ChangeLog update for NTLM/server_set_id
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
8
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9PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
11
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12PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
13 by GnuTLS.
14
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15PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
17 routines.
18
13363eba 19PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 20
66645890 21PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 26
a3fb9793 27PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 32 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 33
d27f98fe 34TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 35
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36TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
37
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38TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
40
ae0e32ee 41TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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44
45TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 46
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47JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
48
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49JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
50
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51PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
52
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53NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
54 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 55
585121e2 56JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 57
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58PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
59
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60PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
61 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
62
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63JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
64 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
65 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 66
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67JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
68
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69JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
70
ea722490 71JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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72 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
73
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74JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
75 Bugzilla 884.
76
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77JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
78 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
79
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80JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
81 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
82
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83PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
84 CVE-2012-5671
85
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86JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
87 authenticators.
88
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89JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
90 for control.
91
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92PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
93
6d7c6175 94
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95Exim version 4.80.1
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97
98PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
99 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 100 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 101
ea722490 102
b1770b6e 103Exim version 4.80
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105
106PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
107 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
108 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
109
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110NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
111
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112NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
113 improved.
114
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115NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
116
c1e794ba 117PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 118
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119PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
120
121PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
122 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
123
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124PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
125 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
126
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127PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
128 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
129
f1e05cc7 130PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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131 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
132 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 133
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134PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
135
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136PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
137 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
138
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139PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
140
c45dd180 141PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 142
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143PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
144 non-compliant senders.
145 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
146
eae0036b 147NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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148 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
149 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
150
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151PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
152 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
153 in spool file corruption.
154
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155PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
156 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
157 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
158 "Got SSL error 2".
159
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160TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
161 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
162 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
163
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164JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
165 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
166
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167JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
168
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169PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
170 diagnostics.
171 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
172
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173PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
174 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
175 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
176
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177PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
178 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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179 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
180 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 181
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182PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
183 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
184
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185PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
186 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
187 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
188 resolver implementation change.
189
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190PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
191 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
192
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193PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
194
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195PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
196
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197PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
198 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
199
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200PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
201 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
202
9e45c72b 203JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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204 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
205
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206PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
207 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
208 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
209 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 210 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 211
53947857 212PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 213
eae0036b 214PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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215 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
216 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 217
9e45c72b 218JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 219
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220PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
221 read-only, out of scope).
222 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
223
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224PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
225 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
226 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
227 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
228
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229PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
230
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231PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
232 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
233 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
234 real issues in debug logging.
235
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236PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
237 assignment on my part. Fixed.
238
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239PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
240 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
241 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
242
243PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
244 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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245 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
246 problems.
3375e053 247
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248PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
249 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
250
57eb9e91 251PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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252 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
253 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
254 needs to override this, it can.
255
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256PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
257 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
258 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
259
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260PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
261 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
262 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
263 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
264
3ecab157 265PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 266
0599f9cf 267
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268Exim version 4.77
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270
271PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
272 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
273
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274TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
275
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276TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
277 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 278
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279TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
280 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
281
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282TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
283 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
284 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
285
286 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
287 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
288 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
289 not safe for signals.
290
291 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
292 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
293 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
294 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
295 exiwhat.
296
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297TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
298
299 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
300 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
301 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
302 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
303 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
304
305 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
306 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
307 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
308 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
309 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
310 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
311
312 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
313 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
314 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
315 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
316
317 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
318 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
319 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
320 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
321
322 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
323 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
324 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
325 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
326 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
327 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
328 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
329 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
330 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
331
332 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
333 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
334 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
335 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
336
337 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
338 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
339 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
340 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
341 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
342 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
343 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
344 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
345 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
346 details in the main documentation.
347
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348TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
349
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350TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
351
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352TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
353 repository when doing development or release builds.
354
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355PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
356 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 357
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358PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
359 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
360 Bugzilla 97.
361
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362PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
363
9e949f00 364PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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365 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
366
367PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
368 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 369
555ae6af 370PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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371 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
372
373PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
374 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 375
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376PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
377 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
378
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379PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
380 Bugzilla 1156.
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381 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
382 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 383
d6cc7c78 384PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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385 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
386 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
387
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388PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
389
3399bb60 390PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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391
392PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
393 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
394
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396Exim version 4.76
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398
399PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
400
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401PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
402 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
403
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404PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
405
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406PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
407
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408PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
409 Bugzilla 1098.
410
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411PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
412 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 413
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414TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
415 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
416
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417PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
418 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
419
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420PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
421 Bugzilla 1104.
422
c8d52a00 423TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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424 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
425
426TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
427 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
428 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
429 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
430
431PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
432 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 433
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435Exim version 4.75
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437
4c9ef03a 438NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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439 Bugzilla 1073
440
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441TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
442 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
443 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
444
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445TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
446 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
447
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448PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
449 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
450 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
451
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452PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
453 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
454
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455PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
456 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
457
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458NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
459 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
460
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461NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
462 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
463
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464PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
465 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 466
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467NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
468 Fixes bug 943.
469
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470PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
471 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
472
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473PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
474 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
475
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476PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
477 SQL string expansion failure details.
478 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
479
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480PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
481 Patch from Simon Arlott.
482
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483PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
484 extern declarations in function scope.
485 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
486
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487PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
488 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
489 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
490 a kernel bug).
491
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492PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
493 Patch from Mark Zealey.
494
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495PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
496 Patch from Mark Zealey.
497
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498PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
499 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
500
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501PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
502 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
503
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504NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
505 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
506 Dennis Davis.
507
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508PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
509
6bac1a9a
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510PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
511
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512NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
513 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 514
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515TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
516 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
517
aa097c4c 518
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519Exim version 4.74
520-----------------
521
522TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
523 consequences so log it to the panic log.
524
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525TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
526 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
527
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528TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
529
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530DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
531 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
532 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
533
534PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
535 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
536 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
537
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538PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
539 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
540 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
541 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
542
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543PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
544 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
545 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
546 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
547
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548PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
549 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
550 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
551 arbitrary files.
552
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553PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
554 (Wolfgang Breyha)
555
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556PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
557 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
558 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
559 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
560 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
561
8c07b69f 562
97fd1e48 563Exim version 4.73
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565
566PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
567 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
568 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
569
6901c596
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570PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
571 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
572
a8c8d6b5
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573JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
574
77bb000f
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575PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
576
a29e5231
PP
577PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
578
ec5a0394 579PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 580
55c75993
PP
581PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
582
453a6645 583PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
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584 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
585 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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586 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
587
8544e77a
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588PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
589 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
590 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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591 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
592 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 593
83e029d5
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594PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
595
ed7f7860
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596PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
597
7d9f747b
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598PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
599
4b2241d2
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600PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
601
10385c15
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602PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
603
dbc4b90d
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604PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
605
532be449
PP
606PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
607
6a8de854 608PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
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609 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
610 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 611
5dc43717
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612JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
613
614JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
615 "exim" to be used
55c75993 616
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617PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
618 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
619
491fab4c
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620PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
621 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
622 Notification from John Horne.
623
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624PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
625 compatible.
626
627PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
628 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
629 it normally works.
630
7f36d675
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631DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
632 access.
633
c1d94452
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634DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
635 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
636 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
637
e2f5dc15
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638DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
639 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
640 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
641 configuration file.
642
cd25e41d
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643DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
644 option (effectively making it always true).
645
261dc43e
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646DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
647 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
648
fa32850b
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649DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
650 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
651
79d4bc3d
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652PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
653 run-time user, instead of root.
654
43236f35 655PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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656 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
657
fb08281f
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658DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
659 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
660 arguments.
3346ab01 661
74935b98
DW
662DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
663 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
664 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
665
90b6341f
DW
666DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
667
57730b52
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668NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
669
66581d1e 670
465e92cf
JJ
671Exim version 4.72
672-----------------
673
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674JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
675 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
676 typos
465e92cf 677
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678JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
679 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
680 (Finput)
edae0343 681
9bd3e22c
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682NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
683 Patch from Alain Williams
684
bb576ff7
NM
685NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
686
5a1a5845
NM
687NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
688 Patch from Andreas Metzler
689
981a9fad
NM
690NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
691 Patch from Kirill Miazine
692
7fc497ee
NM
693NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
694
1a41defa
JJ
695JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
696
a466095c 697NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 698 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 699
94a6bd0b
NM
700TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
701
702TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
703
704MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
705 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
706 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
707
c1b141a8
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708NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
709 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 710
b26eacf1 711NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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712 Patch by Simon Arlott
713
179c5980 714PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 715 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 716
9bd3e22c 717
7c6d71af
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718Exim version 4.71
719-----------------
720
7d9f747b 721TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 722
f013fb92
NM
723NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
724
0eb8eedd
NM
725NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
726
663ee6d9
NM
727NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
728
177ebd9b
NM
729NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
730
7c6d71af 731
210f147e
NM
732Exim version 4.70
733-----------------
734
cdd3bb85 735TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 736 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
737
738TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
739 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 740 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
741
742TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
743 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 744 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
745
746TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
747 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
748
210f147e
NM
749NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
750 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
751 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
752 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
753
deafd5b3
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754NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
755 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 756 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 757
089793a4
TF
758TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
759
5f16ca82
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760TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
761
dae9d94e 762NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 763 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 764
7d9f747b 765NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 766
06864c44
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767TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
768 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
769 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
770 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
771
65a7d8c3 772NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 773 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 774
23510047 775TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 776
7d9f747b 777NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 778
7d8eec3a 779NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 780 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 781
89dec7b6
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782TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
783 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 784
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785TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
786 that they are available at delivery time.
787
e2803e40
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788TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
789
7199e1ee
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790TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
791 incoming_port log selectors.
792
e276e04b
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793TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
794 setting expands to an empty string.
795
ce552449 796NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 797 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 798
e765a0f1 799NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 800 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 801
4f054c63 802NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 803 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 804
7d9f747b
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805NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
806 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 807
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808NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
809 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 810
b52bc06e 811NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 812 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 813
447de4b0
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814NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
815
4c69d561 816NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 817 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 818
d5c39246 819NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 820 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 821
0b23848a
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822TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
823
8f3414a1 824NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 825 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 826
fb6f955d
NM
827NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
828
829NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 830
7d9f747b
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831NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
832 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 833
7d9f747b
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834NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
835 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 836
7d9f747b
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837NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
838 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 839
7d9f747b
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840NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
841 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 842
7d9f747b
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843NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
844 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 845
7d9f747b
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846NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
847 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 848
7d9f747b
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849NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
850 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 851
7d9f747b 852NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 853 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 854
7d9f747b 855NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 856
7d9f747b
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857NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
858 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 859
7d9f747b 860NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 861
7d9f747b 862NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 863
7d9f747b 864NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 865
7d9f747b 866NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 867
17792b53 868NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 869 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 870
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871NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
872 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 873
91576cec 874NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 875 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 876
7d9f747b
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877NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
878 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 879
7d9f747b 880NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 881
7d9f747b 882NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 883
7d9f747b 884NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 885
7d9f747b 886NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 887
deafd5b3 888
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889Exim version 4.69
890-----------------
891
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892TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
893 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
894 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
895
896 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
897 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
898 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
899 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
900 build errors in sieve.c.
901
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902NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
903 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
904 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
905
f13cddcb
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906SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
907
7d9f747b 908NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 909
7d9f747b 910NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 911
7d9f747b 912NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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913
914
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915Exim version 4.68
916-----------------
917
918PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
919
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920PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
921 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
922 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
923 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
924 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
925 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
926 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
927 for iplsearch lookups.
928
929 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
930 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
931 previously such lookups could never work.
932
933 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
934 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
935 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
936
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937TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
938 version.
939
0806a9c5
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940MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
941 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
942 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
943 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
944 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
945 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
946
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947TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
948 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
949
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950MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
951 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
952 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
953 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
954 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
955 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
956
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957PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
958 local_scan API.
959
93655c46
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960PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
961
6c512171
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962PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
963 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
964 encrypted.
965
966PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
967 by clients under certain conditions.
968
aa6dc513
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969PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
970 "_responses" off the end of the name.
971
a96603a0
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972PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
973
8f240103
PH
974PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
975 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
976
977PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
978
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979PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
980
d52120f2
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981PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
982
64f2600a
PH
983PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
984 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
985
8669f003
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986PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
987
a4dc33a8
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988PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
989 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
990
d6a60c0f
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991PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
992
8f128379
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993PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
994
8932dffe
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995PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
996 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
997 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
998 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 999
ddea74fa 1000PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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PH
1001 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1002 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1003
ddea74fa 1004PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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1005 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1006
ddea74fa
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1007PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1008
ce9f225c
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1009PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1010
19897d52
PH
1011PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1012
bc64a74d
PH
1013PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1014 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1015 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1016
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1018Exim version 4.67
1019-----------------
1020
22ad45c9
MH
1021MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1022 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1023 Jan Srzednicki.
1024
b4ed4da0
PH
1025PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1026 issue a MAIL command.
1027
431b7361
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1028PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1029
1030 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1031
1032 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1033 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1034 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1035 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1036 item. This has been fixed.
1037
1038PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1039 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1040
83da1223
PH
1041PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1042 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1043
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PH
1044PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1045 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1046 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1047
34c5e8dd
SC
1048SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1049
bbe15da8
PH
1050PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1051 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1052 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1053 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1054 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1055
0e8a9471
MH
1056MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1057 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1058 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1059
f0872424
PH
1060PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1061 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1062 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1063 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1064
b01dd148
PH
1065PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1066
6bf342e1
PH
1067PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1068
273f34d0
PH
1069PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1070 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1071 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1072 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1073 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1074
cf8b11a5
PH
1075PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1076
41c7c167
PH
1077PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1078 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1079 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1080 values).
1081
9c57cbc0
PH
1082PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1083
f3f065bb
PH
1084PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1085
047bdd8c
PH
1086PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1087
0ce9abe6
PH
1088PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1089
0e22dfd1
PH
1090PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1091
4c590bd1
PH
1092PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1093 no_callout_flush is set.
1094
09945f1e
PH
1095PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1096 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1097 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1098 fixed.
1099
c51b8e75
PH
1100PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1101
e28326d8
PH
1102PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1103 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1104 other ACL rejections are.
1105
75b1493f
PH
1106PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1107 with slight modification.
1108
7c5214ec
PH
1109PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1110 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1111
4311097e
PH
1112PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1113 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1114 connection.
1115
29f89cad
PH
1116PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1117 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1118
5e687460
SC
1119SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1120
c3611384
PH
1121PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1122 expansion side effects.
1123
5a11a7b4
PH
1124PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1125 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1126 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1127 be the same.
1128
0e20aff9
MH
1129MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1130 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1131 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1132
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PH
1133PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1134 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1135 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1136 were accidentally chopped off.
1137
a14e5636
PH
1138PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1139 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1140 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1141 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1142 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1143 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1144 pipelining has not been advertised.
1145
ec95d1a6
PH
1146PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1147
42855d71
PH
1148PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1149 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1150 This has been fixed.
1151
57c2c631
PH
1152PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1153 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1154 reported on Solaris.
1155
58c01c94
PH
1156PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1157 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1158 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1159 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1160 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1161 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1162 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1163
dee5a20a
PH
1164PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1165 cpus.
1166
d2ee6114
PH
1167PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1168
b2d5182b
PH
1169PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1170
79749a79
PH
1171PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1172 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1173 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1174 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1175 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1176 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1177
c456d9bb
PH
1178PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1179 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1180 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1181 host_all_ignored option.
1182
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PH
1183PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1184 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1185 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1186 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1187 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1188 is what is supposed to happen).
1189
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PH
1190PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1191 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1192 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1193 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1194 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1195 uses the Exim user.
1196
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PH
1197PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1198 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1199 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1200 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1201 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1202 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1203 users.
1204
84024b72
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1205PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1206
8005d38e
SC
1207SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1208 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1209 (Jez Hancock).
1210 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1211 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1212
3298c6c6
SC
1213SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1214
a43a27c5
PH
1215PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1216
58eb016e 1217PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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PH
1218 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1219 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1220 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1221 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1222 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1223 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1224 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1225 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1226 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1227 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1228
b43a74ea
PH
1229PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1230 advertised in response to EHLO.
1231
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1233Exim version 4.66
1234-----------------
1235
1236PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1237 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1238
1239 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1240 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1241
1242 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1243 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1244 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1245
1246 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1247 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1248 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1249 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1250 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1251
1252
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TK
1253Exim version 4.65
1254-----------------
1255
1256TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1257 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1258 versions. (#438)
1259
d6066548
MH
1260MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1261 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1262 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1263
4362ff0d
PH
1264PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1265 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1266 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1267 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1268 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1269 rather than extend the field.
1270
93cfa765 1271
944e9e9c
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1272Exim version 4.64
1273-----------------
aa41d2de 1274
21d74bd9
TK
1275TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1276 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1277 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1278 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1279 these files.
1280
1281TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1282 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1283 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1284
1285TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1286 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1287 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1288
1289TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1290 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1291 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1292 in the field name.
1293
2b1c6e3a
PH
1294PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1295 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1296 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1297 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1298 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1299 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1300 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1301 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1302 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1303 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1304 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1305
1f872c80
PH
1306PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1307 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1308
1309PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1310 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1311 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1312 ignores EPIPE as well.
1313
d203e649
PH
1314PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1315 (quoted-printable decoding).
1316
cc2ed8f7 1317PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1318 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1319
ddfcd446
PH
1320PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1321
d45b1de8
PH
1322PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1323
1324PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1325
38a0a95f 1326PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1327 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1328
a2405d83
JJ
1329JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1330 in 4.64-PH/09.
1331
1332JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1333 miscellaneous code fixes
1334
6ea85e9a
PH
1335PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1336 rejections.
1337
26da7e20
PH
1338PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1339 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1340 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1341 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1342 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1343 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1344 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1345 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1346
14aa5a05 1347PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1348 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1349 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1350 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1351 function.
1352 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1353 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1354 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1355 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1356 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1357 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1358 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1359 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1360 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1361
ff75a1f7
PH
1362PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1363 decoding.
1364
e6f6568e
PH
1365PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1366 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1367 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1368 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1369 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1370 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1371 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1372 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1373
d6f6e0dc
PH
1374PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1375 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1376 list.
1377
322050c2
PH
1378PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1379 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1380 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1381 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1382 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1383 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1384 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1385 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1386 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1387 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1388 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1389 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1390 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1391
08955dd3
PH
1392PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1393 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1394 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1395 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1396 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1397 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1398 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1399
1eccaa59
PH
1400PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1401 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1402 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1403 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1404 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1405 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1406 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1407 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1408 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1409 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1410
602e59e5
PH
1411PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1412 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1413 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1414 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1415 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1416
411ef850
PH
1417PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1418 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1419 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1420 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1421 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1422 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1423 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1424
7befa435
PH
1425PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1426 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1427 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1428 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1429 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1430 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1431 been verified.
1432
48da4259 1433PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1434 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1435 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1436 and authorization.)
1437
48da4259
PH
1438PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1439 if any retry times were supplied.
1440
d1d5595c
PH
1441PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1442 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1443 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1444
0ef732d9
PH
1445PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1446
328895cc
PH
1447PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1448
fd700877
PH
1449PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1450 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1451 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1452 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1453 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1454 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1455
8dce1a6f
PH
1456PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1457 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1458
17af4a17
PH
1459PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1460 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1461 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1462
1463PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1464 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1465 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1466 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1467 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1468 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1469 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1470 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1471 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1472
1473 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1474 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1475 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1476 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1477 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1478 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1479 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1480 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1481 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1482
1483 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1484 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1485 hammering the server.
1486
c1114884
PH
1487PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1488 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1489
7a0743eb
PH
1490PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1491
0d85fa3f
PH
1492PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1493 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1494 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1495
1bf43b78
PH
1496PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1497 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1498 one case where this was not true.
1499
520de300
PH
1500PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1501 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1502 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1503 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1504 fails.
1505
48c7f9e2
PH
1506PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1507 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1508 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1509 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1510 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1511 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1512 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1513 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1514 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1515 smtp transport.
1516
99ea1c86
PH
1517PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1518 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1519 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1520 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1521
a2042e78
PH
1522PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1523 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1524
4fbcfc2e
PH
1525PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1526 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1527 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1528
aa41d2de
PH
1529PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1530
af561417
PH
1531PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1532
3cc66b45
PH
1533PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1534
194cc0e4
PH
1535PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1536 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1537 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1538 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1539
a401ddaa
PH
1540PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1541 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1542
4e88a19f
PH
1543PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1544 be meaningful with "accept".
1545
d7d7b289
SC
1546SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1547 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1548
1549SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1550 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1551 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1552
1553SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1554 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1555 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1556 there is data to show.
1557 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1558
1559SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1560 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1561 as well as the number of messages.
1562
1563SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1564 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1565 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1566
1567SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1568 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1569 have a flag are now skipped.
1570
1571SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1572 Added the -emptyok flag.
1573
1574SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1575 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1576
0ea2a468
JJ
1577JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1578 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1579 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1580
1581JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1582 match 4.64-PH/13
1583
1584JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1585 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1586
1587JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1588
1589JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1590 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1591
8a10f5a4
PH
1592PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1593
30e18802
PH
1594PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1595 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1596 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1597 contravention of the specifications.
1598
55728a4f
PH
1599PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1600 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1601 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1602
d7837193
PH
1603PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1604 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1605 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1606
87054a31
PH
1607PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1608
ea2c01d2
MH
1609MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1610 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1611 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1612 some point in the past.
1613
e4fa6968
PH
1614PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1615 transport during callout processing was broken.
1616
56f5d9bd
PH
1617PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1618 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1619
922e1c28
PH
1620PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1621 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1622
21eb6e72
PH
1623PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1624 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1625
a0540757
PH
1626PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1627
944e9e9c 1628
478be7b0
SC
1629Exim version 4.63
1630-----------------
1631
1632SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1633 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1634
1635SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1636 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1637 there is data to show.
1638 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1639
1640SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1641 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1642
2b965a65
TF
1643TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1644 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1645
45b91596
PH
1646TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1647 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1648
c59f5781
TF
1649TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1650 submissions from trusted users.
1651
90fc3069
TF
1652TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1653 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1654
6083aca0
TF
1655TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1656 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1657 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1658 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1659 there is now a framework to start from.
1660
765b530f
PH
1661PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1662 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1663 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1664
4e167a8c
PH
1665PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1666
4608d683
PH
1667PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1668
b8dc3e4a
PH
1669PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1670
5418e93b
PH
1671PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1672 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1673 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1674
b4a9bda2
PH
1675PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1676 libradius.
1677
45b91596
PH
1678PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1679 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1680 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1681
5547e2c5
PH
1682PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1683 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1684 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1685 its arguments.
1686
dbcef0ea
PH
1687PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1688 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1689 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1690 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1691 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1692
25257489
PH
1693PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1694 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1695
c816d124
PH
1696PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1697
a9ccd69a
PH
1698PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1699 operations in malware.c.
1700
75fa1910
PH
1701PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1702 signatures.
1703
a7d7aa58
PH
1704PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1705 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1706 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1707 all.
1708
42119b09
PH
1709PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1710 statements to "add_header".
1711
41609df5
PH
1712PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1713 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1714
a5bd321b
PH
1715PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1716 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1717 latter.
1718
e85a7ad5 1719PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1720 so that it is now:
1721
e85a7ad5
PH
1722 ${if or { \
1723 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1724 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1725 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1726 }{no}{yes}}
1727
e85a7ad5
PH
1728 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1729 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1730
d8fe1c03
PH
1731PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1732 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1733
16282d2b
PH
1734PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1735 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1736 any possible encoding problems.
1737
35d40a98
PH
1738PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1739 but not after initializing Perl.
1740
034d99ab
PH
1741PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1742 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1743 apparently, which is not desirable.
1744
6ec97b1b
PH
1745PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1746 queries.
1747
e22ca4ac
JJ
1748JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1749 --not options
1750
1751JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1752
33d73e3b
PH
1753PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1754 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1755 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1756 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1757
9ecb03f3
PH
1758PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1759 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1760 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1761
084efe8d
PH
1762PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1763 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1764 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1765 0.12.
1766
366fc9f0
PH
1767PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1768 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1769 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1770 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1771 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1772
c59f5781 1773
c887c79e
TF
1774Exim version 4.62
1775-----------------
1776
1777TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1778 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1779
1cce3af8
PH
1780PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1781 patch).
1782
afb3eaaf
PH
1783PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1784 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1785 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1786 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1787 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1788 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1789 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1790 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1791 451 error is used.
1792
e173618b
PH
1793PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1794
dd16e114
PH
1795PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1796 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1797 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1798
f7fd3850
PH
1799PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1800 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1801 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1802 odd errors.
1803
d87df92c
PH
1804PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1805 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1806
7e9f683d
PH
1807PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1808 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1809 option (which defaults to 0600).
1810
bfad5236
PH
1811PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1812
01c490df
PH
1813PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1814 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1815 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1816 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1817 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1818 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1819 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1820
d6629cdc
PH
1821PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1822
1cce3af8 1823
214e2000
PH
1824Exim version 4.61
1825-----------------
1826
1827PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1828 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1829 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1830 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1831 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1832 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1833 addresses as local.
1834
f9daeae0
PH
1835PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1836 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1837
7e66e54d
PH
1838PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1839
c8ea1597
PH
1840PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1841 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1842 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1843 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1844 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1845 grumble.
1846
911f6fde
PH
1847PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1848 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1849
47ca6d6c
PH
1850PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1851 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1852 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1853 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1854 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1855
ed0e9820
PH
1856PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1857 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1858 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1859 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1860
eff37e47
PH
1861PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1862 be the same on different OS.
1863
1921d2ea
PH
1864PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1865 testing.
1866
b3f69ca8
JJ
1867JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1868 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1869
1870JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1871 in 4.61-PH/06
1872
424a1c63
PH
1873PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1874 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1875 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1876 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1877 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1878 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1879 bounce message.
1880
7a100415
PH
1881PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1882 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1883 when Exim was called.
1884
19b9dc85
PH
1885PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1886 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1887
309bd837
PH
1888PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1889 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1890 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1891 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1892
59e82a2a
PH
1893PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1894 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1895 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1896 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1897 changes:
1898
1899 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1900 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1901 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1902
1903 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1904 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1905 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1906
9edc04ce
PH
1907PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1908 feature).
1909
1349e1e5
PH
1910PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1911 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1912 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1913 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1914 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1915 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1916 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1917 values from the SRV records were lost.
1918
ea49d0e1
PH
1919PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1920 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1921 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1922
064a94c9
PH
1923PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1924 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1925 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1926
727071f8
PH
1927PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1928 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1929 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1930 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1931 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1932 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1933 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1934 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1935 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1936 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1937
f78eb7c6
PH
1938PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1939 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1940 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1941
21c28500
PH
1942PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1943 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1944
1945PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1946 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1947 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1948 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1949 is given.
1950
1688f43b
PH
1951PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1952 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1953 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1954
1955PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1956 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1957 PH/23 above applies.
1958
9675b384
PH
1959PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1960 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1961 (for which there is an explicit test).
1962
6a3f1455
PH
1963PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1964
dac79d3e
PH
1965PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1966 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1967 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1968 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1969 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1970
5977a0b3
PH
1971PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1972 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1973 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1974 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1975
c91535f3
PH
1976PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1977 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1978 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1979
0d46a8c8
PH
1980PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1981
278c6e6c
PH
1982PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1983
2cbb4081
PH
1984PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1985 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1986 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1987
3eef829e
PH
1988PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1989 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1990 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1991 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1992 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1993
1ab95fa6
PH
1994PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1995 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1996 the message gets confusing).
1997
230205fc
PH
1998PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1999 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2000 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2001 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2002
75e0e026
PH
2003PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2004 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2005 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2006 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2007 same order.
2008
2009PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2010 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2011 the different processes.
2012
145396a6
PH
2013PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2014
3cd34f13
PH
2015PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2016
11121d3d
JJ
2017JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2018 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2019
2020JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2021 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2022
2023JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2024 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2025 messages matching specified criteria.
2026
8def5aaf
PH
2027PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2028
929ba01c
PH
2029PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2030 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2031
2632889e
PH
2032PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2033 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2034 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2035 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2036 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2037 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2038 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2039 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2040 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2041 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2042
944a9c55
PH
2043PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2044 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2045 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2046
4a23603b
PH
2047PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2048
4730f942
PH
2049PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2050 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2051 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2052 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2053 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2054 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2055 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2056 the variable.
2057
30dba1e6
PH
2058PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2059 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2060
382afc6b
PH
2061PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2062
a86229cf
PH
2063PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2064
50c99ba6
PH
2065PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2066
d35e429d
PH
2067PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2068 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2069 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2070 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2071 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2072 size of the count of files.
2073
f90d018c
PH
2074PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2075
75def545
PH
2076PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2077 used in LMTP mode:
2078
2079 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2080 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2081 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2082 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2083
2084 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2085 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2086 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2087
2088PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2089 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2090 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2091 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2092 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2093
c46782ef
PH
2094PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2095 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2096
71fafd95
PH
2097PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2098 will now be deprecated.
2099
2c5db4fd
PH
2100PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2101
9cf6b11a
JJ
2102JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2103 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2104 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2105
2106JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2107 with very large, slow to parse queues
2108
2109JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2110
2111JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2112
898d150f
PH
2113PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2114 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2115 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2116 SMTP output lines.
2117
46218253
PH
2118PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2119 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2120 Sieve code now uses this.
2121
e97957bc
PH
2122PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2123 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2124
81e509d7
PH
2125PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2126 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2127
3d240ff7
PH
2128PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2129
b37c4101
PH
2130PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2131 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2132 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2133 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2134 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2135
79378e0f
PH
2136PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2137 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2138 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2139 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2140
e49c7bb4
PH
2141PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2142
d114ec46
PH
2143PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2144
f3d7df6c
PH
2145PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2146 is preferred over IPv4.
2147
715ab376
PH
2148PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2149 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2150 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2151 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2152 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2153 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2154 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2155
6b31b150
PH
2156PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2157 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2158 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2159
2160PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2161
d515a917
PH
2162PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2163 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2164 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2165 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2166 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2167 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2168 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2169 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2170 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2171 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2172 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2173
9b8fadde
PH
2174PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2175 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2176 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2177
214e2000 2178
5de37277
PH
2179Exim version 4.60
2180-----------------
2181
cc38ddbf
PH
2182PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2183
2184 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2185 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2186
2187 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2188 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2189 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2190
72fdd6ae
PH
2191PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2192
2193 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2194 not a single digit.
2195
2196 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2197 string.
2198
2199 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2200 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2201 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2202 silly things.
2203
2204 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2205 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2206
2207 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2208 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2209
cb741023
PH
2210PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2211 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2212 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2213
f174f16e
PH
2214PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2215 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2216
c25242d7
PH
2217PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2218 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2219
2220 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2221
2222 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2223 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2224 this:
2225
2226 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2227
82c19f95
PH
2228PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2229 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2230 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2231 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2232 identical. For example:
2233
2234 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2235
2236 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2237 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2238 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2239
d7ffbc12
PH
2240PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2241 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2242 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2243 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2244
9f526266
PH
2245PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2246 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2247 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2248 message.
2249
87fcc8b9
PH
2250PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2251
2252 o fixes some comments
2253 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2254 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2255 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2256 and documents the missing references header update
2257
2258 and most important:
2259
2260 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2261 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2262 result)
2263
456682f5
PH
2264PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2265 Electronic Mail") by including:
2266
2267 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2268
2269 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2270 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2271 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2272 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2273 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2274
2275 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2276
2277 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2278
2279 The auto-replied keyword:
2280
2281 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2282 message by an automatic process,
2283
2284 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2285
2286 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2287 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2288
2289 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2290 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2291 other messages.
2292
3e46c1aa
PH
2293PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2294 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2295
49826d12
PH
2296PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2297
eba0c039
PH
2298PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2299 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2300 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2301
a0d6ba8a
PH
2302PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2303 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2304 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2305
f0917727
PH
2306PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2307 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2308 and treats the condition as false.
2309
096fee00
PH
2310PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2311
024bd3c2
PH
2312PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2313 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2314 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2315 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2316 not changing the active code.
2317
2318 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2319 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2320
2321 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2322 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2323
df199fec
PH
2324PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2325 (Bugzilla #53).
2326
d27f1df3
PH
2327PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2328 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2329 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2330 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2331 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2332 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2333 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2334 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2335 the text comparison.
2336
96776534
PH
2337PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2338 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2339 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2340 The same fix has been applied.
2341
5de37277 2342
9a799bc0
PH
2343Exim version 4.54
2344-----------------
2345
2346PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2347 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2348 It now does.
2349
99a4b039
PH
2350PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2351 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2352
2353PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2354
4b233853
PH
2355PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2356 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2357 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2358 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2359 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2360
8857ccfd
PH
2361TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2362 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2363 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2364 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2365 or /domain=).
2366
433a2980
PH
2367PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2368 testing suite.
2369
3e46c1aa 2370
9a799bc0 2371
e3a311ba
TK
2372Exim version 4.53
2373-----------------
2374
2375TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2376 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2377
13b685f9
PH
2378PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2379
395ff96d
PH
2380PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2381
5b68f6e4
PH
2382PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2383 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2384 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2385
1ab52c69
PH
2386PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2387 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2388 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2389
b07e6aa3
PH
2390PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2391 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2392 operating systems.
2393
254e032f
PH
2394PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2395 ${stat: expansion item.
2396
3af76a81
PH
2397PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2398 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2399
2548ba04
PH
2400PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2401 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2402 file for comments.
2403
b6c6011d
PH
2404PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2405
cf39cf57
PH
2406PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2407 setting.
2408
f1513293
PH
2409PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2410 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2411
727549a4
PH
2412TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2413
af46795e
PH
2414PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2415 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2416 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2417 the end of the subprocess.
2418
d7b47fd0
PH
2419PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2420 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2421 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2422 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2423 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2424
ee744174
JJ
2425JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2426
b582ab87
PH
2427TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2428
41a13e0a
PH
2429PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2430 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2431
f625cc5a
PH
2432PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2433
2434PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2435
21f7af35
PH
2436PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2437 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2438 HP-UX compiler.
2439
31480e42
PH
2440PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2441
2d280592
PH
2442PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2443 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2444 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2445
7cd1141b
PH
2446PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2447 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2448
2449PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2450 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2451
750af86e
PH
2452PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2453 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2454
2455 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2456 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2457
2458 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2459 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2460 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2461 contributed by a Radius user.
2462
2463PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2464 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2465
4304270b
TK
2466TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2467 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2468
750af86e
PH
2469PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2470 available.
2471
64ffc24f
PH
2472PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2473 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2474 received.
2475
5dd9625b
PH
2476PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2477 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2478 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2479 header lines when this was not necessary.
2480
5591031b
PH
2481PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2482
ba18e66a
PH
2483PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2484 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2485 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2486 exists".
2487
9cec981f
PH
2488PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2489 -bV or -d is used.
2490
aa2b5c79
PH
2491PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2492 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2493 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2494 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2495
48a53b7f
PH
2496PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2497
1c59d63b
PH
2498PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2499
671012da
TK
2500TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2501
1509d3a8
PH
2502PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2503
2504PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2505 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2506 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2507 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2508 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2509 settings.
2510
2511PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2512
2fe1a124
PH
2513PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2514 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2515 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2516 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2517 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2518 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2519 which is clearly wrong.
2520
8800895a
PH
2521PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2522
ccfdb010
PH
2523PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2524 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2525 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2526 subsequently added.
2527
1130bfb0
PH
2528PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2529 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2530
ebcb507f
PH
2531PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2532
c35e155c
PH
2533PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2534 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2535
95d1f782
PH
2536PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2537 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2538
fd6de02e
PH
2539PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2540 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2541
58de37c5
PH
2542PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2543 recipients, not senders.
2544
261cf466
TF
2545TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2546 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2547
3ee512ff
PH
2548PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2549
e08c430f
PH
2550PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2551
bef5a11f
PH
2552PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2553 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2554 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2555 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2556
7546de58
TF
2557TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2558
e5d5a95f
TF
2559TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2560 clock is set back in time.
2561
2e88a017
TF
2562TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2563 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2564
a5f65aa4
TF
2565TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2566 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2567
e7726cbf
PH
2568PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2569 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2570 (see PH/47 above).
2571
a7fdad5b
TF
2572TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2573 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2574 header rewrites.
2575
6af56900
PH
2576PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2577 type ("H").
2578
0925ede6
PH
2579PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2580
66afa403
TF
2581TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2582 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2583 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2584
0154e85a
TF
2585TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2586 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2587 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2588 helo verification defer as a failure.
2589
16f12c76
PH
2590PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2591 actual error message.
2592
bbe902f0 2593
e5a9dba6
PH
2594Exim version 4.52
2595-----------------
2596
2597TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2598
22c3b60b
PH
2599PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2600 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2601 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2602 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2603
06a9b4b5
PH
2604TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2605
c1ac6996
PH
2606PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2607 can still be requested.
2608
9c7a242c
PH
2609PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2610 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2611 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2612 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2613
87ba3f5f
PH
2614TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2615 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2616 circumstances, but probably never did.
2617
2618PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2619 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2620 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2621 in the header line.
2622
29aba418
TF
2623TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2624
fe0dab11
TF
2625TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2626 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2627
11d337a4
TK
2628TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2629
2630TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2631
415c8f3b
PH
2632PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2633 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2634 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2635 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2636 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2637 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2638
958541e9
PH
2639PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2640 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2641 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2642 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2643 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2644 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2645
c206415f
TK
2646TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2647 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2648
2a4be8f9
PH
2649PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2650 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2651
1cba11c5
SC
2652SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2653 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2654
2655SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2656
2657SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2658
2659SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2660
2661SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2662
2663SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2664
2665SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2666
1005d00e
TK
2667TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2668
2669TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2670 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2671 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2672
2673TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2674 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2675 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2676 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2677
9b4768fa
PH
2678PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2679 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2680 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2681
2682PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2683 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2684 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2685 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2686
0d7eb84a
PH
2687PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2688 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2689 to be made).
2690
2691PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2692 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2693 should work with maildirs and everything.
2694
40727bee
TK
2695TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2696 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2697
554d2369
TF
2698TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2699 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2700
1f922db1
PH
2701PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2702 function for BDB 4.3.
2703
ef213c3b
PH
2704PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2705
8ac170f3
PH
2706PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2707 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2708 involved.
2709
b1c749bb
PH
2710PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2711 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2712 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2713 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2714 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2715 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2716
4aac9b49
PH
2717PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2718 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2719 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2720 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2721 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2722 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2723 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2724 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2725
294520c8
TK
2726TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2727 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2728 details.
2729
5bd022fe
PH
2730PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2731 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2732
90e9ce59
PH
2733PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2734 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2735 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2736 test. It is now used for both.
2737
5ea81592
PH
2738PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2739 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2740 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2741 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2742 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2743 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2744
c6c2dc1d
PH
2745PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2746 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2747 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2748 string_vformat().
2749
fffffe4c
PH
2750PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2751 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2752 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2753
9a26b6b2
PH
2754PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2755 experimental DomainKeys support:
2756
2757 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2758 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2759 the control was given.
2760
2761 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2762
4aee0225
PH
2763PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2764
32d668a5
PH
2765PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2766
8187c3f3
PH
2767PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2768 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2769 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2770 db.h files).
2771
ff790e47 2772PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2773 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2774 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2775 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2776 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2777 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2778 course.
ff790e47 2779
5417f6d1
PH
2780PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2781 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2782 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2783 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2784 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2785 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2786
59cf8544
PH
2787PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2788 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2789 do -d+all out of habit.
2790
e7ad8a65
PH
2791PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2792 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2793 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2794
ade42478
PH
2795PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2796 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2797 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2798 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2799 record types that Exim uses.
2800
182ad5cf
PH
2801PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2802 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2803 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2804 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2805 non-existent file that was broken.
2806
b0d9fc80
TK
2807TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2808 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2809
2810TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2811 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2812 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2813
2814TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2815
47c7a64a
PH
2816PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2817 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2818 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2819 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2820 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2821 same time.
2822
a388bce4
SC
2823SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2824 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2825 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2826 at a slight CPU cost.
2827
2828SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2829 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2830
2831SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2832 by Marc Sherman.
2833
0793e4ed
SC
2834SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2835
c58b88df
PH
2836PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2837 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2838
e7ad8a65 2839
7982096b
PH
2840Exim version 4.51
2841-----------------
2842
1a46a8c5
PH
2843TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2844 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2845
2f079f46 2846TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2847
2848TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2849
2850PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2851 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2852
2853PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2854 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2855 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2856 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2857 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2858 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2859 file.
2860
2861PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2862 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2863 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2864 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2865 these two options.
2866
2867PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2868 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2869 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2870 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2871 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2872 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2873 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2874 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2875
2876PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2877 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2878
2879PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2880 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2881 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2882 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2883 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2884 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2885
2886PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2887 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2888 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2889 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2890
2891PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2892 Finch).
2893
2894PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2895 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2896
49c2d5ea
PH
2897PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2898 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2899 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2900 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2901 message.
49c2d5ea 2902
bf759a8b
PH
2903PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2904
83364d30
PH
2905PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2906 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2907
7999bbd7
PH
2908PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2909 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2910 to what was transported.)
2911
7dbf77c9
PH
2912TF/01 Added $received_time.
2913
74e0617f
PH
2914PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2915 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2916 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2917 spamd_address settings.
2918
2f079f46
PH
2919PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2920 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2921 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2922 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2923 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2924
8c841523
PH
2925PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2926
7766a4f0
PH
2927PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2928 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2929 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2930 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2931 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2932
8b417f2c
PH
2933PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2934 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2935
901f42cb
PH
2936PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2937 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2938 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2939 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2940 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2941 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2942 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2943 for failure.
2944
f9b9210e
PH
2945PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2946 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2947 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2948 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2949 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2950 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2951 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2952 "input=".
2953
54cdb463
PH
2954PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2955
cf00dad6
PH
2956PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2957 driver and ACL definitions.
2958
acb1b346
PH
2959PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2960 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2961
c5ddb310
PH
2962PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2963 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2964 understands it better than I do:
2965
2966 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2967 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2968
2969 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2970 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2971 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2972 => three warnings about OTP not working
2973 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2974
2975 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2976 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2977 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2978 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2979 for each call.)
2980 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2981 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2982
2983 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2984 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2985 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2986
31619da6
PH
2987PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2988 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2989 specified.
2990
bebaf0fc
PH
2991PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2992 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2993 "Linux".
2994
475fe28a
PH
2995PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2996 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2997 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2998
2999 warn !verify = sender
3000 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3001
3002 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3003 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3004
7e8bec7a
PH
3005PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3006
3007 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3008 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3009
3010 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3011 nomenclature these days.)
3012
e4a89c47
PH
3013PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3014 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3015
5ca2a9a1
PH
3016PH/30 In these circumstances:
3017 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3018 . First host does not offer TLS;
3019 . First host accepts first address;
3020 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3021 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3022 . Second host accepts second address.
3023 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3024 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3025 address.
7e8bec7a 3026
c688b954
PH
3027PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3028 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3029 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3030 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3031 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3032
fed77020
PH
3033PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3034 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3035
7fe1560f
PH
3036PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3037 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3038
ebb6e6d5
PH
3039PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3040 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3041 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3042
9c4e8f60
PH
3043PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3044 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3045 overlooked.
3046
3047PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3048
d7174846
PH
3049PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3050 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3051 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3052 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3053 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3054 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3055 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3056
3057 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3058 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3059 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3060 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3061 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3062
3063 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3064 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3065 routed further.
3066
cfe75fc3
PH
3067PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3068 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3069 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3070 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3071 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3072 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3073
be22d70e
PH
3074PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3075
0612b098
PH
3076PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3077 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3078 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3079 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3080 printable escape sequences.
3081
2e0c1448
PH
3082PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3083 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3084 body only.
3085
447d236c
PH
3086PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3087 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3088 are as follows:
3089
3090 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3091 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3092 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3093 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3094 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3095
3096 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3097 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3098 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3099
d20976dc
PH
3100PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3101
f656d135
PH
3102PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3103 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3104 play with."
3105
2e2a30b4
PH
3106PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3107 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3108 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3109 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3110 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3111 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3112 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3113 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3114 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3115 the log output.
3116
9176e9f0
PH
3117PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3118 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3119 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3120 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3121 "make".
3122
7982096b 3123
bbe902f0
PH
3124A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3125----------------------------------------
3126
3127Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3128changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3129needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3130in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3131that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3132release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3133from 4.43.
3134
3135I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
31364.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3137those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3138historical information.
3139
3140
f7b63901 3141Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3142-----------------
3143
5fe762f6
PH
3144 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3145
139059f6 3146 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3147 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3148
7086e875
PH
3149 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3150 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3151 place.
3152
35af9f61
PH
3153 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3154 filter fails to execute.
3155
b668c215
PH
3156 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3157 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3158 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3159 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3160 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3161
a494b1e1
PH
3162 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3163
3164 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3165 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3166 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3167 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3168
c5fcb476
PH
3169 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3170 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3171 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3172 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3173 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3174
69358f02
PH
3175 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3176
5be20824
PH
317710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3178
eb2c0248
PH
317911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3180 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3181 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3182 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3183
2a3eea10
PH
318412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3185 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3186 sender verification.
3187
318813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3189 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3190
23c7ff99
PH
319114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3192
4deaf07d
PH
319315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3194 connection timeout.
3195
926e1192
PH
319616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3197 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3198
650edc6f
PH
319917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3200 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3201
2c7db3f5
PH
320218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3203 information about exactly what failed.
3204
3d235903
PH
320519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3206
7c7ad977
PH
320720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3208 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3209 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3210
981756db
PH
321121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3212 It is now set to "smtps".
3213
d4eb88df
PH
321422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3215 ignore_target_hosts.
3216
321723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3218 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3219 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3220 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3221 "[x.x.x.x]".
3222
7d468ab8
PH
322324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3224 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3225 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3226
322725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3228 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3229 wake it up if nothing else does.
3230
62c0818f
PH
323126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3232 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3233 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3234 end up negative.
3235
26034054
PH
323627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3237 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3238
af66f652
PH
323928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3240
90af77f4
PH
324129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3242 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3243 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3244 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3245 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3246 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3247 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3248 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3249
d8ef3577
PH
325030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3251 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3252 than one IP address.
3253
5cb8cbc6
PH
325431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3255 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3256 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3257 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3258
14702f5b
PH
325932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3260 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3261 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3262 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3263 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3264 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3265
063b1e99
PH
326633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3267 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3268 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3269 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3270
652e1b65
PH
327134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3272 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3273 respected.
3274
6f0c9a4f
PH
327535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3276 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3277 $sender_host_address.
3278
33397d19
PH
327936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3280 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3281 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3282 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3283 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3284 very small.
3285
7bb56e1f
PH
328637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3287
3288 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3289 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3290
ea3bc19b
PH
3291 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3292 just the host names, not the priorities.
3293
3294 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3295 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3296 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3297
ea3bc19b 3298 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3299 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3300
0bcb2a0e
PH
330138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3302 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3303 domain.
3304
2ac0e484
PH
330539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3306
4e1fde53
PH
330740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3308 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3309
de365ded
PH
331041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3311 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3312 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3313
f05da2e8
PH
331442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3315
d6453af2
PH
331643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3317
f7b63901
PH
331844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3319
332045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3321 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3322 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3323 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3324 because the tests only now provoked it.
3325
a444213a
PH
332646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3327 (this can affect the format of dates).
3328
0ec020ea
PH
332947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3330 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3331 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3332 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3333
b1206957
PH
333448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3335
333649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3337 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3338 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3339 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3340
26dd5a95
PH
334150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3342 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3343 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3344
343b2385
PH
334551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3346 autoreply.
3347
1c5466b9
PH
334852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3349 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3350 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3351 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3352 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3353 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3354 is going on).
3355
55ee9ee3
PH
335653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3357 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3358 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3359 the line.
3360
d38f8232
PH
336154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3362 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3363 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3364
3365 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3366 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3367 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3368 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3369 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3370 so I produce this patch..."
3371
3295e65b
PH
3372 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3373 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3374 is not defined.
3375
7102e136
PH
337655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3377 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3378 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3379 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3380 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3381
3ca0ba97
PH
338256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3383
c2bcbe20
PH
338457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3385 long debug lines gets shown.
3386
18ce445d
PH
338758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3388 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3389
1f5b4c3d
PH
339059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3391
3392 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3393 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3394 of $primary_hostname.
3395
b975ba52
PH
339660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3397 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3398 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3399 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3400 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3401 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3402 by change 4.50/55 above.
3403
3404 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3405 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3406 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3407 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3408 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3409 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3410 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3411
341261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3413 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3414 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3415 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3416
17ffcae7
PH
341762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3418 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3419
d95f9fdb
PH
342063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3421 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3422 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3423 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3424 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3425
86b8287f
PH
342664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3427 This has been fixed.
3428
60dc5e56
PH
342965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3430 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3431 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3432 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3433 the caching.)
3434
533244af
PH
343566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3436
a5a28604
PH
343767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3438 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3439 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3440 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3441
7e634d24
PH
344268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3443 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3444
3e11c26b
PH
344569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3446 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3447 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3448
6729cf78
PH
344970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3450 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3451 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3452 message there.
3453
00f00ca5
PH
345471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3455 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3456 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3457
c9bdd01c
PH
345872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3459 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3460 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3461 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3462
d43194df
PH
346373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3464 during host lookups.
3465
fe5b5d0b
PH
346674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3467 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3468
3469 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3470
76a2d7ba
PH
347175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3472 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3473 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3474 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3475 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3476 background.
3477
347876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3479 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3480
04f7d5b9
PH
348177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3482 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3483 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3484
bc60667e
PH
348578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3486
bb6e88ff
PH
348779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3488 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3489 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3490 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3491 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3492 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3493 process earlier.
3494
1e70f85b
PH
349580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3496 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3497 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3498 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3499 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3500
350181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3502 tables).
3503
4e01f9d6
PH
350482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3505
1ee1cef2
PH
350683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3507 "vacation" handling.
3508
6e2b4ccc
PH
350984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3510 OS variants using glibc.
3511
8e669ac1
PH
351285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3513
495ae4b0 3514
bbe902f0
PH
3515----------------------------------------------------
3516See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3517----------------------------------------------------
3518
3519
3520Exim version 4.44
3521-----------------
3522
3523 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3524 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3525 transport
3526
3527 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3528 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3529 place.
3530
3531 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3532 filter fails to execute.
3533
3534 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3535 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3536 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3537 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3538 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3539
3540 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3541 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3542 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3543 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3544
3545 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3546 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3547 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3548 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3549 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3550
3551 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3552
3553 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3554 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3555 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3556 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3557
3558 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3559 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3560 sender verification.
3561
356210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3563 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3564
356511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3566 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3567
356812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3569 ignore_target_hosts.
3570
357113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3572 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3573 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3574 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3575 "[x.x.x.x]".
3576
357714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3578 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3579 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3580
358115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3582 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3583 wake it up if nothing else does.
3584
358516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3586 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3587 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3588 end up negative.
3589
359017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3591 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3592
ea3a6f44 359318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3594
359519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3596 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3597 empty pattern.
3598
359920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3600 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3601 one IP address.
3602
ea3a6f44
NM
360321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3604 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3605 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3606 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3607 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3608 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3609
ea3a6f44
NM
361022. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3611 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3612 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3613
361423. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3615 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3616 $sender_host_address.
3617
361824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3619
ea3a6f44
NM
362025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3621 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3622 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3623
362426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3625 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3626
ea3a6f44
NM
362727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3628 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3629
ea3a6f44
NM
363028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3631 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3632 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3633 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3634
363529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3636 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3637 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3638
ea3a6f44
NM
363930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3640 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3641 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3642 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3643
ea3a6f44
NM
364431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3645 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3646 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3647
ea3a6f44
NM
364831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3649 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3650
ea3a6f44
NM
365132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3652 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3653 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3654 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3655 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3656 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3657 is going on).
bbe902f0 3658
ea3a6f44
NM
365933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3660 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3661 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3662 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3663 CAN-2005-0021
3664
ea3a6f44
NM
366534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3666 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3667 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3668 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3669 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3670 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3671 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3672
3673 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3674 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3675 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3676 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3677 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3678 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3679 CAN-2005-0021
3680
ea3a6f44
NM
368135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3682 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3683 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3684 CAN-2005-0022
3685
ea3a6f44
NM
368636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3687 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3688 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3689 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3690 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3691
ea3a6f44
NM
369237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3693 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3694 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3695 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3696 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3697
ea3a6f44
NM
369838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3699 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3700 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3701 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3702 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3703
3704
495ae4b0
PH
3705Exim version 4.43
3706-----------------
3707
3708 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3709 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3710 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3711 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3712 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3713 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3714 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3715
3716 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3717 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3718 the delivery.
3719
3720 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3721
3722 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3723
3724 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3725 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3726 to local_scan().
3727
3728 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3729 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3730 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3731 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3732 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3733
3734 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3735 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3736
3737 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3738
3739 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3740
374110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3742 header_sender only.
3743
374411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3745 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3746
374712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3748 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3749 affecting debugging statements).
3750
375113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3752
375314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3754 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3755 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3756 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3757 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3758 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3759 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3760 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3761 after the received time, and all would be well.
3762
376315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3764 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3765 condition in an expansion string.
3766
376716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3768
376917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3770 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3771 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3772 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3773 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3774 job under whatever limits there are.
3775
377618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3777
377819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3779 space).
3780
378120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3782 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3783 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3784 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3785 return path is set.
3786
378721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3788 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3789 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3790 binary data in such strings.
3791
379222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3793
379423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3795 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3796 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3797 failure, which is pointless.
3798
379924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3800
380125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3802
380326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3804 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3805 Sender: header lines.
3806
380727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3808 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3809 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3810
381128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3812 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3813 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3814 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3815 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3816 happens.
3817
381829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3819 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3820 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3821 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3822 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3823
382430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3825 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3826 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3827 1024.
3828
382931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3830 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3831
383232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3833 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3834
383533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3836
383732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3838
383933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3840
384134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3842 syntax error.
3843
384435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3845
384636. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3847
384837. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3849 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3850 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3851 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3852
385338. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3854 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3855
3856
3857Exim version 4.42
3858-----------------
3859
3860 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3861 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3862 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3863 it was not quoted.
3864 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3865 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3866 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3867 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3868 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3869 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3870
3871 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3872 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3873 verification failure".
3874
3875 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3876 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3877 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3878 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3879
3880 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3881 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3882 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3883 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3884 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3885 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3886 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3887 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3888 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3889 treated as a timeout.
3890
3891 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3892 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3893 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3894 not set for Exim filters).
3895
3896 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3897 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3898 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3899
3900 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3901
3902 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3903 try to make them clearer.
3904
3905 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3906 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3907
3908 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3909
3910 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3911
391210. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3913 only the Cygwin environment.
3914
391511. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3916 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3917 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3918 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3919 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3920
392112. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3922 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3923 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3924 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3925 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3926 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3927 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3928
392913. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3930 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3931
393214. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3933
3934 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3935 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3936 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3937
3938 To: susanne@some.where
3939
3940 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3941 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3942 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3943 of addresses in From: header lines).
3944
3945 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3946 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3947 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3948
3949 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3950 treated as non-personal.
3951
3952 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3953 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3954
395515. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3956
395716. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3958
395917. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3960 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3961 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3962
396318. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3964 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3965
396619. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3967 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3968 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3969 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3970 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3971 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3972
397320. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3974 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3975 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3976 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3977 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3978 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3979 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3980 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3981
3982 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3983
398421. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3985 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3986
398722. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3988 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3989 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3990
399123. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3992 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3993
399424. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3995 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3996 rather than long int.
3997
399825. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3999
400026. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4001
4002
4003Exim version 4.41
4004-----------------
4005
4006 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4007 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4008 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4009 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4010 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4011 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4012
4013
4014Exim version 4.40
4015-----------------
4016
4017 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4018 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4019
4020 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4021 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4022 socklen_t is defined.
4023
4024 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4025 always exist.
4026
4027 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4028 configured.
4029
4030 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4031 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4032 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4033 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4034 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4035
4036 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4037 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4038 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4039 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4040
4041 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4042 of flapping under certain conditions.
4043
4044 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4045 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4046 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4047
4048 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4049
405010. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4051
405211. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4053 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4054 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4055 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4056
405712. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4058 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4059 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4060 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4061 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4062 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4063 preserved with the message after it was received.
4064
406513. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4066 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4067 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4068 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4069 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4070 test suite worked just fine.
4071
407214. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4073 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4074 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4075
407615. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4077 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4078 string.
4079
408016. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4081 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4082 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4083 does not fully solve it.
4084
408517. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4086 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4087 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4088 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4089 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4090
409118. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4092 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4093 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4094
409519. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4096 string, for example:
4097
4098 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4099
4100 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4101 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4102 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4103 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4104 the routers could not see them.
4105
410620. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4107 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4108
410921. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4110 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4111 output).
4112
411322. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4114 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4115 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4116 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4117 that needed quoting.
4118
411923. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4120 was not being matched caselessly.
4121
412224. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4123 backslashes.
4124
412525. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4126 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4127 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4128 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4129 when use_sender is false.
4130
413126. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4132
413327. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4134
413528. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4136
413729. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4138 the configuration file.
4139
414030. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4141 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4142
414331. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4144
414532. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4146 bytes in the message body.
4147
414833. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4149 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4150 delivery.
4151
415234. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4153
415435. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4155
415636. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4157 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4158 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4159 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4160 another IP address.
4161
4162
4163Exim version 4.34
4164-----------------
4165
4166 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4167 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4168
4169 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4170 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4171 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4172 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4173 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4174
4175 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4176 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4177
4178 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4179 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4180 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4181
4182 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4183 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4184 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4185
4186 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4187 for routers.
4188
4189 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4190 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4191 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4192 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4193 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4194 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4195 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4196
4197
4198Exim version 4.33
4199-----------------
4200
4201 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4202 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4203 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4204 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4205 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4206 default (and expected) setting.
4207
4208 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4209 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4210 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4211 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4212
4213 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4214 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4215
4216 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4217 in domain lists.
4218
4219 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4220 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4221 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4222 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4223 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4224 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4225
4226 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4227 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4228 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4229
4230 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4231 part (NOT match_host).
4232
4233 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4234
4235 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4236 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4237 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4238 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4239 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4240 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4241 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4242 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4243 the same named file.
4244
424510. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4246 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4247 when Exim is built.
4248
424911. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4250 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4251 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4252 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4253 a host name.
4254
425512. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4256 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4257 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4258
425913. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4260
426114. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4262
426315. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4264
426516. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4266 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4267
426817. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4269 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4270 before starting the TLS session.
4271
427218. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4273
427419. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4275 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4276
427720. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4278 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4279 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4280 colon in the middle).
4281
4282
4283Exim version 4.32
4284-----------------
4285
4286 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4287 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4288 multiple configurations are in use.
4289
4290 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4291 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4292 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4293 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4294 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4295 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4296
4297 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4298 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4299
4300 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4301 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4302 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4303
4304 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4305 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4306 occurs.
4307
4308 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4309 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4310
4311 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4312
4313 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4314 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4315
4316 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4317
4318 -prval:sval
4319
4320 is equivalent to
4321
4322 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4323
4324 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4325 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4326 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4327 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4328 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4329
433010. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4331 Exim's behaviour:
4332
4333 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4334 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4335 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4336 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4337 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4338 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4339
4340 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4341 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4342 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4343 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4344 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4345 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4346 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4347 string.
4348
4349 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4350 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4351 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4352 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4353 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4354
435511. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4356
435712. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4358 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4359 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4360
436113. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4362
436314. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4364 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4365 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4366 information.
4367
436815. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4369 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4370
437116. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4372 Three changes have been made:
4373
4374 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4375 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4376 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4377 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4378 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4379
4380 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4381 been restored.
4382
4383 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4384 the modified behaviour.
4385
4386
4387Exim version 4.31
4388-----------------
4389
4390 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4391 Larry Rosenman.
4392
4393 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4394 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4395
4396 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4397 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4398 try to track down a specific problem.
4399
4400 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4401 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4402 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4403
4404 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4405 warning.
4406
4407 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4408 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4409 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4410 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4411 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4412 some earlier ones do not.
4413
4414 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4415
4416 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4417 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4418 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4419 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4420 address literals are enabled, of course).
4421
4422 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4423
442410. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4425 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4426 by a command such as
4427
4428 exim -f "" ...
4429
4430 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4431
443211. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4433
443412. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4435 remained set. It is now erased.
4436
443713. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4438 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4439
444014. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4441 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4442 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4443 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4444 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4445 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4446 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4447 appropriate error code.
4448
444915. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4450 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4451 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4452 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4453 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4454 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4455
445616. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4457 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4458 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4459
446017. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4461 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4462 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4463 terminate the header.
4464
446518. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4466 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4467 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4468
446919. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4470 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4471 (4.30/29). In particular:
4472
4473 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4474 imposed.
4475
4476 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4477 to write a maildirsize file.
4478
4479 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4480 the transport, the new value overrides.
4481
4482 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4483 count.
4484
448520. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4486 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4487 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4488 space or a tab.
4489
449021. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4491 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4492 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4493 the fallback hosts.
4494
449522. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4496 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4497 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4498
449923. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4500 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4501 using a union.
4502
450324. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4504 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4505 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4506
450725. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4508
450926. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4510
451127. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4512
451328. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4514 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4515 become corrupted.
4516
451729. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4518 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4519 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4520 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4521 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4522 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4523 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4524 too great.
4525
452630. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4527 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4528 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4529 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4530 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4531 incorrectly.
4532
453331. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4534 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4535 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4536 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4537 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4538 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4539 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4540 cached value only when the same options are set.
4541
454232. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4543
454433. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4545 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4546 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4547 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4548 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4549
455034: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4551 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4552 it is clearly obsolete.
4553
455435. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4555 transport.
4556
455736. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4558 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4559 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4560 times.
4561
456237. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4563 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4564 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4565 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4566 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4567
456838. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4569 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4570 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4571 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4572
457339. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4574
4575 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4576
4577 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4578 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4579 2^31.
4580
458140. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4582 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4583 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4584 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4585 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4586 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4587 $localpart_data.
4588
458941. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4590 with the -f command-line option.
4591
459242. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4593 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4594 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4595 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4596 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4597 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4598
459943. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4600 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4601 line.
4602
460344. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4604 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4605 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4606 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4607 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4608 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4609 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4610 buffer is too small.
4611
461245. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4613 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4614
461546. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4616 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4617 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4618 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4619 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4620 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4621 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4622 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4623 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4624
462547. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4626 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4627 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4628
462948. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4630 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4631 ACL").
4632
463349. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4634 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4635 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4636 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4637 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4638
463950. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4640 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4641 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4642 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4643 is set.
4644
464551. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4646
464752. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4648
464953. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4650 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4651
465254. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4653 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4654 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4655
465655. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4657 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4658 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4659 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4660 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4661
466256. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4663 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4664 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4665 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4666 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4667 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4668 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4669
467057. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4671 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4672 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4673 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4674 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4675 the test of how many are available.
4676
467758. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4678 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4679 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4680 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4681 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4682 new message is started.
4683
468459. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4685 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4686
468760. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4688 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4689
469061. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4691 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4692 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4693 is no long logged.
4694
469562. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4696 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4697 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4698 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4699 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4700 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4701 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4702
470363. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4704 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4705 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4706 interpreted as octal.
4707
470864. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4709 setting.
4710
471165. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4712 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4713 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4714 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4715 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4716 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4717
471866. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4719 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4720 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4721 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4722
4723 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4724 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4725 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4726 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4727
4728 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4729 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4730 is a bug fix.
4731
4732 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4733 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4734
473567. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4736
473768. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4738 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4739 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4740 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4741
474269. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4743 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4744 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4745 supplied", which is not helpful.
4746
474770. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4748 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4749 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4750
475171. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4752 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4753 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4754 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4755 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4756 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4757 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4758 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4759
476072. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4761 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4762 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4763 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4764 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4765
476673. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4767 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4768 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4769 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4770 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4771 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4772
477374. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4774 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4775 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4776
477775. Added write_rejectlog option.
4778
477976. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4780 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4781 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4782 variables.
4783
478477. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4785
478678. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4787 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4788 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4789 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4790 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4791 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4792 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4793 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4794
479579. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4796 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4797 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4798 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4799 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4800
480180. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4802 Haardt.
4803
480481. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4805 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4806 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4807 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4808 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4809 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4810 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4811 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4812 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4813
4814
4815Exim version 4.30
4816-----------------
4817
4818 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4819 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4820 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4821
4822 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4823 fixed.
4824
4825 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4826 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4827 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4828
4829 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4830 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4831 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4832 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4833 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4834 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4835
4836 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4837 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4838 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4839 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4840 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4841 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4842 the Exim test suite.
4843
4844 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4845 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4846 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4847 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4848
4849 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4850 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4851 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4852 specify it in this variable.
4853
4854 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4855 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4856 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4857 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4858
4859 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4860 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4861 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4862 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4863
4864 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4865 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4866 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4867 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4868 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4869
4870 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4871
487210. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4873 they are logged.
4874
487511. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4876 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4877 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4878 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4879 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4880
488112. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4882 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4883
488413. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4885 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4886 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4887 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4888 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4889
489014. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4891 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4892
489315. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4894 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4895 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4896
489716. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4898 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4899
490017. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4901 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4902
490318. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4904 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4905 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4906
490719. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4908 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4909
491020. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4911 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4912 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4913 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4914
491521. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4916
491722. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4918 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4919 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4920 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4921
492223. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4923
492424. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4925 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4926
492725. Added .include_if_exists.
4928
492926. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4930 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4931 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4932 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4933 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4934 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4935
493627. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4937
493828. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4939 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4940 this.
4941
494229. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4943
494430. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4945 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4946
4947 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4948 550 Sender verify failed
4949
4950 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4951 the final line of the response.
4952
495331. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4954 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4955 all other user lookups.
4956
495732. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4958 delivery time.
4959
496033. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4961 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4962 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4963 result into an int without checking.
4964
496534. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4966 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4967 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4968
496935. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4970 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4971 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4972 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4973
497436. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4975 correctly.
4976
497737. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4978 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4979
498038. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4981 to the empty sender.
4982
498339. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4984 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4985 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4986 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4987 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4988 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4989 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4990 panic log.
4991
499240. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4993 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4994 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4995 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4996 used.
4997
499841. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4999 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5000
500142. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5002 timestamps.
5003
500443. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5005 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5006
500744. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5008
500945. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5010 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5011 logs.
5012
501346. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5014 as soon as it is encountered.
5015
501647. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5017
501848. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5019 rewritten to "<>".
5020
502149. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5022 recognizes a tab character.
5023
502450. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5025 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5026 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5027 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5028
502951. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5030
503152. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5032 crash.
5033
503453. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5035
503654. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5037
503855. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5039 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5040 2822.
5041
504256. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5043 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5044 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5045 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5046 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5047
504857. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5049 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5050
505158. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5052 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5053 list (.included file names were always shown).
5054
505559. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5056 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5057 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5058 root at that time.
5059
506060. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5061 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5062
506361. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5064
506562. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5066
506763. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5068
506964. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5070 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5071 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5072 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5073 failures to open the logs.
5074
507565. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5076 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5077 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5078 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5079 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5080 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5081 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5082
5083
5084Exim version 4.24
5085-----------------
5086
5087 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5088 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5089 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5090 change 4.23/1.
5091
5092 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5093 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5094 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5095
5096 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5097 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5098 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5099
5100 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5101 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5102 causing some misleading effects.
5103
5104 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5105 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5106 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5107
5108 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5109 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5110 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5111 queue-runner function directly.
5112
5113
5114Exim version 4.23
5115-----------------
5116
5117 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5118 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5119
5120 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5121 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5122 was always written to the default place.
5123
5124 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5125 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5126 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5127
5128 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5129
5130 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5131
5132 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5133 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5134 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5135
5136 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5137 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5138 must start.
5139
5140 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5141 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5142 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5143
5144 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5145 command line option is disabled.
5146
5147 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5148 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5149
5150 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5151
5152 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5153
5154 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5155 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5156
515710. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5158
515911. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5160 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5161 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5162 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5163 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5164 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5165
516612. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5167 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5168 timeout.
5169
517013. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5171 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5172
517314. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5174 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5175
517615. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5177 received was valid base64.
5178
517916. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5180 name of the variable that was being set.
5181
518217. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5183
518418. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5185 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5186 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5187 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5188 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5189 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5190
519119. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5192
519320. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5194 nor realm was specified.
5195
519621. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5197 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5198 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5199 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5200
520122. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5202 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5203 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5204
520523. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5206 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5207 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5208
520924. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5210 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5211 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5212 some systems use these upper case variants.
5213
521425. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5215 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5216 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5217 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5218
521926. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5220
522127. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5222 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5223
522428. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5225 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5226 expansion variable.
5227
522829. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5229
523030. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5231 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5232 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5233 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5234
523531. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5236 using it.
5237
523832. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5239 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5240 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5241
524233. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5243 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5244
524534. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5246 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5247 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5248 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5249
525035. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5251 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5252 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5253
525436. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5255
525637. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5257 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5258 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5259 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5260 aborted.
5261
526238. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5263 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5264 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5265
526639. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5267
526840. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5269 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5270
527141. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5272 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5273
527442. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5275 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5276 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5277 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5278 when emails are that large.
5279
5280
5281
5282Exim version 4.22
5283-----------------
5284
5285 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5286 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5287
5288 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5289 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5290 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5291
5292 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5293 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5294 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5295
5296 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5297 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5298 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5299 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5300 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5301
5302 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5303 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5304 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5305 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5306 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5307 ever.
5308
5309 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5310 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5311 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5312 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5313 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5314 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5315 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5316 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5317 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5318 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5319 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5320 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5321 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5322 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5323
5324 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5325 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5326 parameterised it.
5327
5328 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5329 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5330 error should be diagnosed.
5331
5332 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5333 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5334 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5335 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5336 appeared instead of "NULL".
5337
533810. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5339 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5340 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5341 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5342 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5343 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5344 proceeds).
5345
5346 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5347 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5348 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5349
5350
5351Exim version 4.21
5352-----------------
5353
5354 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5355 or receiver verification errors.
5356
5357 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5358 name.
5359
5360 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5361 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5362 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5363 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5364
5365 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5366 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5367 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5368 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5369 shouldn't happen again.
5370
5371 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5372 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5373 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5374
5375 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5376 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5377
5378 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5379
5380 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5381 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5382
5383 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5384 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5385 RFC.
5386
538710. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5388 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5389 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5390
539111. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5392 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5393 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5394 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5395
539612. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5397 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5398 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5399 to define what should happen).
5400
540113. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5402 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5403 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5404
540514. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5406
540715. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5408
540916. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5410 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5411
541217. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5413 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5414 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5415 structure in all cases.
5416
5417 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5418 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5419 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5420 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5421
542218. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5423 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5424 domain name.
5425
542619. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5427 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5428
542920. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5430 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5431
543221. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5433 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5434 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5435
543622. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5437 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5438 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5439
544023. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5441 the book and for uniformity.
5442
544324. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5444
544525. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5446 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5447 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5448 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5449 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5450 non-existent command as the problem.
5451
545226. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5453 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5454 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5455
545627. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5457
545828. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5459 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5460 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5461
546229. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5463 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5464 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5465 timestamps using strftime().
5466
546730. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5468 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5469
547032. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5471 transport-time rewrites.
5472
547333. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5474 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5475 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5476 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5477
547834. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5479 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5480
548135. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5482 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5483 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5484 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5485 comma and a space.
5486
548736. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5488 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5489 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5490 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5491 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5492 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5493 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5494
549537. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5496 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5497 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5498 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5499 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5500
550138. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5502 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5503 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5504 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5505 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5506 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5507 remaining text gets split now.
5508
550939. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5510 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5511 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5512 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5513
551440. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5515 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5516 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5517 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5518 $return_path.
5519
552041. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5521 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5522 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5523 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5524 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5525 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5526 passed through if needed.
5527
552842. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5529 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5530 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5531 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5532 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5533 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5534
553543. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5536 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5537 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5538 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5539 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5540
554144. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5542 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5543 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5544 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5545 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5546
554745. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5548 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5549 noticed.
5550
555146. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5552 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5553 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5554 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5555 mayhem of various kinds.
5556
555747. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5558 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5559 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5560 the right test for positive values.
5561
556248. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5563 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5564 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5565 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5566 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5567 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5568 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5569 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5570 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5571 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5572 envelope.
5573
557449. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5575 module.
5576
557750. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5578 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5579 forbidding it.
5580
558151. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5582 the existing equality matching.
5583
558452. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5585 dealing with inode numbers.
5586
558753. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5588 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5589 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5590
559154. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5592 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5593 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5594 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5595 local_scan().
5596
559755. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5598 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5599 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5600 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5601 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5602 relay addresses has also been removed.
5603
560456. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5605
560657. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5607 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5608 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5609
561058. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5611 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5612 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5613 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5614 processing applies to CR:
5615
5616 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5617 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5618
5619 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5620 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5621 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5622 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5623
562459. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5625 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5626 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5627
562860. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5629 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5630 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5631 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5632 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5633 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5634 arisen.
5635
563661. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5637 program routers.
5638
563962. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5640 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5641 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5642 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5643 adds:
5644
5645 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5646
5647 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5648
5649 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5650
565163. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5652 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5653 not considered personal.
5654
565564. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5656
565765. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5658
565966. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5660
566167. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5662 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5663 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5664 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5665 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5666 header lines, and spool format errors.
5667
566868. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5669 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5670 for more flexibility.
5671
567269. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5673 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5674 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5675
567670. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5677 Sabourenkov.
5678
567971. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5680 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5681 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5682 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5683 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5684 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5685 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5686 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5687 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5688
568972. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5690 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5691 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5692 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5693 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5694 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5695 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5696
569773. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5698 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5699 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5700
570174. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5702 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5703 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5704 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5705 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5706 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5707 instead of killing the process with assert().
5708
570975. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5710 than Unicode encoding.
5711
571276. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5713 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5714 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5715 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5716
571777. Added process_log_path.
5718
571978. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5720 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5721
572279. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5723 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5724
572580. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5726 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5727 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5728
572981. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5730 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5731 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5732 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5733 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5734 were applied:
5735
5736 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5737 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5738 as invalid.
5739
574082. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5741 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5742 they will be used during message reception.
5743
5744
5745Exim version 4.20
5746-----------------
5747
5748The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5749
5750****