Make dnssec_request_domains/dnssec_require_domains generic
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
8 expanded.
9
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10JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
11
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12JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
13 it.
14
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15JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
16 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostname
17 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
18 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
19
cb1d7830 20JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 21 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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22 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
23
610ff438 24JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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25 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
26 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
27 TLS connections
610ff438 28
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29JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
30 sites use this now.
31
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32JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
33 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
34 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
35 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
36 have a dsn_lasthop option.
37
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38JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
39 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 40 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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42JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
43
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44JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
45 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
46
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47JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
48 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
49
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50JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
51 /defer_ok option.
52
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53JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
54 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
55
fd4d8871 56JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 57 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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58 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
59
60JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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61 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
62 specify a port-range.
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64JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
65 timeout value per server.
66
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67JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
68 now have the list separator specified.
69
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70JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
71 option values.
72
82c0c8ea 73JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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74 under OpenSSL.
75
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76JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
77
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78JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
79 rather than the verbs used.
80
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81JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
82 from 255 to 1024 chars.
83
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84JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
85
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86HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
87 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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92TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
93 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
94 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
95 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
96 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
97 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
98 the script parsing/test process like normal.
99
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100TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
101 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
102 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
103 function when detected.
104
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105JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
106 cause callback expansion.
107
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108TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
109 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
110 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
111 instead of bool when processing it.
112
0f06b4f2 113JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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114 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
115
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116JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
117
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118JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
119
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120TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
121
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122TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
123 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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125JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
126 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
127 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
128 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
129 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
130 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
131
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132JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
133 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
134 exceeded it.
135
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136JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
137 version 3.3.6 or later.
138
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139JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
140 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
141 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 142 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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143 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
144 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
145 option is defined.
774ef2d7 146
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147TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
148 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
149
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150JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
151 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
152 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
153 matches.
154
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155JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
156 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
157 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
158
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159JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
160 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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161
162JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
163 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
164 syntax errors.
165
3394b36a 166JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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167
168JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
169 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
170
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171TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
172 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
173 tarball.
174
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175JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
176
177JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
178 Bug 1561.
179
180JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
181 output list separator was used.
182
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186TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
187 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
188 return.
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190JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
191 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
192
193JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
194
195TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 196 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 197
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201
202TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
203
204 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
205 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
206 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
207 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
208 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
209 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
210
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211TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
212 utilities have not been installed.
213
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214JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
215 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
216
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217TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
218 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
219
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220TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
221 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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222 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
223 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 224
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225JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
226
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227TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
228 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
229
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230PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
231 not dns_use_dnssec.
232
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233JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
234
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235TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
236 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
237 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
238
8ddef691 239TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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240 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
241 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
242 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
243 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 244 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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246JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
247
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248JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
249 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
250
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251JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
252 failed delivery.
253
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254JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
255
511a6c14 256JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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257
258JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
259 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 260
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261JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
262 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
263
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264TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
265
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266JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
267
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268JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
269 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
270
271 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
272 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
273 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
274
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275TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
276 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
277 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
278 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 279
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280JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
281
8c51eead 282JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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283 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
284 lookup).
8c51eead 285
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286TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
287 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
288 Schlichting.
35aba663 289
fd3b6a4a 290JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 291 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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293TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
294 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
295
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296JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
297
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298TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
299 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
300 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
301
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302JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
303 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
304
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305JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
306 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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307 hosts_request_ocsp.
308
ed3bba5f 309JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 310 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 311 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 312
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313JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
314
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315TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
316 Christian Aistleitner.
317
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318JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
319
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320TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
321 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
322
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323JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
324 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
325
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326JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
327 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
328
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329TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
330 support and error reporting did not work properly.
331
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332TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
333 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
334
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335TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
336 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
337 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
338
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339JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
340
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341PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
342 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
343 Jasper Wallace.
344
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345JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
346
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347TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
348 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
349 CVE-2014-2972
350
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354
355PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
356
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357PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
358 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
359
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360PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
361 by GnuTLS.
362
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363PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
364 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
365 routines.
366
13363eba 367PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 368
66645890 369PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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370 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
371 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
372 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
373 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 374
a3fb9793 375PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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376 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
377 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
378 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 379 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 380 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 381
d27f98fe 382TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 383
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384TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
385
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386TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
387 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
388
ae0e32ee 389TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 390 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 391 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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393TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 394
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395TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
396
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397TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
398 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
399
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400JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
401
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402JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
403
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404PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
405
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406NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
407 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
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585121e2 409JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 410
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411PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
412 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
413 function.
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415PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
416 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
417
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418JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
419 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
420 "acl = name arg..."
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422JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
423
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424JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
425
ea722490 426JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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427 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
428
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429JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
430 Bugzilla 884.
431
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432JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
433 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
434
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435JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
436 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
437
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438PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
439 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 440 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 441
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442JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
443 authenticators.
444
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445JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
446 for control.
447
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448PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
449
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450PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
451 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
452 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
453 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
454
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455TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
456
457 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
458 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
459 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
460 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
461 the retry rules.
462
463 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
464 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
465 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
466
467 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
468 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
469 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
470 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
471
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472 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
473 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
474 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
475 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
476 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
477 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
478 delivery, as in LMTP.
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479
480 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
481 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
482
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483TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
484
485 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
486
487 Resent-From: f
488
489 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
490 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
491 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
492 username as equal to the username.
493
494 This change corrects that bug.
495
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496GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
497 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
498 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
499
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500TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
501
14c7b357
PP
502PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
503 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
504 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
505 NULL dereference and crash.
506
94eaf700
PP
507JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
508
6f5a440a
PP
509PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
510 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
511 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
512
514ee161
SC
513SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
514
fd98a5c6
JH
515JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
516 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
517 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
518 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
519 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
520 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
521 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
522 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
523 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
524 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
525 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
526
035c7f1e
PP
527PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
528 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
529
ff284120
PP
530PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
531 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
532 Bugzilla 880.
533
26e72755
PP
534PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
535 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
536 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
537 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
538 an empty string is now equivalent.
539
0fbd9bff
PP
540PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
541 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
542 not performing validation itself.
543
700d22f3
PP
544PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
545 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
546
fcc8e047
JH
547JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
548 Bugzilla 321, 823.
549
7142daca
PP
550TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
551
8c020188
PP
552PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
553 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
554 other false fix of the same issue.
555 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
556 Bugzilla 1363.
557
d13cdd30
PP
558PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
559 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
560
e2fbf4a2
PP
561PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
562 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
563 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
564
f4c1088b
PP
565PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
566 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
567 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
568
c5c2182f
PP
569TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
570
73431ca9
JH
571JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
572
2d07a215
TL
573TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
574 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
575
a30a8861
TL
576TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
577 Alexander Miroch.
578
33382dd9
TL
579TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
580 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
581 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
582 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
583 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 584
046172e6
TL
585TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
586 the src/util/ subdirectory.
587
581d7bee 588TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 589 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
590 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
591
592TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
593 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
594 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
595 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
596
237b2cf2
TL
597TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
598
9fc5a352
TL
599TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
600 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
601 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 602
b10e4ec2
TL
603TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
604
e2cebd74
TL
605TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
606 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
607 interaction.
608
609TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
610 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
611
2519e60d
TL
612TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
613 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
614
e78e6ecf 615
4263f395
PP
616Exim version 4.80.1
617-------------------
618
619PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
620 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 621 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 622
ea722490 623
b1770b6e 624Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
625-----------------
626
627PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
628 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
629 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
630
23c7e742
NM
631NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
632
b322aac8
NM
633NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
634 improved.
635
4a891427
NM
636NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
637
c1e794ba 638PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 639
97753960
PP
640PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
641
642PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
643 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
644
df6303fa
PP
645PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
646 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
647
7e6a8985
PP
648PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
649 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
650
f1e05cc7 651PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
652 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
653 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 654
4c287009
PP
655PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
656
b98bb9ac
PP
657PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
658 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
659
4a6a987a
PP
660PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
661
c45dd180 662PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 663
7db8d074
PP
664PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
665 non-compliant senders.
666 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
667
eae0036b 668NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
669 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
670 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
671
dec5017e
PP
672PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
673 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
674 in spool file corruption.
675
c80c5570
PP
676PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
677 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
678 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
679 "Got SSL error 2".
680
076b11e2
PP
681TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
682 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
683 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
684
5407bfff
JH
685JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
686 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
687
9e45c72b
PP
688JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
689
e74376d8
PP
690PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
691 diagnostics.
692 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
693
da3ad30d
PP
694PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
695 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
696 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
697
7be682ca
PP
698PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
699 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
700 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
701 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 702
ef840681
PP
703PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
704 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
705
5bfb4cdf
PP
706PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
707 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
708 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
709 resolver implementation change.
710
c6e95d22
PP
711PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
712 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
713
9cbad13b
PP
714PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
715
9ee44efb
PP
716PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
717
6a6084f8
PP
718PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
719 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
720
12dd53c7
PP
721PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
722 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
723
9e45c72b 724JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
725 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
726
17c76198
PP
727PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
728 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
729 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
730 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 731 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 732
53947857 733PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 734
eae0036b 735PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
736 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
737 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 738
9e45c72b 739JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 740
7390e768
PP
741PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
742 read-only, out of scope).
743 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
744
08488c86
PP
745PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
746 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
747 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
748 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
749
6475bd82
PP
750PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
751
81f91683
PP
752PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
753 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
754 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
755 real issues in debug logging.
756
5779e6aa
PP
757PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
758 assignment on my part. Fixed.
759
3375e053
PP
760PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
761 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
762 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
763
764PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
765 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
766 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
767 problems.
3375e053 768
9d26b8c0
PP
769PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
770 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
771
57eb9e91 772PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
773 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
774 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
775 needs to override this, it can.
776
16880d1a
PP
777PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
778 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
779 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
780
a799883d
PP
781PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
782 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
783 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
784 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
785
3ecab157 786PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 787
0599f9cf 788
867fcbf5
PP
789Exim version 4.77
790-----------------
791
792PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
793 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
794
f1a29782
TF
795TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
796
ab42bd23
TK
797TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
798 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 799
0ca0cf52
TF
800TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
801 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
802
921b12ca
TF
803TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
804 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
805 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
806
807 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
808 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
809 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
810 not safe for signals.
811
812 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
813 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
814 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
815 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
816 exiwhat.
817
c99ce5c9
TF
818TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
819
820 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
821 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
822 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
823 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
824 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
825
826 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
827 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
828 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
829 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
830 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
831 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
832
833 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
834 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
835 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
836 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
837
838 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
839 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
840 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
841 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
842
843 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
844 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
845 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
846 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
847 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
848 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
849 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
850 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
851 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
852
853 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
854 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
855 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
856 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
857
858 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
859 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
860 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
861 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
862 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
863 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
864 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
865 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
866 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
867 details in the main documentation.
868
3634fc25
TF
869TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
870
792e8a19
TF
871TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
872
5901f0ab
TF
873TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
874 repository when doing development or release builds.
875
7f2a2a43
PP
876PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
877 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 878
061b7ebd
PP
879PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
880 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
881 Bugzilla 97.
882
e12f8c32
PP
883PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
884
9e949f00 885PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
886 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
887
888PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
889 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 890
555ae6af 891PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
892 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
893
894PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
895 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 896
6f7fe114
PP
897PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
898 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
899
c566dd90
PP
900PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
901 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
902 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
903 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 904
d6cc7c78 905PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
906 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
907 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
908
0d0e4455
PP
909PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
910
3399bb60 911PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
912
913PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
914 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
915
0ca0cf52 916
10906672
PP
917Exim version 4.76
918-----------------
919
920PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
921
754a0503
PP
922PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
923 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
924
c0c7b2da
PP
925PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
926
e97d1f08
PP
927PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
928
084c1d8c
PP
929PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
930 Bugzilla 1098.
931
4e7ee012
PP
932PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
933 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 934
c8d52a00
PP
935TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
936 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
937
54e7ce4a
PP
938PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
939 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
940
5ee6f336
PP
941PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
942 Bugzilla 1104.
943
c8d52a00 944TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
945 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
946
947TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
948 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
949 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
950 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
951
952PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
953 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 954
10906672 955
aa097c4c
NM
956Exim version 4.75
957-----------------
958
4c9ef03a 959NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
960 Bugzilla 1073
961
7f3d9eff
TF
962TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
963 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
964 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
965
159f52d2
TF
966TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
967 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
968
0cc9542a
PP
969PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
970 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
971 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
972
f7274286
PP
973PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
974 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
975
7b797365
PP
976PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
977 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
978
caacae52
NM
979NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
980 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
981
09dcaba9
NM
982NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
983 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
984
bc19a55b
PP
985PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
986 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 987
bd4c9759
NM
988NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
989 Fixes bug 943.
990
b72aab72
PP
991PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
992 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
993
2fe76745
PP
994PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
995 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
996
76aa570c
PP
997PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
998 SQL string expansion failure details.
999 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1000
f1e5fef5
PP
1001PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1002 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1003
4d805ee9
PP
1004PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1005 extern declarations in function scope.
1006 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1007
cd59ab18
PP
1008PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1009 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1010 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1011 a kernel bug).
1012
332f5cf3
PP
1013PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1014 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1015
29cfeb94
PP
1016PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1017 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1018
660242ad
PP
1019PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1020 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1021
bc4bc4c5
PP
1022PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1023 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1024
2e64baa9
NM
1025NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1026 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1027 Dennis Davis.
1028
bddd7526
PP
1029PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1030
6bac1a9a
PP
1031PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1032
552193f0
NM
1033NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1034 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1035
1b587e48
TF
1036TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1037 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1038
aa097c4c 1039
8c07b69f
TF
1040Exim version 4.74
1041-----------------
1042
1043TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1044 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1045
c0ea85ab
TF
1046TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1047 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1048
0761d44e
TF
1049TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1050
0a349494
PP
1051DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1052 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1053 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1054
1055PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1056 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1057 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1058
fea24b2e
PP
1059PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1060 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1061 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1062 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1063
6545de78
PP
1064PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1065 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1066 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1067 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1068
1670ef10
PP
1069PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1070 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1071 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1072 arbitrary files.
1073
c0886197
PP
1074PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1075 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1076
b7487bce
PP
1077PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1078 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1079 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1080 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1081 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1082
8c07b69f 1083
97fd1e48 1084Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1085-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1086
1087PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1088 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1089 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1090
6901c596
PP
1091PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1092 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1093
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1094JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1095
77bb000f
PP
1096PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1097
a29e5231
PP
1098PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1099
ec5a0394 1100PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1101
55c75993
PP
1102PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1103
453a6645 1104PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1105 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1106 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1107 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1108
8544e77a
PP
1109PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1110 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1111 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1112 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1113 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1114
83e029d5
PP
1115PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1116
ed7f7860
PP
1117PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1118
7d9f747b
PP
1119PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1120
4b2241d2
PP
1121PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1122
10385c15
PP
1123PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1124
dbc4b90d
PP
1125PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1126
532be449
PP
1127PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1128
6a8de854 1129PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1130 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1131 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1132
5dc43717
JJ
1133JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1134
1135JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1136 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1137
3346ab01
PP
1138PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1139 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1140
491fab4c
PP
1141PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1142 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1143 Notification from John Horne.
1144
13eb9497
PP
1145PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1146 compatible.
1147
1148PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1149 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1150 it normally works.
1151
7f36d675
DW
1152DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1153 access.
1154
c1d94452
DW
1155DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1156 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1157 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1158
e2f5dc15
DW
1159DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1160 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1161 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1162 configuration file.
1163
cd25e41d
DW
1164DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1165 option (effectively making it always true).
1166
261dc43e
DW
1167DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1168 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1169
fa32850b
DW
1170DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1171 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1172
79d4bc3d
PP
1173PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1174 run-time user, instead of root.
1175
43236f35 1176PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1177 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1178
fb08281f
DW
1179DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1180 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1181 arguments.
3346ab01 1182
74935b98
DW
1183DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1184 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1185 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1186
90b6341f
DW
1187DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1188
57730b52
ML
1189NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1190
66581d1e 1191
465e92cf
JJ
1192Exim version 4.72
1193-----------------
1194
453a6645
PP
1195JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1196 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1197 typos
465e92cf 1198
453a6645
PP
1199JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1200 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1201 (Finput)
edae0343 1202
9bd3e22c
NM
1203NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1204 Patch from Alain Williams
1205
bb576ff7
NM
1206NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1207
5a1a5845
NM
1208NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1209 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1210
981a9fad
NM
1211NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1212 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1213
7fc497ee
NM
1214NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1215
1a41defa
JJ
1216JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1217
a466095c 1218NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1219 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1220
94a6bd0b
NM
1221TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1222
1223TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1224
1225MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1226 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1227 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1228
c1b141a8
NM
1229NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1230 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1231
b26eacf1 1232NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1233 Patch by Simon Arlott
1234
179c5980 1235PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1236 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1237
9bd3e22c 1238
7c6d71af
NM
1239Exim version 4.71
1240-----------------
1241
7d9f747b 1242TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1243
f013fb92
NM
1244NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1245
0eb8eedd
NM
1246NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1247
663ee6d9
NM
1248NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1249
177ebd9b
NM
1250NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1251
7c6d71af 1252
210f147e
NM
1253Exim version 4.70
1254-----------------
1255
cdd3bb85 1256TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1257 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1258
1259TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1260 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1261 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1262
1263TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1264 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1265 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1266
1267TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1268 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1269
210f147e
NM
1270NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1271 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1272 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1273 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1274
deafd5b3
NM
1275NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1276 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1277 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1278
089793a4
TF
1279TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1280
5f16ca82
TF
1281TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1282
dae9d94e 1283NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1284 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1285
7d9f747b 1286NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1287
06864c44
TF
1288TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1289 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1290 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1291 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1292
65a7d8c3 1293NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1294 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1295
23510047 1296TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1297
7d9f747b 1298NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1299
7d8eec3a 1300NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1301 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1302
89dec7b6
TF
1303TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1304 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1305
a99de90c
TF
1306TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1307 that they are available at delivery time.
1308
e2803e40
TF
1309TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1310
7199e1ee
TF
1311TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1312 incoming_port log selectors.
1313
e276e04b
TF
1314TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1315 setting expands to an empty string.
1316
ce552449 1317NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1318 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1319
e765a0f1 1320NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1321 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1322
4f054c63 1323NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1324 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1325
7d9f747b
PP
1326NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1327 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1328
7d9f747b
PP
1329NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1330 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1331
b52bc06e 1332NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1333 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1334
447de4b0
NM
1335NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1336
4c69d561 1337NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1338 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1339
d5c39246 1340NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1341 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1342
0b23848a
TK
1343TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1344
8f3414a1 1345NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1346 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1347
fb6f955d
NM
1348NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1349
1350NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1351
7d9f747b
PP
1352NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1353 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1354
7d9f747b
PP
1355NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1356 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1357
7d9f747b
PP
1358NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1359 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1360
7d9f747b
PP
1361NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1362 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1363
7d9f747b
PP
1364NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1365 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1366
7d9f747b
PP
1367NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1368 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1369
7d9f747b
PP
1370NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1371 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1372
7d9f747b 1373NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1374 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1375
7d9f747b 1376NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1377
7d9f747b
PP
1378NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1379 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1380
7d9f747b 1381NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1382
7d9f747b 1383NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1384
7d9f747b 1385NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1386
7d9f747b 1387NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1388
17792b53 1389NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1390 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1391
7d9f747b
PP
1392NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1393 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1394
91576cec 1395NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1396 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1397
7d9f747b
PP
1398NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1399 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1400
7d9f747b 1401NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1402
7d9f747b 1403NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1404
7d9f747b 1405NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1406
7d9f747b 1407NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1408
deafd5b3 1409
47db1125
NM
1410Exim version 4.69
1411-----------------
1412
4b3504d0
TK
1413TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1414 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1415 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1416
1417 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1418 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1419 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1420 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1421 build errors in sieve.c.
1422
81ea09ca
NM
1423NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1424 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1425 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1426
f13cddcb
SC
1427SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1428
7d9f747b 1429NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1430
7d9f747b 1431NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1432
7d9f747b 1433NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1434
1435
eb4c0de6
PH
1436Exim version 4.68
1437-----------------
1438
1439PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1440
6a3bceb1
PH
1441PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1442 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1443 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1444 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1445 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1446 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1447 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1448 for iplsearch lookups.
1449
1450 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1451 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1452 previously such lookups could never work.
1453
1454 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1455 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1456 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1457
2e30fa9d
TK
1458TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1459 version.
1460
0806a9c5
MH
1461MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1462 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1463 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1464 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1465 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1466 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1467
ae276964
TK
1468TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1469 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1470
0f2cbd1b
MH
1471MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1472 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1473 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1474 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1475 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1476 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1477
2b85bce7
PH
1478PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1479 local_scan API.
1480
93655c46
PH
1481PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1482
6c512171
PH
1483PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1484 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1485 encrypted.
1486
1487PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1488 by clients under certain conditions.
1489
aa6dc513
PH
1490PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1491 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1492
a96603a0
PH
1493PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1494
8f240103
PH
1495PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1496 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1497
1498PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1499
d677b2f2
PH
1500PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1501
d52120f2
PH
1502PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1503
64f2600a
PH
1504PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1505 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1506
8669f003
PH
1507PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1508
a4dc33a8
PH
1509PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1510 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1511
d6a60c0f
PH
1512PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1513
8f128379
PH
1514PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1515
8932dffe
PH
1516PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1517 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1518 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1519 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1520
ddea74fa 1521PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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PH
1522 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1523 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1524
ddea74fa 1525PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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1526 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1527
ddea74fa
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1528PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1529
ce9f225c
PH
1530PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1531
19897d52
PH
1532PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1533
bc64a74d
PH
1534PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1535 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1536 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1537
eb4c0de6 1538
b4ed4da0
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1539Exim version 4.67
1540-----------------
1541
22ad45c9
MH
1542MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1543 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1544 Jan Srzednicki.
1545
b4ed4da0
PH
1546PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1547 issue a MAIL command.
1548
431b7361
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1549PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1550
1551 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1552
1553 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1554 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1555 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1556 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1557 item. This has been fixed.
1558
1559PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1560 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1561
83da1223
PH
1562PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1563 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1564
54fc8428
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1565PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1566 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1567 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1568
34c5e8dd
SC
1569SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1570
bbe15da8
PH
1571PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1572 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1573 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1574 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1575 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1576
0e8a9471
MH
1577MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1578 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1579 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1580
f0872424
PH
1581PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1582 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1583 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1584 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1585
b01dd148
PH
1586PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1587
6bf342e1
PH
1588PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1589
273f34d0
PH
1590PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1591 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1592 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1593 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1594 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1595
cf8b11a5
PH
1596PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1597
41c7c167
PH
1598PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1599 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1600 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1601 values).
1602
9c57cbc0
PH
1603PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1604
f3f065bb
PH
1605PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1606
047bdd8c
PH
1607PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1608
0ce9abe6
PH
1609PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1610
0e22dfd1
PH
1611PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1612
4c590bd1
PH
1613PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1614 no_callout_flush is set.
1615
09945f1e
PH
1616PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1617 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1618 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1619 fixed.
1620
c51b8e75
PH
1621PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1622
e28326d8
PH
1623PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1624 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1625 other ACL rejections are.
1626
75b1493f
PH
1627PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1628 with slight modification.
1629
7c5214ec
PH
1630PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1631 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1632
4311097e
PH
1633PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1634 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1635 connection.
1636
29f89cad
PH
1637PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1638 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1639
5e687460
SC
1640SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1641
c3611384
PH
1642PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1643 expansion side effects.
1644
5a11a7b4
PH
1645PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1646 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1647 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1648 be the same.
1649
0e20aff9
MH
1650MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1651 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1652 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1653
ca86f471
PH
1654PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1655 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1656 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1657 were accidentally chopped off.
1658
a14e5636
PH
1659PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1660 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1661 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1662 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1663 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1664 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1665 pipelining has not been advertised.
1666
ec95d1a6
PH
1667PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1668
42855d71
PH
1669PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1670 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1671 This has been fixed.
1672
57c2c631
PH
1673PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1674 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1675 reported on Solaris.
1676
58c01c94
PH
1677PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1678 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1679 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1680 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1681 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1682 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1683 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1684
dee5a20a
PH
1685PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1686 cpus.
1687
d2ee6114
PH
1688PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1689
b2d5182b
PH
1690PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1691
79749a79
PH
1692PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1693 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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PH
1694 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1695 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1696 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1697 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1698
c456d9bb
PH
1699PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1700 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1701 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1702 host_all_ignored option.
1703
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1704PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1705 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1706 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1707 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1708 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1709 is what is supposed to happen).
1710
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1711PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1712 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1713 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1714 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1715 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1716 uses the Exim user.
1717
2679d413
PH
1718PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1719 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1720 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1721 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1722 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1723 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1724 users.
1725
84024b72
PH
1726PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1727
8005d38e
SC
1728SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1729 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1730 (Jez Hancock).
1731 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1732 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1733
3298c6c6
SC
1734SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1735
a43a27c5
PH
1736PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1737
58eb016e 1738PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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PH
1739 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1740 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1741 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1742 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1743 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1744 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1745 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1746 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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PH
1747 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1748 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1749
b43a74ea
PH
1750PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1751 advertised in response to EHLO.
1752
b4ed4da0 1753
5dd1517f
PH
1754Exim version 4.66
1755-----------------
1756
1757PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1758 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1759
1760 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1761 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1762
1763 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1764 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1765 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1766
1767 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1768 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1769 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1770 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1771 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1772
1773
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TK
1774Exim version 4.65
1775-----------------
1776
1777TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1778 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1779 versions. (#438)
1780
d6066548
MH
1781MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1782 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1783 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1784
4362ff0d
PH
1785PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1786 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1787 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1788 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1789 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1790 rather than extend the field.
1791
93cfa765 1792
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1793Exim version 4.64
1794-----------------
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1796TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1797 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1798 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1799 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1800 these files.
1801
1802TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1803 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1804 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1805
1806TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1807 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1808 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
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1809
1810TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1811 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1812 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1813 in the field name.
1814
2b1c6e3a
PH
1815PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1816 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1817 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1818 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1819 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1820 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1821 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1822 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1823 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1824 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1825 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1826
1f872c80
PH
1827PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1828 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1829
1830PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1831 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1832 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1833 ignores EPIPE as well.
1834
d203e649
PH
1835PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1836 (quoted-printable decoding).
1837
cc2ed8f7 1838PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1839 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1840
ddfcd446
PH
1841PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1842
d45b1de8
PH
1843PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1844
1845PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1846
38a0a95f 1847PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1848 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1849
a2405d83
JJ
1850JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1851 in 4.64-PH/09.
1852
1853JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1854 miscellaneous code fixes
1855
6ea85e9a
PH
1856PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1857 rejections.
1858
26da7e20
PH
1859PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1860 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1861 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1862 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1863 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1864 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1865 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1866 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1867
14aa5a05 1868PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1869 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1870 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1871 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1872 function.
1873 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1874 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1875 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1876 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1877 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1878 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1879 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1880 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1881 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1882
ff75a1f7
PH
1883PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1884 decoding.
1885
e6f6568e
PH
1886PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1887 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1888 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1889 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1890 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1891 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1892 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1893 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1894
d6f6e0dc
PH
1895PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1896 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1897 list.
1898
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1899PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1900 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1901 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1902 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1903 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1904 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1905 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1906 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1907 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1908 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1909 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1910 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1911 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1912
08955dd3
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1913PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1914 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1915 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1916 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1917 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1918 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1919 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1920
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1921PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1922 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1923 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1924 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1925 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1926 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1927 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1928 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1929 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1930 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1931
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1932PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1933 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1934 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1935 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1936 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1937
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1938PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1939 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1940 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1941 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1942 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1943 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1944 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1945
7befa435
PH
1946PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1947 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1948 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1949 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1950 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1951 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1952 been verified.
1953
48da4259 1954PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1955 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1956 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1957 and authorization.)
1958
48da4259
PH
1959PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1960 if any retry times were supplied.
1961
d1d5595c
PH
1962PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1963 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1964 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1965
0ef732d9
PH
1966PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1967
328895cc
PH
1968PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1969
fd700877
PH
1970PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1971 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1972 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1973 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1974 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1975 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1976
8dce1a6f
PH
1977PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1978 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1979
17af4a17
PH
1980PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1981 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1982 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1983
1984PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1985 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1986 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1987 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1988 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1989 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1990 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1991 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1992 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1993
1994 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1995 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1996 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1997 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1998 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1999 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2000 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2001 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2002 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2003
2004 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2005 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2006 hammering the server.
2007
c1114884
PH
2008PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2009 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2010
7a0743eb
PH
2011PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2012
0d85fa3f
PH
2013PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2014 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2015 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2016
1bf43b78
PH
2017PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2018 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2019 one case where this was not true.
2020
520de300
PH
2021PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2022 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2023 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2024 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2025 fails.
2026
48c7f9e2
PH
2027PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2028 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2029 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2030 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2031 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2032 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2033 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2034 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2035 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2036 smtp transport.
2037
99ea1c86
PH
2038PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2039 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2040 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2041 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2042
a2042e78
PH
2043PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2044 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2045
4fbcfc2e
PH
2046PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2047 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2048 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2049
aa41d2de
PH
2050PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2051
af561417
PH
2052PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2053
3cc66b45
PH
2054PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2055
194cc0e4
PH
2056PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2057 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2058 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2059 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2060
a401ddaa
PH
2061PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2062 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2063
4e88a19f
PH
2064PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2065 be meaningful with "accept".
2066
d7d7b289
SC
2067SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2068 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2069
2070SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2071 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2072 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2073
2074SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2075 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2076 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2077 there is data to show.
2078 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2079
2080SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2081 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2082 as well as the number of messages.
2083
2084SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2085 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2086 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2087
2088SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2089 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2090 have a flag are now skipped.
2091
2092SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2093 Added the -emptyok flag.
2094
2095SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2096 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2097
0ea2a468
JJ
2098JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2099 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2100 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2101
2102JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2103 match 4.64-PH/13
2104
2105JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2106 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2107
2108JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2109
2110JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2111 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2112
8a10f5a4
PH
2113PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2114
30e18802
PH
2115PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2116 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2117 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2118 contravention of the specifications.
2119
55728a4f
PH
2120PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2121 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2122 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2123
d7837193
PH
2124PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2125 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2126 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2127
87054a31
PH
2128PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2129
ea2c01d2
MH
2130MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2131 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2132 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2133 some point in the past.
2134
e4fa6968
PH
2135PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2136 transport during callout processing was broken.
2137
56f5d9bd
PH
2138PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2139 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2140
922e1c28
PH
2141PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2142 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2143
21eb6e72
PH
2144PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2145 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2146
a0540757
PH
2147PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2148
944e9e9c 2149
478be7b0
SC
2150Exim version 4.63
2151-----------------
2152
2153SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2154 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2155
2156SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2157 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2158 there is data to show.
2159 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2160
2161SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2162 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2163
2b965a65
TF
2164TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2165 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2166
45b91596
PH
2167TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2168 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2169
c59f5781
TF
2170TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2171 submissions from trusted users.
2172
90fc3069
TF
2173TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2174 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2175
6083aca0
TF
2176TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2177 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2178 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2179 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2180 there is now a framework to start from.
2181
765b530f
PH
2182PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2183 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2184 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2185
4e167a8c
PH
2186PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2187
4608d683
PH
2188PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2189
b8dc3e4a
PH
2190PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2191
5418e93b
PH
2192PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2193 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2194 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2195
b4a9bda2
PH
2196PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2197 libradius.
2198
45b91596
PH
2199PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2200 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2201 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2202
5547e2c5
PH
2203PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2204 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2205 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2206 its arguments.
2207
dbcef0ea
PH
2208PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2209 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2210 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2211 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2212 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2213
25257489
PH
2214PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2215 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2216
c816d124
PH
2217PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2218
a9ccd69a
PH
2219PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2220 operations in malware.c.
2221
75fa1910
PH
2222PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2223 signatures.
2224
a7d7aa58
PH
2225PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2226 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2227 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2228 all.
2229
42119b09
PH
2230PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2231 statements to "add_header".
2232
41609df5
PH
2233PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2234 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2235
a5bd321b
PH
2236PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2237 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2238 latter.
2239
e85a7ad5 2240PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2241 so that it is now:
2242
e85a7ad5
PH
2243 ${if or { \
2244 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2245 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2246 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2247 }{no}{yes}}
2248
e85a7ad5
PH
2249 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2250 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2251
d8fe1c03
PH
2252PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2253 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2254
16282d2b
PH
2255PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2256 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2257 any possible encoding problems.
2258
35d40a98
PH
2259PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2260 but not after initializing Perl.
2261
034d99ab
PH
2262PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2263 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2264 apparently, which is not desirable.
2265
6ec97b1b
PH
2266PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2267 queries.
2268
e22ca4ac
JJ
2269JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2270 --not options
2271
2272JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2273
33d73e3b
PH
2274PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2275 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2276 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2277 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2278
9ecb03f3
PH
2279PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2280 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2281 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2282
084efe8d
PH
2283PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2284 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2285 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2286 0.12.
2287
366fc9f0
PH
2288PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2289 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2290 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2291 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2292 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2293
c59f5781 2294
c887c79e
TF
2295Exim version 4.62
2296-----------------
2297
2298TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2299 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2300
1cce3af8
PH
2301PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2302 patch).
2303
afb3eaaf
PH
2304PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2305 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2306 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2307 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2308 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2309 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2310 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2311 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2312 451 error is used.
2313
e173618b
PH
2314PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2315
dd16e114
PH
2316PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2317 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2318 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2319
f7fd3850
PH
2320PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2321 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2322 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2323 odd errors.
2324
d87df92c
PH
2325PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2326 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2327
7e9f683d
PH
2328PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2329 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2330 option (which defaults to 0600).
2331
bfad5236
PH
2332PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2333
01c490df
PH
2334PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2335 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2336 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2337 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2338 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2339 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2340 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2341
d6629cdc
PH
2342PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2343
1cce3af8 2344
214e2000
PH
2345Exim version 4.61
2346-----------------
2347
2348PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2349 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2350 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2351 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2352 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2353 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2354 addresses as local.
2355
f9daeae0
PH
2356PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2357 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2358
7e66e54d
PH
2359PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2360
c8ea1597
PH
2361PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2362 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2363 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2364 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2365 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2366 grumble.
2367
911f6fde
PH
2368PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2369 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2370
47ca6d6c
PH
2371PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2372 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2373 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2374 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2375 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2376
ed0e9820
PH
2377PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2378 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2379 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2380 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2381
eff37e47
PH
2382PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2383 be the same on different OS.
2384
1921d2ea
PH
2385PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2386 testing.
2387
b3f69ca8
JJ
2388JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2389 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2390
2391JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2392 in 4.61-PH/06
2393
424a1c63
PH
2394PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2395 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2396 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2397 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2398 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2399 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2400 bounce message.
2401
7a100415
PH
2402PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2403 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2404 when Exim was called.
2405
19b9dc85
PH
2406PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2407 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2408
309bd837
PH
2409PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2410 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2411 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2412 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2413
59e82a2a
PH
2414PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2415 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2416 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2417 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2418 changes:
2419
2420 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2421 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2422 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2423
2424 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2425 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2426 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2427
9edc04ce
PH
2428PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2429 feature).
2430
1349e1e5
PH
2431PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2432 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2433 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2434 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2435 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2436 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2437 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2438 values from the SRV records were lost.
2439
ea49d0e1
PH
2440PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2441 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2442 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2443
064a94c9
PH
2444PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2445 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2446 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2447
727071f8
PH
2448PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2449 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2450 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2451 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2452 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2453 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2454 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2455 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2456 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2457 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2458
f78eb7c6
PH
2459PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2460 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2461 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2462
21c28500
PH
2463PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2464 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2465
2466PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2467 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2468 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2469 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2470 is given.
2471
1688f43b
PH
2472PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2473 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2474 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2475
2476PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2477 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2478 PH/23 above applies.
2479
9675b384
PH
2480PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2481 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2482 (for which there is an explicit test).
2483
6a3f1455
PH
2484PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2485
dac79d3e
PH
2486PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2487 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2488 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2489 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2490 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2491
5977a0b3
PH
2492PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2493 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2494 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2495 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2496
c91535f3
PH
2497PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2498 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2499 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2500
0d46a8c8
PH
2501PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2502
278c6e6c
PH
2503PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2504
2cbb4081
PH
2505PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2506 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2507 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2508
3eef829e
PH
2509PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2510 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2511 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2512 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2513 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2514
1ab95fa6
PH
2515PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2516 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2517 the message gets confusing).
2518
230205fc
PH
2519PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2520 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2521 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2522 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2523
75e0e026
PH
2524PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2525 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2526 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2527 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2528 same order.
2529
2530PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2531 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2532 the different processes.
2533
145396a6
PH
2534PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2535
3cd34f13
PH
2536PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2537
11121d3d
JJ
2538JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2539 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2540
2541JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2542 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2543
2544JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2545 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2546 messages matching specified criteria.
2547
8def5aaf
PH
2548PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2549
929ba01c
PH
2550PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2551 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2552
2632889e
PH
2553PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2554 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2555 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2556 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2557 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2558 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2559 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2560 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2561 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2562 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2563
944a9c55
PH
2564PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2565 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2566 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2567
4a23603b
PH
2568PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2569
4730f942
PH
2570PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2571 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2572 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2573 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2574 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2575 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2576 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2577 the variable.
2578
30dba1e6
PH
2579PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2580 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2581
382afc6b
PH
2582PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2583
a86229cf
PH
2584PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2585
50c99ba6
PH
2586PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2587
d35e429d
PH
2588PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2589 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2590 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2591 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2592 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2593 size of the count of files.
2594
f90d018c
PH
2595PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2596
75def545
PH
2597PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2598 used in LMTP mode:
2599
2600 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2601 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2602 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2603 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2604
2605 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2606 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2607 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2608
2609PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2610 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2611 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2612 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2613 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2614
c46782ef
PH
2615PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2616 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2617
71fafd95
PH
2618PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2619 will now be deprecated.
2620
2c5db4fd
PH
2621PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2622
9cf6b11a
JJ
2623JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2624 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2625 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2626
2627JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2628 with very large, slow to parse queues
2629
2630JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2631
2632JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2633
898d150f
PH
2634PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2635 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2636 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2637 SMTP output lines.
2638
46218253
PH
2639PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2640 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2641 Sieve code now uses this.
2642
e97957bc
PH
2643PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2644 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2645
81e509d7
PH
2646PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2647 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2648
3d240ff7
PH
2649PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2650
b37c4101
PH
2651PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2652 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2653 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2654 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2655 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2656
79378e0f
PH
2657PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2658 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2659 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2660 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2661
e49c7bb4
PH
2662PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2663
d114ec46
PH
2664PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2665
f3d7df6c
PH
2666PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2667 is preferred over IPv4.
2668
715ab376
PH
2669PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2670 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2671 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2672 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2673 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2674 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2675 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2676
6b31b150
PH
2677PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2678 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2679 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2680
2681PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2682
d515a917
PH
2683PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2684 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2685 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2686 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2687 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2688 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2689 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2690 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2691 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2692 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2693 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2694
9b8fadde
PH
2695PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2696 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2697 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2698
214e2000 2699
5de37277
PH
2700Exim version 4.60
2701-----------------
2702
cc38ddbf
PH
2703PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2704
2705 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2706 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2707
2708 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2709 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2710 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2711
72fdd6ae
PH
2712PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2713
2714 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2715 not a single digit.
2716
2717 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2718 string.
2719
2720 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2721 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2722 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2723 silly things.
2724
2725 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2726 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2727
2728 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2729 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2730
cb741023
PH
2731PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2732 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2733 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2734
f174f16e
PH
2735PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2736 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2737
c25242d7
PH
2738PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2739 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2740
2741 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2742
2743 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2744 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2745 this:
2746
2747 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2748
82c19f95
PH
2749PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2750 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2751 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2752 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2753 identical. For example:
2754
2755 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2756
2757 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2758 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2759 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2760
d7ffbc12
PH
2761PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2762 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2763 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2764 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2765
9f526266
PH
2766PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2767 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2768 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2769 message.
2770
87fcc8b9
PH
2771PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2772
2773 o fixes some comments
2774 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2775 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2776 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2777 and documents the missing references header update
2778
2779 and most important:
2780
2781 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2782 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2783 result)
2784
456682f5
PH
2785PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2786 Electronic Mail") by including:
2787
2788 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2789
2790 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2791 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2792 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2793 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2794 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2795
2796 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2797
2798 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2799
2800 The auto-replied keyword:
2801
2802 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2803 message by an automatic process,
2804
2805 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2806
2807 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2808 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2809
2810 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2811 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2812 other messages.
2813
3e46c1aa
PH
2814PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2815 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2816
49826d12
PH
2817PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2818
eba0c039
PH
2819PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2820 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2821 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2822
a0d6ba8a
PH
2823PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2824 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2825 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2826
f0917727
PH
2827PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2828 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2829 and treats the condition as false.
2830
096fee00
PH
2831PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2832
024bd3c2
PH
2833PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2834 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2835 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2836 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2837 not changing the active code.
2838
2839 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2840 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2841
2842 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2843 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2844
df199fec
PH
2845PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2846 (Bugzilla #53).
2847
d27f1df3
PH
2848PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2849 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2850 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2851 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2852 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2853 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2854 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2855 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2856 the text comparison.
2857
96776534
PH
2858PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2859 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2860 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2861 The same fix has been applied.
2862
5de37277 2863
9a799bc0
PH
2864Exim version 4.54
2865-----------------
2866
2867PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2868 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2869 It now does.
2870
99a4b039
PH
2871PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2872 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2873
2874PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2875
4b233853
PH
2876PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2877 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2878 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2879 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2880 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2881
8857ccfd
PH
2882TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2883 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2884 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2885 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2886 or /domain=).
2887
433a2980
PH
2888PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2889 testing suite.
2890
3e46c1aa 2891
9a799bc0 2892
e3a311ba
TK
2893Exim version 4.53
2894-----------------
2895
2896TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2897 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2898
13b685f9
PH
2899PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2900
395ff96d
PH
2901PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2902
5b68f6e4
PH
2903PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2904 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2905 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2906
1ab52c69
PH
2907PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2908 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2909 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2910
b07e6aa3
PH
2911PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2912 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2913 operating systems.
2914
254e032f
PH
2915PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2916 ${stat: expansion item.
2917
3af76a81
PH
2918PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2919 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2920
2548ba04
PH
2921PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2922 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2923 file for comments.
2924
b6c6011d
PH
2925PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2926
cf39cf57
PH
2927PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2928 setting.
2929
f1513293
PH
2930PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2931 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2932
727549a4
PH
2933TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2934
af46795e
PH
2935PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2936 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2937 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2938 the end of the subprocess.
2939
d7b47fd0
PH
2940PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2941 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2942 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2943 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2944 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2945
ee744174
JJ
2946JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2947
b582ab87
PH
2948TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2949
41a13e0a
PH
2950PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2951 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2952
f625cc5a
PH
2953PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2954
2955PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2956
21f7af35
PH
2957PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2958 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2959 HP-UX compiler.
2960
31480e42
PH
2961PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2962
2d280592
PH
2963PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2964 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2965 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2966
7cd1141b
PH
2967PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2968 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2969
2970PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2971 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2972
750af86e
PH
2973PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2974 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2975
2976 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2977 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2978
2979 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2980 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2981 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2982 contributed by a Radius user.
2983
2984PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2985 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2986
4304270b
TK
2987TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2988 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2989
750af86e
PH
2990PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2991 available.
2992
64ffc24f
PH
2993PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2994 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2995 received.
2996
5dd9625b
PH
2997PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2998 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2999 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3000 header lines when this was not necessary.
3001
5591031b
PH
3002PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3003
ba18e66a
PH
3004PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3005 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3006 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3007 exists".
3008
9cec981f
PH
3009PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3010 -bV or -d is used.
3011
aa2b5c79
PH
3012PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3013 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3014 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3015 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3016
48a53b7f
PH
3017PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3018
1c59d63b
PH
3019PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3020
671012da
TK
3021TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3022
1509d3a8
PH
3023PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3024
3025PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3026 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3027 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3028 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3029 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3030 settings.
3031
3032PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3033
2fe1a124
PH
3034PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3035 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3036 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3037 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3038 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3039 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3040 which is clearly wrong.
3041
8800895a
PH
3042PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3043
ccfdb010
PH
3044PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3045 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3046 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3047 subsequently added.
3048
1130bfb0
PH
3049PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3050 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3051
ebcb507f
PH
3052PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3053
c35e155c
PH
3054PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3055 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3056
95d1f782
PH
3057PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3058 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3059
fd6de02e
PH
3060PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3061 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3062
58de37c5
PH
3063PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3064 recipients, not senders.
3065
261cf466
TF
3066TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3067 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3068
3ee512ff
PH
3069PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3070
e08c430f
PH
3071PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3072
bef5a11f
PH
3073PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3074 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3075 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3076 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3077
7546de58
TF
3078TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3079
e5d5a95f
TF
3080TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3081 clock is set back in time.
3082
2e88a017
TF
3083TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3084 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3085
a5f65aa4
TF
3086TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3087 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3088
e7726cbf
PH
3089PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3090 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3091 (see PH/47 above).
3092
a7fdad5b
TF
3093TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3094 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3095 header rewrites.
3096
6af56900
PH
3097PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3098 type ("H").
3099
0925ede6
PH
3100PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3101
66afa403
TF
3102TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3103 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3104 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3105
0154e85a
TF
3106TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3107 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3108 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3109 helo verification defer as a failure.
3110
16f12c76
PH
3111PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3112 actual error message.
3113
bbe902f0 3114
e5a9dba6
PH
3115Exim version 4.52
3116-----------------
3117
3118TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3119
22c3b60b
PH
3120PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3121 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3122 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3123 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3124
06a9b4b5
PH
3125TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3126
c1ac6996
PH
3127PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3128 can still be requested.
3129
9c7a242c
PH
3130PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3131 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3132 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3133 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3134
87ba3f5f
PH
3135TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3136 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3137 circumstances, but probably never did.
3138
3139PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3140 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3141 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3142 in the header line.
3143
29aba418
TF
3144TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3145
fe0dab11
TF
3146TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3147 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3148
11d337a4
TK
3149TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3150
3151TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3152
415c8f3b
PH
3153PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3154 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3155 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3156 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3157 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3158 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3159
958541e9
PH
3160PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3161 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3162 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3163 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3164 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3165 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3166
c206415f
TK
3167TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3168 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3169
2a4be8f9
PH
3170PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3171 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3172
1cba11c5
SC
3173SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3174 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3175
3176SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3177
3178SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3179
3180SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3181
3182SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3183
3184SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3185
3186SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3187
1005d00e
TK
3188TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3189
3190TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3191 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3192 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3193
3194TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3195 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3196 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3197 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3198
9b4768fa
PH
3199PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3200 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3201 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3202
3203PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3204 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3205 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3206 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3207
0d7eb84a
PH
3208PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3209 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3210 to be made).
3211
3212PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3213 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3214 should work with maildirs and everything.
3215
40727bee
TK
3216TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3217 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3218
554d2369
TF
3219TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3220 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3221
1f922db1
PH
3222PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3223 function for BDB 4.3.
3224
ef213c3b
PH
3225PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3226
8ac170f3
PH
3227PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3228 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3229 involved.
3230
b1c749bb
PH
3231PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3232 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3233 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3234 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3235 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3236 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3237
4aac9b49
PH
3238PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3239 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3240 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3241 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3242 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3243 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3244 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3245 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3246
294520c8
TK
3247TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3248 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3249 details.
3250
5bd022fe
PH
3251PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3252 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3253
90e9ce59
PH
3254PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3255 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3256 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3257 test. It is now used for both.
3258
5ea81592
PH
3259PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3260 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3261 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3262 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3263 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3264 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3265
c6c2dc1d
PH
3266PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3267 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3268 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3269 string_vformat().
3270
fffffe4c
PH
3271PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3272 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3273 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3274
9a26b6b2
PH
3275PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3276 experimental DomainKeys support:
3277
3278 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3279 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3280 the control was given.
3281
3282 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3283
4aee0225
PH
3284PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3285
32d668a5
PH
3286PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3287
8187c3f3
PH
3288PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3289 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3290 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3291 db.h files).
3292
ff790e47 3293PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3294 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3295 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3296 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3297 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3298 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3299 course.
ff790e47 3300
5417f6d1
PH
3301PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3302 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3303 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3304 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3305 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3306 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3307
59cf8544
PH
3308PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3309 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3310 do -d+all out of habit.
3311
e7ad8a65
PH
3312PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3313 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3314 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3315
ade42478
PH
3316PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3317 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3318 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3319 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3320 record types that Exim uses.
3321
182ad5cf
PH
3322PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3323 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3324 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3325 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3326 non-existent file that was broken.
3327
b0d9fc80
TK
3328TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3329 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3330
3331TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3332 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3333 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3334
3335TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3336
47c7a64a
PH
3337PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3338 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3339 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3340 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3341 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3342 same time.
3343
a388bce4
SC
3344SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3345 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3346 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3347 at a slight CPU cost.
3348
3349SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3350 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3351
3352SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3353 by Marc Sherman.
3354
0793e4ed
SC
3355SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3356
c58b88df
PH
3357PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3358 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3359
e7ad8a65 3360
7982096b
PH
3361Exim version 4.51
3362-----------------
3363
1a46a8c5
PH
3364TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3365 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3366
2f079f46 3367TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3368
3369TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3370
3371PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3372 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3373
3374PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3375 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3376 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3377 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3378 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3379 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3380 file.
3381
3382PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3383 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3384 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3385 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3386 these two options.
3387
3388PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3389 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3390 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3391 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3392 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3393 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3394 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3395 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3396
3397PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3398 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3399
3400PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3401 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3402 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3403 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3404 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3405 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3406
3407PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3408 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3409 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3410 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3411
3412PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3413 Finch).
3414
3415PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3416 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3417
49c2d5ea
PH
3418PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3419 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3420 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3421 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3422 message.
49c2d5ea 3423
bf759a8b
PH
3424PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3425
83364d30
PH
3426PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3427 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3428
7999bbd7
PH
3429PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3430 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3431 to what was transported.)
3432
7dbf77c9
PH
3433TF/01 Added $received_time.
3434
74e0617f
PH
3435PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3436 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3437 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3438 spamd_address settings.
3439
2f079f46
PH
3440PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3441 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3442 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3443 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3444 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3445
8c841523
PH
3446PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3447
7766a4f0
PH
3448PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3449 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3450 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3451 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3452 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3453
8b417f2c
PH
3454PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3455 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3456
901f42cb
PH
3457PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3458 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3459 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3460 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3461 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3462 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3463 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3464 for failure.
3465
f9b9210e
PH
3466PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3467 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3468 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3469 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3470 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3471 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3472 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3473 "input=".
3474
54cdb463
PH
3475PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3476
cf00dad6
PH
3477PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3478 driver and ACL definitions.
3479
acb1b346
PH
3480PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3481 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3482
c5ddb310
PH
3483PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3484 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3485 understands it better than I do:
3486
3487 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3488 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3489
3490 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3491 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3492 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3493 => three warnings about OTP not working
3494 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3495
3496 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3497 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3498 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3499 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3500 for each call.)
3501 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3502 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3503
3504 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3505 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3506 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3507
31619da6
PH
3508PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3509 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3510 specified.
3511
bebaf0fc
PH
3512PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3513 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3514 "Linux".
3515
475fe28a
PH
3516PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3517 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3518 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3519
3520 warn !verify = sender
3521 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3522
3523 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3524 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3525
7e8bec7a
PH
3526PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3527
3528 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3529 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3530
3531 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3532 nomenclature these days.)
3533
e4a89c47
PH
3534PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3535 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3536
5ca2a9a1
PH
3537PH/30 In these circumstances:
3538 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3539 . First host does not offer TLS;
3540 . First host accepts first address;
3541 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3542 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3543 . Second host accepts second address.
3544 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3545 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3546 address.
7e8bec7a 3547
c688b954
PH
3548PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3549 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3550 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3551 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3552 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3553
fed77020
PH
3554PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3555 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3556
7fe1560f
PH
3557PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3558 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3559
ebb6e6d5
PH
3560PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3561 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3562 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3563
9c4e8f60
PH
3564PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3565 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3566 overlooked.
3567
3568PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3569
d7174846
PH
3570PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3571 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3572 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3573 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3574 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3575 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3576 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3577
3578 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3579 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3580 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3581 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3582 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3583
3584 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3585 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3586 routed further.
3587
cfe75fc3
PH
3588PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3589 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3590 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3591 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3592 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3593 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3594
be22d70e
PH
3595PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3596
0612b098
PH
3597PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3598 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3599 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3600 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3601 printable escape sequences.
3602
2e0c1448
PH
3603PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3604 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3605 body only.
3606
447d236c
PH
3607PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3608 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3609 are as follows:
3610
3611 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3612 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3613 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3614 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3615 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3616
3617 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3618 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3619 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3620
d20976dc
PH
3621PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3622
f656d135
PH
3623PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3624 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3625 play with."
3626
2e2a30b4
PH
3627PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3628 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3629 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3630 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3631 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3632 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3633 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3634 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3635 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3636 the log output.
3637
9176e9f0
PH
3638PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3639 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3640 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3641 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3642 "make".
3643
7982096b 3644
bbe902f0
PH
3645A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3646----------------------------------------
3647
3648Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3649changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3650needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3651in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3652that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3653release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3654from 4.43.
3655
3656I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
36574.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3658those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3659historical information.
3660
3661
f7b63901 3662Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3663-----------------
3664
5fe762f6
PH
3665 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3666
139059f6 3667 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3668 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3669
7086e875
PH
3670 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3671 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3672 place.
3673
35af9f61
PH
3674 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3675 filter fails to execute.
3676
b668c215
PH
3677 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3678 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3679 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3680 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3681 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3682
a494b1e1
PH
3683 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3684
3685 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3686 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3687 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3688 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3689
c5fcb476
PH
3690 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3691 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3692 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3693 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3694 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3695
69358f02
PH
3696 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3697
5be20824
PH
369810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3699
eb2c0248
PH
370011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3701 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3702 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3703 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3704
2a3eea10
PH
370512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3706 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3707 sender verification.
3708
370913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3710 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3711
23c7ff99
PH
371214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3713
4deaf07d
PH
371415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3715 connection timeout.
3716
926e1192
PH
371716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3718 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3719
650edc6f
PH
372017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3721 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3722
2c7db3f5
PH
372318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3724 information about exactly what failed.
3725
3d235903
PH
372619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3727
7c7ad977
PH
372820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3729 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3730 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3731
981756db
PH
373221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3733 It is now set to "smtps".
3734
d4eb88df
PH
373522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3736 ignore_target_hosts.
3737
373823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3739 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3740 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3741 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3742 "[x.x.x.x]".
3743
7d468ab8
PH
374424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3745 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3746 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3747
374825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3749 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3750 wake it up if nothing else does.
3751
62c0818f
PH
375226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3753 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3754 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3755 end up negative.
3756
26034054
PH
375727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3758 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3759
af66f652
PH
376028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3761
90af77f4
PH
376229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3763 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3764 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3765 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3766 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3767 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3768 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3769 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3770
d8ef3577
PH
377130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3772 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3773 than one IP address.
3774
5cb8cbc6
PH
377531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3776 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3777 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3778 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3779
14702f5b
PH
378032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3781 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3782 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3783 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3784 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3785 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3786
063b1e99
PH
378733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3788 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3789 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3790 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3791
652e1b65
PH
379234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3793 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3794 respected.
3795
6f0c9a4f
PH
379635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3797 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3798 $sender_host_address.
3799
33397d19
PH
380036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3801 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3802 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3803 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3804 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3805 very small.
3806
7bb56e1f
PH
380737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3808
3809 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3810 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3811
ea3bc19b
PH
3812 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3813 just the host names, not the priorities.
3814
3815 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3816 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3817 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3818
ea3bc19b 3819 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3820 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3821
0bcb2a0e
PH
382238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3823 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3824 domain.
3825
2ac0e484
PH
382639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3827
4e1fde53
PH
382840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3829 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3830
de365ded
PH
383141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3832 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3833 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3834
f05da2e8
PH
383542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3836
d6453af2
PH
383743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3838
f7b63901
PH
383944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3840
384145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3842 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3843 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3844 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3845 because the tests only now provoked it.
3846
a444213a
PH
384746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3848 (this can affect the format of dates).
3849
0ec020ea
PH
385047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3851 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3852 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3853 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3854
b1206957
PH
385548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3856
385749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3858 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3859 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3860 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3861
26dd5a95
PH
386250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3863 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3864 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3865
343b2385
PH
386651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3867 autoreply.
3868
1c5466b9
PH
386952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3870 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3871 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3872 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3873 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3874 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3875 is going on).
3876
55ee9ee3
PH
387753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3878 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3879 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3880 the line.
3881
d38f8232
PH
388254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3883 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3884 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3885
3886 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3887 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3888 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3889 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3890 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3891 so I produce this patch..."
3892
3295e65b
PH
3893 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3894 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3895 is not defined.
3896
7102e136
PH
389755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3898 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3899 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3900 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3901 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3902
3ca0ba97
PH
390356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3904
c2bcbe20
PH
390557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3906 long debug lines gets shown.
3907
18ce445d
PH
390858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3909 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3910
1f5b4c3d
PH
391159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3912
3913 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3914 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3915 of $primary_hostname.
3916
b975ba52
PH
391760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3918 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3919 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3920 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3921 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3922 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3923 by change 4.50/55 above.
3924
3925 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3926 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3927 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3928 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3929 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3930 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3931 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3932
393361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3934 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3935 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3936 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3937
17ffcae7
PH
393862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3939 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3940
d95f9fdb
PH
394163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3942 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3943 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3944 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3945 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3946
86b8287f
PH
394764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3948 This has been fixed.
3949
60dc5e56
PH
395065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3951 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3952 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3953 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3954 the caching.)
3955
533244af
PH
395666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3957
a5a28604
PH
395867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3959 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3960 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3961 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3962
7e634d24
PH
396368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3964 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3965
3e11c26b
PH
396669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3967 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3968 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3969
6729cf78
PH
397070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3971 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3972 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3973 message there.
3974
00f00ca5
PH
397571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3976 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3977 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3978
c9bdd01c
PH
397972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3980 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3981 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3982 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3983
d43194df
PH
398473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3985 during host lookups.
3986
fe5b5d0b
PH
398774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3988 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3989
3990 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3991
76a2d7ba
PH
399275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3993 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3994 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3995 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3996 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3997 background.
3998
399976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4000 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4001
04f7d5b9
PH
400277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4003 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4004 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4005
bc60667e
PH
400678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4007
bb6e88ff
PH
400879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4009 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4010 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4011 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4012 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4013 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4014 process earlier.
4015
1e70f85b
PH
401680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4017 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4018 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4019 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4020 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4021
402281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4023 tables).
4024
4e01f9d6
PH
402582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4026
1ee1cef2
PH
402783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4028 "vacation" handling.
4029
6e2b4ccc
PH
403084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4031 OS variants using glibc.
4032
8e669ac1
PH
403385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4034
495ae4b0 4035
bbe902f0
PH
4036----------------------------------------------------
4037See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4038----------------------------------------------------
4039
4040
4041Exim version 4.44
4042-----------------
4043
4044 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4045 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4046 transport
4047
4048 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4049 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4050 place.
4051
4052 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4053 filter fails to execute.
4054
4055 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4056 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4057 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4058 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4059 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4060
4061 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4062 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4063 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4064 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4065
4066 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4067 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4068 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4069 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4070 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4071
4072 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4073
4074 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4075 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4076 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4077 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4078
4079 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4080 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4081 sender verification.
4082
408310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4084 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4085
408611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4087 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4088
408912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4090 ignore_target_hosts.
4091
409213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4093 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4094 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4095 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4096 "[x.x.x.x]".
4097
409814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4099 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4100 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4101
410215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4103 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4104 wake it up if nothing else does.
4105
410616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4107 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4108 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4109 end up negative.
4110
411117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4112 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4113
ea3a6f44 411418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4115
411619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4117 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4118 empty pattern.
4119
412020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4121 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4122 one IP address.
4123
ea3a6f44
NM
412421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4125 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4126 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4127 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4128 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4129 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4130
ea3a6f44
NM
413122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4132 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4133 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4134
413523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4136 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4137 $sender_host_address.
4138
413924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4140
ea3a6f44
NM
414125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4142 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4143 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4144
414526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4146 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4147
ea3a6f44
NM
414827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4149 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4150
ea3a6f44
NM
415128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4152 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4153 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4154 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4155
415629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4157 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4158 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4159
ea3a6f44
NM
416030. 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.
bbe902f0 4164
ea3a6f44
NM
416531. 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.
bbe902f0 4168
ea3a6f44
NM
416931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4170 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4171
ea3a6f44
NM
417232. 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).
bbe902f0 4179
ea3a6f44
NM
418033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4181 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4182 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4183 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4184 CAN-2005-0021
4185
ea3a6f44
NM
418634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4187 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4188 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4189 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4190 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4191 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4192 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4193
4194 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4195 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4196 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4197 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4198 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4199 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4200 CAN-2005-0021
4201
ea3a6f44
NM
420235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4203 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4204 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4205 CAN-2005-0022
4206
ea3a6f44
NM
420736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4208 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4209 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4210 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4211 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4212
ea3a6f44
NM
421337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4214 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4215 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4216 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4217 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4218
ea3a6f44
NM
421938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4220 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4221 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4222 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4223 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4224
4225
495ae4b0
PH
4226Exim version 4.43
4227-----------------
4228
4229 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4230 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4231 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4232 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4233 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4234 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4235 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4236
4237 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4238 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4239 the delivery.
4240
4241 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4242
4243 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4244
4245 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4246 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4247 to local_scan().
4248
4249 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4250 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4251 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4252 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4253 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4254
4255 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4256 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4257
4258 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4259
4260 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4261
426210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4263 header_sender only.
4264
426511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4266 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4267
426812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4269 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4270 affecting debugging statements).
4271
427213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4273
427414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4275 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4276 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4277 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4278 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4279 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4280 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4281 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4282 after the received time, and all would be well.
4283
428415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4285 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4286 condition in an expansion string.
4287
428816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4289
429017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4291 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4292 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4293 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4294 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4295 job under whatever limits there are.
4296
429718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4298
429919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4300 space).
4301
430220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4303 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4304 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4305 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4306 return path is set.
4307
430821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4309 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4310 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4311 binary data in such strings.
4312
431322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4314
431523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4316 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4317 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4318 failure, which is pointless.
4319
432024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4321
432225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4323
432426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4325 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4326 Sender: header lines.
4327
432827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4329 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4330 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4331
433228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4333 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4334 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4335 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4336 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4337 happens.
4338
433929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4340 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4341 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4342 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4343 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4344
434530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4346 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4347 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4348 1024.
4349
435031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4351 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4352
435332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4354 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4355
435633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4357
435832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4359
436033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4361
436234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4363 syntax error.
4364
436535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4366
436736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4368
436937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4370 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4371 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4372 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4373
437438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4375 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4376
4377
4378Exim version 4.42
4379-----------------
4380
4381 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4382 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4383 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4384 it was not quoted.
4385 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4386 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4387 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4388 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4389 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4390 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4391
4392 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4393 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4394 verification failure".
4395
4396 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4397 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4398 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4399 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4400
4401 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4402 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4403 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4404 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4405 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4406 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4407 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4408 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4409 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4410 treated as a timeout.
4411
4412 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4413 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4414 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4415 not set for Exim filters).
4416
4417 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4418 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4419 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4420
4421 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4422
4423 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4424 try to make them clearer.
4425
4426 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4427 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4428
4429 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4430
4431 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4432
443310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4434 only the Cygwin environment.
4435
443611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4437 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4438 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4439 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4440 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4441
444212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4443 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4444 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4445 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4446 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4447 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4448 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4449
445013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4451 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4452
445314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4454
4455 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4456 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4457 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4458
4459 To: susanne@some.where
4460
4461 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4462 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4463 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4464 of addresses in From: header lines).
4465
4466 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4467 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4468 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4469
4470 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4471 treated as non-personal.
4472
4473 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4474 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4475
447615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4477
447816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4479
448017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4481 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4482 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4483
448418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4485 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4486
448719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4488 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4489 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4490 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4491 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4492 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4493
449420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4495 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4496 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4497 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4498 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4499 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4500 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4501 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4502
4503 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4504
450521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4506 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4507
450822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4509 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4510 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4511
451223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4513 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4514
451524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4516 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4517 rather than long int.
4518
451925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4520
452126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4522
4523
4524Exim version 4.41
4525-----------------
4526
4527 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4528 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4529 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4530 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4531 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4532 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4533
4534
4535Exim version 4.40
4536-----------------
4537
4538 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4539 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4540
4541 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4542 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4543 socklen_t is defined.
4544
4545 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4546 always exist.
4547
4548 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4549 configured.
4550
4551 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4552 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4553 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4554 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4555 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4556
4557 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4558 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4559 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4560 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4561
4562 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4563 of flapping under certain conditions.
4564
4565 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4566 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4567 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4568
4569 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4570
457110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4572
457311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4574 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4575 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4576 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4577
457812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4579 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4580 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4581 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4582 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4583 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4584 preserved with the message after it was received.
4585
458613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4587 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4588 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4589 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4590 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4591 test suite worked just fine.
4592
459314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4594 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4595 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4596
459715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4598 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4599 string.
4600
460116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4602 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4603 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4604 does not fully solve it.
4605
460617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4607 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4608 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4609 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4610 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4611
461218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4613 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4614 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4615
461619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4617 string, for example:
4618
4619 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4620
4621 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4622 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4623 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4624 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4625 the routers could not see them.
4626
462720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4628 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4629
463021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4631 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4632 output).
4633
463422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4635 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4636 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4637 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4638 that needed quoting.
4639
464023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4641 was not being matched caselessly.
4642
464324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4644 backslashes.
4645
464625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4647 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4648 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4649 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4650 when use_sender is false.
4651
465226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4653
465427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4655
465628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4657
465829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4659 the configuration file.
4660
466130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4662 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4663
466431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4665
466632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4667 bytes in the message body.
4668
466933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4670 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4671 delivery.
4672
467334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4674
467535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4676
467736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4678 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4679 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4680 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4681 another IP address.
4682
4683
4684Exim version 4.34
4685-----------------
4686
4687 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4688 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4689
4690 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4691 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4692 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4693 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4694 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4695
4696 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4697 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4698
4699 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4700 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4701 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4702
4703 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4704 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4705 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4706
4707 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4708 for routers.
4709
4710 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4711 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4712 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4713 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4714 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4715 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4716 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4717
4718
4719Exim version 4.33
4720-----------------
4721
4722 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4723 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4724 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4725 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4726 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4727 default (and expected) setting.
4728
4729 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4730 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4731 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4732 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4733
4734 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4735 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4736
4737 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4738 in domain lists.
4739
4740 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4741 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4742 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4743 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4744 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4745 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4746
4747 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4748 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4749 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4750
4751 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4752 part (NOT match_host).
4753
4754 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4755
4756 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4757 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4758 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4759 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4760 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4761 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4762 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4763 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4764 the same named file.
4765
476610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4767 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4768 when Exim is built.
4769
477011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4771 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4772 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4773 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4774 a host name.
4775
477612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4777 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4778 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4779
478013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4781
478214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4783
478415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4785
478616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4787 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4788
478917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4790 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4791 before starting the TLS session.
4792
479318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4794
479519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4796 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4797
479820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4799 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4800 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4801 colon in the middle).
4802
4803
4804Exim version 4.32
4805-----------------
4806
4807 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4808 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4809 multiple configurations are in use.
4810
4811 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4812 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4813 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4814 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4815 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4816 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4817
4818 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4819 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4820
4821 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4822 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4823 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4824
4825 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4826 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4827 occurs.
4828
4829 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4830 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4831
4832 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4833
4834 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4835 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4836
4837 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4838
4839 -prval:sval
4840
4841 is equivalent to
4842
4843 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4844
4845 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4846 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4847 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4848 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4849 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4850
485110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4852 Exim's behaviour:
4853
4854 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4855 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4856 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4857 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4858 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4859 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4860
4861 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4862 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4863 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4864 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4865 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4866 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4867 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4868 string.
4869
4870 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4871 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4872 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4873 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4874 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4875
487611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4877
487812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4879 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4880 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4881
488213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4883
488414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4885 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4886 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4887 information.
4888
488915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4890 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4891
489216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4893 Three changes have been made:
4894
4895 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4896 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4897 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4898 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4899 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4900
4901 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4902 been restored.
4903
4904 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4905 the modified behaviour.
4906
4907
4908Exim version 4.31
4909-----------------
4910
4911 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4912 Larry Rosenman.
4913
4914 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4915 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4916
4917 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4918 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4919 try to track down a specific problem.
4920
4921 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4922 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4923 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4924
4925 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4926 warning.
4927
4928 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4929 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4930 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4931 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4932 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4933 some earlier ones do not.
4934
4935 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4936
4937 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4938 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4939 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4940 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4941 address literals are enabled, of course).
4942
4943 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4944
494510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4946 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4947 by a command such as
4948
4949 exim -f "" ...
4950
4951 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4952
495311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4954
495512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4956 remained set. It is now erased.
4957
495813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4959 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4960
496114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4962 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4963 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4964 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4965 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4966 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4967 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4968 appropriate error code.
4969
497015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4971 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4972 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4973 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4974 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4975 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4976
497716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4978 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4979 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4980
498117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4982 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4983 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4984 terminate the header.
4985
498618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4987 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4988 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4989
499019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4991 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4992 (4.30/29). In particular:
4993
4994 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4995 imposed.
4996
4997 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4998 to write a maildirsize file.
4999
5000 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5001 the transport, the new value overrides.
5002
5003 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5004 count.
5005
500620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5007 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5008 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5009 space or a tab.
5010
501121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5012 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5013 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5014 the fallback hosts.
5015
501622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5017 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5018 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5019
502023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5021 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5022 using a union.
5023
502424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5025 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5026 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5027
502825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5029
503026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5031
503227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5033
503428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5035 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5036 become corrupted.
5037
503829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5039 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5040 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5041 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5042 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5043 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5044 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5045 too great.
5046
504730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5048 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5049 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5050 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5051 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5052 incorrectly.
5053
505431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5055 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5056 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5057 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5058 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5059 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5060 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5061 cached value only when the same options are set.
5062
506332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5064
506533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5066 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5067 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5068 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5069 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5070
507134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5072 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5073 it is clearly obsolete.
5074
507535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5076 transport.
5077
507836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5079 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5080 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5081 times.
5082
508337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5084 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5085 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5086 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5087 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5088
508938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5090 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5091 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5092 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5093
509439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5095
5096 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5097
5098 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5099 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5100 2^31.
5101
510240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5103 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5104 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5105 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5106 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5107 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5108 $localpart_data.
5109
511041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5111 with the -f command-line option.
5112
511342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5114 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5115 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5116 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5117 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5118 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5119
512043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5121 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5122 line.
5123
512444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5125 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5126 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5127 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5128 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5129 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5130 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5131 buffer is too small.
5132
513345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5134 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5135
513646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5137 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5138 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5139 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5140 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5141 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5142 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5143 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5144 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5145
514647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5147 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5148 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5149
515048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5151 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5152 ACL").
5153
515449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5155 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5156 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5157 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5158 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5159
516050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5161 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5162 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5163 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5164 is set.
5165
516651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5167
516852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5169
517053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5171 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5172
517354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5174 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5175 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5176
517755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5178 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5179 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5180 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5181 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5182
518356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5184 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5185 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5186 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5187 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5188 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5189 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5190
519157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5192 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5193 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5194 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5195 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5196 the test of how many are available.
5197
519858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5199 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5200 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5201 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5202 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5203 new message is started.
5204
520559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5206 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5207
520860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5209 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5210
521161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5212 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5213 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5214 is no long logged.
5215
521662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5217 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5218 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5219 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5220 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5221 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5222 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5223
522463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5225 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5226 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5227 interpreted as octal.
5228
522964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5230 setting.
5231
523265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5233 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5234 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5235 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5236 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5237 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5238
523966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5240 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5241 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5242 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5243
5244 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5245 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5246 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5247 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5248
5249 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5250 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5251 is a bug fix.
5252
5253 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5254 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5255
525667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5257
525868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5259 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5260 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5261 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5262
526369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5264 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5265 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5266 supplied", which is not helpful.
5267
526870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5269 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5270 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5271
527271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5273 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5274 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5275 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5276 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5277 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5278 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5279 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5280
528172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5282 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5283 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5284 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5285 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5286
528773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5288 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5289 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5290 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5291 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5292 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5293
529474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5295 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5296 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5297
529875. Added write_rejectlog option.
5299
530076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5301 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5302 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5303 variables.
5304
530577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5306
530778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5308 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5309 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5310 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5311 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5312 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5313 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5314 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5315
531679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5317 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5318 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5319 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5320 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5321
532280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5323 Haardt.
5324
532581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5326 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5327 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5328 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5329 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5330 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5331 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5332 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5333 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5334
5335
5336Exim version 4.30
5337-----------------
5338
5339 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5340 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5341 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5342
5343 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5344 fixed.
5345
5346 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5347 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5348 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5349
5350 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5351 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5352 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5353 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5354 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5355 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5356
5357 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5358 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5359 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5360 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5361 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5362 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5363 the Exim test suite.
5364
5365 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5366 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5367 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5368 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5369
5370 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5371 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5372 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5373 specify it in this variable.
5374
5375 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5376 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5377 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5378 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5379
5380 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5381 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5382 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5383 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5384
5385 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5386 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5387 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5388 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5389 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5390
5391 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5392
539310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5394 they are logged.
5395
539611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5397 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5398 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5399 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5400 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5401
540212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5403 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5404
540513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5406 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5407 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5408 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5409 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5410
541114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5412 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5413
541415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5415 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5416 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5417
541816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5419 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5420
542117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5422 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5423
542418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5425 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5426 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5427
542819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5429 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5430
543120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5432 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5433 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5434 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5435
543621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5437
543822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5439 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5440 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5441 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5442
544323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5444
544524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5446 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5447
544825. Added .include_if_exists.
5449
545026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5451 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5452 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5453 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5454 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5455 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5456
545727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5458
545928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5460 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5461 this.
5462
546329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5464
546530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5466 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5467
5468 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5469 550 Sender verify failed
5470
5471 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5472 the final line of the response.
5473
547431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5475 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5476 all other user lookups.
5477
547832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5479 delivery time.
5480
548133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5482 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5483 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5484 result into an int without checking.
5485
548634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5487 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5488 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5489
549035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5491 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5492 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5493 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5494
549536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5496 correctly.
5497
549837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5499 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5500
550138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5502 to the empty sender.
5503
550439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5505 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5506 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5507 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5508 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5509 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5510 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5511 panic log.
5512
551340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5514 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5515 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5516 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5517 used.
5518
551941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5520 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5521
552242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5523 timestamps.
5524
552543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5526 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5527
552844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5529
553045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5531 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5532 logs.
5533
553446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5535 as soon as it is encountered.
5536
553747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5538
553948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5540 rewritten to "<>".
5541
554249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5543 recognizes a tab character.
5544
554550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5546 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5547 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5548 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5549
555051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5551
555252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5553 crash.
5554
555553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5556
555754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5558
555955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5560 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5561 2822.
5562
556356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5564 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5565 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5566 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5567 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5568
556957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5570 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5571
557258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5573 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5574 list (.included file names were always shown).
5575
557659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5577 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5578 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5579 root at that time.
5580
558160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5582 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5583
558461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5585
558662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5587
558863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5589
559064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5591 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5592 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5593 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5594 failures to open the logs.
5595
559665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5597 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5598 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5599 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5600 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5601 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5602 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5603
5604
5605Exim version 4.24
5606-----------------
5607
5608 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5609 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5610 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5611 change 4.23/1.
5612
5613 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5614 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5615 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5616
5617 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5618 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5619 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5620
5621 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5622 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5623 causing some misleading effects.
5624
5625 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5626 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5627 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5628
5629 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5630 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5631 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5632 queue-runner function directly.
5633
5634
5635Exim version 4.23
5636-----------------
5637
5638 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5639 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5640
5641 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5642 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5643 was always written to the default place.
5644
5645 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5646 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5647 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5648
5649 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5650
5651 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5652
5653 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5654 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5655 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5656
5657 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5658 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5659 must start.
5660
5661 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5662 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5663 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5664
5665 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5666 command line option is disabled.
5667
5668 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5669 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5670
5671 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5672
5673 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5674
5675 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5676 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5677
567810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5679
568011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5681 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5682 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5683 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5684 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5685 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5686
568712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5688 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5689 timeout.
5690
569113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5692 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5693
569414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5695 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5696
569715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5698 received was valid base64.
5699
570016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5701 name of the variable that was being set.
5702
570317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5704
570518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5706 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5707 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5708 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5709 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5710 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5711
571219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5713
571420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5715 nor realm was specified.
5716
571721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5718 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5719 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5720 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5721
572222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5723 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5724 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5725
572623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5727 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5728 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5729
573024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5731 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5732 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5733 some systems use these upper case variants.
5734
573525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5736 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5737 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5738 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5739
574026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5741
574227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5743 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5744
574528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5746 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5747 expansion variable.
5748
574929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5750
575130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5752 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5753 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5754 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5755
575631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5757 using it.
5758
575932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5760 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5761 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5762
576333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5764 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5765
576634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5767 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5768 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5769 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5770
577135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5772 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5773 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5774
577536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5776
577737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5778 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5779 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5780 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5781 aborted.
5782
578338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5784 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5785 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5786
578739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5788
578940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5790 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5791
579241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5793 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5794
579542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5796 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5797 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5798 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5799 when emails are that large.
5800
5801
5802
5803Exim version 4.22
5804-----------------
5805
5806 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5807 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5808
5809 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5810 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5811 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5812
5813 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5814 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5815 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5816
5817 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5818 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5819 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5820 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5821 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5822
5823 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5824 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5825 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5826 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5827 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5828 ever.
5829
5830 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5831 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5832 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5833 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5834 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5835 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5836 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5837 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5838 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5839 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5840 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5841 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5842 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5843 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5844
5845 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5846 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5847 parameterised it.
5848
5849 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5850 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5851 error should be diagnosed.
5852
5853 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5854 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5855 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5856 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5857 appeared instead of "NULL".
5858
585910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5860 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5861 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5862 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5863 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5864 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5865 proceeds).
5866
5867 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5868 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5869 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5870
5871
5872Exim version 4.21
5873-----------------
5874
5875 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5876 or receiver verification errors.
5877
5878 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5879 name.
5880
5881 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5882 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5883 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5884 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5885
5886 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5887 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5888 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5889 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5890 shouldn't happen again.
5891
5892 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5893 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5894 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5895
5896 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5897 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5898
5899 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5900
5901 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5902 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5903
5904 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5905 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5906 RFC.
5907
590810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5909 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5910 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5911
591211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5913 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5914 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5915 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5916
591712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5918 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5919 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5920 to define what should happen).
5921
592213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5923 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5924 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5925
592614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5927
592815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5929
593016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5931 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5932
593317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5934 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5935 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5936 structure in all cases.
5937
5938 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5939 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5940 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5941 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5942
594318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5944 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5945 domain name.
5946
594719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5948 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5949
595020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5951 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5952
595321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5954 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5955 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5956
595722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5958 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5959 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5960
596123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5962 the book and for uniformity.
5963
596424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5965
596625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5967 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5968 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5969 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5970 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5971 non-existent command as the problem.
5972
597326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5974 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5975 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5976
597727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5978
597928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5980 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5981 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5982
598329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5984 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5985 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5986 timestamps using strftime().
5987
598830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5989 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5990
599132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5992 transport-time rewrites.
5993
599433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5995 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5996 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5997 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5998
599934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6000 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6001
600235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6003 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6004 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6005 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6006 comma and a space.
6007
600836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6009 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6010 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6011 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6012 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6013 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6014 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6015
601637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6017 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6018 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6019 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6020 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6021
602238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6023 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6024 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6025 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6026 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6027 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6028 remaining text gets split now.
6029
603039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6031 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6032 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6033 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6034
603540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6036 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6037 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6038 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6039 $return_path.
6040
604141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6042 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6043 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6044 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6045 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6046 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6047 passed through if needed.
6048
604942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6050 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6051 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6052 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6053 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6054 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6055
605643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6057 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6058 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6059 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6060 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6061
606244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6063 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6064 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6065 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6066 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6067
606845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6069 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6070 noticed.
6071
607246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6073 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6074 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6075 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6076 mayhem of various kinds.
6077
607847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6079 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6080 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6081 the right test for positive values.
6082
608348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6084 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6085 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6086 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6087 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6088 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6089 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6090 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6091 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6092 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6093 envelope.
6094
609549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6096 module.
6097
609850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6099 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6100 forbidding it.
6101
610251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6103 the existing equality matching.
6104
610552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6106 dealing with inode numbers.
6107
610853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6109 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6110 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6111
611254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6113 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6114 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6115 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6116 local_scan().
6117
611855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6119 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6120 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6121 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6122 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6123 relay addresses has also been removed.
6124
612556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6126
612757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6128 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6129 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6130
613158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6132 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6133 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6134 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6135 processing applies to CR:
6136
6137 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6138 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6139
6140 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6141 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6142 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6143 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6144
614559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6146 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6147 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6148
614960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6150 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6151 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6152 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6153 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6154 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6155 arisen.
6156
615761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6158 program routers.
6159
616062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6161 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6162 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6163 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6164 adds:
6165
6166 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6167
6168 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6169
6170 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6171
617263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6173 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6174 not considered personal.
6175
617664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6177
617865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6179
618066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6181
618267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6183 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6184 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6185 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6186 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6187 header lines, and spool format errors.
6188
618968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6190 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6191 for more flexibility.
6192
619369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6194 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6195 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6196
619770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6198 Sabourenkov.
6199
620071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6201 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6202 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6203 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6204 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6205 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6206 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6207 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6208 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6209
621072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6211 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6212 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6213 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6214 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6215 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6216 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6217
621873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6219 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6220 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6221
622274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6223 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6224 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6225 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6226 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6227 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6228 instead of killing the process with assert().
6229
623075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6231 than Unicode encoding.
6232
623376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6234 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6235 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6236 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6237
623877. Added process_log_path.
6239
624078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6241 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6242
624379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6244 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6245
624680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6247 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6248 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6249
625081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6251 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6252 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6253 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6254 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6255 were applied:
6256
6257 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6258 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6259 as invalid.
6260
626182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6262 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6263 they will be used during message reception.
6264
6265
6266Exim version 4.20
6267-----------------
6268
6269The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6270
6271****