP
1044PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1045 read-only, out of scope).
1046 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1047
08488c86
PP
1048PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1049 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1050 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1051 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1052
6475bd82
PP
1053PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1054
81f91683
PP
1055PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1056 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1057 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1058 real issues in debug logging.
1059
5779e6aa
PP
1060PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1061 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1062
3375e053
PP
1063PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1064 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1065 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1066
1067PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1068 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1069 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1070 problems.
3375e053 1071
9d26b8c0
PP
1072PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1073 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1074
57eb9e91 1075PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1076 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1077 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1078 needs to override this, it can.
1079
16880d1a
PP
1080PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1081 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1082 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1083
a799883d
PP
1084PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1085 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1086 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1087 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1088
3ecab157 1089PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1090
0599f9cf 1091
867fcbf5
PP
1092Exim version 4.77
1093-----------------
1094
1095PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1096 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1097
f1a29782
TF
1098TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1099
ab42bd23
TK
1100TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1101 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1102
0ca0cf52
TF
1103TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1104 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1105
921b12ca
TF
1106TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1107 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1108 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1109
1110 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1111 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1112 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1113 not safe for signals.
1114
1115 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1116 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1117 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1118 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1119 exiwhat.
1120
c99ce5c9
TF
1121TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1122
1123 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1124 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1125 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1126 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1127 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1128
1129 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1130 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1131 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1132 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1133 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1134 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1135
1136 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1137 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1138 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1139 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1140
1141 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1142 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1143 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1144 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1145
1146 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1147 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1148 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1149 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1150 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1151 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1152 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1153 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1154 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1155
1156 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1157 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1158 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1159 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1160
1161 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1162 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1163 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1164 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1165 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1166 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1167 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1168 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1169 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1170 details in the main documentation.
1171
3634fc25
TF
1172TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1173
792e8a19
TF
1174TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1175
5901f0ab
TF
1176TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1177 repository when doing development or release builds.
1178
7f2a2a43
PP
1179PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1180 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1181
061b7ebd
PP
1182PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1183 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1184 Bugzilla 97.
1185
e12f8c32
PP
1186PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1187
9e949f00 1188PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1189 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1190
1191PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1192 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1193
555ae6af 1194PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1195 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1196
1197PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1198 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1199
6f7fe114
PP
1200PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1201 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1202
c566dd90
PP
1203PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1204 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1205 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1206 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1207
d6cc7c78 1208PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1209 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1210 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1211
0d0e4455
PP
1212PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1213
3399bb60 1214PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1215
1216PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1217 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1218
0ca0cf52 1219
10906672
PP
1220Exim version 4.76
1221-----------------
1222
1223PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1224
754a0503
PP
1225PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1226 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1227
c0c7b2da
PP
1228PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1229
e97d1f08
PP
1230PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1231
084c1d8c
PP
1232PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1233 Bugzilla 1098.
1234
4e7ee012
PP
1235PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1236 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1237
c8d52a00
PP
1238TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1239 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1240
54e7ce4a
PP
1241PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1242 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1243
5ee6f336
PP
1244PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1245 Bugzilla 1104.
1246
c8d52a00 1247TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1248 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1249
1250TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1251 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1252 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1253 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1254
1255PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1256 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1257
10906672 1258
aa097c4c
NM
1259Exim version 4.75
1260-----------------
1261
4c9ef03a 1262NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1263 Bugzilla 1073
1264
7f3d9eff
TF
1265TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1266 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1267 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1268
159f52d2
TF
1269TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1270 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1271
0cc9542a
PP
1272PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1273 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1274 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1275
f7274286
PP
1276PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1277 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1278
7b797365
PP
1279PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1280 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1281
caacae52
NM
1282NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1283 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1284
09dcaba9
NM
1285NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1286 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1287
bc19a55b
PP
1288PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1289 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1290
bd4c9759
NM
1291NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1292 Fixes bug 943.
1293
b72aab72
PP
1294PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1295 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1296
2fe76745
PP
1297PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1298 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1299
76aa570c
PP
1300PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1301 SQL string expansion failure details.
1302 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1303
f1e5fef5
PP
1304PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1305 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1306
4d805ee9
PP
1307PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1308 extern declarations in function scope.
1309 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1310
cd59ab18
PP
1311PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1312 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1313 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1314 a kernel bug).
1315
332f5cf3
PP
1316PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1317 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1318
29cfeb94
PP
1319PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1320 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1321
660242ad
PP
1322PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1323 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1324
bc4bc4c5
PP
1325PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1326 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1327
2e64baa9
NM
1328NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1329 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1330 Dennis Davis.
1331
bddd7526
PP
1332PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1333
6bac1a9a
PP
1334PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1335
552193f0
NM
1336NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1337 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1338
1b587e48
TF
1339TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1340 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1341
aa097c4c 1342
8c07b69f
TF
1343Exim version 4.74
1344-----------------
1345
1346TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1347 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1348
c0ea85ab
TF
1349TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1350 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1351
0761d44e
TF
1352TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1353
0a349494
PP
1354DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1355 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1356 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1357
1358PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1359 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1360 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1361
fea24b2e
PP
1362PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1363 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1364 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1365 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1366
6545de78
PP
1367PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1368 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1369 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1370 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1371
1670ef10
PP
1372PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1373 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1374 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1375 arbitrary files.
1376
c0886197
PP
1377PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1378 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1379
b7487bce
PP
1380PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1381 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1382 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1383 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1384 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1385
8c07b69f 1386
97fd1e48 1387Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1388-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1389
1390PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1391 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1392 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1393
6901c596
PP
1394PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1395 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1396
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1397JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1398
77bb000f
PP
1399PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1400
a29e5231
PP
1401PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1402
ec5a0394 1403PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1404
55c75993
PP
1405PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1406
453a6645 1407PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1408 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1409 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1410 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1411
8544e77a
PP
1412PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1413 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1414 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1415 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1416 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1417
83e029d5
PP
1418PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1419
ed7f7860
PP
1420PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1421
7d9f747b
PP
1422PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1423
4b2241d2
PP
1424PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1425
10385c15
PP
1426PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1427
dbc4b90d
PP
1428PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1429
532be449
PP
1430PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1431
6a8de854 1432PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1433 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1434 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1435
5dc43717
JJ
1436JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1437
1438JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1439 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1440
3346ab01
PP
1441PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1442 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1443
491fab4c
PP
1444PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1445 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1446 Notification from John Horne.
1447
13eb9497
PP
1448PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1449 compatible.
1450
1451PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1452 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1453 it normally works.
1454
7f36d675
DW
1455DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1456 access.
1457
c1d94452
DW
1458DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1459 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1460 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1461
e2f5dc15
DW
1462DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1463 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1464 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1465 configuration file.
1466
cd25e41d
DW
1467DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1468 option (effectively making it always true).
1469
261dc43e
DW
1470DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1471 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1472
fa32850b
DW
1473DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1474 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1475
79d4bc3d
PP
1476PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1477 run-time user, instead of root.
1478
43236f35 1479PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1480 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1481
fb08281f
DW
1482DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1483 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1484 arguments.
3346ab01 1485
74935b98
DW
1486DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1487 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1488 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1489
90b6341f
DW
1490DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1491
57730b52
ML
1492NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1493
66581d1e 1494
465e92cf
JJ
1495Exim version 4.72
1496-----------------
1497
453a6645
PP
1498JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1499 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1500 typos
465e92cf 1501
453a6645
PP
1502JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1503 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1504 (Finput)
edae0343 1505
9bd3e22c
NM
1506NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1507 Patch from Alain Williams
1508
bb576ff7
NM
1509NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1510
5a1a5845
NM
1511NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1512 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1513
981a9fad
NM
1514NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1515 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1516
7fc497ee
NM
1517NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1518
1a41defa
JJ
1519JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1520
a466095c 1521NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1522 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1523
94a6bd0b
NM
1524TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1525
1526TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1527
1528MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1529 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1530 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1531
c1b141a8
NM
1532NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1533 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1534
b26eacf1 1535NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1536 Patch by Simon Arlott
1537
179c5980 1538PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1539 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1540
9bd3e22c 1541
7c6d71af
NM
1542Exim version 4.71
1543-----------------
1544
7d9f747b 1545TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1546
f013fb92
NM
1547NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1548
0eb8eedd
NM
1549NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1550
663ee6d9
NM
1551NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1552
177ebd9b
NM
1553NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1554
7c6d71af 1555
210f147e
NM
1556Exim version 4.70
1557-----------------
1558
cdd3bb85 1559TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1560 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1561
1562TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1563 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1564 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1565
1566TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1567 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1568 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1569
1570TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1571 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1572
210f147e
NM
1573NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1574 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1575 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1576 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1577
deafd5b3
NM
1578NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1579 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1580 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1581
089793a4
TF
1582TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1583
5f16ca82
TF
1584TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1585
dae9d94e 1586NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1587 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1588
7d9f747b 1589NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1590
06864c44
TF
1591TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1592 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1593 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1594 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1595
65a7d8c3 1596NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1597 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1598
23510047 1599TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1600
7d9f747b 1601NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1602
7d8eec3a 1603NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1604 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1605
89dec7b6
TF
1606TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1607 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1608
a99de90c
TF
1609TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1610 that they are available at delivery time.
1611
e2803e40
TF
1612TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1613
7199e1ee
TF
1614TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1615 incoming_port log selectors.
1616
e276e04b
TF
1617TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1618 setting expands to an empty string.
1619
ce552449 1620NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1621 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1622
e765a0f1 1623NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1624 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1625
4f054c63 1626NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1627 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1628
7d9f747b
PP
1629NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1630 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1631
7d9f747b
PP
1632NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1633 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1634
b52bc06e 1635NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1636 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1637
447de4b0
NM
1638NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1639
4c69d561 1640NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1641 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1642
d5c39246 1643NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1644 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1645
0b23848a
TK
1646TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1647
8f3414a1 1648NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1649 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1650
fb6f955d
NM
1651NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1652
1653NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1654
7d9f747b
PP
1655NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1656 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1657
7d9f747b
PP
1658NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1659 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1660
7d9f747b
PP
1661NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1662 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1663
7d9f747b
PP
1664NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1665 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1666
7d9f747b
PP
1667NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1668 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1669
7d9f747b
PP
1670NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1671 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1672
7d9f747b
PP
1673NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1674 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1675
7d9f747b 1676NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1677 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1678
7d9f747b 1679NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1680
7d9f747b
PP
1681NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1682 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1683
7d9f747b 1684NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1685
7d9f747b 1686NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1687
7d9f747b 1688NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1689
7d9f747b 1690NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1691
17792b53 1692NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1693 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1694
7d9f747b
PP
1695NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1696 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1697
91576cec 1698NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1699 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1700
7d9f747b
PP
1701NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1702 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1703
7d9f747b 1704NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1705
7d9f747b 1706NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1707
7d9f747b 1708NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1709
7d9f747b 1710NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1711
deafd5b3 1712
47db1125
NM
1713Exim version 4.69
1714-----------------
1715
4b3504d0
TK
1716TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1717 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1718 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1719
1720 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1721 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1722 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1723 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1724 build errors in sieve.c.
1725
81ea09ca
NM
1726NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1727 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1728 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1729
f13cddcb
SC
1730SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1731
7d9f747b 1732NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1733
7d9f747b 1734NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1735
7d9f747b 1736NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1737
1738
eb4c0de6
PH
1739Exim version 4.68
1740-----------------
1741
1742PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1743
6a3bceb1
PH
1744PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1745 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1746 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1747 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1748 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1749 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1750 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1751 for iplsearch lookups.
1752
1753 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1754 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1755 previously such lookups could never work.
1756
1757 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1758 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1759 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1760
2e30fa9d
TK
1761TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1762 version.
1763
0806a9c5
MH
1764MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1765 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1766 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1767 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1768 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1769 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1770
ae276964
TK
1771TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1772 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1773
0f2cbd1b
MH
1774MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1775 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1776 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1777 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1778 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1779 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1780
2b85bce7
PH
1781PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1782 local_scan API.
1783
93655c46
PH
1784PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1785
6c512171
PH
1786PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1787 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1788 encrypted.
1789
1790PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1791 by clients under certain conditions.
1792
aa6dc513
PH
1793PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1794 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1795
a96603a0
PH
1796PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1797
8f240103
PH
1798PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1799 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1800
1801PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1802
d677b2f2
PH
1803PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1804
d52120f2
PH
1805PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1806
64f2600a
PH
1807PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1808 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1809
8669f003
PH
1810PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1811
a4dc33a8
PH
1812PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1813 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1814
d6a60c0f
PH
1815PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1816
8f128379
PH
1817PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1818
8932dffe
PH
1819PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1820 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1821 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1822 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1823
ddea74fa 1824PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1825 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1826 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1827
ddea74fa 1828PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1829 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1830
ddea74fa
PH
1831PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1832
ce9f225c
PH
1833PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1834
19897d52
PH
1835PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1836
bc64a74d
PH
1837PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1838 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1839 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1840
eb4c0de6 1841
b4ed4da0
PH
1842Exim version 4.67
1843-----------------
1844
22ad45c9
MH
1845MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1846 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1847 Jan Srzednicki.
1848
b4ed4da0
PH
1849PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1850 issue a MAIL command.
1851
431b7361
PH
1852PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1853
1854 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1855
1856 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1857 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1858 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1859 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1860 item. This has been fixed.
1861
1862PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1863 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1864
83da1223
PH
1865PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1866 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1867
54fc8428
PH
1868PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1869 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1870 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1871
34c5e8dd
SC
1872SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1873
bbe15da8
PH
1874PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1875 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1876 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1877 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1878 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1879
0e8a9471
MH
1880MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1881 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1882 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1883
f0872424
PH
1884PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1885 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1886 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1887 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1888
b01dd148
PH
1889PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1890
6bf342e1
PH
1891PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1892
273f34d0
PH
1893PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1894 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1895 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1896 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1897 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1898
cf8b11a5
PH
1899PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1900
41c7c167
PH
1901PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1902 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1903 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1904 values).
1905
9c57cbc0
PH
1906PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1907
f3f065bb
PH
1908PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1909
047bdd8c
PH
1910PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1911
0ce9abe6
PH
1912PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1913
0e22dfd1
PH
1914PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1915
4c590bd1
PH
1916PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1917 no_callout_flush is set.
1918
09945f1e
PH
1919PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1920 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1921 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1922 fixed.
1923
c51b8e75
PH
1924PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1925
e28326d8
PH
1926PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1927 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1928 other ACL rejections are.
1929
75b1493f
PH
1930PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1931 with slight modification.
1932
7c5214ec
PH
1933PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1934 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1935
4311097e
PH
1936PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1937 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1938 connection.
1939
29f89cad
PH
1940PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1941 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1942
5e687460
SC
1943SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1944
c3611384
PH
1945PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1946 expansion side effects.
1947
5a11a7b4
PH
1948PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1949 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1950 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1951 be the same.
1952
0e20aff9
MH
1953MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1954 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1955 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1956
ca86f471
PH
1957PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1958 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1959 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1960 were accidentally chopped off.
1961
a14e5636
PH
1962PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1963 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1964 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1965 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1966 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1967 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1968 pipelining has not been advertised.
1969
ec95d1a6
PH
1970PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1971
42855d71
PH
1972PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1973 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1974 This has been fixed.
1975
57c2c631
PH
1976PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1977 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1978 reported on Solaris.
1979
58c01c94
PH
1980PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1981 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1982 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1983 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1984 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1985 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1986 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1987
dee5a20a
PH
1988PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1989 cpus.
1990
d2ee6114
PH
1991PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1992
b2d5182b
PH
1993PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1994
79749a79
PH
1995PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1996 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1997 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1998 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1999 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2000 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2001
c456d9bb
PH
2002PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2003 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2004 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2005 host_all_ignored option.
2006
cd9868ec
PH
2007PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2008 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2009 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2010 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2011 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2012 is what is supposed to happen).
2013
ebeaf996
PH
2014PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2015 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2016 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2017 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2018 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2019 uses the Exim user.
2020
2679d413
PH
2021PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2022 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2023 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2024 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2025 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2026 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2027 users.
2028
84024b72
PH
2029PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2030
8005d38e
SC
2031SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2032 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2033 (Jez Hancock).
2034 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2035 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2036
3298c6c6
SC
2037SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2038
a43a27c5
PH
2039PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2040
58eb016e 2041PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2042 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2043 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2044 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2045 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2046 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2047 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2048 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2049 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2050 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2051 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2052
b43a74ea
PH
2053PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2054 advertised in response to EHLO.
2055
b4ed4da0 2056
5dd1517f
PH
2057Exim version 4.66
2058-----------------
2059
2060PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2061 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2062
2063 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2064 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2065
2066 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2067 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2068 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2069
2070 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2071 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2072 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2073 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2074 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2075
2076
93cfa765
TK
2077Exim version 4.65
2078-----------------
2079
2080TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2081 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2082 versions. (#438)
2083
d6066548
MH
2084MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2085 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2086 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2087
4362ff0d
PH
2088PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2089 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2090 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2091 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2092 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2093 rather than extend the field.
2094
93cfa765 2095
944e9e9c
TF
2096Exim version 4.64
2097-----------------
aa41d2de 2098
21d74bd9
TK
2099TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2100 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2101 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2102 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2103 these files.
2104
2105TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2106 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2107 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2108
2109TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2110 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2111 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2112
2113TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2114 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2115 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2116 in the field name.
2117
2b1c6e3a
PH
2118PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2119 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2120 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2121 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2122 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2123 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2124 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2125 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2126 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2127 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2128 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2129
1f872c80
PH
2130PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2131 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2132
2133PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2134 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2135 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2136 ignores EPIPE as well.
2137
d203e649
PH
2138PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2139 (quoted-printable decoding).
2140
cc2ed8f7 2141PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2142 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2143
ddfcd446
PH
2144PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2145
d45b1de8
PH
2146PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2147
2148PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2149
38a0a95f 2150PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2151 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2152
a2405d83
JJ
2153JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2154 in 4.64-PH/09.
2155
2156JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2157 miscellaneous code fixes
2158
6ea85e9a
PH
2159PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2160 rejections.
2161
26da7e20
PH
2162PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2163 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2164 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2165 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2166 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2167 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2168 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2169 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2170
14aa5a05 2171PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2172 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2173 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2174 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2175 function.
2176 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2177 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2178 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2179 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2180 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2181 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2182 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2183 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2184 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2185
ff75a1f7
PH
2186PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2187 decoding.
2188
e6f6568e
PH
2189PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2190 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2191 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2192 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2193 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2194 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2195 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2196 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2197
d6f6e0dc
PH
2198PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2199 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2200 list.
2201
322050c2
PH
2202PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2203 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2204 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2205 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2206 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2207 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2208 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2209 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2210 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2211 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2212 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2213 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2214 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2215
08955dd3
PH
2216PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2217 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2218 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2219 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2220 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2221 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2222 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2223
1eccaa59
PH
2224PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2225 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2226 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2227 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2228 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2229 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2230 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2231 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2232 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2233 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2234
602e59e5
PH
2235PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2236 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2237 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2238 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2239 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2240
411ef850
PH
2241PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2242 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2243 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2244 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2245 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2246 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2247 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2248
7befa435
PH
2249PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2250 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2251 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2252 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2253 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2254 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2255 been verified.
2256
48da4259 2257PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2258 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2259 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2260 and authorization.)
2261
48da4259
PH
2262PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2263 if any retry times were supplied.
2264
d1d5595c
PH
2265PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2266 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2267 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2268
0ef732d9
PH
2269PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2270
328895cc
PH
2271PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2272
fd700877
PH
2273PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2274 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2275 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2276 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2277 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2278 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2279
8dce1a6f
PH
2280PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2281 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2282
17af4a17
PH
2283PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2284 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2285 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2286
2287PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2288 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2289 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2290 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2291 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2292 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2293 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2294 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2295 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2296
2297 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2298 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2299 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2300 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2301 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2302 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2303 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2304 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2305 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2306
2307 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2308 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2309 hammering the server.
2310
c1114884
PH
2311PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2312 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2313
7a0743eb
PH
2314PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2315
0d85fa3f
PH
2316PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2317 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2318 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2319
1bf43b78
PH
2320PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2321 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2322 one case where this was not true.
2323
520de300
PH
2324PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2325 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2326 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2327 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2328 fails.
2329
48c7f9e2
PH
2330PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2331 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2332 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2333 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2334 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2335 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2336 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2337 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2338 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2339 smtp transport.
2340
99ea1c86
PH
2341PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2342 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2343 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2344 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2345
a2042e78
PH
2346PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2347 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2348
4fbcfc2e
PH
2349PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2350 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2351 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2352
aa41d2de
PH
2353PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2354
af561417
PH
2355PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2356
3cc66b45
PH
2357PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2358
194cc0e4
PH
2359PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2360 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2361 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2362 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2363
a401ddaa
PH
2364PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2365 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2366
4e88a19f
PH
2367PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2368 be meaningful with "accept".
2369
d7d7b289
SC
2370SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2371 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2372
2373SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2374 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2375 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2376
2377SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2378 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2379 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2380 there is data to show.
2381 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2382
2383SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2384 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2385 as well as the number of messages.
2386
2387SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2388 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2389 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2390
2391SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2392 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2393 have a flag are now skipped.
2394
2395SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2396 Added the -emptyok flag.
2397
2398SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2399 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2400
0ea2a468
JJ
2401JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2402 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2403 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2404
2405JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2406 match 4.64-PH/13
2407
2408JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2409 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2410
2411JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2412
2413JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2414 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2415
8a10f5a4
PH
2416PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2417
30e18802
PH
2418PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2419 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2420 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2421 contravention of the specifications.
2422
55728a4f
PH
2423PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2424 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2425 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2426
d7837193
PH
2427PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2428 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2429 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2430
87054a31
PH
2431PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2432
ea2c01d2
MH
2433MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2434 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2435 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2436 some point in the past.
2437
e4fa6968
PH
2438PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2439 transport during callout processing was broken.
2440
56f5d9bd
PH
2441PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2442 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2443
922e1c28
PH
2444PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2445 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2446
21eb6e72
PH
2447PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2448 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2449
a0540757
PH
2450PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2451
944e9e9c 2452
478be7b0
SC
2453Exim version 4.63
2454-----------------
2455
2456SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2457 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2458
2459SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2460 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2461 there is data to show.
2462 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2463
2464SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2465 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2466
2b965a65
TF
2467TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2468 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2469
45b91596
PH
2470TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2471 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2472
c59f5781
TF
2473TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2474 submissions from trusted users.
2475
90fc3069
TF
2476TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2477 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2478
6083aca0
TF
2479TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2480 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2481 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2482 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2483 there is now a framework to start from.
2484
765b530f
PH
2485PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2486 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2487 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2488
4e167a8c
PH
2489PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2490
4608d683
PH
2491PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2492
b8dc3e4a
PH
2493PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2494
5418e93b
PH
2495PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2496 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2497 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2498
b4a9bda2
PH
2499PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2500 libradius.
2501
45b91596
PH
2502PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2503 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2504 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2505
5547e2c5
PH
2506PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2507 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2508 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2509 its arguments.
2510
dbcef0ea
PH
2511PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2512 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2513 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2514 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2515 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2516
25257489
PH
2517PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2518 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2519
c816d124
PH
2520PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2521
a9ccd69a
PH
2522PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2523 operations in malware.c.
2524
75fa1910
PH
2525PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2526 signatures.
2527
a7d7aa58
PH
2528PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2529 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2530 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2531 all.
2532
42119b09
PH
2533PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2534 statements to "add_header".
2535
41609df5
PH
2536PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2537 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2538
a5bd321b
PH
2539PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2540 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2541 latter.
2542
e85a7ad5 2543PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2544 so that it is now:
2545
e85a7ad5
PH
2546 ${if or { \
2547 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2548 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2549 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2550 }{no}{yes}}
2551
e85a7ad5
PH
2552 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2553 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2554
d8fe1c03
PH
2555PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2556 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2557
16282d2b
PH
2558PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2559 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2560 any possible encoding problems.
2561
35d40a98
PH
2562PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2563 but not after initializing Perl.
2564
034d99ab
PH
2565PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2566 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2567 apparently, which is not desirable.
2568
6ec97b1b
PH
2569PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2570 queries.
2571
e22ca4ac
JJ
2572JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2573 --not options
2574
2575JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2576
33d73e3b
PH
2577PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2578 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2579 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2580 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2581
9ecb03f3
PH
2582PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2583 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2584 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2585
084efe8d
PH
2586PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2587 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2588 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2589 0.12.
2590
366fc9f0
PH
2591PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2592 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2593 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2594 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2595 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2596
c59f5781 2597
c887c79e
TF
2598Exim version 4.62
2599-----------------
2600
2601TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2602 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2603
1cce3af8
PH
2604PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2605 patch).
2606
afb3eaaf
PH
2607PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2608 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2609 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2610 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2611 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2612 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2613 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2614 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2615 451 error is used.
2616
e173618b
PH
2617PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2618
dd16e114
PH
2619PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2620 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2621 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2622
f7fd3850
PH
2623PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2624 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2625 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2626 odd errors.
2627
d87df92c
PH
2628PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2629 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2630
7e9f683d
PH
2631PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2632 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2633 option (which defaults to 0600).
2634
bfad5236
PH
2635PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2636
01c490df
PH
2637PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2638 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2639 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2640 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2641 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2642 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2643 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2644
d6629cdc
PH
2645PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2646
1cce3af8 2647
214e2000
PH
2648Exim version 4.61
2649-----------------
2650
2651PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2652 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2653 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2654 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2655 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2656 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2657 addresses as local.
2658
f9daeae0
PH
2659PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2660 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2661
7e66e54d
PH
2662PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2663
c8ea1597
PH
2664PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2665 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2666 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2667 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2668 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2669 grumble.
2670
911f6fde
PH
2671PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2672 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2673
47ca6d6c
PH
2674PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2675 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2676 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2677 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2678 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2679
ed0e9820
PH
2680PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2681 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2682 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2683 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2684
eff37e47
PH
2685PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2686 be the same on different OS.
2687
1921d2ea
PH
2688PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2689 testing.
2690
b3f69ca8
JJ
2691JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2692 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2693
2694JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2695 in 4.61-PH/06
2696
424a1c63
PH
2697PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2698 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2699 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2700 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2701 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2702 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2703 bounce message.
2704
7a100415
PH
2705PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2706 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2707 when Exim was called.
2708
19b9dc85
PH
2709PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2710 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2711
309bd837
PH
2712PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2713 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2714 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2715 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2716
59e82a2a
PH
2717PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2718 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2719 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2720 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2721 changes:
2722
2723 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2724 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2725 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2726
2727 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2728 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2729 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2730
9edc04ce
PH
2731PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2732 feature).
2733
1349e1e5
PH
2734PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2735 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2736 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2737 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2738 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2739 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2740 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2741 values from the SRV records were lost.
2742
ea49d0e1
PH
2743PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2744 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2745 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2746
064a94c9
PH
2747PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2748 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2749 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2750
727071f8
PH
2751PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2752 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2753 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2754 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2755 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2756 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2757 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2758 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2759 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2760 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2761
f78eb7c6
PH
2762PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2763 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2764 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2765
21c28500
PH
2766PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2767 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2768
2769PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2770 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2771 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2772 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2773 is given.
2774
1688f43b
PH
2775PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2776 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2777 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2778
2779PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2780 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2781 PH/23 above applies.
2782
9675b384
PH
2783PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2784 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2785 (for which there is an explicit test).
2786
6a3f1455
PH
2787PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2788
dac79d3e
PH
2789PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2790 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2791 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2792 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2793 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2794
5977a0b3
PH
2795PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2796 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2797 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2798 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2799
c91535f3
PH
2800PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2801 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2802 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2803
0d46a8c8
PH
2804PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2805
278c6e6c
PH
2806PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2807
2cbb4081
PH
2808PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2809 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2810 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2811
3eef829e
PH
2812PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2813 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2814 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2815 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2816 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2817
1ab95fa6
PH
2818PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2819 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2820 the message gets confusing).
2821
230205fc
PH
2822PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2823 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2824 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2825 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2826
75e0e026
PH
2827PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2828 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2829 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2830 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2831 same order.
2832
2833PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2834 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2835 the different processes.
2836
145396a6
PH
2837PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2838
3cd34f13
PH
2839PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2840
11121d3d
JJ
2841JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2842 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2843
2844JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2845 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2846
2847JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2848 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2849 messages matching specified criteria.
2850
8def5aaf
PH
2851PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2852
929ba01c
PH
2853PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2854 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2855
2632889e
PH
2856PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2857 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2858 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2859 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2860 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2861 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2862 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2863 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2864 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2865 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2866
944a9c55
PH
2867PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2868 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2869 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2870
4a23603b
PH
2871PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2872
4730f942
PH
2873PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2874 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2875 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2876 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2877 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2878 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2879 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2880 the variable.
2881
30dba1e6
PH
2882PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2883 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2884
382afc6b
PH
2885PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2886
a86229cf
PH
2887PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2888
50c99ba6
PH
2889PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2890
d35e429d
PH
2891PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2892 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2893 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2894 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2895 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2896 size of the count of files.
2897
f90d018c
PH
2898PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2899
75def545
PH
2900PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2901 used in LMTP mode:
2902
2903 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2904 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2905 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2906 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2907
2908 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2909 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2910 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2911
2912PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2913 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2914 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2915 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2916 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2917
c46782ef
PH
2918PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2919 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2920
71fafd95
PH
2921PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2922 will now be deprecated.
2923
2c5db4fd
PH
2924PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2925
9cf6b11a
JJ
2926JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2927 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2928 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2929
2930JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2931 with very large, slow to parse queues
2932
2933JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2934
2935JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2936
898d150f
PH
2937PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2938 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2939 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2940 SMTP output lines.
2941
46218253
PH
2942PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2943 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2944 Sieve code now uses this.
2945
e97957bc
PH
2946PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2947 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2948
81e509d7
PH
2949PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2950 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2951
3d240ff7
PH
2952PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2953
b37c4101
PH
2954PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2955 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2956 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2957 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2958 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2959
79378e0f
PH
2960PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2961 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2962 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2963 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2964
e49c7bb4
PH
2965PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2966
d114ec46
PH
2967PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2968
f3d7df6c
PH
2969PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2970 is preferred over IPv4.
2971
715ab376
PH
2972PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2973 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2974 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2975 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2976 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2977 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2978 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2979
6b31b150
PH
2980PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2981 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2982 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2983
2984PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2985
d515a917
PH
2986PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2987 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2988 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2989 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2990 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2991 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2992 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2993 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2994 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2995 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2996 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2997
9b8fadde
PH
2998PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2999 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3000 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3001
214e2000 3002
5de37277
PH
3003Exim version 4.60
3004-----------------
3005
cc38ddbf
PH
3006PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3007
3008 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3009 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3010
3011 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3012 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3013 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3014
72fdd6ae
PH
3015PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3016
3017 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3018 not a single digit.
3019
3020 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3021 string.
3022
3023 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3024 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3025 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3026 silly things.
3027
3028 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3029 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3030
3031 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3032 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3033
cb741023
PH
3034PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3035 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3036 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3037
f174f16e
PH
3038PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3039 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3040
c25242d7
PH
3041PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3042 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3043
3044 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3045
3046 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3047 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3048 this:
3049
3050 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3051
82c19f95
PH
3052PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3053 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3054 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3055 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3056 identical. For example:
3057
3058 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3059
3060 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3061 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3062 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3063
d7ffbc12
PH
3064PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3065 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3066 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3067 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3068
9f526266
PH
3069PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3070 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3071 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3072 message.
3073
87fcc8b9
PH
3074PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3075
3076 o fixes some comments
3077 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3078 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3079 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3080 and documents the missing references header update
3081
3082 and most important:
3083
3084 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3085 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
3086 result)
3087
456682f5
PH
3088PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3089 Electronic Mail") by including:
3090
3091 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3092
3093 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3094 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
3095 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3096 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3097 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3098
3099 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3100
3101 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3102
3103 The auto-replied keyword:
3104
3105 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3106 message by an automatic process,
3107
3108 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3109
3110 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3111 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3112
3113 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3114 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3115 other messages.
3116
3e46c1aa
PH
3117PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3118 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3119
49826d12
PH
3120PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3121
eba0c039
PH
3122PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3123 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3124 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3125
a0d6ba8a
PH
3126PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3127 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3128 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3129
f0917727
PH
3130PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3131 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3132 and treats the condition as false.
3133
096fee00
PH
3134PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3135
024bd3c2
PH
3136PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3137 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3138 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3139 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3140 not changing the active code.
3141
3142 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3143 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3144
3145 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3146 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3147
df199fec
PH
3148PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3149 (Bugzilla #53).
3150
d27f1df3
PH
3151PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3152 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3153 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3154 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3155 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3156 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3157 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3158 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3159 the text comparison.
3160
96776534
PH
3161PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3162 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3163 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3164 The same fix has been applied.
3165
5de37277 3166
9a799bc0
PH
3167Exim version 4.54
3168-----------------
3169
3170PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3171 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3172 It now does.
3173
99a4b039
PH
3174PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3175 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3176
3177PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3178
4b233853
PH
3179PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3180 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3181 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3182 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3183 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3184
8857ccfd
PH
3185TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3186 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3187 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3188 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3189 or /domain=).
3190
433a2980
PH
3191PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3192 testing suite.
3193
3e46c1aa 3194
9a799bc0 3195
e3a311ba
TK
3196Exim version 4.53
3197-----------------
3198
3199TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3200 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3201
13b685f9
PH
3202PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3203
395ff96d
PH
3204PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3205
5b68f6e4
PH
3206PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3207 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3208 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3209
1ab52c69
PH
3210PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3211 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3212 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3213
b07e6aa3
PH
3214PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3215 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3216 operating systems.
3217
254e032f
PH
3218PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3219 ${stat: expansion item.
3220
3af76a81
PH
3221PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3222 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3223
2548ba04
PH
3224PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3225 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3226 file for comments.
3227
b6c6011d
PH
3228PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3229
cf39cf57
PH
3230PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3231 setting.
3232
f1513293
PH
3233PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3234 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3235
727549a4
PH
3236TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3237
af46795e
PH
3238PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3239 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3240 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3241 the end of the subprocess.
3242
d7b47fd0
PH
3243PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3244 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3245 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3246 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3247 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3248
ee744174
JJ
3249JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3250
b582ab87
PH
3251TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3252
41a13e0a
PH
3253PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3254 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3255
f625cc5a
PH
3256PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3257
3258PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3259
21f7af35
PH
3260PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3261 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3262 HP-UX compiler.
3263
31480e42
PH
3264PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3265
2d280592
PH
3266PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3267 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3268 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3269
7cd1141b
PH
3270PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3271 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3272
3273PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3274 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3275
750af86e
PH
3276PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3277 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3278
3279 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3280 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3281
3282 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3283 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3284 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3285 contributed by a Radius user.
3286
3287PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3288 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3289
4304270b
TK
3290TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3291 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3292
750af86e
PH
3293PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3294 available.
3295
64ffc24f
PH
3296PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3297 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3298 received.
3299
5dd9625b
PH
3300PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3301 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3302 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3303 header lines when this was not necessary.
3304
5591031b
PH
3305PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3306
ba18e66a
PH
3307PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3308 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3309 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3310 exists".
3311
9cec981f
PH
3312PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3313 -bV or -d is used.
3314
aa2b5c79
PH
3315PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3316 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3317 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3318 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3319
48a53b7f
PH
3320PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3321
1c59d63b
PH
3322PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3323
671012da
TK
3324TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3325
1509d3a8
PH
3326PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3327
3328PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3329 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3330 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3331 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3332 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3333 settings.
3334
3335PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3336
2fe1a124
PH
3337PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3338 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3339 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3340 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3341 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3342 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3343 which is clearly wrong.
3344
8800895a
PH
3345PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3346
ccfdb010
PH
3347PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3348 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3349 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3350 subsequently added.
3351
1130bfb0
PH
3352PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3353 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3354
ebcb507f
PH
3355PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3356
c35e155c
PH
3357PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3358 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3359
95d1f782
PH
3360PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3361 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3362
fd6de02e
PH
3363PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3364 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3365
58de37c5
PH
3366PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3367 recipients, not senders.
3368
261cf466
TF
3369TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3370 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3371
3ee512ff
PH
3372PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3373
e08c430f
PH
3374PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3375
bef5a11f
PH
3376PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3377 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3378 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3379 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3380
7546de58
TF
3381TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3382
e5d5a95f
TF
3383TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3384 clock is set back in time.
3385
2e88a017
TF
3386TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3387 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3388
a5f65aa4
TF
3389TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3390 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3391
e7726cbf
PH
3392PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3393 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3394 (see PH/47 above).
3395
a7fdad5b
TF
3396TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3397 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3398 header rewrites.
3399
6af56900
PH
3400PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3401 type ("H").
3402
0925ede6
PH
3403PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3404
66afa403
TF
3405TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3406 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3407 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3408
0154e85a
TF
3409TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3410 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3411 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3412 helo verification defer as a failure.
3413
16f12c76
PH
3414PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3415 actual error message.
3416
bbe902f0 3417
e5a9dba6
PH
3418Exim version 4.52
3419-----------------
3420
3421TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3422
22c3b60b
PH
3423PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3424 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3425 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3426 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3427
06a9b4b5
PH
3428TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3429
c1ac6996
PH
3430PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3431 can still be requested.
3432
9c7a242c
PH
3433PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3434 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3435 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3436 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3437
87ba3f5f
PH
3438TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3439 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3440 circumstances, but probably never did.
3441
3442PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3443 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3444 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3445 in the header line.
3446
29aba418
TF
3447TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3448
fe0dab11
TF
3449TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3450 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3451
11d337a4
TK
3452TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3453
3454TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3455
415c8f3b
PH
3456PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3457 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3458 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3459 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3460 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3461 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3462
958541e9
PH
3463PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3464 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3465 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3466 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3467 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3468 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3469
c206415f
TK
3470TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3471 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3472
2a4be8f9
PH
3473PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3474 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3475
1cba11c5
SC
3476SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3477 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3478
3479SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3480
3481SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3482
3483SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3484
3485SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3486
3487SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3488
3489SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3490
1005d00e
TK
3491TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3492
3493TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3494 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3495 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3496
3497TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3498 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3499 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3500 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3501
9b4768fa
PH
3502PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3503 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3504 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3505
3506PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3507 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3508 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3509 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3510
0d7eb84a
PH
3511PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3512 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3513 to be made).
3514
3515PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3516 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3517 should work with maildirs and everything.
3518
40727bee
TK
3519TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3520 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3521
554d2369
TF
3522TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3523 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3524
1f922db1
PH
3525PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3526 function for BDB 4.3.
3527
ef213c3b
PH
3528PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3529
8ac170f3
PH
3530PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3531 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3532 involved.
3533
b1c749bb
PH
3534PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3535 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3536 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3537 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3538 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3539 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3540
4aac9b49
PH
3541PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3542 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3543 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3544 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3545 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3546 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3547 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3548 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3549
294520c8
TK
3550TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3551 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3552 details.
3553
5bd022fe
PH
3554PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3555 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3556
90e9ce59
PH
3557PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3558 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3559 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3560 test. It is now used for both.
3561
5ea81592
PH
3562PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3563 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3564 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3565 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3566 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3567 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3568
c6c2dc1d
PH
3569PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3570 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3571 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3572 string_vformat().
3573
fffffe4c
PH
3574PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3575 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3576 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3577
9a26b6b2
PH
3578PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3579 experimental DomainKeys support:
3580
3581 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3582 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3583 the control was given.
3584
3585 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3586
4aee0225
PH
3587PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3588
32d668a5
PH
3589PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3590
8187c3f3
PH
3591PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3592 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3593 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3594 db.h files).
3595
ff790e47 3596PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3597 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3598 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3599 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3600 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3601 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3602 course.
ff790e47 3603
5417f6d1
PH
3604PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3605 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3606 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3607 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3608 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3609 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3610
59cf8544
PH
3611PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3612 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3613 do -d+all out of habit.
3614
e7ad8a65
PH
3615PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3616 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3617 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3618
ade42478
PH
3619PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3620 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3621 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3622 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3623 record types that Exim uses.
3624
182ad5cf
PH
3625PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3626 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3627 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3628 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3629 non-existent file that was broken.
3630
b0d9fc80
TK
3631TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3632 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3633
3634TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3635 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3636 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3637
3638TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3639
47c7a64a
PH
3640PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3641 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3642 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3643 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3644 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3645 same time.
3646
a388bce4
SC
3647SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3648 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3649 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3650 at a slight CPU cost.
3651
3652SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3653 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3654
3655SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3656 by Marc Sherman.
3657
0793e4ed
SC
3658SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3659
c58b88df
PH
3660PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3661 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3662
e7ad8a65 3663
7982096b
PH
3664Exim version 4.51
3665-----------------
3666
1a46a8c5
PH
3667TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3668 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3669
2f079f46 3670TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3671
3672TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3673
3674PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3675 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3676
3677PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3678 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3679 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3680 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3681 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3682 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3683 file.
3684
3685PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3686 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3687 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3688 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3689 these two options.
3690
3691PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3692 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3693 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3694 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3695 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3696 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3697 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3698 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3699
3700PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3701 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3702
3703PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3704 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3705 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3706 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3707 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3708 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3709
3710PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3711 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3712 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3713 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3714
3715PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3716 Finch).
3717
3718PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3719 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3720
49c2d5ea
PH
3721PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3722 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3723 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3724 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3725 message.
49c2d5ea 3726
bf759a8b
PH
3727PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3728
83364d30
PH
3729PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3730 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3731
7999bbd7
PH
3732PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3733 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3734 to what was transported.)
3735
7dbf77c9
PH
3736TF/01 Added $received_time.
3737
74e0617f
PH
3738PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3739 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3740 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3741 spamd_address settings.
3742
2f079f46
PH
3743PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3744 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3745 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3746 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3747 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3748
8c841523
PH
3749PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3750
7766a4f0
PH
3751PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3752 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3753 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3754 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3755 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3756
8b417f2c
PH
3757PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3758 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3759
901f42cb
PH
3760PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3761 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3762 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3763 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3764 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3765 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3766 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3767 for failure.
3768
f9b9210e
PH
3769PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3770 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3771 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3772 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3773 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3774 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3775 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3776 "input=".
3777
54cdb463
PH
3778PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3779
cf00dad6
PH
3780PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3781 driver and ACL definitions.
3782
acb1b346
PH
3783PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3784 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3785
c5ddb310
PH
3786PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3787 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3788 understands it better than I do:
3789
3790 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3791 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3792
3793 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3794 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3795 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3796 => three warnings about OTP not working
3797 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3798
3799 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3800 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3801 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3802 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3803 for each call.)
3804 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3805 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3806
3807 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3808 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3809 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3810
31619da6
PH
3811PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3812 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3813 specified.
3814
bebaf0fc
PH
3815PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3816 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3817 "Linux".
3818
475fe28a
PH
3819PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3820 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3821 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3822
3823 warn !verify = sender
3824 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3825
3826 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3827 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3828
7e8bec7a
PH
3829PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3830
3831 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3832 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3833
3834 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3835 nomenclature these days.)
3836
e4a89c47
PH
3837PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3838 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3839
5ca2a9a1
PH
3840PH/30 In these circumstances:
3841 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3842 . First host does not offer TLS;
3843 . First host accepts first address;
3844 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3845 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3846 . Second host accepts second address.
3847 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3848 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3849 address.
7e8bec7a 3850
c688b954
PH
3851PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3852 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3853 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3854 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3855 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3856
fed77020
PH
3857PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3858 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3859
7fe1560f
PH
3860PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3861 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3862
ebb6e6d5
PH
3863PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3864 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3865 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3866
9c4e8f60
PH
3867PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3868 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3869 overlooked.
3870
3871PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3872
d7174846
PH
3873PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3874 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3875 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3876 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3877 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3878 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3879 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3880
3881 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3882 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3883 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3884 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3885 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3886
3887 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3888 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3889 routed further.
3890
cfe75fc3
PH
3891PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3892 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3893 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3894 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3895 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3896 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3897
be22d70e
PH
3898PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3899
0612b098
PH
3900PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3901 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3902 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3903 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3904 printable escape sequences.
3905
2e0c1448
PH
3906PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3907 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3908 body only.
3909
447d236c
PH
3910PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3911 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3912 are as follows:
3913
3914 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3915 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3916 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3917 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3918 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3919
3920 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3921 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3922 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3923
d20976dc
PH
3924PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3925
f656d135
PH
3926PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3927 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3928 play with."
3929
2e2a30b4
PH
3930PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3931 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3932 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3933 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3934 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3935 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3936 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3937 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3938 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3939 the log output.
3940
9176e9f0
PH
3941PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3942 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3943 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3944 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3945 "make".
3946
7982096b 3947
bbe902f0
PH
3948A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3949----------------------------------------
3950
3951Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3952changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3953needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3954in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3955that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3956release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3957from 4.43.
3958
3959I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
39604.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3961those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3962historical information.
3963
3964
f7b63901 3965Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3966-----------------
3967
5fe762f6
PH
3968 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3969
139059f6 3970 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3971 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3972
7086e875
PH
3973 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3974 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3975 place.
3976
35af9f61
PH
3977 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3978 filter fails to execute.
3979
b668c215
PH
3980 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3981 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3982 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3983 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3984 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3985
a494b1e1
PH
3986 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3987
3988 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3989 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3990 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3991 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3992
c5fcb476
PH
3993 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3994 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3995 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3996 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3997 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3998
69358f02
PH
3999 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4000
5be20824
PH
400110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4002
eb2c0248
PH
400311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4004 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4005 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4006 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4007
2a3eea10
PH
400812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4009 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4010 sender verification.
4011
401213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4013 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4014
23c7ff99
PH
401514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4016
4deaf07d
PH
401715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4018 connection timeout.
4019
926e1192
PH
402016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4021 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4022
650edc6f
PH
402317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4024 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4025
2c7db3f5
PH
402618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4027 information about exactly what failed.
4028
3d235903
PH
402919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4030
7c7ad977
PH
403120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4032 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4033 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4034
981756db
PH
403521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4036 It is now set to "smtps".
4037
d4eb88df
PH
403822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4039 ignore_target_hosts.
4040
404123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4042 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4043 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4044 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4045 "[x.x.x.x]".
4046
7d468ab8
PH
404724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4048 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4049 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4050
405125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4052 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4053 wake it up if nothing else does.
4054
62c0818f
PH
405526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4056 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4057 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4058 end up negative.
4059
26034054
PH
406027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4061 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4062
af66f652
PH
406328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4064
90af77f4
PH
406529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4066 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4067 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4068 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4069 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4070 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4071 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4072 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4073
d8ef3577
PH
407430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4075 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4076 than one IP address.
4077
5cb8cbc6
PH
407831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4079 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4080 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4081 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4082
14702f5b
PH
408332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4084 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4085 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4086 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4087 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4088 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4089
063b1e99
PH
409033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4091 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4092 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4093 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4094
652e1b65
PH
409534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4096 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4097 respected.
4098
6f0c9a4f
PH
409935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4100 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4101 $sender_host_address.
4102
33397d19
PH
410336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4104 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4105 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4106 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4107 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4108 very small.
4109
7bb56e1f
PH
411037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4111
4112 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4113 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4114
ea3bc19b
PH
4115 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4116 just the host names, not the priorities.
4117
4118 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4119 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4120 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4121
ea3bc19b 4122 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4123 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4124
0bcb2a0e
PH
412538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4126 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4127 domain.
4128
2ac0e484
PH
412939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4130
4e1fde53
PH
413140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4132 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4133
de365ded
PH
413441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4135 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4136 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4137
f05da2e8
PH
413842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4139
d6453af2
PH
414043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4141
f7b63901
PH
414244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4143
414445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4145 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4146 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4147 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4148 because the tests only now provoked it.
4149
a444213a
PH
415046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4151 (this can affect the format of dates).
4152
0ec020ea
PH
415347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4154 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4155 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4156 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4157
b1206957
PH
415848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4159
416049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4161 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4162 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4163 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4164
26dd5a95
PH
416550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4166 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4167 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4168
343b2385
PH
416951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4170 autoreply.
4171
1c5466b9
PH
417252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4173 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4174 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4175 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4176 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4177 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4178 is going on).
4179
55ee9ee3
PH
418053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4181 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4182 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4183 the line.
4184
d38f8232
PH
418554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4186 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4187 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4188
4189 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4190 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4191 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4192 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4193 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4194 so I produce this patch..."
4195
3295e65b
PH
4196 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4197 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4198 is not defined.
4199
7102e136
PH
420055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4201 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4202 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4203 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4204 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4205
3ca0ba97
PH
420656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4207
c2bcbe20
PH
420857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4209 long debug lines gets shown.
4210
18ce445d
PH
421158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4212 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4213
1f5b4c3d
PH
421459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4215
4216 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4217 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4218 of $primary_hostname.
4219
b975ba52
PH
422060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4221 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4222 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4223 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4224 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4225 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4226 by change 4.50/55 above.
4227
4228 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4229 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4230 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4231 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4232 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4233 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4234 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4235
423661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4237 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4238 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4239 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4240
17ffcae7
PH
424162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4242 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4243
d95f9fdb
PH
424463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4245 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4246 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4247 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4248 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4249
86b8287f
PH
425064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4251 This has been fixed.
4252
60dc5e56
PH
425365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4254 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4255 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4256 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4257 the caching.)
4258
533244af
PH
425966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4260
a5a28604
PH
426167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4262 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4263 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4264 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4265
7e634d24
PH
426668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4267 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4268
3e11c26b
PH
426969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4270 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4271 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4272
6729cf78
PH
427370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4274 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4275 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4276 message there.
4277
00f00ca5
PH
427871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4279 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4280 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4281
c9bdd01c
PH
428272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4283 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4284 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4285 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4286
d43194df
PH
428773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4288 during host lookups.
4289
fe5b5d0b
PH
429074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4291 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4292
4293 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4294
76a2d7ba
PH
429575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4296 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4297 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4298 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4299 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4300 background.
4301
430276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4303 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4304
04f7d5b9
PH
430577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4306 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4307 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4308
bc60667e
PH
430978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4310
bb6e88ff
PH
431179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4312 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4313 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4314 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4315 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4316 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4317 process earlier.
4318
1e70f85b
PH
431980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4320 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4321 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4322 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4323 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4324
432581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4326 tables).
4327
4e01f9d6
PH
432882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4329
1ee1cef2
PH
433083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4331 "vacation" handling.
4332
6e2b4ccc
PH
433384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4334 OS variants using glibc.
4335
8e669ac1
PH
433685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4337
495ae4b0 4338
bbe902f0
PH
4339----------------------------------------------------
4340See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4341----------------------------------------------------
4342
4343
4344Exim version 4.44
4345-----------------
4346
4347 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4348 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4349 transport
4350
4351 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4352 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4353 place.
4354
4355 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4356 filter fails to execute.
4357
4358 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4359 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4360 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4361 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4362 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4363
4364 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4365 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4366 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4367 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4368
4369 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4370 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4371 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4372 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4373 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4374
4375 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4376
4377 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4378 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4379 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4380 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4381
4382 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4383 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4384 sender verification.
4385
438610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4387 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4388
438911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4390 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4391
439212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4393 ignore_target_hosts.
4394
439513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4396 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4397 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4398 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4399 "[x.x.x.x]".
4400
440114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4402 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4403 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4404
440515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4406 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4407 wake it up if nothing else does.
4408
440916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4410 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4411 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4412 end up negative.
4413
441417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4415 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4416
ea3a6f44 441718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4418
441919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4420 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4421 empty pattern.
4422
442320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4424 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4425 one IP address.
4426
ea3a6f44
NM
442721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4428 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4429 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4430 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4431 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4432 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4433
ea3a6f44
NM
443422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4435 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4436 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4437
443823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4439 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4440 $sender_host_address.
4441
444224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4443
ea3a6f44
NM
444425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4445 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4446 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4447
444826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4449 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4450
ea3a6f44
NM
445127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4452 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4453
ea3a6f44
NM
445428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4455 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4456 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4457 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4458
445929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4460 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4461 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4462
ea3a6f44
NM
446330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4464 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4465 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4466 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4467
ea3a6f44
NM
446831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4469 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4470 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4471
ea3a6f44
NM
447231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4473 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4474
ea3a6f44
NM
447532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4476 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4477 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4478 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4479 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4480 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4481 is going on).
bbe902f0 4482
ea3a6f44
NM
448333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4484 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4485 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4486 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4487 CAN-2005-0021
4488
ea3a6f44
NM
448934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4490 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4491 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4492 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4493 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4494 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4495 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4496
4497 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4498 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4499 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4500 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4501 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4502 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4503 CAN-2005-0021
4504
ea3a6f44
NM
450535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4506 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4507 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4508 CAN-2005-0022
4509
ea3a6f44
NM
451036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4511 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4512 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4513 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4514 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4515
ea3a6f44
NM
451637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4517 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4518 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4519 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4520 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4521
ea3a6f44
NM
452238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4523 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4524 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4525 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4526 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4527
4528
495ae4b0
PH
4529Exim version 4.43
4530-----------------
4531
4532 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4533 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4534 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4535 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4536 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4537 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4538 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4539
4540 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4541 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4542 the delivery.
4543
4544 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4545
4546 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4547
4548 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4549 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4550 to local_scan().
4551
4552 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4553 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4554 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4555 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4556 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4557
4558 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4559 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4560
4561 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4562
4563 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4564
456510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4566 header_sender only.
4567
456811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4569 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4570
457112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4572 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4573 affecting debugging statements).
4574
457513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4576
457714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4578 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4579 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4580 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4581 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4582 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4583 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4584 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4585 after the received time, and all would be well.
4586
458715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4588 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4589 condition in an expansion string.
4590
459116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4592
459317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4594 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4595 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4596 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4597 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4598 job under whatever limits there are.
4599
460018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4601
460219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4603 space).
4604
460520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4606 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4607 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4608 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4609 return path is set.
4610
461121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4612 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4613 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4614 binary data in such strings.
4615
461622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4617
461823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4619 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4620 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4621 failure, which is pointless.
4622
462324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4624
462525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4626
462726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4628 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4629 Sender: header lines.
4630
463127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4632 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4633 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4634
463528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4636 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4637 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4638 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4639 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4640 happens.
4641
464229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4643 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4644 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4645 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4646 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4647
464830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4649 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4650 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4651 1024.
4652
465331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4654 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4655
465632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4657 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4658
465933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4660
466132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4662
466333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4664
466534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4666 syntax error.
4667
466835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4669
467036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4671
467237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4673 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4674 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4675 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4676
467738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4678 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4679
4680
4681Exim version 4.42
4682-----------------
4683
4684 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4685 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4686 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4687 it was not quoted.
4688 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4689 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4690 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4691 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4692 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4693 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4694
4695 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4696 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4697 verification failure".
4698
4699 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4700 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4701 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4702 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4703
4704 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4705 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4706 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4707 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4708 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4709 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4710 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4711 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4712 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4713 treated as a timeout.
4714
4715 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4716 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4717 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4718 not set for Exim filters).
4719
4720 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4721 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4722 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4723
4724 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4725
4726 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4727 try to make them clearer.
4728
4729 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4730 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4731
4732 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4733
4734 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4735
473610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4737 only the Cygwin environment.
4738
473911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4740 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4741 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4742 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4743 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4744
474512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4746 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4747 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4748 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4749 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4750 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4751 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4752
475313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4754 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4755
475614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4757
4758 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4759 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4760 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4761
4762 To: susanne@some.where
4763
4764 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4765 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4766 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4767 of addresses in From: header lines).
4768
4769 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4770 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4771 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4772
4773 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4774 treated as non-personal.
4775
4776 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4777 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4778
477915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4780
478116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4782
478317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4784 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4785 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4786
478718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4788 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4789
479019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4791 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4792 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4793 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4794 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4795 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4796
479720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4798 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4799 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4800 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4801 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4802 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4803 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4804 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4805
4806 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4807
480821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4809 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4810
481122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4812 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4813 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4814
481523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4816 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4817
481824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4819 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4820 rather than long int.
4821
482225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4823
482426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4825
4826
4827Exim version 4.41
4828-----------------
4829
4830 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4831 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4832 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4833 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4834 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4835 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4836
4837
4838Exim version 4.40
4839-----------------
4840
4841 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4842 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4843
4844 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4845 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4846 socklen_t is defined.
4847
4848 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4849 always exist.
4850
4851 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4852 configured.
4853
4854 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4855 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4856 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4857 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4858 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4859
4860 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4861 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4862 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4863 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4864
4865 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4866 of flapping under certain conditions.
4867
4868 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4869 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4870 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4871
4872 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4873
487410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4875
487611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4877 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4878 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4879 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4880
488112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4882 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4883 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4884 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4885 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4886 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4887 preserved with the message after it was received.
4888
488913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4890 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4891 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4892 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4893 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4894 test suite worked just fine.
4895
489614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4897 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4898 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4899
490015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4901 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4902 string.
4903
490416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4905 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4906 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4907 does not fully solve it.
4908
490917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4910 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4911 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4912 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4913 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4914
491518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4916 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4917 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4918
491919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4920 string, for example:
4921
4922 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4923
4924 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4925 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4926 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4927 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4928 the routers could not see them.
4929
493020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4931 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4932
493321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4934 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4935 output).
4936
493722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4938 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4939 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4940 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4941 that needed quoting.
4942
494323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4944 was not being matched caselessly.
4945
494624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4947 backslashes.
4948
494925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4950 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4951 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4952 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4953 when use_sender is false.
4954
495526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4956
495727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4958
495928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4960
496129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4962 the configuration file.
4963
496430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4965 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4966
496731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4968
496932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4970 bytes in the message body.
4971
497233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4973 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4974 delivery.
4975
497634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4977
497835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4979
498036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4981 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4982 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4983 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4984 another IP address.
4985
4986
4987Exim version 4.34
4988-----------------
4989
4990 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4991 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4992
4993 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4994 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4995 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4996 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4997 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4998
4999 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5000 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5001
5002 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5003 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5004 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5005
5006 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5007 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5008 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5009
5010 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5011 for routers.
5012
5013 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5014 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5015 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5016 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5017 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5018 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5019 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5020
5021
5022Exim version 4.33
5023-----------------
5024
5025 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5026 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5027 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5028 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5029 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5030 default (and expected) setting.
5031
5032 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5033 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5034 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5035 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5036
5037 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5038 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5039
5040 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5041 in domain lists.
5042
5043 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5044 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5045 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5046 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5047 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5048 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5049
5050 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5051 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5052 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5053
5054 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5055 part (NOT match_host).
5056
5057 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5058
5059 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5060 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5061 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5062 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5063 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5064 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5065 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5066 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5067 the same named file.
5068
506910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5070 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5071 when Exim is built.
5072
507311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5074 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5075 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5076 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5077 a host name.
5078
507912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5080 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5081 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5082
508313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5084
508514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5086
508715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5088
508916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5090 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5091
509217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5093 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5094 before starting the TLS session.
5095
509618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5097
509819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5099 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5100
510120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5102 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5103 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5104 colon in the middle).
5105
5106
5107Exim version 4.32
5108-----------------
5109
5110 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5111 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5112 multiple configurations are in use.
5113
5114 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5115 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5116 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5117 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5118 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5119 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5120
5121 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5122 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5123
5124 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5125 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5126 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5127
5128 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5129 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5130 occurs.
5131
5132 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5133 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5134
5135 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5136
5137 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5138 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5139
5140 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5141
5142 -prval:sval
5143
5144 is equivalent to
5145
5146 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5147
5148 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5149 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5150 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5151 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5152 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5153
515410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5155 Exim's behaviour:
5156
5157 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5158 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5159 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5160 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5161 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5162 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5163
5164 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5165 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5166 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5167 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5168 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5169 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5170 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5171 string.
5172
5173 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5174 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5175 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5176 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5177 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5178
517911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5180
518112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5182 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5183 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5184
518513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5186
518714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5188 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5189 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5190 information.
5191
519215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5193 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5194
519516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5196 Three changes have been made:
5197
5198 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5199 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5200 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5201 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5202 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5203
5204 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5205 been restored.
5206
5207 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5208 the modified behaviour.
5209
5210
5211Exim version 4.31
5212-----------------
5213
5214 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5215 Larry Rosenman.
5216
5217 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5218 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5219
5220 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5221 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5222 try to track down a specific problem.
5223
5224 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5225 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5226 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5227
5228 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5229 warning.
5230
5231 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5232 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5233 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5234 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5235 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5236 some earlier ones do not.
5237
5238 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5239
5240 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5241 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5242 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5243 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5244 address literals are enabled, of course).
5245
5246 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5247
524810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5249 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5250 by a command such as
5251
5252 exim -f "" ...
5253
5254 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5255
525611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5257
525812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5259 remained set. It is now erased.
5260
526113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5262 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5263
526414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5265 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5266 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5267 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5268 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5269 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5270 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5271 appropriate error code.
5272
527315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5274 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5275 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5276 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5277 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5278 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5279
528016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5281 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5282 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5283
528417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5285 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5286 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5287 terminate the header.
5288
528918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5290 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5291 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5292
529319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5294 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5295 (4.30/29). In particular:
5296
5297 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5298 imposed.
5299
5300 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5301 to write a maildirsize file.
5302
5303 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5304 the transport, the new value overrides.
5305
5306 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5307 count.
5308
530920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5310 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5311 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5312 space or a tab.
5313
531421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5315 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5316 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5317 the fallback hosts.
5318
531922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5320 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5321 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5322
532323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5324 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5325 using a union.
5326
532724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5328 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5329 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5330
533125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5332
533326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5334
533527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5336
533728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5338 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5339 become corrupted.
5340
534129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5342 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5343 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5344 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5345 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5346 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5347 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5348 too great.
5349
535030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5351 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5352 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5353 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5354 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5355 incorrectly.
5356
535731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5358 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5359 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5360 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5361 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5362 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5363 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5364 cached value only when the same options are set.
5365
536632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5367
536833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5369 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5370 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5371 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5372 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5373
537434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5375 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5376 it is clearly obsolete.
5377
537835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5379 transport.
5380
538136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5382 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5383 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5384 times.
5385
538637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5387 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5388 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5389 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5390 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5391
539238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5393 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5394 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5395 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5396
539739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5398
5399 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5400
5401 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5402 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5403 2^31.
5404
540540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5406 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5407 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5408 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5409 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5410 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5411 $localpart_data.
5412
541341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5414 with the -f command-line option.
5415
541642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5417 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5418 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5419 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5420 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5421 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5422
542343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5424 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5425 line.
5426
542744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5428 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5429 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5430 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5431 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5432 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5433 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5434 buffer is too small.
5435
543645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5437 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5438
543946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5440 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5441 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5442 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5443 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5444 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5445 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5446 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5447 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5448
544947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5450 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5451 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5452
545348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5454 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5455 ACL").
5456
545749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5458 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5459 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5460 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5461 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5462
546350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5464 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5465 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5466 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5467 is set.
5468
546951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5470
547152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5472
547353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5474 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5475
547654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5477 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5478 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5479
548055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5481 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5482 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5483 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5484 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5485
548656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5487 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5488 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5489 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5490 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5491 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5492 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5493
549457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5495 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5496 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5497 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5498 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5499 the test of how many are available.
5500
550158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5502 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5503 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5504 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5505 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5506 new message is started.
5507
550859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5509 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5510
551160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5512 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5513
551461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5515 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5516 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5517 is no long logged.
5518
551962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5520 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5521 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5522 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5523 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5524 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5525 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5526
552763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5528 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5529 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5530 interpreted as octal.
5531
553264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5533 setting.
5534
553565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5536 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5537 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5538 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5539 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5540 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5541
554266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5543 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5544 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5545 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5546
5547 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5548 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5549 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5550 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5551
5552 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5553 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5554 is a bug fix.
5555
5556 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5557 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5558
555967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5560
556168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5562 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5563 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5564 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5565
556669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5567 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5568 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5569 supplied", which is not helpful.
5570
557170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5572 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5573 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5574
557571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5576 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5577 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5578 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5579 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5580 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5581 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5582 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5583
558472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5585 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5586 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5587 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5588 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5589
559073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5591 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5592 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5593 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5594 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5595 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5596
559774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5598 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5599 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5600
560175. Added write_rejectlog option.
5602
560376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5604 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5605 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5606 variables.
5607
560877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5609
561078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5611 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5612 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5613 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5614 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5615 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5616 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5617 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5618
561979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5620 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5621 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5622 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5623 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5624
562580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5626 Haardt.
5627
562881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5629 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5630 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5631 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5632 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5633 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5634 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5635 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5636 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5637
5638
5639Exim version 4.30
5640-----------------
5641
5642 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5643 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5644 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5645
5646 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5647 fixed.
5648
5649 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5650 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5651 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5652
5653 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5654 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5655 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5656 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5657 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5658 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5659
5660 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5661 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5662 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5663 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5664 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5665 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5666 the Exim test suite.
5667
5668 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5669 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5670 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5671 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5672
5673 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5674 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5675 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5676 specify it in this variable.
5677
5678 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5679 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5680 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5681 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5682
5683 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5684 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5685 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5686 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5687
5688 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5689 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5690 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5691 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5692 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5693
5694 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5695
569610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5697 they are logged.
5698
569911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5700 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5701 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5702 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5703 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5704
570512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5706 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5707
570813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5709 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5710 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5711 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5712 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5713
571414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5715 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5716
571715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5718 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5719 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5720
572116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5722 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5723
572417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5725 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5726
572718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5728 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5729 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5730
573119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5732 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5733
573420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5735 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5736 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5737 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5738
573921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5740
574122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5742 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5743 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5744 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5745
574623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5747
574824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5749 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5750
575125. Added .include_if_exists.
5752
575326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5754 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5755 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5756 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5757 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5758 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5759
576027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5761
576228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5763 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5764 this.
5765
576629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5767
576830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5769 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5770
5771 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5772 550 Sender verify failed
5773
5774 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5775 the final line of the response.
5776
577731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5778 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5779 all other user lookups.
5780
578132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5782 delivery time.
5783
578433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5785 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5786 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5787 result into an int without checking.
5788
578934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5790 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5791 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5792
579335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5794 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5795 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5796 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5797
579836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5799 correctly.
5800
580137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5802 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5803
580438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5805 to the empty sender.
5806
580739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5808 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5809 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5810 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5811 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5812 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5813 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5814 panic log.
5815
581640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5817 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5818 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5819 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5820 used.
5821
582241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5823 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5824
582542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5826 timestamps.
5827
582843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5829 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5830
583144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5832
583345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5834 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5835 logs.
5836
583746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5838 as soon as it is encountered.
5839
584047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5841
584248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5843 rewritten to "<>".
5844
584549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5846 recognizes a tab character.
5847
584850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5849 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5850 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5851 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5852
585351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5854
585552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5856 crash.
5857
585853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5859
586054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5861
586255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5863 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5864 2822.
5865
586656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5867 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5868 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5869 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5870 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5871
587257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5873 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5874
587558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5876 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5877 list (.included file names were always shown).
5878
587959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5880 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5881 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5882 root at that time.
5883
588460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5885 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5886
588761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5888
588962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5890
589163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5892
589364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5894 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5895 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5896 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5897 failures to open the logs.
5898
589965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5900 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5901 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5902 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5903 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5904 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5905 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5906
5907
5908Exim version 4.24
5909-----------------
5910
5911 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5912 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5913 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5914 change 4.23/1.
5915
5916 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5917 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5918 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5919
5920 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5921 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5922 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5923
5924 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5925 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5926 causing some misleading effects.
5927
5928 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5929 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5930 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5931
5932 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5933 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5934 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5935 queue-runner function directly.
5936
5937
5938Exim version 4.23
5939-----------------
5940
5941 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5942 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5943
5944 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5945 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5946 was always written to the default place.
5947
5948 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5949 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5950 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5951
5952 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5953
5954 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5955
5956 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5957 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5958 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5959
5960 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5961 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5962 must start.
5963
5964 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5965 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5966 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5967
5968 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5969 command line option is disabled.
5970
5971 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5972 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5973
5974 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5975
5976 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5977
5978 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5979 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5980
598110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5982
598311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5984 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5985 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5986 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5987 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5988 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5989
599012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5991 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5992 timeout.
5993
599413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5995 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5996
599714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5998 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5999
600015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6001 received was valid base64.
6002
600316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6004 name of the variable that was being set.
6005
600617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6007
600818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6009 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6010 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6011 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6012 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6013 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6014
601519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6016
601720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6018 nor realm was specified.
6019
602021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6021 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6022 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6023 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6024
602522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6026 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6027 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6028
602923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6030 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6031 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6032
603324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6034 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6035 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6036 some systems use these upper case variants.
6037
603825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6039 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6040 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6041 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6042
604326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6044
604527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6046 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6047
604828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6049 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6050 expansion variable.
6051
605229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6053
605430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6055 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6056 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6057 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6058
605931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6060 using it.
6061
606232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6063 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6064 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6065
606633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6067 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6068
606934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6070 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6071 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6072 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6073
607435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6075 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6076 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6077
607836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6079
608037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6081 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6082 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6083 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6084 aborted.
6085
608638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6087 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6088 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6089
609039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6091
609240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6093 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6094
609541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6096 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6097
609842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6099 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6100 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6101 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6102 when emails are that large.
6103
6104
6105
6106Exim version 4.22
6107-----------------
6108
6109 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6110 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6111
6112 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6113 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6114 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6115
6116 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6117 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6118 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6119
6120 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6121 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6122 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6123 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6124 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6125
6126 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6127 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6128 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6129 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6130 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6131 ever.
6132
6133 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6134 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6135 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6136 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6137 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6138 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6139 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6140 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6141 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6142 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6143 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6144 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6145 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6146 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6147
6148 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6149 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6150 parameterised it.
6151
6152 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6153 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6154 error should be diagnosed.
6155
6156 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6157 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6158 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6159 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6160 appeared instead of "NULL".
6161
616210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6163 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6164 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6165 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6166 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6167 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6168 proceeds).
6169
6170 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6171 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6172 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6173
6174
6175Exim version 4.21
6176-----------------
6177
6178 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6179 or receiver verification errors.
6180
6181 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6182 name.
6183
6184 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6185 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6186 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6187 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6188
6189 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6190 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6191 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6192 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6193 shouldn't happen again.
6194
6195 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6196 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6197 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6198
6199 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6200 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6201
6202 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6203
6204 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6205 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6206
6207 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6208 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6209 RFC.
6210
621110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6212 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6213 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6214
621511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6216 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6217 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6218 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6219
622012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6221 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6222 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6223 to define what should happen).
6224
622513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6226 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6227 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6228
622914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6230
623115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6232
623316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6234 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6235
623617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6237 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6238 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6239 structure in all cases.
6240
6241 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6242 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6243 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6244 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6245
624618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6247 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6248 domain name.
6249
625019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6251 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6252
625320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6254 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6255
625621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6257 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6258 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6259
626022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6261 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6262 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6263
626423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6265 the book and for uniformity.
6266
626724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6268
626925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6270 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6271 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6272 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6273 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6274 non-existent command as the problem.
6275
627626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6277 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6278 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6279
628027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6281
628228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6283 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6284 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6285
628629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6287 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6288 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6289 timestamps using strftime().
6290
629130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6292 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6293
629432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6295 transport-time rewrites.
6296
629733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6298 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6299 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6300 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6301
630234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6303 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6304
630535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6306 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6307 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6308 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6309 comma and a space.
6310
631136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6312 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6313 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6314 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6315 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6316 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6317 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6318
631937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6320 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6321 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6322 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6323 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6324
632538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6326 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6327 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6328 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6329 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6330 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6331 remaining text gets split now.
6332
633339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6334 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6335 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6336 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6337
633840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6339 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6340 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6341 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6342 $return_path.
6343
634441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6345 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6346 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6347 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6348 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6349 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6350 passed through if needed.
6351
635242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6353 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6354 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6355 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6356 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6357 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6358
635943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6360 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6361 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6362 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6363 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6364
636544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6366 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6367 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6368 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6369 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6370
637145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6372 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6373 noticed.
6374
637546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6376 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6377 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6378 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6379 mayhem of various kinds.
6380
638147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6382 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6383 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6384 the right test for positive values.
6385
638648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6387 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6388 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6389 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6390 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6391 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6392 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6393 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6394 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6395 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6396 envelope.
6397
639849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6399 module.
6400
640150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6402 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6403 forbidding it.
6404
640551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6406 the existing equality matching.
6407
640852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6409 dealing with inode numbers.
6410
641153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6412 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6413 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6414
641554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6416 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6417 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6418 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6419 local_scan().
6420
642155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6422 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6423 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6424 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6425 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6426 relay addresses has also been removed.
6427
642856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6429
643057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6431 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6432 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6433
643458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6435 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6436 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6437 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6438 processing applies to CR:
6439
6440 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6441 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6442
6443 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6444 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6445 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6446 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6447
644859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6449 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6450 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6451
645260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6453 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6454 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6455 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6456 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6457 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6458 arisen.
6459
646061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6461 program routers.
6462
646362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6464 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6465 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6466 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6467 adds:
6468
6469 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6470
6471 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6472
6473 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6474
647563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6476 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6477 not considered personal.
6478
647964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6480
648165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6482
648366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6484
648567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6486 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6487 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6488 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6489 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6490 header lines, and spool format errors.
6491
649268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6493 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6494 for more flexibility.
6495
649669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6497 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6498 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6499
650070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6501 Sabourenkov.
6502
650371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6504 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6505 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6506 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6507 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6508 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6509 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6510 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6511 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6512
651372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6514 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6515 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6516 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6517 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6518 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6519 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6520
652173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6522 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6523 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6524
652574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6526 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6527 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6528 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6529 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6530 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6531 instead of killing the process with assert().
6532
653375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6534 than Unicode encoding.
6535
653676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6537 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6538 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6539 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6540
654177. Added process_log_path.
6542
654378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6544 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6545
654679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6547 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6548
654980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6550 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6551 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6552
655381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6554 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6555 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6556 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6557 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6558 were applied:
6559
6560 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6561 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6562 as invalid.
6563
656482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6565 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6566 they will be used during message reception.
6567
6568
6569Exim version 4.20
6570-----------------
6571
6572The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6573
6574****