Multiple headers_add/remove options per router/transport - fixes bug 337
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.81
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6
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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36JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
37
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38JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
39
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40PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
41
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42NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
43 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 44
585121e2 45JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 46
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47PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
48
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49PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
50 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
51
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52JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
53 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
54 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 55
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56JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
57
b1770b6e 58Exim version 4.80
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60
61PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
62 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
63 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
64
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65NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
66
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67NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
68 improved.
69
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70NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
71
c1e794ba 72PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 73
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74PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
75
76PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
77 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
78
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79PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
80 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
81
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82PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
83 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
84
f1e05cc7 85PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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86 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
87 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 88
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89PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
90
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91PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
92 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
93
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94PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
95
c45dd180 96PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 97
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98PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
99 non-compliant senders.
100 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
101
eae0036b 102NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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103 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
104 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
105
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106PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
107 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
108 in spool file corruption.
109
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110PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
111 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
112 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
113 "Got SSL error 2".
114
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115TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
116 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
117 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
118
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119JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
120 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
121
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122JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
123
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124PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
125 diagnostics.
126 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
127
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128PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
129 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
130 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
131
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132PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
133 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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134 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
135 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 136
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137PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
138 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
139
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140PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
141 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
142 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
143 resolver implementation change.
144
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145PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
146 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
147
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148PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
149
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150PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
151
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152PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
153 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
154
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155PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
156 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
157
9e45c72b 158JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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159 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
160
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161PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
162 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
163 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
164 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 165 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 166
53947857 167PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 168
eae0036b 169PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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170 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
171 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 172
9e45c72b 173JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 174
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175PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
176 read-only, out of scope).
177 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
178
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179PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
180 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
181 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
182 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
183
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184PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
185
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186PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
187 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
188 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
189 real issues in debug logging.
190
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191PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
192 assignment on my part. Fixed.
193
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194PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
195 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
196 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
197
198PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
199 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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200 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
201 problems.
3375e053 202
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203PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
204 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
205
57eb9e91 206PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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207 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
208 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
209 needs to override this, it can.
210
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211PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
212 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
213 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
214
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215PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
216 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
217 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
218 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
219
3ecab157 220PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 221
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223Exim version 4.77
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225
226PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
227 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
228
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229TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
230
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231TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
232 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 233
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234TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
235 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
236
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237TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
238 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
239 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
240
241 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
242 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
243 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
244 not safe for signals.
245
246 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
247 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
248 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
249 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
250 exiwhat.
251
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252TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
253
254 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
255 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
256 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
257 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
258 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
259
260 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
261 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
262 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
263 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
264 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
265 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
266
267 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
268 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
269 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
270 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
271
272 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
273 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
274 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
275 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
276
277 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
278 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
279 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
280 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
281 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
282 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
283 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
284 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
285 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
286
287 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
288 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
289 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
290 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
291
292 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
293 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
294 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
295 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
296 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
297 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
298 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
299 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
300 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
301 details in the main documentation.
302
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303TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
304
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305TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
306
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307TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
308 repository when doing development or release builds.
309
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310PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
311 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 312
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313PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
314 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
315 Bugzilla 97.
316
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317PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
318
9e949f00 319PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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320 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
321
322PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
323 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 324
555ae6af 325PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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326 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
327
328PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
329 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 330
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331PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
332 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
333
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334PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
335 Bugzilla 1156.
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336 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
337 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 338
d6cc7c78 339PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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340 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
341 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
342
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343PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
344
3399bb60 345PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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346
347PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
348 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
349
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351Exim version 4.76
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353
354PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
355
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356PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
357 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
358
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359PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
360
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361PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
362
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363PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
364 Bugzilla 1098.
365
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366PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
367 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 368
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369TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
370 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
371
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372PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
373 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
374
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375PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
376 Bugzilla 1104.
377
c8d52a00 378TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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379 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
380
381TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
382 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
383 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
384 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
385
386PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
387 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 388
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390Exim version 4.75
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392
4c9ef03a 393NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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394 Bugzilla 1073
395
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396TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
397 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
398 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
399
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400TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
401 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
402
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403PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
404 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
405 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
406
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407PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
408 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
409
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410PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
411 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
412
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413NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
414 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
415
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416NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
417 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
418
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419PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
420 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 421
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422NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
423 Fixes bug 943.
424
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425PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
426 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
427
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428PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
429 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
430
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431PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
432 SQL string expansion failure details.
433 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
434
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435PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
436 Patch from Simon Arlott.
437
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438PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
439 extern declarations in function scope.
440 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
441
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442PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
443 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
444 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
445 a kernel bug).
446
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447PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
448 Patch from Mark Zealey.
449
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450PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
451 Patch from Mark Zealey.
452
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453PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
454 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
455
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456PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
457 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
458
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459NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
460 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
461 Dennis Davis.
462
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463PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
464
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465PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
466
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467NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
468 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 469
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470TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
471 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
472
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476
477TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
478 consequences so log it to the panic log.
479
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480TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
481 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
482
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483TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
484
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485DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
486 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
487 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
488
489PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
490 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
491 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
492
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493PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
494 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
495 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
496 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
497
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498PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
499 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
500 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
501 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
502
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503PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
504 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
505 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
506 arbitrary files.
507
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508PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
509 (Wolfgang Breyha)
510
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511PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
512 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
513 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
514 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
515 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
516
8c07b69f 517
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520
521PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
522 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
523 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
524
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525PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
526 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
527
a8c8d6b5
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528JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
529
77bb000f
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530PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
531
a29e5231
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532PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
533
ec5a0394 534PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 535
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536PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
537
453a6645 538PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
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539 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
540 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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541 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
542
8544e77a
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543PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
544 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
545 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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546 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
547 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 548
83e029d5
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549PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
550
ed7f7860
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551PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
552
7d9f747b
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553PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
554
4b2241d2
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555PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
556
10385c15
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557PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
558
dbc4b90d
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559PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
560
532be449
PP
561PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
562
6a8de854 563PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
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564 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
565 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 566
5dc43717
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567JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
568
569JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
570 "exim" to be used
55c75993 571
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572PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
573 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
574
491fab4c
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575PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
576 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
577 Notification from John Horne.
578
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579PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
580 compatible.
581
582PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
583 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
584 it normally works.
585
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586DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
587 access.
588
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589DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
590 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
591 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
592
e2f5dc15
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593DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
594 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
595 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
596 configuration file.
597
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598DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
599 option (effectively making it always true).
600
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601DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
602 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
603
fa32850b
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604DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
605 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
606
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607PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
608 run-time user, instead of root.
609
43236f35 610PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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611 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
612
fb08281f
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613DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
614 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
615 arguments.
3346ab01 616
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617DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
618 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
619 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
620
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621DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
622
57730b52
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623NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
624
66581d1e 625
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626Exim version 4.72
627-----------------
628
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629JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
630 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
631 typos
465e92cf 632
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633JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
634 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
635 (Finput)
edae0343 636
9bd3e22c
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637NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
638 Patch from Alain Williams
639
bb576ff7
NM
640NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
641
5a1a5845
NM
642NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
643 Patch from Andreas Metzler
644
981a9fad
NM
645NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
646 Patch from Kirill Miazine
647
7fc497ee
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648NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
649
1a41defa
JJ
650JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
651
a466095c 652NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 653 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 654
94a6bd0b
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655TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
656
657TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
658
659MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
660 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
661 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
662
c1b141a8
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663NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
664 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 665
b26eacf1 666NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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667 Patch by Simon Arlott
668
179c5980 669PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 670 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 671
9bd3e22c 672
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673Exim version 4.71
674-----------------
675
7d9f747b 676TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 677
f013fb92
NM
678NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
679
0eb8eedd
NM
680NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
681
663ee6d9
NM
682NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
683
177ebd9b
NM
684NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
685
7c6d71af 686
210f147e
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687Exim version 4.70
688-----------------
689
cdd3bb85 690TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 691 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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692
693TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
694 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 695 Hirsch).
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696
697TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
698 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 699 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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700
701TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
702 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
703
210f147e
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704NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
705 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
706 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
707 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
708
deafd5b3
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709NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
710 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 711 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 712
089793a4
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713TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
714
5f16ca82
TF
715TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
716
dae9d94e 717NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 718 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 719
7d9f747b 720NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 721
06864c44
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722TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
723 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
724 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
725 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
726
65a7d8c3 727NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 728 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 729
23510047 730TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 731
7d9f747b 732NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 733
7d8eec3a 734NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 735 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 736
89dec7b6
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737TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
738 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 739
a99de90c
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740TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
741 that they are available at delivery time.
742
e2803e40
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743TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
744
7199e1ee
TF
745TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
746 incoming_port log selectors.
747
e276e04b
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748TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
749 setting expands to an empty string.
750
ce552449 751NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 752 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 753
e765a0f1 754NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 755 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 756
4f054c63 757NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 758 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 759
7d9f747b
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760NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
761 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 762
7d9f747b
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763NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
764 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 765
b52bc06e 766NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 767 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 768
447de4b0
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769NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
770
4c69d561 771NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 772 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 773
d5c39246 774NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 775 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 776
0b23848a
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777TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
778
8f3414a1 779NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 780 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 781
fb6f955d
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782NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
783
784NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 785
7d9f747b
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786NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
787 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 788
7d9f747b
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789NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
790 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 791
7d9f747b
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792NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
793 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 794
7d9f747b
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795NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
796 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 797
7d9f747b
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798NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
799 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 800
7d9f747b
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801NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
802 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 803
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804NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
805 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 806
7d9f747b 807NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 808 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 809
7d9f747b 810NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 811
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812NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
813 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 814
7d9f747b 815NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 816
7d9f747b 817NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 818
7d9f747b 819NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 820
7d9f747b 821NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 822
17792b53 823NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 824 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 825
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826NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
827 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 828
91576cec 829NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 830 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 831
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832NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
833 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 834
7d9f747b 835NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 836
7d9f747b 837NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 838
7d9f747b 839NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 840
7d9f747b 841NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 842
deafd5b3 843
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844Exim version 4.69
845-----------------
846
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847TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
848 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
849 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
850
851 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
852 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
853 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
854 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
855 build errors in sieve.c.
856
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857NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
858 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
859 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
860
f13cddcb
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861SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
862
7d9f747b 863NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 864
7d9f747b 865NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 866
7d9f747b 867NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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868
869
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870Exim version 4.68
871-----------------
872
873PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
874
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875PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
876 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
877 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
878 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
879 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
880 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
881 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
882 for iplsearch lookups.
883
884 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
885 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
886 previously such lookups could never work.
887
888 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
889 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
890 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
891
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892TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
893 version.
894
0806a9c5
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895MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
896 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
897 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
898 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
899 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
900 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
901
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902TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
903 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
904
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905MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
906 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
907 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
908 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
909 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
910 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
911
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912PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
913 local_scan API.
914
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915PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
916
6c512171
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917PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
918 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
919 encrypted.
920
921PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
922 by clients under certain conditions.
923
aa6dc513
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924PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
925 "_responses" off the end of the name.
926
a96603a0
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927PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
928
8f240103
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929PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
930 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
931
932PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
933
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934PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
935
d52120f2
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936PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
937
64f2600a
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938PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
939 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
940
8669f003
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941PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
942
a4dc33a8
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943PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
944 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
945
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946PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
947
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948PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
949
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950PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
951 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
952 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
953 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 954
ddea74fa 955PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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956 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
957 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
958
ddea74fa 959PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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960 and InterBase are left for another time.)
961
ddea74fa
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962PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
963
ce9f225c
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964PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
965
19897d52
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966PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
967
bc64a74d
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968PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
969 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
970 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
971
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974-----------------
975
22ad45c9
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976MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
977 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
978 Jan Srzednicki.
979
b4ed4da0
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980PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
981 issue a MAIL command.
982
431b7361
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983PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
984
985 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
986
987 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
988 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
989 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
990 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
991 item. This has been fixed.
992
993PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
994 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
995
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996PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
997 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
998
54fc8428
PH
999PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1000 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1001 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1002
34c5e8dd
SC
1003SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1004
bbe15da8
PH
1005PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1006 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1007 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1008 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1009 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1010
0e8a9471
MH
1011MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1012 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1013 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1014
f0872424
PH
1015PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1016 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1017 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1018 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1019
b01dd148
PH
1020PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1021
6bf342e1
PH
1022PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1023
273f34d0
PH
1024PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1025 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1026 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1027 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1028 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1029
cf8b11a5
PH
1030PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1031
41c7c167
PH
1032PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1033 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1034 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1035 values).
1036
9c57cbc0
PH
1037PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1038
f3f065bb
PH
1039PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1040
047bdd8c
PH
1041PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1042
0ce9abe6
PH
1043PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1044
0e22dfd1
PH
1045PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1046
4c590bd1
PH
1047PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1048 no_callout_flush is set.
1049
09945f1e
PH
1050PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1051 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1052 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1053 fixed.
1054
c51b8e75
PH
1055PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1056
e28326d8
PH
1057PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1058 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1059 other ACL rejections are.
1060
75b1493f
PH
1061PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1062 with slight modification.
1063
7c5214ec
PH
1064PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1065 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1066
4311097e
PH
1067PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1068 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1069 connection.
1070
29f89cad
PH
1071PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1072 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1073
5e687460
SC
1074SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1075
c3611384
PH
1076PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1077 expansion side effects.
1078
5a11a7b4
PH
1079PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1080 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1081 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1082 be the same.
1083
0e20aff9
MH
1084MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1085 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1086 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1087
ca86f471
PH
1088PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1089 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1090 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1091 were accidentally chopped off.
1092
a14e5636
PH
1093PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1094 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1095 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1096 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1097 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1098 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1099 pipelining has not been advertised.
1100
ec95d1a6
PH
1101PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1102
42855d71
PH
1103PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1104 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1105 This has been fixed.
1106
57c2c631
PH
1107PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1108 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1109 reported on Solaris.
1110
58c01c94
PH
1111PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1112 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1113 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1114 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1115 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1116 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1117 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1118
dee5a20a
PH
1119PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1120 cpus.
1121
d2ee6114
PH
1122PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1123
b2d5182b
PH
1124PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1125
79749a79
PH
1126PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1127 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1128 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1129 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1130 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1131 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1132
c456d9bb
PH
1133PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1134 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1135 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1136 host_all_ignored option.
1137
cd9868ec
PH
1138PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1139 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1140 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1141 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1142 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1143 is what is supposed to happen).
1144
ebeaf996
PH
1145PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1146 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1147 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1148 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1149 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1150 uses the Exim user.
1151
2679d413
PH
1152PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1153 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1154 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1155 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1156 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1157 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1158 users.
1159
84024b72
PH
1160PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1161
8005d38e
SC
1162SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1163 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1164 (Jez Hancock).
1165 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1166 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1167
3298c6c6
SC
1168SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1169
a43a27c5
PH
1170PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1171
58eb016e 1172PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1173 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1174 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1175 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1176 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1177 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1178 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1179 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1180 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1181 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1182 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1183
b43a74ea
PH
1184PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1185 advertised in response to EHLO.
1186
b4ed4da0 1187
5dd1517f
PH
1188Exim version 4.66
1189-----------------
1190
1191PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1192 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1193
1194 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1195 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1196
1197 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1198 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1199 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1200
1201 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1202 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1203 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1204 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1205 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1206
1207
93cfa765
TK
1208Exim version 4.65
1209-----------------
1210
1211TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1212 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1213 versions. (#438)
1214
d6066548
MH
1215MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1216 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1217 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1218
4362ff0d
PH
1219PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1220 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1221 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1222 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1223 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1224 rather than extend the field.
1225
93cfa765 1226
944e9e9c
TF
1227Exim version 4.64
1228-----------------
aa41d2de 1229
21d74bd9
TK
1230TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1231 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1232 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1233 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1234 these files.
1235
1236TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1237 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1238 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1239
1240TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1241 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1242 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1243
1244TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1245 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1246 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1247 in the field name.
1248
2b1c6e3a
PH
1249PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1250 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1251 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1252 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1253 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1254 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1255 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1256 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1257 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1258 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1259 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1260
1f872c80
PH
1261PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1262 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1263
1264PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1265 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1266 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1267 ignores EPIPE as well.
1268
d203e649
PH
1269PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1270 (quoted-printable decoding).
1271
cc2ed8f7 1272PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1273 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1274
ddfcd446
PH
1275PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1276
d45b1de8
PH
1277PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1278
1279PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1280
38a0a95f 1281PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1282 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1283
a2405d83
JJ
1284JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1285 in 4.64-PH/09.
1286
1287JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1288 miscellaneous code fixes
1289
6ea85e9a
PH
1290PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1291 rejections.
1292
26da7e20
PH
1293PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1294 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1295 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1296 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1297 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1298 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1299 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1300 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1301
14aa5a05 1302PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1303 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1304 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1305 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1306 function.
1307 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1308 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1309 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1310 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1311 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1312 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1313 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1314 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1315 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1316
ff75a1f7
PH
1317PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1318 decoding.
1319
e6f6568e
PH
1320PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1321 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1322 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1323 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1324 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1325 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1326 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1327 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1328
d6f6e0dc
PH
1329PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1330 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1331 list.
1332
322050c2
PH
1333PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1334 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1335 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1336 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1337 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1338 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1339 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1340 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1341 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1342 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1343 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1344 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1345 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1346
08955dd3
PH
1347PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1348 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1349 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1350 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1351 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1352 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1353 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1354
1eccaa59
PH
1355PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1356 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1357 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1358 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1359 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1360 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1361 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1362 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1363 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1364 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1365
602e59e5
PH
1366PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1367 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1368 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1369 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1370 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1371
411ef850
PH
1372PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1373 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1374 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1375 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1376 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1377 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1378 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1379
7befa435
PH
1380PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1381 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1382 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1383 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1384 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1385 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1386 been verified.
1387
48da4259 1388PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1389 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1390 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1391 and authorization.)
1392
48da4259
PH
1393PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1394 if any retry times were supplied.
1395
d1d5595c
PH
1396PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1397 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1398 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1399
0ef732d9
PH
1400PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1401
328895cc
PH
1402PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1403
fd700877
PH
1404PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1405 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1406 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1407 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1408 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1409 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1410
8dce1a6f
PH
1411PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1412 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1413
17af4a17
PH
1414PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1415 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1416 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1417
1418PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1419 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1420 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1421 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1422 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1423 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1424 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1425 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1426 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1427
1428 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1429 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1430 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1431 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1432 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1433 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1434 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1435 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1436 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1437
1438 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1439 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1440 hammering the server.
1441
c1114884
PH
1442PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1443 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1444
7a0743eb
PH
1445PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1446
0d85fa3f
PH
1447PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1448 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1449 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1450
1bf43b78
PH
1451PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1452 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1453 one case where this was not true.
1454
520de300
PH
1455PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1456 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1457 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1458 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1459 fails.
1460
48c7f9e2
PH
1461PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1462 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1463 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1464 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1465 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1466 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1467 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1468 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1469 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1470 smtp transport.
1471
99ea1c86
PH
1472PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1473 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1474 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1475 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1476
a2042e78
PH
1477PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1478 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1479
4fbcfc2e
PH
1480PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1481 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1482 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1483
aa41d2de
PH
1484PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1485
af561417
PH
1486PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1487
3cc66b45
PH
1488PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1489
194cc0e4
PH
1490PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1491 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1492 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1493 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1494
a401ddaa
PH
1495PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1496 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1497
4e88a19f
PH
1498PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1499 be meaningful with "accept".
1500
d7d7b289
SC
1501SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1502 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1503
1504SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1505 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1506 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1507
1508SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1509 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1510 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1511 there is data to show.
1512 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1513
1514SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1515 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1516 as well as the number of messages.
1517
1518SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1519 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1520 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1521
1522SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1523 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1524 have a flag are now skipped.
1525
1526SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1527 Added the -emptyok flag.
1528
1529SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1530 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1531
0ea2a468
JJ
1532JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1533 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1534 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1535
1536JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1537 match 4.64-PH/13
1538
1539JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1540 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1541
1542JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1543
1544JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1545 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1546
8a10f5a4
PH
1547PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1548
30e18802
PH
1549PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1550 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1551 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1552 contravention of the specifications.
1553
55728a4f
PH
1554PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1555 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1556 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1557
d7837193
PH
1558PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1559 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1560 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1561
87054a31
PH
1562PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1563
ea2c01d2
MH
1564MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1565 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1566 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1567 some point in the past.
1568
e4fa6968
PH
1569PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1570 transport during callout processing was broken.
1571
56f5d9bd
PH
1572PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1573 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1574
922e1c28
PH
1575PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1576 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1577
21eb6e72
PH
1578PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1579 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1580
a0540757
PH
1581PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1582
944e9e9c 1583
478be7b0
SC
1584Exim version 4.63
1585-----------------
1586
1587SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1588 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1589
1590SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1591 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1592 there is data to show.
1593 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1594
1595SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1596 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1597
2b965a65
TF
1598TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1599 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1600
45b91596
PH
1601TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1602 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1603
c59f5781
TF
1604TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1605 submissions from trusted users.
1606
90fc3069
TF
1607TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1608 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1609
6083aca0
TF
1610TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1611 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1612 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1613 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1614 there is now a framework to start from.
1615
765b530f
PH
1616PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1617 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1618 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1619
4e167a8c
PH
1620PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1621
4608d683
PH
1622PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1623
b8dc3e4a
PH
1624PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1625
5418e93b
PH
1626PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1627 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1628 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1629
b4a9bda2
PH
1630PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1631 libradius.
1632
45b91596
PH
1633PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1634 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1635 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1636
5547e2c5
PH
1637PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1638 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1639 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1640 its arguments.
1641
dbcef0ea
PH
1642PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1643 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1644 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1645 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1646 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1647
25257489
PH
1648PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1649 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1650
c816d124
PH
1651PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1652
a9ccd69a
PH
1653PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1654 operations in malware.c.
1655
75fa1910
PH
1656PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1657 signatures.
1658
a7d7aa58
PH
1659PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1660 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1661 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1662 all.
1663
42119b09
PH
1664PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1665 statements to "add_header".
1666
41609df5
PH
1667PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1668 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1669
a5bd321b
PH
1670PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1671 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1672 latter.
1673
e85a7ad5 1674PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1675 so that it is now:
1676
e85a7ad5
PH
1677 ${if or { \
1678 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1679 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1680 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1681 }{no}{yes}}
1682
e85a7ad5
PH
1683 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1684 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1685
d8fe1c03
PH
1686PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1687 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1688
16282d2b
PH
1689PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1690 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1691 any possible encoding problems.
1692
35d40a98
PH
1693PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1694 but not after initializing Perl.
1695
034d99ab
PH
1696PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1697 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1698 apparently, which is not desirable.
1699
6ec97b1b
PH
1700PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1701 queries.
1702
e22ca4ac
JJ
1703JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1704 --not options
1705
1706JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1707
33d73e3b
PH
1708PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1709 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1710 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1711 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1712
9ecb03f3
PH
1713PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1714 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1715 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1716
084efe8d
PH
1717PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1718 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1719 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1720 0.12.
1721
366fc9f0
PH
1722PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1723 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1724 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1725 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1726 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1727
c59f5781 1728
c887c79e
TF
1729Exim version 4.62
1730-----------------
1731
1732TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1733 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1734
1cce3af8
PH
1735PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1736 patch).
1737
afb3eaaf
PH
1738PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1739 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1740 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1741 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1742 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1743 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1744 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1745 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1746 451 error is used.
1747
e173618b
PH
1748PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1749
dd16e114
PH
1750PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1751 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1752 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1753
f7fd3850
PH
1754PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1755 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1756 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1757 odd errors.
1758
d87df92c
PH
1759PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1760 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1761
7e9f683d
PH
1762PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1763 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1764 option (which defaults to 0600).
1765
bfad5236
PH
1766PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1767
01c490df
PH
1768PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1769 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1770 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1771 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1772 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1773 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1774 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1775
d6629cdc
PH
1776PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1777
1cce3af8 1778
214e2000
PH
1779Exim version 4.61
1780-----------------
1781
1782PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1783 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1784 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1785 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1786 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1787 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1788 addresses as local.
1789
f9daeae0
PH
1790PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1791 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1792
7e66e54d
PH
1793PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1794
c8ea1597
PH
1795PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1796 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1797 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1798 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1799 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1800 grumble.
1801
911f6fde
PH
1802PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1803 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1804
47ca6d6c
PH
1805PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1806 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1807 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1808 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1809 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1810
ed0e9820
PH
1811PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1812 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1813 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1814 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1815
eff37e47
PH
1816PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1817 be the same on different OS.
1818
1921d2ea
PH
1819PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1820 testing.
1821
b3f69ca8
JJ
1822JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1823 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1824
1825JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1826 in 4.61-PH/06
1827
424a1c63
PH
1828PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1829 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1830 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1831 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1832 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1833 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1834 bounce message.
1835
7a100415
PH
1836PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1837 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1838 when Exim was called.
1839
19b9dc85
PH
1840PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1841 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1842
309bd837
PH
1843PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1844 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1845 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1846 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1847
59e82a2a
PH
1848PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1849 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1850 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1851 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1852 changes:
1853
1854 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1855 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1856 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1857
1858 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1859 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1860 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1861
9edc04ce
PH
1862PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1863 feature).
1864
1349e1e5
PH
1865PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1866 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1867 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1868 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1869 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1870 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1871 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1872 values from the SRV records were lost.
1873
ea49d0e1
PH
1874PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1875 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1876 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1877
064a94c9
PH
1878PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1879 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1880 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1881
727071f8
PH
1882PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1883 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1884 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1885 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1886 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1887 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1888 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1889 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1890 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1891 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1892
f78eb7c6
PH
1893PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1894 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1895 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1896
21c28500
PH
1897PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1898 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1899
1900PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1901 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1902 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1903 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1904 is given.
1905
1688f43b
PH
1906PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1907 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1908 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1909
1910PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1911 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1912 PH/23 above applies.
1913
9675b384
PH
1914PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1915 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1916 (for which there is an explicit test).
1917
6a3f1455
PH
1918PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1919
dac79d3e
PH
1920PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1921 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1922 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1923 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1924 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1925
5977a0b3
PH
1926PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1927 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1928 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1929 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1930
c91535f3
PH
1931PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1932 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1933 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1934
0d46a8c8
PH
1935PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1936
278c6e6c
PH
1937PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1938
2cbb4081
PH
1939PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1940 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1941 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1942
3eef829e
PH
1943PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1944 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1945 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1946 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1947 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1948
1ab95fa6
PH
1949PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1950 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1951 the message gets confusing).
1952
230205fc
PH
1953PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1954 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1955 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1956 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1957
75e0e026
PH
1958PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1959 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1960 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1961 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1962 same order.
1963
1964PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1965 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1966 the different processes.
1967
145396a6
PH
1968PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1969
3cd34f13
PH
1970PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1971
11121d3d
JJ
1972JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1973 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1974
1975JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1976 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1977
1978JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1979 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1980 messages matching specified criteria.
1981
8def5aaf
PH
1982PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1983
929ba01c
PH
1984PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1985 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1986
2632889e
PH
1987PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1988 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1989 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1990 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1991 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1992 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1993 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1994 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1995 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1996 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1997
944a9c55
PH
1998PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1999 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2000 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2001
4a23603b
PH
2002PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2003
4730f942
PH
2004PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2005 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2006 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2007 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2008 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2009 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2010 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2011 the variable.
2012
30dba1e6
PH
2013PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2014 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2015
382afc6b
PH
2016PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2017
a86229cf
PH
2018PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2019
50c99ba6
PH
2020PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2021
d35e429d
PH
2022PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2023 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2024 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2025 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2026 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2027 size of the count of files.
2028
f90d018c
PH
2029PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2030
75def545
PH
2031PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2032 used in LMTP mode:
2033
2034 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2035 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2036 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2037 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2038
2039 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2040 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2041 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2042
2043PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2044 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2045 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2046 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2047 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2048
c46782ef
PH
2049PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2050 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2051
71fafd95
PH
2052PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2053 will now be deprecated.
2054
2c5db4fd
PH
2055PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2056
9cf6b11a
JJ
2057JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2058 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2059 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2060
2061JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2062 with very large, slow to parse queues
2063
2064JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2065
2066JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2067
898d150f
PH
2068PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2069 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2070 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2071 SMTP output lines.
2072
46218253
PH
2073PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2074 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2075 Sieve code now uses this.
2076
e97957bc
PH
2077PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2078 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2079
81e509d7
PH
2080PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2081 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2082
3d240ff7
PH
2083PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2084
b37c4101
PH
2085PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2086 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2087 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2088 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2089 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2090
79378e0f
PH
2091PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2092 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2093 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2094 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2095
e49c7bb4
PH
2096PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2097
d114ec46
PH
2098PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2099
f3d7df6c
PH
2100PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2101 is preferred over IPv4.
2102
715ab376
PH
2103PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2104 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2105 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2106 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2107 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2108 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2109 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2110
6b31b150
PH
2111PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2112 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2113 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2114
2115PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2116
d515a917
PH
2117PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2118 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2119 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2120 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2121 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2122 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2123 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2124 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2125 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2126 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2127 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2128
9b8fadde
PH
2129PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2130 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2131 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2132
214e2000 2133
5de37277
PH
2134Exim version 4.60
2135-----------------
2136
cc38ddbf
PH
2137PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2138
2139 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2140 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2141
2142 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2143 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2144 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2145
72fdd6ae
PH
2146PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2147
2148 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2149 not a single digit.
2150
2151 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2152 string.
2153
2154 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2155 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2156 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2157 silly things.
2158
2159 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2160 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2161
2162 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2163 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2164
cb741023
PH
2165PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2166 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2167 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2168
f174f16e
PH
2169PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2170 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2171
c25242d7
PH
2172PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2173 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2174
2175 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2176
2177 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2178 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2179 this:
2180
2181 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2182
82c19f95
PH
2183PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2184 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2185 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2186 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2187 identical. For example:
2188
2189 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2190
2191 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2192 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2193 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2194
d7ffbc12
PH
2195PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2196 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2197 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2198 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2199
9f526266
PH
2200PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2201 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2202 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2203 message.
2204
87fcc8b9
PH
2205PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2206
2207 o fixes some comments
2208 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2209 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2210 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2211 and documents the missing references header update
2212
2213 and most important:
2214
2215 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2216 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2217 result)
2218
456682f5
PH
2219PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2220 Electronic Mail") by including:
2221
2222 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2223
2224 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2225 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2226 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2227 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2228 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2229
2230 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2231
2232 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2233
2234 The auto-replied keyword:
2235
2236 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2237 message by an automatic process,
2238
2239 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2240
2241 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2242 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2243
2244 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2245 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2246 other messages.
2247
3e46c1aa
PH
2248PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2249 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2250
49826d12
PH
2251PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2252
eba0c039
PH
2253PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2254 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2255 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2256
a0d6ba8a
PH
2257PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2258 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2259 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2260
f0917727
PH
2261PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2262 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2263 and treats the condition as false.
2264
096fee00
PH
2265PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2266
024bd3c2
PH
2267PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2268 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2269 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2270 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2271 not changing the active code.
2272
2273 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2274 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2275
2276 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2277 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2278
df199fec
PH
2279PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2280 (Bugzilla #53).
2281
d27f1df3
PH
2282PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2283 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2284 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2285 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2286 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2287 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2288 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2289 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2290 the text comparison.
2291
96776534
PH
2292PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2293 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2294 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2295 The same fix has been applied.
2296
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9a799bc0
PH
2298Exim version 4.54
2299-----------------
2300
2301PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2302 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2303 It now does.
2304
99a4b039
PH
2305PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2306 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2307
2308PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2309
4b233853
PH
2310PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2311 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2312 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2313 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2314 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2315
8857ccfd
PH
2316TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2317 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2318 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2319 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2320 or /domain=).
2321
433a2980
PH
2322PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2323 testing suite.
2324
3e46c1aa 2325
9a799bc0 2326
e3a311ba
TK
2327Exim version 4.53
2328-----------------
2329
2330TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2331 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2332
13b685f9
PH
2333PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2334
395ff96d
PH
2335PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2336
5b68f6e4
PH
2337PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2338 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2339 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2340
1ab52c69
PH
2341PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2342 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2343 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2344
b07e6aa3
PH
2345PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2346 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2347 operating systems.
2348
254e032f
PH
2349PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2350 ${stat: expansion item.
2351
3af76a81
PH
2352PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2353 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2354
2548ba04
PH
2355PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2356 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2357 file for comments.
2358
b6c6011d
PH
2359PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2360
cf39cf57
PH
2361PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2362 setting.
2363
f1513293
PH
2364PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2365 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2366
727549a4
PH
2367TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2368
af46795e
PH
2369PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2370 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2371 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2372 the end of the subprocess.
2373
d7b47fd0
PH
2374PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2375 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2376 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2377 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2378 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2379
ee744174
JJ
2380JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2381
b582ab87
PH
2382TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2383
41a13e0a
PH
2384PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2385 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2386
f625cc5a
PH
2387PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2388
2389PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2390
21f7af35
PH
2391PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2392 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2393 HP-UX compiler.
2394
31480e42
PH
2395PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2396
2d280592
PH
2397PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2398 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2399 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2400
7cd1141b
PH
2401PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2402 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2403
2404PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2405 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2406
750af86e
PH
2407PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2408 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2409
2410 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2411 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2412
2413 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2414 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2415 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2416 contributed by a Radius user.
2417
2418PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2419 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2420
4304270b
TK
2421TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2422 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2423
750af86e
PH
2424PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2425 available.
2426
64ffc24f
PH
2427PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2428 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2429 received.
2430
5dd9625b
PH
2431PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2432 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2433 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2434 header lines when this was not necessary.
2435
5591031b
PH
2436PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2437
ba18e66a
PH
2438PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2439 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2440 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2441 exists".
2442
9cec981f
PH
2443PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2444 -bV or -d is used.
2445
aa2b5c79
PH
2446PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2447 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2448 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2449 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2450
48a53b7f
PH
2451PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2452
1c59d63b
PH
2453PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2454
671012da
TK
2455TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2456
1509d3a8
PH
2457PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2458
2459PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2460 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2461 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2462 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2463 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2464 settings.
2465
2466PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2467
2fe1a124
PH
2468PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2469 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2470 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2471 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2472 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2473 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2474 which is clearly wrong.
2475
8800895a
PH
2476PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2477
ccfdb010
PH
2478PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2479 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2480 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2481 subsequently added.
2482
1130bfb0
PH
2483PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2484 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2485
ebcb507f
PH
2486PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2487
c35e155c
PH
2488PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2489 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2490
95d1f782
PH
2491PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2492 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2493
fd6de02e
PH
2494PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2495 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2496
58de37c5
PH
2497PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2498 recipients, not senders.
2499
261cf466
TF
2500TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2501 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2502
3ee512ff
PH
2503PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2504
e08c430f
PH
2505PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2506
bef5a11f
PH
2507PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2508 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2509 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2510 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2511
7546de58
TF
2512TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2513
e5d5a95f
TF
2514TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2515 clock is set back in time.
2516
2e88a017
TF
2517TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2518 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2519
a5f65aa4
TF
2520TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2521 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2522
e7726cbf
PH
2523PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2524 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2525 (see PH/47 above).
2526
a7fdad5b
TF
2527TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2528 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2529 header rewrites.
2530
6af56900
PH
2531PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2532 type ("H").
2533
0925ede6
PH
2534PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2535
66afa403
TF
2536TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2537 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2538 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2539
0154e85a
TF
2540TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2541 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2542 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2543 helo verification defer as a failure.
2544
16f12c76
PH
2545PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2546 actual error message.
2547
bbe902f0 2548
e5a9dba6
PH
2549Exim version 4.52
2550-----------------
2551
2552TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2553
22c3b60b
PH
2554PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2555 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2556 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2557 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2558
06a9b4b5
PH
2559TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2560
c1ac6996
PH
2561PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2562 can still be requested.
2563
9c7a242c
PH
2564PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2565 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2566 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2567 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2568
87ba3f5f
PH
2569TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2570 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2571 circumstances, but probably never did.
2572
2573PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2574 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2575 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2576 in the header line.
2577
29aba418
TF
2578TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2579
fe0dab11
TF
2580TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2581 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2582
11d337a4
TK
2583TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2584
2585TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2586
415c8f3b
PH
2587PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2588 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2589 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2590 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2591 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2592 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2593
958541e9
PH
2594PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2595 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2596 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2597 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2598 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2599 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2600
c206415f
TK
2601TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2602 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2603
2a4be8f9
PH
2604PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2605 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2606
1cba11c5
SC
2607SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2608 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2609
2610SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2611
2612SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2613
2614SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2615
2616SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2617
2618SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2619
2620SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2621
1005d00e
TK
2622TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2623
2624TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2625 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2626 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2627
2628TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2629 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2630 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2631 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2632
9b4768fa
PH
2633PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2634 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2635 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2636
2637PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2638 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2639 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2640 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2641
0d7eb84a
PH
2642PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2643 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2644 to be made).
2645
2646PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2647 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2648 should work with maildirs and everything.
2649
40727bee
TK
2650TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2651 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2652
554d2369
TF
2653TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2654 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2655
1f922db1
PH
2656PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2657 function for BDB 4.3.
2658
ef213c3b
PH
2659PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2660
8ac170f3
PH
2661PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2662 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2663 involved.
2664
b1c749bb
PH
2665PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2666 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2667 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2668 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2669 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2670 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2671
4aac9b49
PH
2672PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2673 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2674 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2675 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2676 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2677 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2678 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2679 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2680
294520c8
TK
2681TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2682 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2683 details.
2684
5bd022fe
PH
2685PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2686 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2687
90e9ce59
PH
2688PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2689 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2690 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2691 test. It is now used for both.
2692
5ea81592
PH
2693PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2694 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2695 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2696 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2697 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2698 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2699
c6c2dc1d
PH
2700PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2701 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2702 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2703 string_vformat().
2704
fffffe4c
PH
2705PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2706 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2707 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2708
9a26b6b2
PH
2709PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2710 experimental DomainKeys support:
2711
2712 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2713 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2714 the control was given.
2715
2716 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2717
4aee0225
PH
2718PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2719
32d668a5
PH
2720PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2721
8187c3f3
PH
2722PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2723 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2724 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2725 db.h files).
2726
ff790e47 2727PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2728 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2729 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2730 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2731 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2732 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2733 course.
ff790e47 2734
5417f6d1
PH
2735PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2736 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2737 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2738 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2739 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2740 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2741
59cf8544
PH
2742PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2743 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2744 do -d+all out of habit.
2745
e7ad8a65
PH
2746PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2747 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2748 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2749
ade42478
PH
2750PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2751 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2752 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2753 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2754 record types that Exim uses.
2755
182ad5cf
PH
2756PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2757 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2758 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2759 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2760 non-existent file that was broken.
2761
b0d9fc80
TK
2762TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2763 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2764
2765TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2766 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2767 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2768
2769TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2770
47c7a64a
PH
2771PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2772 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2773 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2774 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2775 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2776 same time.
2777
a388bce4
SC
2778SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2779 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2780 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2781 at a slight CPU cost.
2782
2783SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2784 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2785
2786SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2787 by Marc Sherman.
2788
0793e4ed
SC
2789SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2790
c58b88df
PH
2791PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2792 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2793
e7ad8a65 2794
7982096b
PH
2795Exim version 4.51
2796-----------------
2797
1a46a8c5
PH
2798TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2799 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2800
2f079f46 2801TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2802
2803TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2804
2805PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2806 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2807
2808PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2809 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2810 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2811 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2812 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2813 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2814 file.
2815
2816PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2817 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2818 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2819 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2820 these two options.
2821
2822PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2823 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2824 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2825 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2826 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2827 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2828 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2829 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2830
2831PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2832 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2833
2834PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2835 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2836 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2837 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2838 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2839 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2840
2841PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2842 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2843 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2844 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2845
2846PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2847 Finch).
2848
2849PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2850 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2851
49c2d5ea
PH
2852PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2853 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2854 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2855 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2856 message.
49c2d5ea 2857
bf759a8b
PH
2858PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2859
83364d30
PH
2860PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2861 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2862
7999bbd7
PH
2863PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2864 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2865 to what was transported.)
2866
7dbf77c9
PH
2867TF/01 Added $received_time.
2868
74e0617f
PH
2869PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2870 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2871 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2872 spamd_address settings.
2873
2f079f46
PH
2874PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2875 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2876 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2877 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2878 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2879
8c841523
PH
2880PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2881
7766a4f0
PH
2882PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2883 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2884 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2885 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2886 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2887
8b417f2c
PH
2888PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2889 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2890
901f42cb
PH
2891PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2892 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2893 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2894 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2895 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2896 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2897 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2898 for failure.
2899
f9b9210e
PH
2900PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2901 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2902 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2903 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2904 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2905 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2906 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2907 "input=".
2908
54cdb463
PH
2909PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2910
cf00dad6
PH
2911PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2912 driver and ACL definitions.
2913
acb1b346
PH
2914PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2915 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2916
c5ddb310
PH
2917PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2918 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2919 understands it better than I do:
2920
2921 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2922 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2923
2924 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2925 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2926 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2927 => three warnings about OTP not working
2928 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2929
2930 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2931 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2932 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2933 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2934 for each call.)
2935 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2936 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2937
2938 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2939 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2940 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2941
31619da6
PH
2942PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2943 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2944 specified.
2945
bebaf0fc
PH
2946PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2947 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2948 "Linux".
2949
475fe28a
PH
2950PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2951 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2952 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2953
2954 warn !verify = sender
2955 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2956
2957 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2958 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2959
7e8bec7a
PH
2960PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2961
2962 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2963 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2964
2965 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2966 nomenclature these days.)
2967
e4a89c47
PH
2968PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2969 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2970
5ca2a9a1
PH
2971PH/30 In these circumstances:
2972 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2973 . First host does not offer TLS;
2974 . First host accepts first address;
2975 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2976 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2977 . Second host accepts second address.
2978 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2979 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2980 address.
7e8bec7a 2981
c688b954
PH
2982PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2983 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2984 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2985 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2986 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2987
fed77020
PH
2988PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2989 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2990
7fe1560f
PH
2991PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2992 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2993
ebb6e6d5
PH
2994PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2995 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2996 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2997
9c4e8f60
PH
2998PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2999 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3000 overlooked.
3001
3002PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3003
d7174846
PH
3004PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3005 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3006 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3007 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3008 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3009 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3010 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3011
3012 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3013 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3014 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3015 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3016 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3017
3018 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3019 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3020 routed further.
3021
cfe75fc3
PH
3022PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3023 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3024 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3025 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3026 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3027 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3028
be22d70e
PH
3029PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3030
0612b098
PH
3031PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3032 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3033 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3034 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3035 printable escape sequences.
3036
2e0c1448
PH
3037PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3038 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3039 body only.
3040
447d236c
PH
3041PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3042 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3043 are as follows:
3044
3045 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3046 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3047 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3048 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3049 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3050
3051 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3052 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3053 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3054
d20976dc
PH
3055PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3056
f656d135
PH
3057PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3058 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3059 play with."
3060
2e2a30b4
PH
3061PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3062 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3063 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3064 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3065 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3066 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3067 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3068 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3069 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3070 the log output.
3071
9176e9f0
PH
3072PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3073 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3074 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3075 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3076 "make".
3077
7982096b 3078
bbe902f0
PH
3079A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3080----------------------------------------
3081
3082Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3083changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3084needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3085in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3086that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3087release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3088from 4.43.
3089
3090I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
30914.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3092those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3093historical information.
3094
3095
f7b63901 3096Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3097-----------------
3098
5fe762f6
PH
3099 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3100
139059f6 3101 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3102 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3103
7086e875
PH
3104 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3105 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3106 place.
3107
35af9f61
PH
3108 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3109 filter fails to execute.
3110
b668c215
PH
3111 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3112 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3113 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3114 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3115 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3116
a494b1e1
PH
3117 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3118
3119 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3120 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3121 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3122 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3123
c5fcb476
PH
3124 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3125 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3126 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3127 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3128 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3129
69358f02
PH
3130 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3131
5be20824
PH
313210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3133
eb2c0248
PH
313411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3135 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3136 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3137 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3138
2a3eea10
PH
313912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3140 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3141 sender verification.
3142
314313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3144 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3145
23c7ff99
PH
314614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3147
4deaf07d
PH
314815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3149 connection timeout.
3150
926e1192
PH
315116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3152 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3153
650edc6f
PH
315417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3155 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3156
2c7db3f5
PH
315718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3158 information about exactly what failed.
3159
3d235903
PH
316019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3161
7c7ad977
PH
316220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3163 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3164 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3165
981756db
PH
316621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3167 It is now set to "smtps".
3168
d4eb88df
PH
316922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3170 ignore_target_hosts.
3171
317223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3173 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3174 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3175 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3176 "[x.x.x.x]".
3177
7d468ab8
PH
317824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3179 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3180 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3181
318225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3183 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3184 wake it up if nothing else does.
3185
62c0818f
PH
318626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3187 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3188 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3189 end up negative.
3190
26034054
PH
319127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3192 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3193
af66f652
PH
319428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3195
90af77f4
PH
319629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3197 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3198 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3199 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3200 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3201 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3202 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3203 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3204
d8ef3577
PH
320530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3206 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3207 than one IP address.
3208
5cb8cbc6
PH
320931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3210 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3211 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3212 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3213
14702f5b
PH
321432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3215 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3216 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3217 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3218 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3219 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3220
063b1e99
PH
322133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3222 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3223 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3224 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3225
652e1b65
PH
322634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3227 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3228 respected.
3229
6f0c9a4f
PH
323035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3231 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3232 $sender_host_address.
3233
33397d19
PH
323436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3235 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3236 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3237 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3238 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3239 very small.
3240
7bb56e1f
PH
324137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3242
3243 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3244 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3245
ea3bc19b
PH
3246 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3247 just the host names, not the priorities.
3248
3249 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3250 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3251 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3252
ea3bc19b 3253 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3254 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3255
0bcb2a0e
PH
325638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3257 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3258 domain.
3259
2ac0e484
PH
326039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3261
4e1fde53
PH
326240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3263 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3264
de365ded
PH
326541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3266 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3267 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3268
f05da2e8
PH
326942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3270
d6453af2
PH
327143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3272
f7b63901
PH
327344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3274
327545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3276 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3277 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3278 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3279 because the tests only now provoked it.
3280
a444213a
PH
328146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3282 (this can affect the format of dates).
3283
0ec020ea
PH
328447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3285 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3286 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3287 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3288
b1206957
PH
328948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3290
329149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3292 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3293 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3294 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3295
26dd5a95
PH
329650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3297 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3298 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3299
343b2385
PH
330051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3301 autoreply.
3302
1c5466b9
PH
330352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3304 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3305 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3306 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3307 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3308 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3309 is going on).
3310
55ee9ee3
PH
331153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3312 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3313 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3314 the line.
3315
d38f8232
PH
331654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3317 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3318 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3319
3320 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3321 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3322 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3323 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3324 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3325 so I produce this patch..."
3326
3295e65b
PH
3327 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3328 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3329 is not defined.
3330
7102e136
PH
333155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3332 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3333 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3334 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3335 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3336
3ca0ba97
PH
333756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3338
c2bcbe20
PH
333957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3340 long debug lines gets shown.
3341
18ce445d
PH
334258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3343 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3344
1f5b4c3d
PH
334559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3346
3347 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3348 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3349 of $primary_hostname.
3350
b975ba52
PH
335160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3352 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3353 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3354 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3355 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3356 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3357 by change 4.50/55 above.
3358
3359 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3360 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3361 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3362 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3363 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3364 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3365 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3366
336761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3368 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3369 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3370 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3371
17ffcae7
PH
337262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3373 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3374
d95f9fdb
PH
337563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3376 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3377 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3378 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3379 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3380
86b8287f
PH
338164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3382 This has been fixed.
3383
60dc5e56
PH
338465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3385 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3386 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3387 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3388 the caching.)
3389
533244af
PH
339066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3391
a5a28604
PH
339267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3393 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3394 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3395 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3396
7e634d24
PH
339768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3398 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3399
3e11c26b
PH
340069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3401 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3402 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3403
6729cf78
PH
340470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3405 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3406 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3407 message there.
3408
00f00ca5
PH
340971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3410 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3411 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3412
c9bdd01c
PH
341372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3414 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3415 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3416 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3417
d43194df
PH
341873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3419 during host lookups.
3420
fe5b5d0b
PH
342174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3422 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3423
3424 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3425
76a2d7ba
PH
342675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3427 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3428 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3429 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3430 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3431 background.
3432
343376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3434 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3435
04f7d5b9
PH
343677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3437 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3438 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3439
bc60667e
PH
344078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3441
bb6e88ff
PH
344279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3443 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3444 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3445 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3446 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3447 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3448 process earlier.
3449
1e70f85b
PH
345080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3451 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3452 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3453 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3454 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3455
345681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3457 tables).
3458
4e01f9d6
PH
345982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3460
1ee1cef2
PH
346183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3462 "vacation" handling.
3463
6e2b4ccc
PH
346484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3465 OS variants using glibc.
3466
8e669ac1
PH
346785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3468
495ae4b0 3469
bbe902f0
PH
3470----------------------------------------------------
3471See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3472----------------------------------------------------
3473
3474
3475Exim version 4.44
3476-----------------
3477
3478 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3479 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3480 transport
3481
3482 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3483 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3484 place.
3485
3486 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3487 filter fails to execute.
3488
3489 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3490 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3491 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3492 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3493 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3494
3495 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3496 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3497 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3498 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3499
3500 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3501 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3502 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3503 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3504 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3505
3506 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3507
3508 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3509 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3510 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3511 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3512
3513 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3514 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3515 sender verification.
3516
351710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3518 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3519
352011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3521 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3522
352312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3524 ignore_target_hosts.
3525
352613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3527 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3528 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3529 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3530 "[x.x.x.x]".
3531
353214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3533 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3534 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3535
353615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3537 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3538 wake it up if nothing else does.
3539
354016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3541 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3542 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3543 end up negative.
3544
354517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3546 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3547
ea3a6f44 354818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3549
355019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3551 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3552 empty pattern.
3553
355420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3555 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3556 one IP address.
3557
ea3a6f44
NM
355821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3559 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3560 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3561 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3562 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3563 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3564
ea3a6f44
NM
356522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3566 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3567 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3568
356923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3570 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3571 $sender_host_address.
3572
357324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3574
ea3a6f44
NM
357525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3576 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3577 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3578
357926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3580 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3581
ea3a6f44
NM
358227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3583 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3584
ea3a6f44
NM
358528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3586 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3587 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3588 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3589
359029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3591 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3592 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3593
ea3a6f44
NM
359430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3595 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3596 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3597 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3598
ea3a6f44
NM
359931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3600 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3601 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3602
ea3a6f44
NM
360331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3604 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3605
ea3a6f44
NM
360632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3607 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3608 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3609 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3610 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3611 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3612 is going on).
bbe902f0 3613
ea3a6f44
NM
361433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3615 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3616 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3617 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3618 CAN-2005-0021
3619
ea3a6f44
NM
362034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3621 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3622 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3623 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3624 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3625 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3626 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3627
3628 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3629 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3630 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3631 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3632 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3633 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3634 CAN-2005-0021
3635
ea3a6f44
NM
363635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3637 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3638 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3639 CAN-2005-0022
3640
ea3a6f44
NM
364136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3642 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3643 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3644 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3645 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3646
ea3a6f44
NM
364737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3648 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3649 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3650 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3651 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3652
ea3a6f44
NM
365338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3654 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3655 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3656 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3657 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3658
3659
495ae4b0
PH
3660Exim version 4.43
3661-----------------
3662
3663 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3664 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3665 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3666 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3667 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3668 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3669 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3670
3671 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3672 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3673 the delivery.
3674
3675 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3676
3677 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3678
3679 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3680 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3681 to local_scan().
3682
3683 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3684 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3685 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3686 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3687 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3688
3689 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3690 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3691
3692 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3693
3694 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3695
369610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3697 header_sender only.
3698
369911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3700 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3701
370212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3703 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3704 affecting debugging statements).
3705
370613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3707
370814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3709 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3710 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3711 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3712 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3713 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3714 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3715 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3716 after the received time, and all would be well.
3717
371815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3719 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3720 condition in an expansion string.
3721
372216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3723
372417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3725 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3726 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3727 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3728 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3729 job under whatever limits there are.
3730
373118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3732
373319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3734 space).
3735
373620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3737 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3738 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3739 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3740 return path is set.
3741
374221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3743 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3744 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3745 binary data in such strings.
3746
374722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3748
374923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3750 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3751 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3752 failure, which is pointless.
3753
375424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3755
375625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3757
375826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3759 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3760 Sender: header lines.
3761
376227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3763 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3764 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3765
376628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3767 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3768 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3769 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3770 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3771 happens.
3772
377329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3774 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3775 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3776 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3777 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3778
377930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3780 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3781 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3782 1024.
3783
378431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3785 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3786
378732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3788 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3789
379033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3791
379232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3793
379433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3795
379634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3797 syntax error.
3798
379935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3800
380136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3802
380337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3804 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3805 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3806 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3807
380838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3809 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3810
3811
3812Exim version 4.42
3813-----------------
3814
3815 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3816 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3817 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3818 it was not quoted.
3819 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3820 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3821 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3822 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3823 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3824 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3825
3826 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3827 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3828 verification failure".
3829
3830 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3831 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3832 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3833 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3834
3835 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3836 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3837 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3838 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3839 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3840 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3841 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3842 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3843 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3844 treated as a timeout.
3845
3846 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3847 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3848 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3849 not set for Exim filters).
3850
3851 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3852 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3853 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3854
3855 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3856
3857 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3858 try to make them clearer.
3859
3860 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3861 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3862
3863 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3864
3865 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3866
386710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3868 only the Cygwin environment.
3869
387011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3871 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3872 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3873 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3874 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3875
387612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3877 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3878 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3879 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3880 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3881 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3882 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3883
388413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3885 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3886
388714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3888
3889 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3890 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3891 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3892
3893 To: susanne@some.where
3894
3895 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3896 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3897 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3898 of addresses in From: header lines).
3899
3900 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3901 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3902 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3903
3904 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3905 treated as non-personal.
3906
3907 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3908 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3909
391015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3911
391216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3913
391417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3915 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3916 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3917
391818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3919 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3920
392119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3922 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3923 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3924 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3925 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3926 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3927
392820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3929 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3930 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3931 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3932 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3933 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3934 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3935 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3936
3937 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3938
393921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3940 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3941
394222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3943 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3944 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3945
394623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3947 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3948
394924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3950 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3951 rather than long int.
3952
395325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3954
395526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3956
3957
3958Exim version 4.41
3959-----------------
3960
3961 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3962 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3963 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3964 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3965 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3966 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3967
3968
3969Exim version 4.40
3970-----------------
3971
3972 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3973 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3974
3975 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3976 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3977 socklen_t is defined.
3978
3979 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3980 always exist.
3981
3982 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3983 configured.
3984
3985 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3986 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3987 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3988 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3989 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3990
3991 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3992 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3993 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3994 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3995
3996 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3997 of flapping under certain conditions.
3998
3999 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4000 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4001 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4002
4003 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4004
400510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4006
400711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4008 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4009 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4010 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4011
401212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4013 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4014 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4015 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4016 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4017 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4018 preserved with the message after it was received.
4019
402013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4021 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4022 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4023 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4024 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4025 test suite worked just fine.
4026
402714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4028 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4029 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4030
403115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4032 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4033 string.
4034
403516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4036 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4037 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4038 does not fully solve it.
4039
404017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4041 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4042 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4043 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4044 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4045
404618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4047 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4048 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4049
405019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4051 string, for example:
4052
4053 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4054
4055 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4056 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4057 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4058 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4059 the routers could not see them.
4060
406120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4062 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4063
406421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4065 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4066 output).
4067
406822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4069 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4070 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4071 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4072 that needed quoting.
4073
407423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4075 was not being matched caselessly.
4076
407724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4078 backslashes.
4079
408025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4081 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4082 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4083 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4084 when use_sender is false.
4085
408626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4087
408827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4089
409028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4091
409229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4093 the configuration file.
4094
409530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4096 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4097
409831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4099
410032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4101 bytes in the message body.
4102
410333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4104 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4105 delivery.
4106
410734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4108
410935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4110
411136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4112 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4113 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4114 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4115 another IP address.
4116
4117
4118Exim version 4.34
4119-----------------
4120
4121 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4122 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4123
4124 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4125 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4126 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4127 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4128 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4129
4130 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4131 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4132
4133 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4134 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4135 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4136
4137 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4138 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4139 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4140
4141 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4142 for routers.
4143
4144 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4145 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4146 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4147 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4148 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4149 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4150 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4151
4152
4153Exim version 4.33
4154-----------------
4155
4156 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4157 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4158 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4159 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4160 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4161 default (and expected) setting.
4162
4163 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4164 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4165 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4166 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4167
4168 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4169 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4170
4171 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4172 in domain lists.
4173
4174 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4175 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4176 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4177 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4178 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4179 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4180
4181 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4182 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4183 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4184
4185 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4186 part (NOT match_host).
4187
4188 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4189
4190 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4191 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4192 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4193 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4194 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4195 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4196 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4197 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4198 the same named file.
4199
420010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4201 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4202 when Exim is built.
4203
420411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4205 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4206 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4207 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4208 a host name.
4209
421012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4211 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4212 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4213
421413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4215
421614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4217
421815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4219
422016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4221 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4222
422317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4224 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4225 before starting the TLS session.
4226
422718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4228
422919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4230 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4231
423220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4233 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4234 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4235 colon in the middle).
4236
4237
4238Exim version 4.32
4239-----------------
4240
4241 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4242 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4243 multiple configurations are in use.
4244
4245 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4246 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4247 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4248 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4249 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4250 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4251
4252 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4253 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4254
4255 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4256 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4257 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4258
4259 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4260 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4261 occurs.
4262
4263 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4264 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4265
4266 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4267
4268 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4269 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4270
4271 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4272
4273 -prval:sval
4274
4275 is equivalent to
4276
4277 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4278
4279 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4280 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4281 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4282 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4283 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4284
428510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4286 Exim's behaviour:
4287
4288 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4289 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4290 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4291 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4292 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4293 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4294
4295 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4296 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4297 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4298 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4299 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4300 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4301 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4302 string.
4303
4304 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4305 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4306 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4307 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4308 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4309
431011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4311
431212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4313 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4314 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4315
431613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4317
431814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4319 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4320 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4321 information.
4322
432315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4324 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4325
432616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4327 Three changes have been made:
4328
4329 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4330 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4331 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4332 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4333 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4334
4335 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4336 been restored.
4337
4338 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4339 the modified behaviour.
4340
4341
4342Exim version 4.31
4343-----------------
4344
4345 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4346 Larry Rosenman.
4347
4348 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4349 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4350
4351 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4352 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4353 try to track down a specific problem.
4354
4355 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4356 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4357 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4358
4359 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4360 warning.
4361
4362 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4363 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4364 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4365 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4366 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4367 some earlier ones do not.
4368
4369 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4370
4371 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4372 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4373 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4374 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4375 address literals are enabled, of course).
4376
4377 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4378
437910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4380 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4381 by a command such as
4382
4383 exim -f "" ...
4384
4385 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4386
438711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4388
438912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4390 remained set. It is now erased.
4391
439213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4393 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4394
439514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4396 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4397 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4398 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4399 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4400 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4401 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4402 appropriate error code.
4403
440415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4405 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4406 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4407 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4408 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4409 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4410
441116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4412 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4413 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4414
441517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4416 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4417 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4418 terminate the header.
4419
442018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4421 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4422 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4423
442419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4425 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4426 (4.30/29). In particular:
4427
4428 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4429 imposed.
4430
4431 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4432 to write a maildirsize file.
4433
4434 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4435 the transport, the new value overrides.
4436
4437 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4438 count.
4439
444020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4441 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4442 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4443 space or a tab.
4444
444521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4446 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4447 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4448 the fallback hosts.
4449
445022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4451 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4452 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4453
445423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4455 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4456 using a union.
4457
445824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4459 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4460 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4461
446225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4463
446426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4465
446627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4467
446828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4469 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4470 become corrupted.
4471
447229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4473 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4474 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4475 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4476 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4477 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4478 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4479 too great.
4480
448130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4482 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4483 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4484 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4485 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4486 incorrectly.
4487
448831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4489 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4490 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4491 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4492 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4493 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4494 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4495 cached value only when the same options are set.
4496
449732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4498
449933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4500 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4501 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4502 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4503 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4504
450534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4506 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4507 it is clearly obsolete.
4508
450935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4510 transport.
4511
451236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4513 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4514 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4515 times.
4516
451737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4518 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4519 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4520 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4521 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4522
452338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4524 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4525 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4526 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4527
452839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4529
4530 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4531
4532 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4533 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4534 2^31.
4535
453640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4537 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4538 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4539 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4540 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4541 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4542 $localpart_data.
4543
454441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4545 with the -f command-line option.
4546
454742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4548 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4549 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4550 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4551 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4552 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4553
455443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4555 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4556 line.
4557
455844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4559 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4560 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4561 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4562 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4563 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4564 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4565 buffer is too small.
4566
456745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4568 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4569
457046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4571 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4572 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4573 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4574 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4575 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4576 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4577 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4578 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4579
458047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4581 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4582 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4583
458448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4585 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4586 ACL").
4587
458849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4589 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4590 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4591 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4592 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4593
459450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4595 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4596 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4597 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4598 is set.
4599
460051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4601
460252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4603
460453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4605 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4606
460754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4608 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4609 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4610
461155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4612 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4613 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4614 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4615 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4616
461756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4618 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4619 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4620 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4621 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4622 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4623 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4624
462557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4626 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4627 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4628 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4629 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4630 the test of how many are available.
4631
463258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4633 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4634 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4635 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4636 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4637 new message is started.
4638
463959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4640 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4641
464260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4643 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4644
464561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4646 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4647 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4648 is no long logged.
4649
465062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4651 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4652 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4653 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4654 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4655 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4656 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4657
465863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4659 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4660 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4661 interpreted as octal.
4662
466364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4664 setting.
4665
466665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4667 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4668 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4669 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4670 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4671 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4672
467366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4674 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4675 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4676 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4677
4678 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4679 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4680 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4681 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4682
4683 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4684 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4685 is a bug fix.
4686
4687 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4688 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4689
469067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4691
469268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4693 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4694 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4695 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4696
469769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4698 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4699 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4700 supplied", which is not helpful.
4701
470270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4703 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4704 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4705
470671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4707 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4708 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4709 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4710 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4711 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4712 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4713 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4714
471572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4716 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4717 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4718 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4719 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4720
472173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4722 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4723 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4724 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4725 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4726 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4727
472874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4729 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4730 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4731
473275. Added write_rejectlog option.
4733
473476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4735 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4736 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4737 variables.
4738
473977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4740
474178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4742 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4743 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4744 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4745 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4746 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4747 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4748 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4749
475079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4751 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4752 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4753 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4754 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4755
475680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4757 Haardt.
4758
475981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4760 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4761 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4762 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4763 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4764 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4765 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4766 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4767 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4768
4769
4770Exim version 4.30
4771-----------------
4772
4773 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4774 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4775 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4776
4777 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4778 fixed.
4779
4780 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4781 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4782 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4783
4784 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4785 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4786 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4787 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4788 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4789 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4790
4791 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4792 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4793 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4794 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4795 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4796 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4797 the Exim test suite.
4798
4799 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4800 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4801 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4802 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4803
4804 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4805 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4806 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4807 specify it in this variable.
4808
4809 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4810 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4811 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4812 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4813
4814 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4815 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4816 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4817 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4818
4819 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4820 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4821 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4822 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4823 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4824
4825 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4826
482710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4828 they are logged.
4829
483011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4831 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4832 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4833 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4834 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4835
483612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4837 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4838
483913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4840 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4841 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4842 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4843 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4844
484514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4846 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4847
484815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4849 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4850 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4851
485216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4853 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4854
485517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4856 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4857
485818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4859 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4860 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4861
486219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4863 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4864
486520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4866 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4867 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4868 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4869
487021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4871
487222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4873 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4874 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4875 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4876
487723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4878
487924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4880 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4881
488225. Added .include_if_exists.
4883
488426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4885 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4886 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4887 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4888 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4889 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4890
489127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4892
489328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4894 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4895 this.
4896
489729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4898
489930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4900 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4901
4902 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4903 550 Sender verify failed
4904
4905 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4906 the final line of the response.
4907
490831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4909 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4910 all other user lookups.
4911
491232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4913 delivery time.
4914
491533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4916 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4917 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4918 result into an int without checking.
4919
492034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4921 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4922 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4923
492435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4925 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4926 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4927 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4928
492936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4930 correctly.
4931
493237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4933 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4934
493538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4936 to the empty sender.
4937
493839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4939 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4940 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4941 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4942 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4943 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4944 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4945 panic log.
4946
494740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4948 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4949 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4950 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4951 used.
4952
495341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4954 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4955
495642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4957 timestamps.
4958
495943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4960 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4961
496244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4963
496445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4965 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4966 logs.
4967
496846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4969 as soon as it is encountered.
4970
497147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4972
497348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4974 rewritten to "<>".
4975
497649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4977 recognizes a tab character.
4978
497950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4980 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4981 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4982 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4983
498451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4985
498652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4987 crash.
4988
498953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4990
499154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4992
499355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4994 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4995 2822.
4996
499756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4998 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4999 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5000 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5001 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5002
500357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5004 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5005
500658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5007 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5008 list (.included file names were always shown).
5009
501059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5011 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5012 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5013 root at that time.
5014
501560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5016 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5017
501861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5019
502062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5021
502263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5023
502464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5025 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5026 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5027 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5028 failures to open the logs.
5029
503065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5031 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5032 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5033 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5034 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5035 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5036 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5037
5038
5039Exim version 4.24
5040-----------------
5041
5042 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5043 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5044 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5045 change 4.23/1.
5046
5047 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5048 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5049 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5050
5051 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5052 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5053 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5054
5055 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5056 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5057 causing some misleading effects.
5058
5059 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5060 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5061 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5062
5063 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5064 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5065 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5066 queue-runner function directly.
5067
5068
5069Exim version 4.23
5070-----------------
5071
5072 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5073 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5074
5075 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5076 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5077 was always written to the default place.
5078
5079 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5080 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5081 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5082
5083 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5084
5085 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5086
5087 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5088 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5089 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5090
5091 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5092 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5093 must start.
5094
5095 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5096 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5097 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5098
5099 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5100 command line option is disabled.
5101
5102 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5103 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5104
5105 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5106
5107 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5108
5109 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5110 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5111
511210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5113
511411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5115 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5116 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5117 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5118 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5119 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5120
512112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5122 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5123 timeout.
5124
512513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5126 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5127
512814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5129 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5130
513115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5132 received was valid base64.
5133
513416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5135 name of the variable that was being set.
5136
513717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5138
513918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5140 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5141 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5142 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5143 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5144 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5145
514619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5147
514820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5149 nor realm was specified.
5150
515121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5152 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5153 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5154 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5155
515622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5157 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5158 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5159
516023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5161 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5162 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5163
516424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5165 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5166 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5167 some systems use these upper case variants.
5168
516925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5170 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5171 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5172 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5173
517426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5175
517627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5177 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5178
517928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5180 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5181 expansion variable.
5182
518329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5184
518530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5186 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5187 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5188 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5189
519031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5191 using it.
5192
519332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5194 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5195 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5196
519733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5198 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5199
520034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5201 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5202 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5203 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5204
520535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5206 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5207 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5208
520936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5210
521137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5212 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5213 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5214 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5215 aborted.
5216
521738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5218 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5219 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5220
522139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5222
522340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5224 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5225
522641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5227 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5228
522942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5230 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5231 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5232 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5233 when emails are that large.
5234
5235
5236
5237Exim version 4.22
5238-----------------
5239
5240 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5241 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5242
5243 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5244 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5245 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5246
5247 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5248 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5249 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5250
5251 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5252 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5253 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5254 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5255 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5256
5257 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5258 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5259 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5260 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5261 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5262 ever.
5263
5264 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5265 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5266 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5267 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5268 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5269 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5270 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5271 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5272 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5273 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5274 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5275 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5276 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5277 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5278
5279 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5280 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5281 parameterised it.
5282
5283 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5284 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5285 error should be diagnosed.
5286
5287 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5288 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5289 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5290 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5291 appeared instead of "NULL".
5292
529310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5294 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5295 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5296 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5297 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5298 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5299 proceeds).
5300
5301 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5302 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5303 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5304
5305
5306Exim version 4.21
5307-----------------
5308
5309 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5310 or receiver verification errors.
5311
5312 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5313 name.
5314
5315 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5316 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5317 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5318 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5319
5320 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5321 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5322 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5323 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5324 shouldn't happen again.
5325
5326 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5327 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5328 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5329
5330 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5331 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5332
5333 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5334
5335 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5336 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5337
5338 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5339 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5340 RFC.
5341
534210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5343 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5344 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5345
534611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5347 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5348 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5349 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5350
535112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5352 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5353 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5354 to define what should happen).
5355
535613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5357 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5358 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5359
536014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5361
536215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5363
536416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5365 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5366
536717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5368 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5369 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5370 structure in all cases.
5371
5372 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5373 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5374 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5375 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5376
537718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5378 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5379 domain name.
5380
538119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5382 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5383
538420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5385 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5386
538721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5388 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5389 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5390
539122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5392 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5393 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5394
539523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5396 the book and for uniformity.
5397
539824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5399
540025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5401 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5402 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5403 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5404 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5405 non-existent command as the problem.
5406
540726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5408 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5409 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5410
541127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5412
541328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5414 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5415 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5416
541729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5418 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5419 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5420 timestamps using strftime().
5421
542230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5423 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5424
542532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5426 transport-time rewrites.
5427
542833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5429 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5430 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5431 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5432
543334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5434 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5435
543635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5437 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5438 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5439 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5440 comma and a space.
5441
544236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5443 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5444 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5445 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5446 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5447 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5448 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5449
545037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5451 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5452 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5453 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5454 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5455
545638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5457 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5458 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5459 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5460 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5461 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5462 remaining text gets split now.
5463
546439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5465 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5466 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5467 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5468
546940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5470 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5471 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5472 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5473 $return_path.
5474
547541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5476 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5477 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5478 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5479 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5480 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5481 passed through if needed.
5482
548342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5484 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5485 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5486 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5487 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5488 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5489
549043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5491 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5492 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5493 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5494 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5495
549644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5497 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5498 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5499 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5500 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5501
550245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5503 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5504 noticed.
5505
550646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5507 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5508 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5509 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5510 mayhem of various kinds.
5511
551247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5513 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5514 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5515 the right test for positive values.
5516
551748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5518 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5519 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5520 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5521 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5522 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5523 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5524 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5525 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5526 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5527 envelope.
5528
552949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5530 module.
5531
553250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5533 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5534 forbidding it.
5535
553651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5537 the existing equality matching.
5538
553952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5540 dealing with inode numbers.
5541
554253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5543 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5544 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5545
554654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5547 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5548 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5549 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5550 local_scan().
5551
555255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5553 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5554 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5555 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5556 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5557 relay addresses has also been removed.
5558
555956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5560
556157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5562 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5563 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5564
556558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5566 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5567 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5568 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5569 processing applies to CR:
5570
5571 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5572 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5573
5574 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5575 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5576 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5577 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5578
557959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5580 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5581 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5582
558360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5584 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5585 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5586 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5587 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5588 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5589 arisen.
5590
559161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5592 program routers.
5593
559462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5595 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5596 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5597 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5598 adds:
5599
5600 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5601
5602 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5603
5604 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5605
560663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5607 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5608 not considered personal.
5609
561064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5611
561265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5613
561466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5615
561667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5617 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5618 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5619 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5620 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5621 header lines, and spool format errors.
5622
562368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5624 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5625 for more flexibility.
5626
562769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5628 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5629 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5630
563170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5632 Sabourenkov.
5633
563471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5635 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5636 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5637 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5638 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5639 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5640 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5641 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5642 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5643
564472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5645 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5646 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5647 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5648 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5649 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5650 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5651
565273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5653 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5654 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5655
565674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5657 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5658 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5659 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5660 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5661 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5662 instead of killing the process with assert().
5663
566475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5665 than Unicode encoding.
5666
566776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5668 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5669 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5670 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5671
567277. Added process_log_path.
5673
567478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5675 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5676
567779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5678 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5679
568080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5681 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5682 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5683
568481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5685 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5686 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5687 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5688 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5689 were applied:
5690
5691 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5692 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5693 as invalid.
5694
569582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5696 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5697 they will be used during message reception.
5698
5699
5700Exim version 4.20
5701-----------------
5702
5703The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5704
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