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1This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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9JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
10 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
11 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
12
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13JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
14
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15JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
16 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
17 option.
18
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19JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
20 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
21 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
22
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23JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
24
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25JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
26
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27JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
28 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
29 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
30
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31JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
32 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
33 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
34
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35JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
36 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
37
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38JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
39 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
40 was taken.
41
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42JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
43 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
44 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
45 should both provide the file and set the option.
46 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
47
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48JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
49 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
50
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51JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
52 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
53 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
54 Authentication-Results: header.
55
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56JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
57 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
58 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
59 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
60
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61JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
62 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
63 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
64 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
65 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
66 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
67 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
68
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69JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
70 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
71 copies while it is still usable.
72
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73JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
74 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
75 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
76
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77JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
78 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
79
79e5ebf9 80WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
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81 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
82 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
79e5ebf9 83 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
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85JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
86 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
87 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
88 information.
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90JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
91 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
92 - the pipe transport command
481e63ca 93 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
7d99cba1 94 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
ed162055 95 - named-queue names
9214d2e4 96 Previously this was permitted.
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98JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
99 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
100 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
101 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
102
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103JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
104 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
105 support larger malloc requests.
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107PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
108 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
109 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
110 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
111
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112JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
113 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
114 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
115 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
116 indeterminate.
117
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118JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
119 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
120 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
121 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
122 data being length-specified.
123
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124JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
125 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
126 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
127 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
128
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129JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
130 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
131 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
132 not being properly tracked.
133
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134JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
135 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
136 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
137 minute could be seen.
138
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139JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
140 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
141 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
142
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143JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
144 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
145
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150JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
151 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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fc243e94 153JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
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154 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
155 its own TCP segment.
156
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157JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
158 each verb.
159
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160JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
161
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162JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
163
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164JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
165 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
166
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167JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
168 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
169 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
170 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
171 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
172 suitably configured).
173
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175 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
176
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177JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
178 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
179 crash could result.
180
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181JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
182 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
183
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184JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
185 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
186 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
187 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
188 to this system.
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190JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
191 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
192 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
193
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194JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
195 output.
196
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197JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
198 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
199
3c55eef2 200JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
00c0dd4e 201 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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202 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
203 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
204 input).
205
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206HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
207 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
208 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
209 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
210 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
211
7d8d08c4 212HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
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214
7d8d08c4 215HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
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216 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
217 affected.
218
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219JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
220 on some platforms for bit 31.
221
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222JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
223 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
224 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
225 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
226 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
227 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
228 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
229 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
230
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231JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
232
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233JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
234 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
235
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236JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
237 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
238 facility.
239
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240JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
241 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
242 documentation.
243
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244JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
245 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
246 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
247 not do so.
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250 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
251 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
252
253JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
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254 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
255 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
256 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
257 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
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259JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
260 reject under TFO.
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efad2f41 262JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
4e48d56c 263 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
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264 be requested on all coneections.
265
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266JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
267 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
268
6ee11061 269PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
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271JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
272 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
273 one for these; the option was ignored.
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275JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
276 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
277 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
278 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
279
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280JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
281 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
282 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
283 standards.
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285JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
286 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
287 error ignored was made.
288
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289JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
290
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291JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
292 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
293 values, to catch one form of exploit.
294
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295JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
296 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
297 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
298
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299JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
300 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
301 causing a segfault.
302
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303JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
304 them in our smtp response.
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9c6881f8 306JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
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307 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
308 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
309 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
310 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
311
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312JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
313 link count into consideration.
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315HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
316 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
317
318JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
319 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
320 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
321 surprise.
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324
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325JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
326
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327JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
328
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329JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
330 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
331 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
332 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
333
ab0e957b 334HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
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336JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
337 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
338 active.
339
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340JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
341 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
342 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
343
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344JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
345 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
346 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
347
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348JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
349 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
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350 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
351 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
352 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
353 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
354 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
355 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
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357JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
358 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
359 resulted in an indefinite loop.
360
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361JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
362 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
363 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
364
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369JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
370 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
371
372JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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373 non-signal-safe functions being used.
374
375JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
376 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
377 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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379JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
380 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
381 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
382
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383JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
384 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
385 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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386 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
387 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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388 messed with.
389
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390PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
391 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
392
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393JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
394 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
395 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
396 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
397 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
398 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
399 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
400
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401JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
402 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
403
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404JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
405 legitimate.
406
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407JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
408 Previously this would segfault.
409
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410JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
411 segfault.
412
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413JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
414 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
415 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
416 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
417 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
418 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
419
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420JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
421
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422JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
423 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
424 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
425 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
426
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427JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
428
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429JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
430 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
431 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
432 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
433
5054c4fd 434JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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436JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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438JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
439 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
440 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
441
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442JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
443 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
444 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
445
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447
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448JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
449 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
450 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
451 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
452
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453PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
454 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
455 promised '?' replacement.
456
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457PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
458
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459JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
460 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
461 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
462 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
463 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
464
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465JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
466 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
467 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
468
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469JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
470 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
471 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
472
7ea1237c 473JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 474 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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475 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
476
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477JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
478 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
479 hope that is portable enough.
480
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481JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
482 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
483 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
484 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
485
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486JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
487 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
488 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
489
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490JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
491 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
492 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
493 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
494
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495JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
496 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
497
75c121f0 498JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 499 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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500 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
501 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
502
e30f4f43
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503JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
504 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
505 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
506
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507JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
508 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
509 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
510 the previous G, M, k.
511
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512JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
513 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
514 it was unset.
515
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516JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
517 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
518 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
519 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
520
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521JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
522 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
523
de6f74f2 524JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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525 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
526 off past the nul-terimation.
527
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528JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
529 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
530 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
531 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
532 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
533
aa6e77af 534JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
aaf3e414 535
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536JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
537 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
538 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
539 actually does fail.
540
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541AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
542 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
543
544JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
545 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
546 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
518b70e9 547
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548JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
549 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
550 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
551
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552JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
553 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
554
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556Exim version 4.91
557-----------------
459fca58 558
c39c8870 559GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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560 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
561 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
562 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
563 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
564 be defined in redis_servers.
c39c8870 565
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566GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
567 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
568
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569JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
570 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
571 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
572 extant use locations.
573
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574JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
575 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
576
bbfb5dcd
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577JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
578 Previously only the last row was returned.
579
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580JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
581 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
582 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
583 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
584 input.
585
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586JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
587 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
588 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
589 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
590 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
591 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
592 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
593 Main pool for expansions.
594 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
595 active in the testsuite.
596 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
597
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598JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
599 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
600 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
601 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
602 round-robin DNS.
603
5b6f7658
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604JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
605 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
606 failure response.
607
c11d665d
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608JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
609 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
610 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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611
612JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
613 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
614 ClamAV interface method is removed.
c11d665d 615
ba0e37b1
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616JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
617 rows affected is given instead).
618
96508de1
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619JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
620 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
621
06fdb9f7
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622JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
623 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
624 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
625 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
626 for all multi-message initiating connections.
627
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628JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
629 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
630 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
631
f1fed05b
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632JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
633 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
634 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
635 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
636 separate.
637
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638JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
639 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
640 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
641 fake-reject.
642
cf3cd306
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643HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
644
744976d4
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645JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
646 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
647
aab9a843 648PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 649 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 650 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 651
83d2a861
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652JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
653 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
654 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
655 and send a quit.
656
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657JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
658 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
659
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660JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
661 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
662 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
663
c0635b6d
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664JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
665 for the build is renamed.
666
b808677c
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667JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
668 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
669 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
670
6678c382
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671JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
672 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
673 result replacing the original.
674
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675JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
676 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
677 and the resources needed to be freed.
678
15ae19f9
JH
679JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
680
e6532c4a
JH
681JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
682 was not propagated.
683
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684JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
685 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
686 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
687 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
688
fc8cd529
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689JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
690 length value. Previously this would segfault.
691
71bb51e0
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692HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
693 newer versions of the scanner.
694
e04bfa34
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695JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
696 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
697 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
698 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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699 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
700 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
701 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 702
ecce6d9a
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703JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
704 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
705 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
706 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
707 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
708 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
709 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
710 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
711 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
712 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
713
c9cf9ac4
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714JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
715 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
716
b3b37076
JH
717JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
718
830832c9
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719HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
720 allows proper process termination in container environments.
721
f64e8b5f
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722JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
723 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
724
8f0776b5
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725JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
726 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
727 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
728
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729JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
730 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
731 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 732 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 733
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734JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
735 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
736 would be spooled.
737
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738PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
739 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
740
eb445b04
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741HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
742 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
743 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
744 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
745 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 746
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747JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
748 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
749 lines.
750
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751JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
752 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
753
ddd16464
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754PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
755 suffix list.
756
321ef002
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757JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
758 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
759 "bare" representation.
760
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761JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
762 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
763 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
764 corrupted the output.
765
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769
770JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
771 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
772 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
773 pairs of long lines into single ones.
774
856d1e16
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775PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
776 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
777
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778JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
779 This permits better logging.
780
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781JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
782 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
783 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
784 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
785 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 786 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 787
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788JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
789 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
790 "exiwhat" output.
791
98913c8e
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792PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
793 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
794 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
795
8d909960
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796JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
797 than 255 are no longer allowed.
798
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799JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
800 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
801 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
802 client, there is no benefit for these.
803 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
804 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
805 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
806 is used (3.2.4 +).
807
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808PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
809 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
810
4c2471ca
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811JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
812 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
813 erroneously found still-pending ones.
814
4e910c01
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815JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
816 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
817
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818JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
819 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
820 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
821 signature and again for transmission.
822
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823JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
824 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 825 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 826
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827JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
828 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
829 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
830 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
831 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
832 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
833 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
834
40525d07
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835JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
836 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
837 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 838 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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840PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
841 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
842 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
843 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
844 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
845 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
846 processing options.
847
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848JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
849 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
850 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
851 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
852 connections.
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854PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
855 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
856 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
857 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
858 versions.
859
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860JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
861 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
862 inaccessible.
863
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864JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
865 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
866 banner-time rejection.
867
a843a57e
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868JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
869 callout/hold.
870
8e041ae0
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871PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
872 is the name of a transport.
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873 Fixes bug 2140.
874
35a04365
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875HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
876
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877JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
878 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
879
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880JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
881 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
882 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
883 during compilation.
884
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885JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
886 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
887 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 888 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 889
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890JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
891 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
892 initial verify call returned a defer.
893
ad1a76fe 894JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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895 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
896
ad1a76fe
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897JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
898 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
899
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900JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
901 if present. Previously it was ignored.
902
f2ed27cf
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903JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
904 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
905
7eb0e5d2
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906JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
907 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
908 extensible.
909
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910PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
911 Patch provided by Jaroslav Škarvada.
912
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913PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
914 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
915 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
916
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917JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
918 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
919 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
920 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
921
0768462d 922HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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923 and confused the parent.
924
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925JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
926 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
927
9e0ed81f
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928JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
929 for log purposes.
930
2540f2f8
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931JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
932 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
933 out-of-order delivery.
934
e5ab0ba9
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935JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
936 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
937 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
938 error for the HELO.
939
e99a3a6c
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940JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
941 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
942 desynchronisation.
943
18067c75
JH
944JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
945 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
946 one run was done. Bug 2189.
947
72934ba7
JH
948JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
949 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
950 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
951 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
952 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
953 message is still "Temporary local problem".
954
625667b6
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955JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
956 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
b488395f
JH
957 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
958
959HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
960 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
961 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 962
d21bf202
JH
963JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
964 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
965 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
966 though a different problem.
967
acfc18c3 968
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4c57a40e 971
9427e879 972JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 973 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 974
7b283890
JH
975JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
976
4c57a40e
PP
977PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
978 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
979
5d036699
JH
980JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
981 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
982
f4630439
JH
983JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
984 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
985 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
986 before acknowledging the chunk.
987
f988ce57
JS
988PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
989 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
990 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
991
bd8fbe36
JH
992JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
993 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
994 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
995 should.
996
997JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
b895f4b2
JH
998 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
999 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 1000
bd8fbe36 1001JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
902fbd69
JH
1002 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1003
bd8fbe36
JH
1004JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1005 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1006 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1007 body hash calculated value.
1008
eea19017
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1009JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1010 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1011 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1012
44e6651b
JH
1013JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1014
1015JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1016 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1017
1018JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1019 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1020 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1021
1022JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1023 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1024 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1025 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1026 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1027 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1028
1029JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1030 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1031 past that check, despite the cost.
1032
b6040544
JH
1033JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1034 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1035 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1036
f700ea4d
PP
1037PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1038 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1039 TLS library to consume.
1040
da88acae
PP
1041PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1042
f6ef9370
PP
1043PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1044
90341c71
JH
1045JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1046 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1047 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1048 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1049 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1050 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1051 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1052
1ec2ab36
PP
1053PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1054
1055PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1056
1057PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1058 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1059 should be warning-free.
1060
8b2b9480
PP
1061JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1062
1063HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1064 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1065
d953610f
HSHR
1066HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1067 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1068 general solution here.
1069
7dc5f827
PP
1070PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1071 already-broken messages in the queue.
1072
4bb432cb
PP
1073JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1074
3b1a84c8
PP
1075JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1076
902fbd69 1077
8d042305
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4c57a40e 1080
9094b84b
JH
1081JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1082 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 1083
03d5892b
JH
1084JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1085 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1086 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1087
4b0fe319
JH
1088JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1089 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1090 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1091 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1092 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1093 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1094 if one fails this test.
1095 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1096 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1097
789f8a4f
JH
1098JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1099 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1100
23bb6982 1101JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 1102 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 1103
0bd1b1ed 1104JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 1105 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 1106
20b9a2dc
JH
1107JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1108 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1109
05392bbc
JH
1110JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1111 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1112
1a6230a3
JH
1113JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1114
cfab9d68
JH
1115JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1116 certificate).
1117
98c82a3d
JH
1118JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1119 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1120 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1121 connection after a verify cache hit.
1122 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1123
1124JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1125 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1126
ae8386f0
JH
1127JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1128 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1129 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1130 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1131 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1132
0d9fa8c0
JH
1133JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1134 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1135
3581f321
JH
1136JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1137 Previously they were not counted.
1138
ef3a1a30
JH
1139JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1140 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1141 that needed the lookup.
1142
4c04137d 1143JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
27b9e5f4
JH
1144 distinguished as "(=".
1145
1435d4b2
JH
1146JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1147 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1148
eea0defe
JB
1149JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1150
1151JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1152 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 1153
4c04137d 1154JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
72a201e2
TM
1155 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1156
1c788856
JH
1157JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1158 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1159 compatible.
1160
e3b1f624
JH
1161JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1162 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1163 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1164 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1165
a57ce043
JH
1166JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1167
f59aaaaa 1168JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2d009132
JH
1169 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1170 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 1171
d1f9fb42
JH
1172JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1173 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1174 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1175 be lost.
1176
92b0827a
JH
1177JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1178 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1179 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1180 itself :(
1181
ddf1b11a
JH
1182JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1183 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1184 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1185
3cc3f762
JH
1186JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1187 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1188 options.
1189
ae5afa61
JH
1190JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1191
317e40ac
PP
1192PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1193 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1194
8b0fb68e
PP
1195PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1196 are not in the system include path.
1197
ad7fc6eb 1198JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 1199 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
JH
1200 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1201 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 1202
ee5b1e28
JH
1203JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1204 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1205 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1206
5ddc9771
JH
1207JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1208
8d73599f
JH
1209HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1210 an incoming connection.
1211
446415f5
HSHR
1212HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1213 to rspamd.
1214
8e53a4fc
HSHR
1215HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1216 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 1217
87cb4a16 1218JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 1219 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
87cb4a16
JH
1220
1221
0d9b78be
JH
1222Exim version 4.87
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4c57a40e 1224
82d14d6a
JH
1225JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1226 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1227 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1228 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 1229
6c6d6e48
TF
1230TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1231 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1232
ac881e27
TF
1233TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1234 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1235 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1236 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1237 outgoing I= field.
1238
c8899c20
JH
1239JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1240 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1241 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1242 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1243 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1244 check on the next write.
1245
f1b81d81
HSHR
1246HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1247 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1248 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1249 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1250 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1251
f38917cc
JH
1252JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1253 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1254
895fbaf2
JH
1255JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1256 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1257 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1258
805bb5c3
JH
1259JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1260 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1261 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1262 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1263
56c2a7be
HSHR
1264HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1265 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1266
4c04137d 1267JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
14b3c5bc
JH
1268 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1269
6f6dedcc
JH
1270JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1271 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1272 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1273 distinct.
1274
0f557e90
JH
1275JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1276
1277JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1278
ec0eb1a3
JH
1279JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1280
41e93589
JH
1281JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1282 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1283
98b98887 1284JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
376d2ec0
JH
1285 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1286
98b98887
JH
1287JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1288
858e91c2
JH
1289JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1290 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1291
1292JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1293
6ff55e50
JH
1294JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1295 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1296
3b957582
JB
1297JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1298
23f3dc67
JH
1299JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1300 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1301 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
23f3dc67
JH
1302 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1303 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1304 they will retry in-clear.
1305 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1306 at installation time.
1307
240c288f
JH
1308HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1309 with the $config_file variable.
1310
5ef5dd52
JB
1311JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1312 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1313 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1314 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1315 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1316
e161710d
GF
1317GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1318 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1319 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1320 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1321 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1322
a159f203
JH
1323JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1324
7f06582c
JH
1325JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1326 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1327 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1328 list order is no longer honoured.
1329
4c04137d 1330JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
abe1010c
JH
1331 for DKIM processing.
1332
f0989ec0
JH
1333JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1334 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 1335
cee5f132
JH
1336JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1337 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
e6d2a989
JH
1338 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1339 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1340
8c5d388a
JH
1341JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1342 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1343
2d8d625b
JH
1344JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1345 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1346
0cbf2b82
JH
1347JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1348 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1349
f2f2c91b
JH
1350JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1351
ce325893
JH
1352JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1353 cached by the daemon.
1354
de78e2d5
JH
1355JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1356 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1357
379ba7d0
JH
1358JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1359 keys are given for lookup.
1360
f444c2c7
JH
1361JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1362 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
07c73177
JH
1363 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1364 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1365
a57b6200
JH
1366JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1367 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1368 server-side so match that on older versions.
1369
07c73177 1370JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1371 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1372 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1373
4f6ae5c3
JH
1374JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1375 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1376
1bc460a6
JH
1377JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1378 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1379 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1380 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1bc460a6
JH
1381 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1382 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1383 initial truncated version.
1384
ab9152ff 1385JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1386
67e87fcf
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1387JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1388
ab9152ff
JH
1389JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1390 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1391
af483912
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1392JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1393
bc3c7bb7 1394HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1395
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1396JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1397 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1398 induced overflows.
1399
59eaad2b
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1400JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1401 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1402 stage.
1403
f9334a28
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1404JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1405 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1406
dc8091e7
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1407JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1408 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1409 former class.
1410
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1411JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1412 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1413 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1414
93cc2d6e
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1415JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1416 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1417 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1418 extraction. Accept either.
1419
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4c57a40e 1423
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1424JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1425 expanded.
1426
506900af
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1427JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1428
ad07e9ad
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1429JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1430 it.
1431
01a4a5c5 1432JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1433 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
01a4a5c5
JH
1434 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1435 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1436
cb1d7830 1437JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1438 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
cb1d7830
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1439 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1440
610ff438 1441JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1442 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1443 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1444 TLS connections
610ff438 1445
f926e272
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1446JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1447 sites use this now.
1448
50dc7409
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1449JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1450 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1451 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1452 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1453 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1454
0f0c8159
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1455JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1456 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1457 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1458
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1459JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1460
aeaf5db3
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1461JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1462 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1463
5032d1cf
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1464JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1465 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1466
7e8360e6
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1467JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1468 /defer_ok option.
1469
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1470JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1471 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1472
fd4d8871 1473JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1474 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
fd4d8871
R
1475 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1476
1477JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2aad5761
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1478 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1479 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1480
23763898
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1481JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1482 timeout value per server.
1483
2ad78978
JH
1484JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1485 now have the list separator specified.
1486
8a512ed5 1487JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1488 option values.
8a512ed5 1489
82c0c8ea 1490JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
f69979cf
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1491 under OpenSSL.
1492
cc00f4af
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1493JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1494
82c0c8ea
JH
1495JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1496 rather than the verbs used.
1497
b980ed83
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1498JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1499 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1500
6c9ed72e
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1501JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1502
cfab9d68 1503HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1504 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1505
f846c8f5
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1506JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1507 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1508
fd4c285c
HSHR
1509HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1510 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1511
4c04137d 1512JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1513
d2a2c69b
JH
1514JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1515
8241d8dd
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1516JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1517 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1518 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
8241d8dd
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1519 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1520
1f12df4d
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1521JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1522
1f155f8e
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1523JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1524 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1525
1705dd20
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1526JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1527 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1528
038597d2
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1529JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1530
474f71bf
JH
1531JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1532
7137ca4b
JH
1533JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1534
dcb1095c
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1535JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1536 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1537
2f460950
JH
1538JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1539 added for tls authenticator.
1540
2f680c0c
HSHR
1541HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1542
9c695f6d 1543
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4c57a40e 1546
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1547TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1548 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1549 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1550 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1551 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1552 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1553 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1554
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TL
1555TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1556 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1557 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1558 function when detected.
1559
a9b8ec8b
JH
1560JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1561 cause callback expansion.
1562
6286d7c4
TL
1563TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1564 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1565 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1566 instead of bool when processing it.
1567
0f06b4f2 1568JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
d567a64d
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1569 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1570
be36e572
JH
1571JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1572
ac4ef9bd
JH
1573JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1574
0eb51736
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1575TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1576
c713ca4b
TL
1577TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1578 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1579
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1580JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1581 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1582 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1583 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1584 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
bd21a787
WB
1585 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1586
8bc732e8
JH
1587JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1588 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1589 exceeded it.
1590
a7fec7a7
JH
1591JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1592 version 3.3.6 or later.
1593
4c04137d 1594JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
JH
1595 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1596 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1597 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
723fe533
JH
1598 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1599 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1600 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1601
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1602TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1603 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1604
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1605JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1606 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1607 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1608 matches.
1609
e9477a08
JH
1610JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1611 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1612 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1613
ad4c5ff9
JH
1614JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1615 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
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1616
1617JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1618 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1619 syntax errors.
1620
3394b36a 1621JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
1622
1623JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1624 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1625
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TL
1626TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1627 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1628 tarball.
1629
ad4c5ff9
JH
1630JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1631
4c04137d 1632JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1633 Bug 1561.
1634
1635JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1636 output list separator was used.
1637
8bc732e8 1638
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1641TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1642 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1643 return.
1f0ebb98 1644
a612424f 1645JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1646 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
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1647
1648JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1649
1650TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1651 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1652
1f0ebb98 1653
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1655-----------------
1656
1657TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1658
1659 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1660 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1661 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1662 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1663 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1664 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1665
7245734e
TF
1666TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1667 utilities have not been installed.
1668
fd5dad68
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1669JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1670 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1671
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1672TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1673 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1674
a3c86431
TL
1675TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1676 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1677 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1678 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1679
aa26e137
JH
1680JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1681
5a1b8443
WB
1682TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1683 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1684
72c9e342
PP
1685PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1686 not dns_use_dnssec.
1687
76f44207
WB
1688JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1689
770747fd
MFM
1690TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1691 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1692 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1693
8ddef691 1694TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1695 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1696 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1697 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1698 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1699 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1700
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1701JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1702
e45a1c37
JH
1703JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1704 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1705
67d81c10
JH
1706JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1707 failed delivery.
1708
b1f8e4f8
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1709JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1710
511a6c14 1711JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1712
1713JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1714 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1715
51c7471d
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1716JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1717 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1718
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1719TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1720
1e06383a
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1721JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1722
76146973
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1723JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1724 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1725
1726 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1727 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1728 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1729
8c8b8274
TL
1730TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1731 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1732 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1733 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1734
35aba663
JH
1735JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1736
8c51eead 1737JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1738 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1739 lookup).
8c51eead 1740
deae092e
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1741TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1742 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1743 Schlichting.
35aba663 1744
fd3b6a4a 1745JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1746 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1747
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1748TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1749 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1750
2b4a568d
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1751JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1752
d2af03f4
HS
1753TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1754 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1755 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1756
9d1c15ef
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1757JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1758 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1759
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1760JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1761 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1762 hosts_request_ocsp.
1763
ed3bba5f 1764JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1765 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1766 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1767
8ccd00b1
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1768JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1769
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1770TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1771 Christian Aistleitner.
1772
f2de3a33
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1773JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1774
6eb02f88
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1775TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1776 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1777
00bff6f6
JH
1778JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1779 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1780
071c51f7
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1781JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1782 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1783
a6d4c44e
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1784TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1785 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1786
3ae173e7
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1787TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1788 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1789
c13d09b8
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1790TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1791 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1792 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1793
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1794JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1795
66be95e0
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1796PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1797 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1798 Jasper Wallace.
1799
1bd0d12b
JH
1800JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1801
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1802TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1803 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1804 CVE-2014-2972
1805
fd3b6a4a 1806
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1810PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1811
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1812PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1813 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1814
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1815PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1816 by GnuTLS.
1817
1f4a55da
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1818PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1819 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1820 routines.
1821
13363eba 1822PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1823
66645890 1824PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1825 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1826 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1827 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1828 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1829
a3fb9793 1830PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
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1831 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1832 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1833 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1834 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1835 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1836
d27f98fe 1837TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1838
6822b909
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1839TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1840
e7568d51
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1841TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1842 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1843
ae0e32ee 1844TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1845 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1846 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1847
1848TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1849
e2658fff
TL
1850TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1851
83712b39
TL
1852TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1853 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1854
976b7e9f
JH
1855JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1856
be4a1376
JH
1857JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1858
ec4b68e5
PP
1859PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1860
d7148a07
NM
1861NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1862 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1863
585121e2 1864JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1865
2519e60d
TL
1866PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1867 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1868 function.
a5f239e4 1869
13d08c90
PP
1870PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1871 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1872
bef3ea7f
JH
1873JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1874 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1875 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1876
846726c5
JH
1877JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1878
3a796370
JH
1879JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1880
ea722490 1881JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1882 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1883
b1b05573
JH
1884JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1885 Bugzilla 884.
1886
362145b5
JH
1887JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1888 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1889
3c0a92dc
JH
1890JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1891 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1892
6d7c6175
PP
1893PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1894 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1895 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1896
6f123593
JH
1897JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1898 authenticators.
1899
c8e2fc1e
JH
1900JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1901 for control.
1902
005ac57f
PP
1903PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1904
3f1df0e3
PP
1905PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1906 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1907 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1908 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1909
67bd1ab3
TF
1910TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1911
1912 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1913 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1914 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1915 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1916 the retry rules.
1917
1918 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1919 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1920 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1921
1922 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1923 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1924 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1925 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1926
1ddeb334
TF
1927 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1928 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1929 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1930 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1931 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1932 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1933 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1934
1935 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1936 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1937
326cdc37
TF
1938TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1939
1940 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1941
1942 Resent-From: f
1943
1944 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1945 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1946 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1947 username as equal to the username.
1948
1949 This change corrects that bug.
1950
f62514b3
GF
1951GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1952 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1953 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1954
eb505532
TF
1955TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1956
14c7b357
PP
1957PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1958 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1959 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1960 NULL dereference and crash.
1961
94eaf700
PP
1962JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1963
6f5a440a
PP
1964PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1965 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1966 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1967
514ee161
SC
1968SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1969
fd98a5c6
JH
1970JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1971 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1972 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1973 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1974 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1975 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1976 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1977 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1978 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1979 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1980 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1981
035c7f1e
PP
1982PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1983 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1984
ff284120
PP
1985PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1986 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1987 Bugzilla 880.
1988
26e72755
PP
1989PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1990 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1991 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1992 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1993 an empty string is now equivalent.
1994
0fbd9bff
PP
1995PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1996 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1997 not performing validation itself.
1998
700d22f3
PP
1999PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2000 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2001
fcc8e047
JH
2002JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2003 Bugzilla 321, 823.
2004
4c04137d 2005TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 2006
8c020188
PP
2007PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2008 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2009 other false fix of the same issue.
2010 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2011 Bugzilla 1363.
2012
d13cdd30
PP
2013PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2014 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2015
e2fbf4a2
PP
2016PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2017 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2018 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2019
f4c1088b
PP
2020PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2021 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2022 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2023
c5c2182f
PP
2024TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2025
73431ca9
JH
2026JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2027
2d07a215
TL
2028TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2029 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2030
a30a8861
TL
2031TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2032 Alexander Miroch.
2033
33382dd9
TL
2034TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2035 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2036 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2037 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2038 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 2039
046172e6
TL
2040TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2041 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2042
581d7bee 2043TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 2044 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
2045 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
2046
2047TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2048 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2049 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2050 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2051
237b2cf2
TL
2052TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2053
9fc5a352
TL
2054TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2055 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2056 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 2057
b10e4ec2
TL
2058TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2059
e2cebd74
TL
2060TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2061 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2062 interaction.
2063
2064TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2065 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2066
2519e60d
TL
2067TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2068 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2069
e78e6ecf 2070
4263f395
PP
2071Exim version 4.80.1
2072-------------------
2073
2074PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2075 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 2076 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 2077
ea722490 2078
b1770b6e 2079Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
2080-----------------
2081
2082PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2083 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2084 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2085
23c7e742
NM
2086NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2087
b322aac8
NM
2088NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2089 improved.
2090
4a891427
NM
2091NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2092
c1e794ba 2093PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 2094
97753960
PP
2095PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2096
2097PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2098 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2099
df6303fa
PP
2100PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2101 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2102
7e6a8985
PP
2103PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2104 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2105
f1e05cc7 2106PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
2107 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2108 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 2109
4c287009
PP
2110PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2111
b98bb9ac
PP
2112PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2113 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2114
4a6a987a
PP
2115PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2116
c45dd180 2117PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 2118
7db8d074
PP
2119PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2120 non-compliant senders.
2121 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2122
eae0036b 2123NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 2124 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
2125 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2126
dec5017e
PP
2127PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2128 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2129 in spool file corruption.
2130
c80c5570
PP
2131PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2132 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2133 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2134 "Got SSL error 2".
2135
076b11e2
PP
2136TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2137 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2138 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2139
5407bfff
JH
2140JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2141 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2142
9e45c72b
PP
2143JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2144
e74376d8
PP
2145PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2146 diagnostics.
2147 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2148
4c04137d 2149PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
2150 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2151 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2152
7be682ca
PP
2153PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2154 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
2155 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2156 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 2157
ef840681
PP
2158PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2159 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2160
5bfb4cdf
PP
2161PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2162 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2163 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2164 resolver implementation change.
2165
c6e95d22
PP
2166PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2167 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2168
9cbad13b
PP
2169PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2170
9ee44efb
PP
2171PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2172
6a6084f8
PP
2173PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2174 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2175
12dd53c7
PP
2176PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2177 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2178
9e45c72b 2179JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
2180 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2181
17c76198
PP
2182PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2183 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2184 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2185 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 2186 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 2187
53947857 2188PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 2189
eae0036b 2190PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
2191 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2192 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 2193
9e45c72b 2194JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 2195
7390e768
PP
2196PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2197 read-only, out of scope).
2198 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2199
08488c86
PP
2200PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2201 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2202 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2203 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2204
6475bd82
PP
2205PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2206
81f91683
PP
2207PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2208 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2209 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2210 real issues in debug logging.
2211
5779e6aa
PP
2212PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2213 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2214
3375e053
PP
2215PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2216 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2217 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2218
2219PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2220 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
2221 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2222 problems.
3375e053 2223
9d26b8c0
PP
2224PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2225 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2226
57eb9e91 2227PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
2228 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2229 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2230 needs to override this, it can.
2231
16880d1a
PP
2232PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2233 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2234 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2235
a799883d
PP
2236PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2237 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2238 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2239 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2240
3ecab157 2241PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 2242
0599f9cf 2243
867fcbf5
PP
2244Exim version 4.77
2245-----------------
2246
2247PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2248 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2249
f1a29782
TF
2250TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2251
ab42bd23
TK
2252TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2253 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 2254
0ca0cf52
TF
2255TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2256 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2257
921b12ca
TF
2258TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2259 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2260 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2261
2262 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2263 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2264 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2265 not safe for signals.
2266
2267 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2268 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2269 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2270 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2271 exiwhat.
2272
c99ce5c9
TF
2273TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2274
2275 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2276 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2277 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2278 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2279 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2280
2281 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2282 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2283 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2284 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2285 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2286 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2287
2288 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2289 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2290 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2291 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2292
2293 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2294 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2295 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2296 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2297
2298 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2299 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2300 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2301 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2302 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2303 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2304 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2305 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2306 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2307
2308 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2309 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2310 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2311 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2312
2313 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2314 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2315 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2316 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2317 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2318 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2319 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2320 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2321 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2322 details in the main documentation.
2323
3634fc25
TF
2324TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2325
792e8a19
TF
2326TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2327
5901f0ab
TF
2328TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2329 repository when doing development or release builds.
2330
7f2a2a43
PP
2331PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2332 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2333
061b7ebd
PP
2334PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2335 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2336 Bugzilla 97.
2337
e12f8c32
PP
2338PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2339
9e949f00 2340PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2341 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2342
2343PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2344 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2345
555ae6af 2346PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2347 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2348
2349PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2350 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2351
6f7fe114
PP
2352PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2353 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2354
c566dd90
PP
2355PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2356 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2357 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2358 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2359
d6cc7c78 2360PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2361 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2362 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2363
0d0e4455
PP
2364PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2365
3399bb60 2366PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2367
2368PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2369 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2370
0ca0cf52 2371
10906672
PP
2372Exim version 4.76
2373-----------------
2374
2375PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2376
754a0503
PP
2377PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2378 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2379
c0c7b2da
PP
2380PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2381
e97d1f08
PP
2382PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2383
084c1d8c
PP
2384PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2385 Bugzilla 1098.
2386
4e7ee012
PP
2387PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2388 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2389
c8d52a00
PP
2390TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2391 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2392
54e7ce4a
PP
2393PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2394 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2395
5ee6f336
PP
2396PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2397 Bugzilla 1104.
2398
c8d52a00 2399TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2400 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2401
2402TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2403 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2404 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2405 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2406
2407PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2408 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2409
10906672 2410
aa097c4c
NM
2411Exim version 4.75
2412-----------------
2413
4c04137d 2414NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2415 Bugzilla 1073
2416
7f3d9eff
TF
2417TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2418 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2419 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2420
159f52d2
TF
2421TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2422 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2423
0cc9542a
PP
2424PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2425 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2426 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2427
f7274286
PP
2428PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2429 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2430
7b797365
PP
2431PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2432 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2433
caacae52
NM
2434NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2435 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2436
09dcaba9
NM
2437NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2438 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2439
bc19a55b
PP
2440PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2441 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2442
bd4c9759
NM
2443NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2444 Fixes bug 943.
2445
b72aab72
PP
2446PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2447 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2448
2fe76745
PP
2449PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2450 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2451
76aa570c
PP
2452PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2453 SQL string expansion failure details.
2454 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2455
f1e5fef5
PP
2456PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2457 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2458
4d805ee9
PP
2459PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2460 extern declarations in function scope.
2461 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2462
cd59ab18
PP
2463PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2464 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2465 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2466 a kernel bug).
2467
332f5cf3
PP
2468PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2469 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2470
29cfeb94
PP
2471PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2472 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2473
660242ad
PP
2474PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2475 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2476
bc4bc4c5
PP
2477PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2478 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2479
2e64baa9
NM
2480NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2481 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2482 Dennis Davis.
2483
4c04137d 2484PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2485
6bac1a9a
PP
2486PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2487
552193f0
NM
2488NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2489 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2490
1b587e48
TF
2491TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2492 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2493
aa097c4c 2494
8c07b69f
TF
2495Exim version 4.74
2496-----------------
2497
2498TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2499 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2500
c0ea85ab
TF
2501TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2502 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2503
0761d44e
TF
2504TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2505
0a349494
PP
2506DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2507 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2508 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2509
2510PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2511 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2512 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2513
fea24b2e
PP
2514PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2515 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2516 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2517 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2518
6545de78
PP
2519PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2520 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2521 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2522 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2523
1670ef10
PP
2524PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2525 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2526 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2527 arbitrary files.
2528
c0886197
PP
2529PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2530 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2531
b7487bce
PP
2532PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2533 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2534 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2535 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2536 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2537
8c07b69f 2538
97fd1e48 2539Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2540-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2541
2542PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2543 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2544 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2545
6901c596
PP
2546PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2547 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2548
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2549JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2550
77bb000f
PP
2551PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2552
a29e5231
PP
2553PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2554
ec5a0394 2555PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2556
55c75993
PP
2557PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2558
453a6645 2559PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2560 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2561 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2562 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2563
8544e77a
PP
2564PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2565 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2566 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2567 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2568 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2569
83e029d5
PP
2570PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2571
ed7f7860
PP
2572PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2573
7d9f747b
PP
2574PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2575
4b2241d2
PP
2576PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2577
10385c15
PP
2578PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2579
dbc4b90d
PP
2580PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2581
532be449
PP
2582PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2583
6a8de854 2584PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2585 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2586 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2587
5dc43717
JJ
2588JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2589
2590JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2591 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2592
3346ab01
PP
2593PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2594 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2595
491fab4c
PP
2596PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2597 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2598 Notification from John Horne.
2599
13eb9497
PP
2600PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2601 compatible.
2602
2603PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2604 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2605 it normally works.
2606
7f36d675
DW
2607DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2608 access.
2609
c1d94452
DW
2610DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2611 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2612 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2613
e2f5dc15
DW
2614DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2615 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2616 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2617 configuration file.
2618
cd25e41d
DW
2619DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2620 option (effectively making it always true).
2621
261dc43e
DW
2622DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2623 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2624
fa32850b
DW
2625DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2626 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2627
79d4bc3d
PP
2628PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2629 run-time user, instead of root.
2630
43236f35 2631PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2632 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2633
fb08281f
DW
2634DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2635 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2636 arguments.
3346ab01 2637
74935b98
DW
2638DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2639 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2640 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2641
90b6341f
DW
2642DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2643
57730b52
ML
2644NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2645
66581d1e 2646
465e92cf
JJ
2647Exim version 4.72
2648-----------------
2649
453a6645
PP
2650JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2651 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2652 typos
465e92cf 2653
453a6645
PP
2654JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2655 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2656 (Finput)
edae0343 2657
9bd3e22c
NM
2658NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2659 Patch from Alain Williams
2660
bb576ff7
NM
2661NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2662
5a1a5845
NM
2663NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2664 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2665
981a9fad
NM
2666NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2667 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2668
7fc497ee
NM
2669NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2670
1a41defa
JJ
2671JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2672
a466095c 2673NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2674 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2675
94a6bd0b
NM
2676TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2677
2678TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2679
2680MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2681 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2682 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2683
c1b141a8
NM
2684NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2685 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2686
b26eacf1 2687NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2688 Patch by Simon Arlott
2689
179c5980 2690PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2691 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2692
9bd3e22c 2693
7c6d71af
NM
2694Exim version 4.71
2695-----------------
2696
7d9f747b 2697TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2698
f013fb92
NM
2699NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2700
0eb8eedd
NM
2701NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2702
663ee6d9
NM
2703NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2704
177ebd9b
NM
2705NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2706
7c6d71af 2707
210f147e
NM
2708Exim version 4.70
2709-----------------
2710
cdd3bb85 2711TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2712 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2713
2714TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2715 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2716 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2717
2718TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2719 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2720 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2721
2722TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2723 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2724
210f147e
NM
2725NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2726 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2727 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2728 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2729
deafd5b3
NM
2730NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2731 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2732 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2733
089793a4
TF
2734TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2735
5f16ca82
TF
2736TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2737
dae9d94e 2738NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2739 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2740
7d9f747b 2741NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2742
06864c44
TF
2743TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2744 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2745 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2746 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2747
65a7d8c3 2748NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2749 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2750
23510047 2751TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2752
7d9f747b 2753NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2754
7d8eec3a 2755NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2756 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2757
89dec7b6
TF
2758TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2759 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2760
a99de90c
TF
2761TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2762 that they are available at delivery time.
2763
e2803e40
TF
2764TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2765
7199e1ee
TF
2766TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2767 incoming_port log selectors.
2768
e276e04b
TF
2769TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2770 setting expands to an empty string.
2771
ce552449 2772NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2773 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2774
e765a0f1 2775NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2776 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2777
4f054c63 2778NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2779 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2780
7d9f747b
PP
2781NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2782 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2783
7d9f747b
PP
2784NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2785 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2786
b52bc06e 2787NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2788 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2789
447de4b0
NM
2790NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2791
4c69d561 2792NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2793 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2794
d5c39246 2795NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2796 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2797
0b23848a
TK
2798TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2799
8f3414a1 2800NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2801 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2802
fb6f955d
NM
2803NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2804
2805NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2806
7d9f747b
PP
2807NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2808 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2809
7d9f747b
PP
2810NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2811 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2812
7d9f747b
PP
2813NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2814 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2815
7d9f747b
PP
2816NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2817 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2818
7d9f747b
PP
2819NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2820 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2821
7d9f747b
PP
2822NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2823 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2824
7d9f747b
PP
2825NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2826 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2827
7d9f747b 2828NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2829 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2830
7d9f747b 2831NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2832
7d9f747b
PP
2833NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2834 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2835
7d9f747b 2836NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2837
7d9f747b 2838NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2839
7d9f747b 2840NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2841
7d9f747b 2842NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2843
17792b53 2844NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2845 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2846
7d9f747b
PP
2847NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2848 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2849
91576cec 2850NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2851 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2852
7d9f747b
PP
2853NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2854 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2855
7d9f747b 2856NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2857
7d9f747b 2858NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2859
7d9f747b 2860NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2861
7d9f747b 2862NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2863
deafd5b3 2864
47db1125
NM
2865Exim version 4.69
2866-----------------
2867
4b3504d0
TK
2868TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2869 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2870 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2871
2872 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2873 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2874 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2875 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2876 build errors in sieve.c.
2877
81ea09ca
NM
2878NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2879 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2880 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2881
f13cddcb
SC
2882SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2883
7d9f747b 2884NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2885
7d9f747b 2886NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2887
7d9f747b 2888NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2889
2890
eb4c0de6
PH
2891Exim version 4.68
2892-----------------
2893
2894PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2895
6a3bceb1
PH
2896PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2897 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2898 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2899 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2900 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2901 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2902 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2903 for iplsearch lookups.
2904
2905 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2906 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2907 previously such lookups could never work.
2908
4c04137d 2909 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2910 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2911 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2912
2e30fa9d
TK
2913TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2914 version.
2915
0806a9c5
MH
2916MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2917 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2918 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2919 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2920 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2921 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2922
ae276964
TK
2923TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2924 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2925
0f2cbd1b
MH
2926MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2927 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2928 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2929 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2930 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2931 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2932
2b85bce7
PH
2933PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2934 local_scan API.
2935
93655c46
PH
2936PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2937
6c512171
PH
2938PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2939 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2940 encrypted.
2941
2942PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2943 by clients under certain conditions.
2944
aa6dc513
PH
2945PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2946 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2947
a96603a0
PH
2948PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2949
8f240103
PH
2950PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2951 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2952
2953PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2954
d677b2f2
PH
2955PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2956
d52120f2
PH
2957PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2958
64f2600a
PH
2959PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2960 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2961
8669f003
PH
2962PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2963
a4dc33a8
PH
2964PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2965 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2966
d6a60c0f
PH
2967PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2968
8f128379
PH
2969PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2970
8932dffe
PH
2971PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2972 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2973 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2974 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2975
ddea74fa 2976PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2977 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2978 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2979
ddea74fa 2980PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2981 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2982
ddea74fa
PH
2983PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2984
ce9f225c
PH
2985PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2986
19897d52
PH
2987PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2988
bc64a74d
PH
2989PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2990 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2991 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2992
eb4c0de6 2993
b4ed4da0
PH
2994Exim version 4.67
2995-----------------
2996
22ad45c9
MH
2997MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2998 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2999 Jan Srzednicki.
3000
b4ed4da0
PH
3001PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3002 issue a MAIL command.
3003
431b7361
PH
3004PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3005
3006 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3007
3008 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3009 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3010 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3011 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3012 item. This has been fixed.
3013
3014PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3015 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3016
83da1223
PH
3017PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3018 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3019
54fc8428
PH
3020PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3021 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3022 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3023
34c5e8dd
SC
3024SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3025
bbe15da8
PH
3026PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3027 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3028 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3029 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3030 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3031
0e8a9471
MH
3032MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3033 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3034 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3035
f0872424
PH
3036PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3037 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3038 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3039 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3040
b01dd148
PH
3041PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3042
6bf342e1
PH
3043PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3044
273f34d0
PH
3045PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3046 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3047 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3048 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3049 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3050
cf8b11a5
PH
3051PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3052
41c7c167
PH
3053PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3054 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3055 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3056 values).
3057
9c57cbc0
PH
3058PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3059
f3f065bb
PH
3060PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3061
047bdd8c
PH
3062PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3063
0ce9abe6
PH
3064PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3065
0e22dfd1
PH
3066PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3067
4c590bd1
PH
3068PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3069 no_callout_flush is set.
3070
09945f1e
PH
3071PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3072 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3073 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3074 fixed.
3075
c51b8e75
PH
3076PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3077
e28326d8 3078PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 3079 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
3080 other ACL rejections are.
3081
75b1493f
PH
3082PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3083 with slight modification.
3084
7c5214ec
PH
3085PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3086 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3087
4311097e
PH
3088PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3089 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3090 connection.
3091
29f89cad
PH
3092PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3093 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3094
5e687460
SC
3095SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3096
c3611384
PH
3097PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3098 expansion side effects.
3099
5a11a7b4
PH
3100PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3101 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3102 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3103 be the same.
3104
0e20aff9
MH
3105MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3106 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3107 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3108
ca86f471
PH
3109PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3110 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3111 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3112 were accidentally chopped off.
3113
a14e5636
PH
3114PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3115 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3116 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3117 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3118 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3119 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3120 pipelining has not been advertised.
3121
ec95d1a6
PH
3122PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3123
42855d71
PH
3124PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3125 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3126 This has been fixed.
3127
57c2c631
PH
3128PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3129 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3130 reported on Solaris.
3131
58c01c94
PH
3132PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3133 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3134 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3135 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3136 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3137 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3138 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3139
dee5a20a
PH
3140PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3141 cpus.
3142
d2ee6114
PH
3143PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3144
b2d5182b
PH
3145PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3146
79749a79
PH
3147PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3148 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
3149 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3150 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3151 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3152 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 3153
c456d9bb
PH
3154PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3155 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3156 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3157 host_all_ignored option.
3158
cd9868ec
PH
3159PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3160 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3161 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3162 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3163 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3164 is what is supposed to happen).
3165
ebeaf996
PH
3166PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3167 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3168 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3169 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3170 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3171 uses the Exim user.
3172
2679d413
PH
3173PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3174 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3175 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3176 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3177 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3178 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3179 users.
3180
84024b72
PH
3181PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3182
8005d38e
SC
3183SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3184 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3185 (Jez Hancock).
3186 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3187 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3188
3298c6c6
SC
3189SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3190
a43a27c5
PH
3191PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3192
58eb016e 3193PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
3194 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3195 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3196 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3197 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3198 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3199 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3200 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 3201 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
3202 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3203 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 3204
b43a74ea
PH
3205PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3206 advertised in response to EHLO.
3207
b4ed4da0 3208
5dd1517f
PH
3209Exim version 4.66
3210-----------------
3211
3212PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3213 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3214
3215 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3216 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3217
3218 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3219 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3220 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3221
3222 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3223 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3224 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3225 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3226 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3227
3228
93cfa765
TK
3229Exim version 4.65
3230-----------------
3231
3232TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3233 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3234 versions. (#438)
3235
d6066548
MH
3236MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3237 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3238 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3239
4362ff0d
PH
3240PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3241 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3242 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3243 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3244 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3245 rather than extend the field.
3246
93cfa765 3247
944e9e9c
TF
3248Exim version 4.64
3249-----------------
aa41d2de 3250
21d74bd9
TK
3251TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3252 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3253 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3254 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3255 these files.
3256
3257TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3258 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3259 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3260
3261TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3262 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3263 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
3264
3265TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3266 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3267 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3268 in the field name.
3269
2b1c6e3a
PH
3270PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3271 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3272 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3273 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3274 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3275 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3276 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3277 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3278 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3279 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3280 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3281
1f872c80
PH
3282PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3283 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3284
3285PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3286 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3287 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3288 ignores EPIPE as well.
3289
d203e649
PH
3290PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3291 (quoted-printable decoding).
3292
cc2ed8f7 3293PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3294 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3295
ddfcd446
PH
3296PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3297
d45b1de8
PH
3298PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3299
3300PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3301
38a0a95f 3302PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3303 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3304
a2405d83
JJ
3305JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3306 in 4.64-PH/09.
3307
3308JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3309 miscellaneous code fixes
3310
6ea85e9a
PH
3311PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3312 rejections.
3313
26da7e20
PH
3314PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3315 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3316 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3317 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3318 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3319 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3320 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3321 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3322
14aa5a05 3323PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3324 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3325 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3326 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3327 function.
3328 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3329 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3330 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3331 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3332 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3333 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3334 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3335 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3336 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3337
ff75a1f7
PH
3338PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3339 decoding.
3340
e6f6568e
PH
3341PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3342 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3343 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3344 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3345 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3346 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3347 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3348 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3349
d6f6e0dc
PH
3350PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3351 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3352 list.
3353
322050c2
PH
3354PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3355 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3356 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3357 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3358 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3359 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3360 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3361 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3362 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3363 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3364 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3365 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3366 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3367
08955dd3
PH
3368PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3369 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3370 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3371 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3372 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3373 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3374 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3375
1eccaa59
PH
3376PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3377 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3378 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3379 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3380 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3381 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3382 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3383 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3384 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3385 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3386
602e59e5
PH
3387PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3388 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3389 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3390 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3391 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3392
411ef850
PH
3393PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3394 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3395 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3396 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3397 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3398 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3399 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3400
7befa435
PH
3401PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3402 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3403 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3404 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3405 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3406 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3407 been verified.
3408
48da4259 3409PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3410 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3411 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3412 and authorization.)
3413
48da4259
PH
3414PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3415 if any retry times were supplied.
3416
d1d5595c
PH
3417PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3418 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3419 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3420
0ef732d9
PH
3421PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3422
328895cc
PH
3423PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3424
fd700877
PH
3425PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3426 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3427 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3428 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3429 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3430 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3431
8dce1a6f
PH
3432PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3433 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3434
17af4a17
PH
3435PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3436 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3437 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3438
3439PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3440 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3441 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3442 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3443 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3444 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3445 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3446 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3447 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3448
3449 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3450 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3451 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3452 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3453 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3454 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3455 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3456 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3457 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3458
3459 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3460 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3461 hammering the server.
3462
c1114884
PH
3463PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3464 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3465
7a0743eb
PH
3466PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3467
0d85fa3f
PH
3468PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3469 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3470 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3471
1bf43b78
PH
3472PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3473 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3474 one case where this was not true.
3475
520de300
PH
3476PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3477 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3478 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3479 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3480 fails.
3481
48c7f9e2
PH
3482PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3483 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3484 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3485 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3486 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3487 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3488 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3489 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3490 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3491 smtp transport.
3492
99ea1c86
PH
3493PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3494 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3495 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3496 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3497
a2042e78
PH
3498PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3499 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3500
4fbcfc2e
PH
3501PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3502 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3503 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3504
aa41d2de
PH
3505PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3506
af561417
PH
3507PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3508
3cc66b45
PH
3509PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3510
194cc0e4
PH
3511PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3512 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3513 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3514 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3515
a401ddaa
PH
3516PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3517 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3518
4e88a19f
PH
3519PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3520 be meaningful with "accept".
3521
d7d7b289
SC
3522SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3523 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3524
3525SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3526 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3527 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3528
3529SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3530 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3531 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3532 there is data to show.
3533 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3534
3535SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3536 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3537 as well as the number of messages.
3538
3539SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3540 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3541 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3542
3543SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3544 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3545 have a flag are now skipped.
3546
3547SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3548 Added the -emptyok flag.
3549
3550SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3551 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3552
0ea2a468
JJ
3553JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3554 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3555 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3556
3557JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3558 match 4.64-PH/13
3559
3560JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3561 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3562
3563JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3564
3565JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3566 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3567
8a10f5a4
PH
3568PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3569
30e18802
PH
3570PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3571 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3572 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3573 contravention of the specifications.
3574
55728a4f
PH
3575PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3576 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3577 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3578
d7837193
PH
3579PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3580 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3581 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3582
87054a31
PH
3583PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3584
ea2c01d2
MH
3585MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3586 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3587 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3588 some point in the past.
3589
e4fa6968
PH
3590PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3591 transport during callout processing was broken.
3592
56f5d9bd
PH
3593PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3594 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3595
922e1c28
PH
3596PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3597 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3598
21eb6e72
PH
3599PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3600 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3601
a0540757
PH
3602PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3603
944e9e9c 3604
478be7b0
SC
3605Exim version 4.63
3606-----------------
3607
3608SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3609 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3610
3611SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3612 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3613 there is data to show.
3614 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3615
3616SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3617 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3618
2b965a65
TF
3619TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3620 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3621
45b91596
PH
3622TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3623 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3624
c59f5781
TF
3625TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3626 submissions from trusted users.
3627
90fc3069
TF
3628TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3629 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3630
6083aca0
TF
3631TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3632 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3633 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3634 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3635 there is now a framework to start from.
3636
765b530f
PH
3637PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3638 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3639 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3640
4e167a8c
PH
3641PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3642
4608d683
PH
3643PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3644
b8dc3e4a
PH
3645PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3646
5418e93b
PH
3647PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3648 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3649 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3650
b4a9bda2
PH
3651PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3652 libradius.
3653
45b91596
PH
3654PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3655 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3656 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3657
5547e2c5
PH
3658PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3659 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3660 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3661 its arguments.
3662
dbcef0ea
PH
3663PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3664 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3665 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3666 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3667 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3668
25257489
PH
3669PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3670 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3671
c816d124
PH
3672PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3673
a9ccd69a
PH
3674PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3675 operations in malware.c.
3676
75fa1910
PH
3677PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3678 signatures.
3679
a7d7aa58
PH
3680PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3681 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3682 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3683 all.
3684
42119b09
PH
3685PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3686 statements to "add_header".
3687
41609df5
PH
3688PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3689 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3690
a5bd321b
PH
3691PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3692 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3693 latter.
3694
e85a7ad5 3695PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3696 so that it is now:
3697
e85a7ad5
PH
3698 ${if or { \
3699 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3700 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3701 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3702 }{no}{yes}}
3703
e85a7ad5
PH
3704 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3705 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3706
d8fe1c03
PH
3707PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3708 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3709
16282d2b
PH
3710PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3711 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3712 any possible encoding problems.
3713
35d40a98
PH
3714PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3715 but not after initializing Perl.
3716
034d99ab
PH
3717PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3718 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3719 apparently, which is not desirable.
3720
6ec97b1b
PH
3721PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3722 queries.
3723
e22ca4ac
JJ
3724JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3725 --not options
3726
3727JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3728
33d73e3b
PH
3729PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3730 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3731 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3732 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3733
9ecb03f3
PH
3734PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3735 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3736 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3737
084efe8d
PH
3738PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3739 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3740 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3741 0.12.
3742
366fc9f0
PH
3743PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3744 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3745 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3746 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3747 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3748
c59f5781 3749
c887c79e
TF
3750Exim version 4.62
3751-----------------
3752
3753TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3754 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3755
1cce3af8
PH
3756PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3757 patch).
3758
afb3eaaf
PH
3759PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3760 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3761 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3762 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3763 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3764 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3765 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3766 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3767 451 error is used.
3768
e173618b
PH
3769PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3770
dd16e114
PH
3771PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3772 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3773 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3774
f7fd3850
PH
3775PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3776 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3777 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3778 odd errors.
3779
d87df92c
PH
3780PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3781 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3782
7e9f683d
PH
3783PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3784 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3785 option (which defaults to 0600).
3786
bfad5236
PH
3787PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3788
01c490df
PH
3789PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3790 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3791 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3792 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3793 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3794 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3795 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3796
d6629cdc
PH
3797PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3798
1cce3af8 3799
214e2000
PH
3800Exim version 4.61
3801-----------------
3802
3803PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3804 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3805 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3806 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3807 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3808 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3809 addresses as local.
3810
f9daeae0
PH
3811PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3812 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3813
7e66e54d
PH
3814PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3815
c8ea1597
PH
3816PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3817 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3818 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3819 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3820 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3821 grumble.
3822
911f6fde
PH
3823PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3824 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3825
47ca6d6c
PH
3826PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3827 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3828 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3829 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3830 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3831
ed0e9820
PH
3832PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3833 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3834 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3835 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3836
eff37e47
PH
3837PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3838 be the same on different OS.
3839
1921d2ea
PH
3840PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3841 testing.
3842
b3f69ca8
JJ
3843JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3844 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3845
3846JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3847 in 4.61-PH/06
3848
424a1c63
PH
3849PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3850 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3851 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3852 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3853 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3854 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3855 bounce message.
3856
7a100415
PH
3857PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3858 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3859 when Exim was called.
3860
19b9dc85
PH
3861PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3862 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3863
309bd837
PH
3864PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3865 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3866 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3867 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3868
59e82a2a
PH
3869PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3870 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3871 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3872 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3873 changes:
3874
3875 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3876 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3877 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3878
3879 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3880 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3881 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3882
9edc04ce
PH
3883PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3884 feature).
3885
1349e1e5
PH
3886PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3887 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3888 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3889 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3890 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3891 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3892 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3893 values from the SRV records were lost.
3894
ea49d0e1
PH
3895PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3896 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3897 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3898
064a94c9
PH
3899PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3900 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3901 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3902
727071f8
PH
3903PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3904 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3905 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3906 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3907 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3908 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3909 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3910 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3911 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3912 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3913
f78eb7c6
PH
3914PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3915 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3916 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3917
21c28500
PH
3918PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3919 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3920
3921PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3922 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3923 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3924 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3925 is given.
3926
1688f43b
PH
3927PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3928 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3929 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3930
3931PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3932 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3933 PH/23 above applies.
3934
9675b384
PH
3935PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3936 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3937 (for which there is an explicit test).
3938
6a3f1455
PH
3939PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3940
dac79d3e
PH
3941PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3942 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3943 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3944 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3945 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3946
5977a0b3
PH
3947PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3948 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3949 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3950 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3951
c91535f3
PH
3952PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3953 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3954 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3955
0d46a8c8
PH
3956PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3957
278c6e6c
PH
3958PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3959
2cbb4081
PH
3960PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3961 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3962 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3963
3eef829e
PH
3964PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3965 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3966 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3967 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3968 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3969
1ab95fa6
PH
3970PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3971 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3972 the message gets confusing).
3973
230205fc
PH
3974PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3975 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3976 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3977 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3978
75e0e026
PH
3979PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3980 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3981 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3982 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3983 same order.
3984
3985PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3986 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3987 the different processes.
3988
145396a6
PH
3989PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3990
3cd34f13
PH
3991PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3992
11121d3d
JJ
3993JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3994 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3995
3996JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3997 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3998
3999JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4000 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4001 messages matching specified criteria.
4002
8def5aaf
PH
4003PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4004
929ba01c
PH
4005PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4006 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4007
2632889e
PH
4008PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4009 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4010 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4011 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4012 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4013 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4014 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4015 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4016 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4017 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4018
944a9c55
PH
4019PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4020 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4021 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4022
4a23603b
PH
4023PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4024
4730f942
PH
4025PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4026 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4027 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4028 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4029 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4030 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4031 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4032 the variable.
4033
30dba1e6
PH
4034PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4035 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4036
382afc6b
PH
4037PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4038
a86229cf
PH
4039PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4040
50c99ba6
PH
4041PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4042
d35e429d
PH
4043PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4044 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4045 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4046 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4047 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4048 size of the count of files.
4049
f90d018c
PH
4050PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4051
75def545
PH
4052PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4053 used in LMTP mode:
4054
4055 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4056 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4057 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4058 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4059
4060 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4061 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4062 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4063
4064PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4065 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4066 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4067 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4068 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4069
c46782ef
PH
4070PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4071 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4072
71fafd95
PH
4073PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4074 will now be deprecated.
4075
2c5db4fd
PH
4076PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4077
9cf6b11a
JJ
4078JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4079 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4080 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4081
4082JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4083 with very large, slow to parse queues
4084
4085JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4086
4087JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4088
898d150f
PH
4089PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4090 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4091 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4092 SMTP output lines.
4093
46218253
PH
4094PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4095 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4096 Sieve code now uses this.
4097
e97957bc
PH
4098PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4099 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4100
81e509d7
PH
4101PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4102 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4103
3d240ff7
PH
4104PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4105
b37c4101
PH
4106PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4107 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4108 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4109 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4110 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4111
79378e0f
PH
4112PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4113 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4114 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4115 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4116
e49c7bb4
PH
4117PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4118
d114ec46
PH
4119PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4120
f3d7df6c
PH
4121PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4122 is preferred over IPv4.
4123
715ab376
PH
4124PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4125 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4126 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4127 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4128 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4129 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4130 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4131
6b31b150
PH
4132PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4133 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4134 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4135
4136PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4137
d515a917
PH
4138PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4139 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4140 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4141 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4142 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4143 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4144 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4145 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4146 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4147 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4148 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4149
9b8fadde
PH
4150PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4151 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4152 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4153
214e2000 4154
5de37277
PH
4155Exim version 4.60
4156-----------------
4157
cc38ddbf
PH
4158PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4159
4160 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4161 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4162
4163 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4164 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4165 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 4166
72fdd6ae
PH
4167PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4168
4169 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4170 not a single digit.
4171
4172 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4173 string.
4174
4175 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4176 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4177 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4178 silly things.
4179
4180 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4181 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4182
4183 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4184 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 4185
cb741023
PH
4186PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4187 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4188 "/bin:/usr/bin".
4189
f174f16e
PH
4190PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4191 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 4192
c25242d7
PH
4193PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4194 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4195
4196 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4197
4198 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4199 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4200 this:
4201
4202 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4203
82c19f95
PH
4204PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4205 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4206 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4207 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4208 identical. For example:
4209
4210 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4211
4212 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4213 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4214 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4215
d7ffbc12
PH
4216PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4217 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4218 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4219 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4220
9f526266
PH
4221PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4222 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4223 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4224 message.
4225
87fcc8b9
PH
4226PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4227
4228 o fixes some comments
4229 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4230 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4231 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4232 and documents the missing references header update
4233
4234 and most important:
4235
4236 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 4237 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
4238 result)
4239
456682f5
PH
4240PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4241 Electronic Mail") by including:
4242
4243 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4244
4245 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 4246 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
4247 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4248 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4249 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4250
4251 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4252
4253 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4254
4255 The auto-replied keyword:
4256
4257 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4258 message by an automatic process,
4259
4260 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4261
4262 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4263 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4264
4265 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4266 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4267 other messages.
4268
3e46c1aa
PH
4269PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4270 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4271
49826d12
PH
4272PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4273
eba0c039
PH
4274PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4275 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4276 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4277
a0d6ba8a
PH
4278PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4279 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4280 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4281
f0917727
PH
4282PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4283 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4284 and treats the condition as false.
4285
096fee00
PH
4286PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4287
024bd3c2
PH
4288PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4289 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4290 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4291 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4292 not changing the active code.
4293
4294 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4295 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4296
4297 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4298 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4299
df199fec
PH
4300PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4301 (Bugzilla #53).
4302
d27f1df3
PH
4303PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4304 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4305 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4306 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4307 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4308 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4309 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4310 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4311 the text comparison.
4312
96776534
PH
4313PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4314 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4315 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4316 The same fix has been applied.
4317
5de37277 4318
9a799bc0
PH
4319Exim version 4.54
4320-----------------
4321
4322PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4323 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4324 It now does.
4325
99a4b039
PH
4326PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4327 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4328
4329PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4330
4b233853
PH
4331PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4332 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4333 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4334 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4335 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4336
8857ccfd
PH
4337TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4338 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4339 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4340 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4341 or /domain=).
4342
433a2980
PH
4343PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4344 testing suite.
4345
3e46c1aa 4346
9a799bc0 4347
e3a311ba
TK
4348Exim version 4.53
4349-----------------
4350
4351TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4352 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4353
13b685f9
PH
4354PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4355
395ff96d
PH
4356PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4357
5b68f6e4
PH
4358PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4359 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4360 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4361
1ab52c69
PH
4362PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4363 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4364 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4365
b07e6aa3
PH
4366PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4367 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4368 operating systems.
4369
254e032f
PH
4370PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4371 ${stat: expansion item.
4372
3af76a81
PH
4373PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4374 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4375
2548ba04
PH
4376PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4377 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4378 file for comments.
4379
b6c6011d
PH
4380PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4381
cf39cf57
PH
4382PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4383 setting.
4384
f1513293
PH
4385PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4386 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4387
727549a4
PH
4388TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4389
af46795e
PH
4390PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4391 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4392 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4393 the end of the subprocess.
4394
d7b47fd0
PH
4395PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4396 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4397 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4398 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4399 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4400
ee744174
JJ
4401JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4402
b582ab87
PH
4403TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4404
41a13e0a
PH
4405PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4406 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4407
f625cc5a
PH
4408PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4409
4410PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4411
21f7af35
PH
4412PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4413 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4414 HP-UX compiler.
4415
31480e42
PH
4416PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4417
2d280592
PH
4418PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4419 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4420 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4421
7cd1141b
PH
4422PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4423 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4424
4425PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4426 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4427
750af86e
PH
4428PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4429 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4430
4431 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4432 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4433
4434 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4435 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4436 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4437 contributed by a Radius user.
4438
4439PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4440 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4441
4304270b
TK
4442TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4443 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4444
750af86e
PH
4445PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4446 available.
4447
64ffc24f
PH
4448PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4449 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4450 received.
4451
5dd9625b
PH
4452PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4453 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4454 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4455 header lines when this was not necessary.
4456
5591031b
PH
4457PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4458
ba18e66a
PH
4459PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4460 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4461 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4462 exists".
4463
9cec981f
PH
4464PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4465 -bV or -d is used.
4466
aa2b5c79
PH
4467PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4468 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4469 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4470 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4471
48a53b7f
PH
4472PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4473
1c59d63b
PH
4474PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4475
671012da
TK
4476TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4477
1509d3a8
PH
4478PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4479
4480PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4481 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4482 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4483 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4484 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4485 settings.
4486
4487PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4488
2fe1a124
PH
4489PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4490 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4491 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4492 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4493 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4494 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4495 which is clearly wrong.
4496
8800895a
PH
4497PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4498
ccfdb010
PH
4499PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4500 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4501 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4502 subsequently added.
4503
1130bfb0
PH
4504PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4505 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4506
ebcb507f
PH
4507PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4508
c35e155c
PH
4509PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4510 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4511
95d1f782
PH
4512PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4513 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4514
fd6de02e
PH
4515PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4516 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4517
58de37c5
PH
4518PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4519 recipients, not senders.
4520
261cf466
TF
4521TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4522 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4523
3ee512ff
PH
4524PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4525
e08c430f
PH
4526PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4527
bef5a11f
PH
4528PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4529 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4530 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4531 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4532
7546de58
TF
4533TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4534
e5d5a95f
TF
4535TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4536 clock is set back in time.
4537
2e88a017
TF
4538TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4539 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4540
a5f65aa4
TF
4541TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4542 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4543
e7726cbf
PH
4544PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4545 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4546 (see PH/47 above).
4547
a7fdad5b
TF
4548TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4549 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4550 header rewrites.
4551
6af56900
PH
4552PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4553 type ("H").
4554
0925ede6
PH
4555PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4556
66afa403
TF
4557TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4558 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4559 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4560
0154e85a
TF
4561TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4562 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4563 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4564 helo verification defer as a failure.
4565
16f12c76
PH
4566PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4567 actual error message.
4568
bbe902f0 4569
e5a9dba6
PH
4570Exim version 4.52
4571-----------------
4572
4573TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4574
22c3b60b
PH
4575PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4576 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4577 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4578 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4579
06a9b4b5
PH
4580TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4581
c1ac6996
PH
4582PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4583 can still be requested.
4584
9c7a242c
PH
4585PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4586 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4587 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4588 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4589
87ba3f5f
PH
4590TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4591 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4592 circumstances, but probably never did.
4593
4594PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4595 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4596 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4597 in the header line.
4598
29aba418
TF
4599TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4600
fe0dab11
TF
4601TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4602 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4603
11d337a4
TK
4604TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4605
4606TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4607
415c8f3b
PH
4608PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4609 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4610 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4611 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4612 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4613 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4614
958541e9
PH
4615PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4616 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4617 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4618 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4619 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4620 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4621
c206415f
TK
4622TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4623 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4624
2a4be8f9
PH
4625PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4626 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4627
1cba11c5
SC
4628SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4629 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4630
4c04137d 4631SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4632
4633SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4634
4635SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4636
4637SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4638
4639SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4640
4641SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4642
1005d00e
TK
4643TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4644
4645TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4646 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4647 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4648
4649TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4650 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4651 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4652 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4653
9b4768fa
PH
4654PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4655 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4656 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4657
4658PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4659 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4660 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4661 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4662
0d7eb84a
PH
4663PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4664 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4665 to be made).
4666
4667PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4668 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4669 should work with maildirs and everything.
4670
40727bee
TK
4671TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4672 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4673
554d2369
TF
4674TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4675 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4676
1f922db1
PH
4677PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4678 function for BDB 4.3.
4679
ef213c3b
PH
4680PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4681
8ac170f3
PH
4682PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4683 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4684 involved.
4685
b1c749bb
PH
4686PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4687 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4688 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4689 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4690 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4691 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4692
4aac9b49
PH
4693PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4694 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4695 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4696 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4697 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4698 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4699 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4700 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4701
294520c8
TK
4702TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4703 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4704 details.
4705
5bd022fe
PH
4706PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4707 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4708
90e9ce59
PH
4709PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4710 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4711 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4712 test. It is now used for both.
4713
5ea81592
PH
4714PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4715 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4716 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4717 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4718 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4719 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4720
c6c2dc1d
PH
4721PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4722 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4723 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4724 string_vformat().
4725
fffffe4c
PH
4726PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4727 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4728 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4729
9a26b6b2
PH
4730PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4731 experimental DomainKeys support:
4732
4733 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4734 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4735 the control was given.
4736
4737 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4738
4aee0225
PH
4739PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4740
32d668a5
PH
4741PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4742
8187c3f3
PH
4743PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4744 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4745 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4746 db.h files).
4747
ff790e47 4748PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4749 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4750 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4751 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4752 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4753 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4754 course.
ff790e47 4755
5417f6d1
PH
4756PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4757 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4758 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4759 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4760 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4761 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4762
59cf8544
PH
4763PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4764 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4765 do -d+all out of habit.
4766
e7ad8a65
PH
4767PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4768 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4769 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4770
ade42478
PH
4771PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4772 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4773 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4774 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4775 record types that Exim uses.
4776
182ad5cf
PH
4777PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4778 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4779 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4780 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4781 non-existent file that was broken.
4782
b0d9fc80
TK
4783TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4784 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4785
4786TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4787 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4788 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4789
4790TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4791
47c7a64a
PH
4792PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4793 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4794 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4795 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4796 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4797 same time.
4798
a388bce4
SC
4799SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4800 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4801 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4802 at a slight CPU cost.
4803
4804SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4805 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4806
4807SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4808 by Marc Sherman.
4809
0793e4ed
SC
4810SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4811
c58b88df
PH
4812PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4813 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4814
e7ad8a65 4815
7982096b
PH
4816Exim version 4.51
4817-----------------
4818
1a46a8c5
PH
4819TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4820 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4821
2f079f46 4822TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4823
4824TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4825
4826PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4827 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4828
4829PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4830 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4831 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4832 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4833 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4834 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4835 file.
4836
4837PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4838 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4839 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4840 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4841 these two options.
4842
4843PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4844 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4845 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4846 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4847 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4848 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4849 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4850 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4851
4852PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4853 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4854
4855PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4856 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4857 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4858 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4859 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4860 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4861
4862PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4863 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4864 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4865 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4866
4867PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4868 Finch).
4869
4870PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4871 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4872
49c2d5ea
PH
4873PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4874 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4875 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4876 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4877 message.
49c2d5ea 4878
bf759a8b
PH
4879PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4880
83364d30
PH
4881PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4882 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4883
7999bbd7
PH
4884PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4885 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4886 to what was transported.)
4887
7dbf77c9
PH
4888TF/01 Added $received_time.
4889
74e0617f
PH
4890PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4891 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4892 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4893 spamd_address settings.
4894
2f079f46
PH
4895PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4896 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4897 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4898 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4899 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4900
8c841523
PH
4901PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4902
7766a4f0
PH
4903PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4904 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4905 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4906 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4907 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4908
8b417f2c
PH
4909PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4910 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4911
901f42cb
PH
4912PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4913 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4914 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4915 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4916 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4917 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4918 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4919 for failure.
4920
f9b9210e
PH
4921PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4922 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4923 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4924 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4925 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4926 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4927 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4928 "input=".
4929
54cdb463
PH
4930PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4931
cf00dad6
PH
4932PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4933 driver and ACL definitions.
4934
acb1b346
PH
4935PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4936 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4937
c5ddb310
PH
4938PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4939 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4940 understands it better than I do:
4941
4942 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4943 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4944
4945 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4946 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4947 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4948 => three warnings about OTP not working
4949 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4950
4951 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4952 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4953 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4954 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4955 for each call.)
4956 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4957 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4958
4959 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4960 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4961 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4962
31619da6
PH
4963PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4964 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4965 specified.
4966
bebaf0fc
PH
4967PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4968 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4969 "Linux".
4970
475fe28a
PH
4971PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4972 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4973 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4974
4975 warn !verify = sender
4976 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4977
4978 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4979 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4980
7e8bec7a
PH
4981PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4982
4983 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4984 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4985
4986 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4987 nomenclature these days.)
4988
e4a89c47
PH
4989PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4990 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4991
5ca2a9a1
PH
4992PH/30 In these circumstances:
4993 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4994 . First host does not offer TLS;
4995 . First host accepts first address;
4996 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4997 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4998 . Second host accepts second address.
4999 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5000 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5001 address.
7e8bec7a 5002
c688b954
PH
5003PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5004 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5005 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5006 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5007 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5008
fed77020
PH
5009PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5010 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5011
7fe1560f
PH
5012PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5013 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 5014
ebb6e6d5
PH
5015PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5016 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5017 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5018
9c4e8f60
PH
5019PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5020 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5021 overlooked.
5022
5023PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5024
d7174846
PH
5025PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5026 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5027 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5028 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5029 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5030 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5031 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5032
5033 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5034 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5035 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5036 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5037 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5038
5039 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5040 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5041 routed further.
5042
cfe75fc3
PH
5043PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5044 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5045 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5046 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5047 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5048 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5049
be22d70e
PH
5050PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5051
0612b098
PH
5052PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5053 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5054 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5055 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5056 printable escape sequences.
5057
2e0c1448
PH
5058PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5059 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5060 body only.
5061
447d236c
PH
5062PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5063 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5064 are as follows:
5065
5066 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5067 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5068 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5069 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5070 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5071
5072 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5073 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5074 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5075
d20976dc
PH
5076PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5077
f656d135
PH
5078PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5079 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5080 play with."
5081
2e2a30b4
PH
5082PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5083 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5084 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5085 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5086 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5087 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5088 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5089 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5090 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5091 the log output.
5092
9176e9f0
PH
5093PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5094 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5095 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5096 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5097 "make".
5098
7982096b 5099
bbe902f0
PH
5100A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5101----------------------------------------
5102
5103Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5104changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5105needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5106in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5107that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5108release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5109from 4.43.
5110
5111I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
51124.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5113those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5114historical information.
5115
5116
f7b63901 5117Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
5118-----------------
5119
5fe762f6
PH
5120 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5121
139059f6 5122 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 5123 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 5124
7086e875
PH
5125 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5126 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5127 place.
5128
35af9f61
PH
5129 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5130 filter fails to execute.
5131
b668c215
PH
5132 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5133 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5134 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5135 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5136 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5137
a494b1e1
PH
5138 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5139
5140 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5141 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5142 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5143 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 5144
c5fcb476
PH
5145 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5146 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5147 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5148 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5149 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5150
69358f02
PH
5151 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5152
5be20824
PH
515310. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5154
eb2c0248
PH
515511. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5156 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5157 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5158 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5159
2a3eea10
PH
516012. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5161 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5162 sender verification.
5163
516413. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5165 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5166
23c7ff99
PH
516714. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5168
4deaf07d
PH
516915. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5170 connection timeout.
5171
926e1192
PH
517216. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5173 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5174
650edc6f
PH
517517. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5176 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5177
2c7db3f5
PH
517818. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5179 information about exactly what failed.
5180
3d235903
PH
518119. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5182
7c7ad977
PH
518320. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5184 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5185 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5186
981756db
PH
518721. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5188 It is now set to "smtps".
5189
d4eb88df
PH
519022. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5191 ignore_target_hosts.
5192
519323. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5194 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5195 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5196 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5197 "[x.x.x.x]".
5198
7d468ab8
PH
519924. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5200 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5201 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5202
520325. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5204 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5205 wake it up if nothing else does.
5206
62c0818f
PH
520726. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5208 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5209 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5210 end up negative.
5211
26034054
PH
521227. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5213 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5214
af66f652
PH
521528. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5216
90af77f4
PH
521729. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5218 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5219 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5220 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5221 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5222 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5223 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5224 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5225
d8ef3577
PH
522630. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5227 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5228 than one IP address.
5229
5cb8cbc6
PH
523031. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5231 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5232 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5233 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5234
14702f5b
PH
523532. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5236 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5237 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5238 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5239 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5240 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5241
063b1e99
PH
524233. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5243 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5244 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5245 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5246
652e1b65
PH
524734. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5248 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5249 respected.
5250
6f0c9a4f
PH
525135. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5252 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5253 $sender_host_address.
5254
33397d19
PH
525536. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5256 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5257 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5258 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5259 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5260 very small.
5261
7bb56e1f
PH
526237. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5263
5264 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5265 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5266
ea3bc19b
PH
5267 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5268 just the host names, not the priorities.
5269
5270 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5271 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5272 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5273
ea3bc19b 5274 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5275 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5276
0bcb2a0e
PH
527738. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5278 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5279 domain.
5280
2ac0e484
PH
528139. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5282
4e1fde53
PH
528340. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5284 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5285
de365ded
PH
528641. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5287 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5288 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5289
f05da2e8
PH
529042. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5291
d6453af2
PH
529243. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5293
f7b63901
PH
529444. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5295
529645. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5297 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5298 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5299 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5300 because the tests only now provoked it.
5301
a444213a
PH
530246. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5303 (this can affect the format of dates).
5304
0ec020ea
PH
530547. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5306 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5307 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5308 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5309
b1206957
PH
531048. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5311
531249. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5313 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5314 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5315 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5316
26dd5a95
PH
531750. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5318 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5319 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5320
343b2385
PH
532151. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5322 autoreply.
5323
1c5466b9
PH
532452. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5325 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5326 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5327 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5328 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5329 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5330 is going on).
5331
55ee9ee3
PH
533253. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5333 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5334 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5335 the line.
5336
d38f8232
PH
533754. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5338 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5339 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5340
5341 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5342 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5343 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5344 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5345 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5346 so I produce this patch..."
5347
3295e65b
PH
5348 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5349 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5350 is not defined.
5351
7102e136
PH
535255. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5353 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5354 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5355 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5356 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5357
3ca0ba97
PH
535856. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5359
c2bcbe20
PH
536057. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5361 long debug lines gets shown.
5362
18ce445d
PH
536358. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5364 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5365
1f5b4c3d
PH
536659. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5367
5368 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5369 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5370 of $primary_hostname.
5371
b975ba52
PH
537260. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5373 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5374 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5375 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5376 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5377 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5378 by change 4.50/55 above.
5379
5380 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5381 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5382 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5383 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5384 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5385 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5386 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5387
538861. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5389 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5390 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5391 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5392
17ffcae7
PH
539362. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5394 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5395
d95f9fdb
PH
539663. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5397 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5398 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5399 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5400 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5401
86b8287f
PH
540264. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5403 This has been fixed.
5404
60dc5e56
PH
540565. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5406 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5407 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5408 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5409 the caching.)
5410
533244af
PH
541166. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5412
a5a28604
PH
541367. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5414 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5415 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5416 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5417
7e634d24
PH
541868. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5419 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5420
3e11c26b
PH
542169. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5422 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5423 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5424
6729cf78
PH
542570. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5426 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5427 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5428 message there.
5429
00f00ca5
PH
543071. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5431 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5432 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5433
c9bdd01c
PH
543472. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5435 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5436 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5437 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5438
d43194df
PH
543973. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5440 during host lookups.
5441
fe5b5d0b
PH
544274. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5443 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5444
5445 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5446
76a2d7ba
PH
544775. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5448 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5449 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5450 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5451 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5452 background.
5453
545476. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5455 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5456
04f7d5b9
PH
545777. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5458 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5459 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5460
bc60667e
PH
546178. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5462
bb6e88ff
PH
546379. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5464 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5465 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5466 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5467 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5468 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5469 process earlier.
5470
1e70f85b
PH
547180. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5472 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5473 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5474 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5475 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5476
547781. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5478 tables).
5479
4e01f9d6
PH
548082. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5481
1ee1cef2
PH
548283. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5483 "vacation" handling.
5484
6e2b4ccc
PH
548584. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5486 OS variants using glibc.
5487
8e669ac1
PH
548885. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5489
495ae4b0 5490
bbe902f0
PH
5491----------------------------------------------------
5492See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5493----------------------------------------------------
5494
5495
5496Exim version 4.44
5497-----------------
5498
5499 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5500 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5501 transport
5502
5503 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5504 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5505 place.
5506
5507 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5508 filter fails to execute.
5509
5510 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5511 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5512 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5513 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5514 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5515
5516 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5517 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5518 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5519 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5520
5521 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5522 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5523 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5524 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5525 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5526
5527 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5528
5529 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5530 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5531 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5532 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5533
5534 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5535 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5536 sender verification.
5537
553810. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5539 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5540
554111. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5542 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5543
554412. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5545 ignore_target_hosts.
5546
554713. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5548 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5549 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5550 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5551 "[x.x.x.x]".
5552
555314. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5554 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5555 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5556
555715. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5558 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5559 wake it up if nothing else does.
5560
556116. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5562 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5563 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5564 end up negative.
5565
556617. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5567 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5568
ea3a6f44 556918. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5570
557119. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5572 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5573 empty pattern.
5574
557520. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5576 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5577 one IP address.
5578
ea3a6f44
NM
557921. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5580 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5581 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5582 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5583 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5584 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5585
ea3a6f44
NM
558622. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5587 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5588 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5589
559023. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5591 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5592 $sender_host_address.
5593
559424. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5595
ea3a6f44
NM
559625. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5597 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5598 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5599
560026. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5601 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5602
ea3a6f44
NM
560327. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5604 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5605
ea3a6f44
NM
560628. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5607 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5608 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5609 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5610
561129. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5612 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5613 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5614
ea3a6f44
NM
561530. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5616 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5617 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5618 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5619
ea3a6f44
NM
562031. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5621 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5622 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5623
ea3a6f44
NM
562431. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5625 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5626
ea3a6f44
NM
562732. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5628 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5629 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5630 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5631 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5632 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5633 is going on).
bbe902f0 5634
ea3a6f44
NM
563533. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5636 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5637 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5638 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5639 CAN-2005-0021
5640
ea3a6f44
NM
564134. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5642 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5643 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5644 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5645 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5646 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5647 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5648
5649 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5650 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5651 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5652 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5653 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5654 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5655 CAN-2005-0021
5656
ea3a6f44
NM
565735. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5658 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5659 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5660 CAN-2005-0022
5661
ea3a6f44
NM
566236. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5663 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5664 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5665 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5666 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5667
ea3a6f44
NM
566837. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5669 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5670 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5671 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5672 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5673
ea3a6f44
NM
567438. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5675 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5676 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5677 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5678 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5679
5680
495ae4b0
PH
5681Exim version 4.43
5682-----------------
5683
5684 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5685 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5686 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5687 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5688 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5689 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5690 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5691
5692 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5693 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5694 the delivery.
5695
5696 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5697
5698 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5699
5700 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5701 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5702 to local_scan().
5703
5704 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5705 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5706 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5707 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5708 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5709
5710 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5711 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5712
5713 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5714
5715 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5716
571710. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5718 header_sender only.
5719
572011. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5721 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5722
572312. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5724 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5725 affecting debugging statements).
5726
572713. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5728
572914. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5730 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5731 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5732 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5733 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5734 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5735 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5736 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5737 after the received time, and all would be well.
5738
573915. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5740 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5741 condition in an expansion string.
5742
574316. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5744
574517. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5746 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5747 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5748 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5749 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5750 job under whatever limits there are.
5751
575218. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5753
575419. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5755 space).
5756
575720. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5758 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5759 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5760 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5761 return path is set.
5762
576321. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5764 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5765 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5766 binary data in such strings.
5767
576822. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5769
577023. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5771 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5772 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5773 failure, which is pointless.
5774
577524. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5776
577725. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5778
577926. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5780 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5781 Sender: header lines.
5782
578327. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5784 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5785 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5786
578728. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5788 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5789 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5790 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5791 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5792 happens.
5793
579429. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5795 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5796 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5797 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5798 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5799
580030. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5801 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5802 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5803 1024.
5804
580531. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5806 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5807
580832. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5809 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5810
581133. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5812
581332. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5814
581533. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5816
581734. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5818 syntax error.
5819
582035. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5821
582236. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5823
582437. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5825 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5826 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5827 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5828
582938. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5830 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5831
5832
5833Exim version 4.42
5834-----------------
5835
5836 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5837 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5838 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5839 it was not quoted.
5840 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5841 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5842 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5843 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5844 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5845 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5846
5847 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5848 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5849 verification failure".
5850
5851 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5852 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5853 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5854 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5855
5856 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5857 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5858 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5859 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5860 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5861 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5862 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5863 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5864 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5865 treated as a timeout.
5866
5867 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5868 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5869 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5870 not set for Exim filters).
5871
5872 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5873 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5874 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5875
5876 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5877
5878 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5879 try to make them clearer.
5880
5881 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5882 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5883
5884 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5885
5886 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5887
588810. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5889 only the Cygwin environment.
5890
589111. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5892 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5893 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5894 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5895 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5896
589712. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5898 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5899 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5900 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5901 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5902 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5903 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5904
590513. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5906 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5907
590814. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5909
5910 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5911 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5912 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5913
5914 To: susanne@some.where
5915
5916 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5917 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5918 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5919 of addresses in From: header lines).
5920
5921 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5922 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5923 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5924
5925 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5926 treated as non-personal.
5927
5928 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5929 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5930
593115. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5932
593316. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5934
593517. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5936 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5937 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5938
593918. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5940 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5941
594219. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5943 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5944 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5945 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5946 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5947 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5948
594920. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5950 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5951 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5952 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5953 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5954 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5955 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5956 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5957
5958 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5959
596021. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5961 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5962
596322. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5964 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5965 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5966
596723. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5968 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5969
597024. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5971 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5972 rather than long int.
5973
597425. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5975
597626. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5977
5978
5979Exim version 4.41
5980-----------------
5981
5982 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5983 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5984 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5985 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5986 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5987 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5988
5989
5990Exim version 4.40
5991-----------------
5992
5993 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5994 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5995
5996 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5997 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5998 socklen_t is defined.
5999
6000 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6001 always exist.
6002
6003 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6004 configured.
6005
6006 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6007 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6008 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6009 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6010 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6011
6012 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6013 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6014 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6015 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6016
6017 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6018 of flapping under certain conditions.
6019
6020 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6021 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6022 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6023
6024 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6025
602610. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6027
602811. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6029 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6030 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6031 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6032
603312. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6034 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6035 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6036 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6037 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6038 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6039 preserved with the message after it was received.
6040
604113. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6042 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6043 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6044 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6045 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6046 test suite worked just fine.
6047
604814. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6049 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6050 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6051
605215. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6053 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6054 string.
6055
605616. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6057 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6058 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6059 does not fully solve it.
6060
606117. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6062 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6063 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6064 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6065 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6066
606718. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6068 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6069 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6070
607119. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6072 string, for example:
6073
6074 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6075
6076 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6077 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6078 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6079 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6080 the routers could not see them.
6081
608220. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6083 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6084
608521. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6086 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6087 output).
6088
608922. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6090 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6091 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6092 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6093 that needed quoting.
6094
609523. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6096 was not being matched caselessly.
6097
609824. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6099 backslashes.
6100
610125. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6102 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6103 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6104 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6105 when use_sender is false.
6106
610726. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6108
610927. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6110
611128. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6112
611329. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6114 the configuration file.
6115
611630. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6117 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6118
611931. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6120
612132. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6122 bytes in the message body.
6123
612433. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6125 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6126 delivery.
6127
612834. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6129
613035. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6131
613236. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6133 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6134 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6135 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6136 another IP address.
6137
6138
6139Exim version 4.34
6140-----------------
6141
6142 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6143 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6144
6145 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6146 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6147 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6148 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6149 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6150
6151 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6152 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6153
6154 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6155 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6156 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6157
6158 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6159 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6160 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6161
6162 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6163 for routers.
6164
6165 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6166 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6167 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6168 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6169 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6170 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6171 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6172
6173
6174Exim version 4.33
6175-----------------
6176
6177 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6178 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6179 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6180 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6181 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6182 default (and expected) setting.
6183
6184 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6185 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6186 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6187 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6188
6189 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6190 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6191
6192 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6193 in domain lists.
6194
6195 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6196 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6197 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6198 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6199 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6200 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6201
6202 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6203 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6204 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6205
6206 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6207 part (NOT match_host).
6208
6209 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6210
6211 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6212 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6213 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6214 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6215 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6216 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6217 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6218 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6219 the same named file.
6220
622110. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6222 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6223 when Exim is built.
6224
622511. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6226 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6227 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6228 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6229 a host name.
6230
623112. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6232 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6233 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6234
623513. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6236
623714. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6238
623915. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6240
624116. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6242 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6243
624417. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6245 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6246 before starting the TLS session.
6247
624818. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6249
625019. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6251 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6252
625320. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6254 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6255 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6256 colon in the middle).
6257
6258
6259Exim version 4.32
6260-----------------
6261
6262 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6263 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6264 multiple configurations are in use.
6265
6266 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6267 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6268 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6269 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6270 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6271 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6272
6273 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6274 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6275
6276 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6277 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6278 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6279
6280 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6281 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6282 occurs.
6283
6284 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6285 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6286
6287 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6288
6289 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6290 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6291
6292 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6293
6294 -prval:sval
6295
6296 is equivalent to
6297
6298 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6299
6300 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6301 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6302 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6303 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6304 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6305
630610. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6307 Exim's behaviour:
6308
6309 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6310 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6311 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6312 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6313 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6314 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6315
6316 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6317 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6318 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6319 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6320 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6321 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6322 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6323 string.
6324
6325 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6326 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6327 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6328 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6329 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6330
633111. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6332
633312. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6334 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6335 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6336
633713. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6338
633914. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6340 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6341 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6342 information.
6343
634415. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6345 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6346
634716. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6348 Three changes have been made:
6349
6350 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6351 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6352 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6353 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6354 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6355
6356 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6357 been restored.
6358
6359 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6360 the modified behaviour.
6361
6362
6363Exim version 4.31
6364-----------------
6365
6366 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6367 Larry Rosenman.
6368
6369 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6370 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6371
6372 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6373 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6374 try to track down a specific problem.
6375
6376 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6377 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6378 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6379
6380 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6381 warning.
6382
6383 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6384 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6385 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6386 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6387 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6388 some earlier ones do not.
6389
6390 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6391
6392 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6393 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6394 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6395 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6396 address literals are enabled, of course).
6397
6398 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6399
640010. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6401 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6402 by a command such as
6403
6404 exim -f "" ...
6405
6406 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6407
640811. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6409
641012. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6411 remained set. It is now erased.
6412
641313. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6414 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6415
641614. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6417 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6418 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6419 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6420 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6421 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6422 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6423 appropriate error code.
6424
642515. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6426 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6427 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6428 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6429 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6430 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6431
643216. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6433 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6434 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6435
643617. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6437 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6438 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6439 terminate the header.
6440
644118. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6442 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6443 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6444
644519. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6446 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6447 (4.30/29). In particular:
6448
6449 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6450 imposed.
6451
6452 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6453 to write a maildirsize file.
6454
6455 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6456 the transport, the new value overrides.
6457
6458 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6459 count.
6460
646120. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6462 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6463 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6464 space or a tab.
6465
646621. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6467 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6468 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6469 the fallback hosts.
6470
647122. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6472 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6473 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6474
647523. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6476 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6477 using a union.
6478
647924. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6480 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6481 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6482
648325. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6484
648526. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6486
648727. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6488
648928. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6490 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6491 become corrupted.
6492
649329. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6494 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6495 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6496 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6497 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6498 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6499 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6500 too great.
6501
650230. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6503 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6504 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6505 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6506 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6507 incorrectly.
6508
650931. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6510 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6511 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6512 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6513 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6514 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6515 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6516 cached value only when the same options are set.
6517
651832. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6519
652033. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6521 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6522 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6523 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6524 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6525
652634: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6527 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6528 it is clearly obsolete.
6529
653035. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6531 transport.
6532
653336. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6534 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6535 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6536 times.
6537
653837. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6539 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6540 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6541 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6542 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6543
654438. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6545 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6546 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6547 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6548
654939. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6550
6551 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6552
6553 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6554 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6555 2^31.
6556
655740. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6558 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6559 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6560 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6561 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6562 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6563 $localpart_data.
6564
656541. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6566 with the -f command-line option.
6567
656842. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6569 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6570 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6571 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6572 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6573 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6574
657543. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6576 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6577 line.
6578
657944. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6580 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6581 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6582 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6583 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6584 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6585 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6586 buffer is too small.
6587
658845. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6589 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6590
659146. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6592 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6593 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6594 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6595 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6596 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6597 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6598 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6599 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6600
660147. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6602 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6603 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6604
660548. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6606 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6607 ACL").
6608
660949. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6610 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6611 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6612 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6613 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6614
661550. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6616 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6617 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6618 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6619 is set.
6620
662151. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6622
662352. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6624
662553. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6626 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6627
662854. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6629 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6630 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6631
663255. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6633 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6634 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6635 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6636 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6637
663856. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6639 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6640 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6641 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6642 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6643 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6644 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6645
664657. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6647 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6648 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6649 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6650 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6651 the test of how many are available.
6652
665358. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6654 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6655 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6656 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6657 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6658 new message is started.
6659
666059. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6661 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6662
666360. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6664 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6665
666661. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6667 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6668 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6669 is no long logged.
6670
667162. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6672 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6673 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6674 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6675 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6676 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6677 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6678
667963. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6680 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6681 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6682 interpreted as octal.
6683
668464. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6685 setting.
6686
668765. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6688 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6689 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6690 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6691 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6692 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6693
669466. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6695 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6696 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6697 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6698
6699 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6700 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6701 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6702 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6703
6704 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6705 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6706 is a bug fix.
6707
6708 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6709 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6710
671167. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6712
671368. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6714 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6715 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6716 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6717
671869. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6719 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6720 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6721 supplied", which is not helpful.
6722
672370. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6724 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6725 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6726
672771. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6728 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6729 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6730 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6731 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6732 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6733 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6734 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6735
673672. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6737 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6738 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6739 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6740 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6741
674273. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6743 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6744 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6745 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6746 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6747 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6748
674974. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6750 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6751 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6752
675375. Added write_rejectlog option.
6754
675576. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6756 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6757 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6758 variables.
6759
676077. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6761
676278. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6763 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6764 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6765 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6766 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6767 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6768 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6769 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6770
677179. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6772 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6773 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6774 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6775 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6776
677780. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6778 Haardt.
6779
678081. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6781 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6782 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6783 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6784 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6785 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6786 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6787 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6788 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6789
6790
6791Exim version 4.30
6792-----------------
6793
6794 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6795 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6796 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6797
6798 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6799 fixed.
6800
6801 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6802 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6803 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6804
6805 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6806 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6807 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6808 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6809 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6810 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6811
6812 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6813 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6814 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6815 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6816 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6817 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6818 the Exim test suite.
6819
6820 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6821 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6822 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6823 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6824
6825 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6826 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6827 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6828 specify it in this variable.
6829
6830 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6831 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6832 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6833 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6834
6835 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6836 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6837 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6838 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6839
6840 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6841 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6842 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6843 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6844 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6845
6846 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6847
684810. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6849 they are logged.
6850
685111. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6852 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6853 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6854 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6855 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6856
685712. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6858 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6859
686013. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6861 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6862 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6863 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6864 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6865
686614. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6867 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6868
686915. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6870 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6871 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6872
687316. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6874 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6875
687617. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6877 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6878
687918. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6880 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6881 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6882
688319. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6884 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6885
688620. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6887 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6888 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6889 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6890
689121. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6892
689322. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6894 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6895 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6896 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6897
689823. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6899
690024. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6901 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6902
690325. Added .include_if_exists.
6904
690526. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6906 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6907 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6908 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6909 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6910 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6911
691227. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6913
691428. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6915 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6916 this.
6917
691829. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6919
692030. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6921 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6922
6923 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6924 550 Sender verify failed
6925
6926 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6927 the final line of the response.
6928
692931. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6930 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6931 all other user lookups.
6932
693332. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6934 delivery time.
6935
693633. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6937 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6938 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6939 result into an int without checking.
6940
694134. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6942 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6943 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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694535. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6946 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6947 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6948 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6949
695036. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6951 correctly.
6952
695337. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6954 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6955
695638. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6957 to the empty sender.
6958
695939. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6960 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6961 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6962 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6963 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6964 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6965 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6966 panic log.
6967
696840. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6969 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6970 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6971 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6972 used.
6973
697441. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6975 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6976
697742. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6978 timestamps.
6979
698043. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6981 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6982
698344. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6984
698545. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6986 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6987 logs.
6988
698946. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6990 as soon as it is encountered.
6991
699247. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6993
699448. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6995 rewritten to "<>".
6996
699749. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6998 recognizes a tab character.
6999
700050. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7001 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7002 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7003 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7004
700551. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7006
700752. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7008 crash.
7009
701053. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7011
701254. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7013
701455. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7015 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7016 2822.
7017
701856. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7019 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7020 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7021 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7022 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7023
702457. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7025 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7026
702758. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7028 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7029 list (.included file names were always shown).
7030
703159. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7032 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7033 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7034 root at that time.
7035
703660. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7037 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7038
703961. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7040
704162. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7042
704363. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7044
704564. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7046 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7047 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7048 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7049 failures to open the logs.
7050
705165. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7052 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7053 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7054 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7055 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7056 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7057 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7058
7059
7060Exim version 4.24
7061-----------------
7062
7063 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7064 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7065 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7066 change 4.23/1.
7067
7068 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7069 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7070 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7071
7072 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7073 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7074 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7075
7076 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7077 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7078 causing some misleading effects.
7079
7080 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7081 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7082 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7083
7084 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7085 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7086 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7087 queue-runner function directly.
7088
7089
7090Exim version 4.23
7091-----------------
7092
7093 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7094 HEADERS_CHARSET.
7095
7096 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7097 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7098 was always written to the default place.
7099
7100 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7101 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7102 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7103
7104 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7105
7106 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7107
7108 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7109 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7110 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7111
7112 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7113 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7114 must start.
7115
7116 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7117 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7118 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7119
7120 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7121 command line option is disabled.
7122
7123 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7124 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7125
7126 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7127
7128 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7129
7130 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7131 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7132
713310. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7134
713511. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7136 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7137 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7138 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7139 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7140 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7141
714212. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7143 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7144 timeout.
7145
714613. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7147 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7148
714914. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7150 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7151
715215. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7153 received was valid base64.
7154
715516. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7156 name of the variable that was being set.
7157
715817. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7159
716018. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7161 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7162 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7163 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7164 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7165 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7166
716719. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7168
716920. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7170 nor realm was specified.
7171
717221. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7173 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7174 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7175 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7176
717722. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7178 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7179 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7180
718123. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7182 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7183 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7184
718524. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7186 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7187 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7188 some systems use these upper case variants.
7189
719025. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7191 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7192 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7193 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7194
719526. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7196
719727. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7198 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7199
720028. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7201 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7202 expansion variable.
7203
720429. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7205
720630. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7207 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7208 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7209 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7210
721131. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7212 using it.
7213
721432. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7215 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7216 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7217
721833. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7219 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7220
722134. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7222 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7223 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7224 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7225
722635. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7227 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7228 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7229
723036. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7231
723237. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7233 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7234 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7235 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7236 aborted.
7237
723838. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7239 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7240 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7241
724239. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7243
724440. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7245 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7246
724741. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7248 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7249
725042. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7251 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7252 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7253 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7254 when emails are that large.
7255
7256
7257
7258Exim version 4.22
7259-----------------
7260
7261 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7262 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7263
7264 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7265 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7266 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7267
7268 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7269 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7270 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7271
7272 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7273 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7274 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7275 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7276 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7277
7278 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7279 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7280 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7281 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7282 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7283 ever.
7284
7285 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7286 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7287 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7288 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7289 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7290 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7291 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7292 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7293 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7294 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7295 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7296 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7297 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7298 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7299
7300 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7301 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7302 parameterised it.
7303
7304 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7305 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7306 error should be diagnosed.
7307
7308 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7309 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7310 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7311 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7312 appeared instead of "NULL".
7313
731410. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7315 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7316 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7317 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7318 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7319 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7320 proceeds).
7321
7322 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7323 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7324 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7325
7326
7327Exim version 4.21
7328-----------------
7329
7330 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7331 or receiver verification errors.
7332
7333 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7334 name.
7335
7336 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7337 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7338 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7339 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7340
7341 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7342 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7343 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7344 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7345 shouldn't happen again.
7346
7347 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7348 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7349 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7350
7351 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7352 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7353
7354 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7355
7356 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7357 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7358
7359 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7360 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7361 RFC.
7362
736310. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7364 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7365 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7366
736711. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7368 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7369 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7370 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7371
737212. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7373 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7374 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7375 to define what should happen).
7376
737713. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7378 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7379 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7380
738114. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7382
738315. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7384
738516. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7386 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7387
4c04137d 738817. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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7389 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7390 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7391 structure in all cases.
7392
7393 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7394 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7395 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7396 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7397
739818. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7399 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7400 domain name.
7401
740219. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7403 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7404
740520. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7406 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7407
740821. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7409 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7410 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7411
741222. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7413 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7414 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7415
741623. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7417 the book and for uniformity.
7418
741924. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7420
742125. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7422 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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7423 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7424 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7425 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7426 non-existent command as the problem.
7427
742826. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7429 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7430 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7431
743227. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7433
743428. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7435 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7436 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7437
743829. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7439 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7440 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7441 timestamps using strftime().
7442
744330. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7444 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7445
744632. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7447 transport-time rewrites.
7448
744933. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7450 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7451 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7452 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7453
745434. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7455 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7456
745735. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7458 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7459 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7460 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7461 comma and a space.
7462
746336. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7464 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7465 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7466 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7467 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7468 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7469 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7470
747137. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7472 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7473 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7474 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7475 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7476
747738. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7478 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7479 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7480 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7481 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7482 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7483 remaining text gets split now.
7484
748539. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7486 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7487 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7488 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7489
749040. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7491 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7492 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7493 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7494 $return_path.
7495
749641. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7497 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7498 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7499 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7500 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7501 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7502 passed through if needed.
7503
750442. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7505 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7506 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7507 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7508 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7509 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7510
751143. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7512 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7513 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7514 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7515 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7516
751744. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7518 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7519 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7520 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7521 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7522
752345. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7524 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7525 noticed.
7526
752746. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7528 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7529 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7530 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7531 mayhem of various kinds.
7532
753347. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7534 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7535 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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7536 the right test for positive values.
7537
753848. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7539 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7540 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7541 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7542 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7543 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7544 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7545 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7546 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7547 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7548 envelope.
7549
755049. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7551 module.
7552
755350. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7554 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7555 forbidding it.
7556
755751. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7558 the existing equality matching.
7559
756052. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7561 dealing with inode numbers.
7562
756353. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7564 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7565 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7566
756754. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7568 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7569 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7570 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7571 local_scan().
7572
757355. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7574 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7575 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7576 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7577 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7578 relay addresses has also been removed.
7579
758056. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7581
758257. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7583 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7584 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7585
758658. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7587 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7588 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7589 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7590 processing applies to CR:
7591
7592 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7593 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7594
7595 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7596 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7597 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7598 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7599
760059. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7601 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7602 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7603
760460. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7605 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7606 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7607 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7608 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7609 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7610 arisen.
7611
761261. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7613 program routers.
7614
761562. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7616 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7617 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7618 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7619 adds:
7620
7621 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7622
7623 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7624
7625 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7626
762763. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7628 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7629 not considered personal.
7630
763164. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7632
763365. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7634
763566. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7636
763767. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7638 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7639 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7640 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7641 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7642 header lines, and spool format errors.
7643
764468. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7645 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7646 for more flexibility.
7647
764869. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7649 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7650 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7651
765270. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7653 Sabourenkov.
7654
765571. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7656 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7657 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7658 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7659 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7660 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7661 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7662 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7663 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7664
766572. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7666 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7667 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7668 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7669 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7670 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7671 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7672
767373. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7674 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7675 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7676
767774. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7678 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7679 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7680 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7681 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7682 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7683 instead of killing the process with assert().
7684
768575. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7686 than Unicode encoding.
7687
768876. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7689 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7690 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7691 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7692
769377. Added process_log_path.
7694
769578. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7696 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7697
769879. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7699 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7700
770180. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7702 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7703 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7704
770581. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7706 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7707 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7708 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7709 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7710 were applied:
7711
7712 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7713 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7714 as invalid.
7715
771682. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7717 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7718 they will be used during message reception.
7719
7720
7721Exim version 4.20
7722-----------------
7723
7724The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7725
7726****